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Make 2025 Your Best Year: Actionable Tips from My Expert Guest
In this episode of the RV Life Podcast, host Patti Hunt welcomes Joe Fier, co-host of the Hustle and Flowchart podcast, for the second part of their engaging conversation on setting the stage for a successful 2025. Together, they delve into actionable strategies for personal growth, overcoming challenges, and leveraging tools like AI to streamline life. Highlights include practical tips for maintaining resolutions, the importance of knowing your “why,” and fostering a supportive community. Joe also shares insights from his own transformative journey, offering inspiration for listeners ready to make 2025 their best year yet.
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The Myth of Normal” by Gabor Maté
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Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
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Are you ready to make 2025 your best year yet? I'm Patti Hunt and you're listening to the RV Life Podcast. This is part two of my two-part series. In part one, my guest Joe Feer and I had a great discussion to help you end 2024 with clarity and purpose. I highly recommend you going back and listening to that episode. Today, joe Feer and I will continue the conversation and provide actionable tips for a successful 2025.
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Speaker 1:Now my guest, joe Feer, is back and this is actually the third time Joe is back. I hope people take the time to listen to last week's episode, but if you haven't heard about him, let me tell you about Joe. He is a successful content marketer and podcast host of Hustle and Flowchart podcast, a top 1% podcast globally, who provides advice to entrepreneurs on how to work smarter and live better. He has hosted over 600 podcast episodes where he interviews top experts and authors in various fields, such as business and personal development. In his podcasts and talks, joe consistently connects this approach to helping others, advocating for actionable steps that inspire transformation. He views these small wins as ripple effect, impacting not only individuals but the communities they engage with, fostering a fuller and more joyful way of living. Welcome back, joe Fear.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Patty. This is crazy Round three. Now we've done this in a second of two parts, right? I?
Speaker 1:know and never have I done a round three, but for for my listeners, I, you and I have just connected. We just flow. You know you have a podcast. The way that I do my podcast, I know the person, I know we can flow. There's no script here. We're just kind of finding our way around with the ultimate goal to help people make 2025 the best year ever. Now it is day one. Happy Newst, happy New Year. Yes, where's my champagne at.
Speaker 2:I drank it already, I know right.
Speaker 1:Probably we were drinking yeah. So, as people know, this is luckily previously recorded and so really trying to make 2025 great and I think let's first start last week's show you told your story. I again, I recommend people go back and listen to that episode because I think ending 2024 on the right foot is going to be a big help making 2025 the best year ever. What I'd like to ask is can you share? First of all, why is this topic so important that you agreed to not be on for the second time, but the third time?
Speaker 2:Yeah right, I know Well for one, it's you. You, I will say that, and that's genuinely true absolutely yeah, and when we met it was about a year. Should go a little more now, I guess at the time of this recording. Um, yeah, my time frame is all getting skewed now, but uh, you know, ever since meeting you and dan, it's you guys are a pleasure in person. And you know Jacob, your producer, our producer, I know he says the same and loves you guys too. So there's that, that is very true.
Speaker 2:It's great to chat with your open book. I love the fact that you are a teacher, always a teacher, so you have really great perspective of educating young people, which you know, I know, is a very tough gig, but rewarding, I'm assuming, and you know there's there's a lot of reasons why I think our chats are super fun, so I just hope everyone listening also feels similar, like you're getting a bunch of takeaways, because that's our intention here is to, you know, give our backgrounds, but at the same time, it's for you to relate to and do something with, because, right, it's all about the journey.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's life in a nutshell. It's everything you're doing here at Harvey Life Podcast. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, and certainly I didn't expect that to be the answer. I appreciate it. Thank you so much and you know that's been my intention with the podcast and continuing on with the podcast. So I appreciate hearing that. Let's dive in. This time of year people are thinking things like New Year's resolutions, setting goals, setting intentions, all of those words and I say it in a way because often that is a very you know, I've set the goals. I think for most people they've thought about New Year's resolutions. They've probably set them. So, whether they're about health, losing weight, the gyms will be packed this time of year. Finance For about a month, yeah, and there's actually data that shows the increase. I've heard of it.
Speaker 2:I think it's pretty accurate. It's about a month or so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're probably right. But, it's setting goals like finances. People want to make more money. I want the bigger house, I want the nicer car. So finance is a big New Year's resolution. Goals relationships. You know I want to meet that person, the boyfriend, the girlfriend, not you because you're married with two beautiful little girls.
