- Hey guys, welcome back to the Dr. Cliff, AuD vlog.
This is vlog number 31.
And before I get into what I wanna talk about
in today's vlog, I just wanna say thank you for all
of the support from last week's vlog.
As many of you know, I talked about
the passing of Dr. Eric Hagberg in that particular video.
Your words of support have been terrific,
not just towards me,
but towards the family members of Dr. Hagberg.
I had a lot of family members reach out to me
of his this past week expressing
their thanks for your guys' support.
So I wanna thank you right off the bat.
The obituary has actually been uploaded online
and I will link that in the description below.
And the family has requested that
in lieu of flowers for Dr. Hagberg,
they requested that you go to ChooseAudiology.org
and make a donation.
The whole purpose that he had at the end of his career,
and even in his retirement was to make sure that
Medicare beneficiaries had access directly to
audiology care, and that's something that
he really wanted to see happen.
So the family is in definite support of that
and they wanna make sure that that is seen through
even after his passing.
All right, so in this week's vlog,
I really wanna talk about my week
and what I do and what my schedule is like.
A lot of people reach out to me
oftentimes wondering how I find the time
to do all of this stuff that I do.
So I just kinda wanna share with you the typical schedule
that I would have throughout the week.
And let's go ahead and start with Monday.
So Monday mornings around 4:30 is when I wake up,
and I do this every day of the week.
And the main reason I wake up that early is
because if I want to get my workouts in,
I have to do at least one workout before work,
and work starts at eight o'clock for me.
So by waking up at 4:30, it allows me to go for,
you know, about an hour run each morning.
I really try to run in the mornings
just because out here in Arizona it gets so stinking hot,
and I can't really run with any amount of effectiveness,
I guess I would say, at least in the summertime,
if I choose to run in the afternoons.
But once I get that morning workout done,
of course get ready for work.
And I usually leave for work around 6:50 in the morning
and get to work around, you know, six.
Oh, sorry, 7:20 or 7:30, somewhere around there,
just to make sure that everything's ready to go
before my eight o'clock patient.
And I basically work from eight o'clock till five o'clock
each and every day seeing patients
except for on our break for lunch each day.
And as a little side note, I eat peanut butter and jelly
and an apple every single day at work for lunch,
because it only takes me about 15 minutes
which usually opens up my schedule a little bit more
to do other things like if a patient runs over
into lunchtime or, you know, a drop off repair happens,
something that I can do during that lunch hour.
After I get done seeing my last patient of the day,
usually around five o'clock,
I'll usually stick around the office to complete things
for about a half hour to an hour,
which usually gets me home around six or 6:30
because my commute is a half hour each way.
And what I do after work just depends on the particular day.
So some days of the week I will go right for a workout.
So whether it is weightlifting or whether it is cycling.
At the end of the day, I'll do that, I'll come home,
I'll eat dinner, and then I'll basically sit down
in front of the TV for about 30 minutes to an hour
before I have to go to bed.
Sometimes I'm actually working on editing at that time,
of the videos that I film on the weekend prior.
Other days I'll come home, I'll eat dinner right away,
and then I'll jump right into usually doing
some final edits on videos that Ashley has prepared for me.
Ashley, if you don't know, is my wife.
She does a lot of the rough editing of my videos
immediately after I film them, and so what I have to do is
I have to go in and do my final edits and overlays
and voiceovers and things like that.
Generally, I get to bed around 10 o'clock at night,
which gives me about six and a half hours
per night of sleep, which is, you know, fairly adequate.
I think I should probably be sleeping more.
But for the current time period,
about six and a half hours is what I can get away with
in order to accomplish all the other things that I wanna do.
Now, I try to post videos three times a week.
I typically like to post on a Tuesday morning,
on a Friday morning and then on
a Sunday afternoon for my blog.
So I just need to make sure that all of the editing
that I want done for a particular video is done
at least the night prior to when I wanna post
because I always have to submit my videos
for custom closed captions since the community
that I serve happens to be hard of hearing, of course.
I wanna make sure that there are really
good closed captions on all of my videos.
The exciting stuff comes down to Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday.
Now, my wife made me stop working in the clinic
on Fridays about, I don't know, three or four months ago.
And that has actually helped
a lot for me developing content for the channel.
So on Friday mornings, I'll wake up again pretty early
and I'll get out for a really long bike ride,
usually around two hours or so.
Once I'm done with that bike ride, I'll come back,
I'll clean up, have breakfast, all of that,
and then I'm usually doing phone calls.
I usually have, you know, three to five phone calls
every Friday with either providers in my network,
interviewing providers for my network, you know,
having conversations with other industry professionals,
you know, doing calls and preparation for podcasts
and interviews and things like that.
Once I get all of those phone calls out of the way,
I will, I didn't really start working on research
and scripting for the videos that
I wanna do on that particular weekend.
And so this takes a really big chunk of my Friday out.
And I usually don't get done with all of this stuff
till about five or 6:00 PM, which is just in time for dinner
and to try to relax a little bit during the evening.
Saturdays are my favorite day because I go out for
a really long trail run, at least during the summertime.
