Ep. 75: #TheGigEconomy: #DrFumiHancock Interviews #DrYolandaShields about her book - Ep. 2

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Life Ambassador, best selling author,TEDx talk speaker CEO of Pull of the
Festive Psychiatric Health in Arizona. Let'sall welcome, Doctor Princess Filmy Hancock.
Well, I want to kind ofthis is where you what you do merge
with what I do in psychiatry becauseI could testify to what Joe said now,

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because a lot of my patients,many of them were working in the
service industry, and so when theygot sent home, they had to come
up with things people were doing,who bad people are the US had to
come about things. And now thateverything the market is opening up, they

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finally now. In fact, asa matter of fact, many of them
come back to me and say youknow what, Yes, I did that.
I was at that restaurant for elevenyears I want to go back.
Now I see my possibilities. Isee other things that I could do.
I actually had some that went backand went back home, like, no,
we're not gonna take the insult fromanybody. People are just insulting.

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And I said, well is theinsult to be taken for fifteen years?
What he What suddenly changed and whatchange for them was now they realize they
gig economy. They realize that theycan actually make money. They cannot only
just make money. They can alsobe happy with what they choose. Talk

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to us about that. Yes,they can control the amount of time they
spend working. One of the companiesthat I work with during the pandemic,
I helped them transitioning their staff homeand even we saw it, even with
big corporation, they transition staff hometo work. Then I work with them
to transition them back to the office. And then they realize, out of

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all of these hundreds of people thatwe've sent home, not everybody needs to
come back. Some of these positionscan actually be done from home, or
we don't need all this real estate. The same for the individuals say,
oh, they've been working me somany hours and I'm stressed out. I'm
depressed. I don't really even likewhat I'm doing. People start having time

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to really think through that and say, how don't want that anymore? I
don't want to go back. Letme figure out why I got this time
to work through it. Figure outwhat am I passionate about that I can
do and make money and take careof my family and not be working eighty
hours a week. Now, itis my desire that a lot of corporate
leaders are going to watch at leastinto this, because this is I'm finding

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out in my area of expertise.Many of the their staffing did extraordinarily well
while working at home. Even theresome departments where when they were in the
office they were barely making forty fivepercent of their goal for the year,

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but they made their transitions home.People understood that this was oh my god,
they had opportunities to be able toThey were more flexible right exacause of
that, they were happier, andthey did their work and even exceeded what
they were wanting, what they weretold to do because they did not want

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to miss out on that opportunity.And because of that, you now have
corporations who were making barely for thefive percent of their goal. Now they
were hitting nine and they did thatfor two years, another for something.
Now you want to transition them back. So can you talk to organizations like

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that? Please talk to organizations likethat because they need to look at you
know some that some people in thatorganization structure who just fins like I'm going
back to the office, so youhave to go back, But they're not
really looking at the bottom line,the fact that they make more money with
these people at all. Exactly.Please can you go to talk to America

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on this one? Absolutely? Ithink top leaders need to think about not
across the board just because you feellike it's time to come back doesn't make
sense productivity wise. If the productivityof those staff are increased while they were
at home in certain positions, thenfigure out what makes sense. If you

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want to make sure that you stillhave a community with those staff, you
can do that by having people comein once a month to gather for a
meeting and to connect. Or ifyou have new team members. I did
this with a company. They said, what about when new people come,
how do they connect if everybody ifthe majority of the people are working from
home. I said, with allthe technology that we have, it can

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be done, and you can figureout the time of the month, that's
the time that you're onboarding all ofyour new staff. That that is the
date that you bring everybody in todo your fully full staff meeting so that
they can meet them, connect withthem in person, and then they can
connect better offline online platform. Butbut realizing that not just because you want

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them in the office doesn't mean thatit makes sense business wise. What is
your business strategy, what are youreally wanting to see? What moneys are
you revenue or goals are you lookingat? And did you see that while
they were at home workings and sawmore you just said, and then make
it make sense. Some people werejust doing it across the bore. Everybody

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come come back and I'm like this, that doesn't make sense. But a
lot of companies are saying, we'repaying a lot of this real estate and
we really don't need it. Yes, so let's figure out which staff.
Let's look at our numbers when theywent home. Where is the productivity level
high? Where does it make sensebased on what they do that they can

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do it from anywhere Because some people'slife, I'm gonna work from Mexico I'm
gonna work from Africa. I'm gonnawork in a different country. And I
think you're gonna get more work frompeople when you allow them to figure out
what is the best place for themto work. I think because we've always
done it like that doesn't mean thatit's still working. We rode horses for

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a long time, but then wecame up with the cars. We didn't
like saying, oh no, we'regonna still make people do this even though
we had something new. And Ithink even universities and businesses that was a
resistant to online and doing online stuff. Yes, and now have they know
that it works? Yes. Um, let me ask you a question,

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because I know this is your areaof expertise. Are the what is What
are the reasons for this resistance thatsome of these corporations are getting and are
insisting that some I look at someof my patients who actually have come out
of COVID with anxiety, sociophobia andthings like that, that they don't really

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want to go into a place ofwork because they have they still have that
phobia about COVIE. They have phobiaabout all kinds sorts of things, and
now the thought of going back isactually making them worse. So what are
the resistance that you are seeing orcaring from organizations that you're working with?

