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Missed a Podcast Episode Drop? Who cares! · Your Mic

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  I used to be so hard-nosed about this one thing regarding podcasting and not anymore,
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  not anymore. We'll talk about that on this episode of Your Mike.
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  Welcome back to the pod. It's Freddie Cruz, founder of Speak podcasting. If you want to chat pods,
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  you can hit me up. Freddie with a Y at SpeakPodcasting.com.
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  And I want to talk about consistency. It's the one thing that I used to be so hard-nosed about.
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  I mean, stubborn. I used to be stubborn up until probably my early 40s, okay?
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  I would consistently be told about how stubborn I was and still am in certain ways.
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  But I've gotten softer. And the one area that I had remained stubborn until just recently was
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  consistency in terms of podcast cadence. So we're about to complete our first full calendar year
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  of Your Mike. I launched with the 12 episode season late last year. Took a hiatus to
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  to have a new season of Cruz through HTX. But this is probably, I say probably because
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  there are no guarantees in life. This will probably most likely be a bit like the forever season
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  where I just keep going with Your Mike. And I want it to be a biweekly show. I don't think weekly
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  is enough when it comes to trying to help aspiring a new podcast hosts. So that's always been my
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  hard line is like, hey, biweekly once a week is just not enough. And it is for some people. I get it.
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  It's just not for me. I'm all in on podcasting. Except when I wasn't all in on discipline.
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  Because I lacked it about a week and a half ago. It was the Tuesday after SpeakFest. And it should
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  have been like the day that I recorded this episode because I was so excited about coming off
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  this event. And I was just exhausted. And yeah, I'm going to sound poopy pants. It was a long,
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  it's been a long past few months. And I had not fallen off the wagon. I had not. I had not.
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  And it all caught up to me. And maybe it was my disappointment in how the event turned out. And I
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  was just maybe there was a little bit of sort of like a hidden regret or hidden sadness or just
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  like a tinge of just wanting to move on from it already. But I was like, hey, you know what?
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  Make an excuse. It's after 11. Don't record the episode. You can always make it up.
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  But after I've had some time to reflect on it, I'm like, you know what? No, it's okay.
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  And so I'm talking to you specifically as a business owner, as an entrepreneur, as a C-suite
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  level executive, as the CEO, CFO, COO, the headperson in charge, the leader of the wolf pack,
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  the chief, the skipper, the capitan. Now, you know what? Give yourself some grace. It is okay.
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  It just is. You know, there are a lot of business guys who talk and they're far more successful
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  than I am and that I probably ever will be all right. I'm not built like them. I know this.
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  I'm very self-aware. I got my weaknesses. I've also got my strengths. An unbeatable strength
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  of mine is self-awareness. Yes, I was poopy pants. Yes, I was in my feelings. Yes, I let the day
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  get away from me. I was trying to catch up. I thought that I would have the energy and you know
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  what? I didn't. I didn't push, you know, going back to David Goggins of the 6040 thing when, you know,
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  when people, was it people stop at 40%, you actually really have 60% more left in you?
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  Well, you know what? I was tired. Excuse? Sure. Or maybe not. And so I'm telling you this because
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  I want you to understand that sometimes things get out of control. Things get a little hard
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  and sometimes things fall through the cracks. And if it means not recording an episode because
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  you don't want to record in a 75% sleep trance and you'd rather just miss the episode recording
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  and record at a different time, then you know what? That is A-O-K. You know, it's something I like
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  to tell my kids. There's only one perfect person in the entire history of the world and he
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  don't live here. He doesn't. He's up in the sky. That's what my faith teaches me and it might
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  teach you something different. In other words, perfection, it sucks. It just does. Things happen.
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  And I say that I'm recording this episode for you, the business owner, the entrepreneur,
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  the C-suite level executive. And that's true. It's also a reminder to myself.
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  That just because it's Tuesday or just because it's Thursday doesn't necessarily mean that you
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  absolutely positively need to record an episode and make sure that you are recording nothing but
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  brand new episodes twice a week, every single week, every single month. That there are occasions
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  when sometimes things get out of hand and things fall through the cracks. It doesn't make you
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  less of a businessman, doesn't make you less of an entrepreneur, less of a human. It doesn't
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  mean that you are the worst podcaster in the history of the world. It doesn't mean you're lazy or
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  undisciplined. It doesn't mean that you don't want success. I want success. I am hell-addriven and I
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  dare anybody to tell me otherwise. Missing an episode sometimes is okay, especially if you are
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  in the top 1% of people who actually have recorded more than 20 episodes. Now, if you find yourself
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  skipping episodes more often than not, then we should talk because there are systems.
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  And if you want to chat, let's do it. Freddie with a Y at SpeakPodcasting.com. Thanks for listening.