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Episode 12A - A review of the podcast so far...and a look forward to the future · Tom's Hirschsprung's Podcast

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  You are listening to Tom's Hirshprung's Podcast, where our provide a look into the
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  remarkable experiences of the most inspiring people around Hirshprung's disease and sports. Hello and
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  welcome to a special episode of Tom's Hirshprung's Podcast. As we've now reached episode
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  twelve, I didn't want anyone to be episode thirteen, so I thought I'd
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  record this and talk about a few updates and behind the scenes look at the
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  podcast itself, and then continue with my next guest in episode fourteen. I
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  just wanted to go through four things very quickly. Those four things being sort
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  of thoughts on how the podcast itself is going, why I've kept with the
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  weekly format, talk about any changes that have been made, and lastly,
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  to go through a future schedule, talk about the guests that are coming up
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  and how we're going to be moving forward. Now. I'm recording this on
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  Thursday, the fourth of April, just as Eli's David's episode has come out.
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  If anybody is very much into their fitness and wants to hear about a
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  journey about somebody who went from doing no exercise a very little exercise, to
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  becoming a personal trainer, as somebody with chronic illness teaching people with chronic illness.
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  I would highly recommend the episode that's just come out today and as seak
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  today, we've just crossed over three hundred plays on Spotify, which is where
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  ninety six percent of the audience is based. Now, I don't know what
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  a good number is supposed to be for a niche podcast, which is what
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  I believe we are, but I am I'm staggered by the amount of plays
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  that we've got, the amount of messages that received, and really just wanted
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  to say a quick thank you to everybody's listened, commented, shared, being
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  a guest or has sent me private message to say that they've enjoyed the show,
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  and also wanted to say thank you for being welcomed into a community that
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  before I started doing this never never knew existed. Secondly, I wanted to
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  talk about the format itself and say about the weekly format that I will continue
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  with the weekly format. We have had discussions with me, my team,
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  Carla and Louisa, the co founders of the podcast, about potentially looking at
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  going once every two weeks, but I've found that the weekly format seems to
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  work best people tend to enjoy it more. And I've been lucky enough to
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  have a guest each week, and I will share with you as soon as
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  I have plenty more guests that either me or Carla or Louisa have contacted or
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  they've contacted the show and want to be part of the show as well,
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  so we'll be definitely keeping with the weekly format. And speaking of the changes
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  that have been made, I have upgraded the audio quality, so hopefully you
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  will hear a better sound. Also, the episodes themselves are shorter in length.
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  I've generally tried to stick between twenty five and thirty minutes per episode.
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  If we do go longer, that's never a problem. We just make it
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  a two part episode, so it'll have two parts that'll be twenty minutes rather
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  than one forty minute episode, for example, and then just release them on
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  consecutive weeks. I do want to say thank you to my two co founders,
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  Carla and Louisa. You may have heard their episodes before. Carla was
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  episode five and Louisa was episode four with her dad Andrew, and they've offered
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  some great suggestions, including limiting the shows to shorter episodes. As I've mentioned,
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  before to make them more manageable for me to edit, and hopefully for
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  you to listen as well, so that it doesn't come it doesn't come at
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  you in one big block. Lastly, I just wanted to talk about the
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  schedule, the upcoming schedule for April and then possibly moving into May as well,
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  just so you have an idea of who's coming up. So today alias
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  David as mentioned before that released earlier this morning round about thirty minutes long.
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  Also on the eleventh of April, so next Thursday, I will have an
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  episode with professional golfer Andy Brown, who's been kid enough to lend his time.
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  We are recording tomorrow and then releasing next Thursday, and he has chrones
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  and ulcerated colitis and we'll talk about his journey through professional sport with his health
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  complications. The eighteenth of April, so Thursday after I will have Laura,
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  who is one one third of Keeping Up with the Gowls podcast, a podcast
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  that released a very similar time to mine at the start of this year,
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  and we will discuss their show as well as her passion for fitness and being
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  an inspiration for others in that field as well. I am also in contact
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  with two Hirshbrung specific charities who I'm very close to agreeing interviews with. We
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  are just sorting outdates and times at the moment, but they're both very interested,
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  so hopefully I can bring you their interviews shortly. I won't mention who
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  they are yet, but once everything is sorted then I will update you as
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  soon as I have any more information. Add two more points, just to
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  finish with, I will be switching roles this coming Tuesday to appear on the
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  Messy Missy podcast, so being interviewed rather other than being the interviewer, where
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  I'll talk to Melissa, who is trying to record one hundred podcasts in one
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  hundred days. She will be talking or we will be talking about entrepreneurship,
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  so make sure to check that out. We are yes recording this Tuesday,
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  so hopefully will be out. I don't have the time or date when the
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  show itself will be out, but hopefully that will be out shortly after.
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  And then lastly, for me, all that I have left to say is
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  thank you very much to especially to Carla and Louisa as well as my guests,
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  and for you for continuing to support the channel. So thank you very
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  much, for listening. We will have more podcasts scheduled shortly. I think
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  we're nearly up to by the end of next week or week after we recorded,
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  till the end of April, and then to have plenty more to listen
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  to. So thank you very much and bye for now. Thank you for
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  listening to the podcast. Find us on Instagram Tom's Underscore Hirshbrun's Underscore podcast.
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