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Welcome back to Help me, Podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. What I got for you today is a little story about not being afraid to fail and not being afraid to have an experimental phase. And I went to this networking event recently and they had a speaker kind of speak about her business and how she got
there and those sorts of things. And this person owns a wellness center with multiple therapists and multiple different types of healing, and she does some amazing work and it all kind of happened within the last two or so years. And hearing her speak, I was just really impressed with everything that she had accomplished. And it seemed like she had an idea in her head from a long time ago that she wanted to have this wellness center and she was really able to implement her vision
and what she wanted in her life. And at the end of it, I went up and I talked to her and I was telling her about how sometimes I feel like I don't really have a concrete vision in my head of what I want. And sometimes I feel like there's too many ideas and too many things that almost distract me or pull me in one direction or another, and I never really feel like I have a solid vision of what I
want in the next five years. Right. I looked at her story and I was like, I don't know if I've decided definitively on a thing that I want in five years. And I kind of asked her about that process and I was like, well, how did you get there? How were you able to so definitively decide that's what you wanted? And her response was something that I hadn't really thought of previously. And she was like, well, before I came up with that, I did
a lot of different things and I had an experimental phase. I did this thing, I did that thing, and I found out what I liked and what I didn't like, and that then helped me decide what it is that I wanted to do. And she asked me if I've ever had an experimental phase. And when I thought back on it, I was like, wow, not really. I started my side business while I was in my old engineering career, and I kind of just found the first thing that I thought was obtainable with
the skills that I had. And I kind of started there and then basically just moved around to be doing different things within podcasting that helped the people that I was connected with, they would ask me to do something, I would do it, and then I would go learn about this and ask to do that and go do that. And I never really sat down and just experimented. And I think that can be such an important phase and especially the way that I grew up. I went to high school, I went to
college, I got my job. There was no point where I really sat down and tried different things out or experimented or failed at certain things and kind of this person asking me that question, I could then clearly look back and be like, well, not really. I really haven't had that much of an experimental phase
in order to try out different things and to fail at certain things. And I don't want to make this podcast about me and my business, but the thought process of being able to have an experimental phase I think could be helpful to some podcasters and maybe to some podcasters that have been paralyzed by indecision and haven't started their podcast because of it. It's just
the idea of just trying something, right? Because I think a lot of times, and I've even said myself, like, when you're planning a podcast, you want to think about it, you want to plan it intentionally, you want to make sure you got everything, all the steps aligned, and we talk about growth and how to share the podcast and everything to grow. That one idea. But maybe you're not at that point, right? Maybe you're at a point where you don't know what your podcast is, and maybe you need
to be in an experimental phase. Maybe you have a podcast that has ten episodes and then it stops, and then it never continues from there because you figure out that, hey, that's not the thing that I am actually interested in, or that's not something I'm actually passionate about. Maybe it was just something I told myself I was passionate about, or maybe it was somebody else's idea of what passion should be or what I should be
passionate about. And I don't know. I think it's definitely a freeing thought to think about your decisions as an experiment, right? Because once she told that to me, I thought about my business like that. I'm like, oh, I don't have to do this just because this is what I've done in the past. I can go try something new. I could go do this or I could go do that, and it doesn't necessarily mean I have to do what I did in my past. I could try new things out.
And I think maybe if you're not at the stage where you really know what you want to do with your podcast, maybe it makes sense just to experiment with a podcast and to try out different things to see. What works and to see what you like and maybe try something that you thought you wouldn't have liked and maybe do one with a friend. Maybe do one by yourself. I think the idea is to just try something and allow yourself to fail.
You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to have this perfect vision of what your podcast is that's going to be a success right off the bat. You can try and you can fail and you can figure out what you like and what you don't like. And I think that that for me, was really helpful advice, was to think about your podcast or to think about your life or your business as an experimental phase. It's okay to try things out and to
see what you like and to see what you don't like. So if you're a podcast or a soon to be podcaster out there and maybe you haven't started your podcast yet, but you've been thinking a lot about it, maybe this sort of mindset shift is what you need to start and to try something and to see if it's something that you like or maybe it's something you don't like. Maybe you don't like
podcasting altogether and that's okay too. But I think allowing yourself to have an experimental phase can help unblock you and help get you unstuck from indecision. So for what it's worth, I know this is kind of a rant of an episode. I hope this helps somebody out there. And as always, thank you so much for listening. I really appreciate you tuning in. And if this episode helped you, please share it with a friend and I will see you all on the next episode.
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