February 25, 2025 • 14 mins
In a world where change is constant, finding our footing can feel overwhelming. Join us as we unpack the complexities of navigating change fatigue, especially during swift leadership shifts. Our host shares personal experiences, illustrating the importance of fostering agency in our personal lives and how our choices today can shape a better future.
We dive into the intricacies of impulsive leadership and its potential ramifications on morale and productivity, drawing parallels with established business principles like Six Sigma. This structured approach helps identify and address core issues, allowing for more thoughtful changes.
What emerges is a vital conversation about hope—the audacity to see silver linings even in challenging times. This episode encourages listeners to focus on what they can control rather than getting lost in the chaos around them.
Stay engaged and inspired as we explore pathways that allow us to reclaim our power and rise above external challenges. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share your insights! Together, let’s walk each other home in this journey of growth and resilience.
https://iamjayfloyd.com
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
What's good everybody .
This is Jay Floyd.
Welcome back to another episodeof On Everything.
Oh man, this is a.
Let me see, this is February2025.
Last year we moved fromCleveland Ohio down to North
Carolina.
Man, I just got to say I'mloving this.
(00:23):
I was just walking outside.
I mean, it's February y'all andI was just walking outside and
it's nearly 70 degrees, the sunis on me, I got some good
exercise in, I worked up a goodsweat.
I love it.
That's exactly why I made thistrek down here.
So just wanted to updateeverybody on that.
(00:46):
Moving forward and you know,being intentional, you know you
do have agency over your life.
I know a lot of times we mayfeel like we don't, but we do,
and the agency that we havetoday is really built on the
ability of us to leverage theopportunities we had yesterday.
So, thank, if you got thingssome sort of agency going on and
(01:08):
some sort of ability tomaneuver and use your strengths
to the best of your ability toimprove your life and your
family's opportunities thenthank God and thank yourself
from yesterday.
You know it's really what Iwant to say today.
Working on a couple of things, Ialways keep a lot of irons in
the fire, and right now I'mworking on two series.
(01:32):
I'm writing some fictionstories, two fiction stories One
is a little bit of an urbanfiction, one is a little bit of
a science fiction, but it'sstill.
The science fiction is kind ofurban and the urban fiction is
kind of science-y.
You know it's like me, you knowit's it's like me, for one is
always going to be unpredictableand it's always going to have a
little bit of both sides in it.
(01:53):
Um.
So yeah, been working on those.
Both of those will be trilogies, I believe, um, and I've been
submitting the first story ofthose out to some publishers.
Been hearing back frompublishers only hybrid so far,
(02:13):
no traditional publishers yet.
Still reaching out to them,though still, and at the same
time improving my skills,improving my story and improving
my tenacity to go at it.
Improving my skills, improvingmy story and improving my
tenacity to go at it.
I've been learning a lot aboutthe publishing industry.
(02:34):
From what I see so far, ittakes $50,000 at bare minimum to
have a successful release,that's, to market your book, get
it in the right places and getsome people to buy it.
It's going to take like $50,000.
The question is, whose $50,000.
Is it going to be?
Do you want to put up all of it?
Are you hoping that somebodyelse puts up all of it, or do
(02:55):
you want to put up a small pieceof it, maybe 10, 20% and get a
partner, hybrid publisher tocome in where you share control?
But that's what I'm starting tosee, which is eerily
reminiscent of the musicindustry.
Obviously, there's a little bitof differences there, but yeah,
(03:16):
so I'm learning y'all, I'mplugging away, I'm not going to
stop.
I'm going to figure this thingout and figure out how to get my
story to y'all.
You know, one of the keycomponents is this podcast.
Once I can reach all of y'all,once I can reach enough people
in this platform, I feel likethis would be a good way to
(03:37):
cultivate.
What, wow?
Did y'all hear that?
Yes, it feels like it almostsounded like I was hungry, but
I'm not hungry man, I'm nothungry.
I promise I ate lunch.
Um, I just want to be able tocultivate my audience.
You know, even if it's 100people, thousand people, ten
(03:58):
thousand people, as long as it'sthe people that want to hear
the stories that I have, I thinkthat's a win.
