How to take a step back in business after making a huge change so you can move forward.

https://youtu.be/lNGLdKm0k-Q Last week I announced that I was changing up my show, this show, The Business Podcast to focus more on me and my skills. I wrote an open letter than you can check out here. That podcast episode, youtube video and blog post went viral among podcasters. It was shared among many circles and podcast news groups. I received lots of mostly positive feedback about my new strategy to change my show and filter through guests looking for self promotion through my platform. Let's talk about how to take a step back in business so you can move forward. On this week's episode I want to talk about how I took some of that feedback and incorporated into my changes. We can get so wrapped up in our big changes that sometimes we aren't able to take a step back and appreciate the feedback. How to take a step back in business and allow yourself to see that a step backwards is actually what you need to take a step forward. I also want to talk about the change to my studio and why (I think you'll like the answer). Here is a one word hint: play. Also, I want to hear from you on how you have made changes in your business and were able to take a step back. Email me your story: [sform]5[/sform] Tweet me @SuperJoePardo Message me on Facebook Episode 333 Transcription [Music] all right let's talk about how my office is now different it's not I being in my office for five years it was time to give it up to be a playroom that rooms not done yet and I will show you what that looks like when it's done but let's get into it welcome everybody to big business podcast featuring me super Joe Pardo and today I will talk about the letter that I wrote last week and how that relates to taking a step back in your business to reflect and to make a decision on whether or not something is a good or a great idea when I wrote that letter last week I didn't I mean I knew that there was gonna be some pushback um for the most part there wasn't a whole lot of pushback in fact I got quite a few letters and messages and people that wrote out to me saying hey I really appreciate what you've done Joe um not just for for for you but for podcasting as a whole you know and then the pushback that I got was like oh well that sponsored content and that's no good and and I just want to address that real quick my show my business model has very little to do with whether or not I'm I'm being paid to do sponsored interviews now I say sponsored last week and I talked about it being promote like a promotion fee I've changed that I treat that a little bit it's just you're sponsoring the episode by sponsoring the episode you're sponsoring the show and by sponsoring the show you're supporting the show and and you're able like it helps make up some of the time that it takes to put this show together so I think that when you're when you're trying to do something that's so radically different now not to say there aren't other people out there doing what I have already put forward there are and there are some people doing it really really well apparently um but there's not many right so so by and large people think that everything has to be if I had some people that say oh well if you're not gonna do interviews what are you podcasting for I mean like well I'm wearing a map con shirt right now middle and podcast conference go check it out it's in September um if podcasting doesn't have to be you know an interview based show it's funny because when I got started the only shows I knew of or Disney base roundtable discussion shows that once in a while would have an interview on with a special guest or something to that effect so I when you were trying to decide for your business whether or not you should be open and honest about it