Speaker 1:But these are the common things. So I looked up what are the common? You know, resolutions that people make. There's also statistics and I didn't pull them that show people make New Year's resolutions. By February, whatever the date is, they've stopped, and by March they've. So my point in saying all this, which sounds rather negative is I want to change that. I want to change the narrative, I want to change how we think about it. I want to change the narrative, I want to change how we think about it. I want to make some suggestions, because I've done that and I think you probably have too. New Year's Eve set the New Year's resolution, set the intention, but had nothing to keep me on track. So today is all about how, how we do it. So let's start. Last week we talked about reflecting let's just, you know, on 2024 and that's important, right? Let's talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 2:So the reflecting part I think I mentioned last time is like what worked, what did it and what can I do next? You know it's like what are, what are the next steps? So back to the reflecting. It's really getting clear of what happened. How did I act?
Speaker 2:I think a big thing here actually, patty, is we talked about slowing down and things, but then in the slowdown at least for me, you realize oh wait, the actions. I can't control everything, but I can sure as heck control my actions and even to an extent, to a large extent, my thoughts. And if you can slow everything down, you're able to read these things a little more and control your actions better, maybe even slow those or eliminate negative thoughts. There was a book I was reading recently. It's called Lucky you by Price Pridgett.
Speaker 2:He's a psychologist that has been around for a long time. It's like a 60-page book and he broke down and basically it's not all about telling yourself positive things that's not the most powerful thing but before that it's eliminating the negative thoughts. So it's these patterns and if you can identify what are those negative patterns that you have through reflection, and then, before you start setting whatever intentions or goals or, I think, what I would like to talk about are habits, these sustainable things. But you need to know, like, what did you do before? And then, like, how can you eliminate these patterns or negative thoughts?
Speaker 1:So you're not going to just get in that trap in february or march or whatever ends up happening, or even next week, you know, after you forget I think that's great and I think that and I wanted to bring that up and people again I, you know, encourage people to go listen to last week's episode, which was on monday, instead of when I usually post my episodes on Wednesday. But, reflecting, some people just want to forget about 2024. It's done, let me forget about it, and there might be some things that just need to be let go of and forgot about, but there's a learning. So I'm glad because that's going to help set us up for a better 2025. Because that's going to help set us up for a better 2025. Now, as we move into the new year, here we are, day one and, you know, it's incredible to think that we are at this point we're at and we just recorded this days before it went out, so it's just, I'm still in kind of a surprise state of yes, it's 2025.
Speaker 1:Time warp, that's what it feels like. It absolutely feels like that and again in that episode I shared some of the challenges I went through and how they led me to a 2024 that had so much for me to be grateful for, so much to be absolutely celebrate. I think a big part you and I have talked about it is your why. So yeah, let's talk about that. I'm going to throw it to you to talk about why, why, you know, I'm just going to throw it to you.
Speaker 2:Why am I doing this thing, yeah?
Speaker 1:Why yeah?
Speaker 2:Why am I showing up every day? Why am I yeah?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:It's a great question. You got to what Simon Sinek has a whole book that says start with why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, I love that book, highly recommend it.
Speaker 2:There you go, me too, and it's the why. And I think what he's getting at really is like you know what do you want, like what do you really want, and you know a lot of us will. I think it's fuzzy. It's a fuzzy like North Star that you're maybe shooting for. You know that's like the direction you're trying to go to, because you can only control so much, but at least you can control the general direction you want to travel in life and with your family, business and the RV that you might be driving right now, it's like you don't know what's up ahead really. So that's everything in life. So my why is it's family first, like I was talking about in the previous episode. So that's, you know, family knowing I want to be a present father and husband to my, to my wife, support her, because she being the mother, I mean inherently, naturally, societally, kids go to her first, you know.
Speaker 2:But at the same time I'm not just gonna be like I want to sit over here and just like work all day, or you know, this is my thing.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna go make all the money now because, like, I don't know, yeah, there's, there's time for more than that, and so they are my. Why? That's for dang sure, and then, but with that, you know, I know what I want, which is, you know, to experience life fully. But, like, the things I can control are, you know, my time, the, uh, the amount of days I'm working, the days I'm not working, very, very containing myself, and the actions I choose to do on the work side, but also on the family side. So I know I can, I can be there for them and myself all at the same time. And there's adventure. I love adventure, so it's like creating time for that for myself and them. Yeah, right, and it's interesting, I love adventure.
Speaker 1:So it's like creating time for that for myself and them. Yeah Right, and it's interesting when I first learned about my why and I read the book, and it was about 12 years ago you never mentioned your why was to make more money.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly.