Let me just give you all oneToday's episode.
I know I've gone through this.
I'm at four minute mark.
I didn't even hit a topic.
(04:26):
Today's episode is aboutsomething that's been on my mind
a lot, specifically right now,with the Trump regime and Elon
Musk operating the Department ofGovernment Efficiency and
there's so many changes, right,obviously, when you get a new
leader in a regime, whether it'sa company, organization or the
government, if that leader is ahasty person, if they're
impulsive and if they'reambitious and they want to shake
things up, you're going to runinto a lot of change fatigue.
(04:47):
You also could have to dealwith a lot of instances of
Chesterton's fence, right, theidea of Chesterton's fence,
which is a new person, comesalong and they feel like why is
this ugly fence here?
Get rid of this fence.
And then, once the fence istorn down, they start to realize
(05:09):
and see the reality of exactlywhy that fence was there.
So a lot of times you want tobe able to take your time and
examine things before you makechanges, and it doesn't seem
like this regime is doing that.
At least it doesn't seem thatway.
I'm not in those rooms, but youknow I'm a Six Sigma guy man.
(05:30):
You know we would go intocompanies or departments.
And yeah, we are the hatchetman sometimes, sometimes we are
the hatchet people and you'recoming in and you are bringing
bad news or bringing change.
But at least in Six Sigma man,you are either defining it for
Six Sigma or you're doing what'scalled a DMAIC process.
You define, measure, analyze,improve control.
(05:53):
You know, define the problem,measure the problem just to see
how much you can even improve it.
Right, but first define it tosee if the problem exists, what
is the actual problem and is itworthy?
That definition is also forprioritization.
Is it worthy of looking at?
Then you measure it.
How much can I, you know?
(06:13):
How much do we want to move theneedle to make it worth it?
Then you analyze it.
What is this process in the end?
What's every single step?
Then you try to improve it,right, that's when you start
digging in the Pareto rule ofwhat's the 20% of changes I can
make to get 80% of the impact?
And then you start to control.
(06:36):
Right, you put controls inplace so that you know when
things are spiraling back out ofcontrol, or you put hard
controls in place that don'tallow them to get back out of
control.
But yeah, you define, youmeasure, you analyze and you
improve.
And then you control right thatanalyze and improve, right, you
(06:58):
analyze from end to end everysingle step, map it out.
Then you say what's the one ortwo pieces that could be changed
?
Right, it looks like a lot oftimes this regime is like you
know what.
I'm pretty confident thatthere's some excesses going on,
there's some waste going on.
(07:19):
So let's just gut this wholething right.
And I mean sometimes there'sreasons for that too.
There's merit to that approach.
If you have good reason tobelieve a process is extremely
wasteful, there's no need tofully analyze it to improve it.
(07:39):
I mean you can scrap it andstart over or move it to the
states and let it be somebodyelse's problem.
I mean, I guess that has merit.
But it's tough and it doesbring you a lot of brings the
people a lot of change fatigue.
I'll say this you know I'm notoverly political as far as sides
(08:03):
are concerned.
I'm not overly left right,whatever all of that.
I like dealing with humans, man, the humans.
I found that everybody I meet Ican get to the good in them.
So I'm not really overlyconcerned with the whole sides
and political gangbanging thatgoes on.
(08:23):
But I will say this mind yourmind, mind your mind.
Man you are, no matter whathappens, no matter who's in
charge, even if they're makingbad decisions, you still have a
role to play in your life.
Don't get so distracted thatyou're off your game.
Don't get off your square.
Don't let bad leadership moveyou off your square.
(08:46):
I don't care if it's badleadership at your job.
I don't care if it's badleadership at an organization
that you have to go to.
I don't care if it's badleadership at your school.
You know, if you have a badteacher that you feel like is
not a great teacher, don't letit get you off your square.
There are some things out ofyour control.
Yes, should you try to have avoice and do what you can?
(09:09):
Yes, but the things that are inyour control, you are the
leader of them.
You are the president of them.
You are the leader of your owndoge.
Okay, don't get off your square.
