Jason Pfeiffer
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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your own private version of the moth and like people aren't there for your stories so they don't want it any longer than necessary but like you know if you tell a story and then as soon as the last person shows up and the meeting is supposed to begin like wrap your story up and move into the thing everyone will love you for it
Yeah. You know, I mean, another way you could solve this for people is put interesting things in your background, and then people will ask about them.
Like a money roll, yes. Nicole's got a giant money roll behind her, like a physical statue of money. But then you need something amusing to say about it. And I found this to be the case often when I go and call somebody and I was like, oh, I like your wall of hats. And then they'll be like, oh, thank you. And then they'll start telling me about the hats and it fills whatever time is necessary.
I usually have, depending on the angle that I'm in my room, I either have a large old timey typewriter behind me, which was my grandma's. And so I have a whole couple of things to say about that. Or there are some guitars hanging on the wall that people ask me about. And then I say some things about that. So Have something that starts a conversation. People will ask about it.
But now it is your duty to have some at least mildly engaging thing to say about it that can last 60 to 120 seconds.
What percentage of time when you are on a Zoom call, for example, you listening at home, what you don't see is that we are recording. We're all in a Zoom together right now, me.
Nicole's looking at herself and has checked her phone a couple of times. But we're also recording locally, which is why the audio quality is better. Anyway, point is, on this call or on regular calls, what percentage of the time have you spent looking at yourself? Morgan, how much time have you spent looking at yourself instead of me and Nicole on this call?
I was going to go a little higher for myself, like maybe a third.
Oh, yeah, that's this is at the end. Right. So there's a there is a just for context. There is a we're going to take another episode after this one. There is a guest for that episode. That person is in the waiting room waiting for us. But also Morgan had created a list of questions for this episode. And the shrimping was at the end. What the hell is shrimping?
Explain. Yeah, describe that.
Right, so this is, it is 95% background. It's just like your head at a terrible angle, which is what it always is. And just like as a little nub in the bottom middle of the, everybody has seen that.
100%.
Oh, really? I forgot about the white cord.
Right. Yes. Yeah. Nicole is policing what is happening in my... But yes, that is completely... You know, if you want to appear better to people in meetings and probably even be taken more seriously, two things... improve the video and improve the audio. And both are very, very easy. I will tell you what I have. Again, I'm not getting paid anything for this. I have a Logitech Brio.
It is a 4K camera. It's just it just attaches to sort of sits on top of my laptop. You plug it in. Instant giant improvement in video quality. It also handles lighting better. So like even if I'm in a semi dark room, it looks better. And then I have for like important meetings that I take, I have a lav, which is just the kind of little microphone that clips to your clothing.
And it plugs directly into my MacBook. It's called a Clip 2, Clip 2 something. And it is great. It's so easy and it makes my audio much better and you get taken more seriously. So I think that's very important.
Help Wanted is a production of Money News Network. Help Wanted is hosted by me, Jason Pfeiffer.
Oh, I didn't sign up for that.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · Defining FSAs & HSAs and How To Make Them Work For You · 11 Nov 2024
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Nicole, I'm going to rant to you, and you can feel free to use this on the show if you think that it would make for a good episode subject, or not, or just delete it. But I'm going to rant to you anyway. Why am I supposed to use an HSA, health savings account? My employer has these account offerings where I can put a certain amount of money in for health and for childcare and for transit.
And they're like arbitrary, random amounts of money, right? It's like $5,600 and something and some smaller amount, whatever it is. And so I got to deal with the small amount of money. And then it doesn't roll over after a year. So I have to use it during the year. And there's like one more account that I have to find.
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