What a Rescue! Good Luck Zoey! (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Take it, Marvin.

Got your host, James Line, the mic.

I am joined by CEO of Uri Nightaway of Southwood and Am's counties, Terry John.

Good morning.

We are joined on every Thursday right at the top of the 9 o'clock hour by Denise and

our great friends from the Southwood County and Main Society.

Denise, how you doing?

I'm great.

Thanks.

Good morning.

How are you?

I'm doing good.

And thank you so much for asking.

And thanks for being here.

We appreciate the time as always.

How are things going over at the shop?

Very good.

Thank you.

We're actually close today to the public because they're doing floors and all our new construction.

They're epoxing and that's pretty toxic for human beings and animals, but yeah, it's

going really well.

Thank you.

I remember having some work done on a department I was in with my ex-mind, our kids and stuff

and how crazy that was trying to get the kids and some of the animals we had out of the

house for a couple hours.

I cannot imagine the logistics of what's going on over there.

How is everything?

How are the animals?

How is everything going with that?

Everything's going good.

We have a plan of action put into effect as of yesterday afternoon and everyone will

be protected.

It's really cool.

Very cool.

I mean, not surprising at all here, just interesting how that works.

How many moving parts can there be, right?

There are many moving parts.

The safety of our staff and the animals and keeping everybody coming back the next day.

It's going well.

Want to send a shout out to those workers as well, doing some great work over there.

We really appreciate that.

We do have 50 dogs plotting against you.

We're going to make our break.

This is our chance.

If they could stay focused, log it out.

You have a jailbreak.

You have a jailbreak.

We have a problem.

All right.

So at midnight, we're going to swirl.

Yeah.

And they're doing what for us?

Well, we were talking about it again.

We had something.

We appreciate that.

Denise, we understand also this time of year, as we're getting a little bit nicer out

and everything, and maybe things calm down over their construction wise, we will be able

to open it up more to volunteers and being able to have dog walkers and some of that,

right?

Absolutely.

That's the hope.

We're opening things up.

We want to open our dog room up to the public.

We just have a lot of work to do before we can do that.

But yes, we are opening up more to volunteer dog walkers, and we have some staff cross-training

between cat and dog room that are helping out with dogs to just get the more exercise

and socialization.

And as far as needs over there, is there anything standing out?

We certainly always try to help out what we can bring in extra cat food or litter, dog food

things like that.

Yeah.

We're looking for cleaning supplies, like brooms, if you have like an old broom, we're going

through a sanitary kind of shelter medicine protocol where you have to use one broom for

one area, depending upon the cat center there with the certain illnesses that they have.

So if you have a broom, bring it over for us, we'll put them on our wish list for Amazon

as well.

Don't bring it today.

You know not today.

We, please.

Thank you.

Yep.

So if you have like 40 brooms at your door, I'm disappointed in myself.

I remember this working at shelters myself where we had to have a broom for the cat room,

room for the dog room, some of this, I haven't thought of that before.

So if you can, everybody, that's greatly appreciated then.

It may not seem like, well, how big, this is a big deal, everything is a big deal because

everything is one less thing you guys have to worry about or add to the budget or something

like that.

Absolutely.

And we want to keep the animal safe and not, not sick.

So.

So you mentioned Amazon wish list, where can people find that?

If you go to Southwood County, Humane Society, under Amazon, we have a wish list of things

that we regularly need and we often get things showing up at the door every year.

I mean, because if you think about that from the donor standpoint, could it be any easier,

right?

Like I can just, I can go on my computer, my phone, whatever.

I don't have to go buy, well, you have to buy it, but you don't have to go buy it.

You don't have to deliver it.

And so just, you know, keeping that top of mind, I think, for people that, if it, whatever,

maybe you don't shop as often in your, you know, you're not spending as much time doing

some of those things, but this is a way that you can easily, easily help and it's a pretty

light lift.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Thank you.

That's an excellent point.

Denise, who is our pet of the week?

We're going with Zoe today.

She is a three year old German Shepherd mix.

She's a smaller German Shepherd.

A little anxious.

I was going to bring her today, but things were rolling over there today, so I didn't

get her out of the crate.

She's beautiful.

She's calm.

