Hello, welcome back to Conversations with my Nightbrain. I'm your host, Chris Enns. In this episode, I'm doing a little bit of double duty here, where I'm actually recording something for this podcast, but also recording a little tutorial video for my YouTube channel to show how Descript works to go from Descript to editing to Transistor to out to a podcast.
Something tangentially related to that, that I've been sort of mulling around in my head as I think about recording this screencast, and think for my YouTube channel is how an idea gets stuck in my brain. And I kind of need to see it through. It's not that I think the idea is so worthwhile of doing, and it's going to be great success for me and my YouTube channel and get me tons of views. It's more about the idea just getting it done so that I can feel like creatively fulfilled personally.
I have published lots of podcast episodes for clients, do lots of amazing work for them, and edit videos for clients, et cetera. But there's something about being able to put out your own thing into the world, at least for me anyways, maybe you resonate with this, but something about it for me that feels like I need to do that. I can edit five or six or whatever episodes from clients in a day, which generates obviously some money as well as just success. I finished tasks on my to do list.
And if I had the idea of something for myself that I wanted to do, and I made it through the entire week and did never get around to do that, somehow I still feel like I've failed, even though my primary goal with this business is obviously making money for my business, which in turn pays me, pays for food, mortgage, heat, uh, Ted Lasso posters, et cetera.
I think I've referenced this in the past and in this podcast, but I've started a Notion file of just like things that have gone well, so that even if nothing else, if I never even look at it, at least I would have to take the time and write it down.
So when I get some cool praise from a client or a project goes off really well, or someone emails me with some cool information about something or, uh, just any sort of success, but not, not like big, huge success in terms of like money or metrics or whatever, but just more like at the human level, like, Hey, this worked really well today. You had a good chat with this person. This client really appreciated the extra work and care you did on this thing or things like that.
And it's just a document where I write it down. I don't necessarily look at it again, but then when I go to write down another one, I see the previous wins and victories and cool stuff that has happened in that document. And it kind of just reinforces to my brain, there is good stuff happening. Even when you feel like you're not stepping forward or moving ahead or getting just little creative gains in a week or a month or even a year.
So anyways, that's a quick episode just as an excuse to try out the Descript to Transistor like I was saying, and hopefully this all records properly. Thank you for listening. See you again next time. Bye.