Mindset
Six years ago I launched the Leave Your Mark podcast. This week, we begin the 7th season, and drop the 365th Episode.
We are close to 800,000 downloads and counting.
Many years ago, when I was a teenager, I wanted to be a broadcaster. I wanted to be a radio or TV talk show DJ. One of my favorite shows growing up was the Phil Donahue Show, the show that started that genre of media, and kickstarted Oprah, and a host of other such icon’s careers.
After high school, I registered for a diploma program in Radio and Television Arts at a local college in my hometown. I passed the pre-requisite exam and was all ready to start my journey when my father told me he preferred that I get a University degree.
Do I regret listening to my father…….
…….sometimes.
I feel like that was my true destiny, something that lived innately within me.
But, where my life went, what I experienced, and who I became are all things for which I am absolutely grateful. My life and career have been amazing.
About eight or nine years ago, when I recognized that podcasting was a thing. It seemed a possible route for me to explore my original aspirations, I began to manifest the opportunity as a part of my yearly plan.
There was a lot of resistance!
I am fearful of technology, it’s not something that has ever come naturally to me, I really have to make efforts to overcome this resistance and feel safe in exploring any technology.
Podcasting represented this huge endeavor to overcome this resistance. For at least two years I kept making it one of my BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) in my yearly plan, and each year I summarized my failure to accomplish this goal as a disappointment.
Why could I not overcome this resistance?
One day, I ran into the podcast from London Real and the podcaster, Brian Rose. He’s a controversial American turned London Brit who’s podcast has millions of DLs and many highly accomplished guests.
He was running a course called “Broadcast Yourself” designed to help those aspiring podcasters to overcome their own resistance.
After several months of deliberation, I pulled the trigger on the program in March of 2018. Four weeks later, I dropped podcast number 1, and the rest is history.
I haven’t missed a week since starting it.
Why?
Because I love it. It’s who I am. It satisfies an inner passion that resonates within me.
That’s really what success is all about. Exploring the passion within.
As I’ve written before in previous blog’s, I love the quote “Success is a progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”by Earl Nightingale.
The worthy ideal of helping people see the possibilities of life through the shared experience of our guests lives. We often feel alone in life, wondering if the challenges we are experiencing are shared by anyone else.
I wanted this podcast to help the listener feel like they are not alone. I wanted them to feel like they were a part of a community of human beings with shared experiences in which they could resonate and feel empowered.
I hope this is what I have accomplished, and can continue to accomplish for as long as I am allowed.
Thanks for listening 😉
