54. Pivoting Through Stroke Recovery: Recognizing When It’s Time for a Change

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Hey. Hey. Hey. What up, everybody? Welcome back to an episode of the Lovellsirard podcast this week in episode 54.

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Before we get going into the actual episode, we're gonna be talking about what we're talking about in this episode, which is pivoting through stroke recovery. Again, that's pivoting through stroke recovery, recognizing when it's time to change things up. People like to call it plateaus. Trying to reframe it. I think pivoting is a better word. I don't disagree with plateaus. A lot of people don't like the word, but I think it means you're making progress. Right? It just means you've leveled off.

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That's okay. That's part of stroke recovery. Denying plateaus is like denying science in my mind. It's just but it doesn't mean we don't need to shake things up. So before we hop into this episode, good news. Everything is okay now that the hurricanes have passed day late because we're still kind of shifting everything from last week over here. So, anyways, yeah, that's kind of the story, but we're back on track. And, yeah, into this episode and pivoting. Sort of just, like I said, reframing, things before we dive in. You know, I think it's good to reevaluate things from time to time. How do you recognize a pivot or a plateau and when that needs to happen? For me, I was thinking about this earlier today. It's really about, you know, if you I think that might just be a bad week. If you have a bad 2 weeks, that might just be a rough 2 weeks. I think there's a difference between a bad stretch and a bad patch versus when you're really plateauing. I think if you're doing the same things over and over, and it's about a month and things haven't changed, that's the time to sit down and reevaluate. What could you what could you do to shake things up? It doesn't mean you have to do a big drastic change. Sometimes, it's just about, like, instead of running every day, maybe you mix in the bike, maybe mix in the stair climber, maybe mix in some kettlebells, which is something I've been doing lately. Really wish I got on the kettlebell track earlier, but I I I think, typically, for me I know I say this a lot, but I think I just don't dive into something until my body is really ready to do it.

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Anyways, again, it's about reframing, rethink you through your situation.

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Thing I didn't mention in the is the CNN frame framework from, actually, Carissa Thompson from the Erin and Erin Andrews. Not CNN, the broadcast network, but CNN, the critical, the nice to have, and the not necessary.

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I like the framework. I think it's a good thing to think about when you're going through this episode. Yeah. Just things going with Star Over Science. Trying to build out that brand a little bit more. I did talk about in this about pivoting this podcast and kind of morphing it into and under the survivor science umbrella, u plus me equals we.

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Couple of things to mention, the Brian Wallach documentary, no ordinary campaign. Anyways, lots to talk about. Joy episode 54 of Love Will Surrard podcast.

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My name is Shmira. Welcome back to another episode of podcast.

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This week, we're on 4, and it is on the topic of pivoting through stroke recovery, recognizing when it's time to make a change.

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Obviously, last week, I was a little bit rushed because of the hurricane coming.

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I was trying to get it out. I did get it out before the hurricane hit. It was a really fun, annoying, all the words. It was just one of those kinds of weeks, which is unfortunate for me because it was the 1 week. You know, I get a break between each term or, you know, I don't wanna call them semesters, but, like, where I'm getting my master's off in between 10 week segments. So I was excited to have the week off, and it was filled with the kids being home, the hurricane. It didn't stop the hurricane. You know, we were very fortunate on the East Coast of Florida because, obviously, the East Coast did not get hit directly or nearly as hard as the West Coast of floor. Very grateful, very fortunate, very lucky. I definitely wanna acknowledge that and my heart goes out to the people on the West Coast of Florida, and it's still the people on the Carolinas that got, whatever the other one was. I forgot the names. There's so many coming through at the end of hurricane season, so it's been, and then we had some things happen. And, again, the kids were off of school for a long time. They just went back today.

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I am stupidly recording in the afternoon after they have returned to school. Not only did they have the week off last week from the hurricane, but they had teacher planning.

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Off treat. But happy Columbus Day to to those of you who celebrate the holiday. I'm sure nobody does, but it used to be my favorite because I would have awful work in my previous job and previous role, and the kids would be at school. So it was one of the rare times that I got a holiday that they did not.

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None of that applies to today's life because it's not a thing. On top of all that, what's going on? So the reason I thought pivoting would be important is because I've recognized in a couple areas of my life, particularly in the gym and stroke recovery, I think there's me personally to explore and share my story and kind of talk to you about it because I feel like these are things that happen with stroke recovery. We get into a good routine. We find something that works. We're doing it. I know we've talked about a lot of these things and a lot of these ideas and concepts.

