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🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | This week, on Forward, Jules and I discuss homelessness, billionaires, |
0:05.2 | performative politics and much more. Join us this week on Forward. |
0:31.7 | Welcome back, Jules. How are you? I'm good. How are you doing? I heard you left the country |
0:36.8 | for the first time in your life recently. Yeah, 24 years old. Left the country for the first time in |
0:40.8 | my life. I grew up going to vacation like Florida basically and having taken vacation in the past, |
0:46.0 | I'd say two and a half years. Sure, a lot of people, same boat. Yeah, and so it was, |
0:51.4 | I'm such a work of haul, it was kind of hard to step away, but it was like super refreshing. Just |
0:55.0 | remind of me that solitude is important for everyone and taking a break is definitely important for |
0:59.5 | everyone. Helps you in the long term be better. Yes, you heard it here. Even young world class, |
1:05.8 | social media influencers, like you, you need to take a break, get some detox. Yeah, it's such a |
1:12.1 | toxic work culture today, especially with work from homes. I mean, I love work from home. I'm |
1:17.0 | kind of like a squirrel in a lot of situations in college. I studied in a library, so it's like, |
1:22.7 | anyway, work from home, it's even harder to shut down work. Everyone knows that. Yeah, it was a |
1:27.2 | good forced time to unplug and really rejuvenating because I think you think when you go on vacation, |
1:32.4 | you're like, oh, I'm going to miss out on so much like time and energy. I could be putting into work, |
1:35.6 | but I'm like, okay, now I can come back like stronger and better with a refreshed mind. |
1:39.1 | Especially you might be a bit more inspired, balanced, productive, etc, etc. I mean, a lot of the |
1:45.7 | times breaks the most productive things you can do. It's hard to do. So I've been a CEO of a |
1:51.5 | number of organizations and there was one company where I would tell people to take vacation, |
1:57.6 | they would not. And then someone came to me and said, hey, Andrew, the only way people are going |
2:01.2 | to take vacation around here is if you take vacation. So you take a vacation and I was like, |
2:05.8 | okay, it's not what you say, it's what you do. So then I took a vacation and really enjoyed |
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