EP 2 – Unsurprising ways to sleep easier + logistics news

welcome back to the on this is your host
Joey Montano today we’re going to be
talking about a few things actually
we’re going to be talking about insomnia
we want to be talking about just
whatever I feel like it and I decided to
spice things up for you and talk about
the wonderful world of logistics now if
you can’t tell that’s called sarcasm and
I feel like most people these days are
having a tougher time sensing it
including myself so that’s probably it
on the ranch probably for another
podcast but not today because I’m trying
to help you sleep
go to sleep okay
that probably didn’t work but keep
listening and you might find yourself
catching some C’s sooner rather than
later today’s podcast is going to be
about an hour long I’ve done a little
bit more research and speaking for
myself with I do have trouble sleeping
and so does my wife so I figured why not
just talk about insomnia and maybe it’ll
put you to sleep or maybe you will find
something interesting just to pass the
time so you can just stop thinking about
your day and relax
so before I dive into the official
clinical research or I don’t want to say
clinical research because every person
has their own unique style of sleep some
people like to sleep on their back some
people like to sleep on their side some
people like to sleep on their stomach I
really don’t trust those stomach people
but hey that’s just me for me
my major sleeplessness issues revolve
around my sleep time generally my sleep
time mixes day-to-day from I don’t know
11 o’clock at night maybe at 10 o’clock
at night one o’clock and generally I’m
okay most the time because I am fairly
consistent the problem is the weekends
the weekends are the ones where I think
most people don’t actually go to bed
when they do normally in the week yet
they still get up around the same time
and for me consistency is generally the
key but it’s easier said than done and
I’m just
but again I figure if I at least give my
input before I go to one of the official
online documents from sleep foundation
or other and some yet related websites I
feel that speaking person a person is
more genuine in a sense of it’s more
relatable listening to how other people
solve their problems and that’s why I’m
actually a pretty big fan of reading
more medium articles or other blog
articles that talk about certain
problems not to say that the official
documentation is bad if it’s actually
really good I mean they’ve spent a lot
of money doing research and figuring all
this stuff out but even still most
solutions are on a general basis and
it’s not really something that is a
one-size-fits-all solution so if you so
if you’re someone who’s tried some of
these steps that’s great but hopefully
like it’s like I said my voice is the
key to sleep so moving into part two I’m
sorry for that tangent it’s another
thing that I try to do to help improve
sleep is I’ve been taking more CPD I
ended up getting a CBD vape from Groupon
for about like ten dollars and you could
just go on Groupon right now I don’t
have any special codes I’m not famous
intro for I really don’t care enough at
the moment to start spamming coupon
codes although it probably would save
you a few dollars so just do that in the
morning don’t do it now because knowing
you if you’re like me you’re probably on
the phone or if you can’t go to sleep
you end up looking to your side grabbing
your phone and then just end up staring
at a bright screen for another thirty
minutes until you feel like you’re tired
and then you ultimately decide to turn
off your phone and lay down and yet
still don’t fall asleep
so don’t grab your phone hopefully when
you’re listening this is either on an I
hope your system your surround sound
system or just your speaker out loud on
your phone I don’t know how you guys
generally listen to things I’m more of a
white noise guy myself and just
just thinks way too much so CBDs highly
recommend that it more less calms it
relaxes I wouldn’t say it puts you to
sleep right away but it does get you to
stop thinking and stop worrying about
the idea of falling asleep because I
know we’re all our worst enemies when it
comes to not thinking about a particular
item you know for example if I told you
to don’t think about McDonald’s
cheeseburgers chances are you’re
probably already thinking about it just
on the fact that I said it so sorry
let’s not talk about McDonald’s
cheeseburgers although we could but
that’s the ADHD talking so let’s dive
straight into some of these insomnia
articles shall we so the first one that
really caught my eye was from one
medical they talked about relieving
insomnia without medication I don’t know
if you’re taking medication I generally
don’t like taking medication myself but
I found this to be a very good article
because I like to take more of the
holistic approach when it comes to
medical because I like to save money and
just a pro tip if you have a sore throat
definitely try putting about a teaspoon
of cayenne pepper with a lukewarm water
and gargling it for about 15 seconds do
that once every 15 minutes for about a
couple hours and trust me it might stain
a little with the cayenne pepper but
your sore throat will feel like it would
immediately evaporate now your throats
not gonna be a hundred percent but the
soreness and the pain will be completely
gone like I said trust me on this one
I’ve tested it I’d like to test more of
these home remedies not all of them work
but that is one that I willing to throw
down all the money that I have in my
pocket which is not but still I’m
willing to vouch for it so back to the
one medical article one of the things
that mentions is that don’t try to be
hero because we all need sleep and and
what medical mentions people tend to
brag like it’s a good thing that you’re
getting less sleep and when were younger
we do you know it’s pretty cool to sleep
for two hours study all night and barely
pass a test I guess that’s the college
life I never did that but that’s I’ve
seen a lot of kids do that back in my
day and the problem with this is you’re
training yourself to not get a lot of
sleep which does cause fatigue
irritability might even cause weight
gain and of course it does weaken the
immune system because your body doesn’t
have any time to recover so if you find
yourself sick and you’re trying to
praying a lot about not getting a lot of
sleep try to shift that focus and just
try to brag about more sleep I guess I
don’t know but a generally lack of sleep
we both know it’s never a good thing and
hopefully you’re not someone who’s been
