You Need to Have a Plan

In this interview with Fred, you’ll hear:

-What happens when you are faced with the idea that you may need to change your living situation and you may not be able to handle it yourself [1:57]

-Introduction of guest, Fred Hirsch [3:26]

·       Who is Fred Hirsch? [3:35]

-A series of unfortunate events with Carl [5:05]

·       At first, people helping Carl were not a team [10:11]

·       Crisis-medical emergency [10:47]

·       Team formed in hospital lobby [10:58]

-How Carl can longer move back to his apartment [14:02]

-Pivotal event- saying to somebody “you’re not going home again” [14:24]

-Holding out that hand of hope to someone who is in a physically failing situation [15:21]

-How group dynamics worked among the people helping Carl [16:33]

-Discussions on where Carl was going to move to [19:58]

-Knowing what to do and when to do it [21:16]

-Happiness is a not a standard we can achieve here [23:10]

-Did everything go according to plan? [26:20]

-Challenges involved in selling the condominium [28:01]

-How could things have gone better? [34:19]

-Secondary skills and flexibility in managing things [39:43]

-Everybody comes into this world from a different place [43:34]

-Part of listening and feeling, that part of not allowing efficiency to override feelings completely [44:39]

-Having a contingency plan [45:56]

-Incredible team that took on a huge task, achieved amazing results [47:30]

-The team took a break. We did a fabulous job, let’s get some rest [48:26]