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The I'll try to give a new spin on it, but I feel like this is a pretty intentional pivot for me. One, this is coming up now because I have transitioned and decided to go from a master's in psychology to focusing back to shifting to the MBA track and focus on business school. I think psychology is great. There's a lot of great applications. It's great for me. It's a hobby. It's an interest. Obviously, I love it, but I think the the time has come where I realized the path is no longer you know, it's not enough to be a joke. And I just I feel discouraged. I felt this a while ago, but I kind of was still exploring and seeing where I fit in in all this. But, yeah, psychology is great, but, you know, you can't do the masters, and I know certain people out there don't think a degree matters at all. Sometimes people do. Sometimes they don't. I think to each their own, it's really about continuously learning.

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Are there benefits? I believe there are benefits still into pursuing higher education. Whether you wanna teach, you wanna put it in into application. I mean, I wouldn't mind doing both, to be honest. I really love coaching and teaching, you know, not from, like, just kind of in a different nontraditional way, I guess. Yeah. Sharing what I know, teaching other people, helping them save 10000 hours if I want to. Love the mentorship thing. I've been giving that a lot of thought lately, of course, transitioning this week, now starting the MBA program. Thankfully, at the same school, so it was a quick easy transfer. But I'm really excited because it's all the things that I wanted to do and dive into with psychology, like this the psychology of teamwork, the psychology of coaching and consulting and all the things. I still, you know, I was thinking about this earlier today too.

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The higher education system is slow to transition typically, and I think, you know, in a perfect would be more psychology mixed with business. It's not the way it is, but, you know, there's no also no reason that you can't kind of combine these things.

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It'd be great to see us start to, as a society, kind of gear these degrees towards more real world because the the degrees and tracks in a lot of universities and a lot of schools are still very much traditional. They're the ones we had 30, 40, even 50 years ago.

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And for some things, they haven't changed as quickly or need to change. Like, architecture is a very complex, comprehensive program.

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Gone to architecture school 20 years ago and graduating, I know that different schools have different specialties and different tracks and different areas of focus. Some per you know, some focus on civil projects. Some are more new urbanism, some are city planning. You know, it's it really spans a wide but architecture is a specific discipline, and it really, to me, hasn't changed. But when you think about business, right, and business 20, 30, 40 years ago compared to business today, it's wildly different and much more complex. And so long story short, I think the MBA program is gonna be better for me, and that's kinda what, again, brought on this topic of pivoting in stroke recovery, but pivoting in life and when it's time to change things. That's kind of the quick backstory for this week on the why.

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More of it, recently, I've been running, you know, still continuing to run a lot. I've been incorporating more weight lifting into the the workouts, and I've actually scaled back the running slightly. Although, it seems to be that I've gotten a little speedier, so it's it's just taking less time, which is good because either way you look at it, I don't care if it's more miles or less miles, but, really, the time allows me to, you know, there's certain amount of cardio I wanna do every day. For me, it's, like, somewhere between a 150 to 200 minutes of cardio per day. I know that's a lot, but most people say I often exceed it, but now I can give myself that extra bit of time. I am really trying to work with kettlebells right now. That's the focus because I think that's you do a lot of research, listen to a lot of people, listen to a lot of podcasts, you know, people that I admire, that I are in shape. They clearly are in shape. Generally speaking, you know, I think things have shifted. I certainly, it's just different than 20 I mean, when I was at Miami and lifting all the time, I don't even think there was kettlebells. They weren't really around the way I mean, there was always freeway kind of thing, but kettlebells, little bit different. Certainly something that's come across, you know, the weight training areas more more prominently in the last 20 years for sure and definitely in the last 5 to 10 for sure. So yeah. I like that because it's more full body, incorporate some small workouts with kettlebells because I think they're pretty efficient.

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They achieve the goals of lifting heavy weights, which I think is good for your body. Obviously, you gotta be smart about that. You know, some things some particular kettlebell exercises I need to drop way low, but it's fine. It works for me.

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Yeah. So it's a lot of school fitness, juggling stuff, juggling kids, juggling life. Yeah. These all kinda contribute to my thoughts on pivoting and, you know, I just felt like things are a little stagnant, and I'm trying to shake it up. And I use the word plateau. I know a lot of people don't wanna use that word, but it happens and it's fine. I again, I said this over and over and over, like, it's not that you wanna be on a plateau, but it's okay to hit plateaus because the goal is keep climbing, to keep getting better, to keep growing. And getting to a plateau just means you just pick up what you're doing. It's not like you're you're I'm not looking as a at a plateau as being stuck. I'm just looking at okay. I, you know, I was I was looking at some of the data and some of the analytics and tracking some things, and I just, like, said, oh, okay.