trying to stay up all night recently and
now you find yourself listening to this
because hopefully it does help but
you’re not doing yourself a good job of
you know sleeping long term so some of
the techniques that they mentioned to
relieve insomnia without the medication
they’ve really talked about two things
one is sleep hygiene and the other one
is well they call it brief cognitive
behavioral treatment intervention for
insomnia
whoa if that didn’t put you to sleep
then I’ll keep talking but that is a
mouthful it’s also called CPT I so
probably don’t even bother writing it
down you should be sleeping so the idea
of sleep hygiene at least according to
those articles that it’s just a
collection of habits that you know to
help you fall asleep easier and better
and generally that’s what most people
try to do when it comes to any positive
activities such as exercising dieting or
learning a new skill well so when you
develop these good habits or in this
case these habits in relation to sleep
then your sleep quality should improve
so some of the tips the do’s and don’ts
they mention they say one is
stick to a regular sleep schedule so I
didn’t mention that earlier but that is
pretty consistent and it just mentioned
seven days a week that is easier
something that done so I am NOT gonna be
an advocate to say you’d need to be
doing this because we’re all human
but it is a ideal goal so def 1e doodad
doodad alright enough enough English
bumble in there another another item is
exercise at least 30 minutes a day most
days of the week so this is something
that I did actually find to be very
useful for me personally I do go to the
gym fairly frequently at least two to
three times a week
I shouldn’t say fairly that’s probably
moderately and generally when I stop
working out or if my diet tends to go
down the drain my sleep quality does go
down and first some people just exercise
can involve maybe just a thirty minute
walk or maybe a 30 minutes speed walk a
light jog maybe or if you happen to have
something that’s kind of heavy just kind
of lift it over your head I’m gonna do
some do some curls hopefully you can do
it in your own private space so you
don’t get any weird looks or if you’re
like me you really don’t care you just
do it whenever wherever it’s your life
man or girl or other gender mmm you know
these days I I’m learning and you know
we all need to keep developing and
growing and in this case we’re
developing some sleeping habits so it
mentions to that you need to get a good
amount of natural light exposure during
the day so definitely opening the blinds
first thing in the morning and let the
Sun in
definitely helps keep your body body in
rhythm now I’m gonna go off on a tangent
and I don’t know if this article
mentions it but the idea of melatonin
helping your sleep I have some mixed
opinions on that I’ve actually had a
pretty severe case of insomnia back in
2010 where I was even lucky to get an
hour of sleep for
like probably good month and a half and
part of that was due to my addiction to
a particular arcade fighter game at the
time and I would literally try to max
out the amount of time I could play
versus the energy it was provided and
don’t get me wrong I was probably the
strongest player in the game I think the
game is still called a dungeon fighter
online and again this was back in 2010
so I obsessively played that game
between 18 and 20 hours a day and on the
side I would still play poker online
poker so and then I wasn’t intentionally
trying to do this the problem was after
say 16 hours of a game I might after I
was sleeping one night and I would lay
in bed from 2 a.m. to about 3 4 a.m. and
get a sleep go to sleep you know we
could buy 9:00 and it was progressively
getting worse
it would just be days where I would stop
playing at midnight and I will just lay
in bed and lay and lay and of course lay
and next thing I knew it was 5 a.m. 6
a.m. and the Sun would start coming up
and I would just barely try to get any
sleep maybe for an hour or two every
night and it just got to the point where
I will just wake up shaking because I
just had no sleep whatsoever anywhere
it’s just so minimal and I decided to
check out melatonin I talked to my buddy
about melatonin and he said it was
pretty effective I don’t the research as
well it seemed to be pretty effective
but when it comes to melatonin you need
to pay attention to the dosage that
you’re getting depending on the
recommendations that you see online it
turns out that even a 3 milligram piece
of melatonin this way too much for what
you should be having so there were some
research that indicated that melatonin
does in fact improve you know your your
body’s a natural instinct to react to
light and darkness accordingly so so
it’s nighttime
your body’s more likely to follow suit
and be sleep
at night with melatonin I think the
problem is like I said most people take
too much of it and it could potentially
not fix your problem or might make it
worse
in some cases so what I recommend
generally is to take a you know piece of
melatonin probably cut it in half that I
believe if I could recall this and this
is I said this is back eight nine years
ago but I still do this today and it
works pretty well is you want to take
about less than a milligram worth maybe
even less you really only need a small
amount for your body to ingest in and
adjust accordingly so don’t take too
much melatonin okay go on back to the
sleep IG if you notice I tend to drag on
a little bit pretty long-winded but
turns out my experience fall asleep so
let’s keep going to the do’s again as
already mentioned this establish a
regular relaxing bedtime routine again
routines and habits are generally going
to be the key here and moving forward it
says associate your bed was sleeping sex
only don’t work don’t eat or watch TV in
bed so that’s interesting especially the
TV part because I do watch TV in bed so
I am learning as I’m talking to you so
definitely going to not watch TV or at
least limit it to maybe only a sound
only or just I don’t know you want to
make sure you turn off your clocks
around so you can’t see the time I’ve
seen this all the time – I go to sleep I
wake up then I start looking at the
clock and then I started thinking oh no
I am probably not gonna go back to sleep
so I definitely agree with that one
message to turn off the alert for texts
and emails on your phone you know
everyone has smartphones these days just
put it in airplane mode or I do not
disturb airplane mode don’t do that
actually take their back know every mode
just put it in do not disturb
