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Vocal De Frag Episode 218 Leave Before They Fire You · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I know it always seems kind of fun just to
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  Speaker 1: jump onto Spotify or iHeartRadio and, oh, there's my favorite podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But what would happen if that one author that you've
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  Speaker 1: got for a podcast host is actually hosting 21 different podcasts?
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  Speaker 1: It's the thing. We're all doing a network of podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I always say go to their websites, arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net.
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  Speaker 1: It's that one place where you can find four stories.
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  Speaker 1: You've got your favorite park. You've got your favorite place
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  Speaker 1: of solitude. Where are you writing this down to preserve
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  Speaker 1: for a future self? A little bit too heavy for
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  Speaker 1: you today? Oh, it's not when you go to Forest Stories.
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  Speaker 1: Only on Arrow.net. A-R-R-O-E dot net. Enjoy your exploration.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Arrow, and this is Vocal Deepfrag. Vocal Deepfragging
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  Speaker 2: is physically taking the time to ask yourself the questions
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  Speaker 2: you have. and then question the answers. We rely on
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  Speaker 2: so many people to give us direction that when we
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  Speaker 2: get there and things aren't panning out the way that
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  Speaker 2: we want them to, do we blame that person or
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  Speaker 2: do we blame ourselves? You made the decision to trust them.
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  Speaker 2: You're the one that took the time to listen to
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  Speaker 2: them and it didn't come out the way you wanted
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  Speaker 2: it to. So why weren't you asking questions and then
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  Speaker 2: question the answers? I do think of this now. I
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  Speaker 2: understand that there are many, many, many times that your
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  Speaker 2: own heart can't give you the answer that you're looking for. Well, see,
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  Speaker 2: that's the problem right there. What happens if your place
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  Speaker 2: in history has nothing to do with where you want
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  Speaker 2: to be And that basically you're being called into an
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  Speaker 2: area where you need to be. Oh my God. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: nobody wants to deal with that because what happens if
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  Speaker 2: that goes wrong? Well, you're right. But where do you
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  Speaker 2: plant your trust? Where do you invest in trust? Where
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  Speaker 2: are you growing from here? You got to ask those
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  Speaker 2: questions and then turn around and then question those answers.
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  Speaker 2: This is Vocal Defragging. The big subject right now, because
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  Speaker 2: it seems like we're really on to something right here,
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  Speaker 2: that I'm going to say are the darkest days of
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  Speaker 2: America in a long time, but nobody wants to talk
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  Speaker 2: about it. Because it deals with people's careers. It deals
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  Speaker 2: with people taking home money to survive, to be able
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  Speaker 2: to find security and some sort of certainty. But there
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of people that are losing their jobs.
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  Speaker 2: They're being terminated or they're being laid off, which to
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  Speaker 2: me is still being terminated. Don't give me that crap.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a fancy word so that you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to pay unemployment. But here's the thing. The difference between
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  Speaker 2: where we are today and where we've been in the
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  Speaker 2: past is right now you've got the power of choice
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  Speaker 2: to bail the company that you're with. If the signs
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  Speaker 2: and the signals are there, why are you not asking yourself,
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  Speaker 2: where are you on the totem pole? Well, here's the
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  Speaker 2: thing about it. It doesn't matter where you are on
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  Speaker 2: the totem pole. I don't care if you've invested 10
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  Speaker 2: or 25 years into that company. There's no guarantee that
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  Speaker 2: you've got a future with them at all. You're just
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  Speaker 2: a number. Now ask yourself that question. If I'm just
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  Speaker 2: a number to this company and they know how much
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  Speaker 2: hard work and dedication and loyalty I put into everything,
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  Speaker 2: why would they even want to terminate me? Because those
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  Speaker 2: that are doing it have no idea who you are.
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  Speaker 2: They don't work with you. They work in a foreign
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  Speaker 2: country or they work in a state that's nowhere near yours.
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  Speaker 2: And basically they look at the books and say, this
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  Speaker 2: one's got to go. And so you go. My question
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  Speaker 2: is at that point in time is, did you not
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  Speaker 2: see the signs and the signals of somebody from the
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  Speaker 2: outside world trying to get you to come be on
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  Speaker 2: their team. Well, yeah, but I didn't want to leave
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  Speaker 2: my employees. I didn't want to leave my insurance. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to leave my salary. Yeah, I get that.
