Full Transcript for Loud Quitting: The Ultimate Playlist for Career Transitions with Edoardo Savi

00:05:51.750 So that is uh that is awesome. 00:05:51.909 --> 00:05:53.909 So great choice to start us off. 00:05:54.149 --> 00:05:56.310 Yeah, and turn and face the change. 00:05:56.389 --> 00:05:59.989 What uh sorry, turn and face the strange. 00:06:00.069 --> 00:06:00.789 What's the strange? 00:06:00.949 --> 00:06:03.750 The strange, is it the new job or is it yourself? 00:06:04.069 --> 00:06:06.709 And I like to believe that it's uh yourself. 00:06:07.429 --> 00:06:08.709 Yes, I like that. 00:06:08.870 --> 00:06:09.829 I like that. 00:06:10.149 --> 00:06:11.349 Um all right, track two. 00:06:11.589 --> 00:06:13.109 This is one of my all-time favorites. 00:06:13.269 --> 00:06:15.829 This is human by the killers. 00:06:16.229 --> 00:06:17.989 Fantastic, yes. 00:06:18.229 --> 00:06:24.789 So this is literally the the song that I hear in my head when I think about people leaving their job and quitting. 00:06:25.029 --> 00:06:35.669 It's uh a true celebration of breaking out of a corporate, and uh and I love that the killers manage to do this with uh gratitude, even the lyrics. 00:06:35.989 --> 00:06:45.349 Pay my respects to Grace and Virtue, send my condolences to good, uh, give my regards to Solim Romance, and soul on to devotion. 00:06:45.509 --> 00:06:48.549 You taught me everything I know, wave goodbye, wish me well. 00:06:48.629 --> 00:06:51.909 I get goosebumps just uh just thinking about it. 00:06:52.229 --> 00:06:57.829 And uh I really think of this as the kindest of goodbyes, set to stadium sizes. 00:06:58.549 --> 00:06:59.750 It really works. 00:06:59.989 --> 00:07:10.709 And uh the question, are we human or are we a dancer is uh is really about being part of our corporate choreography and choosing to maybe take a step back. 00:07:11.269 --> 00:07:21.989 And uh, you know, sometimes we we feel the need to renegotiate our identity, especially as work becomes our identity. 00:07:22.229 --> 00:07:26.549 Um Brandon Flowers is asking, are you a person or the role that you're performing? 00:07:26.709 --> 00:07:33.750 And I think he was inspired to write the song after he he read this line by Hunter Thompson. 00:07:33.909 --> 00:07:39.429 We're raising a generation of dancers afraid to take one step out of line. 00:07:40.949 --> 00:07:42.310 That is that is awesome. 00:07:42.469 --> 00:07:48.949 Yeah, I love all of that and just kind of the difference between sort of what you do and and who you are. 00:07:49.189 --> 00:07:59.909 Um it's funny because uh I don't know if you watch the show Severance, right, on Apple TV and how it kind of explores that sort of, I'm this in that case, completely different person. 00:07:59.989 --> 00:08:04.469 I'm not even you know acknowledging the person I am outside of this place, right? 00:08:04.870 --> 00:08:08.629 Um and so it kind of just hits right at what you were just talking about there. 00:08:08.709 --> 00:08:16.709 And and certainly with the rise of of AI, I'm I'm sure you're coaching some people who are worried about that maybe taking their job, right? 00:08:17.189 --> 00:08:17.989 Absolutely. 00:08:18.149 --> 00:08:29.189 That there is this uh moment in history in which people are wondering what's gonna be my place in uh in in the workspace. 00:08:29.429 --> 00:08:37.110 And uh and it's fascinating to really read the lyrics of a song like human with this in mind, are we human? 00:08:37.269 --> 00:08:43.429 Now human uh has a totally different meaning with uh with AI lurking around. 00:08:45.350 --> 00:08:49.509 And some people might describe it using the word uh in track three here. 00:08:49.590 --> 00:08:51.990 It is landslide by Fleetwood Mac. 00:08:52.789 --> 00:08:53.350 Yes. 00:08:53.429 --> 00:08:56.950 Uh this is uh well, we're going back to the 70s. 00:08:57.429 --> 00:09:04.310 My my working theory is uh every human experience can be well explained with a Fleetwood Mac song. 00:09:04.470 --> 00:09:06.230 This is what I believe in. 00:09:09.350 --> 00:09:10.310 I like that. 00:09:11.029 --> 00:09:27.429 So Stevie Nicks wrote this song uh she was in Aspen in the 70s, looking at the Rocky Mountains, and um uh their album, uh the Buckingham Knicks album, uh recently had dropped. 