437. The Invisible Wins That Keep Podcasters From Burning Out

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Good morning podcasting, Morning
Chat.

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Today is Friday, January 16th,
2026, and today, finding wins

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beyond the numbers.
I'm still at Pod Fest, so

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Ralphie Stefan, the gang is
filling in to help creators

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recognize real progress and
build momentum from the work

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they're already doing.
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Thanks for being here.

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Well, good morning.
Morning, Chad.

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Thank you for joining us today.
I'm Ralph Estep filling in for

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Mark.
And joining me here on the stage

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are producer Ashley Feller, Dr.
Faye, Sid Meadows and BC

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Babbles.
So it's Friday, so we're

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naturally thinking wins of the
week.

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And that's as I was preparing
for today's show and talking

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with the team, I thought, what
is that we can talk about today?

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But I want to go one step deeper
today because I think a lot of

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us aren't, and I'll use the word
failing.

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We're just not counting what's
working.

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We're creating, we're editing,
we're posting, we're improving.

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And somehow many of us still
feel behind.

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We start to feel that burnout.
So here's today's what I call

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big hairy question.
How do you find real wins in the

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work you're doing every day?
So you don't burnout, you don't

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spiral, and you don't quit too
early.

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Now, today's not about some fake
positivity and not saying

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everything is amazing.
Today we're talking about real

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wins, useful wins, but really
the kind that fuel consistency.

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And I want to start off by
sharing, if you indulge me, a

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little bit of a personal story.
So this past Sunday, I've been

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doing it.
I do a daily podcast.

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It's a financial podcast.
And when I set out to do that

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seven years ago, I never thought
about what this was going to

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look like big, big, you know,
long term.

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And this Sunday I hit 1000
episodes of that show.

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Now everybody would say, well,
that's a big win, Ralph, that's

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fantastic.
That's a that's a lot went into

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that.
But what I want to share and

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yeah, and it made pod news and
that and I've heard a lot, a lot

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of positive comments.
That's fantastic.

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But you know what's interesting
about that?

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As I looked back and thought
about what was the big win for

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me this week, The big win for me
this week was I got an instant

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message from some of your, I
guess you called Adm on Facebook

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that said, Ralph, I listened to
your podcast today and it's like

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you were speaking directly to
me.

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That was a win for me.
You know, I could talk about

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having this many followers and
this many downloads and this

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many episodes, but the win for
me this week was just that one

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person reaching out to me.
So today I really want to talk

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about finding some wins and the
things that we kind of take for

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granted, the things that we do
day in and day out as what as we

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are preparing for this, the team
was kind of reaching out to me

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in San Ralph just do those
things.

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And I think today what I really
want us to focus in on is those

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things that we kind of take for
granted, but they all add to

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where we're going with this.
So I want to start off with this

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question and I would appreciate
everyone being involved in the

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discussion today.
You know, just let us know if

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you want to chime in.
But what's 1 win you almost

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missed this week because it
didn't look like a win.

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That's that's really what I want
to start this conversation.

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What's that one win you almost
missed this week because it

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didn't quite look like a win?
Does anybody have anything they

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want to share?
Any wins that they saw this week

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that didn't feel like a win, but
it really was a win when they

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look back at it.
Well, pinning it down to this

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week is always a very, very
difficult thing for me to do.

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I'm going to step back from this
week and just take a look at my

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career in podcasting, like all
together.

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And some of the things that I
have taken for granted is I got

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to say, it sounds it's, it
sounds a little self indulgent,

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but I got to say it's my
tenacity because I kind of

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jumped out of the gate and got
clients pretty quickly.

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I have a big thirst for
education.

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I'm always taking courses, this
kind of thing.

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And it's been asked of me, you
know, why, Why are you bogging

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yourself down with so many
courses?

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I am in the second stage of my
life and I don't have the luxury

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of being in my 20s and my 30s
and learning at that rate where

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it'll come as it comes kind of
thing.

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So I was in a hurry to to be a
contributor in my household with

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the money and stuff like that.
So I was so hungry just to get

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to where I could contribute
financially in my household and

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not have the whole thing on my
husband.

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I think it was my tenacity.
And of course I got to give my

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husband some kudos because he he
stepped by me too, so maybe I

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took that for granted a little
as well.

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Sid, let's hear from you.
So I love this.

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Conversation on this topic and
great question, Ralph, because

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winds are everywhere.
We just have to look for them.

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We have to pay attention because
every day that you're doing

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something, you can check it off
as a wind, right?

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And the one that popped up when
you asked that question was I am

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not a creative.
And the bane of my existence is

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creating landing pages on my
website.

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And I was able to create a
couple of different landing

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pages.
They actually look good.

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I'm proud of how they look.
And I'm taking that as a win A

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because I was able to sit down
and do it.

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BI did tap into a little bit of
creativity.

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I don't have a plan when I go
create a landing page.

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I just like open it up and it
says you need a picture and it

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tells me what size and then I go
create the picture.

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So I'm not organized with any of
this, but just the fact that

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they're done and I had to get
them done because the trailer

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drops on Monday and the pages
had to be done, the community

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page had to be done, the podcast
page had to be, and I needed to

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create them.
So I pushed myself to do it and

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it felt like heavy lifting.
At the end of the day, I was

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really proud of it.
So I'm taking that as a win.

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That's great, Sid, and I think
that's exactly what I'm talking

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about today is what are the
little nuanced things that so

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many of us take for granted.
Actually, I saw I'm going to,

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I'm going to let Alex talk and
then I'll go to Ashley.

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But Sid, that is exactly what
I'm talking about today.

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And it's the little things that
as we're going along through the

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process, we don't see them as
wins, but those things just

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compile on top of each other one
after one.

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And then you have that product
at the end day.

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So thank you, Sid.
Go ahead.

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Alex, I saw you want to make a
comment.

