Help Me Podcast

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.

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

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