then a mentioned something’s here keep a
worried journalist something’s on your
mind as you’re trying to fall asleep
write it down on a pad of paper so you
can revisit it the next day that’s
interesting
so I semi agree with that just logically
like it’s good to release those thoughts
that’s actually one of the inspirations
of this podcast but you know if you’re
writing for 20 30 40 minutes then you’re
going to go to bed a little bit later
and I think for most people time
management is an issue on how weather if
it’s work or daily life it’s just
finding that right balance and I still
struggle with it so I can’t imagine you
guys are just one ever sent well
adjusted because that makes people
boring if you’re 100 percent perfect all
the time and I just find that impossible
ever becomes perfect so yeah definitely
try the writing journal on here but I
would probably limit that to 5-10
minutes at most an dimensions if you’re
unable to fall asleep after 20 minutes
leave the bed and do something relaxing
return to bed later so the 20 minute
part does pique my interest because my
whole life it does take me between 15 to
45 minutes to fall asleep my wife’s been
very fortunate where she could just fall
asleep simply by closing our eyes and
just doing it so which had a video
because you could see me roll my eyes
and the absurdity of the whole thing is
just I just can’t comprehend how easy it
is that she can sleep of course one of
the things that’s not mentioned in this
article it’s listening to my voice you
know if you catch yourself doing some of
these things the don’ts I should say in
this article and change that immediately
because it probably will help your sleep
significantly that number one thing is
don’t ingest caffeine in afternoon
I’ve actually been guilty of this and I
paid dearly generally my cutoff time
personally is around new if I drink
coffee at 2:00 or 4:00 then I’m going to
be up for at least an additional 10
hours so drink coffee
gonna be going to sleep at midnight even
though I might be trying to go to sleep
at 10:00
now one thing that it doesn’t mention
which I might mention to you if you’re
someone who does drink coffee or it
doesn’t just a lot of caffeine is that
try ordering ordering decaf because I’ve
done a little bit of research and if you
can you can even look at some of the
nutrition labels but decaf does not mean
you have zero milligrams of caffeine it
actually is just a significantly lowered
amount of caffeine that you’re ingesting
so that could be the key is just moving
from what CAF did you can I’m not really
a coffee drinker but I do love you know
a Frappuccino or maybe a lot of table
it’s in a while
I’m not going out of my way to pay for
it but I do enjoy him another don’t is
don’t have a second glass of wine for
dinner well alcohol is known to speed
the onset of sleep it also disrupts
sleep and it mentions causing arousal
during the second half of the night when
the body is entering the deep sleep so
this is news to me because I have not
heard of that and I dunno if I have a
beer or maybe a wine like an hour or two
before I go to sleep my chest if he was
like it’s burning a little bit I want to
say it’s heartburn but it’s just how I
lay down and the alcohol I don’t know
it’s just hard for me to feel cool I
should say what I’m sleeping I just feel
always hot and then I wake up thirsty in
the morning and who wants to have
terrible sleep I don’t want to have
terrible sleep I’m trying to help you
have great sleep I’m trying to have
great sleep let’s all have great stood
together okay next item don’t take all
their stimulants close to bedtime no no
no no crap same thing with eating meals
same things with TVs or computers
inventions don’t use phones laptops or
other mobile devices in bed so I’m
already imagining some of you are like I
can’t do that well it certainly is for
trying and for me I try to not look at
my phone at least 15 minutes before I go
to bed you know I might play a game just
it’s game that I don’t really think too
much maybe
was an article in reddit or just do some
reading put my phone on the side I turn
it down face down so I’m not looking at
the time so I do agree with that and hit
the charged button and that’s it
I just might lay and talk to the wife or
just lay down just try to sleep it does
how I will say I my sleep has improved a
little bit as well I could I could say I
get about alright takes me about it’s
about 15-20 minutes each night but it’s
more consistent than it used to be and
the last thing that I mentions is that
fight the urge to nap during the day so
if you are daytime Napper that could be
a key factor in your lack of sleep now
some of this probably isn’t really game
breaking stuff and it really shouldn’t
be but hopefully if you did learn them
nugget that’s great
now I did find another article and the
self calm that talks about I believe
this is a regular person’s perspective
and not you know a real article article
that’s a professional wrote that doesn’t
really connect I guess person a person
but the self one does talk about what
they did to help their insomnia it’s
only a list of five I’m gonna quick run
this through when some of these might
sound similar but I do like to have
different perspectives and I like to
encourage you guys to have the same so
the number one thing I believe this
person mentions I believe that her name
or his name is yes who’s not a Weiss so
since I know Weiss yeah Thank You
SOUTHCOM for writing this I like to give
credit where credit is due
so the number one thing that Suzanna
mentions is keeping a caffeine journal
to see how it affects my sleep or that’s
how what she said then ultimately
cutting it out completely I do agree
that what she says is that it does suck
I do know a lot of people that live off
of caffeine and I do occasionally find
myself drinking a Frappuccino in the
morning
you know those cold one it’s not like a
full it has a vent a size one but you
know those eight to twelve pounds of
months and I’ve done some research too
and caffeine is good but it also has
some negative effects
but long story short I think she
mentions and I’m going to agree to that
it does suck to cut something pretty
awesome like caffeine that would pretty
much be in my case me saying I’m way to
stop drinking alcohol I mean I love
drinking alcohol but I’m not a you know
I’m not a big big big drinker but it
helps me even myself out when I need it
you know in Susanna’s case she said once
you start keeping her journal she
realized that you’ve been a couple of
tea at 10:00 a.m. it would just keep her
up past 3:00 a.m. so again her method
