WEBVTT - Make the minutes count, with Tracy Davidson 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:09.800 Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:15.920 This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.639 episode is going to be a longer one part of 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.520 my interview series where I talk with fascinating people about 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.720 how they spend their time. Today, I'm going to be 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.400 chatting with Tracy Davidson. Tracy is the co anchor of 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.640 my local NBC news stations four o'clock and five o'clock 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.400 news programs. She's won multiple Emmy Awards for her work 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.920 over the years, and she is a fixture here in 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.600 our community for her leadership. So Tracy, welcome to the show. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:43.800 Good morning, Thank you so much for having me. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.400 Thank you for doing this. So tell our listeners a 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:48.920 little bit about yourself. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.720 Well, I have been in broadcast journalism for about forty years, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.639 and I am grateful that I still love what I do, 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.000 and I do co anchor the four and five o'clock 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:05.240 newscast on the NBC station in Philadelphia. I also, as 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.319 part of my role there, am the consumer reporter. But 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.360 my consumer beat is specifically about helping people who run 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:18.960 up against challenges with governments or businesses or something that 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.479 they just can't get resolved themselves. That's when they come 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:21.720 to me. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.959 And I bet that is pretty satisfying to see problems 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.360 like solved that people like, well wait, if Tracy's on it, 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.320 I guess I have to make this right now. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.399 You know, it's very very rewarding. I always say it's 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.759 sad that sometimes it takes somebody from a television station 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:40.960 to call a company to make them do the right thing. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.280 But a lot of other times it's just that something 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.360 has slipped through the crack, somebody made a mistake, and 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.800 once they get a call from me, they say, well, 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.560 let's just check this out, and then you know, they 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.960 find out that the individual is do their their washer 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.600 and dryer or a refund or whatever it is. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:03.160 So it makes for very satisfying television. And I mean 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.960 part of you know, we're talking about time management on 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.280 this show, and from being on the air so much 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.160 over the past forty years, you probably think of time 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.640 in a very different way than most people do. I 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.799 wonder if you could talk about that a little bit. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.600 Yeah. Well, my days, I think because of what I 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.359 do are in fifteen minute increments. Everything that I do 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.920 is blocked in fifteen minute increments, and I see the 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.880 value in even two minutes or two and a half minutes, 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.919 because sometimes we'll have a break that's two and a 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.880 half minutes in our newscast, and I know that that's 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.240 actually a lot of time. If I have to double 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.040 check some facts on a story and do a little research, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.320 or I have to text my executive producer and ask 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.960 a question, I can, I can actually get a lot 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.320 done in that two and a half minutes. So I 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.880 value and know the value of time. And you know, 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.400 it also makes me very aware that it's easy to 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.520 waste that time that could be put to good use. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.840 So yeah, so my schedule is all in fifteen minute blocks, 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.480 and I know that you move blocks and tiles around. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.320 My tiles are fifteen minutes. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:15.040 Fifteen minutes exactly. Well, and you have some routines through 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:16.359 your day, I wonder if you could talk a little 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:17.920 bit about your morning routine. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.760 Sure, So my morning routine starts at five o'clock, which 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:27.240 is coffee and sort of prayer and meditation time, and 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.600 then five point thirty starts to do a quick review 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.560 of emails, just to check on what's happening during the day, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.800 because my job is constantly being aware of everything that's 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.600 happening and what we're covering at the station, so I 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.960 quickly do that, and then it's whatever the workout is 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.680 going to be for that morning. If it's going to 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.680 be walk to the gym and then work out, or 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.160 it's going to be drive to another gym and do 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.080 a class. So that usually sort of ramps up between 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.600 five point thirty and six, and I'm almost always home 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:03.040 by seven, and I organize my clothes and get ready 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:08.040 during seven to seven eighteen, which is the first segment 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.480 of the Today Show, so that I see what they have, 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.600 and then at eighteen it's into the shower and then 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.880 into close and out the door, and I usually make 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.640 the eight twenty one or the eight to fifty one, 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.200 depending on how my day's going. