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welcome to joy economics creating better ways to live work and play with your
host Johnny Godwin joy economics we're creating better ways to live work and
play so what is joy economics joy economics is our challenge to corporate
America to rethink the way that we work it is our opportunity to recognize and
invite people to bring their whole selves to work by helping people to
understand who they are in how we can all work together to create more joy at
work and thereby create the very wealth in our lives and the success that we're
longing for so I hope that you'll enjoy today's segment we are here with Amanda
Hammett and I love her she is also known affectionately as the millennial
translator so yes today we are talking about the M word Millennials and so I
want to welcome Amanda today well thank you very much for having me thank you
and we're going to just jump right in I want to read a whole bio on you and I
will give a little bit of upfront background but it's just best when you
take the mic and jump in and tell your own story so that is exactly what we
intend to do but first I want to kind of set the stage for everyone listening and
talk a little bit specifically about Millennials I know wherever I go
whenever I'm at work functions we met at a work function at a conference in Vegas
and landed on the couch and just deeply fell into this conversation about
Millennials and people are struggling with the Millennials and who are the
Millennials and how do we in age with Millennials and for God's sake
I'm like Millennials are people just like us I'm Generation X and I remember
coming out of school in the 90s and people saying what are we gonna do with
those Gen Xers they're slackers and we turned out all right so I love
everything about what you're doing I think studies show and from what we know
about this millennial generation they crave ways to work better ways to be
able to honor all sides of who they are by working living and playing and in
seeking opportunities to do so and so this is an opportunity for us of the Gen
X and baby boomer variety to really open our minds and ideas to the ways that we
can all work and play better together and so I know you have the answers for
us today in addition to that you have successfully run multi-million dollar
companies and you are the co-author of a book the Millennial manager bridge
millennial engagement development and retention and you have intimately
connected with more than a hundred thousand young people at more than eight
hundred events so you are the expert this is where I absolutely shut up and
pass the mic to you Amanda thank you for joining us today
and please please please honor us with your amazing story of how you became the
Millennial translator well Jonny it's a it's a long not at all linear story at
all it was a lot of roundabouts and and turns and stops all along the way but I
think that you know what you're trying to do for corporate America is really
important and it really plays well with Millennials because they are very much
looking for ways to to play well and and to have fun at work and to connect all
parts of who they are and so this is this is just fantastic but as far as my
story is concerned I started and ran to multi-million dollar businesses before I
was 26 years old but even before becoming an entrepreneur right out of
college I started my very first business at 7
I was a loan shark to my older brother and I had my father as my as my heavy so
to speak so when he didn't pay up on those exorbitant interest rates that I
charged him my father stepped in and said you owe your sister
so that was my very first foray into entrepreneurship but you know going out
of college I realized that I had a lot to give and there was a lot of different
skills that I had and that I was picking up along the way and I felt very
contained in this one position so I looked for a way to get out and be able
to branch out and use everything that first those first couple businesses I
started were not ideal they were actually made me a lot of money but they
made me very unhappy and there was a fear there from stepping away from that
money because money you know in our society and in our culture was so
important and here I was I was 26 years old and I was my company was bringing in
millions of dollars a year millions of dollars a year and at 26 I'm a kid you
know and I mean ridiculous ridiculous and so I for years and years every year
I said okay this year I'm gonna make more money but this year I'm actually
gonna make a difference for someone else and every year it didn't happen I kept
on and then about nine years go by and someone ended up breaching a pretty
major contract with my company and it sent everything at this tailspin my
company ended up losing everything I ended up losing everything and I I was
sitting at the bottom of this multi-million dollar debt and it was
scary and so I decided you know what I got to pick myself up I got to brush
myself off and I got to move on and that's what I did but this time I had a
very different focus my focus was not money my focus was what's gonna make me
happy and what am I gonna do to help other people that was what was missing I
felt like the first time so I did it and I started going out and
just helping people and talking and and sharing my story and bits and pieces and
then it started where organizations like youth organizations started asking hey