00:09:27.590 --> 00:09:53.750 And uh what she tells is that basically her father had given her six months to decide whether to to do this music thing or go back to school, and so she was waitressing and cleaning houses, and she wrote Lens Light like while looking out the window and uh looking at the Rocky Mountains, and uh and in her words, Lens Light was the decision. 00:09:53.909 --> 00:10:07.829 This is a song about making a choice, and uh Lens Light sounds like catastrophe, but in this song it's just the moment when you realize that the mountain moves and and the ground underneath your feet is not as permanent as you thought it was. 00:10:08.069 --> 00:10:08.949 And it's okay. 00:10:09.110 --> 00:10:24.870 It's okay to be afraid, it's okay to accept that the seasons in life are changing, and um as much as you would want to, you cannot hold on to the old version of you, even if you don't know what the next version is gonna look like. 00:10:25.990 --> 00:10:30.549 Yeah, and that landslide is something sometimes you can't control it, right? 00:10:30.709 --> 00:10:39.429 Like you think about something like Jurassic Park, where the dinosaurs start to reproduce, and Jeff Goldblum's like life finds a way, right? 00:10:39.509 --> 00:10:41.909 And in some ways, I I could see Stevie Nicks. 00:10:41.990 --> 00:10:46.629 Like, was Stevie Nick's gonna do anything else in her life but be like this rock star, right? 00:10:46.789 --> 00:10:56.230 And it's kind of like that's the landslide, it's sort of out of your control, but maybe just kind of making the decision to go with it a little bit and and sort of accept it in some way. 00:10:56.470 --> 00:10:59.590 Um, I I completely agree with you on Fleetwood Max songs. 00:10:59.669 --> 00:11:03.990 I I wrote my note here was

like this is probably the ultimate like reflection song. 00:11:04.549 --> 00:11:11.590 Like if anybody's ever reflecting on anything in TV and movies, you start hearing landslide in the background. 00:11:11.669 --> 00:11:15.829 Um, but I think it I think it works in a lot of different situations. 00:11:15.909 --> 00:11:17.909 So that is uh that is great. 00:11:18.149 --> 00:11:24.230 And isn't it comforting to think that Stevie Nicks wasn't unsure was unsure of what to do with her life? 00:11:24.629 --> 00:11:25.509 Yeah, right. 00:11:25.829 --> 00:11:28.789 If she has doubts, then it's okay for everyone to have doubts. 00:11:28.870 --> 00:11:32.230 We always think that the person next to us has it all figured out. 00:11:32.470 --> 00:11:33.429 No, they don't. 00:11:33.750 --> 00:11:34.309 That's right. 00:11:34.470 --> 00:11:34.949 That's right. 00:11:35.029 --> 00:11:39.269 Even someone as talented as Stevie Nicks has some wasn't sure if that was the path. 00:11:39.350 --> 00:11:41.509 And even her dad was like, Yeah, just come on home. 00:11:41.590 --> 00:11:42.230 What are you doing? 00:11:42.549 --> 00:11:43.189 Yeah, yeah. 00:11:43.509 --> 00:11:53.189 The other thing that I like about this song is the finger style pattern on the guitar that gives, you know, this forward momentum sense of time moving forward. 00:11:53.350 --> 00:11:56.549 It's relentless but gentle at the same time. 00:11:57.189 --> 00:11:58.949 Just hits the spot. 00:11:59.829 --> 00:12:02.149 All right, now something a little bit more aggressive here. 00:12:02.309 --> 00:12:05.909 Track four, you've got Shake It Out by Florence and the Machine. 00:12:06.230 --> 00:12:09.110 Alright, yeah, this is a song of release. 00:12:09.350 --> 00:12:19.269 I I really like Florence, and uh I feel that all her songs are a roll shark test for human emotions, meaning that you can hear anything in it. 00:12:19.509 --> 00:12:27.509 Because, frankly speaking, the lyrics almost never make sense, at least from a literal sense, but they somehow always work. 00:12:27.669 --> 00:12:32.709 They can always, you know, hold up a dramatic scene in Grey's Anatomy or something. 00:12:32.870 --> 00:12:35.189 It just they just fit, you know. 00:12:36.789 --> 00:12:37.829 Yes, I agree. 00:12:37.909 --> 00:13:00.389 And and you're right, like there's so many songs that I think I've gone back, like that I just love by her, and then I'll go back and listen to the lyrics and I'll be like, well, does that really but it's not what you had in your head, but her voice and the sound of the music just sort of evokes this emotion that it doesn't even matter what the what the words are necessarily. 00:13:00.549 --> 00:13:09.429 But in this case, I think Shake It Out can can be you know apt for this type of you know loud quitting that we're talking about and just sort of moving forward. 