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.480 A train or train Yeah, okay into the city. Then 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.279 from here into the city. Yeah, I wonder curious. Do 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:30.960 you do anything on the train? Are you just looking 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.320 out the window or what's the what is your usual? Uh? 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:38.120 No, that's valuable time. Yes, that's valuable time. And that's 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.880 why I always look for a seat, even though I 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.960 always say I sit during my whole day, so I 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.640 might as well stand. But if I can be on 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:51.440 my laptop. That means I can review things that are 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.360 make my day, my to do list for the day, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.240 which I usually make. I can't believe I'm like going 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.800 through this whole thing in the afternoon before I go 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.440 get up to the set to get really really ready. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.680 Between two forty five and three o'clock, I make my 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.320 to do list for the following day. But then I 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.400 sort of review that on the train and say, do 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.360 I need to add to that. I also when I 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.080 know I need to slow down a little bit that 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.920 I'm going too fast, that's when I take a minute 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.040 and listen to some meditation on the train. But it's 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.320 always it's never a throwaway because that's valuable time for me. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:33.279 Absolutely. And I'm curious with you know, doing a show 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.520 that is then in the afternoon, that's when you are 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.279 on air and the segments you've been doing are airing. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.400 How much of that is done before you get into 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.960 work that day, and how much is happening that day. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.159 I mean, I'm very curious how that is sort of 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.919 plotted out in terms of filling then the time that 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:52.799 you are on air. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.760 Later almost all is done that day. Yeah, I mean 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.679 my stories take a little bit longer, and they don't 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.719 have to run a certain time. But our newscast is 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.960 all about news of the day, and so what we 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.320 start talking about at six point thirty in the morning 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.280 and then plan is our coverage, and then go out 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.840 and plan and shoot and research that airs that day. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:20.160 So it's constantly being developed over the afternoon. And and 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.600 in fact, when I go on there at four, while 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.760 it might have been gathered, much of what I'm about 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.640 to read at five hasn't even been written yet. So 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.440 those two and a half minutes or three and a 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.440 half minutes when we're in a political season, so the 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.479 commercial breaks are longer, are vital for me to be 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.440 looking at the copy and the stories and making sure 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.880 they're right and are they the most updated information. So yeah, 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.080 so it's all being done right then in real time. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.600 And a lot of it is, I'm sure changing as 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.159 it goes on. So you've got to be quick on 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.240 your feet with what you thought you were talking about. 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.080 Right, the Hogway is about to past xys, It was 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.520 about to pass it at four to ten, but when 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.599 the story comes around again at five point twenty, the 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.680 house may have already passed it. So we're constantly updated. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:13.480 Yeah, constantly, updating, absolutely, And for our international listeners, they're like, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.000 why is there longer break during ads? Tracy and I 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.680 are in Pennsylvania, which is a swing state in the US, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.120 and so we tend to have a robust market in 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:26.960 political ads for this season. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:31.800 Right Tracy, we are one of, if not the most 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:36.960 important state to the political campaigns right now. And if 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.400 you need evidence, it's you'll see it in the commercials, 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.520 You'll see it in billboards, You'll see it by the 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:47.000 number of visits that the presidential candidates and the vice 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:51.040 presidential candidates the number of visits that they make to Pennsylvania. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.080 So yeah, we're a very popular state right now, very 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:55.560 very purple. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.440 Very much. But it makes for an interesting job for 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.800 Tracy for sure. Well, we're going to take a quick 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.640 ad break. We'll be back with more with Tracy Davidson. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.680 I am back talking with Tracy Davidson about her routines 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.800 and how she manages her life. Tracy is an anchor 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.679 on our local NBC station here in Philadelphia. So Tracy, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.120 maybe you can talk about what some of your biggest 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.080 time management challenges are these days. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.240 Well, So, even though it sounds like I have my 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.640 mornings planned out if those are always a challenge, especially 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.679 because for me there's this issue of clothes. I have 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.200 to wear clothes to go report in, and then I 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.400 have to take clothes to go on TV in, and 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.000 so I just have to be very intentional and say 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.880 that Sundays are my prep days and I have to 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.760 take a solid half hour if not hour, to lay 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.520 everything out. Otherwise the dominoes could fall as the as 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:02.200 the days go on in the morning. So, yeah, that's 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.880 I have to make myself do that on Sundays because 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.880 I realize by Wednesdays if I haven't done that, and 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.960 I'm scrambling at seven nineteen when I should be in 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.199 the shower to yeah, to find my clothes and to 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.079 figure out what I'm wearing and where the shoes are, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.880 and so that's definitely, that's definitely a job. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.640 I was going to say that that seemed I mean, 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.440 the seven to a seven eighteen timing for somebody who 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:30.120 is on air getting ready seemed pretty incredible to me. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.080 So I guess I'm glad to hear that it's that 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:34.480 it's a little longer than that. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.520 Oh yeah, well, that's that's the time that I am 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.240 not in the shower, right, So I'm getting everything ready 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.600 so I can listen and sort of keep an eye 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.600 on the Today Show. And then it's seven eight, So 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.080 really it's not eighteen minutes. It's getting everything ready and 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:50.720 then I jump in the shower, so it's more like 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.640 forty minutes to totally get ready. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.400 Got cha, gotcha. So what is the difference between something 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.560 that you would be wearing to report in versus an 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.000 on camera outfit? Oh? 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.800 Well, an on camera outfit would be something that is 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:12.560 less comfortable and with heels, and the reporting is very 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.240 much just street clothes, just something that I would go 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.160 out in the street and report, go visit somebody's house, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.640 and it's just it's just a little bit more laid back. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.760 Yeah, I'm curious for on camera thing though, I mean, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.400 especially as more and more people spend parts of their 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.560 life on camera. Any advice you have for people on 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.400 looking good if you're going to constantly have a camera on. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:39.760 You, you know, I no, I guess, you know, I see 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.600 people here would be My advice is just to be 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:50.720 just to look natural, because and I think that it's 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.960 even gone a little bit more that way, even on 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.760 air and on our sets. Because I don't know, it 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.760 just doesn't seem real. Everything that we see on social 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.040 media these days is not real, and I think people 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.320 would prefer to see real. We know what you look like, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:12.520 all perfect, but that's only like a sliver of your 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.320 real life. But somehow then everybody watching it interprets it 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.720 into oh my gosh, look they always look perfect. I 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.800 would prefer to tell people everyone looks just okay, you 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.040 know when they go on camera. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:28.960 I would love that, Believe me, I would love that. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:30.960 Yeah, if I could show up one day and say, 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.199 you know, it's the same journalist whether I have all 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.160 my makeup on and my hair done pretty yeah, or 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.400 me and a ponytail yeah, and a button down shirt yeah, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:41.319 Because that's. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.199 Something that you then have to build into your work 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.800 day before four o'clock as well is hair and makeup too. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.640 How much of a time does that tend to take? 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.880 I assume you're multitasking as it happens, Yes, I. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.640 Am, Yeah, I usually do it. We have an editorial 0:11:55.679 --> 0:12:00.679 meeting from two to two twenty and during the editors meeting, 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:02.160 I listen. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.600 And put on my makeup excellent, excellent, yeah, And so 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.880 in order to be up at five am in the morning. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.880 What time are you going to bed? And what does 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.840 that look like on the other end of your day? 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.280 Nine point thirty is a hard out in fact, in fact, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:22.480 I set my phone alarm to that. So, yeah, I'm 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.240 constantly I guess because of what I do I can. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.079 I'm always back timing. I'm always thinking how much more 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:33.079 time do I have until this happens. So by about 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.880 nine fifteen, I am ready to crawl in bed with 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.640 a book, even if I read only three pages. That's 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.160 sort of the be in bed by nine fifteen, that's 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:43.720 the idea. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.880 Yeah, So when you come home after the five o'clock 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.960 segments have aired, are you getting on another train and 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.000 heading back to the house. What does that look like? 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.520 Yes, So I walk out of the station at six 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.200 twenty or six ten. I get on the train at 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.959 six twenty, A husband picks me up up at six fifty. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.480 We get home, we eat at seven o'clock. We're pretty routine, 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.959 and by seven point thirty, I'm either cleaning up the 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.400 kitchen or walking the dog, or we both clean up 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.360 the kitchen and we both walk the dog. And so 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.840 by eight o'clock it's you know, eight to nine is 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.040 the relaxation time. And if I really need an extra boost, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.320 that's my time to do crafts. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:22.200 What do you do? 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:26.040 What kind of frowny one? Oh? Just anything, you know, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.560 I make things. I make things with shells. I put 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:33.920 candles in deep shells, or I make candles in antique teacups. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.360 It's just sort of what fills me up when I'm 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:37.160 really drained. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.800 Yeah, well, I want to talk about a little tip 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:41.280 that you just gave. I'm going to ask you for 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.560 a few more time management tips for our listeners. But 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.840 you mentioned you set your alarm for nine thirty to 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.319 get yourself in bed. What led to that and how 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:51.080 is that helpful? 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.000 Yeah? I think that we all need I mean, we 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.520 can all get and if you I know that nobody 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.520 can see this and we're just seeing each other, but 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.800 if you could see how many alarms I have set 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.040 on my phone throughout the day, because because then that 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.120 allows you to get deeply into whatever you're doing, and 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.120 then it will remind you if I'm constantly thinking, and 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.560 this mostly happens at work, but if I'm constantly thinking, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.000 oh my gosh, I have a Zoom interview coming up 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:24.240 at eleven fifteen, then I can't get deep into the 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.760 story I'm writing at ten thirty, and so if I 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.480 set my alarm for eleven ten for an eleven fifteen 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.680 zoom interview, then I know I can just sort of 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.160 set it aside and know that that will that will 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.880 get me, that will get me where I need to go, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.120 because otherwise I'm just thinking about I hope I don't 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.960 miss this, and I hope I don't miss this, and 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.880 then that makes the time between ten thirty and eleven 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.680 ten not all that valuable because I can't get deep. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.920 Yeah. Yeah, Now, setting alarms to call attention to things 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.240 is a is a great technique. Well, we're going to 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.120 take one more quick ad break and then we will 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:07.440 be back with a few more tips from Tracy. Well, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.000 I am back talking with Tracy Davidson, who is a 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.320 co anchor on the local NBC news station in my 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.560 area in Philadelphia. So, Tracy, I wonder if you can 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.800 maybe share one more time management tip that helps you 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.240 with your busy life. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.440 Well, as you just pointed out, I think setting my 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:31.680 alarm really helps. And I also, you know, I just 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.760 I lay it out, I really know what my day 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.680 is going to be and can change of course, because 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:45.160 I'm in news. But when I have a plan, then 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.040 I know sort of what the goal is and that 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.920 that's very helpful to me short term and long term. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.800 The day and then the week. I can look out 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.920 over my week on Sundays and say, all right, this 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.720 is going to be a night that maybe I pushed 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.960 past nine thirty because I have to be out at 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.960 a speaking engagement. And then I know that the next 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.800 night I got to tuck it back in make and 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.040 make sure that I give myself some time to recover. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.640 So I mean, I think that I'm always looking at 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:13.920 long term and short term. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.960 And you do this weekly planning on Sunday, I mean, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.680 as you're right thinking about your weekend then also choosing 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.600 your outfits, and that's right, all those good things. Yeah, yeah, awesome. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.280 Any sort of time on Sunday that tends to happen, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.920 or when it's just when it happens. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.840 Oh, I think that you know, the whole backtime thing 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.080 starts happening around three o'clock thinking, thinking it's time to 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.120 start getting into work mode. But around our house, we're 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.160 very conscious of the of the Sunday scaries, and so 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.920 we try to make something fun for dinner or just 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.160 get that ready and then we can relax a little bit. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.360 Nice. That's good to know. So maybe Chase that you 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.960 could talk about something. One of our taglines on this 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.720 show is taking days from great to Awesome. What's something 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.440 that you've done recently that has taken one of your 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.240 days from great to awesome? You know? 