What's up, ladies gentlemen? Welcome back to another episode of the Action Academy podcast,

Corporate America's Least Favorite Podcasts. Guys, when I recorded the first episode of this

podcast, it was in October of 2021, directly post-COVID. And since that point, now that I'm

recording this in November of 2025, everything has essentially

changed. Post-COVID, we got this nice wave of real estate appreciation. We got this wave

where people were beginning to buy small businesses and companies were going from this remote

environment kind of back in office and the labor market, the job market was kind of

up for grabs and everybody could, you know, kind of ride this beginning of aUI wave and things

were just kind of good for the most part. Fast forward to today with Amazon firing over 30,000

people in a day, invidia laying off people. I'm in Austin, Texas Oracle laid off, I think 7,000 people.

It's happening across the board, especially in big tech companies.

So today what I want to talk about is what I would be doing if I were in that position right now,

if you're in a position that is threatened by AI, if you're in maybe a middle

management position and you're kind of nervous about what to do next, in the event that you're

the recipient of one of those emails from HR that all of a sudden says, boom, you're part of the

10% of the company that's let go. Today, I want to talk about maybe a checklist that I would

have in place of what to do.

And then also kind of a few pivots that we've made with Action Academy to address this and also help with this.

Because right now we're smack in the middle of holiday season.

And we've got something that hopefully can help with this at the end of the episode.

So first things first, I'm not trying to scare you guys. I'm not trying to fearmonger. What we're about to do here is called inverse thinking, inverse reasoning. And Charlie Munger is who made this famous. Warren Buffett's business partner for over, I think, 60 years. And so Charlie had this quote which says, I don't want to focus on all the different ways that I can live. I want to focus on

the three to four ways that I can die. And his quote was, I want to know where I'm going to die

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