she tried doing ATCO turkey she didn’t
notice that she couldn’t quit completely
but the day she did it and just caffeine
her sleep was significantly improved
something to keep in mind she does
mention too that he sleeps on a weighted
blanket or I should say under a way to
play it not on it essentially the idea
of these way to blankets is that it
helps Center brain so you know that you
don’t have to be on the lookout for
dangerous things and that you’re snug
and comfy makes sense to me definitely
try that which he mentions though is
that the way to play cuts are about $150
so that’s a big icon for me but for some
of you could be worth the 150 it might
be worth it for me if I could spend that
money but I don’t think I have insomnia
as bad as what some other people do but
this is going to be something that I’m
going to save just in case in the future
the third thing that she does is wearing
admittedly goofy glasses that blocked
blue light from tech devices so
apparently there are blue light blocking
glasses that screen her eyes from the
light from the phone and computer
screens so apparently the idea is that
this light can affect your body’s
production of melatonin very interesting
because I talked earlier about the
melatonin problem I had so this actually
might explain why
I had such trouble sleeping eight years
ago or seven years ago when I say one of
those but um it’s pretty affordable to
buy some of these glasses
it’s 1099 from Amazon called the eye
keeper of in th computer glasses so
that’s pretty cool definitely check that
out I might actually just buy that right
now and after this podcast so check it
out she also mentions two more things
one of them I already mentioned which
was melatonin again I suggest a very
limited amount of melatonin but she did
not mention the amount this one but yeah
that works and the other thing she
mentioned is taking a warm bath before
bed instead have a shower so this is
interesting because I’m a big shower
person but she says that the bath allows
your body to soak up more heat and the
cooling that follows when you get out of
the tub can can cure your body to sleep
that I like I think for me the biggest
issue every sure some of you are tissue
or having this as well is getting sweaty
at night you know not sweaty sweat e SH
wet yes with the H being sweaty is
terrible
it’s not just having some sweat on your
head or on your arms it’s it’s the sweat
that goes everywhere I’m talking between
like between the armpits even between
like the little crevices of your elbow
you know how your arm flexes in you know
behind the knees even even in your ass
crack all the private parts and then you
get up and you just feel your body
drenched your backs drenched you look at
the bed and it seems like it’s just
moist it’s terrible I can’t stand it and
I stand up I try to you know lift my
shirt up try to breathe some air in and
depending on where you’re at to if
you’re kind of the Midwest where there’s
or even in the south or there’s a place
there’s a lot of humidity
I would probably consider getting a
dehumidifier and even better just having
some white noise at night does help so
I’m definitely only take probably her
advice as well and trying to
in bath because you know that the
cooling-off effect does for me it feels
a lot of reefer feels really refreshing
and I do love the feeling of having a
nice cool pillow to lay on or a nice
cold dead to lay on so definitely you
know that’s a very smart smart idea
definitely you guys try it I’m certainly
gonna try it as well so I know there you
have it I didn’t planned that actually
this taking this long of a time which is
fine by me I’m actually pretty happy
with it so hopefully you guys found some
pretty decent insights again
I found these from self calm the self
calm article is from Susannah Weiss and
the other article that I am trying to
find just from one medical calm you know
called how to relieve insomnia without
medication and it’s a three-part series
so I might just follow up in the next
podcast with the part two of the series
and just bring my insight and commentary
as well I think that would be pretty
cool for you guys as well just to follow
along now switching subjects I wanted to
spend a couple minutes talking about
just more about my life I figured it you
know every podcast I’ll sprinkle a
little bit of slice-of-life the reason
why I like to include these is that I
feel that most people resonate with
people with other people that have very
similar attributes and I feel that I
don’t think I’m actually similar with
most people but I feel like I am
relatable in a sense of a very certain
common ground I don’t think I’m
incredibly smart I think I’m fairly
smart more of the kind of smart that’s
where I feel like a man I love to learn
I do study quite frequently and you know
I try to keep on pace with well industry
trends and whatnot and I feel like
that’s the bare minimum of I think I
would say smart enough to be pretty
competent in the workforce and to you
know do a pretty good job at what you do
you know of course there’s going to be a
lot of other factors that I didn’t
discuss such as you know company your
boss your co-workers your dynamic
you know your current role and what
you’re doing but overall I like to have
a sense of pride in the work that I
generally do and I think that most
people should have that as a baseline of
growth I would say because if you’re
just kind of content with what you’re
doing there’s nothing wrong with that I
you know I’ve have been prior to this
podcast pretty content with how things
have been going with my life between
working on side projects and doing
consulting so again there’s nothing
wrong with a good medium it just means
you know we’re in the comfort zone and
there’s nothing wrong with being
comfortable as a matter of fact you
should aim to be comfortable sometimes
you have to you know eat a lot of crap
and you have to do a lot of things you
don’t want to just for the short term
just to have the opportunity to have
that nice comfortable moment or life
that you imagine you know hopefully some
of you guys are younger not to say older
people should it be listen in this
podcast I’m just imagining that older
people and their I’d say higher fifties
sixties seventies I believe sleep comes
more natural and I think their sleep
patterns are a lot more so I don’t think
they’re affected as much I could be
completely wrong in this one I said this
is a stream of consciousness
consciousness portion not really doing
much research here I just figure let’s
talk about a subject so but again I
think if you’re more of someone of a