00:13:09.750 --> 00:13:13.990 I mean, this is really a song about letting go of past regrets. 00:13:14.230 --> 00:13:17.909 She uh she has these very gruesome images in this song. 00:13:18.149 --> 00:13:20.709 I'm dragging this horse around tonight. 00:13:20.789 --> 00:13:23.429 I'm going to bury that horse in the ground. 00:13:23.750 --> 00:13:27.990 And I like the ritualistic uh image of it all. 00:13:28.149 --> 00:13:29.990 Rituals are important when leaving the job. 00:13:30.069 --> 00:13:33.509 If you think about writing your goodbye email, returning your laptop. 00:13:33.750 --> 00:13:41.990 And uh I like how she sings, I'm done with my graceless heart, and I'm gonna cut it out and then restart. 00:13:42.470 --> 00:13:46.389 And uh, quitting can be and often should be dramatic. 00:13:46.549 --> 00:13:48.470 So go girl, go Florence. 00:13:48.629 --> 00:13:51.909 It's always darker before the dawn, as she says. 00:13:53.110 --> 00:13:54.230 That is perfect. 00:13:54.389 --> 00:13:56.389 Um all right, track five. 00:13:56.470 --> 00:14:00.629 This is Good Riddens, Parentheses, Time of Your Life by Green Day. 00:14:00.949 --> 00:14:01.590 Yes. 00:14:02.149 --> 00:14:16.470 So this was a bitter, angry breakup song in theory, and uh it turned out to be a surprisingly sweet farewell song, and uh, it's really the anthem of the Bearsweet ending. 00:14:16.870 --> 00:14:25.350 And um I like placing this song in this playlist because when we quit a job, sometimes we we feel you know self-important. 00:14:25.829 --> 00:14:30.709 Oh, they will see without me how things will shake out. 00:14:31.029 --> 00:14:34.230 But it's good to remind ourselves, good riddance. 00:14:34.629 --> 00:14:36.949 We're not that important, you know. 00:14:37.189 --> 00:14:43.350 Uh I'm sure corporate America will be fine without you, without me, and they will survive. 00:14:43.429 --> 00:14:46.870 But hey, at least you've got a great song out of it. 00:14:47.189 --> 00:14:57.269 And uh, you know, it's also a very vulnerable song for a vulnerable moment, one that you would not expect from a punk rock band, and it works. 00:14:58.230 --> 00:15:00.069 Yeah, you're you're exactly right. 00:15:00.149 --> 00:15:18.149 We've talked about this one before uh on one of our mixes at some point, but just how the lyrics are misinterpreted, because you're right, it is a breakup song and it's supposed to be kind of bitter, but people have taken it to be this sort of, you know, anthem, like people at graduation time every year like sing this song, like, I hope you had the time of your life. 00:15:18.230 --> 00:15:24.870 It's this positive sort of goodbye message when it's like, well, it's not what he intended exactly, but but you're right. 00:15:24.949 --> 00:15:26.230 I like I like how you put that. 00:15:26.309 --> 00:15:38.870 Now, how often when you're talking to leaders, do you kind of have to overcome that notion that I don't know, like I feel like some people stay in the job that they're in because they feel bad leaving. 00:15:39.029 --> 00:15:41.429 That that, oh, what are they gonna do without me? 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--> 00:15:43.429 Who's gonna send out the report on Friday? 00:15:43.590 --> 00:15:45.350 I always send out that report, right? 00:15:45.509 --> 00:15:50.870 Like, did do people have to overcome that story of, like you said, self-importance? 00:15:52.149 --> 00:15:54.629 Yes, it happens all the time. 00:15:55.029 --> 00:15:59.750 We always give ourselves excuses not to make the leap. 00:15:59.990 --> 00:16:06.389 Uh, what I normally do with my clients is a little bit of uh perspective taking. 00:16:06.549 --> 00:16:12.470 And some of the exercises that I love doing is think about your 17-year-old self. 00:16:12.629 --> 00:16:13.909 What would they tell you to do? 00:16:14.069 --> 00:16:19.750 Or your 80-year-old self, what will they remember about this time in your life? 00:16:20.069 --> 00:16:27.590 And you right now, what would you want to accomplish two, three, five years from today? 00:16:27.750 --> 00:16:44.789 If you actually start taking this longer-term perspective, then the idea of that report that you're attaching your identity to becomes so trivial that you might find the courage to take the leap. 00:16:45.590 --> 00:16:53.029 Uh yeah, that's that I love the perspective of the two ages because I think about how boring a 17-year-old would find that. 00:16:53.110 --> 00:16:58.629 And then the 80-year-old would just kind of minimize it with whatever other life has happened. 