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Like, this this seems like I you know, I just felt it too. Like, I just wasn't pushing as hard, so I thought it was time for a change, and I think that's ultimately what a plateau or a pivot is for me. It's just alright. Let's shake things up. Let's see where we can tweak things a little bit, still have fun, still get the workouts in, and and shift things to make more progress. One step back to take or 2 steps back to take one step forward. Fine with me. It works for me. It may not work for everybody, but, yeah, identifying that certainly by tracking a lot of things. I personally have Whoop.

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I I have all the devices. I have my phone. I have my Garmin watch. I have the Whoop. Like I said, I used to have an Oura ring until I accidentally ruined it with an epoxy project.

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Some people think they're dumb. I I, you know, I don't think they're dumb. I just think some people are dumb about them. If I'm being honest, like, it's that I have a problem with. Obviously, I use it, and I look at it, and I track things, but I'm not, like, obsessive, cabblesome about it, which some people can be. And that's again, that's fine. That doesn't mean there's a wrong way or right way to use it. But, yeah, I think the reason a lot of people hate people with a whoop is because some people who have a whoop are pick but, and type this is the last I would ever talk about it. Again, I just like having the data. Being a stroke survivor, I think it's important to, you know, be able to recognize your own body and fitness and health in general, especially if you're trying to get better, but I think these devices certainly help keep back and in line. And can you know, if there's a little anomaly that pops up, it could be helpful to recognize that, especially if you don't recognize it yourself. So, yeah, that's my take on those things. I I know there are other may you know, people have tons of other topics and thought thought instead of going down that rabbit hole, hop into a segment on this week, which is, you know, why do we get stuck in routines?

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This is a valid question. It's one I've actually pondered myself this week. You know? I I like a routine.

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I think the routine is good for building that momentum to be accountable for yourself. It it helps eliminate distractions. I mean, there are endless reasons for why routines are good, whether it comes to life or fitness, You know? And I I I do kinda like to shake things up, and sometimes I don't shake I just shake things up too much. It really just depends. I I believe, you know, like I said, these plateaus, they happen whether they're mental or physical, and they're just good reminders that those are the times that maybe it's worth exploring a little deeper, and that's what kinda what I'm going through this week. To have the chaotic week I had last week with the chaotic start to this week, jumping a new program. My wife is going away later this week, which is fine, but, yeah. So I have all the kids, a lot of new stuff in the new program. It's not quite so there's a lot going on, but it's good. I like being busy. I do feel honestly, I'm one of those people that likes being busy. I like being active. I don't like being busy for a reason, but I do think when you're busy, it's easier.

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Short term, like, example for me, week. I don't wanna be this busy all the time, personally, but I do enjoy a good busy week sometimes because it really just helps me stay on track. And this is like, okay. This week, it's like boom boom boom boom boom.

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Good. Things get done. Things get you know, I'm not getting the necessarily that I'd love to get in, but I'm being pretty efficient and pretty effective in that. And I just you know, it's, it works for me, and I don't think it works all the time. I couldn't be this busy and this kind of focused or or even honestly, you could probably tell on this podcast, especially if we're watching clips. Sweet because there is an overwhelming amount of things. Somewhere in between not enough going on and too much going on is the sweet spot. I'm sure everybody feels the same way.

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And I could say having a, 21 year old and a 10 year old and an 8 year old, it, a little easier. I I envy I love my kids. I wouldn't trade them for the world. They're amazing. They make me smile and laugh even when they piss me off. They are the greatest.

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Of course, I'm biased because I'm their father, but sometimes I, I always joke with friends.

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Yeah. I could totally imagine your life without kids because I often do.

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I I I remember being in my twenties and early thirties and only had in my early thirties, I only had one kid. In my twenties, I had no kids. It was fantastic for me. It's when I met Ali and Francisca.

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Ali was great. She was a leader by example, well behaved child. Had number 2, he was also well behaved. Had number 3, shit hit the fan. Number 3, for me, has been a a joy. He's amazing, but he's also the biggest pain in my ass, if I'm being honest, which is fun. Again, being a stroke survivor, living with that ass, you know, but I I either way, I wouldn't have it any other way.

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He is, yeah. I guess I thought I got lucky with kids. I thought the first two I was like, oh, this is pretty easy.

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And then we had number 3, and then I got a real dose.

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Will, here's a kid that's exactly like yourself.

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We see it's both amazing and terrifying, and you just sort of have these moments where you're like, mhmm. I see. I see. This is payback.

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But yeah. So, again, getting stuck teens.

