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Welcome to Help me podcast, a show designed to help you

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launch and grow your podcast. I am your host, Gino, and twice

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a week I will release a new episode with different tips and tricks

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for launching and growing your podcast. From audio engineering to

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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 so much for tuning in. What

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I got for you today is a little story about

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not being afraid to fail and not being afraid

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to have an experimental phase. And

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I went to this networking event recently and they had

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a speaker kind of speak about her business and how she got

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there and those sorts of things. And this person owns

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a wellness center with multiple therapists and multiple different

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types of healing, and she does some amazing

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work and it all kind of happened within the last two or so

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years. And hearing her speak, I was just really impressed with everything that

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she had accomplished. And it seemed like she had an

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idea in her head from a long time ago that she wanted

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to have this wellness center and she was really able to implement her vision

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and what she wanted in her life. And at the end of it, I went

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up and I talked to her and I was telling her about

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how sometimes I feel like I don't really have

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a concrete vision in my head of what I want. And sometimes I feel

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like there's too many ideas and too many things that almost

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distract me or pull me in one direction or another,

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and I never really feel like I have a solid vision of what I

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want in the next five years. Right. I looked at her story and I was

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like, I don't know if I've decided definitively on a thing

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that I want in five years. And I kind of asked her

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about that process and I was like, well, how did you get there? How

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were you able to so definitively decide that's what you wanted?

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And her response was something that I hadn't really thought of previously.

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And she was like, well, before I came up with that, I did

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a lot of different things and I had an experimental phase. I did this thing,

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I did that thing, and I found out what I liked and what I didn't

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like, and that then helped me decide what it is

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that I wanted to do. And she asked me if I've ever had an

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experimental phase. And when I thought back on it, I was like, wow,

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not really. I started my side business while I was

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in my old engineering career, and I kind of just

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found the first thing that I thought was obtainable with

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the skills that I had. And I kind of started there and

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then basically just moved around to be doing different things within

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podcasting that helped the people that I was connected

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with, they would ask me to do something, I would do it, and then I

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would go learn about this and ask to do that and go do that. And

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I never really sat down and just experimented.

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And I think that can be such an important phase and

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especially the way that I grew up. I went to high school, I went to

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college, I got my job. There was no point where I really

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sat down and tried different things out or experimented

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or failed at certain things and kind of this person

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asking me that question, I could then clearly look back and be like, well,

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not really. I really haven't had that much of an experimental phase

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in order to try out different things and to fail at certain things. And I

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don't want to make this podcast about me and my business, but the thought

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process of being able to have an experimental phase I think

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could be helpful to some podcasters and maybe to some podcasters

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that have been paralyzed by indecision

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and haven't started their podcast because of it. It's just

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the idea of just trying something, right? Because I think a lot of

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times, and I've even said myself, like, when you're planning a podcast, you want to

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think about it, you want to plan it intentionally, you want to make sure you

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got everything, all the steps aligned, and we talk about growth and how

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to share the podcast and everything to grow. That one

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idea. But maybe you're not at that point, right? Maybe you're

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at a point where you don't know what your podcast is, and maybe you need

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to be in an experimental phase. Maybe you have a podcast that

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has ten episodes and then it stops, and then it never

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continues from there because you figure out that, hey, that's not the thing that

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I am actually interested in, or that's not something I'm actually passionate

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about. Maybe it was just something I told myself I was passionate about, or maybe

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it was somebody else's idea of what passion should be or what I should be

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passionate about. And I don't know. I think it's

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definitely a freeing thought to think about your

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decisions as an experiment, right? Because once she told that

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to me, I thought about my business like that. I'm like, oh, I

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don't have to do this just because this is what I've done in the past.

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I can go try something new. I could go do this or I could go

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do that, and it doesn't necessarily mean I have to do

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what I did in my past. I could try new things out.

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And I think maybe if you're not at the stage where

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you really know what you want to do with your podcast, maybe it makes sense

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just to experiment with a podcast and to try out different

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things to see. What works and to see what you like and maybe try something

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that you thought you wouldn't have liked and maybe do one

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with a friend. Maybe do one by yourself. I think the idea

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is to just try something and allow yourself to fail.

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You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to have this perfect vision of

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what your podcast is that's going to be a success right off the bat. You

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can try and you can fail and you can figure out what you like and

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what you don't like. And I think that that for

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me, was really helpful advice, was to think about

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your podcast or to think about your life or your business

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as an experimental phase. It's okay to try things out and to

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see what you like and to see what you don't like. So if you're a

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podcast or a soon to be podcaster out there and maybe you

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haven't started your podcast yet, but you've been thinking a lot about it, maybe

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this sort of mindset shift is what you need to

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start and to try something and to see if it's

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something that you like or maybe it's something you don't like. Maybe you don't like

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podcasting altogether and that's okay too. But I think

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allowing yourself to have an experimental phase can

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help unblock you and help get you

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unstuck from indecision. So

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for what it's worth, I know this is kind of a rant of an episode.

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I hope this helps somebody out there. And as

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always, thank you so much for listening. I really appreciate you tuning

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in. And if this episode helped you, please share it with a

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friend and I will see you all on the next episode.

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