She is a little anxious, so she needs to sometimes warm up to people, but she's very easy

to walk.

She doesn't pull, and she's spayed and up to data and all vaccinations.

She's got a beautiful story to encourage you to check out Zoe.

She looks like a perfect German Shepherd.

She is.

She looks like a perfect, like just everything, if whatever you're imagining in your head.

Like her dark face.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love German Shepherd.

It's a big family.

Yeah.

She's gorgeous, and her hair isn't extra long, like some shepherd makes his eyes.

Yeah.

And she's small.

I love her.

Well, and for an animal that is so wild and has such a good nature to it and everything,

one of the things I love about Germany, a lot of dogs do this, but German Shepherds,

they wear so much of their emotions on their face.

I mean, even in the pictures, you can see what they're almost thinking or feeling.

I love that about an animal.

Yeah.

And all dogs are loyal.

All dogs are great at that German Shepherd's or another level.

They really are.

Yep, they have their own category.

And just again, a beautiful dog.

And she has all of her stuff that she needs, her microchip and everything.

Yep.

She's healthy and ready to go.

I encourage you to find out more about Zoe and all these great, great animals over

there.

And it's just waiting for you over at the South of County Main Society.

Maybe there's a lot of you out there like myself that would give anything to take Zoe

home.

But I understand that I don't have the room for Zoe, but I still want to be able to

help out so that Amazon wish list or dropping off items over there next week when things

are open a little bit more is so encouraged.

When you're helping out the main society, you're helping out our local economy, you are helping

out our local community.

And it just feels good.

This feels good to do this, everybody.

Cannot encourage enough.

Denise, we always look forward to you hanging out with us, looking forward to next week

again as well.

And we will be telling everybody about Zoe if I don't adopt her myself.

If we, yeah, I would know that we'll be encouraging people to check out Zoe and plenty

more.

Thanks a lot for the time, Denise.

Thank you.

We appreciate the time on the air and this great community that we live in.

Thanks.

I want to remind all you businesses out there.

This is a great opportunity to get your business out there in this segment.

Ask anybody who has ever worked with us before and how much we promote them and mention

their business.

I let you look behind the curtain a little bit.

A lot of these things.

Well, the contract says we mentioned your name twice.

Anybody who has ever heard me on the air knows how many I go double, triple quadruple

that.

We make sure that you get your money's worth when you advertise with us and certainly

support those that support us and support our nonprofits and this community.

So we greatly appreciate that.

We encourage you to find out more by emailing them office at SWCHS.com.

You can always give them a call, 715-423-0505 or visit them at 3621-64 Street North in Wisconsin

Rapids next week.

You can always give them a call if you want to check ahead, 715-423-0505 and find out

more at their website, SWCHS.com.

We'll have more with Denise next week and another pet of the week for you right here at

the morning show.

Thank you.

That was nice.

Welcome back, everybody.

Good morning, show here at WFHR, locally around radio.

Terry and James hanging out with you, thanks so much for joining us.

Big shout out to Denise and all of our friends at the South of County Maine Society,

encourage you to learn about Zoe and all these amazing animals over at SWCHS.com.

Be sure to follow them on social media.

Did want to mention as well, they will be open Saturday.

The doors will be open, construction should be wrapped up by then.

So if you need to stop by or want to drop some things off, Saturday should work.

Awesome.

I'm into some entertainment news.

We touched on this one on both of our morning shows, really, because it's a crossover

thing between our Sunrise Show on our country station 1055WRI and right here at 975.

This is cool news, because Randy Travis, when we first started the Sunrise Show, I did

a contest, sort of, of, you know, what is the year that you think of country music?

What's the voice you think of?

You know?

And not saying the greatest voice in country music, just what is it?

What pops in your mind?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it was almost overwhelming.

I wouldn't say it was a landslide, but it was almost overwhelming.

Randy Travis was that voice that people, and I think a lot of it was, to be fair, our

generation that was calling in and answering and everything.

So I think that that makes a little more sense.

I personally think that there's no wrong answer, you know, whatever you're going to say.

But I do think that they had a little to do with it.