And I'm even out for usually around two to three hours
or so in the summertime.
I try to get out really early by about 6:00 AM
so I can be done by about 9:00 AM before
we really start hitting the triple digits.
Once I get back and have a chance to cool off a little bit,
eat breakfast again, I'm usually jumping right back
into the researching and scripting of my videos.
And I try to be done with that by about
two o'clock in the afternoon,
and that allows me to do my recording. So I try to record,
you know, sometime in the early afternoon,
sometimes it gets delayed until the evening.
It just depends on the complexity of the videos
that I'm making for that particular week.
But then I usually spend several hours recording my videos.
My videos are fairly structured,
at least the ones that are not my vlog videos like these.
These are a little more, you know, free talking,
But my other videos are very structured
'cause I'm trying to get a very specific point across
to my viewers and I don't want to kind of waste their time
with a lot of fluff that's built into that video.
So I design a script and I try to adhere to that script
fairly closely.
Of course, sometimes I will go off script a little bit
if I'm trying to drive home or particular point.
But for the most part, the recording of those videos,
and I do those videos back to back,
that takes me about anywhere between
two and a half to three hours to record two videos.
Sometimes when I'm done recording videos on a Saturday,
I'll jump right into editing,
either doing some rough editing myself
or doing some final edits on videos
that I recorded the weekend prior
that have already been rough edited by Ashley.
I generally get to bed on Saturdays really late
by about 11 o'clock is when I go to sleep on Saturdays.
And then on Sundays, I try to wake up around five
or 5:30 because I wanna be out on the road
for my long bike ride by about 6:00 AM.
Now, sometimes this doesn't happen. Sometimes I oversleep.
That's not a good thing, especially in the summertime
because it gets really, really hot, really, really early.
And so the sooner I get out on the road,
the better cycling I actually experience.
Now in the summertime, I actually teach a course
for the University of Illinois.
So I spend some of my Sunday morning working on
the scripting and content for that particular course.
Now this is only for the summertime.
That is not something that I do the rest of the year.
So we're really looking at about eight or nine weeks
of me working on that particular course
and recording my courses for the students
at the University of Illinois.
Outside of that though, really the blogging
is where I'm spending most of my time on Sundays.
So I had come up with a topic.
I generally don't script these very much.
I have my main topic and I have a couple of subtopic points
that I wanna make sure that I touch base on during the vlog.
But for the most part,
it's just me kind of having a conversation with you.
Once I'm done recording the vlog,
which only usually takes me about 20 minutes or so,
I end up editing the blog
and there's relatively minimal edits that happen
with the vlogs compared to my other structured videos.
But I try to get this video edited as soon as I can,
because I have to get it submitted for captioning
and I need to get that captioning back this same day.
And then I wanna be able to post this video on Sunday nights
because I don't wanna have it kind of overlapping with
other structured videos that I release.
On Sundays I generally try to be done with
any kind of video content creation, research,
reviewing of different devices by about four or 5:00 PM
because I really wanna spend at least a couple hours
with my dog and with my wife.
I usually go to bed around 10 o'clock or so,
again on Sunday nights,
and I repeat the whole process again the following week.
So some people ask me, "Cliff, why do you do this?
"Why do you spend so much time creating
"all of this video content?
"You obviously take nearly all of your free time to do it."
And I ask myself that sometimes as well.
Sometimes I feel bad taking time away from family.
I definitely don't spend enough time with family
by having my schedule jam packed like this.
But the thing that always gets me
is anytime that I go online and it's usually Facebook,
to be honest with you,
I see so much in misinformation
being passed along on Facebook in the consumer world
or by companies who are targeting, you know,
susceptible individuals who don't have enough foundational
understanding of hearing treatment
and being taken advantage of from companies
like Nano Hearing technologies.
Anytime that I see an ad for one of these companies
out there promising these unrealistic expectations,
and any time that I see, you know,
someone making a recommendation that,
"Oh, you should get this hearing aid
"because it works for me," it just ...
it drives me crazy, to be quite honest with you.
And it drives me so crazy that I feel like
it's one of my responsibilities to make sure
that I pass along accurate information to individuals
so they can make an informed decision on
what they wanna do with their healthcare.
Now, if people are unaware of what really goes into
quality hearing treatment, and not even quality,
just success with hearing treatment,
I think that they would make
better decisions for themselves.
So any time that I'm thinking about taking a step back
and reducing the amount of video content that I'm creating,
all I can think about are the individuals out there
who are being taken advantage of all the time,
who are not experiencing the highest
level of hearing ability that they want to be experiencing.
And that's what really keeps me motivated and going
and creating more content.
I know that I won't do this forever.
I've made a video explaining that before several weeks ago,
about how I will not be an audiologist forever,
about how I'll not make content like this forever.
But for right now, my mission in life is to serve
the hearing impaired community.
All right, guys. There you go.
That is all I wanna talk about for this week,
which is basically the week in the life of Dr. Cliff.
Hopefully you enjoyed this video.
If you did, give it a thumbs up
and check out my other vlogs if you haven't seen them yet.
Other than that, take care and I'll see you next week.
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