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What do we wanna talk about? Yeah. I mean, sometimes, you know, these weeks, they go by and it kinda feels like running on a treadmill, and I don't know exactly where I'm going with that thought except for you go on, you do the thing, you do the thing, and you keep good. I like the routine, but sometimes you can feel like, am I actually making progress? Am I do do I need to change things up? You know, for me now on the treadmill, I love the treadmill because I'm able to get out of the sun a little bit here in Florida, although it is very much fall weather.

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So getting back actually nice because I think, fingers crossed, we're pretty solid on rain here in Florida. But yeah. Speaking of this, I keep thinking of this quote. I don't know why it keeps coming up. I wish I could tell you why.

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It's kinda just in my approach and my thoughts. Will Smith has gone through some things. I know that Chris Rock the Will Smith Chris Rock thing a couple years ago was certainly weird, especially as somebody who's always a fan of both.

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But I never don't think of this quote every time I'm at the gym or I'm working out, especially as a survivor.

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Kinda ties into the previous episode from last week where I talked about discipline and focus and just mental toughness and and building that resiliency over time. And I'll just share the quote with you. Although, I think I am sharing kind of an incorrect version, but I'll paraphrase it. It's a you know, treadmill together. There's 2 2 things that are gonna happen.

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You're gonna get off 1st or I'm gonna die, and it's really that simple, and that's kind of how I approach a lot of things. That's how I'm not saying it's the right way. I'm not saying it's the wrong way. I just I always treat since you know, I think I've always resonated with this quote, but and since my stroke recovery journey and starting this podcast and doing some other things, the first couple of years were kinda tough. And looking back now, I think, obviously, year 1 was COVID. Kind of in the year 2, I so I was dealing with COVID. I was going back to work. I was trying to do all these things, get started through coverage.

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You know, and then eventually, I wound up leaving my previous career because I just need to really focus in on my health and my recovery, and that's obviously when I was able to start making some good significant progress for me.

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But I also needed some motivation. I needed it.

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Again, I think the 1st year looking back now makes sense because I was able to spend time with my family, recover those 1st 6 to 12 months, really get get the brain active in recovery, you know, better sleep, better eating, better habits.

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Perhaps going this idea, but I think that kind of got the I don't wanna say the ball rolling, but it certainly helped me, I think, going back to work.

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And I think because of COVID, it also was just important to have that connection at least with other people that I had known.

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You know? So isolating it, I think, it was helpful to be back at work. You know? And then looking back in year 2, it was, like, starting I was starting to figure things out, but really year 3 was that year where I started to have the biggest breakthroughs for a number of reasons, whether it was because that's when I started reading breath work and really dive further into meditation. I hate the phrase that it takes time, but it's very clear looking back now that it does take time. And, again, kind of when we're talking about routines, getting back into my routine to figure out how I was gonna deal with things is super.

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And, again, I'm kind of all over the place today, but, yeah, that all those things are important, but when when I started to really I guess it was 2020 to see when I read Will Smith's book when I started running, this quote just it just has this time. And, you know, I heard somebody yesterday say something like, there were it was a podcast and somebody was like, oh, you always live in 5th gear. And I'm thinking to myself, like, oh, that applies to me because I I always lived in 5th gear. And it's taken me a while through hard work, through dedication, through commitment, to really get myself into a place from back in 5th gear. And I'm not saying that's the best way for everybody. I'm just kinda saying that's that's how I like to operate. But, yeah, some other signs of the time to pivot. So I didn't episode here, but I I guess did. I've been going to be a guest on a couple of podcasts. I just recorded them last week. I'm not sure when they're coming out, but, 2 podcasts last week I I was a guest on, sharing my story. When I get those, dates and release things, I will let you know.

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But I think through those conversations, I also realized, like, yeah, I think it's time to pivot. Again, it's a combination of things. You know, for me, it's a lot of fitness, running daily, actively doing something each and every day is a very clear indicator me to me when things are getting stagnant.

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It yeah. I hate to say the word stuck, but, yeah, stuck can be a good one. I don't feel like stuck any particular way, but I've noticed, like, I just I don't know. Because I do I've been doing kind of this routine where I run, I lift, I sauna, I I cold plunge. I I do all these things that no sane person probably does, but, yeah, just more, like, cramping in the legs, which is weird because I do a lot of recovery with this these things that I have, to help with my legs, especially, again, being sicker. They it just helps to have focusing on breathing, but my legs have just felt, a little heavier on the road or on the treadmill, and I just you know, I don't know if it's I actually just need to scale back or or what, and I've been trying some different things.

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And and this is the other thing. You know, it's time to pivot when you've tried different things kinda shake things up, but nothing seems to be working. That's when you really know that it's probably time for a change in in the routine. Again, whether that's fitness, work, life, family stuff, I think it's all very kind of interconnected, not to sound woo woo, what it kinda kinda is, to be honest.

