11/2/19 — Filmed ep 1

Sunny Shah
Nov 2 · 2 min read

Woke up and felt really good today. I finally filmed episode 1 of my podcast, Shah and Friends, yesterday with Shyam. I’m really not sure how I feel about it. There were a lot of aspects that could have been a lot better and parts that I’m embarrassed to share publicly. I seriously debated not posting it in its entirety, but doing so would contradict the main principle behind what I’m doing. I’m going to post the whole thing proudly, and it’s really not that good in my opinion. But when young creative people want to see where I started my journey, at least they’ll get an accurate view of my amateur work.

In the middle of the podcast I decided to do a “before view” of my body. One of my main focuses right now is my health and physique and I wanted to incorporate that by using the opportunity to show where I’m at now physically. We planned to do an “after view” on our next podcast in a few months time.

I’m really glad I did so for a number of reasons. Mainly because it exemplifies the major theme of the whole podcast for me, which was sharing myself in a way that I’m not necessarily proud of. I mentioned towards the end that my style of content is documentarial, and I like the idea of documenting my physique, my podcasting skills, and who I am overall at a state that we’ll say has a lot of room for improvement. Because I’m confident that if I stick to my principles then I’ll grow enough to become proud of myself in all those dimensions.

And I’d much rather show my progression from this moment all the way to the time that I’m truly proud of who I’ve become, as opposed to waiting until I’m good enough to start sharing. That just seems like a much better story.

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