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  Speaker 2: But what do you have now? None of it. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my God. Been there, done that. But what I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about on this edition of Vocal Defrag is
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  Speaker 2: isn't the fact that you're going to get fired. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: that's the cold hard facts. It's not if you're going to.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to get fired. It's just the American way
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  Speaker 2: to where businesses are always cutting back because they've got
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  Speaker 2: to appease the people that are on the stock market.
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  Speaker 2: And if that's not the case, they've got to appease
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's made an investment and you've got to make
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  Speaker 2: that cut back now or you're not getting any more
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  Speaker 2: money from me type of thing. So here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you closing the door to somebody who gave
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  Speaker 2: you an opportunity to grow somewhere else yes it might
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  Speaker 2: mean less money but there's a little bit more security
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  Speaker 2: in that brand new beginning and in fact in many
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  Speaker 2: cases there's not because i talk with people every day
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  Speaker 2: that decided to leave our location go somewhere else and
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  Speaker 2: found out that it was even a bigger hell so
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  Speaker 2: then why did you even make the move Because something
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  Speaker 2: is signaling the inner part of your core attention and
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  Speaker 2: it's saying, I'm not comfortable anymore. Well, I do get insurance. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I do get paid every week or every other week.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to disrupt that flow.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to do it for you if you don't.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing about it. You should go into
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  Speaker 2: every day with the winning is a choice attitude. But
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  Speaker 2: you should also have the attitude of, today could be
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  Speaker 2: my final day. That's how we live in radio. That's
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  Speaker 2: how they must live in television. Because you can spend
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  Speaker 2: all that time and energy writing, producing, directing, and acting
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  Speaker 2: on a TV show, and only one episode made it
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  Speaker 2: to the platform. So the question is, is that why
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  Speaker 2: aren't you accepting outside offers? Why aren't you at least
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  Speaker 2: toying with it, playing the game? Go to an interview.
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  Speaker 2: see that who you are as a person is not
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  Speaker 2: the person they see in your present position at work
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  Speaker 2: because oh you know how they are they all sit
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  Speaker 2: there and read your linkedin they read your facebook your
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  Speaker 2: instagram your tiktok they see what you're doing and inside
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those minds are going you know what
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  Speaker 2: i think they would live happily ever after without us
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  Speaker 2: we don't need them Oh, come on. See what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: You got to stay ahead of the game. You got
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  Speaker 2: to put yourself in a position of preparedness so that
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  Speaker 2: when they do make that decision, you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a stumble, but it's not going to be a fall,
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  Speaker 2: if you know what I mean. Ask yourself the questions
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  Speaker 2: and then question the answers. Now, did I ever leave
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  Speaker 2: a radio station because I thought it was the bigger, better,
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  Speaker 2: greater time? Yep, I did. To go do morning drive
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  Speaker 2: and at another competing radio station, I thought I was
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  Speaker 2: on cloud nine. My God, I did it. I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: mornings in market number 21. Yeah, it was probably one
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  Speaker 2: of the worst experiences of my life because we went
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  Speaker 2: into receivership. We lost our money. We lost our insurance.
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  Speaker 2: I basically, if you really break down everything that I'm doing,
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  Speaker 2: I would say it probably led to my divorce as well.
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  Speaker 2: But yet I didn't want to leave that place of
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  Speaker 2: what I assumed was security. I wasn't asking the questions
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  Speaker 2: and then questioning the answers. And so why would I
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  Speaker 2: spend the rest of my life going through that motion again? Well,
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  Speaker 2: because you don't want to change. Nobody wants to change.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to live happily ever after, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: exist anymore. And this is not a Debbie Downer moment.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm being is open and honest with you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: no different than your boss. I'm no different than your
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  Speaker 2: father or somebody that's very close to you saying, I'm
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  Speaker 2: seeing the writing on the wall, dude. I think there
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  Speaker 2: needs to be some sort of attention put on this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying you have to get a change, but
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  Speaker 2: at least go rejuvenate your ambition and find out how
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  Speaker 2: much you really are worth to another company. You can
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  Speaker 2: say they're all you want. You can go through all
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  Speaker 2: the bullshit that they're putting you through. That is totally
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  Speaker 2: up to you. But what happens is every time they
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  Speaker 2: come after you, you feel cheaper and cheaper and cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: And now you don't feel like that you have any value.
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  Speaker 2: nor do you feel like that you have any type
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  Speaker 2: of support. You've got to ask yourself the questions and
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  Speaker 2: then question the answers. Go on the interview. Go listen
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  Speaker 2: to what the competition has to say. Remember, you still
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  Speaker 2: hold the power of yes or no. I'm Arrow, and
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  Speaker 2: that's Vocal Deep Rec.