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Appsumo called and said the win
for Dr. was she only bought

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4000.
I was in products this week as

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opposed.
To yes, I am keeping up sumo in

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business.
I'm keeping up sumo in business.

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Ashley, you want to make a
comment?

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The win that comes to mind this
week is I went to the doctor,

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and the reason why it didn't
feel like a win at the time is

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because who likes going to the
doctor, getting shots, you know,

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having all these tests done.
But the truth of the matter is I

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can't create unless I'm in good
shape, and going to the doctor

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out of necessity helps you get
in good shape.

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So that's the win I didn't
initially recognize.

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That's exactly what I'm talking
about, is those little things

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that give you the ability to do
other things.

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You know, and I want to go a
little bit deeper into this

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because I want to sort of expose
the things that we tend to

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ignore the most, things like the
process.

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You know, you showed up, you
recorded a show.

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I mean, that's a win.
You know your craft, you got

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better at what you're doing.
I look back at my 1000 episodes

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and I go back and listen to the
some of the first ones.

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I'm like, I can't believe
anybody actually listened to

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that.
It was horrible.

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Have you increased, Have you
improved your craft?

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Like I talked about connection,
that's a big one too.

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Have you helped one person?
Have you found that one person

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that was needing your service or
needing to hear from you?

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You know that is a win.
And maybe for so many people,

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maybe you're listening right now
and you haven't even clicked the

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start button to record your
first episode, but you had to

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curve to put that out there and
do something.

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You wrote the first idea of what
you're going to do.

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And maybe you recorded that
first episode and you had the

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courage this week to just
release that first episode.

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Those are all the things that we
sort of get stuck in this bubble

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of this is what we do every day.
And it was interesting as we

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prepare for today's show.
That was kind of some of the

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feedback I was getting from the
team.

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It's like Ralph, I, I kind of
take these things for granted,

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but if you're a new podcast or
you're just getting started,

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because I can remember back when
I was first getting started, it

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was courage that it took me to
put that out there.

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It was that, you know, trying to
find that one person I can make

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that connection with and really
working on the craft.

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And, and, and there was no big,
you know, no big award at the

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end of the week of that, but
just posting one thing, you

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know, what is the procedure?
Does anybody want to share

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anything that they've that they
sort of overlooked?

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And what?
What is it that you ignore the

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most?
You threw me off there with what

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do I ignore them?
So that's really great question

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because we need to look, we need
to look deep.

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And I think so.
This is yesterday I recorded a

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podcast.
It's a new series inside of my

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show because I'm going to every
week publishing and I'm doing

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this new series.
I've talked about this award.

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It's called Hot Takes.
And thanks to Mark, I got the

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picker wheel and I loaded the
picker wheel up with topics.

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I recorded my first Lot Takes
episode yesterday and I was not

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really sure how it was going to
go.

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I don't know that the clicker
wheel sounds going to come

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through on the audio or not.
He couldn't hear it but I could

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hear it.
There's a lot of questions of

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what ifs but during that, just
before we started recording, he

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had a light on that was like
glaring off of his whiteboard

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and he said hang on let me go.
We talked for a minute and he's

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let me go turn that light off.
So he turned the light off and

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written on his whiteboard was a
message that says Sid is

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awesome.
And then we got ready to record

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and he held up his coffee mug
and he was holding a trend

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report coffee mug that I sent
him for being a guest on my

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podcast.
And I say all that to say, the

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win for me in that conversation
was the impact I have made on

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this guy through the time that I
have been building a

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relationship with him and
getting to know him and we've

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become friends.
That's the win.

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Not that he recorded and helped
me record this first new

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segment.
It's the win that I have had a

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positive impact on him.
And I would have missed that,

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Ralph, if you just had not asked
that question.

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Well, that's exactly where I'm
going, Sid, and podcast mobile.

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I'm going to get you in just a
second.

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But Sid, I think that's the
thing that all of us take for

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granted.
We don't think about those

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little things that you talked a
lot about this on yesterday's

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show about building the
relationships with your

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listeners.
And I think that is where the

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gold is because that's the stuff
that's going to keep you going.

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When you have that day, you're
like, why am I doing this?

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This is so hard.
This is like you said.

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It's funny, Sid, you mentioned
not being a creative type.

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I'm right there with you, dude.
I'm an accountant by trade, so

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creativity does not come easy to
me.

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It's like an uphill little
battle, but thank you so much

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for sharing, it said.
Let's go to the podcast mogul.

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1st, I want to congratulate you
on hitting over 1000 episodes on

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your podcast.
Well done.

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That's an insane accomplishment
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Of course, I actually have a
problem seeing anything I do

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when it comes to my podcast as a
win because it's what you're

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supposed to do for your podcast.
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that I can do to help me see
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Those things like landing a big
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someone puts it is awesome in
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awesome with the podcast mogul
is awesome.

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How can I look at those as wins
to help me because I just see

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them as part of the job of
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And thank you for your comments,
by the way, and I totally

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understand where you're coming
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One of the things that actually
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documentation.
I think that is huge.

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So the thing I would say, and I
do this personally, anytime I

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get any kind of feedback that's
positive, I put that, I pick a

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picture of it or I print it out,
put it in front of me.

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Because there's days I'm sitting
in my studio, sitting in front

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of this desk and I'm just like,
why am I doing this?

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look at those things because

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those are the things that
happened throughout the day,

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that happened throughout the
week, that happened throughout

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the months.
And I didn't mean to narrow this

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down to just one win that you
took for granted this week.

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I apologize if that's what
everyone was thinking, but you

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know, those are the things we
take for granted.

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So I think that the way that you
can lean into that, because

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you're right, I mean, the things
you're doing is the things

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you're supposed to do.
I get it.

