Webinar Replay #19: Fleet Fitness

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Mark Rhea: Good morning, everyone and welcome to February, the 4th 2021 and thank you, Mr. Jay.

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Mark Rhea: Jay

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Mark Rhea: has been a industry supporter, for many, many years I’ve been involved with Jay well over 20 years and his support or the safety and wellbeing of our driving professional driving force is has been established for a long time, and we appreciate everything you’ve done for us Jay.

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Mark Rhea: Later in the in the event, we will be offering a free 30-day trial Thank you again for that Mr. Jay Wommack and I encourage everyone to.

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Mark Rhea: Take Jay up on that offer so let’s get started, very briefly, we Infinit-I Workforce Solutions is a remote learning platform that can improve your for-crash frequency, it can improve.

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Mark Rhea: bounce violations and more important than that it can prove the professional drivers in today we’re going to speak specifically about how you can help.

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Mark Rhea: them with their wellness and their ability to pass a DOT physical so we’ve got a lot to cover today we’ve got a fantastic speaker from Waterloo Iowa who was telling us a few minutes ago that are in a snowstorm up there, but.

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Mark Rhea: Luckily, he’s not in this snowstorm Mr. Nick Kuhle we’ll introduce him in a few minutes, so if we can go to the next slide.

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Mark Rhea: um I want to do a quick introduction of for a boot camp virtual boot camp that we will be conducting February 23 through 26, the focus will be recruiting, and retention specifically directed toward.

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Mark Rhea: maneuvering and navigating through the driver shortage everybody is very aware of the driver shortage this out there and

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Mark Rhea: that we’ve got some very good speakers for that great information to exchange so put that on your calendar February 23 through 26 more information will be coming about that as we go forward Craig is with us today, Mr. Greg heart and you.

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Mark Rhea: want to.

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Mark Rhea: comment on our upcoming virtual bootcamp.

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Craig Hart: Absolutely thanks mark good morning of this virtual boot camp is the product of feedback that we have received from attendees at our two previous large scale boot camps.

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Craig Hart: recruiting and retention remains the number one and number two most significant problems that you all are having to grapple with this year, so we wanted to get some of the best minds together.

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Craig Hart: On those subjects to tackle a great team that we were talking about with one of them yesterday is modern recruiting in a driver shortage so that’s really what we’re going to focus on and that boot camp, but also bigger than that.

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Craig Hart: I almost think we’re starting with our recruiting retention information, a little bit today with our guest speaker and this topic on.

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Craig Hart: Fleet fitness and making sure that drivers can pass their DOT physicals I want everybody on the call today.

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Craig Hart: think a bit broad about how this impacts your fleet, this is not just solely impacting DOT physicals so that drivers can remain with your organization.

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Craig Hart: Nick is going to cover a lot of different pieces of information about improving overall driver wellness that make them better drivers.

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Craig Hart: and better drivers have fewer accidents have fewer violations all these things have $1 amount attached to them so think more broadly about how this can be applied to your organization overall.

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Craig Hart: Because it’s going to if you put something in place and take advantage of what Nick is going to share today it is going to have a greater impact than just DOT physicals.

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Mark Rhea: Thank you, thank you, thank you so well let’s get started let’s get started, if we can go to the next slide my name again is mark Ray.

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Mark Rhea: I’m an industry veteran I’ve been out there in the field for over 35 years.

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Mark Rhea: primarily with frozen food express here in Dallas Texas and have experienced multitude of driver wellness and fleet fitness and issues that are relevant to the to the driver shortage and just before we get started.

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Mark Rhea: I wanted to make sure that we make the point that the driver shortage issue that was ranked number one again by the American research institute for transportation.

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Mark Rhea: Is this fitness issue this driver fitness the ability to pass a DOT physical.

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Mark Rhea: has a direct impact, it is not an indirect it has a significant impact on the driver shortage drivers being disqualified because of medical reasons.

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Mark Rhea: And we’ve got joining us today, Mr. Nick Kuhle from Waterloo Iowa he’s a holistic lifestyle coach consultant for TSA the trucker services association very large organization is based, out of Iowa and as.

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Mark Rhea: Members throughout the nation he’s a CHEK holistic health practitioner and he’s got a masters in exercise science, so he knows what he’s talking about and we’re looking forward to our discussion, if we go to the next slide please.

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Craig Hart: mark if I could jump in for just one second.

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Craig Hart: Everyone, this is an interactive event so feel.

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Craig Hart: free to open up your chat windows also once you’ve opened your chat window off your main menu go down to the bottom, where it says to click on that and select all panelists and attendees as.

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Craig Hart: Nick is going through his presentation you’re probably going to have questions about things that he brings up feel free to ask those in chat, so we can ask those of Nick.

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Mark Rhea: Yes, and, we have developed a checklist of the six pillars that I don’t want to steal the thunder from Mr. Nick Kuhle he will present much more.

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Mark Rhea: professionally than I am, but we have a checklist if you want that checklist, please get with Lindsay in the chat say hello out there on chat Lindsay and she will provide you the checklist to you can use to distribute to your drivers and get this information out there, so.