younger age I would almost say
Millennials because now there’s the new
generation of kids coming out and I
think they’re gen Z and they’re probably
gonna rename something else rename
themselves to be something else and you
know a lot of these kids younger kids
these days are they have so many trends
and they have different values than what
I grew up in and I’m only 33 you know
I’m kind of in the mid-range of the
Millennial and and with so many things
these days you know I sometimes I feel
like I have to watch what I say thinking
about how one or two people could be
offended on you know a joke or remark
and you might agree on assign you tend
to crack a couple jokes once in a while
because you know I think laughter just
is great I love to laugh and I haven’t
found myself well I think as much in the
last year no it’s another time maybe
I’ll explain that down the road but you
know I just love to laugh and I just
love looking back making people laugh
and in this case I want to love make you
laugh and sleep
hopefully you have hilarious dreams but
I did grace I think just continuing on
with the stream of consciousness
you know how even 18 year olds their
habits are so different than what I’ve
seen like believe it or not this is 2019
and yes you’re looking and you’re
probably rolling your eyes when I say
that but it’s 2019 and Facebook was
launched in 2004 let me rephrase that
2004 that’s how long it is 15 years 15
years I cannot believe it and I was one
of the first people on Facebook back in
the day where it was just the college
kids and it was us and we all claimed
and swore that once they allowed the
general public in it was gonna crash and
burn we were so wrong so so wrong and
guess what Facebook is kind of big these
days 15 years later that means if you
have an 18 year old kid
all right or if you’re 18 years old it
doesn’t matter who’s listening by the
time you actually were starting to
process the world and become kind of a
little human being that had some
function I should say so I would say ha3
age of three is one my opinion is one it
goes from baby to toddler to a little
kid that’s learning that can remember
things so wide of time there were three
15 years ago yeah by the time they were
three they would be I think Facebook
would be what one-year-old or yeah the
age of three is when Facebook was born
so say it ever existed their whole life
Facebook
has existed since they could remember
things that isn’t saying their whole
life is a platform of something that
their parents their siblings their
grandparents have all these memes all
this drama people talk about it day of
day and day how people are sharing
things it’s great but if you’re a kid
and I was told this too like a month ago
twelve year old of said Facebook’s for
old people hey like that’s the future
man so it’s very interesting just to see
how times change and have its change and
the last thing I want you guys to do and
this is just a piece of advice you guys
don’t have to take it you guys might
even be sleeping if you are then I’m
gonna start lowering my voice a little
bit and I would say just keep learning
just I don’t know hop on reddit maybe
hop on Twitter social media is good in a
sense of it connects you with the world
and it’s our job to at least try to
connect with a younger generation
because I don’t want to have I just
don’t want to be in a position where you
know our grandparents are or where the
baby boomers are at right now where the
people 40 year old 40 years younger than
em are pretty much saying the future is
now
you know we’re kicking you out and
there’s nothing you can do about it I
want I want us to have smarter
conversations I want us to be involved
more in a sense of when we speak we know
what we’re talking about and it’s well
researched we can see both angles and
not just have a jerk reactions so again
this is just me talking there’s not
really any validity to any of this it’s
just a random guy talking for about five
minutes so so moving on I figure this is
a good part of the show where I would
like to kind of tone it down you know
let’s talk about something that we all
love
one of the most sexiest of industries
that we see day and
whether you’re on the road whether
you’re looking outside whether you’re
out just around it’s logistics folks
come on what did you think I was gonna
say logistics are everywhere I mean the
computer screen the phone all that like
it all came from probably China forever
and the fact that it they made it
manufactured it and shipped it across
the world and you’re still able to buy
it for a relatively cheap price and I’m
not talking about just even a smartphone
but I can be looking at this pen or a
speakerphone that was made in China and
I still buy for like five dollars okay
there’s sites like wish calm that you
can buy clothing for like four dollars
free shipping there’s a lot things to
that but the point that I’m trying to
make is logistics everywhere in affects
us unfortunately it’s not as sexy as I
made it out to be so that’s why you’re
gonna either learn or you’re gonna sleep
with what I like to call at least in
this episode some logistics learnings so
I figure I wanted to talk more about the
latest logistics insights news because
you know it’s very relevant to the world
that we live in today
luckily my cousin is a logistics expert
and he knows the industry a little bit
so he recommended me a couple of
magazines things to look at and one of
the articles that caught my attention I
was from Rick Berman from inbound
logistics that calm he just it’s nice to
talk about not gambling with trade
compliance so in an article called
don’t gamble with trade compliance he
talks about how the recent trends in
tariffs enforcement in e-commerce
shipping complicate the international
trade landscape to avoid significant
fines businesses must learn to dot every
I and cross every T in the compliance
process he goes on to say that even
existing allowances and privileges are
being threatened challenged or taken
away from shippers who violate trade
regulations pretty much creating
immediate threat to profitability so he
mentions rekey key issues here one of
the key issues is that corporate
executives need to know the terror
that Customs and Border Protection’s
also known as CBP is imposing on goods
imported to the US and how to stay
aligned with the ever-changing HTF which
for you and the biz already know that as
harmonized Tariff Schedule that should
explain itself because I cannot explain
it for you I’m sorry this is out of my
league but he does go on to say that the
second focus should be on trade