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But think about this, I'll throw
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Outage, for example, for
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perfectionist.
I'm a perfectionist, but maybe

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you hit publish even though it
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That's a win.
Maybe you put things in the I've

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got to this has got to be exact,
but you're like, you know what?

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This is going to work.
That's a win.

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You know, you showed up
consistently for a week or a

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month or whatever that looks
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I showed up consistently for
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That was hard work that took a
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Is anybody listening to this?
Maybe you filmed on a hard day

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and you didn't ghost your
audience because you kept

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involved in you.
Maybe for you, you wrote a

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better hook than the last one.
See, that's the thing.

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Those incremental craft
improvements, just one thing

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after another.
Those are all wins.

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Maybe you tighten the 1st 10
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held the attention longer.
You improved your audio, though.

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You talk about that when we're
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episodes.
Maybe you improved your audio a

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little bit.
Maybe if you're doing video, you

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looked at your lighting, you
looked at your cameras, you made

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some sort of little change.
Maybe you started making a

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better thumbnail or a title
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Does anybody else have anything
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on?
And they say, you know, I, I now

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Ralph, I see this as when I
would be open to your ideas of

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what you saw as wins and, and
how did you use that to change

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what you're doing on an everyday
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Ralph, I'm going to jump in real
quick before anybody answers

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that question.
Ty has been on the stage with us

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for a few minutes, so maybe we
can go to her and see if she'd

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like to add it to the
conversation.

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Absolutely.
Let's go to Ty.

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Thank you I appreciate you guys
the shares and this is really

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enlightening.
So for me, my wins are that I

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didn't realize that podcasting
was something that I could be

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good at.
And I've been posting on social

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media for a long time, but
nothing really stuck.

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And creating content for
Facebook and Instagram and all

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these different platforms, it
always felt short lived.

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And I would post and then, you
know, the the post disappears in

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the Infinity feed and it never
really gained any traction.

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But now that I'm podcasting, I
feel like I'm creating.

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I'm not just creating a post for
social media that's going to be

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there for five seconds, you
know, in someone's attention,

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but now I'm creating a library
of resources for people to come

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back to and refer to and use and
listen to and all of that.

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And so it really feels like it
has some direction to it and

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I've been able to grow pretty,
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And I thought that was the
coolest thing.

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And then the other when which I
didn't expect was, and I like to

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think part of it came from the
podcast is that I got a new

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client last night and the client
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And so, and that was crazy
because I was like, God, Dubai

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and they paid in full.
They paid right away, no

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questions asked.
And I like to think that my

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podcast had a little bit to do
with that because you know, when

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you look at your, I have Buzz
Sprout and when you look at Buzz

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Sprout and you see where your
podcast is being downloaded, the

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majority, the bulk of my
downloads are from the US, of

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course, but a lot of them are
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So I was like, you know, that
that may have had something to

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do with that.
I'll have to ask her, you know,

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I'll have to ask her later.
And then the other one was more

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psychological.
So I was in a clubhouse room

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like this just the other day,
and I said something to the

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effect of I'm no Mel Robbins,
I'm no Joe Rogan.

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And I said something like that.
And there was a person in the

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room that said stop saying that.
Stop saying that.

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Stop saying you're no Mel
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Rogan.
Stop saying that because you

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are.
And I was like, you're right, I

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need to stop saying those things
because it's putting me in a

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negative headspace and it's not
helpful.

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So I've changed that and it's
been really great.

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So yeah, thanks for allowing me
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No, and I appreciate you sharing
and I apologize.

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I hadn't seen you if you put up
a emoji to talk, I apologize.

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I'm, I'm new at this, so bear
with me a little bit.

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But I want to lean into
something you said because I

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think you nailed something and
that is that self talk that we

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all talk ourselves into things.
And I love that you were able to

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overcome that.
And I think that's part of what

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I'm talking about today is we
have this self talk.

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Do you want to elaborate a
little bit on what Yourself talk

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was telling you and how you've
worked to overcome that?

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Absolutely.
So I've realized that self talk

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is sometimes conscious and
sometimes unconscious.

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If I have a, a clearly negative
thought or a negative way of

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phrasing something, I know most
of the time I'm conscious of

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that and I will cancel that out.
I'll say, Nope, not doing that.

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And I will change it out for
something else.

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And I'm conscious of it.
I'm aware of it and I change it

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and I change it immediately.
I don't say, oh, I'm just going

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to, I'm going to work on this or
I'm trying to heal and all that

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stuff.
I don't, I don't do that.

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I change it immediately as soon
as I'm conscious of it.

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However, there were, there are
some things that I'm not, we're

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not, you know, I'm well, I'll
speak for myself.

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I'm not conscious of like when I
said I'm no Joe Rogan and no Mel

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Robbins, I wasn't thinking of
that as being negative.

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I was thinking of that as being
humble.

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I was thinking of that as being
appealing.

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But truthfully, it's really
neither of those things.

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It's kind of a false humility.
And it wasn't until the guy

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said, hey, stop saying that,
that's not helping you, that I

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became consciously aware of how
my words and myself talked were

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actually impacting how I showed
up for my podcast and for other

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things.
And so once he made me aware of

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that and I became conscious of
it, I immediately changed it and

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said, Nope, never again.
We'll never say that again.

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And it's funny because there's
been a couple of instances where

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that wording or that type of
phrasing has like tried to come

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out of my mouth.
I felt myself leaning in that

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direction.
And I was like, oh snap, I

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really am doing this.
This is a habit.

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This is not just something that
I said, it's real.

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It's a habit that I had, I've
developed over the years.

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And now I'm, I'm ending it.
I'm ending it now.

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And I ended it that day.
Sounds like we lost her, but

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let's go to Sid.
Tied that was a really powerful

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stare there and maybe think
about some of you may have seen

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this.
Have you seen the Gary Vee video

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where he's in the street, it's
dark, and this girl comes up to

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him and says something like, one
day I'm going to be somebody.