Speaker 1:Not that it's a thing. So and I think this is a big important thing is we set intentions. If somebody's why? If somebody's importance is to make money and I'm guilty, because I thought that was what it was all about is making more money, and to me, what I've learned is no, it's not about the money. What does the money, though, get for me?
Speaker 1:So, doing what I do now, going from being a teacher for 20 years and that sort of nine to five I know I didn't work nine to five, but it was very regimented and I made a certain amount of money and saying, okay, I'm giving all of that up the health insurance, the steady pay, the perceived security in that job, going from there to this place of being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1:You know, if it's just about the money, it's hard to get up out of bed every day, and so my why has been, you know, family, like you said, I want it, so I had to learn what is it the money is going to get for me, and that is freedom to be with my family, with my kids, with my now grandkids, with you know, to do the things that I want to do, and and a big part of that is my mission to inspire other people to go out and live life fully. So, as people are thinking about their intention for 2025 and thinking, okay, I wanna make $100,000 this year, I wanna make 200, whatever. If it's money oriented, what does that do for you? Is all I suggest that people that I hope people think about and look at your. Why is that strong? And again, I highly recommend the book.
Speaker 2:Start With why it's that strong, motivating thing that gets your butt out of bed every day, because there are days, especially for me this past year, getting my butt out of bed was the biggest challenge, like it was challenging, yeah, and we all have that thing that's nagging at us right and and I think those are opportunities for us to reflect, slow down, you know, like what we talked about a lot in the previous episode last year is is like we have these, we all have these things that are swirling around, the worries, anxieties.
Speaker 2:You know stressors could be money induced. That's great, that doesn't feel great, but let's be honest, it's solvable and there's so many ways to solve a problem. You know it's like sure you could get another job, but maybe, maybe, maybe you can't. You know, um, there you can arrange things, you can move somewhere else, you can rent, you can buy, buy or sell, and that's where I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2:The money thing I think it's partially my upbringing, because we all have that background too. In whatever anxieties we have, money is one of those things that just, oh, I don't have enough in the account that I am comfortable with. You know we all have that threshold and that definitely rises or lowers whatever direction in your life. But, and you know, I feel like us as humans, like we're very unless we're identifying what the thing is and can label it, like we're almost like the. You know the lobster in the boiling water or the frog sorry, the frog in the in the rising. You know the temperature, where we just get used to it, gets used to it and all of a sudden we're like what the heck is that you know you're right and you're. So we get, we get so comfortable, you know, in things and then we just kind of let it life continue. So I'm a proponent of like, hey, faster, if, faster, if we can, you know, identify these things, label them and then find a plan to move on.
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Speaker 1:Last year in April, when ends of people have heard the story, I shared the story in the last episode. But just real quickly back in March, when Dan became ill, I decided that we needed to move out of our RV. I literally everything I owned, everything we owned was in that RV, 40 foot, so there was a lot of stuff. All of that stuff fit into the U-Haul trailer so not that big for everything we own and so we took that and drove up to Pennsylvania. I had no house to go to. Like I said, everything I owned was in this U-Haul that went into storage. A month or two after getting here the car broke down and the mechanic said of course, of course. Of course is right. The mechanic said listen, I don't even feel right charging you and doing an oil change because there's just so much wrong with it. So, no home, no car. You know, I mean a lot of people at this point start to crumble because you think about money and you think about your basic needs getting met. Well, that was a little iffy. You know my husband's in a hospital, not sure what's going on at this point, and I guess my point in saying this is, yeah, money at that point can be very concerning. I've been there. I don't want to minimize for any of my listeners that, oh, money's not important and don't worry about it, but I want to emphasize the fact that I don't know exactly what people are going through, but I've been through it. I've been through you know.
Speaker 1:Now I, in all of that, can be incredibly, incredibly grateful for the people that came and sincerely, with no wanting anything in return, to help to support me. Here it is, eight months, I guess later. I'm still living in a house with a friend. I can say, oh my gosh, I'm living in a house with a friend instead of having my own place. But I have had to look at how grateful I am for how well we get along, how well this is working, how well things worked out. I had somebody loan me their car. Now some people say, oh, you got lucky and you have. No, it's what you believe, it's what you feel. I could have just stayed in bed and not wanted to get out and I don't think anybody would have blamed me. But again, my why got me up out of bed every day? And my family, my community, my friends have just been incredible.