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What is what is that resistance about? Why are they insisting? For those
who are insisting, I don't carewhat you do, come back to work,
work is that? Where's that resistancecoming from? I believe it is
a lack of confidence in who they'vehired and a control issue. They want
to control. People think if theycan see somebody, they're gonna get more

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work out of them, which isnot true. But if you have an
issue with micromanaging and controlling your environmentinstead of hiring people that you trust and
allow them to do the work thatyou've hired them to do. I think
a lot of leaders struggle with delegatingand feeling like they have to micromanage people

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in order to get work out ofthem. And I think it's more of
that leadership issue than the person thatthey're trying to make come back to the
office. And I say, hirepeople. If you're gonna hire people because
you feel like they have the skillsto do the job, let them do
the job, whether it's in officeor out of office. But I really

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believe it's a control issue. Withsome leaders, they feel like if they
see people they're going to get morework out of, and if they look
at their numbers and if they lookat what happened during the pandemic, they'll
see the opposite. But I feellike a lot of it is wanting to
control their environment and wanting to controlpeople. Yeah, so talk to me

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about the gig community. What isif? Okay? So in Psychatrim we
say, well, symptoms, right, you have a symptom and you have
signs and symptoms. So I'm thinkingthe gig community have there's something about the
gig community that make them gig thatyou can call them these are the gig
communities Because those who are watching orlistening now some might be just sitting back

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in and say, am I partof this? What you know? What
makes me part of this? Howdo I even know? I can identify
if I am part of the geecommunity? They might be sitting down not
even knowing what's next for them.But if we can define mine what it
looks like the geek community, Whatdoes that look like? What do they
do? Who are this? Whatis this community about? Can you define

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them for us so that people whoare watching on listening can say, oh,
maybe I can't identify, or maybemy son, my daughter or somebody
that I might love to one canidentify. So talk to us, who
are this What is this community madeoff? Yes, so I would say
the gear community is those that maybeworking a full time job. For instance,

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they may be a engineer and butthey love music, but they spend
their full time job kind of workingthis, but their passion is really over
here with the music. The samewith someone that maybe what you see a

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lot of times even in the hospitalityrestaurants, hotels, working in anything that's
like in the hospitality sector typically probablyabout sixty to seventy percent of those or
just think about Hollywood. All ofthose people have worked in restaurants on the

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side to make money, but theirtrue gig was really getting into the entertainment
industry. But they had to dothis until this kind of caught on.
And so I think that community ofthose that know what they're passionate about,
but they haven't been able to getit to a place where they can do
it full time, so they're doingit on the side until they can roll
into a full time So what yousee is a lot of times these people

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are meeting up in coworking spaces,you're gonna find a lot of side gig
people because they're not at the pointwhere they can go get a big office,
but they need to be around createif people, so they'll meet up
in places like that, go dosome Starbucks and some of those other coffee
shops and just look around. Alot of those people are your side big

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people that have this gift that they'rereally passionate about, but they haven't gotten
into a place where they can makea living off of it. So they
got to keep that other job onthe side to be able to take care
of their family. But they're passionateabout this other thing. And so I
see a lot of graphic designers.I think about even all these platforms that

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support freelancers like Fiber, A lotof those people that are even in the
fiber and sharing their gifts on Fiberare side giggers. There's a lot of
them have other jobs, but theytook their gift off, whether it's grant
writing. I don't want to doit for a company, I just want
to do it on the side,And so they put that skill up one
different platforms so people can call onthem to do it a plumber that working

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another job and say, I wantto do this on my own. So
I want to start out like gettingmaybe one or two clients handy man that
want to come to your house andfix little things. And so you begin
to see that with people like that. But a lot of the people in
the creative the creative sector, alot of times they are in the gig

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economy because they have not made it. This should tell some of the even
people that I knew were singers thathad made it. I'm like, you
need to keep a job over here. You're doing, keep doing your you're
you're seeing it on the side ofthe take it so that you can take
care of your family. It's gonnaget. But if you put the work
in but that side gig, it'sgonna come. What happens is people get

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frustrated because it's not moving fast enoughfor him. They leave it and it
don't get to that place where theycan launch it out. Like we've done.
We work for companies, we've hadourselves on the side of it.
It got to a place where wecan It's hard work. You gotta do
the work a place where we couldstart doing it full time. So We've
all worked for companies and we knewthis. I'm doing this right now,

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but really this is really what Iwant to be doing. Wow. Thank
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