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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to build it before you need it.

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Speaker 1: If you have a good support system in place, far

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Speaker 1: fewer woes turn into disasters. Long time listeners know that

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Speaker 1: I have five children, and any working parents soon learns

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Speaker 1: that even the best childcare won't be a dent available.

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Speaker 1: Your babysitter can get sick or have her own family emergencies.

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Speaker 1: Your kid might be slightly sick and thus not able

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Speaker 1: to go to school or daycare. Schools can close for weather,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes there are half days for various reasons. You

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Speaker 1: need backup options. The absolute worst time to be figuring

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Speaker 1: out the backup option is when you realize that option

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Speaker 1: A is not available at seven thirty am and you

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Speaker 1: are giving a presentation to an important group of people

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Speaker 1: at thirty am. You need to create a backup system

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Speaker 1: at a time when you don't need it, so it

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Speaker 1: will be available when you do need it. So it

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Speaker 1: goes for many things in life. The whole point of

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Speaker 1: an emergency fund is to put away cash when you

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Speaker 1: don't desperately need it, so that when you do need

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Speaker 1: money you don't have to borrow at high interest rates.

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Speaker 1: The worst time to be networking and figuring out who

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Speaker 1: in your industry is hiring is when you have just

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Speaker 1: lost a job. You want to have those connections in

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Speaker 1: place before you need them. You want an emergency kit

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Speaker 1: in your car when your car is actually functioning, so

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Speaker 1: you have it in the event that the car stops functioning. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this sounds like a lot of preparation, but that's just

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Speaker 1: how the world works. The good news is that if

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Speaker 1: you build systems before you need them, you will probably

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Speaker 1: be a lot more relaxed, or at least feel like

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Speaker 1: you are able to keep your commitments. I sometimes feel

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Speaker 1: like my spend my life thinking through logistics. But the

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Speaker 1: upside is that I gave a speech the other morning

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Speaker 1: when my family's regular full time nanny was on vacation

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Speaker 1: and my husband was traveling because I booked a very

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Speaker 1: reliable backup st are for the morning. I know I

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Speaker 1: need someone like that in my life, so I work

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Speaker 1: to make sure I have someone like that in my life.

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Speaker 1: Even if you aren't dealing with the realities of childcare,

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Speaker 1: it helps to think this through. What could go wrong?

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Speaker 1: What support system do you need in place to allow

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Speaker 1: you to do what you need or want to do.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the answer is pretty simple. If your car didn't

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Speaker 1: start and you couldn't get to work, you'd likely use

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Speaker 1: uber or lift or public transportation if it's available, or

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Speaker 1: you'd get a ride from a friend. Sometimes it's more involved.

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Speaker 1: If your largest client disappeared, what would you do to

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Speaker 1: make your revenue target for the quarter. I have gotten

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Speaker 1: stuck at O'Hare Airport due to canceled or late flights

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Speaker 1: often enough that I now have a set protocol I follow,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not floundering around. I immediately booked myself on

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Speaker 1: a six am or seven am flight the next morning.

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Speaker 1: Then I book a room at my favorite nearby hotel.

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Speaker 1: I'm still annoyed, but not as frantic as the folks

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Speaker 1: running around asking what on earth they are going to do.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps it seems like a paradox thinking about what could

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Speaker 1: go wrong allows you to be optimistic, But if you

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Speaker 1: think about it, it makes sense. When you think about

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Speaker 1: what could go wrong, you can make plans to deal

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Speaker 1: with those possibilities. Then if those things do happen, you

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Speaker 1: are prepared. You can stay on track with your goals

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Speaker 1: and obligations. Life feels a little more in control, even

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Speaker 1: when many things in life cannot be controlled. We control

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Speaker 1: what we can when we build it before we need it.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our talks. Hey, everybody,

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