can you come and tell our kids about your story your whole story and and so I
started going around and sharing it and one thing led to another and before I
know it I am standing on a stage in front of 4,000 Millennials telling my
story from this incredibly vulnerable place and so I started I gave over 800
speeches to millennial audiences in a five-year span of time it was crazy I
you know a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand kids sat in my studio
or in my audience and I was able to connect with them in a way that was very
vulnerable and they they got it and they understood it and so I did that for
about five years exclusively I was on the road constantly all over North
America and then I have a son and are sitting at a baseball practice one day
with my little guy and this dad comes up and sits down next to me and he is
complaining about these Millennials in the office they're just terrible and I
just kind of chuckled and I was like yeah you know I traveled you know North
America and I talked to this generation I I get it I know what you're talking
about but I I get why they do what they do and he's like oh well what should I
do about this so I gave him some advice and all right and he took it to heart
two days later he comes back to the ball field sits down next to me in the
bleachers and was like that was fantastic and it worked what do you
think about this and then within two weeks apparently he told every parent
around because I had a rotating line through the bleachers of people coming
in and asking work questions how do I deal with this younger generation at
work how do I deal with my you know fresh out of college millennial kid and
and I was just doling out advice after a piece of advice after a piece of advice
and then I was like all right vice time is over at the ball field it's it's time
to make this an actual business so well thank you so much Amanda I'm so
intrigued by your story you hit on some amazing points and I want to unpack some
things and really kind of dig a little bit deeper beneath the surface you you
mentioned having it all and then essentially losing it all you talked
about finding yourself at the bottom of the multi-million dollar businesses and
that very thing that you were pursuing you attained that you had it it it did
not produce the joy you thought it would produce and you lost it all how how did
you recover from that feeling of loss well Johnny I I've been blessed and
cursed with a constructive nature my entire life and in this situation it was
the thing that kick-started my mind again it said you know what this is not
going to beat me I'm gonna be it and so it was just it was just like a light
switch went off in my head I remember very specifically sitting in my closet
on the floor crying and then just all of a sudden I woke up from whatever fog I
had been in and it was over and it was I was like I'm moving forward today yeah
so you made an intentional decision in the midst of the desperation and I know
in my own journey owning a fast growing business the the sadness that can also
be in the midst of success and failure a lot of times is the very reason why
people are get stuck and are afraid to move forward so we're gonna take a quick
break and I want to when we come back talk
about rising that moment when that light bulb went off and you the competitive
nature that was the gift in action at that point propelled you forward and
gave you the courage to stand back up and
and now back to joy economics creating better ways to live work and play with
your host Shani Godwin alright we are back today with Amanda Hammett the
millennial translator I love that it reminds me of the dog so the Millennial
translator and she is talking to us today about her journey to becoming the
Millennial translator before we took a break he shared with us how you had it
all you had the American dream right in your hands and lost it all and found
yourself in despair at the bottom of two failed multi-million dollar businesses
and found the resolve to pick yourself up have that magical moment in the
closet where it all stamped and confidence kicked in and you began to
rise so I want to talk about that moment a little bit more a lot of people get
stuck at work in jobs that they hate a lot of people are afraid to take chances
because of the security that's been created by this stuff and these things
that we have and it creates a lot of depression and illness and things in us
that make us ultimately unhappy and so when we look at statistics that say
things such as three hundred and sixty billion dollars was lost last year in
corporate America because of productivity losses that shows up in
things like our health and our wellness and I want to talk about the moment that
clicked for you in that closet that a I can beat this and there was a reason and
purpose in this and how did you push past the fear I think it's hard enough
to start a business it truly is just to get the courage to do
that to do it and and have it not work out how you thought and then to be able
to stand up and go in another direction that you felt would lead you to joy how
how did you push past that fear I think that in that moment I mean honestly I
was I was I've been in such a haze for a while and that moment in particular just
that resilience really I mean that is something that I think is the most
important thing any parent anybody should look to develop is that is