00:16:58.870 --> 00:17:05.829 And and you're right, those two perspectives in your head would would absolutely I'm thinking about that now, even just with recording this show. 00:17:05.910 --> 00:17:08.230 I'm like, what was my 17-year-old self saying? 00:17:08.309 --> 00:17:10.069 And what would my that is great. 00:17:10.150 --> 00:17:11.110 No, I like that. 00:17:11.350 --> 00:17:17.509 Yeah, sometimes we are so close to our problems that they look insurmountable. 00:17:17.910 --> 00:17:20.789 And uh, a little perspective goes a long way. 00:17:21.269 --> 00:17:22.789 Track six coming out here. 00:17:22.950 --> 00:17:25.430 This is Break My Soul by Beyoncé. 00:17:25.750 --> 00:17:32.150 Yes, this is the announcement, you know, and uh so the context for the song is essential. 00:17:32.470 --> 00:17:35.670 So let's go back to the year 2022. 00:17:35.990 --> 00:17:47.350 Uh, so this was the first single from Renaissance, and uh, it was the summer, it was the height of the great resignation with millions of Americans quitting their jobs. 00:17:47.670 --> 00:17:54.310 And uh this is really the song that nobody asked for, but everybody needed. 00:17:54.630 --> 00:18:03.750 And uh uh really the line, I just fell in love, I just quit my job, and now she's out dancing because it's time to celebrate. 00:18:04.150 --> 00:18:08.070 And um I love the line, You Won't Break My Soul. 00:18:08.230 --> 00:18:16.310 To me, it's a line that that she directs at LinkedIn that always tries to make us believe that it's not the right time to quit. 00:18:16.550 --> 00:18:19.509 No, LinkedIn,

you won't break my soul. 00:18:22.870 --> 00:18:23.990 That's so true. 00:18:24.150 --> 00:18:24.950 That is so true. 00:18:25.030 --> 00:18:34.230 Yeah, there's all those reports where it's like, well, good luck finding a job if you leave this one, or all these businesses fail when they start on their own and all these other things. 00:18:34.310 --> 00:18:35.350 But yeah, you're right. 00:18:35.509 --> 00:18:41.430 I mean, it it it evokes kind of what um we talked about with human and the killers. 00:18:41.670 --> 00:18:48.070 It's like you you become kind of what your job is, and in a sense, that breaks your soul, right? 00:18:48.230 --> 00:18:50.870 Like you kind of forget who you are, you get lost in it. 00:18:51.110 --> 00:18:54.870 And Beyoncé's there to remind you like you can't break my soul, right? 00:18:55.030 --> 00:19:02.070 Like I'm I'm still a human being, a unique being that doesn't necessarily need this job, or or vice versa. 00:19:02.230 --> 00:19:04.310 Like I can survive in some other way. 00:19:04.710 --> 00:19:17.190 And this is even more powerful, coming from one of the hardest workers in the entertainment industry, she's basically giving all of us permission to question our place in the workforce. 00:19:17.269 --> 00:19:19.110 She's basically a union leader. 00:19:19.269 --> 00:19:27.269 Uh, she embraced hustle culture, and she knows that even hustle culture is overdue for its own renaissance. 00:19:28.150 --> 00:19:28.710 I love it. 00:19:28.870 --> 00:19:29.350 I love it. 00:19:29.509 --> 00:19:30.790 Uh, track seven. 00:19:30.950 --> 00:19:34.550 This is Flashdance, What a Feeling by Irene Kara. 00:19:35.269 --> 00:19:37.990 So let's go back to the to the 80s. 00:19:38.150 --> 00:19:43.990 So this song gets your body moving uh before your mind can really catch up. 00:19:44.230 --> 00:19:52.310 And uh so the movie that this song scores is about, you know, a steel welder who auditions to become a professional dancer. 00:19:52.470 --> 00:19:56.870 It's basically all in there, all in the movie. 00:19:57.110 --> 00:20:11.350 She's uh doing physical labor that she didn't quite choose in a body that she knows is capable of something else, and uh she has to fight the system and her own belief system uh to get there. 00:20:11.670 --> 00:20:24.790 The song won an Oscar for for best song, and uh it is about the moment of commitment, and and she really wins the moment that she finally decides to be herself. 00:20:25.030 --> 00:20:33.110 And uh I also like, you know, it sounds very cheesy, but take your passion and make it happen is self-help before there was a war for it. 00:20:33.750 --> 00:20:37.590 Yeah, this this song and and the movie itself, right? 00:20:37.670 --> 00:20:41.110 Because you you mentioned hustle culture talking about Beyonce. 00:20:41.350 --> 00:20:47.750 I mean, but you know, in this movie, she's going from job to job, you know, she's she's a welder, right? 00:20:47.830 --> 00:20:50.070 Like, and then at night

