At 19 minutes and 40 seconds into this podcast Eric Butterworth says "In the work of public health and maybe talk about a particular disease which has reached epidemic proportions. There are medical researchers who were talking about 'contagion through consciousness.' I can remember a writing in the proceedings of a Medical Journal about 'psychic infection', that the real contagion is mostly in the mind."

"How to Recession-Proof Your Life—4—Tighten Your Ship" is a classic lesson about "tightening our ship" through the words we use. He opens by recalling the World War II slogan "loose lips sink ships." The same slogan applies to use today, according to Eric Butterworth in this part 4 of a four part series on How to Recession-Proof our life.