resilience and that ability to bounce back yes I had my little pity party I
will not lie I'm gonna be even more honest until you there was probably two
weeks where I spent in my pajamas the same pair without a shower for two weeks
it was not pretty but sitting in that closet that day and just crying and I
was just like I'm tired of crying about this I am tired of this feeling of
despair this feeling of helplessness and I think that that's where a lot of
people sometimes go is they feel like they have no control they feel like they
have no they just they feel helpless and I was like I can't live like this I
can't let someone else dictate for me how my life is going to go from here and
I can't let this moment this failed business this international news story I
can't let this dictate the rest of my life this cannot be what shows up on my
Wikipedia page so and that was a real turning point for me I remember very
specifically having a conversation with my husband and we were in it together we
were business partners and I said bless his heart bless his heart he was still
he came into the closet and I was like where this isn't over this is Dawne
we're like moving past it and he was like yeah he knows that when I get very
like you know and mad and and I channeled that anger towards where I'm
going next he knows all right step back she's got it
he knows to take you know to take over to just let me take over at that point I
so I love that because I call that I've lived that moment and I call that your
snatch back your life moment oh that's good it is this is I'm gonna snatch my
life back I'm not gonna let this thing conquer me and it sounds like you use
the the negative positive emotions because I actually don't believe any
emotion is bad or good it's just how we use them you use the good from the fear
the shame the guilt the despair and you channeled it the anger into something
positive and so you found joy it sounds like in purpose and beginning to speak
to Millennials so why why Millennials like what made you go or start to move
in that direction or how did the the world and universe guide you down this
path to becoming the millennial translator
well Shaunie that's actually a really good question because I be honest with
you if if I if you would talk to me at 16 17 25 I would have and said this is
what you're gonna do I would have said no mm-hmm but I ended up after
everything happened I ended up having to go out and get a job and the economy was
really bad at the time and the only job that was willing to hire me was going
out and doing community relations and I would go my job was to go out and speak
in high schools and so I was giving seven speeches a day to high school
students and every day like four or five days a week all through the school year
and from there I just kind of started mixing in the story and my story and how
it relates to to the world at large and that's where eventually you know
organizations started coming to mean like hey I heard this about you can you
come in and talk about that and that's how everything really got started and I
really feel like I was guided to be exactly where I needed to be at the
right moment I really whether you believe in God or or the universe
or just your higher-self there was something at work there that took me
from the bottom of this well to where I needed to be and at the exact right
moment went when I was ready and receptive to it but from there it just
it just spun out from there and it was it was a wonderful thing to go from
being trapped by my own success to having this freeing time where I was
able to give freely of my gifts and my strengths and see how that those gifts
and strengths affected positively other people and you know I'm considered an
older millennial I'm on the hold end of the millennial generation and so I feel
like you know I was in a sense like a big sister or an aunt the cool aunt that
would tell it like it is to two younger Millennials but at the same time I had
all this business experience that made me made corporations and companies able
to see me as okay she's safe she's not scared these scary Millennials we
understand her she understands us and and then it was just sort of a meshing
from there right and it's amazing because again it's something that's very
hard to articulate and I think you've done a beautiful job of kind of this
this journey this magical thing that happens I like to call it the the walk
of faith when you choose to kind of step out and push against fear and go toward
that thing that's calling you and pulling you you mentioned kind of how
your gifts all kind of came into view and shape and aligned and started making
things as these magical things that looked like magic from the outside
possible and I think when you arrive at the stage that you are it's very clear
where the gifts what the gifts are and where they came from I want you if you
don't mind to share with us what have you learned about yourself what are
those innate gifts that you and only you have that's made it possible and set the
stage for you to be in the space you are working with Millennials helping bridge
the gap between corporate America in this generation that in the future will
be comprising 75% of the workforce yes so my entire
life I there's been a few gifts that you know hide inside of course is 20/20 that
have been consistently showing up throughout my life one of them and this
is the most obvious one now it hasn't always been but the most obvious one is
