Welcome to Help Me Podcast, a show designed to help you launch and grow your podcast. I am your host, Gino, and twice a week I will release a new episode with different tips and tricks for launching and growing your podcast. From audio engineering to planning intentionally to growth tactics, each episode will be a bite sized tip to help you podcast. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. Welcome back to Help Me Podcast, and today's episode is going to be a little
bit different than the normal episodes. Normally I have, like, a topic that I want to talk about when I'm coming in, and I kind of just discuss that topic, talk about at the beginning, go into detail, and then kind of wrap it up today. Not really sure what this episode is going to be about, but a couple of things that have come up recently, I guess, that I wanted to discuss and hopefully it will turn into an episode that makes sense and is helpful for you. If not, then, well, there'll always be
next one. So recently I got an email from one of my clients who I really enjoyed working with, and they been on a bit of a break for a while, I think. I haven't really done any work with them for like maybe a month or two. And this morning I woke up pretty early, got some work done, and then decided to check my email and saw that I had an email from one of them. And this podcast was like a co host sort of situation.
So it was like two friends who started a podcast and one of the friends had emailed me and said that she was basically informing me, saying like, hey, it's been awesome, you've been great, but I'm not going to do this podcast anymore. And my co host hasn't decided if she wants to continue it or not. And I don't know, it kind of brought me into this idea and this theme that I've had for the past week or two of just doing the things that you really want to be doing,
and I don't know. Yeah, kind of, I guess going with the flow of things and putting energy into the things that actually excite you versus not. And I think maybe if it were like a year or two ago, I might have been a little bit upset and been bummed that I don't get to work on this podcast anymore or it's not going to be the same podcast as it was and this sort of thing. But the way that I read the email, it was
like, I totally understand what you mean. It's something that you no longer want to be doing or want to put any energy into, so just stop. Cut it off, right? Stop doing it. Don't force yourself to keep doing it because you think you have to or because somebody else wants you to, or you think somebody else wants you to. So I guess what I'm saying is I appreciated her straightforwardness and being like, yeah, I don't want to do this
anymore. Because then what it allows you to do is to focus on the things that do excite you and that you do want to be doing. And I guess in the past few weeks I've been really trying to embody that and just do the things that I'm really excited about. And I think what it's done for me is it's helped give me clarity on what to do and what not to do. For example, when people approach me either through a contact form on my website or something and they're
like, hey, I need podcast services done. Can you do this, this and this for me? Normally I'm like, yeah, what do you need? Let me see if I could help you and this and that. But the way that I approached this most recent one that I had, it was like, what are you looking to do? What are you doing? What's the podcast about? What are your passions? Why do you want to start it? And then we can kind of talk from there because if it's something that I'm not going to be into, then why bother
starting? And it's almost kind of like a backwards thing when you think about it from a business aspect. Like, yes, you want new clients, but at the same time I want to work with clients that I want to work with because I'm going to do better for them and I'm going to be able to do what I'm doing longer. It's going to be more sustainable. And I'm also then leaving room to have space for the things that I do want to do when they do come along.
Because if I'm using all my time and energy on stuff that I really don't want to be doing, if a good opportunity comes along, it's like I might miss it because I'm too busy doing things that I don't like. My eyes might not be opened to the opportunity because I'm too busy doing all this busy work. And I'm just, I guess in this mode or mood of not wanting to do any busy work or being having no patience for it, just wanting to do the things that I really care about and I like
that feeling and I want to lean more into it. So yeah, I don't know, just this idea of kind of following the excitement factor and doing the things that you're actually excited about versus the things that you think you have to do or the things that you think other people want you to do. Like I was saying, over the past two weeks, I've kind of taken a lot of time for myself to just kind of do the things that are exciting me, like independent of business goals or this or
that. And it's been kind of nice. So I guess I just kind of wanted to share that hopefully that could be some sort of maybe motivation for you to do the things that you want to be doing more often. I guess it ties into a podcast because it's like, well, maybe the podcast is the thing that you're really excited about, but you haven't done it because you got to do this or you got to do that, or you think you can't do this or
you think you can't do that. I think it's really important to have the creative endeavors, the things that you do intrinsically just because you want to be doing them, not because they make sense or there's an end goal or anything like that. Just because you want to create, I think is a great reason to do something because that's kind of like I said, what I've been doing the past two weeks and it's made me so much more efficient at the
work that I actually have to do. And I'm not stressing about it as much as I would have before. I'm not sitting at my desk staring at it like, I don't want to do this. I'm essentially waiting to the last minute getting it done and then there's no issue. So I don't know, not saying that that's the right way or the wrong way to do it. It's just kind of telling you my experience and hopefully maybe it'll resonate with somebody. Maybe it'll be helpful to somebody, maybe it won't.
But yeah, also one other thing that I don't know if I can relate this or not, but let's try it yesterday, went to the beach with a friend and planned on only going for like a couple hours. But it was so nice out and it's been beautiful the past week or so in Connecticut where I live. And it was just warm enough to want to be at the beach. And
the waves were so calm for some reason. It was just like I don't know, we're just both talking all day long, just no phones, just kind of being in the moment and enjoying being at the beach. Because although I live very close to the beach, I rarely ever go. I probably only go a handful of times a year. And then it started getting later and we were talking about how normally we're in a mindset to like, all right, we got to get out of here. We got to
go home. But the sun was starting to set and we're like, well, why don't we just stay here and watch the sunset? And that's what we did. And it was nice. It was so relaxing and yeah, I mean, there was things I could have been doing, there was work that I was going to do, but I was just like, you know what? This is what's making me happy right now, so let me do this and take it where it goes. And we ended up watching the sunset. And I had a thought that
I had a funny thought that I told him. I was like, man, this happens every single day and I rarely ever watch it. It's kind of insane that I don't look at the sunset more often. But anyways, so I ended up coming home and basically just going to bed. I did try to finish the thing that I wanted to, but I was like tired and I was like, forget it, I'm not doing it now. And I ended up going to bed early and then waking up super early and
getting a bunch of stuff done. And now I'm recording this podcast episode. So, yeah, I don't know I don't know how that relates to anything, but hopefully this is a helpful episode. I just felt like I wanted to talk about this and yeah, hopefully you found this helpful. If not, like I said, there's always next episode. I'll have another episode on Thursday. And yeah, I appreciate all of you for listening. Thank you for tuning in and I
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