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No Stupid Questions

155. How Do You Deal With Big Life Changes?

No Stupid Questions

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Society & Culture

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What’s more stressful, divorce or jail? Are you in the middle of a “lifequake”? And should we all be taking notes from Martha Stewart?

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0:00.0

Hello listeners, before we start Nostuba questions, I want to announce that after a ton of amazing

0:08.3

positive feedback from all of you about how much you enjoy listening to Mike Maughan as my

0:14.6

conversation partner, we've decided to continue the show together. Mike, have you heard the news

0:21.2

that we are co-hosting Nostuba questions? I have, but I'm thrilled to hear it from you as well,

0:26.0

because there's nobody I'd rather be doing this with. Other than Steven. No, I'm still picking you

0:30.0

don't tell him. Oh, okay, we won't tell him. We do have to say that Steven has enjoyed three

0:36.1

years of co-hosting this and is no longer going to be in the co-pilot seat, but we are both friends

0:42.0

of Steven and we are very excited to be doing this together. Now, it's easy for me to explain what

0:47.8

I do. I'm a psychologist, but Mike, what the hell do you do? I don't know that there's an easy way

0:53.2

to describe it, but there are probably three things. One, I'm a tech executive, so I've been at a company

0:58.2

Qualtrics for the last 10 years. So what's Qualtrics? Qualtrics is an experience management company

1:04.0

that helps organizations across the world understand their data and use data to help their

1:08.8

customers, employees, or lots of academics like you. I know have used it to do lots of rigorous

1:13.6

studies and understand human beings better. So it's like survey software and more? And more. Yes.

1:20.6

The second piece is for the last three years, I've spent a lot of time with the professional

1:24.8

sports teams in Utah, specifically the Utah Jazz, where I work mostly with the management team there.

1:30.8

Nobody's calling and asking me which players we should trade, but I do weigh in a lot on the

1:35.4

business side. And then the third piece, I run a couple of nonprofits, the Utah Jazz Foundation,

1:40.3

and another cancer related charity fight for the fight. So you've got tech executive, you've got

1:46.3

NBA and other pro sports person who solves problems, but is not an athlete. And then your

1:53.0

nonprofit and charity work, is that right? Yes. Thank you for noting that I'm not an athlete.

1:57.4

I appreciate you pointing that out. Yes. Well, Mike, I'm so excited to be talking with you

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