And I bring that up in part because, you know, when it comes to biopics, we see them

all the time, and we tend to see them with pop stars or rock stars, you know, outside

of walked the line, we don't really see a lot with country music, where could you imagine

if they even just did an outlaw country, you know, biopic, like Anjani Cash and Wayland

Jennings and in some of these guys, like their rock stars, like their lives, the country

stars.

I understand.

I'm kidding.

You're right, you're right.

But just in the sense of there, like if you take away the music, and you just talk about

the lives that they lived and you didn't know the music they played, you would think those

were, you know, okay, this is another, they were a part of the who or their stories are

so interesting.

And then there's Randy Travis, who has struggled and has had some difficulties in life

and has laid all of his cards out for people, has never put on heirs, has never tried to

pretend he's something he's not, has owned everything in his life, has had accountability

for these things.

And then there's this, I don't, I don't know, a better way to put this way, I apologize,

this latter stage of his life, where he has been struggling, health wise and been dealing

with those things.

And we see this happen with celebrities often.

And when that happens, they tend to go away, I'll never forget Anthony Quinn or Sean Connery,

some of the people I looked up to.

And when, oh, where they haven't been around in a long time, we just had this happen with

Gene Hackman, where Gene Hackman was still doing movies and then all of a sudden he's gone.

Or like you don't realize it and then all of a sudden you're like, wait a minute, I, no,

I haven't.

You don't see that person.

And I understand, I might be on an island on this one, but to me, they gave, if not their

whole lives, half their lives to entertainment, that's enough.

If they don't want to share anymore, that's fine.

It's their business, it's private.

Whereas Randy Travis has been very upfront about his struggles and what he's been going

through, his whole life, his whole public career life.

And I just really admire that and I don't think he's had to do that, especially again,

this latter part of his life where he's been struggling health wise and he's going out

there and touring.

Yeah.

And I don't, and I don't feel like there's expectation from his fans.

No.

You know what I mean?

No, he's given a lot.

He's given a lot.

He's given a lot.

Yeah.

Fabulous performer.

I've seen him twice and just, I mean, yeah.

Yeah.

Really good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Done by him.

It's going to be called Forever and Ever Amen.

People magazine did a really nice article on it and a really good interview with him and

Clay Walker.

Clay Walker is going to be playing Randy Travis.

Which is really cool.

Yeah.

When I first saw this story, because I'll be honest, I wasn't, I know who Clay Walker is.

It just wasn't that familiar with what he looked like.

So I was a little curious because I know that they have toured together.

Clay has done some of the singing for Randy and is helped with some of those newer songs

with the AI and the voice work and some of that.

And then I see a look of him.

I'm like, oh my god.

Like, whoa.

Like, are they even going to hire makeup people for this one?

They don't need to.

Like he, that's saying he looks exactly like Ray Travis.

But close enough.

Yeah.

But I think it's just a cool, his willingness to do it.

And it's just a neat tribute and friendship and camaraderie that, you know, I think will

only lend to the performance.

And I, I think that, thank you for saying that because this is something else I wanted

to touch on with this one.

So Clay Walker is 55.

He has got a established career.

He's very well established as a country artist.

But he's also 55 and you don't know where the next paycheck's coming from.

So your music career right now is very important and hitting numbers right now was important.

He could easily be putting all of his focus on Clay Walker and Clay Walker's career and

trying to, you know, extend that and everything.

And yet he's putting his focus in his time and his energy into playing somebody else.

Like, what?

What's cool?

And I've heard him talk about this.

It's an honor.

He's humbled by it and everything.

I think it's, I don't know, I would never speak for Mr. Travis.

I bet you he feels a little similar to that Clay is doing this.

That he, that's such a cool combination.

I will also put out there.

I, I got some bad news this morning.

It was a rough way to start the day losing out on a roll.

But especially when you already got the role and then you find out that, like this happens.

All right.

I'll just share this.

So I get an email this morning from my agent that a project that I cut my hair for and

that I was making plans for next year to do has pulled it.

It's just the whole, the whole project, the whole thing folded.

The principal parties are going in different directions.

So the project's not going to happen.

This happens a lot in the industry.

Nobody ever really talks about it.

You don't hear much about it.

You may hear 10, 20 years later about this project that was going to happen that never

did or something like that.

For the people involved, and yes, I'm talking about the actors, but I'm also talking about

the grip workers, the, the, the guy holding the boom mic and everything.

