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Need to edit an existing post? Sign Inober 14, 1950 at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Flora. Evelyn preceded him in death on April 15, 2013 after 63 years of marriage. Kenny was a faithful member of St. Stephen’s Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. He worked as a train dispatcher for the B&O Railroad for 38 years. In his spare time, Kenny enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, sports, and card games.
He is survived by 5 children: Terry (Carolyn) Myers of Flora, Sharon (Kevin) Anfield of Danville, Debbie (Darrell) Gummert of Flora, Diane (Bobby) Briscoe of Flora, Danny (Maria) Myers of Westfield, IN; 12 grandchildren: Tamara (Jim) Malebranche, Jeremy (Mariah) Myers, Nathan (Jordan) Myers, Melissa (Tony) Markiewicz, Mandy (Jan) Thompson, Ashlee Upton, Michael Upton, Samantha Briscoe (fiancé Joshua Tanner), Savannah Myers, Aaron Myers, Joshua Myers, Jordan Myers; 15 great-grandchildren: Isabel, Layla, Avystan, Reagan, Ryder, Eleanor, Rowen, Kevin, William, Landon, Avalynne, Vivienne, Charlotte, Sydney, Giuliana; nieces Mary Helen Hollencamp, Becky Lobeck, Susan Rinehart, Becky Block; nephews Donald Myers and Todd Peeler; and sister-in-law Janet Peeler.
He was preceded in death by his parents (Jake and Millie Peeler), a daughter (Connie Myers), a grandchild (Collin Myers), brothers (John, Abe, Tom, Paul) and nephew (Richard Myers).
The funeral mass for Kenneth Myers will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, April 6th at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Flora. Burial will follow in St. Stephen’s Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5th at Frank & Bright Funeral Home with a 5:00 p.m. Rosary. Memorials may be in the form of donations to the St. Stephen’s Cemetery Fund or Clay County Hospice.
We would like to give a special thank you to our caregivers and visitors of Kenny throughout the past several months.
To send flowers to the family of Kenneth L. MyMaryalice: Hey everyone, Maryalice Goldsmith here, Director of Student Success at The Speaker Lab and today I’m thrilled to introduce you to Dr. Nour Khatib. She has an amazing story to share and I’m so excited that she’s here to share with all of us today. How are you today?
Nour: I’m doing very well. I’m really happy to be here. Thanks for having me on.
Maryalice: So let’s just dive in and get to the goodness here. What do you speak about?
Nour: Sure. I help overworked and jaded professionals overcome burnout so that they can fall in love with their profession again. We’ve seen that time and time again — you go into a profession, you’re all like bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ready to go. You’ve got passion in your job. But as years progress, People start losing that passion, people start losing that hope or those goals. And I want to bring that back. I felt it myself and my own story and I felt burnout myself and I lost touch with why I’m in my profession. And slowly I was able to come out of that and I want to help inspire people to do the same.
I’m an emergency room doctor. The last two years have taken a toll on everyone, whether it’s employees, patients, doctors, nurses — people are leaving the profession. I see it every day in my colleagues coming to work, kind of dragging themselves to work and really we’ve kind of lost touch as to why we do this, because of our systemic burnout, our system, our healthcare system that is crumbling really worldwide.
This isn’t a one country issue. And I see this day in and day out, and the fact that I am a professional speaker on this has helped me get through this and I’ve helped my colleagues get through it too, because my burnout was well before COVID. My burnout started many years ago.
So here’s a little anecdote — I introduce my talks by saying, “Hi everyone, my name’s Dr. Nour Khatib, I’m an emergency physician, but I’m also a med school drop-out.” How does that work? What — how are you allowed to work? What’s going on here — right?
So I actually got into med school at the age of 18 through this fast track in Quebec. I’m from Canada and there’s this way to get into med school when you’re younger. And I got in, I worked hard, I had that in mind, and I got in and within just a couple of months I thought that path was scary.  And in fact, two months into being in medical school, I dropped out and I went into business school and I loved it. I worked in finance, I did an MBA, I did lots of presentations, and that’s where I realized my passion for speaking.
Yet all throughout, I still felt there was something missing, and this is part of my talks, is when you feel like there is something missing, do not ignore it. No matter what age you are, if there’s something missing, sit down with yourself and ask yourself what’s missing. What is it that I can do to add that passion?
Because like I said, you start work. Bushy tailed and bright eyed. And then as years pass, as responsibilities progress, you start losing that passion and you want to make sure to maintain it and whatever is missing you need to address for me. I was meant to be an emergency doctor. I was meant to become a doctor. I left my excellent, stable, wonderful job as a financial analyst in the middle of a recession in 2008, I left that job and I went into medical school like a crazy person. But I do not regret it whatsoever. It made me who I am today. It made me the speaker I am today, and I’m able to help my clients and my audience much better.
With that background and with that knowledge and now through a pandemic, I can tell you I know what burnout feels like. I know what my colleagues are going through, why the nurses are leaving, overall what the profession is going through. And I am here because The Speaker Lab really helped me be ready as a professional speaker to help others bring that passion back and love their work.
Maryalice: You are throwing me for a whirl right now. I don’t even know what to say. You are so smart. I mean you made it through a financial epidemic, a medical pandemic – wow. So tell me, what is something you say to people who are experiencing burnout?
Nour: I tell people to sit back and think about how, if you don’t have work this week, what would you be doing differently? What would you be doing? Let’s say you don’t have work this week. How do you feel? And write that down. Write down how you feel. I feel relieved because of what? But answer the question, because everyone’s going to feel relieved if their responsibilities are gone for a week.
I’m not talking about a vacation week. I’m talking about imagining you do not have work this week, but you’re also not somewhere in the Bahamas, right? You’re not working. Tell me why you feel relieved, and look at those whys and see if there’s anything you can change in them so that you can mitigate a path towards burnout. Because look, the pandemic, hopefully we’re going to be over it soon – if we stick together, we work through it, hopefully we’re going to be over it. But it’s taken a toll on everyone and we’re inching towards normalcy.
But productivity and morale have not had the same trajectory. So we need to work on that ourselves. Bosses and managers need to realize that they are feeling this, but so are their employees, right? So sit down with yourself. Grab a pen and paper or a blank Word document and go through this exercise. If I didn’t have work this week, why would I be relieved? What are the things at work that are pushing your buttons and harming your mental health?
Maryalice: So sometimes we’re too much in the spiral of burnout to even realize there’s a way out, and you actually need someone to lend you that hand and pull you out. So walk me through some strategies. Because when you’re feeling completely overworked, overwhelmed, not yourself, and you need someone to just help you realize that there is a way and that you can work on it. And you just have to keep working on it until one day you wake up and you think — I feel like I want to do