Today's guest riff is from my friend Melissa Ambrosini.
And it is a riff which is about something which is kind of a fun and different term.
We've all heard the term fomo.
Well, you are about to discover a variation.
In fact, almost the exact opposite.
And it is called Jo Mo, j o m o.
What is that?
Well, you gotta listen to Melissa to find out.
Melissa is an awesome human, lives down in Sydney, Australia, one of my favorite places on earth, and is the author of a book called mastering your mean Girl.
And you can find her@melissaambrasini.com dot.
You can find that link in the show notes as well, turning it over to Melissa now for a fun, short, and sweet riff for you on JoMo.
Embracing the joy of missing out, in 2013, the Oxford English Dictionary added a new word to their lineup, an important one.
Now, to be fair, they add new words every every year.
If a word is used a lot, to the point where it becomes absorbed into regular daily use or part of popular culture, they'll add it to their list, which is exactly how words like twerk and faux shizzle have become part of the lexical canon.
And no, I'm not kidding.
But in 2013, a word was added to the dictionary that I think was particularly important, one that says a lot about the state of our lives and our headspaces.
In fact, about our culture as a whole.
And that word was fomo.
Yep.
Apparently, enough of us were talking about our fomo, which is fear of missing out that the Oxford people thought it warranted inclusion in the dictionary, the most iconic list of words that we as a society have.