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And he stops her, and he puts
his arms on her shoulder.

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His.
Yeah, He puts his arm or his

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hands on her shoulder.
And he looks at her.

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He says, stop, stop.
You are somebody.

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And she starts crying.
It was such a powerful message.

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And that's exactly the message
you just gave us, Todd, because

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we can all get in our own way.
We let those noises in our head

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talk to us and say things to us
that are not true and leaning

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into, you know, realizing it and
stopping it.

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I know when it happens to me and
I'm overthinking things or these

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negative thoughts, I actually
shake my head like I'm shaking

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the thought out of my head.
Like, get that thought away.

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That's not real, That's not
right.

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And I shake my head and, and
it's a, it's an act that for me

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symbolizes I'm getting rid of
that thought and I'm tossing it

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aside.
So thank you so much for sharing

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today.
Tied again, I want to kudo what

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Sid just said.
That is true.

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Thank you for sharing it and
tied, I had a follow up if

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you're available still.
And that is how what have you

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done to recognize those things?
What are the things that you've

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built into your own psyche or
your workflow to find those

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things that you can work to
overcome them?

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Because I think we can all live.
We can all learn from that

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because it's real easy to get
stuck in our own heads.

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We live in our own heads.
That's a silly thing to say, but

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it's true, right?
We live in our own minds.

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I say this all the time that
people we're our own worst

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critics, but tied what are what
are some things that you found

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ways to identify those things
and what are some things that

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you're doing to overcome those
things?

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I appreciate that question.
So for me, it I didn't realize

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what an impact that habits were
having on my life.

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And when I became aware of that,
I was listening to someone speak

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and they're very powerful.
Speaker They're very

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knowledgeable about many things.
And then they, they brought up

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the fact that you could do, you
could go to an energetic healer,

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you could go to a psychic, you
could pray, you could do all

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kinds of stuff, right?
You could change your outfit.

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You could do anything and
everything and be trying and

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working your tail off every day,
24 hours a day and never stop.

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And the one thing that will hold
you back from being what you

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want to be or being what you,
you know, already should

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recognize, as you guys pointed
out, that you already are, is

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your habits.
Your habits will stop you.

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And I was like, oh, that makes
that makes a lot of sense

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because in other rooms we talk
about self sabotage.

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You know, we've talked about all
kinds of things.

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And I didn't realize that there
were these habits that I had

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personally developed that seemed
innocuous and they were

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impacting my level of success
that I could achieve because

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I've worked so hard to do
things.

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I've worked so hard.
I mean, just blood, sweat and

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tear.
And all of a sudden I'm like,

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oh, there's something holding me
back here.

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And it's my habits.
I didn't know that.

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And so I've stopped.
Anytime I have a bad habit, I

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see something, it's a thought.
It's a thing that I say, a thing

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that I do.
It could be procrastination.

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So maybe, maybe I don't want to
clean my apartment or whatever.

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I'll say I don't do the head
shake.

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I say cancel, cancel out loud.
So as soon as the thought comes

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into my head and I know that the
habit is not serving me, I will

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say cancel, cancel.
And I will change it immediately

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because it really does help me
to, to get on the right path.

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And what I've realized is that
it's not about for me, it's not

446
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,880
about trying to be disciplined.
It's not that it's about

447
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,880
cultivating the habits.
And when you cultivate the

448
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,120
habits, then the discipline
becomes automatic.

449
00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,520
But before I was trying to do it
reversed.

450
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,120
I was trying to put the the the
cart before the horse.

451
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,360
I was trying to be disciplined
without changing the habits and

452
00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:59,000
that wasn't worth.
No.

453
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,040
And I think that's critical.
In fact, what I was going to say

454
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,600
today is one of the things that
I would recommend everybody do

455
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,080
is put this sentence into your
daily workflow.

456
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:12,360
Today I move forward by, today I
moved forward by and find that

457
00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,080
thing today that you did and how
you're moving forward.

458
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,640
So Ty, thank you so much for
sharing that.

459
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,000
I think where you're going with
this, and I actually didn't

460
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,560
expect to go down this, I want
to say a rabbit hole, but this

461
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,920
is critically important today is
that we have to be able to find

462
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,360
those things.
That self sabotage, I think is a

463
00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:30,960
great word to use because I
think we all do that.

464
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,640
We have that imposter syndrome
and we think, I'll, I'll speak

465
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:35,880
for me.
Like when I remember when I

466
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,320
first launched my original show,
I remember, forget, I went on to

467
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,320
look at my downloads and I had
like 5 and I'm like, this is

468
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,480
crazy.
Why am I doing this?

469
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,080
There's only 5.
And then a year later, guess

470
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,920
what, there was 40.
I'm still going.

471
00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:51,040
That's not much.
But that self talk was telling

472
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,720
me to stop.
That self talk was telling me

473
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,360
nobody's listening to you.
And I had to battle that.

474
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,120
And I had to say today I move
forward by I improved my audio

475
00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:01,560
today.
I move forward because I've

476
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,040
reached out to somebody, I did a
survey, somebody got back to me

477
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,840
with information, somebody
shared something that was

478
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,920
impacting them.
So I think you're absolutely

479
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,080
right that we do self sabotage
ourselves so much.

480
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,200
And like I said earlier, we are
our own worst critic.

481
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,520
And one of the things that I'm
going to say, I'm going to take

482
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,240
this in a little bit direction.
And if we think about wins,

483
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,200
what's a win you can share in a
way that helps someone else see.

484
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,680
I think that's the other side of
this and tide you're you nailed

485
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,160
that.
You didn't even know my question

486
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,320
was coming next.
But what you've just talked

487
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,720
about is a win for me because
now I'm going back and thinking,

488
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,800
wow, do I self sabotage myself?
Do I have I think they called

489
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,280
the self fulfilling prophecy.
Like I I say things, I do things

490
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,160
out of habit because I haven't
changed the mindset.