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Mark Rhea: If let’s get going up before we get started into the detail I just you know, one of the big issues that I know is the number one.

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Mark Rhea: A disqualifier for our professional drivers that are attempting to get their DOT physicals his blood pressure, blood pressure, blood pressure I’ve seen numerous drivers disqualified.

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Mark Rhea: Because of high blood pressure so before we get started, I wanted to ask Mr. Nick Kuhle specifically are you going to be able to present.

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Mark Rhea: A a method or some practices that can help our drivers with their blood pressure and then Craig I think we have content Infinit-I Workforce has specific content that.

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Mark Rhea: supplements that that we could get out even as early as this afternoon, if you if you’re a subscriber or take up on the free offer So the question is, can you impact the problem of high blood pressure, our drivers have.

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Nick Kuhle: Mark Walker Thank you guys, for having me, I appreciate that but to answer your question it’s 100% yes, we can help lower the blood pressure, we know, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity.

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Nick Kuhle: All these are symptoms that people are experiencing that are.

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Nick Kuhle: Failing to pastor DOT physicals but what I want you guys to think about here is we, I want you guys to ticket a bigger look at the picture and zoom out a little bit.

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Nick Kuhle: When they are having high blood pressure, when they are having diabetes, or being overweight, that is a direct result of poorly managed lifestyle.

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Nick Kuhle: So, if we can start making small drops into the bucket of health that’s going to naturally just improve their health, overall, and the blood pressure is going to come down.

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Nick Kuhle: I’m going to share with you guys’ multiple different ways that are literally free to help you guys your drivers reduce their blood pressure.

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Nick Kuhle: I want to give an analogy first, though, I have a little plant here the plants not doing too hot right now all plants need water sunlight and soil to.

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Nick Kuhle: live a healthy life too, and they need a certain amount of them have you guys ever bought plants before some plants need more sunlight some need less somebody more waters.

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Nick Kuhle: Some don’t need as much this plant I can’t figure out what’s going on I’m going through a mental checklist with it.

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Nick Kuhle: us humans are the exact same thing we need, certain aspects, and we need them in a certain balance to create health and that’s what I’m going to share with you on the six principles of health moving forward next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: So, when I talk about taking a holistic approach, I mean that from zooming out we’re going to look at your drivers health from a multitude of different.

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Nick Kuhle: avenues, so to speak, and they’re going to fall under the six principles which I will talk about here in a minute.

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Nick Kuhle: And if you can start applying this to your drivers right away, you’re going to see some crazy changes within their health right away.

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Nick Kuhle: And these are the objectives, of course, and then we know the federal motor carrier is.

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Nick Kuhle: Their involvement is increasing and where you guys are losing drivers, so we can put these small practices into place you guys are going to keep a lot more drivers on the road and you’re going to retain them for the long haul next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: A couple of the big issues that come out with truck drivers and failing to pass or DOT physicals we talked about blood pressure is number one.

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Nick Kuhle: overweight and obesity, diabetes prediabetes, but the thing is all three of these are related.

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Nick Kuhle: If you’re overweight, you’re going to be more likely to become diabetic if you’re overweight your hearts got to pump a heck of a lot harder.

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Nick Kuhle: Your blood pressure is going to go up these are all common, but the one point I want to make clear is, this is not normal, this is not healthy.

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Nick Kuhle: These are all symptoms, that your truck drivers and we don’t even need to talk about truck drivers right now.

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Nick Kuhle: Look at society, these are all symptoms that people are living out of balance with the six principles that I’m going to talk about, and you can start.

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Nick Kuhle: managing these six principles health is naturally going to come back to the individual.

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Nick Kuhle: Health in disease cannot coexist, so if someone is healthy, they’re not going to have disease or these issues going on.

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Nick Kuhle: And they had these issues going on they’re not going to be healthy, so what we can do is if we can provide the right environment for the individual health naturally comes back on its own, and we don’t have to do the work itself next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: So, I talked about the plant.

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Nick Kuhle: We as humans, we have six principles that we need to live by and they need to be within balance and they’re not that’s when we have these ailments arising, so the first one is nutrition.

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Nick Kuhle: breathing hydration sleep movement and thinking Okay, and I want you guys to think about this from the analogy of a spider Web.

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Nick Kuhle: You if you have, we’ve all ran into spider webs before if you touch any part of a spider web the entire spider Web.

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Nick Kuhle: moves and wiggles you can’t touch one part without another area, the spider web not shaking.

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Nick Kuhle: So, my point with this is, if you improve nutrition that’s going to have a cascade effect down the line, if you improve breathing.

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Nick Kuhle: that’s going to help if you improve hydration that’s going to improve sleeping that’s going to improve breathing it’s going to improve your thinking so.

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Nick Kuhle: By putting a focus on these six and making small droplets into that health bucket, you will see great results in a relatively short time next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: So, the first principle, I want to talk about is.