agreements in planning the for the
potential of duty-free status
disappearing from source goods
yes but the idea behind this is that you
always need to be planning ahead just in
case that there are any contingencies
down the road so if there’s any Free
Trade Agreement eliminations or
something that is more of the like
especially for international shipping
and logistics you need to be planning
ahead for it and he pretty much says
that some of these people don’t and
again it has that immediate threat to
profitability he goes on to say thirdly
that companies really need to examine
their profiles and complete and
compliance practices so this includes
record-keeping making sure that they’re
operating correctly he points out that
having informed compliance is more than
just the best practice it’s legitimately
a law so come on you guys need to be
doing this so this article is pretty
short when he does talk about it but he
had the keys really just trying to
emphasize the point of don’t try to cut
corners just follow the law you know I
used to work at a battery store and back
in the day they actually had me to get a
hazmat certification which had nothing
to do with the job at hand I was just
working data entry but looking at the
hazmat documentation I think it was like
300 or like maybe through like a
thousand pages where they had to bring a
certified hazmat specialist or true you
know specialist to common trained oh so
we had to get a certificate and reading
through this it just seemed like it was
a bunch of you know issues that happened
over time where they probably wanted to
create like a hundred page document and
then they realized oh hey like let’s
throw some lithium batteries expose
the air and then all cause fires so it
seems like every rule that was added was
based off previous oversight prior so I
definitely agree with his statement of
you need to practice the proper tree
compliance or at least compliance is in
general because in this case we’re
logistics is law he does go on to
emphasize more international logistics
mainly because of the tariffs or if
there’s just so many moving parts with
the international that we are not in
control of so you really can’t afford to
gamble on compliance so in regards to
the trade environment or some
organizations that have creating
compliance departments managed by
c-suite officers that are trying to
mitigate the risk especially in the key
operational areas so I’m kind of just
rewarding what this guy’s saying I not
an expert again if you want to check out
the article it’s from inbound logistics
called don’t gamble with trade
compliance by Rick Berman so again I
want to give him credit where credit is
due
now I’m about to throw some knowledge
bonds because I’m about to talk to you
through a listicle article that’s right
love those listicles and did I see a
listicle article shouldn’t just be
listicle okay anyway moving on this
article called securing truckload
capacity it’s a good list article that
helps emphasize is the continued trend
of shrek looked a man and to heavily
emphasize that there are no or no
shortcuts in fixing the capacity gap
whatever that means I don’t know but I
think the point he’s trying to make is
that you want to make sure you take
these steps to ensure that your shipping
you’re afraid or arrives on time so the
one thing he says the number one thing
key Munch’s is to create a core carrier
program by doing that you need to
establish relationships with large
providers who can help you run up in
demand in regional carriers who have a
compelling value prop and the markets
they serve so it is what it is according
to this article and the person who wrote
this is a heron seed beside sy Edie
hopefully I said your name right here
and if I said it wrong I apologize
guys if you if you happen to catch wind
in this blurb and I said your name wrong
please just message me or whatever and
I’ll learn it and say it right I’m
terrible with names but he it was is
should say the vice president commercial
developer for Schneider whatever that is
that’s just the credit that it was given
so the number two thing he mentions is
schedule quarterly touch points so this
is generally just good practice in
business is that you want to keep
communications with your carriers or
your vendors and their objectives so you
want to make sure you guys have
agreeable benchmarks so you know you
know you both have planned anticipated
times and how you do things and you’re
both on the same page because nothing is
worse than when one vendor has their own
idea of when things should be completed
versus your expectations so you
definitely want to keep shopping around
and you know if if one vendor isn’t
willing to meet your needs well another
vendor will that’s just life you know
opportunity awaits to those who are
willing to step out into the forefront
and take that first step to say you know
I could step up and do things while
others can’t a third thing mentions
building long-term relationships that
transcend market cycles this is pretty
smart and by that he means you want to
create relationships with shippers or
maybe in your case a vendor or just
people in general that they’re good
people to work with that their
understanding of business practices
makes them less likely to be affected by
say a recession or a downturn you know
companies that just have consistent
strong but slow growth it tends to be
the ones that aren’t affected by it and
those the people that you want to be
around the most you know they are the
most like calm ol reliables in the world
of logistics the principle is the same
regardless of what you’re looking for
it’s still a company that you need to
trust in that knows what they’re doing
really well and that will continue to
grow long-term for decades to come
or you have to be intentional with your
bedded objectives so whatever you’re
planning on bidding on your network just
be direct about your intent just don’t
beat around the bush if you want to
improve for example the costs to serve
just ask carriers to help identify
opportunities just to decrease in
efficiencies you know it sounds so easy
when I’m reading it out loud but
realistically I still don’t this is just
way out of my league come on
so the fifth thing he mentioned is keep
bidding around this to a minimum
essentially I’m assuming bidding rounds
are more of just shopping for quotes
when it comes to this so he mentions
keeping it to a minimum so if you’re
going shopping for different vendors or
truck shipping rates or whatnot you want
to be straightforward and upfront when