(09:29):
Don't spend so much time digginginto why Elon Musk is wrong or
why Donald Trump is wrong or whyDonald Trump is racist.
Don't get so caught up intothat that you spend more time
doing that than you spendmastering your role.
You got a role to play.
We all have a role to play andit all works in a divine dance.
It's a dance Works together.
It's okay to have some concerns, it's okay to voice those
(09:52):
concerns, it's okay to do whatyou can about those concerns,
but you should never let theconcerns of others, especially
that are outside of your control, overshadow what you got going
on in developing your own skillset.
Don't spend 45 minutes writingthat gigantic Facebook post.
(10:14):
Trust me, your audience is notthat big.
Trust me, your audience is notthat big that you are going to
put out this post and you aregoing to be the one who makes
the impact that wakes everybodyup to see how they were wrong
for voting for this guy.
It's not, no, that's not howit's going to work.
But you do have a role and ifyou lean into that and be better
(10:39):
in that, focus on that, you canscale up your impact.
Trust me, if you try to boilthe ocean, if you try to
convince millions upon millionsof people that aha, I told you,
you're wrong, trust me, you areminimizing your scale.
That is not the way you aremeant to impact the world.
(11:02):
And listen, here's the kicker,and I'm going to leave it at
this to impact the world.
And listen, here's the kicker,and I'm going to leave it at
this Understand how strong,powerful and pervasive
confirmation bias is right.
I want you to understand this.
I'm going to end with this.
If you believe that Donald Trumpis absolutely planning
(11:29):
everything bad for you,everything bad for people like
you Death, destruction ofeverything you believe in and
you think is fair, if youbelieve that that is his goal
and he's going to accomplish it,you're going to try to prove
yourself right.
Everybody wants to be right.
(11:50):
If you are predicting thatthat's where it's going, you
want yourself to be right.
So what are you wanting?
What is your desire?
You want everything bad forpeople like you.
You want no silver lining.
If somebody tells you you knowwhat, yeah, this doesn't seem
like a great idea, but there's asilver lining.
If somebody tells you you knowwhat?
Yeah, this doesn't seem like agreat idea, but there's a silver
lining.
Most of the time, we areshutting those people down.
(12:11):
We don't want to entertainsilver lining.
We just want to say you knowwhat?
Don't tell me that it's all bad.
I know it's all bad, I said itwould be all bad, I predicted
this and now it has to go bad.
I'm almost rooting for it to gobad.
That's the position you'repainting yourself in.
If you don't watch yourconfirmation bias, you will kill
(12:36):
the idea of hope.
You know the reason why BarackObama won two presidential terms
on the campaign slogan of hope.
If you walk around saying Itold you so and millions of
voters you're going to see,you're going to find out that
(12:59):
what I said was right.
Are you not stepping on thatconcept of hope, are you not?
It's hopeless of hope, are younot?
It's hopeless.
There's no silver lining.
It's over and you predicted it.
That's what you're saying.
Think about that.
It's powerful.
Instead, how about?
(13:19):
This is not the regime I votedfor, but this is the regime we
have.
This is the president I haveand his decisions are impacting
us when they're really bad.
I'm going to see wow, what isit we can do about this?
Where can we fight it?
(13:40):
How can we circumvent it?
How can we look out for eachother?
Fight it, how can we circumventit?
How can we look out for eachother?
But where it's not really bad?
I'm going to dig into that andeducate people on the silver
linings.
Hey, we may not have thoughtthis was good, but look at some
things that are good, right, andI'm going to control the
controllables and I'm never,never going to lose hope and
(14:06):
that's why I know it's not,that's not comfortable, that's
not popular right now, butthat's why Barack Obama wrote
the book called the Audacity ofHope.
Hope has to be audacious, it hasto stand in the face of what
everybody else thinks it has to,or it's not hope, it's not real
(14:29):
.
I want you to think about that.
Y'all, I love y'all.
I love all of y'all, on bothsides of every bilateral split,
gangbanging, red and blue,whatever it is, we just live in
life y'all.
And one of the things that Iread recently we all just walk
in each other home.
We just walk in each other home.
(14:51):
Man, love y'all, peace.
What's good everybody .
This is Jay Floyd.
