What's up? What's up Nick? A looper here. Welcome to the Silent Hustle show because the best time to

repair a roof is when the sun is shining. Had tip to JFK for that one. Special Mother's Day edition

of the show for you this week featuring 10 bits of advice and wisdom from Mom. The dad advice

episode we did last June for Father's Day was a lot of fun and it was pretty popular. So I'm going

to attempt to revisit that format today just with Mom providing the often very literal advice

and me over analyzing it 30 years later. That Father's Day episode was number 393 if you want to go

back and check it out. So first a little bit about Mom for the sake of context here. She essentially

had two careers. The first in nursing and the second as a library assistant where she actually

helped me get one of my first jobs getting paid to reshell books. This is like the perfect

introvert gig plus it paid time and a half on Sundays which was like 12 or 13 bucks an hour

pretty good high school job. But Mom encouraged both work and work ethic at an early age both in my

brother and I by her own example and by setting expectations more on that in a bit. But Mom's

probably always been my biggest advocate and supporter even if the online business models that I

was playing around with I weren't always easy to explain to her friends like I think he sells shoes

on the internet. I don't know he seems to be doing okay. You know how vloggers always joke about

like the early days of their blog when it's only their mom reading those are not jokes those are

100% true and it's not only that she would leave comments and I want to say well that's fine just

don't put your last name or don't put mom in the name feel like make it look legit so here we go

10 lessons from mom that stand out and have stuck with me over the years number one is to keep

reading and to keep writing my brother and I you'll hear from Chris in a minute you know we watched

our fair share of TV and we played our fair share of video games but reading for pleasure was always

encouraged and was really expected but beyond that there was this unspoken balance of consumption

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