We have booked our schedules for that.

So there were two different auditions that I did not audition for because they were scheduled

for this time.

And I've already got my time booked.

So I missed out on those two auditions and now I missed out on a role that I already

got.

So just, just, I'm not, and look, I'm not at all asking anybody, empathy for anybody or

sympathy for this.

I know what I signed up for, so did all these other people.

That's the job.

That's the game that we signed up for.

But it is a, it crux about the industry that I don't feel like anybody ever gives any

credit for.

It's, it's difficult.

And with this too, you've got to pick yourself back up because you're, you're hopeful

about something happening and, and there's a, there's a kind of a natural morning that

goes with it, right?

When it, when it goes away, yeah, that's tough.

Well, and you don't have a lot of time to mourn because you've got to get back out there

because now you really got to work.

You really got to find projects.

So all that being said, they are taking auditions for this role.

There's some auditions coming up for it.

I've thrown my name out there.

I don't, it's, it would be a small role.

I'm sure I'm not going to be anything big, but I, I am auditioning for it.

I do want to remind people that that's something that's going to be happening and it might

even be a little closer than you think that they might be filming this from when I'm hearing

and everything.

There's going to be some locations and maybe close to Wisconsin or in Wisconsin possibly.

Obviously, some stuff done in Nashville and everything as well, but it's a fun project.

And I, I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with this one.

The one unfortunate part of this though is there still, it's going to happen.

There's too much already attached to this one to where it won't, but there is still some

work being done behind the scenes as far as directors and some of that stuff.

So see where that develops and we'll be following that story.

And again, a big tip of the cowboy hat to Mr. Clay Walker and Randy Travis for that

one.

Lily Bobby Brown is the star of Stranger Things when you're going to say Millie Vanillie.

Well, it's Millie Vanillie all just Bobby Brown, like the poor kids got, she didn't do

her so many favors with that thing because she chose the middle name Bobby, like that's

not her given middle name.

She chose Bobby.

So it's hard to believe it's been almost nine years since we met Millie Bobby Brown

and shaved head and all.

And she's planning to return to that look when she has a baby.

On her call me, call her daddy podcast, you said quote, hair is such an ordeal any way

to deal with.

I'm going to nurture my child, why deal with my hair?

She had a quote, it was really liberating, would suggest it to anyone, any girl.

I had the experience as a girl, but I'd like to have that experience as a woman.

So she famously shaved her head for the role of seven in Stranger Things.

You can go back to me more doing this for GI Jane.

This is a big thing.

Now actors do things like this every day for the roles.

But I don't think anybody needs me to go on a tangent about women in their hair and

in society and all these things and how that is.

And for a for a demean more at the top of her career to do that is one thing.

Because again, her shaved head didn't grow back in two seconds.

So every role she wants and ain't happening until that hair grows back.

That hurts her career that holds her back as we have seen in time.

There's a reason you didn't see demean more as much as you did before that.

There were things that kind of slowed her career down because of this, because she dedicated

herself to that role.

It meant that much to her.

Millie Bob Brown went through a very similar thing, but as a teenager, and that just,

I admire that.

I do.

I'm not putting it up there.

I'm not calling it brave or anything like that and that over using some of the words

we overuse nowadays, but I do think I admire it.

I do as a young person.

Now as far as as a mom wanting to do this, I do remember when my little brother came

around, my mom cutting her hair short.

It was the shortest she had ever had it.

And it was a part, in part because she was working mornings and you know, had the new baby

and all this stuff and it was just easier for her.

I do remember that.

I guess going all out and just getting rid of the whole thing is the next step, but

I don't want to pretend like I know anything about what it is to be a mother and raising

a child.

Like this topic is not a problem.

Or a ponytail.

You know, whichever or a ponytail works too, right?

I mean, you kind of do it.

Do what you need to do.

I guess.

I guess.

Here's another thing, though, too, not everybody because I will speak for the misshapen

skull society, those of us out there that don't have a perfectly round skull.

I don't know if anybody does, really.

Yeah.

I mean, you do see occasional words like, whoa.

It could be misleading.

I always thought Michael Jordan had a perfectly bald head and now I see him older and I'm

like at certain angles.

