WEBVTT - Make back-up plans

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to make backup plans. When you've got

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<v Speaker 1>a great Option B in place, you can relax more

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<v Speaker 1>about Option A. Indeed, you can enjoy life more in general.

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<v Speaker 1>Over the past two years, people have had to change

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of plans, travel plans, wedding plans. I think

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<v Speaker 1>about how often small businesses have had to pivot from

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<v Speaker 1>beefing up online operations to navigating pandemic restrictions and changing

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<v Speaker 1>tastes and supply chain issues. Parents have had to figure

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<v Speaker 1>out back up schooling plans and childcare plans, me things

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<v Speaker 1>and conferences, switched to zoom and sometimes switched back to

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<v Speaker 1>in person and sometimes switched again. None of this has

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<v Speaker 1>exactly been fun, but it's been a good reminder that

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<v Speaker 1>Option A isn't going to always be available. You don't

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<v Speaker 1>necessarily know when Option A won't be available, but some

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<v Speaker 1>chunk of the time it just won't be often. The

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<v Speaker 1>difference between panic and calm is having a reasonable option B.

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<v Speaker 1>In my family, with two working parents and lots of kids,

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<v Speaker 1>we've had to think about this a lot. One reason

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<v Speaker 1>we elected to hire a nanny rather than use daycare

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<v Speaker 1>for our toddler is that our nanny can then be

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<v Speaker 1>the backup childcare for the older kids when school is closed,

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<v Speaker 1>as it was unexpectedly on the day. I wrote this script.

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<v Speaker 1>When the pandemic began close to two years ago, and

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<v Speaker 1>I realized that in person speaking wasn't going to be

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<v Speaker 1>happening for a while, I started doing more podcasting. I

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<v Speaker 1>wrote an e book backup Plans that replaced the speaking income.

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<v Speaker 1>It's worth thinking about this in any scenario. You've got

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<v Speaker 1>option A. You like option A, but if option A

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't happen, what would you like to see as option B.

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<v Speaker 1>We wind up needing to think about this. In a crisis,

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<v Speaker 1>you need to be in Chicago, but all the flights

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<v Speaker 1>are canceled due to bad weather. What are you going

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<v Speaker 1>to do? The upside of thinking about option B ahead

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<v Speaker 1>of time is that you can figure out more options.

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<v Speaker 1>You can look at the situation more holistically. You can

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<v Speaker 1>have the logistics in place to make option be fairly

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<v Speaker 1>automatic when the need arises. We saw the upside of

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<v Speaker 1>proactive backup plans in the early days of the pandemic.

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<v Speaker 1>Places that already had robust work from home policies were

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<v Speaker 1>able to just use them daily, whereas organizations that hadn't

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<v Speaker 1>thought about what they do in a blizzard or in

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<v Speaker 1>a natural disaster, or yes, in a pandemic had to scramble.

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<v Speaker 1>Small businesses that had figured out how to sell online,

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<v Speaker 1>we're in a better place than those that hadn't thought

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<v Speaker 1>about what they do if in person operations were shut down.

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<v Speaker 1>When we think about option B ahead of time, we

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<v Speaker 1>can sometimes come up with such great option bees that

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<v Speaker 1>we become a lot less worried about whether option A happens.

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<v Speaker 1>This is how wise families handled that high stakes drama

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<v Speaker 1>known as college admissions. The phrase safety school is often

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<v Speaker 1>used disparagingly, But when you choose some schools that you

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<v Speaker 1>know are great and that you know you are highly

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<v Speaker 1>likely to get into, then the whimsies of selective schools

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<v Speaker 1>matter less. You know you will get a great education.

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<v Speaker 1>It may be at one place, or it maybe at another,

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<v Speaker 1>but there are no bad choices. Having great option bees

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<v Speaker 1>should also be the goal of networking. It's not about

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<v Speaker 1>collecting business cards. It's about having a few folks who

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<v Speaker 1>have told you that if you are ever thinking of

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<v Speaker 1>leaving your current job, you should call them first. Knowing

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<v Speaker 1>you have great backup options makes you more relaxed about

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<v Speaker 1>your current position, which makes you better able to take

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<v Speaker 1>risks and set boundaries that can make Option A a

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<v Speaker 1>lot more tolerable. So for anything in life, think about

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<v Speaker 1>your backup plans. Sure, we love our option a's, we

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<v Speaker 1>chose them for a reason, we'd like to stick with them,

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<v Speaker 1>but sometimes that's not going to be up to us.

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<v Speaker 1>Knowing there is a great option B means we can

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<v Speaker 1>take life as it comes, rather than mourning the loss

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<v Speaker 1>of things that it isn't in our power to keep.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. Hey everybody,

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