Welcome back to another episodeof On Everything.
Oh man, this is a.
Let me see, this is February2025.
Last year we moved fromCleveland Ohio down to North
Carolina.
Man, I just got to say I'mloving this.
(00:23):
I was just walking outside.
I mean, it's February y'all andI was just walking outside and
it's nearly 70 degrees, the sunis on me, I got some good
exercise in, I worked up a goodsweat.
I love it.
That's exactly why I made thistrek down here.
So just wanted to updateeverybody on that.
(00:46):
Moving forward and you know,being intentional, you know you
do have agency over your life.
I know a lot of times we mayfeel like we don't, but we do,
and the agency that we havetoday is really built on the
ability of us to leverage theopportunities we had yesterday.
So, thank, if you got thingssome sort of agency going on and
(01:08):
some sort of ability tomaneuver and use your strengths
to the best of your ability toimprove your life and your
family's opportunities thenthank God and thank yourself
from yesterday.
You know it's really what Iwant to say today.
Working on a couple of things, Ialways keep a lot of irons in
the fire, and right now I'mworking on two series.
(01:32):
I'm writing some fictionstories, two fiction stories One
is a little bit of an urbanfiction, one is a little bit of
a science fiction, but it'sstill.
The science fiction is kind ofurban and the urban fiction is
kind of science-y.
You know it's like me, you knowit's it's like me, for one is
always going to be unpredictableand it's always going to have a
little bit of both sides in it.
(01:53):
Um.
So yeah, been working on those.
Both of those will be trilogies, I believe, um, and I've been
submitting the first story ofthose out to some publishers.
Been hearing back frompublishers only hybrid so far,
(02:13):
no traditional publishers yet.
Still reaching out to them,though still, and at the same
time improving my skills,improving my story and improving
my tenacity to go at it.
Improving my skills, improvingmy story and improving my
tenacity to go at it.
I've been learning a lot aboutthe publishing industry.
(02:34):
From what I see so far, ittakes $50,000 at bare minimum to
have a successful release,that's, to market your book, get
it in the right places and getsome people to buy it.
It's going to take like $50,000.
The question is, whose $50,000.
Is it going to be?
Do you want to put up all of it?
Are you hoping that somebodyelse puts up all of it, or do
(02:55):
you want to put up a small pieceof it, maybe 10, 20% and get a
partner, hybrid publisher tocome in where you share control?
But that's what I'm starting tosee, which is eerily
reminiscent of the musicindustry.
Obviously, there's a little bitof differences there, but yeah,
(03:16):
so I'm learning y'all, I'mplugging away, I'm not going to
stop.
I'm going to figure this thingout and figure out how to get my
story to y'all.
You know, one of the keycomponents is this podcast.
Once I can reach all of y'all,once I can reach enough people
in this platform, I feel likethis would be a good way to
(03:37):
cultivate.
What, wow?
Did y'all hear that?
Yes, it feels like it almostsounded like I was hungry, but
I'm not hungry man, I'm nothungry.
I promise I ate lunch.
Um, I just want to be able tocultivate my audience.
You know, even if it's 100people, thousand people, ten
(03:58):
thousand people, as long as it'sthe people that want to hear
the stories that I have, I thinkthat's a win.
Let me just give you all oneToday's episode.
I know I've gone through this.
I'm at four minute mark.
I didn't even hit a topic.
(04:26):
Today's episode is aboutsomething that's been on my mind
a lot, specifically right now,with the Trump regime and Elon
Musk operating the Department ofGovernment Efficiency and
there's so many changes, right,obviously, when you get a new
leader in a regime, whether it'sa company, organization or the
government, if that leader is ahasty person, if they're
impulsive and if they'reambitious and they want to shake
things up, you're going to runinto a lot of change fatigue.
(04:47):
You also could have to dealwith a lot of instances of
Chesterton's fence, right, theidea of Chesterton's fence,
which is a new person, comesalong and they feel like why is
this ugly fence here?
Get rid of this fence.
And then, once the fence istorn down, they start to realize
(05:09):
and see the reality of exactlywhy that fence was there.
