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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 planning

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

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tip to help you podcast.

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Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. Welcome back to Help Me

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Podcast, and today's episode is going to be a little

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bit different than the normal episodes. Normally I have, like, a topic that I

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want to talk about when I'm coming in, and I kind of just

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discuss that topic, talk about at the beginning, go into detail, and then

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kind of wrap it up today. Not really sure what this episode is going to

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be about, but a couple of things that have

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come up recently, I guess, that I wanted to discuss and hopefully

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it will turn into an episode that makes sense and is helpful for

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you. If not, then, well, there'll always be

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next one. So recently I got

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an email from one of my clients who I really

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enjoyed working with, and they been on a bit of a break for a while,

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I think. I haven't really done any work with them for like maybe a

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month or two. And this morning I

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woke up pretty early, got some work done, and then decided to check my

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email and saw that I had an email from one of them.

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And this podcast was like a co host sort of situation.

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So it was like two friends who started a podcast and one of the friends

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had emailed me and said that she was basically informing me, saying like, hey,

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it's been awesome, you've been great, but I'm not going to do this podcast

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anymore. And my co host hasn't decided if she wants

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to continue it or not. And I don't know, it kind of brought me into

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this idea and this theme that I've had for the past week or two of

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just doing the things that you really want to be doing,

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and I don't know. Yeah, kind of, I guess going with the flow

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of things and putting energy into the things that actually

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excite you versus not. And I think maybe if it were like

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a year or two ago, I might have been a little bit upset

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and been bummed that I don't get to work on this podcast

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anymore or it's not going to be the same podcast as it was and this

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sort of thing. But the way that I read the email, it was

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like, I totally understand what you mean. It's something

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that you no longer want to be doing or want to put any energy

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into, so just stop. Cut it off, right? Stop doing

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it. Don't force yourself to keep doing it because you think you have

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to or because somebody else wants you to, or you think somebody else wants you

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to. So I guess what I'm saying is I appreciated

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her straightforwardness and being like, yeah, I don't want to do this

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anymore. Because then what it allows you to

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do is to focus on the things that do excite you

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and that you do want to be doing. And I guess in the past few

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weeks I've been really trying to embody that and

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just do the things that I'm really excited about. And I think what

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it's done for me is it's helped give me clarity on what to

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do and what not to do. For example, when people

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approach me either through a contact form on my website or something and they're

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like, hey, I need podcast services done. Can you do this, this and

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this for me? Normally I'm like, yeah, what do you

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need? Let me see if I could help you and this and that. But the

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way that I approached this most recent one that I had, it was like,

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what are you looking to do? What are you doing? What's the podcast

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about? What are your passions? Why do you want to start

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it? And then we can kind of talk from there because if it's something that

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I'm not going to be into, then why bother

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starting? And it's almost kind of like a backwards thing when

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you think about it from a business aspect. Like, yes, you want new clients, but

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at the same time I want to work with clients that I want to work

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with because I'm going to do better for them and I'm going to be able

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to do what I'm doing longer. It's going to be more sustainable.

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And I'm also then leaving room to have

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space for the things that I do want to do when they do come along.

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Because if I'm using all my time and energy on stuff that I really don't

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want to be doing, if a good opportunity comes along, it's

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like I might miss it because I'm too busy doing things that I don't

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like. My eyes might not be opened to the opportunity

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because I'm too busy doing all this busy work. And I'm just, I guess in

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this mode or mood of not wanting to do any

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busy work or being having no patience for it,

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just wanting to do the things that I really care about and I like

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that feeling and I want to lean more into it. So yeah, I don't know,

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just this idea of kind of following the excitement factor

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and doing the things that you're actually excited about

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versus the things that you think you have to do or the things that you

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think other people want you to do.

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Like I was saying, over the past two weeks, I've kind of taken a lot

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of time for myself to just kind of do the things that are exciting me,

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like independent of business goals or this or

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that. And it's been kind of nice. So I guess I

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just kind of wanted to share that hopefully that could be some sort of

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maybe motivation for you to do the things that you want to be

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doing more often. I guess

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it ties into a podcast because it's like, well, maybe the podcast is the thing

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that you're really excited about, but you haven't done it because you got to do

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this or you got to do that, or you think you can't do this or

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you think you can't do that. I think it's really important to have

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the creative endeavors, the things that you do intrinsically

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just because you want to be doing them, not because they make

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sense or there's an end goal or anything like that. Just because

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you want to create, I think is a great reason to do

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something because that's kind of like I said, what I've been doing the past two

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weeks and it's made me so much more efficient at the

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work that I actually have to do. And I'm not stressing about it

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as much as I would have before. I'm not sitting at my desk staring at

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it like, I don't want to do this. I'm essentially waiting to the last

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minute getting it done and then there's no issue.

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So I don't know, not saying that that's the

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right way or the wrong way to do it. It's just kind of telling you

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my experience and hopefully maybe it'll resonate with

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somebody. Maybe it'll be helpful to somebody, maybe it won't.

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But yeah, also one other thing that I don't know if I

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can relate this or not, but let's try it yesterday, went to the

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beach with a friend and planned on only going for like a couple hours. But

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it was so nice out and it's been beautiful the past

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week or so in Connecticut where I live. And it

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was just warm enough to want to be at the beach. And

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the waves were so calm for some reason. It was just like I don't know,

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we're just both talking all day long, just no phones, just kind of

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being in the moment and enjoying being at the beach.

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Because although I live very close to the beach, I rarely ever go.

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I probably only go a handful of times a year. And then it started getting

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later and we were talking about how normally we're in a

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mindset to like, all right, we got to get out of here. We got to

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go home. But the sun was starting to set and we're like, well, why don't

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we just stay here and watch the sunset? And that's what we

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did. And it was nice. It was

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so relaxing and yeah, I mean, there

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was things I could have been doing, there was work that I was going to

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do, but I was just like, you know what? This is what's making me happy

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right now, so let me do this and take it where it goes. And

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we ended up watching the sunset. And I had a thought that

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I had a funny thought that I told him. I was like, man, this happens

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every single day and I rarely ever watch it. It's kind

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of insane that I don't look at the sunset more often.

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But anyways, so I ended up coming home and basically just going to

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bed. I did try to finish the thing that I wanted to, but

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I was like tired and I was like, forget it, I'm not doing it now.

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And I ended up going to bed early and then waking up super early and

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getting a bunch of stuff done. And now I'm recording this podcast episode.

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So, yeah, I don't know I don't know how

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that relates to anything, but hopefully this is a helpful

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episode. I just felt like I wanted to talk about this and

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yeah, hopefully you found this helpful. If not, like I said, there's always

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next episode. I'll have another episode on Thursday. And

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yeah, I appreciate all of you for listening. Thank you for tuning in and I

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

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