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MCMANUS (Formerly Mind Shift) with Erwin & Aaron McManus

RED PILL / BLUE PILL

MCMANUS (Formerly Mind Shift) with Erwin & Aaron McManus

Erwin McManus + Aaron McManus

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 7 January 2022

ā±ļø 67 minutes

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Summary

Are you taking the red pill or the blue pill?  

On this episode of the Battle Ready Podcast, Erwin and Aaron McManus ring in 2022 by discussing the importance of setting goals, bouncing back, and The Matrix.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You were listening to The Better Ready Podcast. My name is Aaron McManus and I'm here with my dad, Irwin Rafael McManus.

0:16.4

This is the first podcast of the year. Happy new year. Happy new year. 2022.

0:22.8

Well, it has to be different than 2021. Hopefully better. And was 2021 better than 2020?

0:32.8

Wow. Quick survey. Shows your hands. 2021 was better for other listeners.

0:39.0

Oh, I know. But I'm looking at the podcast booth there and I'm getting 50-50 split.

0:43.2

And I think that's probably the truth across the nation. For some people, 2020 was worse and for some

0:48.8

people, 2021 was worse. But I think it's worse. 2021 is worse. Because 2020, we were all in this massive

0:57.2

new crisis. 2021 people are hopeful and believe they could get out of it and then when they did,

1:02.4

and it was even more difficult. And by the way, the proverb say that hope deferred makes a heart sick.

1:07.6

So I think everybody who thought 2021 was going to be awesome, they had a more sick heart because

1:14.0

hope was deferred even in another year. So here we are. 2022 made this be the greatest year of our lives.

1:21.0

Yeah, but probably not. So let's just get through it.

1:27.9

Okay, so this is how it's going to be. No, it's not even that. I just think the reality, like we're,

1:32.2

I mean, it seems like people were going to talk, we're talking about shutting down back again.

1:35.6

And more people, you know, I do find an issue. We're looking at all the stats that more people

1:39.8

have changed jobs and moved cities. Yeah. In the last 12 months than ever before. Yeah, I think

1:48.0

the stat for November, December was six million. I thought, yeah, because you said four something,

1:52.6

but I think it's six million. Yeah, I think it's six million who have left left their jobs. Yeah,

1:56.7

or no left California. I thought, no, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. You were talking about the job thing.

2:00.7

I was like, yeah, yeah, I was talking about jobs. I think I saw 4.5 million people have quit their jobs.

2:07.0

And I think our unemployment rate is, or numbers is over 10 million or something like that.

2:14.0

Chris, we live in California that has the highest unemployment rate in the United States.

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