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Nick Kuhle: Nutrition and Mark Hyman said it best the solution to your health is at the end of your fork and I want you to take a step back and just think like.

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Nick Kuhle: What are your drivers eating, or what are you eating right now, what are you putting into your mouth is it health promoting or is it disease, promoting.

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Nick Kuhle: In my opinion, nutrition is the number one reason why people aren’t healthy and, if we look at a few stats it’s it becomes obvious.

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Nick Kuhle: We have 200 million Americans overweight or obese hundred, 135 million Americans or Type 2 diabetic or pre diabetic.

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Nick Kuhle: Two thirds of adults are on prescription medications, and I know certain prescription medications can fail the DOT requirements, so you can’t pass if you’re on specific medications.

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Nick Kuhle: But the best part about this all is 95% even upwards of 98% of all disease like disharmony within the body or even disease within the body.

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Nick Kuhle: is directly related to diet and lifestyle factors, so we can start improving on some of those factors.

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Nick Kuhle: Your health of the drivers, the retention of your drivers and the driver shortage is that’s not going to be as big of an issue, and you can slowly start keeping more drivers on the road lowering insurance costs yada yada you guys will find out a few more of that.

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Mark Rhea: Nick one of the research documents that we looked at earlier indicated 34% one out of every three commercial drivers have a disqualifying medical deficiency so.

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Mark Rhea: it’s a real issue out there for drivers and there’s obviously a reason that the Federal motor carrier administration mandates a routine physical, for that reason that we got to address this issue within our driver force and the numbers are overwhelmingly supportive of that.

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Nick Kuhle: yeah, that’s a staggering number being a third of the population of the drivers aren’t qualified to drive.

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Nick Kuhle: Next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: And here’s what I want to point out, we talked about the spider what I’m going to come back and repeat a couple things guys throughout this entire.

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Nick Kuhle: This webinar but, if your nutrition is deficient that’s going to directly impact your hormones, if your hormones are deficient is going to impact your nervous system nervous systems deficient going to impact your brain, so I want to break this down a little bit.

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Nick Kuhle: If you’re eating poor quality foods, all the time let’s just say processed foods for that measure.

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Nick Kuhle: Sugar and itself is going to suppress the immune system it’s going to increase your breath breathing rate.

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Nick Kuhle: and pay attention because when we go into breathing on the next one, you’re going to understand when you’re breathing rate goes up and you’re stressed your hormones cortisol.

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Nick Kuhle: Well, which is the stress hormone that’s going to increase which increases your blood pressure Okay, so if your nutrition is deficient that’s going to lead to extra stress in the body which is not going to be beneficial for the drivers.

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Nick Kuhle: If we want to go down to the brain aspect of things from poor nutrition now your brains, going to be deficient.

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Nick Kuhle: And by deficient I just mean it’s not going to be functioning optimally you’re going to have more brain fog, the mental and emotional clarity is not going to be there, you’ll have greater mood swings.

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Nick Kuhle: And when you’re also eating poor foods, do you notice how you tend to gravitate and you’re more stressed out and you react, instead of being proactive.

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Nick Kuhle: So, by making simple changes with your drivers of if they go to a truck stop and just educating them on these are the foods that you do not want to eat.

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Nick Kuhle: These are the very healthy foods these ones are going to promote health, these ones over here going to promote disease, obesity, weight gain, diabetes, etc, etc, so by educating your drivers on what is healthy and what is not healthy.

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Nick Kuhle: A simple thing like that is going to lead to small droplets in the bucket and those small droplets are going to lead to greater health of your drivers.

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Nick Kuhle: And,

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Mark Rhea: specifically on brain deficiency reaction time is impacted by poor nutrition is that a fair statement.

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Nick Kuhle: I would say yes that’s a fair statement.

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Craig Hart: it’s a reaction time and decision making, so if a driver finds himself in a situation where they must react quickly and correctly that their diet will impact their ability to do that.

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Nick Kuhle: here’s a prime example for you guys, have you guys ever had a meal and eaten a like a big meal and then you had to take a nap 20 minutes later 30 minutes later I mean if we want to think about thanksgiving that’s a.

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Nick Kuhle: At least in my family everyone eats and then they go sit watch TV and relax.

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Nick Kuhle: If you’re eating food and it’s draining energy from you that is poor quality food, energy should be uplifting and should promote energy or promote like mental clarity throughout the day for the next three to four hours.

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Nick Kuhle: um I want to add in though it doesn’t have to be crazy you don’t have to put your drivers on diets you don’t have to.

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Nick Kuhle: force them to go straight like a Paleo diet, or a ketogenic diet, or whatever that may be just simply making small substitutes is going to go a long way and you’re going to keep the drivers.

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Nick Kuhle: they’ll participate in it, because the change isn’t too big so we’re going to slowly start stacking small habits, on top of one another next slide please.

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Mark Rhea: We need to include our friends at the truck stops to help with a more balanced selection of food, sometimes as well.

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Nick Kuhle: Absolutely and that’s they don’t have the best selection, but they are getting better they are getting some fresh fruits and veggies they have raw nuts and seeds, they have waters, they have beef jerky they have.