that I've always been able to relate to people of other generations my entire
life whether it was grandparents and their friends or you know people that
were younger than me my own age it didn't matter I was able to always been
able to bridge that gap it was not a skill I was taught in school obviously
but it was something that was there then moving on a little bit later when I
actually went to high school I was the president and the student body and you
know you have to get up you have to give a speech and all this other stuff but
then there's speaking you know public speaking throughout the year that I was
asked to do I was not particularly the most gifted speaker when we gave
presentations in class but for some reason you put me on a stage and give me
a microphone and I had just we'll go to town and so that was that was another
gift that looking back it served me well especially as I got to those audiences
of to 3,000 Millennials just having that microphone and being able to to be often
it can be who I was so that those are some of the the biggest gifts but some
of the smaller ones is well not small actually is that resolved and that
resilience that I touched on earlier just that ability to be like nope I'm
gonna come back from this this is not going to be the end for me and again I
think it's important for everyone it is absolutely important and I thank you for
sharing the gifts that you've observed and realized in hindsight we're always
there we are going to take a quick break and then when we get back we're gonna
jump straight into the conversation everyone's been waiting for on how the
heck can we work with these Millennials
and now back to joy economics creating better ways to live work and play with
your host Shani Godwin alright we are back with Amanda Hammett millennial
translator and we are about to get into the Nitty Gritty of all things
millennial and I must confess before off the grip before we even get started
I am Generation X but I swear I'm a millennial trapped in a Generation Xers
body I just really really am I just got here a little bit too early so I have
much respect for Millennials but for those of us who are of some of the more
mature generations I want you to really talk to us give us some really practical
advice wisdom insight on how to bridge this is really to me a communication
issue so that we can really start to open up the conversation and find ways
to support all people in corporate America and it works so I wanted to
start by asking you what is the number one complaint you get when people come
to you and say millennial translator please save me I'm dying and I don't
know how to work with these Millennials they don't listen they don't know what
they're doing and they are entitled what what is the number one complaint that
you get and and how do you get people open people up to even begin a
conversation so there's three four or five things that I hear on an extremely
consistent basis the entitlement is of course a huge one but very specific
issue that I hear almost daily is punctuality
shockingly enough and I actually have a crazy story I was speaking at a Sherman
en't at the Florida conference last year I think and this HR manager comes up to
me and I got the impression her company was to 300 people and she's like you
know I've got these two really talented Millennials they've been with us about
two years and they're just superstars but they come in 15 to 20 minutes late
every single day and it is driving everybody else in the office crazy and
everybody's complaining about it so I look at her and I was just like well
have you talked to them about it Shawny she said her and said no she had
not mentioned it and I was like in two years this has not come up if this is
such a problem why has this not come up I was like at this point this is on you
because they you haven't set this expectation I'm sure that they have no
idea that they're doing anything wrong so I said my first piece of advice go
out there have a conversation with them and just say hey you know office hour
start at 9:00 or you know is it really important that are they customer-facing
and and they have to be there at 9:00 because the office opens you know if
it's if that's not the situation you know maybe it's it's okay to be a little
more flexible but really just I talked to her about building a business case on
why you know take a stand and build a business case around why you know you're
taking that particular stand but you need to have open and honest
communication that's the big thing they appreciate open honest
communication on a very consistent basis and and that leads me into you know one
of the big big things that I always advise people to do is feedback
Millennials love feedback but they love it on a very constant basis
I think managers have this idea that feedback equals yearly reviews and
that's not true and you know managers they hate to do yearly reviews because
they're long and they're tedious and you know it takes up a lot of time and it's
just it makes everybody want to pull their
hair out but Millennials are just looking for little tidbits of
information just hey I submitted this report what do you think about it you
know is there something I could do better soar something I did wrong that's
what they're looking for they're not looking for you know a career planning
session you know I actually advise people you know try to sit down once a
month and just okay these are the things that went well these are the things that