491
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,840
And I think that where you're
going with that is the mindset

492
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,360
has to change to tide you mind
mention that?

493
00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:54,120
Do you think that where you're
going is that the mindset has to

494
00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:56,280
change?
Most definitely.

495
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,120
And a lot of that just comes
from just being aware.

496
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,360
So for me and my journey, I
started with, I've always been

497
00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:04,760
incredibly motivated, but I
started just by listening to

498
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,080
audios on YouTube.
This was years ago, like in

499
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,000
2020.
It feels, it feels weird to say

500
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,280
that it was years ago, but back
in 2020, I would listen to

501
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,320
motivational audios by Les Brown
and different people and stuff

502
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,360
and it would just, it would put
gas in my tank.

503
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,880
I felt like I could go somewhere
because I was motivated to do

504
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,600
it.
But then I started to realize

505
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,560
that I needed, I needed more
than just motivation because as

506
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,040
they say, if you're motivated,
but you have no knowledge, then

507
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,760
you're just a, a motivated
idiot.

508
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,360
But if you are smart, but you
have no motivation, then you're

509
00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:37,600
basically a dead duck.
You're dead in the water.

510
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,000
And so I wanted both.
And so I started with the

511
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,760
motivation.
But now I'm all about I'm, I'm

512
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,480
all about just filling up my gas
tank because I see people every

513
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,320
day and they have so much
talent.

514
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,640
They shouldn't give up on their
dreams, but I see them do it all

515
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:51,880
the time.
They quit.

516
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,000
They have all these these
reasons for doing it.

517
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,040
I just talked to a student the
other other day because I'm in

518
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,600
the education space and we're
both from a small town.

519
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,360
And she came up to me and said,
you know, I want to be an FBI

520
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:03,240
agent.
But I feel like, why should I do

521
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,040
that?
Like I'm just from little, you

522
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,560
know, this, this little Old
Town.

523
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,520
And I don't think that I have
any actual ability or reason for

524
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,320
why I should do this because,
you know, who am I that that was

525
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,960
what the student was telling me.
And so we had a, a pretty

526
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,600
extensive conversation about
that so that, so that she could

527
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,840
change her mindset.
But I went through the same

528
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,240
thing.
I went to the exact same

529
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:23,680
process.
Who am I to be doing this?

530
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,920
Why should I even have a voice?
Doesn't I don't think that way

531
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,480
anymore.
And I really had to change that.

532
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,880
And I learned by reading books.
There's a great book called What

533
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,400
to Say When You Talk to
Yourself.

534
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,240
I read that book and loved every
word of it was extremely

535
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,840
powerful and it just filled up.
It filled up my tank because

536
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,440
like I was saying about people
and about myself, I was like a

537
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,840
car and I wasn't going to run
anybody over.

538
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,200
I'm not the type of person
that's going to step on somebody

539
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,680
to get to where I want to be.
That's not who I am.

540
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,880
But at the same time, I also
didn't have any get up and go.

541
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,320
You know, if you're a car,
you're not going to run over

542
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:00,360
anybody.
That's great.

543
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,120
But if you don't have any gas in
the car, you're not going to be

544
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:06,440
able to go in any direction that
you want to go in because you

545
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,600
can't do either.
You can't run somebody over and

546
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,440
you can't go where you want to
go.

547
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,080
So every day I'm really focused
on just putting gas in the tank

548
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,560
so that I can go.
And that all starts with the

549
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,640
most important organ in the
body, the brain.

550
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,320
No.
And I think that's mission

551
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,800
critical.
And you said something there

552
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,600
that I want to sort of go a
little deeper into.

553
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,440
And it's a power that all of us
have that we might not realize.

554
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,600
When that person said to you the
other day, stop saying that

555
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,000
you're not you yourself, you
know that self talk is not

556
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,080
working for you.
Think about it right now.

557
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,640
How many people do you interact
with in your life every day that

558
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,600
you could go out there and reach
take 10 seconds, take 30

559
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,040
seconds, take a minute and reach
out to them and give them a

560
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,960
positive affirmation.
Give them a, hey, that's a great

561
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,120
job you did today.
We take that for granted.

562
00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,400
You know, it's interesting as
I'm, I'm working on my LinkedIn

563
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,000
profile, trying to, to build
that and reach more people.

564
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,640
And I always had this perception
that these people who are super

565
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,480
famous and they, they got great
numbers and everybody looks at

566
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,480
them.
I found out something this week.

567
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,440
I reached out to some, but I
won't mention their name, but I

568
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,480
reached out to them and I just
said, listen, I just want you to

569
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,440
know that I really appreciate
what you do now.

570
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,560
I did not expect that I was
going to get a kickback from

571
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,120
them or any kind of response is
a high profile person.

572
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,480
And I just went on the LinkedIn.
I messaged them directly.

573
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,880
They connected with me and I
just said, you know, I really

574
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,640
appreciate what you're doing and
it was amazing.

575
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,560
I got a a message back and they
said Ralph and they called me by

576
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,840
name, which was amazing to me.
And they said, thank you so much

577
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,560
for sharing that with me.
Now it could have very well been

578
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,680
an automated bot, but I thought
for a second each of us has

579
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,760
within us the ability, I'll call
it to make someone's day.

580
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,200
That's the kind of thing because
to Ty tutoring and I apologize,

581
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,160
I don't know your name, but
that's the thing I think which

582
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,600
I'm I'm sorry, go ahead.
No, I was saying that my name is

583
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:50,880
Nikki.
Nikki Oh, thank you.

584
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,400
Nikki I I don't like calling
people by their name like that.

585
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,800
But Nikki, what I was saying is
that we all have the ability to

586
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,720
impact someone.
And what changed Nikki's

587
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,400
perspective was a comment that
somebody made.