And it's like, oh, no, it wasn't.

It was.

No.

He's got a messed up dome just like the rest of us.

I think that's a good point.

They have very few of us actually have a perfectly round head.

That does hold you back from the whole shaving the head thing.

But as I maintain it, I will stand on this hill.

You will know when I start thinning out up top, everybody will know when I start thinning

out on top because it's all gone.

It's all going.

I cannot do it.

Oh, no, come over.

I don't think I could do a come over if I wanted to.

I really don't.

My hair doesn't work that way.

Look at it.

It doesn't do that.

It does.

Good news.

Good news.

Because I don't think you want to.

No, probably not.

Probably not.

I don't believe.

I genuinely don't believe anybody has ever looked at the person with the comb over.

That's one thing.

Right.

But anybody else looking at that comb over has one never been fooled, quote unquote, fooled

by it.

Or has anybody ever seen a comb over and said, wow, that looks great.

Or has anyone ever been kind enough to just say, you know, hey, you know, like I loved

one.

Like, yeah, maybe you should just like, why don't why do barbers?

Why don't they just like, I would be a horrible barber.

I'd be a horrible barber.

I'd be like, look, man.

The horseshoe ain't working.

I don't know what you're trying to hang on to, but I and and I have not ever been in that

position.

So I get that.

And there's a security around, you know, things that you've you're losing that you've

had.

But where don't these men have wives?

Yeah.

I talk a great game.

I talk a really good game about this.

But let's see.

Let's flash forward.

Whatever years ahead of everything.

And I'm hanging onto those three hairs on my head and combing them or whatever.

You're like getting out the, what was the gel on your kids like, dip it in you do or

whatever.

You're like making it.

Stay there.

If you ever look at products of the 80s and 90s, all fluorescent and all like goofy

names.

Well, and I got to wonder how many of them actually like passed like the test as far as

like if it's safe or okay for people.

I don't know.

Like if you could put it in your eye or not, um, I used to be fair.

I used to think that about aqua net.

Like I remember my Nana using aqua net back in the day.

Like the, I don't know if it's the oldest hairspray, but it's got to be one of the oldest

hairsprays.

No, I think we all use it because it was, it was cheap and it actually, it actually held

your hair now.

Oh, it worked.

What kind of residue would put on your hair or who the heck knows.

But I mean, it was seriously, that stuff was like 99 cents a can.

There are buildings right now being held up by aqua net construction workers ran out

of cement.

And if you didn't like aerosol, um, the other one was called final net.

That one you had to like pump it, you know, you had to like pump it.

I remember my mom and my grandma always had that.

But then, you know, you hit the teenage years, it's like, oh, I've got a dollar four.

I'm buying my own can, you know, of the, of the, you know, the pressurized stuff, right?

But yeah, aqua net every teenage girl everywhere had a can of that.

I can picture the can right now.

Yeah, I always had the purple one because I like the smell.

I just remember it was always in like, in the, in the bathroom, my sister had a bottle,

my aunt, my Nana had one, like, yeah, I remember that one.

And that definitely, there is definitely some construction workers out there that had that

in their toolbox.

In just a case, you run out of cement or something like that, come over.

Yeah, or that, take a time out, we'll get to our news, sports, and partner break.

We'll be back a more fun on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

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One of the touch on a couple of things before

get to our main topic of the segment.

For one, I want to send a shout out to all of our friends in New Dublin or New London as

it is.

They got their 41st annual St. Patrick's Day celebration happening, March 17th through

the 22nd, over in the New London area.

Of course, New Dublin, it is dubbed over this stretch.

They got a lot of great events going on over there,

encouraging to check that out, everybody, and a shout out to our friends over there.

Yeah, even a parade, not till the 22nd though.

So they're kicking off on St. Patrick's Day and running for the week.

Looks like a lot of fun events.

Yeah, things kick off with Leprechaun Day and Happy St. Patrick's Day celebration.

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Boy, I don't know how to dive into this one.

Uh, work, uh, work meeting hangovers.

That is what we're going to talk about right here.

Hey, wait, a hangover during a work meeting or...

Let's find out.

Harvard Business Review posted a bunch of stats

on how work meetings can give you a hangover.