Speaker 1:And and when you're grateful, more comes, and I think that's the hardest thing to explain to people, but that's what happens.
Speaker 2:And you're putting it out there too. There's a reason why your friend agreed and the fact that you get along is and it's awesome that you have a place with your friend right now. You're, you're in their place, like you don't need your own place to have that happiness or feel complete or whole. You know it's that. I think community is one of these things that you know. Hopefully, going into 2025, becomes more of a thing that we all embrace, because I feel like it's at least maybe it's the era I'm in or where I'm lit. I live specifically, but I feel like things have been a lot more fragmented, a lot less connection with people, even families in some cases. And, yeah, it's hard to ask for help, it's hard to be honest, or actually, you know, you ask someone how they're doing, like, oh good, good, like, how are you really doing?
Speaker 2:like do, I do, I need it, I feel weird having to ask again, but I'm like I genuinely you know, and I'm saying like your sisters, your brothers, your, you know your close friends, not just someone up the street. But even then it's like, why not brutal honesty? You know, like there's no benefit in just saying everything's good yeah, I'm fine the answer is I'm fine again setting up for 2025.
Speaker 1:One of the big things that I would suggest you selling is ask for hope. Put it out there. As soon as I say to somebody look, dan went in the hospital. Things are falling apart. People know that, hey, maybe she needs help and support, but it's sometimes the person that's just at home struggling that needs this support. I had a friend that I was talking to that I know is going through a tough time, and I messaged her and she said something like I'm fine, although her world was falling apart, and I stopped what I was doing and got on the phone with her. I'm like, okay, you don't sound fine, and so I think that's a suggestion Now for people looking and you and I could definitely go down rabbit holes.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to keep us on track for how to be. You know how to, how to create a 2025. That's better. These are important. First of all, what what I want to emphasize is ask for help. You may ask five people and they blow you off or they've got nothing solid to advice wise, but ask for help. Go out and ask for help. Take everything that's said with a grain of salt. Decide what works, what doesn't, but that's important for making 2025 a successful year. We are not saying that anything we suggest here, moving into 2025, is going to make it perfect. Learning how to deal with challenges. They're going to come up 2025, guarantee this is my guarantee for everybody listening. There are going to be some challenges. Now I hope for all of my listeners.
Speaker 2:I might take that a step further.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, you take it a step further.
Speaker 2:No, complete your thought though.
Speaker 1:I was going to say so. 2025 will be challenges. It is how we handle them, and it has taken me time to get to where I am. I know that had this happened with Dan 10 years ago, I'd be not prepared as I am today. So get ahead, I'm going to have you take it even further.
Speaker 2:Well, really quick, like how do you feel like you're more prepared now than like a decade prior? Like, is there a specific thing? Is it just life?
Speaker 1:I read a lot, I've done a lot of you know classes, courses, mindset, call it what you want personal growth.
Speaker 1:I have learned over time, reminded myself to surrender to the things I have no control over I have. It has been a learning over the last 15 plus years, and I'll go back even further than that. I always thought there was something more to life. I'm spiritual and there are certain things I believe and don't believe, so it has been a process over a long time. Now I'm also very impatient. So when I first started learning about this being a process and it could take years, I'm like, oh no, that doesn't work for me. I want it now. I want it now. I want to learn now. Just give me a checklist of what I need to learn and then I'll go on. You know, I'll take 2024, give me the checklist. What do I need to learn? I'll do it all, I'll check it off and we'll be good.
Speaker 2:Joe, give me the roadmap.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly, and I've worked with coaches. I've worked with therapists years ago. I it's sometimes your friends are great, but you need that, so. So how did I get here? I have a bunch of tools in my tool belt that I have had to, that I have accumulated over the years, and it's trusting people. It's you know, these friends, that I'm now relying on. The person that loaned me the car I would have never imagined myself, I don't know that I asked. I think he offered it up, but to feel like I guess, to feel like I had enough value to accept that and I'm being really, really open right now, like it's the same thing as we talked about on last week's episode my birthday, it would come and go. Dan went in the hospital in April. My birthday's in May Brown Meat didn't even know my family. We went out to dinner and afterwards it was like I didn't know. I do that on purpose, because I don't feel like I didn't feel like I was important enough for that and again, I'm being really vulnerable.
Speaker 2:You're really open. I'm happy you are I feel, like, all of us have this exactly, and that has to change.
Speaker 1:that change that you know, feeling like you're important enough. You're going to ask people sometimes for something and they may say, no, I can't do that, but hey, ask.
