This Fun Friday post I wanted to post something really uplifting.
I have known Jenny Beth Martin for 10 years. She lost her home in the 2008 financial crisis and was cleaning other people’s homes at night to get by. Two years later she was one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people.
She came to my office and inspired my callers, many of whom have never met an influential, conservative woman who understands the hard path they have walked in life. Watch this video you and you will see why Jenny Beth Martin is an inspiration.
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Why aren’t you following our CampaignHQ Facebook page yet? We have been sharing some fun insights of members of our CampaignHQ team. You can check out more posts about our great employees too.
Here are some more of my favorite “Employee Spotlight” posts.
In case you missed it – I, Martha Waffles, took over the CampaignHQ email account the other day and happened to send out my yearly update from the trenches. It’s some of my finest work. I hope you will enjoy my “pup-date”:
Hello everyone, “howl” ya doin’?
Everything over here at CampaignHQ remains “pawsative.” I wanted to give you a few updates on what I have been up to the last 6 months – I think you’ll see, I haven’t just been “rolling“over!
I have been “sitting” (good girl) in on several meetings where we have discussed the advancement of our conTEXT messaging. My employees and I have worked our fingers to the “bone” – making sure we live up to our slogan as the “Best Conservative Call Center in America.”
Just like the “pup-arazzi,” I’ve been making my employees include images and videos in their peer-to-to-peer text messages. In fact, I asked them to make you a sample below to see how much more attention you can get with an image.
I’ve also been super busy working with Jessica to get your GIFTS wrapped! Oh wait, I wasn’t supposed to tell you that! BAD DOG! Well, when you “fetch” the mail, please act surprised. I don’t want to get in trouble again. But needless to say, if you have a secret, I’m not very good at keeping it.
Marlys loves it when I help her set up multiple patch through projects ranging from the South Carolina State House all the way to the United States Congress! No one keeps elected officials in line and makes them “heel” better than the CHQ team.
Okay, okay…. Enough serious business. I have a really funny story for you!
A few months ago, one of my employees was eating summer sausage (YUM). Well, he had this meeting to go over how our data team can continue to uphold their standards of getting trackers out early every. single. morning! And I, Martha Waffles, did not want that summer sausage to go to waste. So, I did what any sane pup would do and ate the entire platter! I will never “a-paw-logize,” it was delicious.
So, the next time you need someone to help you raise the “woof” on your phone calls or text messages, make sure you ask if your call center has a Chief Canine Officer named Martha Waffles. That’s how you know you’re getting the very best … ME!
If you’re just stopping by today, I’ve been going through a few books I picked up during the pandemic. You can check out an old post here or stay current on my Medium page.
Anyway, the next few surprised me – in some good, and not so good ways.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
It’s rare that I would read a non-fiction book about a topic other than business or human psychology. Basically I need to know how to run my business or deal with the people who impact it. But the surest way to surrender my own reasoned choice is not to get a good night’s sleep. So I thought there would be value in this book, and indeed there was. Up to a point.
This book was chock full of great information, and Walker is one of the country’s leading experts on sleep. But as the book wore on, his constant judgments and dispersions were just too much. Perhaps his copy editor did not get enough sleep on the day he had to tell Walker what to cut.
This was a surprisingly good book. This was a fictional account of two female artists who were selected to spend the summer as Tiffany fellows in the summer of 1924. While the story of Jenny Bell and Minx Deering is fictional, the Tiffany fellows program, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and his son, Oliver, are all indeed real.
When you read a lot of fiction in the same genre, you can often guess how a story will end halfway through. This one kept me guessing almost until the very end.
When Fiona Davis called this book a “rollicking ride,” I assumed it would be one of my favorite books of the year. WRONG!
Dreamland is the story of one of America’s wealthiest families and the summer they spent on Coney Island.
Young Peggy, who thinks she’s not spoiled because she worked at a bookstore, falls foolishly in love with an immigrant artist who sells both paintings and hot dogs at Coney Island. Her sister is engaged to an ogre of a man who was originally after Peggy.