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.560 You know, working out has always been a priority for me, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.159 but I have for the last few years just gone 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.320 to the gym to just lift weights or just do 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.760 a class or and years ago, I used to walk 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.160 for a full hour before I worked out or anything, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.120 and so now I've sort of added that back in 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.040 because it gives me time. It gives me it gives 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:34.639 me think time. And I've realized that my thought work, 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.720 which is critical to all the things I do, whether 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.920 it's speaking to women's groups or working on a story, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:46.119 any of that requires thought time. And my best thought 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.320 time is in the morning, and so I've really been 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.199 taking that time to get up and go for a 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.159 walk and I and I keep a little notebook with 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.240 me all the time now so that I write things down, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.800 and that has really that's made a huge difference in 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.520 my life in the last six months. 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.280 Because you have to come up with ideas all the time. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.239 Correct, Yeah, I mean, well, we hear from people who 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:13.280 need our help, so that's helpful. But I'm always thinking 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.600 about ways to present all the things I talk about 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.880 resilience and confidence in my speaking world. I'm always thinking 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.679 about new ways to talk about that, new things that 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.600 I can learn about, the skills about the science and Yeah, 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.080 so that's what I'm always thinking about. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.040 I wonder if they're you know, in your speaking you know, 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.440 you talk about ways for people to be more resilient. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.280 I know you've experienced various challenges in your life too. 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.800 I mean I wonder if there is sort of I mean, 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.040 something you can help people think about to tap into 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.960 that resiliency. I mean, if there is something you're going 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.480 to advise people like I want to be more resilient. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.560 I mean, what is one thing you can do well? 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.639 I think it's just choosing the outlook. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:52.160 Right. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.480 Of all the things, all of the choices that we 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.680 can have taken away from us, the one choice that 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.639 we can always make is how we're going to see 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.520 a given event or a person. It's a choice, and 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.960 so you can let that person make you crazy or 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.520 you can say that person is different than I am, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.120 and it's okay, and I because you're hurting yourself, you're 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.479 slowing yourself down right, same thing with the situation. I 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.439 can see this situation as horrible, Oh my gosh, the 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.879 world is going to hell in a handbasket. Or I 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.040 can say, Okay, there are some things that are not 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.880 great about this world. There are wars, and there are famines, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.680 and you know, there are terrible, terrible things, and and 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.400 there are really good things happening in the world. And 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.200 I have the ability to change my world right now 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.920 the people that I interact with right now. I can't 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.840 solve a war, but I can change the culture in 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.520 my little office. I can be kind. I can see 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.840 a stranger on the street and say hello. I have 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.439 the ability to And that's huge for resilience, to be 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.560 able to see something and choose to see in a 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.440 way that is hopeful. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.760 There's a lot of power in that word. And isn't there. 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.800 That's one of my favorite words, because I think that 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:14.199 we we always think that it's or we tend to 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.480 think that it's one way or the other, and most 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:23.120 times with almost everything, it's an and yeah, yeah. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.800 So Tercy, what are you looking forward to right now? 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.240 Well, I have Lifting your Voice conference that's coming up 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.399 and it will be in the middle of October, and 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.480 it's one hundred women coming together talking about resilience, talking 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:42.159 about their challenges, talking about confidence, and you know, we 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.359 all have sort of threads that run through what everyone's 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.560 lives that connect us, and I'm really looking forward to. 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.840 One of the subjects we're talking about is transition, because 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.280 we all go through many transitions throughout our life. We 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.480 don't really see them because they're many, right, But then 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.640 when huge transitions come up, a change in job, a 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.439 change in marital stat as, the loss of a spouse, say, 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.959 moving to someplace new, a diagnosis, whatever, the transition is 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:12.879 all of a sudden, we are thrown for a loop 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.760 and it's just change, and it's just resilience. And there 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.280 are steps that you can sort of ease yourself through 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.960 that with self compassion. And that's one of the things 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.200 that I'm looking forward to talking to people about because 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.080 every woman that I come across lately seems to say 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.399 that they're in a period of transition and they're feeling 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:32.960 a little unstable. 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.320