it comes to your carriers so don’t hold
multiple pit rounds because when you
hold multiple pit rounds then the
carrier is going to not give their best
rates until the very end
you know that takes time I could take
hours and days maybe even weeks in some
cases
why bother you’re wasting time value and
money and resources be upfront be
concise and get results people react to
that and if they don’t they are going to
regret it believe it or not because the
world will move on if someone thinks
that you’re gonna have multiple bid
rounds and it turns out you have one in
they didn’t believe you
I’ve been burned before when it comes to
that stuff and I’ve also been the one
that burns people to do that so I
generally have a nice person but let’s
be real results matter at the end of the
day I don’t care who you are if I
promise to give you a billion dollars
after you pay me five hundred thousand
and I don’t give it to you then well
you’re not happy like that’s very black
and white and yes results do matter and
yes there are caveats and I’m speaking
in more of a black-and-white manner I do
understand that the world is full of
gray areas as a matter of fact I’m
pretty much maybe with the exclusion of
a couple hundred scenarios out of the
billions or infinite ones
like a lot of things are gray area once
you involve contacts so back to the
point keep it straightforward keep you
around
very minimal one or two at most so stop
wasting time the number six thing he
mentions is that you want to establish
network consistency so if you’re happy
with your overall relationship just
provide in confluence with an
opportunity to keep that freight it
sounds straightforward just keep it
going
people love consistent work nothing’s
new nothing changes people are happy
number seven use multiple modes the
maximize capacity so I don’t know if
this means but consider it I’m going to
say this a word-for-word different
transportation modes provide solutions
to different needs consider how these
modes can work together to create a
successful shipping model for instance
intermodal is best for halls of longer
than 450 miles that have a transit time
flexibility while dedicated is best
first service sensitive lanes and
high-density markets DC to store in
first mile / final bio deliveries I mean
it can’t be any clearer than that folks
I mean I don’t need to see anything
completely 100% interpreted what that
meant 8b a shipper of choice with the
implementation of electronic locking
devices and don’t get me started with
that I do have my cousin in logistics
and I was in the car it was very
interesting that he talked about this
ironically about how due to the
electronic long as your vices a lot of
drivers they used to get away with
fudging they’re mostly fudging their the
carrier mileage or the semi truck
mileage or whatever but in regards to
time on the road they would generally
fudge it so they can get more miles in
for quote unquote less time but now
since everything’s electronic they have
to limit their travels which does create
some potential increased cost because
you can only have a one driver on the
road for X amount of time before they
have to stop and since it’s being
tracked electronically having
new drivers is more or less viable these
days a surprisingly unique insight for
me and logistics that it’s not from this
but anyway anyway going back to the
shipper of choice since crate
characteristics velocity and utilization
manners so carrier sir price in your
networks and efficiencies because if
they know you’re not going to be that
good they’re going to adjust for it kind
of like the time value of money you know
you want to get what you pay for you
wanna make sure you have a good value
people adjust to certain situations to
where it benefits them so you need to
make sure you know you have to identify
your inefficiencies in to work to
improve them simple as that
number nine we’re almost done two more
so number nine you’ll want to keep
drivers productive and satisfied so such
amenities recommended from him include
restrooms brake areas and parking to
make they’ll adjust to make their
locations more desirable so when the
drivers on the clock everyone is on the
supply James so making sure the driver
can get to these amenities is pretty
crucial I’m guessing that’s more to do
with routes because I just can’t imagine
you know hey here’s your amenity here’s
a report a potty like it doesn’t I don’t
think it works like that if it does that
screams very very inefficient to me at
least yeah so the last and final tip
just to secure your truck load capacity
to make sure nothing goes haywire crazy
is that you need to tap your third-party
providers range of services rather if
it’s warehousing transportation or even
any value-added services technology I
don’t know the more that you can attain
from just a single provider is the more
seamless smooth and scalable your
operation can be so long story short
just see what they have to offer and see
if you can just streamline it into all
one hub or two hubs you know you don’t
wanna hold all your eggs in one basket
but I’m speaking for my opinion here so
that’s it so I mean that is a lot of
amazing interesting logistic stuff that
probably
one percent of the population loves and
the other percent 99% are hopefully
counting sheep one sheep two sheep three
sheep okay I’ll stop let’s talk about
this last informational piece from a
site called a serious simply just called
in-house logistics versus outsourced
logistics big and small brands alike are
targeting 3pl services so he talks more
about outsourcing of the supply James
may sound more far-fetched but you know
what just reading this I just really
don’t want to talk about it and it’s my
podcast so I get to do what I want to
hurry me so you know what I’m gonna stop
reading these articles and I’m pretty
sure I’ve inspired you I’ve gotten you
to think just a little bit but not too
much about sleep and some yeah even
maybe you learn to learn a thing or two
about logistics and you get to got to
listen to an old man rant now I am 33
and I know I’m not old old and I know
I’m pretty sure there are a lot of older
people that are just scoffing when I say
my age but hey I got a lot of gray hairs
and I don’t know I work off I work a lot
a lot well maybe not so much these days
I’m working on a whole work-life balance
kind of thing I think it’s working out
pretty decently you know I’m still able
to work I’m able to create this podcast
and I do have a few other ideas as well
but that’s at another time and another
place or maybe this is the perfect time
a perfect place no I think it’s just