Speaker 2:Well, and this I think I dropped it in the in last year's episode. I'm just going to keep saying that.
Speaker 2:My last week's episode is you are the most important person on the planet in the universe. However, you want to all the universe, it's like, because if it doesn't start with you, then who is it going to start with? And there's, uh, another author, gabor mate, with his book. Oh my gosh, it's the like the latest book he wrote. It's thick, it's like 400 something pages, uh, but I'm gonna look it up. As I'm saying, we.
Speaker 1:I'll put it the show notes for people yeah and the uh, the actual.
Speaker 2:where's that book? But basically it's um, it talks about the myth of normal, that's what it's called. So highly recommend it. And there's something in there. It's like nice, nice people. When you're nice, it's actually nice. People die sooner. They get cancer, they get diseases because they're not looking out for themselves, they're being passive, they're not listening to what their body is saying or what they should be doing, they're not asking for help. They're always oh, how are you? Oh, I'm okay, but how are you? I'm going to do everything for you. A lot of women are in that role because society or whatever is like oh, I can't ask for help. I got to appear like I got it all put together. All of us probably have. I don't know what the stats are, but yeah, that book lines out very clearly stop being nice, like, be nice, but start with yourself first, right, because no one else is going to be able to do that for you and that is a great.
Speaker 1:If, if people do not take anything out of this, anything else out of the, the last week's, this week's podcast, that's it right there. And you know books are a big thing for both of us. Reading books, listening to podcasts, you know that help, improve, that, give tips. And sometimes you listen to something you think, yeah, that doesn't resonate with me, move on and try something else. Or something you heard a year ago you're now listening to is like, oh, I get that now. Now, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:So these books and we're going to put those in the show notes that working on yourself, I think, is probably the number one thing that people could do to make 2025 different. And that's why I share my experience, because it is because of the books, the people I've listened to, the conversations you and I've had. You know, and sometimes coaches, therapists there is a time and a place for those as well to help you to be the best that you can be. And I'm going to add to that that the people around you not only for them to listen to you, but want to build you up, I mean to be let's be a little negative. Have you ever met that person that is you're talking to them, but they're almost in competition with you.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they go back to an I story rather than actually asking further about whatever that topic is that you're talking about. You know they're redirecting back to some story. I, yeah, it's Mimi. Right, right, you feel it, even if it's not said that way.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to be cautious with that. I just read something that there are certain people and I find I do this Like when somebody tells me something to reinforce what I've learned, to reinforce what I've learned. I will then share something that helps me to understand what you said in context of my life. But to your point, there are people that you know they'll ask how you are, but they really don't know, because there are people that'll say how are you? And the answer is fine because they really it's just words.
Speaker 1:So the second I think we're not keeping track of numbers here, but I think the next big tip here for 2025 is that support system. The people in your life that truly are looking for your best interests, want what's best for you. They're celebrating your wins for you. You know, I have somebody who reminds me hey, way to go. We need to celebrate that. You know what I mean. We need those people because, even though we're entrepreneurs and I don't know if you feel this way, or you're living on the road, whatever that looks like, sometimes it's very isolating and look, I felt that way living in a house. I shouldn't say you know.
Speaker 2:I do right now honestly to be very honest. Yeah, that's where the lack of community or even, like to be honest, like neighborhoods, a lot of neighborhoods. I feel like it's just not easy for a kid to just go outside and play. Of course, it depends on where you live.
Speaker 1:But it's like man there's.
Speaker 2:There's that that does something to us as people like we're social creatures. Or you have social media where you're looking at everybody but you're not really connecting and I mean I would and. And you have things like ai and all these advancements in technology that automate things, and this is a big world I live in and I advise companies on. I'm showing them how to do all this, but it's done with the intention of. I actually want to further human connection, where there's a lot of things that can be automated and done strategically that allow us to actually live more away from screens and connect with people in a deeper way, because with all this tech and stuff, you can actually learn about yourself deeper and faster than you ever have in your life.
Speaker 1:You have access to all the information right and you said a mouthful and I'm stopping you I know I had to stop. No, no no, because for my, my, my listeners, joe and I can see each other on video. So I'm making hand signals because what you said was so important and we are going to talk about that. We're going to talk about, you know, the, the people talk all the time. The work, uh, work, play balance. I'm going to call it you know, work life balance.
Speaker 1:call Work, play better I like. I think I got it from you.
Speaker 2:Actually I'm going to call it. You know, work-life balance.