didn't go so hot but then at that quote-unquote yearly review maybe look
at projections going into the future as far as career projections and you know
plan out a career pathway and help them do that that is something that they love
it's something that they appreciate it shows them that you're invested in who
they are because Millennials like to know that they don't you're not just
seeing them as a number but it as an actual individual human being corporate
america has a bad reputation for in the past generations of just you know being
cogs in the wheel and making people feel that way Millennials are not going to
stand for it and honestly I got it I got to stand behind them on this I really I
really like that I really like that they don't they're not willing to stand for
it I have to agree I think it's so much kind of the spirit of joy economics it's
it's recognizing the humanity of people at work and that was why I was so
excited to have you here I think Millennials and the sheer number of them
will demand that it happens I'm also just walking full full of Statistics
type person all the time I was doing some research and I saw that right now
there are about thirty three hundred and sixty million traditional excuse me 360
million hybrid non-traditional workers in the workplace and currently 420
traditional workers old school nine to fivers come in check in clock in leave
and so my my hypothesis and I think it's not that magical or educated a guess at
this point is that we're going to see this trend continue I think things like
the recession I mean people having
displaced and having to find different ways to work have allowed people to see
you can make a living contracting having multiple streams of income and I think
the beauty of the Millennials is it changes the game they change the
conversation and something as simple as feedback and I hear you saying it
doesn't have to be positive feedback it's just a check-in on how I'm doing I
think will go a long way to really see us start to make progress in that area
so I want to talk a little bit about this adulting class what what is an
adult in class please do tell okay well that is not the official name that is
the name that I lovingly refer to it as is my adult in class but this was
actually really born out of skills that I was hearing over and over again that
we're missing from HR from hiring managers from VPS I actually did a very
informal survey of about 300 CEOs VPS hiring managers and HR managers
and asked you know what is the number one thing that keeps younger employees
from moving up in their company and overwhelmingly like 86 percent said soft
skills now I went into this thinking oh it's gonna be some technical skill it's
gonna be something very hard skill specific soft skills overwhelmingly and
I'm talking basic foundations eye contact
being able to shake hands being able to do that in office networking that we see
not hiding behind a computer screen or a cell phone screen or something like that
which fYI Millennials we're not the only ones who do that everybody does that so
I ended up creating and starting to teach on college campuses originally a
class called foundational professional skills and that kind of morphed and it
was actually purchased a large corporation here actually asked if we
could do it a video series for their college intern program so that has been
rolled out and I maintained all the intellectual rights to it
and so other companies are now like we need this and it's you know it's really
for those college intern age group up to the first two to three years in the
professional world but I actually had an email two weeks ago from a man who is a
manager on in a technical business and he is 41 and he said that he actually
learned a lot from watching the videos himself which I found hysterical he said
you know I've always been frustrated because I didn't know why my career
wasn't going the way I wanted it to and he's like as I watched her videos and as
I started noticing I don't do these things and that's why people have been
promoted above me and it was just it was a real aha moment for him and I just I
thanked him profusely for that for that email because it really just validated
not only is it important for younger generations but a lot of times older
generations have missed out on some of those skills as well yeah we need the
refresher course I was laughing I'm glad you share that story because I'm like I
I know a lot of seasoned to people who who would benefit from the class and I
don't think as long as you're continued to be a student of your business and
your trade those things matter so my last question before we go to break is
just some real quick practical tips on what are some specific things people who
truly are struggling with this issue in their office whether they're in
corporate America they have a business there they're working in extracurricular
activities community service areas we all live work and play together what are
some things people can do to bridge the gap open up the communication and begin
to make progress so one of the biggest things that I really encourage whether
you're a manager or manager or you're running a non-profit any of those things
is that be completely transparent and what I mean with this is be honest about
your flaws be honest about when you make a mistake we have lived in a culture for
so long that failure was not an option and that was a mantra