she's a dancer. 00:20:50.310 --> 00:20:57.750 Like what a what an odd combination, especially for a female in the 80s, but but she's doing it to just kind of make this happen. 00:20:57.990 --> 00:20:59.830 And uh, no, you're exactly right. 00:20:59.990 --> 00:21:07.509 I mean, that this is uh this is the perfect song for that, and also kind of a uh an underrated movie for sort of inspiration, right? 00:21:07.670 --> 00:21:13.590 I don't think people think of this movie immediately, but it's almost like she's like a female Rocky in some way, right? 00:21:13.670 --> 00:21:15.750 With the way she's training and working hard. 00:21:16.070 --> 00:21:18.470 That is a good point, yes. 00:21:18.710 --> 00:21:27.350 And the other fun fact about this song is that Irene Kara had to fight for the writing credit and the publishing rights. 00:21:27.590 --> 00:21:33.430 So she was actually involved in the ears of legal battle with her record label over royalties. 00:21:33.509 --> 00:21:42.790 So the woman singing about, you know, breaking out and liberation was fighting for her own liberation, which is fascinating. 00:21:43.910 --> 00:21:45.269 All right, track eight. 00:21:45.430 --> 00:21:48.150 This is Feeling Good by Nina Simone. 00:21:48.630 --> 00:21:52.230 So this is really the song about the morning after. 00:21:52.470 --> 00:21:54.230 The morning after you quit your job. 00:21:54.470 --> 00:21:55.910 There's a new world. 00:21:56.070 --> 00:22:09.350 It's the perfect song to listen to on day one when you don't have an alarm or a place to go, and the birds are flying high, the sun in the sky, the breeze drifting on by. 00:22:09.830 --> 00:22:13.190 It's really the first coffee that you make at 9 a.m. 00:22:13.350 --> 00:22:15.509 on a Tuesday for no one but yourself. 00:22:15.670 --> 00:22:20.630 It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life, and I'm feeling good. 00:22:21.750 --> 00:22:26.630 This is such a classic song, and there's been, I don't know, a dozen different versions of it. 00:22:26.790 --> 00:22:27.990 Uh, this is a great one. 00:22:28.070 --> 00:22:29.190 She's got a great voice. 00:22:29.350 --> 00:22:31.670 I think uh so that that works really well. 00:22:31.750 --> 00:22:32.950 And I I love how you put that. 00:22:33.030 --> 00:22:34.070 It's the next day. 00:22:34.230 --> 00:22:36.390 Like, and now it's like, all right, you're waking up. 00:22:36.550 --> 00:22:37.910 Well, what what does it feel like? 00:22:37.990 --> 00:22:39.269 And it feels really good. 00:22:39.430 --> 00:22:44.070 So what What advice do you give people when it's like, all right, I've quit my job. 00:22:44.390 --> 00:22:46.310 The next day you're feeling good. 00:22:46.550 --> 00:22:54.950 Like, how long before you kind of shake that and not shake it, but just sort of snap back to now you gotta get going and chase your dream? 00:22:55.110 --> 00:22:58.230 Like, because there is a little bit of shift and there's work to be done. 00:22:58.550 --> 00:23:05.509 So,

so how long do you kind of advise people maybe to to celebrate before before they do kind of make that shift? 00:23:05.910 --> 00:23:10.950 I do think it's very important to take a beat, rest. 00:23:11.910 --> 00:23:18.870 Um you literally need to shed your your previous self before you can welcome the new one. 00:23:19.190 --> 00:23:23.750 So it's part of the hustle culture to never really stop. 00:23:24.150 --> 00:23:27.509 And some people quit on a Friday and start on a Monday. 00:23:27.830 --> 00:23:44.870 That's uh perfectly okay if you have to, but if you can the the space that you're giving yourself before jumping on to the next thing will actually replenish the energies that you need to fully commit to the next phase of your life. 00:23:45.430 --> 00:23:58.470 So travel if you can, and if not, just uh just take in the new dawn, the new day, the new life, at least for one day and why not one week. 00:23:59.910 --> 00:24:01.269 Alright, track nine. 00:24:01.350 --> 00:24:03.670 This is Dream On by Aerosmith. 00:24:04.310 --> 00:24:13.990 So I don't know if you knew that Steven Tyler wrote this song when he was 17, even before he uh wow was part of Aerosmith. 