588
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,400
So if you do nothing else, maybe
your win for this week is to

589
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,200
help somebody else find a win.
Maybe your win for this week is

590
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,760
to show them, hey, you do make
an impact to me because maybe

591
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,200
they're like me and they were
looking at that, that 20

592
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,200
download number and going, wow,
does anybody hear this?

593
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,800
So take a minute every day and
go out there and find somebody

594
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,120
you can reach out to that that
maybe they're they don't feel

595
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,440
like they're getting anywhere.
They don't have that win that

596
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,280
they can come in on Fridays to
the podcast morning chat and

597
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,800
say, you know, I did this and I
did that.

598
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,640
Because sometimes I'll give you
a great example, like yesterday

599
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,360
at Pod Fest was the like, I call
it the Academy Awards, but the

600
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,560
Hall of Fame.
The truth is most of us will

601
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,640
never be inducted into the Hall
of Fame.

602
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,960
But can we impact one person?
Like when that person wrote to

603
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,520
me this week and said, Ralph, it
was like you were talking to me.

604
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,840
I'm going to tell you right now,
you couldn't pay me.

605
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,840
You couldn't give me an award.
You couldn't do anything other

606
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,360
than send me that message.
And that makes me want to do

607
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,200
content forever.
I apologize.

608
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,680
It's tonight is the Hall of
Fame, so I apologize.

609
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,040
It's going to be tonight.
But the whole point of that is

610
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,400
that kind of stuff is worth more
than awards.

611
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,680
It's worth more than affiliate
income, it's worth more than

612
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,000
sponsorships.
And I think that, and the cool

613
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,400
thing about that is each of us
has the ability to do that.

614
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,280
And these folks that you think
are sitting up and they're and

615
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,240
they're on top of the world,
they got to hear that stuff too.

616
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,000
So take the opportunity and go
and do that.

617
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,880
All right, well, let's get on to
what I have as my final question

618
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,320
for today, and then we'll get
into sharing some wins from this

619
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,280
week.
So here's what I'm saying,

620
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,720
what's 1 win that you should
repeat on purpose this week?

621
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,920
Something that we've talked
about or something like, oh,

622
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,920
that's a really good point.
I hadn't thought about that.

623
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,760
And what's one thing you should
cut because it drains you?

624
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,360
I think all of us as we're
looking back at our week, and

625
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,760
I'm going to go to you in just a
second, Ashley, as we're looking

626
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,920
back at our week, what's one
thing you Oh, that really

627
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,080
worked.
That worked for me.

628
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,680
I'm going to tell you right now
what I'm going to do is what I

629
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,880
heard Nikki today talking about
that self talk.

630
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,320
Every time I have one of those
feelings, I'm going to do a Sid

631
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,640
and I'm going to shake my head
or I'm going to say no.

632
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,200
Nikki said I don't have to think
that way And in fact, Nikki said

633
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,960
don't think that way.
So what are those things and

634
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,040
what are the things that we
should stop doing because

635
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:19,920
they're draining us?
Go ahead, Ashley.

636
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,240
I would say that would be
continuing my done.

637
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:27,120
Did it list at the end of every
day, I do a daily review.

638
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,920
I think about all the things I
accomplished in the day and I

639
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,320
write them out.
And that helps me recognize

640
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,080
those steps in the process that
lead to the big picture things.

641
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,480
And the thing that I need to let
go of is the rumination.

642
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,120
Because sometimes when you're
writing down those steps of your

643
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,680
wins, you just can't help but
think about the negative along

644
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,080
the way too.
And sometimes you think about

645
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,000
those things a little too long.
And that's where I have a

646
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,960
problem.
So I need to tell myself, OK,

647
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,240
you get to think about this for
so long and then it's gone.

648
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,120
Now, actually, I think that's
great.

649
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,760
I like that.
Who did you call it the done

650
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,840
done it list?
I think we all can learn from

651
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,320
that because having a done done
it list, because I don't know

652
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,920
about you, but I get through a
hectic day, a busy day and I

653
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,040
say, you know, what did I
actually accomplish today?

654
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,840
And I think there is gold in
that Ashley is make that done.

655
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,560
I love that here.
My my family is from the South

656
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,240
and I'm just picturing my grand,
my grandfather saying I done

657
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,080
done that.
And I'm just thinking like we

658
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,880
can learn from that.
And I think that's one of the

659
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,080
takeaways from today for me, as
well as don't let your your mind

660
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,720
self talk.
You don't let those habits form

661
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,520
based on your own self talk.
Listen, we should trumpet this,

662
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,440
Ashley.
It's the done, done it list

663
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,960
that's going on.
Ralph's workflow today too, is

664
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,920
what, what is my done, done it
list?

665
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,600
What are the things that I
accomplished it?

666
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,280
Because when we get to the end
of the day, we're tired or

667
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,800
spent, we can go back and say,
you know, I did this.

668
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,520
I, I posted this content today.
I improve my audio a little bit.

669
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,600
I improve my scripting a little
bit.

670
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,920
Those are the things that are
going to make you want to

671
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,720
continue on because we are
living in an industry that it's

672
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,080
very easy to get burned out.
I look at the statistics and I

673
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,280
look at, you know, the average
person and don't quote me to

674
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,600
this, you know, only does 7
episodes.

675
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,200
They only do this, they only do
that.

676
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,640
And it's so easy to get stuck.
And I think a lot of it goes

677
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,600
back to what Nikki was saying
today is we get into this

678
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,280
feeling of self talk.
We get into this because it

679
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,480
affects your habits, it affects
what you do.

680
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,320
And I think if we can overcome
those things, that's really what

681
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,520
I wanted to talk about today.
I think we absolutely nailed it

682
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,160
today is we were able to do
those things.