Not a real one, obviously,

but a meeting hangover is a term they use

to describe the negative effects of a pointless meeting

or one that's not run very well.

A study found 28% of meetings

cause negative effects on employees.

They can leave you feeling less focused,

less motivated, and less productive.

90% of workers say it happens to them

at least occasionally.

90%, that is a pretty high number.

The study found meeting hangovers

lasts an average of two hours,

but sometimes lasts the rest of the day or longer.

And here are the top five things

that can cause a meeting hangover.

I'm moving my staff meeting from first thing in the morning

to end of the day.

It's good idea, it's good idea.

Well, and I'm glad you said that.

And if it's affecting productivity.

Cause here's the thing.

I don't care what business you're in or where you work.

You deal with this.

You have meetings.

I'm not saying everybody deals with meetings hangovers,

but I think that do you want to deal with this

once it's a problem or before it's a problem?

And so that's I think a key thing to this.

Yeah, what's the strategy?

I feel very confident that you and your team at your night away

are not in this problem,

but you don't want it to become a problem.

Exactly.

And definitely here at Civic Media,

we have a lot of meetings.

I am very proud to say that they are productive.

I'm in productive on many levels.

Because like a lot of you guys out there

that are part of meetings,

our meetings start out the same way.

The first five minutes is people catching up.

Or you know, this person in this market,

this person in this market that never get to talk

and here they get to talk.

See, and you guys have the hazard of geography,

but like for us, I am so over zoom meetings.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

So it's like, and I noticed that with our staff too.

Like it's just a little of that at the family center.

And sometimes it's just necessary, right?

Like I mean, it just, and it is a very convenient

and effective way to get people who are, you know,

like you just said, in a different market,

get them part of the part of the conversation.

But I also just feel like in person

is so much more productive.

So here are the top things that can help you

you and your employees or fellow employees avoid this.

Number one, too much time talking about stuff that's irrelevant.

59% said that that is the biggest cause of a meeting hangover.

Now that is going to change between, you know,

businesses and, you know, all that and everything.

But I think you know when you hear it,

I think you know what you're talking about.

But you do also sometimes get that sense,

like if someone monopolizes the conversation

and goes off on a tangent or sometimes there's a little,

I mean, I always like people to connect,

but there's also sometimes too much small talk.

Yeah, you know, it's like, okay,

let's do this business part first.

And then if people have to move on with what they've got going on,

they can do that.

That's a good line in the sand and finding that line in the sand.

Lack of a clear agenda or clear objectives.

59% that one.

That's probably my number one.

Yeah, let's not meet to meet.

I can handle everything else that's going to come up in this list.

I could take it with a grain of salt.

I can keep moving.

I'm fine.

But don't waste our time.

Don't give us though.

Don't just have a meeting just to have a meeting like you said there.

Again, fortunately, I ever run into a lot of this in my business life.

But I have know a lot of people that do,

especially in certain industries.

And it's just overwhelming.

Like where they could literally be doing some good work

in helping their company and they're stuck in a meeting.

Yeah, or it literally, I mean,

it's because it's a standing meeting time.

So it and maybe it's something that whoever hosts the meeting

could literally just touch base with one or two people.

Everyone didn't need to be part of it.

Or if it's scheduled, you know, for 45 minutes,

but it's for five, but it only takes five minutes.

Then is it really?

That's a key.

I think in that leads into this next one too, I think a little bit.

Poor time management, 53% said that one.

So it could it could be shorter, make it shorter.

Again, time is money.

You know, that hasn't changed.

If anything, it's increased.

The wasting people your employees time

is just wasting your company's time, which is hurting your bottom line.

You know, I think there's a balance.

Like if we if you schedule a meeting for an hour,

people always appreciate you being done

between 45 minutes in an hour because it's like,

okay, I'm going to give you 10 minutes back.

But there's also that fine line of,

if the meeting is scheduled for an hour,

you can't be done in 30 minutes.

Because then you're you've wasted,

you know what I mean?

Like people have had that time blocked out.

So yeah, there's there's definitely a balance.

And I find that with volunteers too,

because you know, a lot of my meetings are

with board members committees, volunteers,

and you want it to be effective use of their time.

And don't go over.