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But, yeah, it's, I wouldn't say it's a lack of progress, but, yeah, I definitely feel stagnant and and strained. And, you know, I'm not burnt out, but it's like yeah. You know, I think, I don't know how how else to say it, but you can kinda just tell, I think, if you're being honest with yourself, especially if you've been in active recovery from stroke for a couple years, you sort of just know, like, alright. Well, this is that time. And it's again, it's fine. It's call it a plateau, call it a pivot, call it whatever you want, whatever You know, whatever it is, it's kind of an indicator that it's time to change things up, and it's not a reflection that you're and this is what I struggle with too.

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It's not a reflection on you that you're doing something wrong or things aren't working. It just means, like, okay.

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You've done this for it might be time to change things up. I I think this is common. I think my issue is I'm like, but it's been working so good, and we probably all deal with this because it's nice when things are working good and especially as a stroke story, like, yeah. I like when things are working good because that means I'll make a progress on what works for me. And, again, this is tough as a stroke survivor because it's like you spend so much time trying to figure out something that works for you. You kinda like when it works, and then when you're feeling a little flat with the thing that works, it can be very frustrating and slightly annoying if we're being honest because you're like, oh, but I feel like I've tried so much. And I finally found what works, but now I'm kinda stagnant, and it can be frustrating. So, you know, probably taking the day off from running wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but I also don't feel like one day off is really gonna change things the way I need. So, you know, finding these pivots and figuring out how to navigate can be challenging, I think, because it's not as easy as it might be for some people. It's not as easy as taking a day off because I don't think that necessarily fixes anything. That just means you took a day off. Now for me, yeah, maybe I could switch up the cardio. I think works workouts lately as going to help break me out of this and and kind of pivot me out of the pivot, to be honest.

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I do think, in my case, it's probably overrunning for a long time. I think either I need to really only allow my side in the sunlight versus a lot of what I've been doing more recently is half and half.

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So there's that. There's also I could just run a little bit and then get on some of the other cardio machines if I really wanna get on the cardio. But, I I I think in combination with cardio would probably be the best for me. But, yeah, these these pivots happen, and they're challenging. They're hard. It's hard to recognize them. It's hard to know how to get through them, and that's kinda where I wanna go next. It's like and I started talking about this just now, but, like, it's kinda like a career.

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It's it's funny how these things all come together. Right? Because, currently now in the 1st week of the MBA program, again, getting my master's in business administration now, set of psychology. We saw we talked about that pivot, and it's weird how all these pivots are kinda coming at the same time because sheer luck, it's kinda my work has have gone this way.

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Stroke, you know, overall, though, I'm pleased with my stroke recovery, but I think also there are things that I've noticed lately that, like, I I I don't think I've been lazy about them, but maybe that is a fair assessment.

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Yeah. I've I've been wanting to and I've talked about this a lot recently, getting back into the putty, and working my hands because they, you know, they work well. Everything is much better than 5 years ago, but I still I want to be now now is fine be able to write. And I was talking to an old friend from college yesterday, and I was thinking like, man, I would love to be drawing again. Well, why am I not drawing? Because I haven't spent the time on it. And, you know, I understand both sides because for a long time, I I put writing.

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As I just simply said there's too many things to figure out. Can't figure them all out at once. Writing and doodling or and drawing are all really important to me, but they just haven't been the priority. So I think it's it's it's not yeah. It's just time to start practicing that and getting serious about it in there. For me, because I am extremely sort of fulfilled and have a lot of things to do, I need to, you know, I guess, pivot away from certain things that maybe don't matter as much right now. They don't it doesn't mean, you know, is sometimes you get into something and you're really into it, and then sometimes you get really into something else. And you kinda just it's not that it has to go away forever, but I do think you need to be honest with yourself. And I think what else has really brought on this whole conversation and episode on on pivoting is now because I've done 50 this episode for 54 that we're recording. And I I should have probably done this long time ago when I I I kind of initially started in survivor science, but I'm starting to really think about how I'm going to take this podcast and really just transition this podcast and the website and everything into and under the survivor science umbrella. Obviously, the podcast is technically under the umbrella already, but I am starting to think about how all the technical details of this will work. Obviously, thankfully, I have had long and tenured career in web development and things like that and been around this for a long enough time. But, yeah, at the same token, I have a bunch of interviews scheduled up. So I think we're looking at probably, you know, next month ish, give or take. The Globalstar podcast will eventually be this cast. I I still have some things to work out, fortunately. And, unfortunately, I don't have a ton of sponsors for this podcast.