683
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,480
We were going to get past that
negative self talk and that's

684
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,840
really when we, when we look at
the big picture of things.

685
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,600
That's what we need to do if
we're going to move forward.

686
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,960
And moving forward, success
wins.

687
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,760
You decide what a win is for
yourself.

688
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,160
No one else tells you what a win
is because there are people that

689
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,320
that a win for them is turning
on the microphone.

690
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,640
A win for them is even thinking
about doing what we're talking

691
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:57,880
about.
We talked a lot about yesterday

692
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,200
about getting feedback.
It takes a ton of, you know,

693
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:03,920
self indulgence, whatever you
want.

694
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,760
You got to have thick skin is
the way we talked about it

695
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:10,080
yesterday is that is no joke.
And you've got to have that to

696
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,280
do it.
So that could be a win.

697
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,760
And that's the things that a lot
of us take for granted because

698
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,880
this is what we do every day.
We would, we can consider

699
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,760
ourselves quote professionals,
but those are the things that

700
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,600
are really difficult.
Well, does anybody want to

701
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,520
comment on that?
And then we'll move into our do

702
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,719
our wins for this week.
So twice a month in our new

703
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:31,960
business, the Collaborative, I
host executive leaders in a peer

704
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:36,360
group format and I moderate the
conversation and I add in where

705
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,159
I can add in.
And each one of those calls is 3

706
00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:42,239
hours long.
And after the call is over, I am

707
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,159
absolutely just drained, like
mentally, emotionally,

708
00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:49,760
physically, because it's three
hours of staying up and staying

709
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,400
high and keeping the
conversation going.

710
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,239
And so yesterday after the call
ended, I was really proud of the

711
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,120
call and everything that got
discussed.

712
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,920
And they got lots of follow up
stuff to do.

713
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:03,160
And typically immediately I
would like start the follow up,

714
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,480
I would edit the video so I can
post it into the community feed.

715
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,160
And I have to cut it down
because it's too big and all

716
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,080
that kind of stuff, right?
And I was just exhausted.

717
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,120
And I said, you know what, after
each of these calls, I'm just

718
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,880
going to block my calendar off
and I'm just going to just go do

719
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,200
whatever I want to do for three
hours.

720
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,440
I stayed focused, I stayed up, I
keep kept the conversation

721
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,600
going.
I made sure that they were

722
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,520
feeling their value.
And so from 4:00 to 5:00, I'm

723
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,640
just going to do me.
So yesterday, Mark, this is for

724
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,560
you.
Yesterday, I got a Nintendo 2

725
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,920
for Christmas.
Yesterday I played Super Mario

726
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:43,320
for an hour just to like let it
go and be done with it and to

727
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,880
just so that's my, that's the
thing.

728
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,840
I'm going to do the wind that
there is.

729
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,440
I'm going to block off that hour
and absolutely do nothing.

730
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,040
I'm going to take Sid time after
performing for three hours in a

731
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,520
row.
Sid, I think that is awesome,

732
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,240
dude.
We're going to all take Sid time

733
00:35:58,240 --> 00:35:59,520
now.
I think that's a great idea

734
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,280
because for some of us that are
Type A personalities, it's hard

735
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,680
to turn it off and said I just
want to commend you for that and

736
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,080
best put something in the
comments that I want to read and

737
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,960
I think this is awesome.
He says go through your pictures

738
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,640
in 2025 and count the highs cut
out.

739
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:19,720
Don't say 2025 was bad.
I think that is absolutely true.

740
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,920
He says count yourself in that
amazing pocket of people at Pod

741
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,120
Fest for Mark.
That is absolutely true as well,

742
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,440
but go through and look at the
things that you've done.

743
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,080
Pictures are a great way to do
this.

744
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,120
You know, think about the, the
times where things went well.

745
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,360
I, I think that's, that's huge.
Well, let's focus now on.

746
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,440
I would love everybody to share
a win from their week or some

747
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,320
win a day or maybe it's a
challenge you overcome.

748
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,680
Does anybody want to jump in
with a win for the week?

749
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,560
I'll start and then Ashley can
go.

750
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,200
My win for the week is.
I mentioned it yesterday, but

751
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,640
it's a huge win, a huge weight
off my shoulders.

752
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:55,760
I have hired a podcast marketing
coordinator.

753
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,800
She starts on Monday.
I could not be more excited

754
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,800
about having her join me.
She actually was a marketing

755
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,320
coordinator for another podcast
in our industry.

756
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,080
So she knows podcasting, she
knows the furniture industry.

757
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,560
She's young, she brings a lot of
energy.

758
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,880
She's going to have ideas and I
am super excited about her

759
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,120
joining me to help make sure
that we make Season 7 of The

760
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,840
Trend Report the best season
ever.

761
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,280
That's awesome, said.
So my wins for this week is we

762
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,240
were talking about refilling the
tank.

763
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,560
Music refills my tank every bit
as podcasting does, and

764
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,960
sometimes I get to do them at
the same time.

765
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,080
But my win for this week is that
I have two gigs.

766
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,360
I'm playing tonight with my band
at the Little Village.

767
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,520
It's on lake where here in
Panama City.

768
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,240
And then tomorrow night I'm
playing solo at this really cute

769
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:47,160
little coffee house.
So getting to play music this

770
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,160
weekend, those are my wins.
Awesome, I will go.

771
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,040
Before I go though I want to
share Mark's win which was in

772
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,680
the chat.
Mark says my win is I got

773
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,440
through my talk at Pod Fest.
It was packed house and the

774
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,760
feedback I received blew me
away.

775
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,120
Someone said I spoke to their
soul.

776
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:10,200
I spoke their soul language.
Another said it was the best

777
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,000
talk that they had heard all
day.