Yeah, for the love do not go over the scheduled meeting time.

I'm not yes.

I don't mean to make this sound like it's rocket science or anything,

but I think one of the things that we're already coming to

before we even finish this list,

this isn't necessarily easy either.

Like running a meeting, having a meeting,

what how to handle that meeting,

all the the ups and downs of that and everything.

I think that needs to be said too.

I do so many meetings a week,

so many between my jobs and in my side,

my career and everything.

And I I guess I just kind of like roll with it.

And I don't really think much about it.

But there's a little bit of art to facilitating.

Yeah, yeah.

I think we need to give some due and some credit to that

and some some grace to that as well.

No time, no accountable outcomes.

No accountable outcomes is big.

148% of people are getting meeting hangovers from that.

You talked but didn't accomplish much.

Yeah, and you know what?

As a side note, I'm a little tired of this in society too.

I'm a little tired of people barking,

but they got no answers.

See, I know that's that get a little.

I think though, sometimes for us,

like there might not be an outcome other than information.

You know what I mean?

Like I need everyone to know what everyone else is doing

because because of having a small staff,

like if someone presents and asks a question

and they have no idea what the person who sits next to them

every day is doing, that's a problem.

Yeah.

Right? Like they don't have to be so immersed

in it that they can do the work,

but they need to be aware.

So sometimes for us,

there just are meetings where it's literally just about

people presenting or talking about what they do

because because you know, you need to know

or or I'll do that with board members, right?

Like it's like, okay, the next 10 minutes,

we're going to just spend on learning about this topic

so you're well informed,

but I don't know that there's a really strong outcome

to that other than just being well informed.

Yeah, to that, if I can piggyback off that Terry,

you just maybe realize something too.

How important that grace is to the people

hosting the meetings or having them

and some understanding there.

You know, being honest with the audience,

the Civic Media is a young company.

We're just getting going here.

We're not that old.

And with that, there's going to be some bumps

and you know, and some of those things.

We had a very productive and awesome meeting

with some of our people in other markets yesterday.

And a lot of things are really, you know,

clearing and people are getting their footing

and some of that.

And it's really exciting.

It's really fun.

But it also, you got to have patience with that stuff.

We're all adults

and to expect certain things, I think,

is a little more on you than it is the company sometimes.

A company is a company.

It's not going to be, quote, unquote, perfect.

And to expect that, I think, is more on you

than it is the employers.

At the same time, the employers have to also

have a job to do as well.

And this is where we find that balance

that you're talking about.

Well, and I think people have to be,

you have to be resilient.

You have to be a little agile, right?

Like, I mean, so you come out of our meeting

and it, whatever, didn't meet your expectations.

This happened, that happened.

But you know what?

Pull up your big, girl pants and get to work.

Like, you don't get it to our hangover.

Right.

Have your hangover when you get home.

Yeah, see, there you still got a job to do.

You talk about a line in the sand.

This is one that we're as a society figuring out more and more.

And I'm really, really hopeful

that we come out on the right side of this one.

Because there is certainly something to be said for.

Hey, this is a bad work environment

or hey, this is negative and this is too much.

This is going too far and everything.

Both my grandfather's proud Marines, proud soldiers

would be the first ones to tell you the way

that they were treated back in the day

and, you know, was not right.

It didn't really solve anything.

It didn't make them better soldiers.

So some of the things we've done in our military

has not softened our military.

It's made a smarter military.

I focused on this one a lot.

I paid a lot of attention to it.

I know what I'm talking about.

I'm not saying, I'm right.

I'm just saying that I'm not just speaking off the cuff here.

When it comes to that and in the work balance light

or work in an employer and how to be,

you got to be hard on your employees.

You got to have accountability there too.

You're also not their parent, you know?

You're not grounding your employees.

You're not, there's a line there.

Yeah, and there has to be a level of just

a mutual respect too, you know that.

So I mean, so I get it like the kind of fun

soft side of this, the cheeky side of this,

but at the same time, sometimes it's like sometimes

stuff is hard.

Yeah, and that's sometimes life is hard.

Yeah, and it's something that I talk about a lot

with other parents and finding that balance

of being tough with your kids,

but wanting them to be kids, you know?

It's not easy to do, but that's part of life.