The male members of the Batternberg family are either sexually deviant, harboring secrets, or just mean. Strangely, the sexually deviant one has no bearing on the plotline or the ultimate resolution of the story. So why bother?
The characters were not only unlikeable, they were utterly unbelievable. At least it was free with Kindle Unlimited.
I stumbled upon an article the other day that illustrates how candidates are having to really take a fresh look at how they are campaigning…
Now, like many of his colleagues, he is listening to the people online. The Republican is among growing number of the lawmakers now hosting Facebook Live town halls with constituents. His town hall and question-and-answer session lasted nearly a half-hour.
“We’re using all tools of technology,” he said. “The worst thing we can do today, in my opinion, is to not embrace that technology and to isolate ourselves.”
Hey friends — how has your pandemic reading been going?
If you haven’t been using this time to expand your knowledge, get organized, make plans and set goals … you have missed out. The world is opening back up, and given the history of pandemics, it’s not likely you’ll have another chance like this in your lifetime. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth during a pandemic. Newton called his semester away from school his “year of wonders.” It was during this time he first set forth his laws of motion.
Like Robert Greene says, it’s either Dead time or Alive time. Either way the time will pass. What will you make of it?
Check out this fantastic podcast clip from Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss here:
If you’ve been wondering about the reading I’ve been doing during the pandemic (of course you’re wondering) you can always follow along very closely on my Medium page .
In the meantime, here is a quick look at a few books I spent some time with:
The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living: A Novel by Louise Miller
I read this book at the recommendation of Elise Stefanik. Yes, that’s right. The very same Rep. Elise Stefanik who represents NY’s 21st District, the youngest Republican woman ever elected to Congress, who persisted while being repeatedly called out of order by an older man of the opposing party, reads for at least 30 minutes before going to bed each night. She publishes the list of books she’s read each year.
Now, onto the book itself.
This is the kind of engaging, light-hearted story that will take your mind off the day’s troubles. A fast, fun, easy read.
However, don’t mistake this book for an accurate depiction of rural life. If you are a city dweller seekingthe permanent social distancing of rural life, do not expect country folk eagerly embrace sassy, urban newcomers with purple hair. Expect the nail that sticks up to get hammered down.
All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris, by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
If you like historical fiction, it doesn’t get better than Beatriz Williams. While most Beatriz Williams novels have two intersecting plot lines, this one has THREE! This is because Williams has teamed up yet again with Lauren Willig and Karen White. Each one writes a different point of view and the result is amazing.
All three plot lines — World War I, World War II, and peacetime 1960’s — center around the Ritz Hotel in Paris. The WWI and WWII plotlines have plenty of excitement, suspense, and adventure. It was fun to unravel how the characters in one era would show up in the other. However, the 1960’s characters seemed shallow and contrived, as if their only purpose was to tell you what eventually happened to the earlier characters.
As always, characters from Beatriz Williams’ previous novels made cameo appearances, and it’s quite possible a minor character in this book will show up as the star in a future one. So while this wasn’t my favorite Williams novel, it’s definitely worth a read.
The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney
Well, it’s fitting that I read this right before a global pandemic decimated the economy. Who knew the American people would surrender their liberty so willingly?
The long and short of this book is that you are genetically hard-wired to look on the negative side of most events. People who tend to see the good in everything are outliers, and natural selection weeds them out over time. Thank goodness, because they are terribly annoying!
This book spent a lot more time on why negativity is so powerful than on “how we can rule it.” So if you want advice on that, check out The Daily Stoic instead.
I’ll be back with more books next week. In the meantime, drop me a line and let me know what you’ve been reading or if you have anything you think I should check out.
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times – CampaignHQ has THE BEST employees.
There is no question.
Our CampaignHQ team are dedicated to the causes they work for, their passion shines through on each and every call. They are the hardest working people and they never shy away from a touch call or task.
We’ve been having some fun over on our CampaignHQ Facebook page, pulling back the curtain on some of our great employees.
Here are some of my favorite “Employee Spotlight” posts.