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Nick Kuhle: Some healthier snack options which are all available at from what I’ve seen all the truck stops I’ve ever been to.

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Nick Kuhle: All right, let’s go the next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: The second pillar is breath breathing in the reason, this is one of the biggest pillars is because, on average, we take 25,900 breaths a day give or take.

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Nick Kuhle: If you’re stressed out more than likely you’re taking a lot more than that, so what I want to ask you guys to do right now for those that are listening and can do this.

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Nick Kuhle: Can you guys’ place one hand on your chest one hand on your belly I’m going to ask you guys to take five big breaths and I want you to pay attention.

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Nick Kuhle: Does your chest move does your belly move do they both move, are you breathing through your mouth, are you breathing through your nose so take 15 seconds and I’ll we’ll go through this.

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Nick Kuhle: it’s going to look like this.

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Nick Kuhle: Beautiful thanks guys and from my clinical observation I find very few people that know how to breathe correctly.

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Nick Kuhle: If you’re breathing correctly, you should inhale through the nose, your belly should expand our first and then the chest should move, I saw something my tell me move that’s awesome you’re telling me should move first okay so you’re telling me moves out then your chest, and then you exhale.

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Nick Kuhle: If you are not breathing that way, you are going to stress your body out more when you get stressed out.

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Nick Kuhle: that’s when stress hormones are released in the body when that’s released in the body, the blood pressure shoots up so simply breathing for 10-15 minutes properly.

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Nick Kuhle: You can lower your blood pressure, drivers can do this, all day long if you teach them how to do it correctly, you can get their blood pressure to come down by that alone.

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Nick Kuhle: A few other things I’ll just throw in there if you’re breathing incorrectly it’s going to impair your digestion.

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Nick Kuhle: it’s going to impair your detoxification, muscle repair, removal waste, and the other thing is lower your immune system okay.

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Nick Kuhle: We want to keep drivers on the road we want to keep them not taking sick days.

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Nick Kuhle: So, by breathing correctly it’s going to improve their immune system, especially in the state that we are in, right now, with COVID happening, we want a strong immune system.

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Nick Kuhle: So, we know sugar that lowers immune system and increases your breathing rate we know your breathing rate, if that increases that’s going to lower your immune system so that spider web is starting to come into play here again.

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Nick Kuhle: let’s go to the next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: And this is just going to be a few other points of over breathing and you guys may or may not notice this within your own self but.

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Nick Kuhle: Over breathing is going to lead to musculoskeletal issues you’re going to have achy muscles from buildup of lactic acid.

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Nick Kuhle: Many people that I work with have like tension in their neck their shoulders they get headaches, that alone can come from breathing.

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Nick Kuhle: So, teaching people how to breathe better it’s going to lower the stress the anxiety is going to go away the muscle aches will go away.

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Nick Kuhle: you’re going to have biochemical issues, not to go to science, but you get the stress or the fight or flight state versus the rest and relax.

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Nick Kuhle: breathing alone can put you into the fight or flight state or can put you in the rest and relax state.

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Nick Kuhle: So, teaching drivers, how to relax which is going to make them a lot better driver they’re going to be more attentive and they’re not going to be angry and aggressive on the road, if someone cuts them off.

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Nick Kuhle: We talked about digestive issues, mental, emotional issues, anxiety we’ve all been around anxious people if you watch anxious people, they’re all chest breathers.

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Nick Kuhle: They breathe, through their mouth.

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Nick Kuhle: So, if you know people that are anxious get them to breathe correctly that’s going to bring down the stress level bring down the blood pressure and then we know stress is linked to all major causes of death and disease.

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Mark Rhea: Likely Nick could posture have an impact on proper breathing techniques.

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Nick Kuhle: Oh, absolutely Mark um hang on two minutes I think in a couple slides we’re going to talk about.

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Nick Kuhle: This is one of my favorites, this is the easiest way to lower individuals blood pressure, Mark so you’re doing are already drinking some water.

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Mark Rhea: Yes, here it is.

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Nick Kuhle: you’re not sick, you’re thirsty Dr. Batmanghelidj in his book your body’s many cries for water that’s what he states 100% agree with that.

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Nick Kuhle: Were composed of approximately 75% of water, but very few people put an emphasis on hydration.

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Nick Kuhle: Most people think if you’re dehydrated your mouth gets dry, that is, like the last sign of dehydration one thing that you can do right now is, if you pinch, the back of your skin, it should snap right back into place if it doesn’t snap in and it kind of like hangs out there for a second.

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Nick Kuhle: Many dehydration symptoms are often treated as hypertension or high blood pressure. Okay, so we can just get your drivers to drink a little bit more water that’s going to improve their blood pressure.

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Nick Kuhle: People take these medications for high blood pressure when they’re only dehydrated.

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Nick Kuhle: Those medications are also going to stress the body out there stressful on the liver, the liver has to detoxify them and get them out of the system.