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So, it that that could add some complexity that I'm actually, very fortunate and very lucky to not have to deal with at the moment. So and anything that I do have inserted dynamically and always added back. So so, yeah, that's an important thing. And if you're if you're not catching now, I'll talk about it some more on the coming episodes that I am going to kinda segment this or really just kinda slowly transition this podcast from the level into the server science podcast. That is a mouthful, so I need to work on that. But yeah. Again, funny how all these moments and reflections and thoughts on pivoting, whether it's stroke recovery, regular life, daily life, the podcast itself, together at the same time. So and yeah. I mean, actually, that ties into kind of some other things because I was thinking about how to stay motivated through change, especially when it comes to stroke recovery and pivoting and the fear of change. I think that is I just touched on that, and we kinda just talked about it in relation to this podcast and changing the name. It doesn't sound so difficult, but I assure you if you're or somebody who's out there who's podcasted or, you know, that's I really wanna because there's so many things to a podcast. I I do record these video and audio, but I've been very sad. That's gonna change once I shift everything over. That's partly the reason I've been held back from doing more video and getting more more viewership over on YouTube because I think there's a lot of opportunity there. And I think finally getting everything under one umbrella will really make sense not only from this podcast and the Star Wars Science brand because the the goal really at the end of the day is to spread the word, you know. Obviously, this podcast currently is a a one man show, and I do individual episodes and I have guests on from time to time. But I think there's real opportunity here and being on other guests or talking with other people in behind the scenes and the stroke survivor community and all these different people who are trying to kinda work to to to help stroke survivors. And it's just to to put it mildly, it's kind of a clusterfuck, but it's it's partly a clusterfuck we've all created because for whatever reason, I think a lot of us as stroke survivors, we get out there, we start doing a thing, we maybe do some research.

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I mean, I know I did, but there wasn't a lot out when I started.

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And it wasn't until later that I was able to connect. And, you know, over the last couple of years, I've been able to people. I mean, honestly, I know a lot of people are not big fans of the x and TikTok and Instagram, but I do feel like some of these social media platforms are being used for good because I'm starting to see and connect with fellow stroke survivors, which is not something I was seeing even probably 2 years ago when I started this podcast. Switch from the local idiot over to to the local survivor and, you know, it's really challenging for stroke survivors like myself and other stroke survivors who are maybe creators or other stroke survivors who are doing a show or they they have a blog and they wanna help. It's just they're good.

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I think every survivor who's doing something to help other survivors could probably take a little blame, but I also at the same token, they're for whatever reason, I think sometimes you just don't see these things. And I've looked pretty extensively on certain platforms, the survivors, you know, unfortunately. The one where everybody gravitates to, I think, is the one that is the worst for all of us, which is Facebook, because there's a lot of groups that are there for stroke survivors, but, like, they're not really there because they're not really monitored.

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Bam, there's a lot of garbage. There's a lot of people who, like, I I would love to gee be more involved in a group there, but it's just, like, it's kind of a waste of time because, see, there are people that don't really wanna change or or do things differently or figure out how to battle back, that's certainly a lot more on YouTube.

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Even x, I'm starting to see kind of an uptick in in connecting with fellow survivors, you know, but there's the and there's a lot of us. Right? There's a lot there are people who are very technical. There are people on YouTube that are more on the therapy side of things and have a lot of great information, but they're, you know yeah. I just I would love to see more people collaborate in this space, and that's really where I'm trying to go because, you know, last week, on top of the hurricane, on top of everything, I met a few people.

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Again, I've talked to people over at stroke organ.

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Talked to a number of people in the stroke community now starting to connect the dots, and it it I don't want this to be easy. I just think it could be easier for all of us to to help one another, because, again, I don't believe in hoarding information or or not sharing stuff.

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I think that for all the strokes, I mean, when I say I've met a bunch now, I mean, probably less than 50. Right? Even if you said a 100. Right? Stroke is the second leading cause of death and disability in the world. So I don't think there's a shortage even if you know a couple hundred that's a lot of people that are still needing and wanting help globally that there is, you know, room for growth for all of us. So there's there's an and there's enough of us that are different styles and different voices that there should be any reason for us not to collaborate being honest.

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Anyways but getting back to the point is, you know, pivoting and overcoming the fear of change. It's it's it's tricky as a stroke survivor. I don't think I recognize it myself in the early days. There there's definitely, like, get you're so uncomfortable being a stroke get something that's working, you you're reluctant to change because not only has change uncomfortable for a lot of people, which in my case is generally not how I feel, but because there's so many unknowns as a stroke survivor, you sort of like, well, this is working. I keep working, and I get that. I understand that frustration.

