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As She Rises brings together local poets and activists from throughout North America to depict the effects of climate change on their home and their people. Each episode carries the listener to a new place through a collection of voices, local recordings and soundscapes. Stories span from the Louisiana Bayou, to the tundras of Alaska to the drying bed of the Colorado River. Centering the voices of native women and women of color, As She Rises personalizes the elusive magnitude of climate cha ...
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Why do most of us work Mon-Fri? What would happen if Thursday was the new Friday?
Joe Sanok is a former psychologist & current author of Thursday is the New Friday. In this episode, he shares how the signs of a shorter work week (& longer weekends) have been popping up since the 1980’s.
In this episode he shares why a four-day work week is critical to society’s advancement, examples of places already implementing alternative schedules, how we can recalibrate our minds away from the industrialist mindset & how to discover your internal inclinations & sprint type.
This episode originally aired in two parts on March 28 & April 4, 2022.
If you like this episode, you’ll also like episode 202: IS TAKING A BREAK FROM WORK AN OPTION? MIDELIFE GAP YEAR
Guest:
https://www.instagram.com/heyyymizcarter
https://www.carter-sherman.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/cartersherman.bsky.social
Host:
https://www.meredithforreal.com/
https://www.instagram.com/meredithforreal/
https://www.youtube.com/meredithforreal
https://www.facebook.com/meredithforrealthecuriousintrovert
Sponsors:
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/starterpacks/
https://www.historicpensacola.org/about-us/
00:00 — Why we work five days a week
01:00 — The myth of “normal” work
02:00 — What the pandemic taught us about time
03:00 — Real-world case studies: Iceland to Shopify
04:00 — Cooling empty buildings and saving millions
05:00 — The outdated industrial mindset
06:00 — Why “butts in seats” is a bad KPI
07:00 — The messy middle of change
08:00 — Are Americans too proud to adapt?
09:00 — The rebellious gene pool of the New World
10:00 — Schools as factories for future workers
11:00 — Teaching consent, confidence, and conversation
12:00 — Building emotional intelligence at home
13:00 — Parenting as part of societal recalibration
14:00 — Four-day weeks in “essential” jobs
15:00 — Testing, tweaking, and experimenting at work
16:00 — A shift from prescription to experimentation
17:00 — Who gets to work less? Privilege or possibility?
18:00 — The Walmart question: can everyone benefit?
19:00 — Rethinking weekends as recovery
20:00 — Are you working for an industrialist?
21:00 — Early signs of a four-day revolution
22:00 — The affair between Friday and the weekend
23:00 — Part Two: how to get things done by Thursday
24:00 — Why slowing down makes you sharper
25:00 — Parkinson’s Law and the myth of busy
26:00 — One-minute breaks that change everything
27:00 — Add one, remove one: weekend resets
28:00 — Toxic friends, grocery delivery & energy leaks
29:00 — Designing weekends for joy, not recovery
30:00 — Boundaries aren’t walls, they’re choices
31:00 — Hard and soft boundaries in real life
32:00 — Improv night as productivity tool
33:00 — From farm country to flow state
34:00 — The three internal inclinations
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