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Nick Kuhle: So, it’s almost like a double whammy when you could just get your drivers going from one bottle of water to two bottles of water and making these small changes and the other side of the other positive, this is when you drink more water you’re more energized. I work with a client,

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Nick Kuhle: the first week I work with her, she was telling me she was literally crawling to her bed, because it was less painful than walking.

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Nick Kuhle: I asked her to increase her water that alone, she says in the one month she’s like it’s unreal how much better, I feel, she has not crawled one time feel so much better, so increasing water is like one of the simplest things that you can do next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: We talked about dehydration and the other aspect I want to elaborate on a little bit is many of the drinks that drivers are consuming or purchasing from truck stops have dehydrating agents with them.

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Nick Kuhle: So, they’re having teas, they’re having coffees, hopefully not have an alcohol on the road, but I just want to throw that in there, because all these are dehydrating agents.

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Nick Kuhle: So, you drink it you’re going to be excluding more water out then you’re going to be retaining which leads to dehydration which leads to higher blood pressure, which leads to medications which leads to maybe may or may not passing DOT physicals.

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Nick Kuhle: And then to tie this, all together, one more time with a spider Web.

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Nick Kuhle: drink a glass of water, more than likely that hunger is going to go away so there’s another one hydration is a big one next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: Sleep, a good laugh and a long sleep are the two best curious for anything. I will second that one.

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Nick Kuhle: Just in general sleeps function is to help recharge your system, accumulate more energy, and repair the body both mentally and physically.

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Nick Kuhle: I want to point that out mentally and physically, we all know the difference when we get five hours of sleep, compared to a full night’s rest, your brain cognition your mental sharpness is not even close to where it could be at is, if you get a full night’s sleep.

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Nick Kuhle: But very few people prioritize sleep in their life truck drivers long haul drivers, it may be a little bit more difficult to do that, but when we optimize maybe the five other principles that’s going to help out the sleep because everything’s interconnected- spider Web.

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Nick Kuhle: The other issue let’s go the next slide I’ll talk about on the next slide.

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Nick Kuhle: Here are some issues, some concerns some major concerns that happen if you are getting poor sleep.

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Nick Kuhle: Yeah, get some water, I mean first off it raises cortisol levels, we know cortisol the stress hormone, we know stress hormone increases the blood pressure, so we got a common theme here going.

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Nick Kuhle: It causes insulin resistant, even after one night and when they say after one night, they don’t mean getting like three or four hours of sleep they mean getting six, six and a half hours of sleep.

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Nick Kuhle: That can still cause insulin resistance, we know that is not going to be beneficial overall health leads to obesity, diabetes.

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Nick Kuhle: When you get less than about seven hours of sleep it’s going to automatically trigger in your brain to go out and search for sugary and starchy foods that are commonly not as healthy.

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Nick Kuhle: Less sleep also increases inflammation, we know chronic inflammation can lead to diabetes, all these things are that spider webs coming together.

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Nick Kuhle: A lot of people don’t get quality asleep because they’re having caffeine and sugar prime example is this is caffeine, if you go to any truck stop or any grocery store, you’re going to be loaded with options of energy drinks.

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Nick Kuhle: It has 300 milligrams of caffeine, so if you have a bang at 12 noon, at 6pm you’re still going to have 150 milligrams of caffeine in your system.

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Nick Kuhle: at midnight you’re still going to have 75 milligrams of caffeine in your system that’s not going to help out the quality of sleep, which is therefore going to impair on the driver cell.

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Nick Kuhle: So, educating drivers on the small things just so they’re more cognizant of it will help out in the long run.

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Nick Kuhle: Poor sleep also messes with people’s hormones, it dampens their metabolism, and the thyroid function and their thyroid function so they’re not burning as many calories throughout the day so and impairs memory and learning as we talked about so next slide, please.

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Mark Rhea: Pillar five is movement, just as a reminder, if you don’t have the checklist please get on the chat with.

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Mark Rhea: Lindsay all of these we’ve got a beautiful checklist and we’re on item five and I’ll tell us about movement.

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Nick Kuhle: Excuse me.

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Nick Kuhle: here’s what I’ll say. Your drivers do not need to be going to the gym for two hours that’s, the last thing that they want to do, and they won’t do it, they’ll reject it more than 95% of them will, however, have you can just get them to go for a walk and that alone will have significant.

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Nick Kuhle: positives for the drivers, health and the mental clarity so poor posture has a significant implication on the entire body as a whole.

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Nick Kuhle: prime example, let me show you firsthand, if you do me a favor and you guys can just kind of round forward into like a semi fetal position, so your shoulders around in your chins kind of tucked down.

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Nick Kuhle: rounded back take a big breath.

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Nick Kuhle: We talked about that with breathing now so if you’re in a poor posture it’s going to naturally force you to breathe in your chest.

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Nick Kuhle: Which is going to signal to the brain that you’re in a stressful state releases cortisol and higher blood pressure so just by changing the pasture up and getting your drivers to sit up, it could be as simple as having your driver set a timer every hour.

