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Adventure should never come with a pause button.

Remember Movie Pass?

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company he

built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the

internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that you are not a middle school student changing classes.

So don't go passively from thing to thing in your schedule without focusing on what each meeting accomplishes.

One of the most frequent concerns I hear from listeners is that their work days are consumed by back-to-back meetings,

so there's no time to get their actual work done. They become like middle schoolers changing classes,

going from your 1 o'clock to your 2 o'clock, to your 3 o'clock, to your four o'clock, things that have just appeared on your

schedule, and that you have no say over. I understand that frustration. It boggles my mind how much

staff time businesses are willing to spend on meetings without considering the actual return on

investment. If you are an organizational leader, do a time audit and figure out how much time your team is spending in meetings.

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