Author Richard Hinkie featured on the talk show Briggs on Books [0:00-5:01]

Welcome back to Briggs on Books, our international talk show where we talk to authors all over the world about their books, their books subjects, how they got to writing that book. Why that book is so important? So many things. Finally, many, many of our viewers are prospective authors. They're writing, writing, writing, trying to get this book written out there. And that's why I like to bring on some people who've actually done it. They wrote the book, they stopped writing. Some people find that to be the hardest part. Stop writing, put your pen down and get it published. And so we like to bring on people who've done it. And our next guest is here, actually Richard, welcome Rick. Hey, thank you. Glad to be here. Tell our viewers where you are. Well, I'm in the mountains of Arizona about 90 miles north of Phoenix in the elk country. They jump over the fence and eat my wife's flowers all the time and yet the town is not like a farm, you know, it's 20,000 people, but they kind of own the place. Now, what town is it? Cason, Arizona. And by the way, the region and Richard's back here again, as I found his passion and excitement for where he lived, so exciting that I looked it up after and spent a lot of time stalking this guy to see where he lived and stopped. It's an amazing place, Rick. Now, tell our viewers, we have the cover here somewhere. Tell our viewers what the title of the book is that got you here. Okay, well, it's seven keys to a more satisfying future at work. Yes. And it started with, I was fortunate to be around some very successful people in my career, but they all started at the bottom. One of them was a nurse's aide at the Mayo Clinic, and when I interviewed Shirley, she was in charge of every Mayo Clinic employee in the world. Wow. And so it was like, wow, you know, how did you get from that up, you know, up the line kind of thing, right? Well, and that worked, and I did that with 60 other folks in the process, including my brother, who was huge and again started in as a salesperson and then ended up being a senior officer at Pellet Window. So I was like, wow, maybe there are lessons there that, you know, we can share with today's folks at work. Well, it's morphed pretty quickly into not everybody wants to be the boss, right? People just want to work, and they want to put food on the table, and then roof over their houses, but they want to enjoy what they're doing. They want to feel that there's some satisfaction there, right? Not just work, work, work, work. So then I sort of shifted things, and started talking to people about, well, what is it? About work, work that you don't like, and what is it about work that you do like? And Mike, you and I talked about the fact that just this week, some of the big time magazines, you know, ink and fast company are saying that only 43% of folks that are working outside, you might say blue collar folk. Are satisfied. And only 53% of the folks working in typical organizations, right? Well, that's not good for them, it's not good for their employers either. And then, you know, four out of 10 of the Gen Z, the younger employee group, they're saying I'd rather stay home. Wow. Yeah. And 53% of that same group said, you know, I'll delay my work for a while because I'm still binge watching screens on TV. It's like, oh, wow, you know, how does that work, right? And then you got the threat of AI, is that going to take away my job, right? And then, you know, if you're, if you're a worker for the federal government, then you know all of that's going on too. So lots of issues related to satisfaction. Yes. By the way, just because this is kind of colorful, you're at where the other day, Disney World or something? Yeah. Well, yeah. That's interesting. You know, dads, I'm told are supposed to take their daughters to Disney. It's kind of like a rule, right? So there were a lot of dads at Disney World with their three-year-old daughters. And I was there with my 53-year-old daughter. But at least, you know, I got her there. We had a good time. Well, I just can't, this is so important to me because I've, you know, I've been a coach and I've been a big brother and all that stuff, right? So I'm trying to pass along the wisdom, not so much my own, but that that I've collected to other folks that are at work. Let's make the most of this. Let's enjoy what we're doing. Let's be productive and all that. And so here I am at Disney World and I'm talking to people from senior management folks that I bumped into to people taking care of the animals, you know, the whole thing, right?