Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everybody, and welcome to today's episode of the NeverPeak Project Podcast. I'm your host, Coach Ranger, and in today's episode, I'm gonna be going over a little bit of what's happened this week in Within Range Coaching and the NeverPeak Project. If you have been listening to the podcast for a while, you might notice that my audio sounds a little bit better.
That is because I'm over here at the Hafman Bay Chamber of Commerce, where Chrislyn and her team have set up a nice podcasting room.
I'm not sure if I'm gonna have video today because the cameras aren't set up just yet, but the audio is, and they're kind of just piecing it together one little bit at a time, but they invited me over to check it out and test it, so I super appreciate that, that they were willing to let me kind of come be their beta tester to see how everything is working, and I super appreciate it because I feel like a real podcasting man right now.
Joe Rogan, Chris Williamson, Mel Robbins, better watch out, I'm coming for ya. As soon as I get cameras, it's over for you. But in terms of my business, not a whole lot of updates this week. I have been doing a lot of prep work, I guess, is more so what I've been doing. The way I kind of see it is that I'm not really harvesting the tomatoes just yet, but I'm still planting the seeds.
And I'd say that today, today slash the rest of this week has been a lot more of prepping the soil to begin with, not even really planting the seeds. And the reason that I say that is because I have been spending a lot of time working on my online presence, such as for example, BNI. I joined them a few months ago and I have been working on my online profile.
The president of my chapter has been helping me out a ton, so shout out to Sumya for all of her help and assistance, getting me to look more professional on there. If you're a member of BNI or you are thinking about it, let me know and I'd be more than happy to connect with you on the BNI Connect platform or answer any questions that you have about the club and organization.
But something that I do think is kind of cool about BNI is that I have my Seattle trip planned for the end of this month, and I was able to reach out to a couple of BNI chapters in Seattle to set up one-to-ones. I'm gonna be attending one of their meetings while I'm there and I hope that that will give me an opportunity to meet people in the area and really get to experience it.
I've been asking for some recs on places to go, trails to check out, and I'd really like to try to see if I can do a long walk while I was in Seattle. I'm thinking 10 to 15 miles just to, I don't know, I really think it'd be fun to do like a ranger walkability score based off of what I experienced on the walk and seeing how different cities are structured. I'm not sure if I would want to see about bringing the cart and pushing a stroller those 10 to 15 miles.
I don't know if that would be worth it. I don't wanna deal with flat tires anymore. If I could never deal with a flat stroller tire ever again, I'd be a happy man. But I think it would give a good insight based off my experience and seeing what I've seen in all the other cities across the US. Being able to kind of rate and review and bring some attention to the issues that are present in a lot of our cities. Now, not very many towns and areas are very walkable.
I remember just on the walk, I'd get to a city, I'd hit some sidewalk and then it would just drop off after less than a mile, not even a quarter mile sometimes, less than that in some places. But it just made it super difficult to push my cart and traverse without having to go on the road. And I could, whenever that happened, I would just imagine that I'm like a single mother pushing her kid down the street to get to the grocery store or get to work or get home.
And how difficult and how spooky that would have been. So I think that is something that I would like to get more involved with in the future. I know there's quite a few nonprofits. I think America Walks is one of them. And I know there's a few other ones that have a big focus on walkability and adding more pedestrian friendly roads to the country.
So I'll probably get involved with them at some point in the near future, but I have quite a bit of things going on right now that I do wanna focus on. And really one of them, of course, is the podcast. And last week, over the weekend, I actually spent a bunch of time prepping the podcast. I sat down, I really honed in on who I want this podcast to be for and the purpose of the podcast as a whole.
I'm still working on a cute mission statement and all the other important backend stuff that goes into a project in my opinion. But really what I want this podcast to be for is to help solopreneurs and those that are on an entrepreneurial journey be more effective so that they can get more done in the day and have more time to enjoy the things that they want out of life.
I feel like a lot of us get into the entrepreneurship game because we have been fed a story that on the other side of all the trials and everything else that we go through, there will be a lot of like fortune on the other side. Like if you go through all this work of prepping the soil, planting the seeds, going through the whole harvest season, et cetera, et cetera, at the end, you'll have a fantastic harvest. And I do feel as though I'm still very much in that prepping and planting phase.