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Speaker 1:So I want to go back because what you said I'm sure people were thinking okay, first you're talking AI, which means I'm on electronics and then you're kind of talking well, let's step away from electronics and have the human connection and this has been a big conversation over the last year or so, maybe longer. And this has been a big conversation over the last year or so, maybe longer. And moving into 2025, this is a huge tip that I wanted to take time out for here and now, because it's a huge tip for making 2025 better in so many ways. So let's talk about AI and how it can make life better.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about AI and how it can make life better. How about what's your perception of it, patty? And like what do you think the listener's perception is?
Speaker 1:And then I'll kind of, because it definitely has a perception everywhere you go and I will admit, long ago I had this idea that it sort of scared me. I didn't know about it, so anything unknown is kind of scary. Having a YouTube channel we use some AI. Having social media the pictures were AI, so my experience is probably more limited. We were using a lot of the AI generated pictures on social media and the person that I use that does my social media said you know what, whenever possible, I want a real picture, I don't want AI. In that case.
Speaker 1:Now, as I've learned and I've learned a lot from you and some of the AI tips and things that you have talked about like has been my biggest eye opener. So definitely listening to your podcast, you know, going on your, your website has been a huge thing. I see AI making life my life specifically more streamlined, easier, better giving me ideas and thoughts that I didn't have. But I will tell you, the huge thing that I love is the fact that I can take and you talked about it, I think on the first episode you were on but being able to talk my thoughts into AI and you're going to talk about the program that does it and then it giving me a breakdown, giving me a summary, that was mind blowing, amazing.
Speaker 1:I and you know, and people that listen to podcasts I write in my journal. I use a pencil and a specific type of notebook, and that's what I love doing, but there are times in the car that my head is going a million miles or I'm taking a walk, and when you talked about using AI to getting those thoughts out, that was a big thing for me. So I do see where AI is not going anywhere. We could use it to improve our lives, and so I'm willing to learn more, and I think this is a huge way that people can make 2025 easier. So so tell us, give us more about that I will.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you have a healthy perspective, I'll just say that. And yeah, and I know you've been using it and you have jacob producer aiding in some of that as as well, and he hears enough about me and he shares stuff with me as well Because he's my producer for my podcast, just to put it out there to everyone. But yeah, so I mentioned it is an interesting thing when you don't know or haven't used AI. And AI has been around for a long time Machine learning but really it's lasted like two years. It's come on scene in a big way in terms of adoption. I heard something. It's like it's adopted the public double the speed than cell phones and I think before that, you know, cell phones were like double the speed of adoption than like computers, personal computers. It's something like over 50% of the world already. It's something like over 50 of the world already the population has used ai in some way already and that's kind of mind-blowing if you think about it.
Speaker 2:So what's 2025 gonna be? I mean technology and everything. Just there is a scaling like it. Just it compounds and speeds up and you know there's challenges to that. But that's a different conversation, but there's a tech side, but then I feel like there's this analog side where there's going to be more of a pull for human connections.
Speaker 2:I mean, I genuinely think RVing and camping and things like that will probably explode because people are going to be looking for changes. It might be out of not out of work, but I would say things are shifting to be looking for changes. It might be out of not out of work, but I would say things are shifting to a different way to work. I think it's a better way to look at it. And you know, are there jobs going to be lost? Yes, but I think a lot more will be gained and will actually be doing things that are less of a repetitive thing, something that you know administrative tasks, email already, just what.
Speaker 2:Well, a couple weeks or a few weeks or so at the time of this dropping and going live, you have emails now that can be pretty much answered by AI or at least like give you a good starting point, so you don't have to overthink emails anymore. So it's like you just kind of get through tasks that maybe you spent too much time or mental energy on, so it can free your time up to do more living. Ultimately, I mean, that's how I see it is. You know you can create a greater or better life when you implement technology and start using it. Just get comfortable with it is what I would recommend. So, like you did, patty, I think the app that you probably used was ChatGPT, and, yeah, and used your phone to talk into it, because they have a voice feature, and it's only gotten better since we last chatted, like just the other week time of this recording or the time of it publishing.