So a lot of times you want tobe able to take your time and
examine things before you makechanges, and it doesn't seem
like this regime is doing that.
At least it doesn't seem thatway.
I'm not in those rooms, but youknow I'm a Six Sigma guy man.
(05:30):
You know we would go intocompanies or departments.
And yeah, we are the hatchetman sometimes, sometimes we are
the hatchet people and you'recoming in and you are bringing
bad news or bringing change.
But at least in Six Sigma man,you are either defining it for
Six Sigma or you're doing what'scalled a DMAIC process.
You define, measure, analyze,improve control.
(05:53):
You know, define the problem,measure the problem just to see
how much you can even improve it.
Right, but first define it tosee if the problem exists, what
is the actual problem and is itworthy?
That definition is also forprioritization.
Is it worthy of looking at?
Then you measure it.
How much can I, you know?
(06:13):
How much do we want to move theneedle to make it worth it?
Then you analyze it.
What is this process in the end?
What's every single step?
Then you try to improve it,right, that's when you start
digging in the Pareto rule ofwhat's the 20% of changes I can
make to get 80% of the impact?
And then you start to control.
(06:36):
Right, you put controls inplace so that you know when
things are spiraling back out ofcontrol, or you put hard
controls in place that don'tallow them to get back out of
control.
But yeah, you define, youmeasure, you analyze and you
improve.
And then you control right thatanalyze and improve, right, you
(06:58):
analyze from end to end everysingle step, map it out.
Then you say what's the one ortwo pieces that could be changed
?
Right, it looks like a lot oftimes this regime is like you
know what.
I'm pretty confident thatthere's some excesses going on,
there's some waste going on.
(07:19):
So let's just gut this wholething right.
And I mean sometimes there'sreasons for that too.
There's merit to that approach.
If you have good reason tobelieve a process is extremely
wasteful, there's no need tofully analyze it to improve it.
(07:39):
I mean you can scrap it andstart over or move it to the
states and let it be somebodyelse's problem.
I mean, I guess that has merit.
But it's tough and it doesbring you a lot of brings the
people a lot of change fatigue.
I'll say this you know I'm notoverly political as far as sides
(08:03):
are concerned.
I'm not overly left right,whatever all of that.
I like dealing with humans, man, the humans.
I found that everybody I meet Ican get to the good in them.
So I'm not really overlyconcerned with the whole sides
and political gangbanging thatgoes on.
(08:23):
But I will say this mind yourmind, mind your mind.
Man you are, no matter whathappens, no matter who's in
charge, even if they're makingbad decisions, you still have a
role to play in your life.
Don't get so distracted thatyou're off your game.
Don't get off your square.
Don't let bad leadership moveyou off your square.
(08:46):
I don't care if it's badleadership at your job.
I don't care if it's badleadership at an organization
that you have to go to.
I don't care if it's badleadership at your school.
You know, if you have a badteacher that you feel like is
not a great teacher, don't letit get you off your square.
There are some things out ofyour control.
Yes, should you try to have avoice and do what you can?
(09:09):
Yes, but the things that are inyour control, you are the
leader of them.
You are the president of them.
You are the leader of your owndoge.
Okay, don't get off your square.
(09:29):
Don't spend so much time digginginto why Elon Musk is wrong or
why Donald Trump is wrong or whyDonald Trump is racist.
Don't get so caught up intothat that you spend more time
doing that than you spendmastering your role.
You got a role to play.
We all have a role to play andit all works in a divine dance.
It's a dance Works together.
It's okay to have some concerns, it's okay to voice those
(09:52):
concerns, it's okay to do whatyou can about those concerns,
but you should never let theconcerns of others, especially
that are outside of your control, overshadow what you got going
on in developing your own skillset.
Don't spend 45 minutes writingthat gigantic Facebook post.
(10:14):
Trust me, your audience is notthat big.
Trust me, your audience is notthat big that you are going to
put out this post and you aregoing to be the one who makes
the impact that wakes everybodyup to see how they were wrong
for voting for this guy.
It's not, no, that's not howit's going to work.
But you do have a role and ifyou lean into that and be better
(10:39):
in that, focus on that, you canscale up your impact.