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And I don't know what else to tell you except for if if you're doing something and it's working and then it's suddenly not working, there really isn't a choice. Like, you just have to be willing to try something different and keep trying something different until you're back in that good spot.

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I think more often than not, it's just pushing yourself a little bit further than you think you can safely, of course.

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But yeah. I don't know. That's just how I feel about it. But, again, you have to stay it it could be all to stay motivated because I think in terms of actionable tips that I can provide you, it's like, just set a new goal. Keep it realistic and and, you know, if it seems a little unrealistic, okay, break it down even further.

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Reframe what success I mean, I know that sounds really corny and cliche, but I still do it every day. Sometimes I will, you know, think about a thing. I'll get stuck in my own head and I'll just be I you know, I'll just have to keep talking to myself until until I'm able to kind of reframe.

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You know, I think this was pretty evident to me. Like like, I was really struggling the last couple weeks with, like, switching from psychology to an MBA because, again, I'm 41 now, going back for a master's degree.

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And in my head, I should have this figured out. And I thought I did, and I think I did realistically. I just don't think I was able to make the informed decision a couple months ago when I went into psychology that I'm able to make now having been in it for a little bit because I you know, you just sort of understand the field and once program and you start doing some work and some classes, you understand, like, okay. Really, this makes a lot of sense to me, and I like all the things we're talking about. However, you sort of realize the reality of the situation when you start applying to jobs in the psychology field. Search papers and you're starting to dig and you're starting to go through the libraries and databases and you just realize, like, well, I love doing this research. I love learning about psychology. I love the overall broader context of science, right, and and what it means to use science. Apply these things, and then you sort of realize, like, well, there's a lot of research. Who's doing something about these things? Like, who is taking the data and the research that we formulated and put together and compared and contrasted and, you know, gone over for hours and hours and hour. Well, I wanna put this into action. Like, that's why I think, you know, going back to earlier, whether it's, you know, whether on the topic of computing or so and stuff, it's like the research is important. The analytics are important. The data means everything, and we've got but also over the summer too, the world of science got rocked a couple times because, you know, there there's funding being pulled from certain parts of the psychology field and medical field and it are sadly, a lot of it is around the brain, which is kind of the area thing on and it's just like too many things shift, too many things are happening from my perspective where it's like, again, the data, the experiments, the research, all valid, all important. It all valid until some researcher out there were about him making himself a name out there that he's doing things that he shouldn't be doing. And it's it's it's not got it's not getting caught until until it's too late almost till till that person's burned through all the money and all the research needs to be pulled and all the, you know, the papers and the pure view data. And, you know, I don't wanna call anybody out, but it's like, are people really looking at this data? Because what's happening is nobody was really questioning things for a long time. And that's how somebody gets through with, you know, years years of money and research basically gone to waste because nobody or it's just it's silly, and it's it's unfortunate. And, you know, for 99% of scientists out there are doing the right thing. They're doing good work. They're they're they're certainly doing the best they can in their experiments. I mean, there are no experience ever going to be a 100% accurate or or whatever. But, you know, the vast majority are doing good stuff and it's always that one bad apple and it doesn't matter if you're in the psychology field or business world. There's always bad seeds or bad apples and unfortunately, they typically do wind up ruining it for the rest of it. But I just became increasingly frustrated with things I was seeing and and more so the people were doing the research, collecting the data, and then it just seems to go nowhere.

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And I know and I'm not naive. I know the same thing happens in business, but people are generally speaking, people from what I've seen, you know, I just I it's hard. It's hard. It's hard to kinda quantify and explain all this. But long story short, a lot of the things in psychology that I'm interested in are things I'm still very much interested in, you know, ship in the psychology realm. And so already in the MBA program, I'm finding that, you know, this class on leadership, it's really speaks to me.

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It speaks to the things that I enjoy. I think when I think about leadership from a psychological perspective, I think there are pulled from there. And I know it seems silly, but the the whole point of this is that sometimes reframing success that's very much kind of related to where I'm going through is, like, I had to reframe. What am I actually trying to do?

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What what is what is the goal here? And it's for me, it was I love the research. I love the the thought behind the why, but I also really wanna put things into action. And, yeah, that is sort of what I went through the last couple of months of reframing my my thoughts on what I'm doing. And, yeah, I think, I know this my my transition from psychology to business, but I think it's very applicable to our our stroke recovery, and I think you can learn a lot from these kind of things and different stories.

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And again, finding inspiration. Sometimes, you know, you want a challenge, but sometimes you need a new challenge.

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Again, that's part of change and pivoting as a stroke survivor, and it can be uncomfortable and it can be annoying for sure. Definitely is annoying. But, yeah, these are all all big moments and kind of pivots.