Speaker 2:You can do even more, like you can turn on your camera if you wanted to, and this is where it gets a little creepy, but at the same time, it's not going away. It's here. It's probably been used in places that you weren't even you were unaware, but, like patty, for instance, you can open chat gpt, start one of these uh voice chats with with the AI and turn on your camera, point that to your journal and it can read your journal.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I know it sounds weird, but at the same time but then you can say, hey, you can talk like what should I what? Like what do you see here that I should probably reflect on more? Or what are some gaps in my thinking? Like what, how can I improve based off of what I just wrote down, and it will literally give you real-time insights and you can just have that chat. Um, like I think I mentioned to you earlier, I had it help me create a. You know, I have a new trigger, so I was smoking some meat, making some food and made a cocktail and it actually helped and I was just I knew what I was doing for the most part, but like it was walking me around the kitchen, I was showing it the ingredients and it was telling me exactly what to do, as like a personal assistant next to me, I was like this is wild.
Speaker 1:That is incredible and my mind is blown. I have so many different thoughts. But but overall, for people to maybe that has never used it, you know, the start of a new year maybe decide you're going to tap into it a little bit at a time. There, you know, um, just use a part of it, just get familiar. Because years ago when I first heard about ChatGPT I heard how complicated it was. I don't do complicated, like if it's not fun, I outsource it. I don't do complicated. It's why we both have Jacob, who is the producer.
Speaker 1:Editor. It's nothing, I want to be doing. So with AI I could just say whatever I want now and it comes up with something, and then it'll say it's almost like talking to somebody, because now it'll say can I make this better, can I improve it? So I'm like, yeah, so, so, wow, and the fact that it could read my journal now a little scary, it's a little scary and pretty cool.
Speaker 1:So I will be doing that tonight and see what it comes up with. Cool and I know sometimes, when you know 2025, we talk about challenges Everybody's going to have them. Sometimes talking through that and having something like a AI responding, I'm going to just caution here that for some people they need professional help. That's my caution. You and I have talked a little bit about mental health issues, so I'm going to caution that it'll be interesting to see what the AI does Somebody that needs help. We both highly recommend getting it.
Speaker 1:I know I'm going down a different rabbit hole. You know, as we talk about closing out, we talked last week 2024 and challenges. You know, sometimes, like I said, I work with therapists, I work with coaches and all different types of people that have helped me create the tools that have helped me through the challenges. So that is great and I'm going to highly recommend that people bring AI into their learning for this year. Just at least try it out, make your own opinion. You go online. There's all kinds of thoughts and I know they can check you out at hustleandflowchartcom. That's right.
Speaker 1:To find out more about AI, because you talk a lot about it. You've had a lot of experts on that. Talk about it as well, right?
Speaker 2:I'll continue to have more. But yeah, I mean, luckily I am an advisor of a startup that is scaling very quickly, getting a bunch of VC funding, and it's called Delphiai and when you go to you can actually I'll just put it here Hustleandflowchartcom slash, clone C-L-O-N-E. It actually has all of my podcast episodes over 600 plus youtube videos, content, other training, all put into this knowledge base, the second brain almost and people can interact text, audio, even video, so you get, like you see, an avatar of me. So that's actually probably the best way to interact with me, like if you wanted to just pause and go there or F the episode.
Speaker 1:Right, but I'll say, yeah, send it. Yeah, and you and I let's do some video on that. We could put it out and show people Because, again, for me, it's a little mind blowing. I'll admit it's a little scary in some ways, but it is definitely something to move into 2025 that people should check out. Okay, and I see what our time is looking like. I want to do a little bit. We have a couple more things to cover.
Speaker 1:First of all, let's do the question of the week, and I usually talk and ask you about a bucket list item. People can listen to the last. I'm not going to put you on the spot again. People can listen to the last episode where you shared your bucket list item. I'm going to ask you when people think about creating a bucket list. I think sometimes it's like creating like this is my dream, or creating a vision board. They put it up or they write the bucket list, but then don't do anything to make it happen. It's just there. It's something you dream about, but it doesn't happen. I actually asked AI what the difference between dream and thinking about doing something. Very different. Dream is out there. We don't necessarily make plans. Thinking about doing something, we make plans.
Speaker 1:So okay, I'm kind of so, a bucket list. I want it to be something people think about, not just dream about. So talk to me about and and again. None of this is pre-set up. You know what do you think about when you think about the idea of a bucket list. What suggestion can you give people to create a list of something moving into 2025.? I like it and you, uh, I'm going to let you think about that while you're thinking.
Speaker 2:I got it, but go ahead yes.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I think, oh my gosh, was it this episode or the previous one? I mentioned a book, Lucky you, it's called it was this episode?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's all about.
Speaker 2:It's basically I just looked up the subtitle to it it's Lucky you, a psychological strategy for multiplying luck and achieving your big ambitions. So it's kind of perfect for what we're talking about. I just read it. So that's why it's top of mind and basically I talked about, you know, people on deathbeds and it's the regrets. It's the regrets of not doing something that they wanted to do, something they thought about doing.
