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Refrigerators— things that used to have an expected life of 15 years at the minimum— aren't lasting like they used to. Here's why.

 @stevelehto  just posted a video about the epidemic of bad refrigerators last week, and because I’m weird, I wanted to expand upon that and dig into why things aren’t lasting like they used to. If you’ve bought a new fridge recently or are thinking about buying one, here’s why it might not last as long as your old one…and by extension how you can improve your chances of getting one that does.

Further reading/watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAhWgkKlHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTjPzw9VhY

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/10/25/samsung-refrigerator-investigation-complaints-continue/70982873007/

Are electric vehicles from Tesla, GM, Polestar, BYD, Volkswagen, and the like over-hyped? Are they "worth it" for the planet and your wallet?

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZSkEs5JxE0Q

Electric cars are becoming more and more common. If you live in a major city, they’re everywhere, and they’ve got a lot going for them. Imagine never having to visit a gas station, or anything resembling one, except when you go on a road trip. With an electric car, you just walk out of your house in the morning, unplug, and you’ve got a full tank. If you drive your car approximately 11,000 miles a year, the average miles traveled per vehicle in the US according to the latest available numbers from 2021, or about 30 miles per day, you probably don’t even have to charge more than a few times a week. And if you’ve got solar panels on your house, you can feel all warm and snuggly that you’re charging your car with clean energy.

Sounds awesome! But are they right for everyone?

Sources:

https://www.nada.org/nada/nada-headlines/beyond-sticker-price-cost-ownership-evs-v-ice-vehicles

https://www.kbb.com/new-cars/total-cost-of-ownership/

https://gasprices.aaa.com

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/sales_revenue_price/pdf/table_4.pdf

https://www.volvocars.com/images/v/-/media/project/contentplatform/data/media/sustainability/volvo_carbonfootprintreport.pdf

https://www.tesla.com/impact/environment

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/ev-vs-ice-time-to-plug-in?slide=3

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2021/

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbsSelect#

Coach Kshama Singhi joins the podcast to share how she helps professionals transform their lives by empowering them to deepen their self-awareness, find their purpose and direction, and move toward taking massive and decisive action.

If you want to know more about Kshama, check out her website CoachKshama.com, where listeners can download the free e-book 7 Habits to Creating Healthy Long-Lasting Relationships.  

Free e-book - https://coachkshama.com/7-habits-to-creating-a-healthy-long-lasting-relationship/ 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/coachkshama

Facebook: www.facebook.com/JourneyToYourBestSelf/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshamasinghi/

Former professional athlete, entrepreneur, and reality television contestant Steve Wright joins the podcast this week to tell his story and talk about his new book, Aggressively Human: Discovering Humanity in the NFL, Reality Television and Life, his new book which is out Tuesday, November 7.

https://www.wrightauthor.com

Amazon: Aggressively Human

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Certified mindfulness coach, somatic healer, and a Yoga Therapist in training Tess Jewell-Larsen joins the podcast this week to talk about her work focusing on stress management, nervous system resiliency, and the mindset and lifestyle shifts that will help her clients feel more joyful, balanced, and optimistic.  Listen and learn how Tess helps her clients learn to thrive no matter what obstacles come their way. 

Links:

Website: https://www.tytoniyoga.com

Freebie: https://tessjewelllarsen.coach/freebie/ 

The Happy Edit Podcast: https://www.tytoniyoga.com/pages/thehappyeditpodcast 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessjewelllarsen/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessjewelllarsen/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tessjewelllarsencoaching

It’s 3am. You’re tossing and turning, trying to fall back asleep. You look at the clock again, it’s only been 10 minutes since the last time you checked, but you know you’ve gotta get up at 6, so you need to get to sleep NOW. What do you do?

25% of Americans experience insomnia every year, though it’s often due to something temporary like being sick or stressing over money, your job, or your family. Chances are good you’ve had times in your life when you’ve had trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or falling back to sleep after you’ve woken up. If it happens three times a week or more for three months or longer, you’ve got chronic insomnia. Temporary or chronic, though, there are several steps you can take to help yourself reliably get a better night’s sleep.

New York Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/well/mind/insomnia-cognitive-behavioral-therapy.html

Further Reading:

How to Sleep

Why We Sleep

Sources:

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/nutrition/alcohol-and-sleep

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2018/june/1-in-4-americans-develop-insomnia-each-year

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33007706/

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What is it that millionaires are doing that you and I aren’t? Why aren’t we doing it too? I’m not interested in accumulating a bunch of money to have a bunch of useless stuff, I want it for the security that it’ll provide, to one day be financially independent where I work because I want to, not because I have to.

Since nearly 80% of millionaires received no inheritance at all, it's clear millionaires are made not born, and a lot of how they’re made seems to come down to habit. Here are five simple habits I've observed many millionaires have adopted and you can too!

Compound interest calculator: https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calculators/compound-interest-calculator

Sources/Further Reading:

Your Money or Your Life

I Will Teach You to Be Rich  

The Millionaire Next Door  

National Study of Millionaires  

Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report

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Executive and career-life coach Randi Roberts joins the podcast this week to talk about how she helps her clients unlock their highest potential by recapturing the fire in their careers and turn challenges into new opportunities.  Guided by her 30 years in the corporate world, Randi knows what it's like to have a career that inspires and excites you only to have that spark slowly extinguished.  

Listen in as she provides tips and tricks for rekindling that fire you once had!

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ffVe8dQhu18

Access the Career Satisfaction Assessment: https://bit.ly/CareerSatisfactionAssessmentEvents

Learn more about Randi:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/randi-roberts-28a8768/ https://www.youtube.com/@fulfillingcareerhappylife/ https://www.randirobertscoaching.com/

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I just finished reading the new biography of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson.  Love him or hate him, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere with a hand in everything.  He’s the richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of either $249 Billion or $226 Billion depending on who does the estimating.  And between Twitter, now X, SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, OpenAI, X.Ai., and PayPal, he’s probably been involved in something that currently touches your life or will in the near future, especially if he gets his way.  

Note: I totally pulled a Musk myself— this episode was supposed to launch on Monday, but after reading the book last week I grossly underestimated how long it would take to make an episode about it...hopefully you like it!

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uPwFjZFluw8

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