00:24:14.790 --> 00:24:21.430 And uh he had this beautiful sadness about whether he'd even make it. 00:24:21.670 --> 00:24:27.430 And uh I mean dream on, dream on, dream on is uh really bumper sticker material. 00:24:27.590 --> 00:24:39.269 But if you think that a 17-year-old, bro, every time I look in the mirror, all these lines on my face getting clearer, the past is gone, it's like, wait, how old are you? 00:24:41.269 --> 00:24:45.590 Yeah, that seems to be inspired by maybe a past life or something, right? 00:24:45.750 --> 00:24:51.590 Like if you believe in reincarnation, that that kid has to be an old soul to come up with that. 00:24:52.550 --> 00:24:58.230 But it's a powerful song because it's an accounting of what it costs to keep wanting something over a long time. 00:24:58.310 --> 00:25:11.590 And some people we get stuck on a job for longer than we should because it's not yet the right moment, it's not yet the right opportunity. 00:25:11.750 --> 00:25:13.910 And so we wait for the perfect moment. 00:25:14.150 --> 00:25:14.790 Guess what? 00:25:14.950 --> 00:25:18.950 There's no perfect moment, you just need to take it. 00:25:20.630 --> 00:25:23.750 Yeah, I mean, that I think that's kind of the hardest thing, right? 00:25:23.830 --> 00:25:26.470 Is so often people do look for that perfect spot. 00:25:26.630 --> 00:25:33.269 Like, how do you I mean, I don't know, I think about you know, Mel Robbins is famous for the you know, 5-4-3-2-1, right? 00:25:33.350 --> 00:25:34.950 And do it, you know, just go. 00:25:35.190 --> 00:25:43.269 So, I mean, what how do you get people sort of out of their own heads and get them to act and and take that leap? 00:25:44.470 --> 00:25:46.470 Yes, it depends on the person. 00:25:47.350 --> 00:25:52.230 I would always say, let's start with the minimal viable product. 00:25:52.310 --> 00:25:55.990 What's a small action that you can take towards this dream? 00:25:56.790 --> 00:26:03.430 What's the smallest step that you can take towards this life that you want to build for yourself? 00:26:03.590 --> 00:26:10.070 One that doesn't necessarily threaten your current lifestyle, your current job. 00:26:10.230 --> 00:26:18.070 What's one small action that will get you one inch closer to where you want to be one year from today? 00:26:19.190 --> 00:26:19.910 I like that. 00:26:19.990 --> 00:26:20.470 I like that. 00:26:20.550 --> 00:26:23.590 Just start and you know, build a little momentum. 00:26:24.310 --> 00:26:25.990 Um, all right, track 10. 00:26:26.310 --> 00:26:29.430 This is free, the acoustic version by Prince. 00:26:29.830 --> 00:26:33.110 Yes, I do highly recommend the acoustic version of the song. 00:26:33.350 --> 00:26:56.710 I believe Prince recorded it in 2016, and it actually came out last year, and the original is from 1982, and uh in the acoustic version he strips everything out the production, the layers, it's just the voice and a guitar, and what's left is a hymn to freedom. 00:26:57.110 --> 00:27:02.150 And really the arrangement is naked and makes it even more poignant. 00:27:02.470 --> 00:27:02.790 Uh-huh. 00:27:03.110 --> 00:27:09.750 Now the the song is about incarceration, something much more serious than quitting a job. 00:27:10.230 --> 00:27:17.590 But the line be glad that you are free, free to change your mind, free to go most anywhere anytime. 00:27:18.550 --> 00:27:22.870 There's others doing far worse than us, so be glad that you are free. 00:27:23.110 --> 00:27:29.430 Once you hear those words, it's hard to keep it contained in its original context. 00:27:29.750 --> 00:27:38.790 And you do appreciate a song that is about willpower and control over decisions, and frankly, it put things in perspective. 00:27:38.950 --> 00:27:48.630 You are free, and uh most of the decisions that we take on a daily basis may feel like life or death, but truly are about life and life. 00:27:49.350 --> 00:27:50.150 I like that. 00:27:50.390 --> 00:27:51.350 Life or life. 00:27:51.509 --> 00:27:54.550 Yeah, I mean, I I think uh I totally agree with all that. 00:27:54.710 --> 00:28:03.910 I think so often we we add weight to things that that are just aren't there, and and we can do so much more than we even realize, right? 00:28:04.070 --> 00:28:05.750 Even even something like we're doing now. 00:28:05.830 --> 00:28:18.310 Like when we started this podcast, you know, my my my co-hosts and I, we were just like, well, yeah, let's try to do one episode, and then one episode turned to two and then to ten, and we're about to hit 200. 00:28:18.390 --> 00:28:21.350 And it's like we we've been doing this for several years now. 00:28:21.590 --> 00:28:24.710 And um, you know, when people ask me, like, how do you get into that? 00:28:24.790 --> 00:28:26.950 It's like, well, we just we just kind