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Nick Kuhle: Every hour on the hour they sit up tall they take five deep calming breaths that alone will have my rate of positive effects within your driver’s mental health.

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Nick Kuhle: And the other aspect is muscle function, joint health, and circulation.

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Nick Kuhle: So poor posture is going to impact all those if you’re hunched over, you’re not going to be getting the stagnant air out of the lungs more toxic and so on. The other part that Mark was talking about, I believe, is your physiology and your psychology mirror one another.

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Nick Kuhle: So, I have personally never seen a depressed person that sits up nice and tall with a smile on their face it just doesn’t happen.

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Nick Kuhle: You don’t see losers throwing their hands up in the air, after a contest you see winners throwing their hands up in the air in the contest.

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Nick Kuhle: psychology and posture directly influenced one another, so by changing your drivers posture it’s going to change their breathing.

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Nick Kuhle: it’s going to change their mental emotional state, it’s going to reduce their anger aggressive behavior, which we know that can lead to more accidents on the road which can save you guys tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Nick Kuhle: So just changing posture and getting your drivers to go for a walk will be one of the simplest things that you can do to help your drivers next slide please.

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Nick Kuhle: Thank you, and the last pillar is thinking your body.

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Nick Kuhle: Is the report card of your mind by Paul Chek.

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Nick Kuhle: um so here’s what I’ll say your focus goes where your focus goes your energy flows if anyone’s ever bought a new vehicle.

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Nick Kuhle: No one else had that vehicle in the city that you lived in until you bought the vehicle and then now you see it everywhere.

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Nick Kuhle: you’re more aware of it, so now you start seeing it everywhere, so if you are constantly thinking of negative thoughts.

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Nick Kuhle: that’s where the energy is going to flow, you’re always going to have those negative thoughts.

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Nick Kuhle: We know those negative thoughts are going to change the body posture, it’s going to change your breathing, it’s going to stress, you out if you’re getting stressed out most people cope with eating poor quality foods to deal with the stress.

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Nick Kuhle: So, if we can change even making small changes within their thought process that’s going to help out their mental and emotional.

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Nick Kuhle: State of being while they’re driving and we know the ATRI Research indicates that drivers with angry dress the personality traits are much more likely to be involved in accidents, which is unfortunate.

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Nick Kuhle: So that’s awesome, how do you implement this? So, here’s what I would recommend if you guys have direct connections with your drivers.

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Nick Kuhle: figure out what there Why is get clear on it obviously they want to have a job, so if they’re not going to be able to pass or DOT physicals.

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Nick Kuhle: Using that as them why to make some small changes is going to be awesome, and I say that because we need to start with small changes you can’t get someone to go from zero to 100 overnight. this May

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Nick Kuhle: take a span of two three months but getting them to drink more water, one day, and then maybe two bottles, the next week and then maybe three bottles, the third week or instead of having this.

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Nick Kuhle: And then slowly start stacking small habits, on top of one another, you guys have the checklist go through it, they can check those off they’re already going to be moving in the right direction.

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Nick Kuhle: And it goes back to the plant.

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Nick Kuhle: A plant needs water, soil and sunlight, we need these ones, if you can start getting these into more of a balance within their lifestyle, while they’re driving and most of the things, I’ve talked about are free.

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Nick Kuhle: you’re going to see the health changes within your drivers you won’t have as many.

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Nick Kuhle: Failing their DOT physical you’ll have a lot more passing them they’re going to be better drivers on the road they’re going to stay calm, cool, and collected and they won’t be the angry aggressive drivers, which we know.

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Nick Kuhle: lead to more accidents so which is going to save you guys money in the long haul and with that mark I’ll turn it over to you.

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Mark Rhea: Well, well nutrition quit eating the junk food, dehydration, drink the water, breathing through your nose, get sleep, which is obviously a challenge in our industry but it’s doable.

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Mark Rhea: Movement, thinking, those are the six pillars. I’ve got them written down. Craig now you’ve done a little research within the Infinit-I library, can you kind of review some opportunities that our class can cash in on immediately.

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Craig Hart: One of the things that we need to be cognizant of when we introduce this information to drivers is.

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Craig Hart: We can’t just tell them be healthier without giving them a plan or some steps that they can take proactively on their own to be healthier.

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Craig Hart: At the bottom of that slide there we’ve got several different courses that are already available in our content library.

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Craig Hart: On sleep apnea rest stop routines in terms of things that drivers could be doing when they’re at a rest stop to improve their health.

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Craig Hart: there’s some a couple different modules on good sleeping habits for truck drivers are several on fatigue management nutrition and health.

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Craig Hart: These are all things that could be assigned out to a driver as part of training, to bring them their level of awareness of what you were trying to do with a wellness program.

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Craig Hart: We also have groups that we work with that have acquired third party wellness content.

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Craig Hart: That is able to be featured in the platform as well, so that you can have that record of reporting that people are completing that training so that you can act upon that know was talking with Mark about this prior to the call.

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Craig Hart: I mean, some of the larger carriers out there have dedicated staff for driver wellness their job is to come up with programs to make their drivers healthier.

