Hello, my friends, and welcome to Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary for this week's Monday

moment. You know, we create these short episodes to help start your week on fire, baby, with a quick

burst of inspiration. And I wanted to begin today's

podcast by sharing, unfortunately, some bad news. But then, quickly, we're going to pivot into some

awesome news and an opportunity for you. Yes, I'm talking to you right now, you to dive deeply yourself into this terrific news.

So here we go.

Every year, our organization partners with more than 100 organizations around the world.

I'm a speaker at their conferences from maybe a dozen or so CEOs in a boardroom to 23,000 sales leaders in a stadium, from inmates and penitentiaries

to physicians on grand rounds. And yet before every time I speak, before every conference we have,

a long conversation with their HR director, the meeting planner, the CEO, the person in charge of the meetings to discuss their organization, their event, and eventually my role with ensuring that the meeting is successful.

On every single one of these calls, I can't highlight that enough, on every single one of these calls. I hear the challenges that these

organizations and these individuals within them face. These leaders share the stories of how

high work burnout is today. Tell me if these don't connect with you, how high the work burnout is.

Frequently, it's how low the engagement levels of the work that they are doing

is. The majority share that optimism for the future is low, and that's not surprising, considering

for the last seven years now historically in the U.S. for the first time ever, seven years it has been

down. We have less optimism about the future than we do pessimism for the

future. They talk about the work-life balance challenges, and it's essentially non-existent,

that people are bringing more and more and more work home with them, that the cell phone is a

beautiful invention, but it also means you are on call all the time.

Because of this, relationships at home are strained.

The pace of change that we're dealing with organizationally in our own work life has never been

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