The Peluso Presents Podcast

Have you ever looked at the story of your life?  Is it what you thought it would be?  How would you want to change this story?  In this episode I look at a friends life and rewrite their story for them.  When you listen to both versions of this story you can decide which one is better.  

Have you ever wasted time on purpose?  Should you?  This weeks episode discusses the importance of the time we have and why we should never waste it. 

It's not boyfriend/girlfriend anymore.  Everyone has a "partner".  But no matter what you call it, the significant other in someone's life has three different and very important roles to fill.  This show is all about those three roles. 

Often we fall into thinking like a human being when things fall apart at work.  Unfortunately this normal response isn't at all helpful.  To get through our professional lives, we have to think like managers, good managers.  On the positive side, if we learn to do this, there will be less isues to deal with. 

My Aunt Josie laughed at me when I tried to tell her about my five year plan.  She told me that nothing ever happens the way we plan.  She was right, life always changes your plan.  When that happens you have to figure out what to do...

Starting at a new job is always stressful.  One of the reasons why it's so stressful is that organizatiosn don't do onboarding well as a rule.  Sometimes this is incompetence, and somtimes, sadly, it's by design. 

Here it is, our annual "Top 5" episode where we highlight five really amazing stories from the prior year.  If you like these articles, check out the rest from 2023 and other years.   - Also thanks so much to all those who supported us in 2023, we appreciate it!!

Often, some major negative event will become the only news story you see everywhere and every media oulet jumps on board.  Trying to get away from this negativity can be next to impossible.  How can you do it?  That's covered in today's show.

Retirement used to mean flipping a switch to go from working to being completely financially independent, even if modestly, and not working at all.  Today there is an intermediate step to this process, it's Semi-Retirement.

The Community System includes elected positions, non-profits, businesses and every other type of organization that helps a community thrive.  Taking part today is very different than years past in that the risk is much greater.  The question becomes, should you take part in this system?  That's the topic explored in this show.

It's hard to get an unbiased sense of where we stand compared to others.  This show goes into one technique my brother used as child and one technique I use today.  In both cases, they helped us better understand the scope of the world and our place in it.  

The Law of Convenience is almost akin to a law of physics or nature that you can almost never get around.  Here is another example of how I ultimately walked away from something important to me, somethign I worked hard at, simply because of convenience was working against me. 

Some people spend a large part of their lives working in a job that their personality simply isn't a good fit for.  Yet, emotions like fear or career inertia keep them in that same type of job.  The first step out of that rut is to see that you aren't a good fit for the job you are doing.

There are so many things in life we can do, and sadly, life is finite.  So we can't get it all done, but we can certainly do a bunch.  The key is to turn "someday" into "now"!

Something unique happened during the pandemic.  Many women went from working and paying daycare, to being stay at home mom's and they realized, on the whole, their life got better.  Now Corporate America wants them back on the job.  Can they be wooed back?

I've teleworked since before there was the word 'telework'.  Now it's both a blessing and a curse to employers and employees alike.  Here on some of my thoughts on the topic. 

In this final show on the big difference in what businesses want out of their employees and what they want out of their cusotmers we look at the role of Government.  Can government help with this conflict, or is any government involvement an issue?

There is a big difference in what businesses want out of their employees and what they want out of their cusotmers.  This is the second of three shows on this major conflict.  Today's show looks at if a Flexible Lablor Market can be good for the employee?

There is a big difference in what businesses want out of their employees and what they want out of their cusotmers. Unfortuantely, usually their customers are employees of some business. This is the first of three shows on this major conflict between the desire on the part of business for Flexible Labor Markets, yet also a desire fo r inflexible billing when they charge their customers!

When writing, often I create vignettes.  They aren't anything near my normal 3-5 page article, but they have a strong point to make.  This show includes three mini-articles put together as one long article.

Making new friends is a critical skill to get through life healthy and happy.  There are times when we need to make new friends more than others, but we should always be fostering new friendships wherever possible. 

What happens when you are in the rare position of having a good stable job, yet a career advancement becomes a possiblity? Do you take the new job?  Do you stay where you are at?

Have you ever thought "Where did the day go?" on a day where you didn't have anything planned? And then got mad at yourself for wasting the day?  That's what this espisode is all about!

Their are a bunch of issues that only single people have when they are the parent of an only child.  What are these problems and can this Single Single Syndrome be cured?  Listen to find out!

Often businesses, especially those in the luxury space, thrive on quality.  Then the suits and bean counters get involved, and little by little, slowly but surely, qualiety dies a corporate death!