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Welcome to Help Me podcast, a show designed to help

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you launch and grow your podcast. I am your host, Gino. And

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twice a week, I will release a new episode with different tips and

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trick for launching and growing your podcast. From audio engineering

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to planning intentionally to growth tactics, each episode will be a bite

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sized tip to help you podcast.

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Welcome back to Help Me Podcast. Thank you for tuning in. This is

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episode 77. And today, I have

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another, sort of abstract episode that's not really

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about anything specific, but more about a conversation that

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I had with somebody recently about podcasting. And,

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Again, hopefully, it's helpful. And, yeah. We'll, we'll see where

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it goes. So what I wanted to talk about is kinda

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how, like, you can use podcasting. The simplest way

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that I can conclude the conversation that I have with this person is basically,

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like, finding purpose with your podcast. And,

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you know, that's something that's really important to me is, like, finding work

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and and doing things that I feel purpose in and I feel meaning in.

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And my other podcast Working Towards Our Purpose, obviously, from the title,

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you know, you can tell that it's about that. But, yeah, I was having a

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conversation with somebody recently, and I guess they were asking me about my other podcast.

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And, we kinda just started talking about it. And it

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was interesting because I, like, was thinking about how

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podcasting can be, like, almost a path towards

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finding your purpose or at least, like, a a sort of

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something that you can do that, like, is enjoying to you. So I

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guess a little backstory about me. I used to be a

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mechanical engineer. I worked in corporate America for, like, 6 or

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7 years in the military defense contracting

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realm, and I never enjoyed it. I I always,

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like, wanted to move around and do something else and always was,

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like, frustrated and, confused

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and, so many different things that I I didn't didn't sit well

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with me. And it took me a long time to figure out, like, oh, that

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is just not gonna work for me. It's not, You know, my lifestyle,

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it's not the way that I wanna exist. And, you

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know, so what I ended up doing was I started this side business

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that I could focus my energy onto and I could focus my excitement

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onto. And this kinda relates to the one of the last episodes, episode

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75 where I was talking about finding clarity and embracing, like, what excites

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you. And that's kinda what I did with my side business.

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And I guess the point that I'm getting to is that, like, you can use

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podcasting as that sort of outlet. Right? Like, I'm all for people

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quitting their jobs, but I understand It's a transition, and it took me

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a very long time to be able to get to that point. And I think

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that you don't have to wait. You know you know you know like, you don't

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have to wait to do something that excites you or to be

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excited about something. And and a podcast is, like, the perfect thing to

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be able to put energy into while you're still doing maybe

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a job that you don't like. And yeah. So that that was, like, the

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conversation that we had is, like, You know, you can learn to podcast

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and, like, yeah, it's gonna be a lot of work upfront to figure out how

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to do everything. But once you get into a groove, like, you could totally do

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that on the side and, you know, release an episode a week or maybe

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every other week. And, like, what it's doing is it's like you're

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putting energy into the thing that you want to be doing. Because I think a

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lot of times people, including myself, would think about

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something and be like, yeah. In the future, I'm gonna do that. Like, in the

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future, that's that's what I'll be able to do. But right now, I can't.

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And and I think a podcast allows you to be able to do that thing

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now in a small way, like, to get started in doing that one

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thing. If you're passionate about, you know, basketball

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or soccer or or music or something. Like, you

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can make episodes and create this

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thing, create, you know, content input out into the world, the thing

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that you're really excited about and you're passionate about. Then I think what ends up

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happening sometimes too, at at least this happened with My side business is

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was like I was starting to do it, and then I started getting, like,

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results and feedback. And, like, I noticed I was impacting people's lives, and

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I was like, This is definitely what I wanna do. And it creates that

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momentum. It's it's like, the Newton, law there.

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Like, an object at rest stays at rest. Object in motion stays in motion. It's

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creating momentum and, you know, you're actually doing something

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about the thing that you wanna be doing instead of just thinking about it. And

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it's It's putting it into reality, into the physical, you

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know, world, which is, like, so empowering. And

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yeah. I just think that, like, a podcast is such a good medium

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or such a good way to be able to do that. So I I I

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just kinda wanted to felt like I had to make an episode about this today,

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because I think that I have a lot of people in my life who are

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stuck in jobs that they don't like. And, I have conversations with them

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all the time. And that's something that, like, I'm really passionate about is is

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wanting people to follow the things that they're, like, super excited about and

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they feel called to. And I think a podcast is an awesome way to,

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like, get started in doing that. And yeah.

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So if you're listening out there and, that resonates with

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you, I have created a podcast launch road

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map, which is a free PDF download where you can

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click click on it, and it'll kinda tell you, like, all the things that you

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need to get a podcast started. And, yeah, I think it's just kind of like

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a good checklist of, like, Okay. These are all the things that I need to

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start a podcast. And, you know, it's kinda just like my way of trying to

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help people get started. Because I think if I can help somebody Make a

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decision to to work more in their purpose or to pursue their

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purpose. You know, that's that's awesome for me. So, so

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yeah. If if If this resonated with you and, you know, you're

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interested in starting your podcast, you can click that in the show notes. There'll be

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a link that just says podcast launch roadmap, and you can download it

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for free. I was just putting your email in so I could send it to

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you. And, yeah. Hopefully, this episode is helpful. I know it was

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a little shorter, but, yeah. I just kinda felt called to make this

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episode today. So, yeah. Hopefully hopefully, it

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resonated with some of you. And, Thank you for tuning in as always, and I

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will see you on the next episode. We've reached the end of the

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