And I really do want this podcast to be a resource for people just like me that feel as though they are in that phase. And once I'm out of this phase into the next portions of that entrepreneurship book, I want to be able to share those insights and what's worked for me, what I've seen work for other people. So I think that's really what this podcast is going to be focused on, is the people that are out there doing the work, working to make the world a better place.
And to that regard, what I have been working on is a content calendar for the podcast. So I'm not sure if I'm gonna post the video, but right next to me, I have my laptop around all these fancy microphones that Crystal and her team set up. But I spent a few hours going through all of the ideas that I have for the podcast. I did work with ChatGPT quite a bit on coming up with content ideas.
I had it generate a ton of potential episodes and I went through them and I really focused on what I wanted to talk about and what I thought would be the most effective for solo business owners. So I actually have my Mindset Monday episodes planned out up until July and I already have a general outline for each of them. This next Monday, I already have quite a bit of content lined up for it, so I'll be able to talk about that more.
But the issue that I was running into with the Mindset episodes is that I would get to Monday, I'd sit down in front of my laptop and then I would start writing out what I wanted to talk about that week, which was kind of working. I mean, I had some pretty solid episodes in my opinion, like the Frog in the Pond, Ask the Cows, et cetera, but I felt like it just added a lot of stress to the whole process.
I would have to sit there for almost an hour coming up with the episode, writing out content, and then I would record it and make a bunch of mistakes, or I would say things wrong, or I'd have a lot of filler words because I wasn't sure what I was talking about, and then I'd spend a ton of time on the back end editing it. And what happened this last week is I spent the hour beforehand, like several days before, working on the content, what I was gonna be talking about.
Then I kind of got to think about it in the back of my mind over the next few days. And then I was able to sit down for about 10, 15 minutes, kind of comb through the information, fix a few things, add a couple things, record it in one go, and then just filter out a few mistakes, a few mess-ups throughout the episode, and it was a much faster process. And I think that I got a lot better of a product on the other end. One of the guys in my BNI group, did I scratch my face?
One of the guys in my BNI group said that he listened to the last episode of the podcast, and it made him think about his mission statement, the reason why he was in business. And I think that's exactly what I want to create is this awareness around what it is that we're really doing and realizing that the things that we're doing right now may not be the best way that we're doing them, or that there might be a few things that we're missing. So to that regard, I want to really focus on that.
Like the things that I wish I knew a few months ago or a couple years ago, and the things that I want to know more about are what I'm focusing on in terms of content for the podcast. So I'd be seeing a lot more of very specific topics for the podcast moving forward. And that's the same thing. Like when I have guests on.
So for example, my episode this week with Ty King from the Arkansas Podcast Collaborative, I could have just talked about a little bit of what the collaborative does, the impact that it has on its clients, but I want to really focus more so on the tools, tips and tricks that people can use now to improve their life.
And I feel like when I was doing the walk and even the first few episodes, it was very much more of what is the organization, what does it do, how cool, how amazing, which is great, but I really want the guest episodes, like I want people to be able to walk away with very clear outcomes from each episode.
So for example, I just had a phone call this morning with someone that's gonna be on the podcast here in a few months, and she is a nonprofit leader here in San Mateo area, but she's really excited to talk more about, like mention the nonprofit a little bit like that is going to be a portion of it, but more so that it's going to be tips for people that are more socialpreneur focused. And what I mean by a socialpreneur is a entrepreneur that has a social impact cause tied to their business.
So I've talked about it a few times, but for example of that is Tony's Chocolonely. They are a chocolate company, but one of their main focuses is that they are anti-slave labor in the cacao industry. So that's a lot of what is in their marketing on all of their candy bars, they have something about it. And it really just brings an awareness to a social issue that is very prevalent in their industry.
And they do the same thing for a few environmental issues like deforestation or global warming, but the slave labor aspect is a big part of their branding and who they are. Another great example of a socialpreneur business in my opinion is the cold-blooded caffeine company that sponsored me on my walk across the country.