That's part of it.

Unequal participation, 39% said that one could be a real low.

So only a few people talked and they talked a lot.

Low participation overall is next at 38%.

So that's a...

You see, that's a facilitation.

You know, technique is just calling out,

you know, if you have 50 people in the room

and you've got four monopolizing,

then you maybe just sometimes you just have to vocalize that.

You know, I'd like to hear from someone else

or, you know, I can someone over here respond for,

you know, like, I think that that's a facilitation strategy,

not letting people monopolize.

Bosses can prevent meeting hangovers by listening more

and helping the conversation along,

making every minute count, ending on time

and having smaller meetings with fewer people.

The top ways to recover from a work meeting

include taking a short break when it ends,

going for a quick walk or talking,

talking things out with coworkers.

The last one is risky though.

If it's about making sense of the meeting, that's good.

But venting too much tends to breed negativity

and then your meeting hangover can spread to other people.

And that is another key part of this too, that negativity.

You get what you put in the life.

If you walk around all day and everything is dark

and everything is negative,

guess what's it's probably gonna be that way?

If you, and it also takes away from not to be macabre here,

but there are gonna be times that you're gonna be called

on to be negative.

You're gonna be called on to be sad or whatever.

They'll come.

You don't have to read your back, yeah,

you don't have to manufacture them or anything like that.

So to me, this is all coming back to life can be hard,

work can be hard enough already.

Why, you don't have to make them any harder.

You have to meet people halfway.

It is a balance and it is working with employee

and management and all of this working together.

And like you said, I mean, you get what you put into it.

So if you want it to work and you put in the work,

it likely will work.

But the whole reset thing too, I think that's important.

I mean, sometimes just not even from a meeting.

Sometimes you just, you accomplish something

or get through something that you've been working on.

It's like, okay, I just, I'm gonna take a quick walk

or I'm gonna run, you know, run get something to drink

or you don't mean like a snack or something,

like just to let your mind clear

and then before you tackle the next project.

I don't do it as much as I used to,

but I used to do this a lot.

I just walk out of the building for a minute

and get some fresh air from right back in.

I used to do it during commercial segments

all the time and everything.

And I do it after meeting sometimes too.

Just clears your head and you come right back in.

And I got one of my most unpopular takes of all time maybe,

but I will, I've always felt this way.

I'm kind of thankful I didn't have an easy life.

I'm kind of thankful for it.

I appreciate it.

I would have liked it to be a little easier,

but I'm pretty thankful it's having a hard life.

Yeah, well, it adds to your resiliency for sure.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back.

We're gonna get into some good stories

that today are scheduled and catch up

with our friends from the United Way.

All coming up with that ain't right story on top of it.

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Closing time, open all the doors

and let you out into the world.

One of the, before we get into our schedule here,

Terry and touch on some other good stories.

One of them mentioned that you all at the United Way

have been having a very busy couple of weeks here.

Yeah, so I did just want to give a shout out

to our friends at the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce

because last Thursday night, and I'm sure that they've been on,

but last Thursday night was their annual meeting

and awards banquet.

And United Way of Southwood Nams County's

was awarded the Community Impact of the Year award.

Yeah, get the winning bill in there.

Yes, that's awesome.

Congratulations.

Yeah, so I mean, it was a great opportunity.

Obviously, we like to go and connect with people,

but to receive recognition of the work

that we do in the community is really awesome.

We also thank our friends at Encourage

because they sponsor the award.

And I think the really cool thing is,

when you look at all of the recipients that evening,

we as United Way are connected to all of them.

And I love that.

Maybe they're a donor, maybe they are volunteers

so it speaks to the strong network of our community

and how everyone works together.

And we are just so greatly appreciative

for the recognition of our work.

So thanks to our friends at the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber

and just to everybody who is a part of the actual event,

but also the recognition of the work

that took place the whole prior year

and how that impacts our community.

Big thank you to the Chamber, to all those businesses,

to all those nonprofits and everybody having a great time

looking forward to next year's.

Gotta get to a then-and-right story here

and it is a local then-and-right story.

We're not picking on Florida this time.

A mom in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

got a visit from a police officer last week

after her four-year-old son turned her in

for eating his ice cream.