of started doing it. 00:28:27.110 --> 00:28:35.269 It's like they don't even realize it's almost like those studies where people don't even realize the the room they're trapped in, the door was unlocked the whole time. 00:28:35.590 --> 00:28:36.390 It's like it's that. 00:28:36.470 --> 00:28:40.470 It's like, no, you just do it, and and then it just kind of goes from there. 00:28:40.790 --> 00:28:42.470 Um, but I love that. 00:28:42.550 --> 00:28:47.830 And and Prince, as well as this next artist, I mean, both had work situations that they weren't happy with, right? 00:28:48.070 --> 00:28:57.509 Like they Prince famously battled with his uh recording label, and uh so did this next artist, because Track 11's You're on your own kid by Taylor Swift. 00:28:57.830 --> 00:28:58.470 Yes. 00:28:59.030 --> 00:29:08.790 So I am not a Swifty, but this song is perfect for this playlist, and uh let me tell you why. 00:29:09.110 --> 00:29:29.670 I coach a lot of consultants, and this is the perfect track for people that have a demanding job that pays a lot, but also asks for a lot, and uh and sometimes you just need to consider alternatives, consider transitioning out of consulting. 00:29:30.070 --> 00:29:34.950 Musically, you have these synths that come alive halfway through the song. 00:29:35.110 --> 00:29:44.310 It's basically uh the buzz in your head when you realize that something is off and slowly gets louder. 00:29:44.550 --> 00:29:49.030 It's uh slightly anxious arrangement, slightly hopeful. 00:29:49.269 --> 00:29:53.990 And basically, these scenes narrate this change of consciousness that you're going through. 00:29:54.230 --> 00:29:58.630 Uh she does excellent work uh in general with breakup songs. 00:29:58.870 --> 00:30:05.350 This one is not about a man, it's about growth, and the lyrics are powerful. 00:30:05.590 --> 00:30:13.269 She sings from sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes because seasons all go fast when you're in consulting. 00:30:13.509 --> 00:30:20.950 And she sings, I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this, which is something that you know many consultants can relate to. 00:30:21.269 --> 00:30:26.550 I hosted parties and starved my body because it's work hard, play, hard mentality. 00:30:26.790 --> 00:30:40.470 Uh, the jokes weren't funny, and I took my money, which is very Jack Antonov line, and it's the social performance that you're asked to do, and the professional performance that uh you need to deliver on. 00:30:40.950 --> 00:30:51.750 And uh I like that she says, I saw some things that can take away, because no matter at what point you are in the letter, you leave, but there's so much that you have learned that you can take with you. 00:30:52.230 --> 00:31:01.509 And uh and then she she in the apex of the song, she says, because there were pages turn and the bridges burn, everything you lose is a step you take. 00:31:01.590 --> 00:31:05.509 So take the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. 00:31:05.670 --> 00:31:08.230 You've got no reason to be afraid, you're on your own kid. 00:31:08.310 --> 00:31:09.509 You always have been. 00:31:09.830 --> 00:31:14.790 Because you are alone as you approach the next thing, and that's okay. 00:31:16.150 --> 00:31:18.070 I love yeah, I mean, that's great. 00:31:18.230 --> 00:31:20.230 Like I I think you're 100% right. 00:31:20.390 --> 00:31:22.550 I love the interpretation of the song. 00:31:22.710 --> 00:31:24.070 Um, I'm kind of with you. 00:31:24.150 --> 00:31:28.070 I I'm not necessarily a Swifty, but I do appreciate her songwriting. 00:31:28.230 --> 00:31:33.269 Um, I also have a 13-year-old daughter, so I mean, I have to uh you know appreciate Taylor Swift. 00:31:33.350 --> 00:31:39.110 I I hear enough of it around the house, but um, but yeah, I I completely agree. 00:31:39.269 --> 00:31:47.110 I think people uh I kind of go back to what I just said about like kind of having the power in your own hands, and I think it's this message of you are on your own, right? 