Speaker 2:So to your point, patty, you know thinking, is that bucket list? You can kind of like you can create an action plan if you can think it through, but if it's a dream, there's a gap there, right, like basically a gap. It's fuzzy, you don't know how to connect the dots. Not saying it's impossible at all, but because everything kind of not everything, a lot of stuff starts as a dream, but because everything kind of not everything, a lot of stuff starts as a dream. But yeah, the big thing is, I like the idea of I don't necessarily have a bucket list and I do want to come up with more of these things to make it more solidified. I definitely have more of a, a vision.
Speaker 1:we'll say okay okay, so you call it a vision okay vision road.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and, and you can kind of like, at least the way my wife and I do it like well, timeline stuff roughly, and know like, okay, well, you know, my daughters are going to be this age, we're going to be these ages, and, yeah, roughly, what are the things that we want to accomplish during these time frames? Because you know, I know there's seasons in all of our lives. You know we have different flavors and different things we're all going to be into or capable of so doing that. But also, like the thing of regrets really came to my mind when you said it, because that is the overarching thing, that like we hold on to and think about like man, I really wish I did that thing, I really wish I went on that adventure or said yes to whatever that person that asked me or that idea I had.
Speaker 2:That it's that whole like build up to an action. When you have that point, it's like just take the leap and what that book Lucky you talks about is like life will actually reward you for taking that leap. And taking that action Doesn't mean it's perfect. You're going to get get, you know, gonna get punched, kicked and tossed on the ground, but guess what? You're probably getting that right now, that same kind of treatment, but, like we talked about, you're probably just so used to it that you're just taking it you know absolutely so what you choose, which, which way do you want to go?
Speaker 1:so that's yeah, that's how I think of it and to point and we have given a lot of books. You and I are all about reading books, listening, you know, listening to podcasts to get the tools that help you get through things. I have in the past recommended the book the Top Five Regrets of the Dying. Past recommended the book the Top Five Regrets of the Dying To your point. It's literally this woman sat by. She was a hospice nurse and sat by people's beds, sometimes for months and months at a time, and asked about their regrets. So these are the five top regrets of the dying. I recommend that book and I'll put that in the show notes. But as we start wrapping up, I think that we were able to give so many great I think great ideas. You've given me ideas. I mean, every time we talk, I add something else on. I've got a list of books.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, I've got a list of books I want to read. Before I do that, let me just do the you. I've got a list of books I want to read. Before I do that, let me just talk about the feature campground of the week Because, again for people who are looking what to do next, One of my bucket list items right now that I am planning on, not just dreaming about, is to go to the Keys in Florida.
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Speaker 1:So, wow, what an episode. And there's so much more Like for my listeners. We don't have a plan necessarily. The road we have a little bit of you know. Hey, let's talk about this and then we cover half of it. So there go why you've been on the show three times. But to wrap up, we talked about people really looking at their why. We talked about a book. We talked about people finding their tribe. You need the community, you need people that when they ask how you are, they really care and you're able to share. We also talked about people asking for help and having this tool belt to help them through challenges this year, and the big thing we talked about was whether they call it a bucket list, a vision board, a dream board, whatever you call it, but things there should be, things you're thinking about, people, places, things you want to do, that you're actually planning and making that happen, and so so much today Probably going to need episode four. I'm open.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But, joe, I can't thank you enough for being on the show. All your great advice. I highly recommend people go and listen to the Hustle and Flowchart podcast. Thank you again for being a guest.
Speaker 2:Wow yeah, patty, you rock and I appreciate you doing this, inviting me on and taking the time for everyone listening, because I mean you're on an adventure. There's a reason why you're on RV Life, know RV life and doing your own adventure, rv or not, wherever you're at right now, just do it. You know, and I'm going to do my best to do it too. Yeah, but let's keep the fun going. Patty, I appreciate you a ton, and happy new year.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. Happy new year to you too, and I recommend people reach out to you at hustleandflirtchartcom and everywhere else they could get to you. I'll put in the show notes. People can reach out to me, give me ideas for 2025. If you want to be a guest, if you have an idea of topics, you can post right here in the podcast or on my social media at RV Life Podcast Instagram or Facebook. Again, thank you, joe for being on yet again.
Speaker 1:I'm Pettie Hunt and you're listening to the RV Life Podcast. I want to let you know life's a journey. Live each day to the fullest, without regrets. You.