that we repeated over and over again and and nobody wanted to take the blame and
nothing but when you're honest with who you are the flaws that you have the
mistakes that you make the millennial generation they flock to that they love
that vulnerability because they relate to it
you know we all see everybody's highlight reels on Facebook on Instagram
on snapchat but yes that's a very big part of the millennial generation but
they really do enjoy and and do connect with that vulnerable side that
transparent side so as a manager I always encourage them hey you know when
you're talking to your younger generations your younger students make
sure your younger employees make sure that they see hey you know what I messed
up on this my bad then move on that's the number one thing wow that that is so
so helpful and I'm grateful for you and the work that you've been called to do
when we come back we're going to get into the fun part of life I want to hear
how life has become fun again what being the Millennial translator has done for
you and your life and your family and how all of this now makes sense for you
and allows you to live work and play and get the very success that you were
seeking in the beginning when you were chasing the multi-million dollars
and now back to joy economics creating better ways to live work and play with
your host Shani Godwin so we are back with Amanda Hammett and we are going to
talk about the aftermath of the failed businesses getting back on your feet
rising overcoming fear that snatch your life back moment that you had and your
rise to becoming the millennial translator we have learned so much from
you today I want to want to really spend our last bit of our time together just
talking about life like how is life for you now as the millennial translator and
how does it compare to the life that you were living oh my gosh my life is
completely different these days my old business we work seven days a
week 365 days a year Thanksgiving Christmas it was a workday these days I
actually take vacations I take weekends off I try to lighten my
load on Fridays I have a little guy at home and and so you know I'm available
to do things and to pick him up and to take him to activities or you know just
to do fun stuff just to be a mom and to be a human being for once instead of
just a working robot so its life is completely different it's a lot more
joyful than than it ever was before and how does that feel when you look back on
your life and you remember that turning point when you were in that closet
crying and you look at where you were actually being led and where you are now
how you said you feel joyful but how does that feel it's it's hard to explain
but it's it's like a lightness to my body into just my soul I feel like I am
making a huge difference in people's lives
every not just Millennials but also the
boomers that work with them or the Gen Xers that work with them because think
about it you spend a huge portion of your life at work and we've all had that
one person that just drives you insane but if I can come in and create some
bridges in those in to take care of those gaps between the communication
skills that the values and if I can go in and smooth those things over for you
it's gonna make your work life so much better
so whether again you're a millennial you're a boomer you're gonna go home and
your relationships with the people that you love the most they're gonna be
better as well and I feel like that is my responsibility in in this life is to
do that and to make those lives better which is which is so beautiful because
through the failures you actually found your purpose and your calling and found
joy for yourself but also found meaning for why success matters and so let's
talk about just the fun stuff of Amanda like what is your favorite song what
what song is you all day when nobody's looking
you're blaring it in in the car or in the shower and you are full-on
authentically you so I have a few songs that are my go-to s it depends on kind
of what's going on in the situation if I am getting ready to get on a big call
with a potential client I have a certain song that I that I play but my go-to
go-to is Beyonce girls from the world yes yes yes but I also you know if I'm
going in to have a hard conversation I Aretha Franklin respect and then I also
I have a very eclectic taste journey and faithfully yes and Wiz
Khalifa work hard play hard yes yes that's amazing
so I let's talk girl power because you represent all things girl power to me
and girls run the world Beyonce I I have an inner Beyonce she comes out when I
need her to a channel her when I have to do bold powerful things
what has finding your power finding your voice allowed you to do who have you
discovered that you really really are actually this is this is great actually
tying it into Beyonce because years ago she came out and said you know she has
this stage persona and Sasha Fierce and it was funny because when I was just
starting really getting out there and speaking a lot I created my own Sasha
Fierce only my name was not nearly as cool I just didn't I had not heard of
Beyonce doing this yet but I called her sparkly Amanda because once I hit the
stage I mean I was you know I feel like I'm a pretty practical person day-to-day
but once I hit this stage I am just like wow you know and so it was just it was a
good it was a good thing for me is to be able to turn that on and and really help