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Craig Hart: So that their drivers are able to pass the physicals but also, they have less accidents they’ll have less violations.

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Craig Hart: They also have a healthier more positive frame of mind which I think is something that we could probably talk more about.

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Craig Hart: A happy driver is one that is less inclined to look for a new job. A happy driver, going to be one that is happy with where they’re at.

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Craig Hart: And that is a huge retention problem solver because Mark, we were talking about this statistic last week is that.

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Craig Hart: If someone is dissatisfied with the organization, they make up their mind very quickly to go look for another job.

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Craig Hart: So, helping instill positive attitudes through better health is going to be a beneficial retention tool for your organization, because you are going to have a more of a larger workforce with a positive frame of mind working for you.

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Craig Hart: But less accidents, less violations, that’s going to be huge lesson, you know the cost of losing a driver anywhere between $7500-$10,000 per driver on average for the industry.

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Craig Hart: Your accidents, right now, are you know simple repairs are an excess of $15,000 and up. If you need to have just side mirror repair, that is no longer a couple hundred dollar fix if we could make drivers

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Craig Hart: better rested better fed more energetic more clarity in their minds they’re going to behave better on the roads for all of us and that’s really the takeaway I wanted you guys to have today is that this does not just.

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Craig Hart: eat better and lose weight, this is eaten better so you can think better and perform better behind the wheel of your trucks because that’s going to impact so many different levels for you all out there um.

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Craig Hart: I guess, I have a question for you, Nick if someone is trying to create a program to help their drivers out from scratch, some of the folks on the call with us today have to wear multiple hats in their organization there the recruiter and the safety manager, at the same time.

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Craig Hart: What are some things that they can do or some steps that they can put in place very quickly that they can start taking advantage of I know some of these groups that we have on the call with us today.

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Craig Hart: They manage multiple locations that their drivers go to multiple terminals across this country.

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Craig Hart: I know some things I was thinking about is you know a lot of these have a driver break room for example.

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Craig Hart: place for their drivers can stay, while their trucks are being serviced and you know they have vending machines and those.

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Craig Hart: Is it something as simple as you know, replacing the sodas with more bottles of water in the vending machine so that becomes a more prevalent option.

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Craig Hart: For the drivers, so what are some what are some of those small steps that people can start taking today and communicating out to their team.

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Nick Kuhle: Like I said there’s I look at it from three different standpoints, you can either for the health aspect of nutrition aspect you can add healthy foods in.

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Nick Kuhle: So, like maybe you want to add in some broccoli or carrots or something else that’s healthy you could take something out alright so I’m just going to quit eating candy bars.

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Nick Kuhle: Or you can make substitutions. I’m a big fan of substitution, because then you’re replacing a habit with another habit.

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Nick Kuhle: So, there’s companies out there that have healthy drinks that are very close to.

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Nick Kuhle: we’ll just say pop like there’s Zevia a that’s a really good alternative Spindrift is a very good alternative is like a sparkling water that tastes good have some my fridge right now.

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Nick Kuhle: To get started right away, go to the ones that are free, get your drivers drinking more water that’s the simplest things the lowest hanging fruit like I said, have them set a timer on their phone every hour takes five deep breaths enter their belly and long exhales.

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Nick Kuhle: Those little things will be a big drop in the bucket once they become habitual.

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Craig Hart: I don’t think the people on the call realize how self-conscious they themselves are now going to be about their breathing habits.

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Craig Hart: Just unless you talk today, I know the Mark and I have spoken with you a couple times and we’ve talked privately about how we are absolutely thinking about how we’re breathing so it really, it’s you have to take that step, you have to be conscious of what you’re doing.

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Nick Kuhle: And that’s the thing we’re bringing things out of the subconscious and into the conscious and if you can lead by example, it’s a heck of a lot easier

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Nick Kuhle: walking a driver through this. This is my experience with it just within three days of drinking water, I have so much more energy now, rather than just like telling someone to do something I would recommend leading by example.

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Mark Rhea: What is in demand and what can help with this and Nick you do that tell us a little bit about your coaching practice.

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Nick Kuhle: yeah, so with my coaching practice, I have assessments that I give to my clients that tracks their overall health attracts their stress levels.

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Nick Kuhle: And when you can give someone like objective measures, and they can see that they’re making progress from just like little changes.

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Nick Kuhle: That’s when you get them hook line and sinker and that’s beautiful, because then they’re going to start becoming healthier individuals, so I work with my clients we work on a weekly basis.

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Nick Kuhle: We address any challenges that they have throughout the course of their putting these healthier practices into place. Let’s be real, it’s not easy.

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Nick Kuhle: Becoming healthy today, if you look around, we have marketing’s everywhere, people are saying buy this food eat this food.

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Nick Kuhle: So, to go back, yes, I work with individuals on a weekly basis to help them out and move them forward.

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Mark Rhea: Fantastic and Craig we clearly have content that can help the listening audience so get this information to the field.

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Mark Rhea: Just quickly as this afternoon, if they will.