778
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,600
Now that is a huge win for our
Mark because you know, he's been

779
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:23,000
suffering with insomnia and ADHD
and we are so proud of him,

780
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,920
that's for sure.
So I just shared Mark's win and

781
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:31,120
my win is actually something
that Sid said yesterday.

782
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:36,640
Sid had mentioned the course
that Courtney Elmer had put out

783
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:42,360
and I went in true Dr. style.
I went and bought the course and

784
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,840
I started the course.
So that's my win.

785
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,120
That's all.
You like it so far, Dr. Have you

786
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,440
liked?
It so far I do yeah, I do like

787
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,440
it.
And plus she has these PDFs and

788
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,960
she has a, you know, you can
speak my love language when you

789
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,720
give me a spreadsheet.
So she has that spreadsheet too.

790
00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:02,320
I really do like it.
Oh, that's great.

791
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,680
I'm glad that I could have been
the one to encourage you to

792
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:09,800
spend money yesterday.
Yes, on a course, no doubt.

793
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,240
Let me go figure.
Nothing wrong with nothing wrong

794
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,120
with spending money, but I'll
put my accountant hat on.

795
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,360
Make sure you keep those
receipts.

796
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,360
Let's go to BC.
BC had something he wanted to

797
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,320
share.
Yeah, So I do have a a win this

798
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,840
weekend.
It's not just mine.

799
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:27,080
It's also a win for a client.
I do some consulting on the side

800
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:31,160
and I got a person I signed
about a month ago who is just

801
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,880
now looking to enter into the
into the podcasting space.

802
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,920
And we got her branding
together.

803
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,200
I got the team that I'm working
with who's going to get ready

804
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,040
here to launch her show pretty
soon.

805
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,160
But for her, she's been very,
very nervous to get behind the

806
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:45,760
mic.
We could do almost everything

807
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,440
for you, but you have to be the
one to get behind the mic and

808
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,640
you know, give your story.
This is your show.

809
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,760
And she emailed me yesterday
saying that she's officially

810
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,320
recorded 4 episodes, but she's
still very uncomfortable.

811
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,920
And I'm like, well, if you're
uncomfortable enough to 4

812
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:01,400
episodes, you're doing pretty
well.

813
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,200
So I'm going to take that as a
win.

814
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:08,120
And, and me ushering her to be
the person who takes on that mic

815
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,040
role she's on on the other side
of the country so.

816
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,320
Proud of her, looking forward to
getting her show off the floor

817
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,360
here soon and looking to see
what happens.

818
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,560
Thank you BC and I want to share
something that Bez put in the

819
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,640
comments that I listen to that
series on SEO podcast.

820
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,920
I learned so much and said thank
you for bringing that out

821
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,160
yesterday because that's why we
do this.

822
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,200
I'm going to share a win here in
a moment, but I want to give

823
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,760
everybody else an opportunity.
If anybody else wants to share a

824
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,560
win and then I'm going to close
it out with one more win that I

825
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:35,760
feel like I wanted to share
today.

826
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,320
But does anybody else have
anything they want to share

827
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,000
before we start to close it out
today?

828
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,960
Go ahead, Tim.
Thanks, Ralph.

829
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,720
You've been doing a great job
all this week.

830
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,480
First and foremost, that's a win
for all of us this week.

831
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:51,640
My win, I actually have two and
they're both work related kind

832
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,120
of outside of podcasting.
I run the financial Wellness

833
00:40:55,120 --> 00:41:00,480
program here at my agency and we
just launched FDIC Money Smart

834
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:06,280
program and I got 1600
registrations for the month of

835
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:11,360
February and March to get going.
And then we also have a veteran

836
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:16,360
support program here at my
agency and I helped launch their

837
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:23,560
internal podcast and we had 1100
views downloads internally just

838
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,520
this week for that.
So those are my wins and thank

839
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,560
you so much.
OK, so here's what I wanted to

840
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,240
say, and I just want to thank
Mark.

841
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:34,840
I want to thank the group here
because my big win this week was

842
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,960
being able to be the
facilitator, the person that put

843
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,480
all, you know, LED this
discussion.

844
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,040
Because honestly, back in
September when I went to my

845
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,320
first podcasting conference and
I just got done exercise and I

846
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,440
sat in the sort of the breakfast
area and I saw this guy and I, I

847
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:52,920
think, I think that's Mark
Ronik.

848
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,320
And I just said, you know what,
I'm going to walk over and I'm

849
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:56,800
just going to say hello to this
guy.

850
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,560
I never expected that would turn
into me sitting here in this

851
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,640
seat today, having made friends
with people who are amazing in

852
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:10,800
the industry and been given the
opportunity to to be involved in

853
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,000
this and the ability to do this
today.

854
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,520
That that is my win.
That win is huge.

855
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,040
Like I said, these are the
things that matter in life.

856
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,720
This is the this is the stuff.
So this win today is just

857
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,720
amazing to me.
I want to thank everybody who's

858
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,680
supported me this past two days.
I appreciate everybody who's

859
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,520
contributed today, Nikki and the
podcast mogul and BC and Sid and

860
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,520
Dr. and Ashley and Tim.
I just want to say this has been

861
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,720
an absolute great time for me
these past two days.

862
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,400
And I want to thank Mark for
giving me the opportunity, but

863
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:43,400
let's all work on this week.
I'm going to I'm going to cast

864
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,040
this in as we end as a, let's
work on building up that

865
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,680
breaking down those negative
self talks.

866
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,440
Let's do our done, done it list
and let's really focus on

867
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,080
helping other people find those
wins as well.

868
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,400
So I just want to thank
everybody today for joining us.

869
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,720
We are not going to be here on
Monday, but we'll be back on

870
00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:03,160
Tuesday.
So thank you so much.

871
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,080
Have a great day and have a
great weekend.

872
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,720
And again, thank you for tuning
in today.

873
00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:07,880
I truly appreciate it.