me relate to other people is through that that stage persona now that persona
has actually leaked quote-unquote into the rest of my life so I am using I
that's actually who I've become on a day-to-day basis and it's just been this
amazing transformation because again it is I feel that that helps me get through
to people they it helps them me them see hey she's actually being who she is and
she's actually here to help me and that's what I'm here to do and it's
again it's this amazing thing that happens is something I've noticed in my
own life the very thing that we fear that we're afraid of when we let it go
and we kind of lean into it we actually become everything we really are and that
mask is ripped off you talked about Millennials lovin authenticity and
people being genuinely themselves and I think sparkly Amanda she was in there
the whole time you just didn't know and she's probably like let me out of here
let me out of here and so I'm so grateful whether you are not for your
failure because it made me and allowed me to meet sparkly Amanda so and all the
other great things you are you talk about being a mom and now being able to
have space and time for your son and your family what are some things
pursuing the path and your purpose have just allowed
you to do that you didn't you thought you had to have all the money to do so I
am actually very involved with a student leadership organization called the Hugh
O'Brien youth leadership it's international
I actually am no M an alum from when I was in high school it's for rising high
school juniors and now I sit on the board for the Georgia
hoby and that's what we call it is Hobie and I'm the corporate board president
and so I have a hundred hundred fifty volunteers most of which are Millennials
and they give me hundreds of hours of volunteer service every single year
completely for free and this losing everything has given me this platform to
really dive in and give back and and but I think that I'm the one that's actually
gained the most from it because not only do I feel good about what I'm doing and
the difference that I'm making for these rising high school juniors but I'm also
pouring into these other older leaders as they're coming up through college and
early professional careers and actually a lot of these are the people that I've
guinea-pig my theories when I take into corporate America they started here and
they started with me practicing these things on these volunteers and so it's
just been this thing where I'm giving and pouring into them but they're
actually pouring into me more well and it sounds like you found the
quintessential way for life purpose passion and the good you want to do in
the world and the legacy you want to leave behind to intersect and when that
happens I feel like your whole world and life just opens up in a very very
different way so what do you what do you like to do for fun so for fun I love
cooking I love food just food across the board whatever it is in equalling just
food in general but food is cooking food is how I show love to other people you
know I I don't have a specific cuisine that I like to prepare for other people
I mean I my parents are southern and I did grow up eating that kind of food but
you know Asian Italian I'll cook it all that is my thing
but I also love when I travel a big component of the travel is food so
whenever I'm speaking at a speaking engagement whether I'm in Seattle or
Lincoln Nebraska you know I'm looking into where the
locals going what are they eating and I want to eat that too I want to try that
as well so I've done everything from the best fried chicken at this one little
town in Nebraska was at a gas station which was interesting phenomenal but
also you know high-end meals in Bangkok you know it's just across the board I
love it all is it fair to call you a foodie would you call yourself a foodie
yes I call myself a foodie I don't cook it I just eat it so feel free to let me
know and be your focus group whenever absolutely I want to find out what's
next for you whether it's living working playing what are some of the dreams on
your horizon and things that you're moving toward so next up I am really
going to get behind this foundational professional video series that I'm
putting out there to the world but I've also been asked to create something on
the manager side so video series for managers but I'm digging into some
serious research that I'm gonna help that that I'm going to help move along
it's about employee engagement and long-term stock pricing for companies so
we shall see yeah awesome I cannot wait I cannot thank you enough for being our
very first guest on joy economics creating better ways to live work and
play for our guests if someone is interested in engaging with you booking
you to come in and talk to their team consulting with you how do they find you
so the best place to reach me is through my website which is Amanda Hammett comm
and that's am a nd a H mm e TT comm or you could just google
the Millenial translator if that comes up that works as well but that's usually
the best place to to go and to reach me and or you can reach out on Instagram or
Twitter Adam and Hammett comm sorry Amanda Hammett millennial translator it
has been an absolute pleasure having you we wish you nothing but the best please
keep in touch and seriously invite me over for some more food no problem any
time thanks Amanda
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