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So, yeah, maybe you're finding yourself in the same spot this week when you're listening and whether it's, you know, maybe you find yourself in a similar spot. I'd love to hear. You know, are you finding you need a new workout, maybe new hobbies, some kind of new routine, something new to add to your routine to break out of the monotony of the routine you're in? Your story and see, you know, how you feel pivoting and plateaus. And I know they're kind of the same way. It's word and I kinda use them interchangeably.

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Obviously, they're not exactly the same, but I think yeah.

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Shaking things up is is good from time to time. This episode's early shaking things up. This is going all over the place, but in episodes. But, you know, like I said, I'm looking forward myself to shaking up this podcast this week. This one is obviously about pivoting, but, later in the week, I have 2 guests, on deck that I am looking forward to recording with. I'll let you know when those are gonna come out. Could be as next week's episode, but, you know, it might be a little longer, and we'll see. It's, it's always interesting. I'm trying to think what have I been doing besides recovering from the hurricane fiascos the last couple weeks.

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Yeah. We could play maybe we could play I don't wanna play a game, but, again, I will point out some things that I'm pivoting on. So, yeah, I've been doing a lot of running less, obviously, 12,000 miles now. I don't know if I mentioned that last week, but I've got to cross 12,000 miles in 2 and I know I've talked about this, but I really now I saw another show server over on TikTok working a lateral movement, so that is something I'm going to put a focus on in the next week or so, along with the the more weightlifting focused, incorporations into my end. I again, I'm I know I've been talking about that for a while, but only this week have I really started to incorporate that back. I could feel it in the back of my shoulders right now.

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They are killing me. So, yeah, think about it for yourself. You know, if you are a show runner, how's your lateral movement?

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If you're running and or this is of no interest to you, you know, again, is there is there a new skill that you'd like to learn or an old skill that you'd like to bring back? I know I talked about woodworking, and I was in my I talked about it last week, on a on a show again. I was on those show as they come close to release.

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Then what else? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I just encourage you always to, you know, if you feel like you're hitting a plateau, don't wait.

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You know, better safe than sorry. If you do feel like kinda getting a little stuck or you're in a little bit of need to shake up.

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Shake it up. Like, I know that sounds very, very Taylor Swiftie, but there's no harm in shaking it up as long as you're doing things to, again, doing things safely, things that make sense to you. And and you don't have to throw it all to the wayside. You can and the mix of things, so that's super important too. So, again, I encourage you to take that action sooner than later. I think you'll be, happy you did. I know I every time I shake it up and I I change things up, I'm always like, I should've done that sooner.

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And I think that is true every single I think I I've learned that at this point. So I'll let you know before we wrap up. Not currently watching a sound of stuff. There are a lot of sports going on. The Yankees and the Mets are both in the, another big baseball guy, but that's always interesting when the Mets and Yankees are coming down to potentially going to the in the, AL and NL c l CS, Or whatever it is. When we it's the last round before the world series, so I forgot. I have her brain fart at the moment.

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So that's interesting. NBA is also kicking off soon.

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It's, football has been going on. I believe Davante Adams is officially at New York Jet now at the time of recording this. Certainly, an interesting thing going on in the football world. I'm going to keep very quiet about the hurricanes. They were off last week, and I don't wanna jinx anything, but I like what I'm seeing. And I the Oregon Ducks beat the hell out of Ohio State because I do not enjoy Ohio State, never have nor will, and, which is weird. I said this on Twitter the other day or x. Sorry. I got a bit better about calling it x.

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Yeah. I love the people that I've met from Ohio. Ohio's never been to Ohio, that I can recollect. I think I might have been there. My sister spent a semester in a master's program in Ohio. She got out of there pretty quickly.

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The people are great. Everybody I've ever met from Ohio, I love, but, I just can't stand Ohio State and I to the 2002, early 2003 championship game where Miami, of course, lost to Ohio State.

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It is the one flaw of, either me or what I see in the people people for about Ohio is that I just I can't get over the Ohio State thing.

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So, anyways, I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of things to catch up on. I'm really, excited to interview next couple of guests later this week for the podcast episodes, so I'll be excited to bring you those. As always, if you have any questions, topics, suggestions, you can reach out to me on social media or just hit me up on the podcast website, podcast at Again, so low ball server for now in the coming weeks months or so. Planning in the next 4 to 6 weeks to kinda make the transition from global survivor over to survivor science officially as the podcast name. Just like the website, which you can go check out, there's some new articles over there. Again, if you wanna check out the, feel free to join me over at the center, center.survivorscience.com.

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And, yeah, I just wanna thank you all for listening and, my for now.