Trust me, if you try to boilthe ocean, if you try to
convince millions upon millionsof people that aha, I told you,
you're wrong, trust me, you areminimizing your scale.
That is not the way you aremeant to impact the world.
(11:02):
And listen, here's the kicker,and I'm going to leave it at
this to impact the world.
And listen, here's the kicker,and I'm going to leave it at
this Understand how strong,powerful and pervasive
confirmation bias is right.
I want you to understand this.
I'm going to end with this.
If you believe that Donald Trumpis absolutely planning
(11:29):
everything bad for you,everything bad for people like
you Death, destruction ofeverything you believe in and
you think is fair, if youbelieve that that is his goal
and he's going to accomplish it,you're going to try to prove
yourself right.
Everybody wants to be right.
(11:50):
If you are predicting thatthat's where it's going, you
want yourself to be right.
So what are you wanting?
What is your desire?
You want everything bad forpeople like you.
You want no silver lining.
If somebody tells you you knowwhat, yeah, this doesn't seem
like a great idea, but there's asilver lining.
If somebody tells you you knowwhat?
Yeah, this doesn't seem like agreat idea, but there's a silver
lining.
Most of the time, we areshutting those people down.
(12:11):
We don't want to entertainsilver lining.
We just want to say you knowwhat?
Don't tell me that it's all bad.
I know it's all bad, I said itwould be all bad, I predicted
this and now it has to go bad.
I'm almost rooting for it to gobad.
That's the position you'repainting yourself in.
If you don't watch yourconfirmation bias, you will kill
(12:36):
the idea of hope.
You know the reason why BarackObama won two presidential terms
on the campaign slogan of hope.
If you walk around saying Itold you so and millions of
voters you're going to see,you're going to find out that
(12:59):
what I said was right.
Are you not stepping on thatconcept of hope, are you not?
It's hopeless of hope, are younot?
It's hopeless.
There's no silver lining.
It's over and you predicted it.
That's what you're saying.
Think about that.
It's powerful.
Instead, how about?
(13:19):
This is not the regime I votedfor, but this is the regime we
have.
This is the president I haveand his decisions are impacting
us when they're really bad.
I'm going to see wow, what isit we can do about this?
Where can we fight it?
(13:40):
How can we circumvent it?
How can we look out for eachother?
Fight it, how can we circumventit?
How can we look out for eachother?
But where it's not really bad?
I'm going to dig into that andeducate people on the silver
linings.
Hey, we may not have thoughtthis was good, but look at some
things that are good, right, andI'm going to control the
controllables and I'm never,never going to lose hope and
(14:06):
that's why I know it's not,that's not comfortable, that's
not popular right now, butthat's why Barack Obama wrote
the book called the Audacity ofHope.
Hope has to be audacious, it hasto stand in the face of what
everybody else thinks it has to,or it's not hope, it's not real
(14:29):
.
I want you to think about that.
Y'all, I love y'all.
I love all of y'all, on bothsides of every bilateral split,
gangbanging, red and blue,whatever it is, we just live in
life y'all.
And one of the things that Iread recently we all just walk
in each other home.
We just walk in each other home.
(14:51):
Man, love y'all, peace.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
Introducing… Aubrey O’Day Diddy’s former protege, television personality, platinum selling music artist, Danity Kane alum Aubrey O’Day joins veteran journalists Amy Robach and TJ Holmes to provide a unique perspective on the trial that has captivated the attention of the nation. Join them throughout the trial as they discuss, debate, and dissect every detail, every aspect of the proceedings. Aubrey will offer her opinions and expertise, as only she is qualified to do given her first-hand knowledge. From her days on Making the Band, as she emerged as the breakout star, the truth of the situation would be the opposite of the glitz and glamour. Listen throughout every minute of the trial, for this exclusive coverage. Amy Robach and TJ Holmes present Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Come hang with Amy Poehler. Each week on her podcast, she'll welcome celebrities and fun people to her studio. They'll share stories about their careers, mutual friends, shared enthusiasms, and most importantly, what's been making them laugh. This podcast is not about trying to make you better or giving advice. Amy just wants to have a good time.