They're located out of South Carolina, but a big drive of why they do what they do is to help preserve, conserve reptiles and amphibians and wildlife and coffee producing countries. They do is they donate a percentage of their proceeds from the coffee sales to wildlife and restoration nonprofits that impact the rainforest. So just a way to say, hey, like there is an externality here from our business, how can we help fix it? How can we help be part of that solution?
So people can still enjoy this beverage or this candy, but be aware of issues that they may not have known about prior. So that is gonna be a big part of our discussion here once we have our recording. So I'm super excited for that. I guess the only really other thing is that I am a part of a Toastmasters group here over in San Mateo County called ProMasters. We meet every Thursday morning from 7.30 to 8.30. So super early.
But if anybody listening wants to join, we are having a little bit of a membership drive. So if you're interested in improving your public speaking and getting out of your comfort zone around a group of like-minded individuals that want to see you grow and achieve, let me know and I'd be more than happy to send you an invite.
And that's for anywhere in the world because we have a hybrid option where, for example, I go in person every week, but one of my friends in San Diego is actually joining and she's able to zoom in. We have a gal in Florida that zooms in and one of our members travels for work pretty often. So she's joining us from kind of all over the country as well. So if you are interested in being a part of Toastmasters, let me know and I'd be more than happy to send you an invite.
And just in terms of a testimonial for it, yesterday I had my 10 minute presentation at my BNI group and I've been working on a few things in Toastmasters to make it a lot more effective. And I think it helped out a ton. I'd really say that the biggest thing is being less nervous in the group. I was really able to stay focused on the three or four main points that I wanted to hit, my introduction, the one-to-one coaching, group coaching and workshops without rambling on about them.
And that's a big thing that we work on in Toastmasters with table topics. So that helped out a ton in terms of being able to know how to get to the point quickly, but effectively. And the other thing is at the question portion, instead of getting nervous that I was getting an impromptu speech basically in front of the 20 people that were in attendance, it was very natural just taking the question, internalizing it and then giving an answer that was again, quick, effective and to the point.
So that helped out a ton. I do have some workshops coming up here over the next couple of weeks. So if you're interested in attending those, please let me know. The first workshop that we have coming up is on January 22nd from two to 3 p.m. And it's called Using AI to Plan Your Goals. And this is a demonstration and tutorial on how to use the range finder GPT that I created that I used to flesh out my New Year's resolutions and goals.
So I'll be going over that to help people create goals that will actually have a higher chance of being achieved throughout the year, make them more specific, measurable, et cetera, so that they are connected to your actual purpose and mission for the year. So it's not just setting a goal, but it's about connecting it to an importance, a reason why you're setting out to achieve it. The next one is going to be the Power of Purpose, Mission and Vision in Life and Business.
And that is on January 29th from 12 to 1 p.m. And in that workshop, I'm going to be walking through the process of creating a mission statement for your organization, for your projects, or just for your life in general.
And I think that that is something that is extremely important, especially from my experience with my walk across the country, is that is really the thing that's going to keep you focused and on task when times get rough, when your metaphorical wheels explode in the middle of a storm, when you run out of water in the desert. Like what is going to keep you moving forward without throwing in the towel and calling for help to get out of the situation?
What is going to keep you in the suck of it so that you can get to the other side and reach what it is that you want to actually achieve? And then the last one is going to be on February 4th from 12 to 1 p.m.
And that is the Breaking Through the Noise, Silencing the Inner Critic workshop that I host, where we're going to be talking about the sabotaging voice, that little voice in your head that kind of says nasty things to you, like you can't achieve this, you're not good enough, you don't have what it takes, you're not as good as this other guy. There's really that thing in your head that prevents you from making strides towards what you want in your life.
So those are the three workshops that I have coming up. The info will be down in the show notes of how to register for each of those. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, let me know and I'd be more than happy to help you out ahead of time. Each of those has a handout that comes with them so that you will be able to refresh yourself on the content of the presentation and also apply it in your life. I don't want this to just be a hour long talk.
I want this to be something that people can actually use. Thank you all so much for listening. We recently crossed 2,000 downloads on the podcast so thank you all for that. And remember that the best is yet to come as long as you are willing to make the decisions to never settle, never quit and never peak. I'll see you guys in the next one.