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Mark Rhea: If they need the free trial, we can set them up with a customer client success representative and literally get this information out this afternoon is that is that true.

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Craig Hart: that’s correct that’s correct and one question that came in from Kelly in the audience and I’m going to paraphrase this a little bit.

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Craig Hart: she’s asking about the frequency with which wellness training, wellness preparedness should take place, she says right now is that she’s got a monthly program addressing healthy eating, exercise, restful sleep, should she be looking at something like a weekly program to deliver this information.

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Nick Kuhle: Personally, I would say weekly just for the mere fact that you ask someone to do something you’re checking in with them a month later.

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Nick Kuhle: it’s really simple to get motivated for two three days and then slowly start falling off wherever you can start reaching out to them.

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Nick Kuhle: Whether it’s like you just sending out a quick little email, hey how’s everything going, are you sticking with the plan are you substituting things out you’re going to have a lot more buy in and they’re going to be able to stick to it for the long haul.

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Craig Hart: I agree with that, I mean we see that in the training that we do that more frequently is quicker for adoption and you have a higher participation rate, because it just it’s it like healthy living becomes habitual so.

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Nick Kuhle: And that’s the thing if you just stack small little habits.

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Nick Kuhle: Like it doesn’t have to be a long 30-minute conversations, hey did you get your four bottles of water today, or hey did you get your two bottles of water, did you substitute our coffee for this drink.

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Nick Kuhle: Like little, small things and just keeping it on the forefront of their mind is going to do miracles.

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Craig Hart: And I don’t think there’s anybody on this call that for the price of a couple 24 bottle packs of water.

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Craig Hart: would rather buy water then have to replace a driver if you’re able to make a positive effect and a positive change, certainly the tremendous cost savings there versus $10,000.

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Craig Hart: To just replace a driver versus a 24-pack bottle of water, making sure that they’re staying hydrated with the correct beverages throughout the day.

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Craig Hart: I know that that’s a challenge, because you know the drivers don’t want to stop at the rest area to go to the bathroom if they don’t have to but it’s almost kind of that

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Craig Hart: mental argument that they’re making with themselves like I don’t want to drink more water that’ll make me go to the bathroom I’m just going to drink more coffee and tea instead.

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Craig Hart: And it’s like what were you doing that thing that you said you didn’t want to do already you’re just doing it without water.

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Craig Hart: So.

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Craig Hart: I think.

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Craig Hart: there’s.

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Craig Hart: A tremendous room for improvement here.

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Mark Rhea: That would be a pretty easy return on investment calculation so yeah well we’ve had a as I anticipated an outstanding presentation, I think, do we have a poll Colin, that we can, if people are interested in.

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Mark Rhea: The upcoming boot camp it’s scheduled that we’re going to go over recruiting issues, we’re going to go over we got fantastic speaker, Mr. Dan Baker on driver retention, we got JEREMY Reimer, we got Women in Trucking.

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Mark Rhea: If you would like to participate in that just answer yes to question one.

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Mark Rhea: If you’d like to take Mr. Jay Wommack up on his complimentary 30-day free trial that he offered at the beginning of our session just chick yes, and if you were to talk to Nick which I would certainly encourage because

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Mark Rhea: all this information is great but getting it into practice is the challenge. He specializes in truck drivers. He does a lot of work with trucker services association that I’m very familiar with, they speak very highly of him click yes, and we will get in touch with Mr. Nick.

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Mark Rhea: So those are the three closing questions that we’ve got.

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Mark Rhea: I’m going to drink more water and I’m a little more consequence of my breathing and my posture so I appreciate that it’s an important issue in our industry.

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Mark Rhea: Nick, thank you very much, I hope it stopped snowing sooner or later in Waterloo Iowa. Craig any last-minute comments on the upcoming boot camp we’ve got.

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Craig Hart: Oh yes.

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Mark Rhea: The checklist the checklist please we got there you go.

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Craig Hart: Everyone again you’re invited to attend our boot camp that is coming up the end of this month, the 23rd through the 26, this is all about.

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Craig Hart: Looking ahead at recruiting in a driver shortage, what are the things that you are not doing that you need to be implementing into your program when we’re looking at recruiting and retention.

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Craig Hart: today’s webinar was a great example of that there is no one solution that is going to solve your driver recruiting and driver retention challenges.

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Craig Hart: If you have multiple weapons in your arsenal, and this is all about gathering multiple arrows for your quiver.

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Craig Hart: This is going to give you so much more leverage to make a positive change in your organization, so please, please join us for the event we’d love to have you, and this is our third they’ve all been excellent, so far, we expect this one to be the best of the bunch.

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Mark Rhea: Fantastic we’re at the end of our scheduled time frame it’s been a most enlightening.

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Mark Rhea: Information exchange with Mr. Nick Kuhle and we look forward to seeing everyone in February 23-26 have a fantastic close to February, the 4th, 2021.

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Mark Rhea: Thank you very much.

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Craig Hart: And thanks Nick, thank you everyone, thank you.