another time I know we’re winding down
and before I go I just wanted to just
give a little piece of biggest human
miss coming for me I don’t know I’ll
find a way to jazz it up as you can tell
I’m not really someone who likes to plan
too much like I know if I plan but I
like to talk is if I’m talking to you
not it over radio voice you today is
what I’m going to talk about I think
that you know I I’m just not that kind
of person I mean I can be you know if
I’m playing a part and it might be
something I might do down the road but I
digress so I wanted to leave you today
with just more of the I guess the
initial inspiration of this podcast I
know last podcast I mentioned that you
know I just want to utilize my voice to
help people and that’s very true but the
inspiration of that we’re finding that I
should say came from an article I found
on medium.com and you might be able to
view a free medium does charge you five
dollars a month for this type of content
and I was very fortunate to actually use
one of my free previews to read it
because it really did change a lot you
know how I’m starting to view things and
I think a lot of us especially more
Millennials even older people are just
young people in general just don’t know
what’s out there or what you know what
what’s out there how do I get there and
what not were even just lighting a fire
in you to take action and not just an
action that you’re going to do for 30
minutes or two days straight and then
you forget about it but something that
seeps through the core I guess so
this article it’s called how I stopped
sitting around all day seething with
jealousy of my peers you know the first
thing that caught my eye was her
subtitle you know I learned the hard way
there are better morning routines than
googling people you envy and hating
herself as a result so this is something
I probably used to do back in my 20s and
luckily I don’t do that now but it
really does strike a chord with me in a
sense that well the author first is her
name is a man e-stat Miller I believe
stat stat biller I’m sorry I’m sorry
Mandy if you read this but like I’ve
really appreciated this piece of work
that you’ve written but I just don’t
want to say her name wrong so feel free
to correct me if you happen to hear this
that out Mandi she just did a really
great job I’m just explaining her
thoughts on whether it’s jealousy and
learning and just improving herself and
what she did over time you know how she
was able to find her muse going from I
believe being a writer out in New York
through learning how to or kind of
following her passion to write more
comedy and I I think for her there
actually say for me personally some of
the things that she does that she does
want that she does for a living I should
say is comedy in writing and in just
finding herself and bringing joy to
other people it’s it’s quite the read if
you’re interested in actually as a
matter of fact they have a audio version
of the story as well all you need is the
medium membership or the $5 a month one
I am probably gonna into buying it after
this podcast because I actually really
enjoy and it enjoy this article I have
it bookmarked I have a lot of things
bookmark these days and heck if you even
want to get inside of my mind more do
yourself a favor and just write this
down just go to medium and type in my
name Julia Montano I’m pretty sure it’s
going to be attributed to all the
podcasts wherever you find this on Apple
Spotify or ever or on YouTube I don’t
know where but I write some things too
rather it’s marketing and whatnot but
but I think most of those writings are
just things that I felt like writing at
the time and I really want to emphasize
more of that and I want to improve my
writing I want to improve a lot of
things I just want to improve in general
I should say you might notice when I
speak and when I talk I tend to have a
lot of differentiating almost awkward
like pauses it’s for me personally what
I’ve learned is that I would rather have
a slightly awkward pause compared to a
lot of us and ohm’s not that I don’t do
that it’s just a habit that I’ve
developed in
actually find it endearing for me
because it’s how I came to a solution
and I find it to be fairly viable and if
you are someone like me who does stumble
a little bit and fumble your words and
sometimes your head just wraps around
too fast and you overthink a lot it’s
something to try but again I digress
back to the medium article that I’ve
read from Andes it’s it’s a it’s a very
great perspective on kind of the inner
workings of how we think or at least how
she thinks and her views on like
jealousy and improving so on and so
forth and and from here I was just able
to resonate it with a lot especially
since I love comedy I’d feel like I’m
almost walking in her shoes I don’t know
if I am but that’s what I feel like when
I read articles like this and that’s
what I hope that you guys feel as well
when I talk more on this and hopefully
you’ve continued to follow my journey I
know these first few episodes are gonna
be a little bit rough but you know when
it comes to the destination I don’t know
where this podcast is gonna go I already
have ideas on how to just create content
get more people involved and bring more
of his ability to just anything that I
feel passionate about and I want more of
you guys to do that as well so I don’t
know if you’re still awake and if you’re
not if you’re still awake I’m very sorry
I’ve been trying to talk I’ve been
trying to get you to fall asleep but I
think what’s best if you’re still awake
and if you’re still listening and you
enjoy the sound of my voice you like
what I’m hearing is I guess to keep
almost sitting just to keep getting
inside you know how I think or who I
recommend to think and you can follow
them as well you know I’m not trying to
take over the world yet emphasis on the
yet and I mean that but who’s gonna find
that at the what 16 minute market this
episode – I don’t think this is even get
more than like ten views but I’m
enjoying this
keep talking and I’m gonna keep
podcasting and I hopefully I will
improve and get better and who knows
maybe I’ll be doing a keynote someday
and I’m a signature poncho that would be
pretty cool you know just to do what you
want
Ariana’s really don’t care about most
people think but it does matter to those
who do care strangely enough I don’t
know if that’s a good or a bad thing but
either way guys hopefully you enjoyed
this last hour and hopefully you guys
are deep and sleepy land this is joy
Avant on oh and I’m signing out see you
guys on the next the next cast