
I’ve been wanting to start a podcast for a really long time.
But not bad enough, I guess, or else… I probably would have actually started the damn thing.
Creating a podcast is so easy today, though. Honestly, anybody can do it.
The irony is that had I just started mine back when I wanted to, there would have been way less competition around, it would have been much easier to draw an audience, and I probably would be much further along.
But whatever, I’m starting it now.
The funny thing is that if I knew what I’m about to tell you I probably actually would have started it way back then.
I’m fully bought into the whole idea that everybody has something of value they can bring to the world.
The problem is I don’t think a whole lot of people realize it and even the ones who do don’t feel it’s really worth sharing. Or, they’re just scared to share it because that means putting themselves out there in a very real way and potentially being laughed at, ridiculed, or talked about by the people in their inner circles.
My POV on this, which you’ll come to realize is my POV on just about everything, is: who fucking cares?
And really, I mean that. Who fucking cares what some dude you went to high school with thinks? Who fucking cares what your friends think, or your parents, or your teachers?
Even if they think you’re crazy, it’s because they’re shortsighted.
It’s not their vision. If you believe in what you’re doing, it will pay off, this I promise you.
This POV — if you can’t tell — is a long term approach. It requires a lot of patience. You have to eat a whole lot of shit in order to eat caviar someday.
But, when you think about it, that’s what life is anyway, right? I mean life as in what society has deemed appropriate or the traditional path. And I’m using air quotes, by the way.
You know, you grow up, you go to school, you graduate, get a job, work that job for 40 to 50 years, save up enough money to retire, and then one day you get to retire.
The thing is, the internet changed everything. Now the tools are out there for you to deviate from that plan and most of them are free. All you have to do is start executing, but that’s the thing that gets everybody hung up.
I think I can help you with that.
I worked seven years in the ad industry so I have real “documented value” in terms of experience and my resume. But what I value even more than that is the thirty-one years of LIFE experience I have leading up to and including those seven years.
You see, before, I didn’t really value that experience all that much. Nor did anybody else, though — just ask the companies I applied to before I landed my job in the ad industry.
That’s the thing I’m really glad I know now. That’s the thing that is allowing me to start my podcast without having a quote-unquote “original idea.”
I’m the original idea. I’m the one who’s valuable. Or rather, my unique life experiences are because others can learn from them just like I did.
All experience is vital, and so, when you hear the phrase “document versus create,” that’s what that means.
You can get started just by being you. You don’t need to invent the next Game of Thrones with every new thing you’re starting. But since we’re talking about Game of Thrones, I feel like Samwell Tarly up in this piece: tired of reading about the achievements of better men.
And so, this is my podcast. I hope you like it.
Want to start your own? Just press record.