00:31:47.190 --> 00:31:51.830 And and that may, like to like you said, it may seem lonely, but but in some ways it's not. 00:31:51.910 --> 00:31:53.830 It's actually can be empowering as well. 00:31:54.230 --> 00:31:55.910 That's a beautiful way of framing it. 00:31:55.990 --> 00:32:02.550 The fact that, yeah, you're on you're on your own, that means that you have control, and isn't that powerful? 00:32:02.950 --> 00:32:03.590 Yes. 00:32:04.470 --> 00:32:11.590 Well, after all this reflection, after you've walked away from this job, track 12, ready to start, arcade fire. 00:32:11.910 --> 00:32:12.550 Yes. 00:32:12.870 --> 00:32:16.390 So this is literally about what's next. 00:32:16.630 --> 00:32:19.910 A door is closing and a new one is opening. 00:32:20.230 --> 00:32:34.550 So Arcade Fire, they wrote this song as they were navigating their own transition from beloved indie band to something bigger and more commercially, let's say, exposed with the suburbs. 00:32:34.950 --> 00:32:44.230 And uh, you know, they sing about the the businessmen that drink their blood, and the kids in art school said they would. 00:32:44.630 --> 00:32:54.470 Uh, because uh, you know, it's a music industry and uh eat or get eaten, and people warn them that selling out was inevitable. 00:32:54.630 --> 00:32:59.590 Uh, but this song is about, you know what, you were right, and I'm still gonna do it. 00:33:00.070 --> 00:33:11.190 And uh the lyrics that I like the most from from this song are if I was scared, I would, if I was bored, you know I would, and if I was pure, you know I would. 00:33:11.350 --> 00:33:12.630 Now I'm ready to start. 00:33:12.790 --> 00:33:26.630 My personal interpretation of it all is really this is the most immediate description of why people often don't quit out of fear, out of comfort, out of ooh, I don't know if it's uh the pure choice. 00:33:27.110 --> 00:33:31.269 And uh the song doesn't say that those things are fake. 00:33:31.509 --> 00:33:34.870 It says, I know all that, and I'm still gonna do it. 00:33:34.950 --> 00:33:36.470 I'm still gonna start. 00:33:36.710 --> 00:33:47.750 And it's not necessarily a happy ending, it doesn't sound like a happy ending, but it's the beginning of the unknown, and uh and you just need to step through that door. 00:33:48.950 --> 00:33:55.350 Yeah, and I love in the song there's just certain things that are clearly out of their control, right? 00:33:55.509 --> 00:34:09.670 And and it's like you have to kind of like you just said, it's like you have to either accept those or not, I don't and just kind of navigate them because you know there's there's people you can't control, there are factors you can't control. 00:34:09.829 --> 00:34:13.909 The only thing you can control is like what path do you want to take going forward? 00:34:14.230 --> 00:34:19.989 And um, yeah, I mean, I just I just love uh love this song for kind of pushing that forward. 00:34:20.070 --> 00:34:22.309 I think that I think that makes a lot of sense. 00:34:22.630 --> 00:34:23.269 Yeah. 00:34:23.829 --> 00:34:26.070 Um, well, Eduardo, this was great. 00:34:26.230 --> 00:34:28.469 I mean, this was such a great, super awesome mix. 00:34:28.630 --> 00:34:31.590 Thanks for coming to the show to share about loud quitting. 00:34:31.750 --> 00:34:36.070 Um, I think this was uh great and hopefully very inspirational to the people out there. 00:34:36.230 --> 00:34:43.030 Now tell everyone where they can find out more about you and maybe uh bring you in to coach them up a little bit. 00:34:43.509 --> 00:34:44.469 Absolutely. 00:34:44.710 --> 00:35:07.030 Well, you can find me on my website, eduardosavi.com, and uh you can read all my essays about pop culture and how the stories that we see on TV and on the screen and at the stadium translate to our own sense of leadership on uh the uncoachables.substack.com. 00:35:07.829 --> 00:35:08.309 Excellent. 00:35:08.470 --> 00:35:11.910 And we will include links to both of those in the show notes. 00:35:11.990 --> 00:35:13.510 So definitely go check that out. 00:35:13.670 --> 00:35:18.550 And go ahead and make your own super awesome mix at my.superawesomix.com. 00:35:18.710 --> 00:35:24.389 Again, it is free, and um, you can go do that and share it on any streaming platform. 00:35:24.630 --> 00:35:30.470 So I've got more mixtapes to come up with and more guests to interview, so I'll get to work on that. 00:35:30.550 --> 00:35:33.750 So for Eduardo, this is Matt, and we'll see you next time.