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Start Before You're Ready - I Did 100 Podcast Episodes (Here's What Happened) | The Warrior Kings Podcast Ep.100 · The Warrior Kings Podcast : Men's Self Help Masculinity Podcast

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  This is the 100th episode of the Warrior Kings Podcast, and today
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  we're going to celebrate this milestone together and I'm going
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  to share with you the top 10 things I've learned creating 100
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  podcast episodes and how this has been a journey that has
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  completely changed my life. If it's your first time here, my
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  name is Michael Riggs. I'm a full time author,
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  entrepreneur, men's personal development and marriage mentor,
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  husband and father of six, and I teach men all over the world how
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  to live fully optimized, leveled up lives.
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  So if if that's something you're into, definitely stick around.
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  Subscribe to this podcast, subscribe to this YouTube
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  channel, wherever you're getting this because that's what we do
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  here every week. Inspire men to be their best
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  selves in every aspect of their lives.
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  And if you've been a regular listener, drop a Congrats in the
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  comments of this episode because we accomplished this together.
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  100 episodes of the Warrior King's podcast.
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  And with all that being said, let's dive right into the
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  episode. Hello and welcome to the Warrior
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  King's podcast. I'm your host, Michael Riggs,
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  here to assist you on your journey to living a fully
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  optimized, leveled up life as a man.
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  So again, welcome and welcome back to the Warrior Kings
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  podcast. It's great to be here today.
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  It's great to talk to you today. But yeah, 100 episodes.
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  It's totally crazy to me that it's been 100 episodes already.
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  You know, it's been 2 years creating the podcast, 2 years
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  talking to you. It's been an amazing wild ride.
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  That's what we're going to be talking about today is the
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  journey. You know, it's a huge milestone
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  to reach 100 episodes of a thing.
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  Most people who start a podcast don't even create 20 episodes
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  before they throw in the towel. So it's a big thing.
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  Super excited about it. Glad that you're here listening
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  to this today, watching this today, wherever you're getting
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  this. And when it comes to creating
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  100 podcast episodes, I just wanted to say I have done that
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  on my own without a team. I wrote the episodes, I shot the
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  episodes, I edited everything, titles, thumbnails,
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  descriptions, the whole thing. One man operation for the better
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  part of this entire thing. And in that sense, it's a huge
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  accomplishment because it's been a lot of work.
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  So I just want to encourage you today, if you want to go after a
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  thing, if you want to go after a dream, just go for it.
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  Just do it. Just start the thing and see
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  where it takes you because you never know.
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  Like I said, this podcast has completely changed my life.
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  And I just want to get into the top 10 things that I've learned
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  about podcasting, what I've learned in my life from
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  podcasting, how this podcast has changed my life, things like
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  that. So let's dive right into those
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  10 things so I don't just ramble forever before we actually get
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  into the episode. And the first thing that I
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  learned about podcasting is that a podcast can impact lives even
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  when it doesn't feel like it. Most of the time, especially
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  when I first got started, I didn't know if I was reaching
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  anybody. I didn't know if anybody was
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  actually listening. Like I saw the basic numbers on
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  the stats on the podcast hosting platform.
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  But podcasting is a little bit weird because there's not as
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  much of A feedback loop as there is on something like social
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  media where there's comments and people are giving their and
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  things like that. You don't really have a lot of,
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  you can't really tell if you're making an impact.
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  But after a while, the number of people who are reaching out to
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  me, thanking me for my podcast, thanking me for the episodes was
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  totally crazy. And that's one thing that I
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  realized is that you could be impacting lives.
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  You could be changing lives, you could be teaching people new
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  things even when it doesn't feel like it, even when it doesn't
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  seem like it. And that's why it's important to
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  keep going, keep the output going, keep making episodes,
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  keep putting them out there because somebody is listening
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  and you could just be helping them in their lives.
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  I mean, something that's totally crazy to me is last year for
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  2025 on Spotify, I got most binge show.
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  It said that most people who listen to the podcast were
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  listening for five episodes or more and people were binging the
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  Warrior Kings podcast more than 97%, I think it was than other
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  podcast shows. And like I said, when I first
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  started the podcast, I didn't know if anybody was listening.
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  I didn't know if I was reaching anybody with my message and then
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  it just compounded and stacked overtime until it was this big
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  thing. And I have this big following
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  for the podcast, particularly the audio podcast.
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  There's just a huge following of people on there.
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  So if you're someone who's putting out content or putting
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  out a podcast or something like that and it doesn't seem like
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  you're making an impact, just stick with it.
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  Keep putting out episodes, keep putting out videos, whatever The
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  thing is. And that will compound overtime
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  and you will realize, wow, I actually have been impacting
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  lives. Especially when people start
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  reaching out to you and thanking you for the thing that you're
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  doing. It's like, wow, I'm so glad that
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  I stuck with this. I'm so glad that I spoke truth.
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  I'm so glad that I taught as if somebody was listening, even
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  though I didn't know if anybody was, because I had the
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  opportunity to help so many people in their lives.
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  The second thing that I learned hosting a podcast for 100
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  episodes is that you become a better communicator overtime.
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  This is what I looked like and sounded like when I first
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  started the podcast. This is the first episode of the
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  Warrior Kings podcast. Check this out.
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  Hello and welcome to the Warrior King YouTube channel and
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  podcast. My name is Michael Riggs.
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  I'm a full time author, artist and entrepreneur here to lead
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  you in unlocking masculinity, manliness and the warrior spirit
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  within. Since I'm just launching this
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  podcast and YouTube channel, I just want to give a little bit
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  of an introduction to myself, who I am, what I'm about, what I
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  do. Pretty crazy, right?
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  I mean, the way that I've been talking to you so far on this
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  episode, you can already tell that I've come a long way.
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  And this is a clip from one of my most recent episodes.
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  Let's make comparison if you don't.
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  Believe in yourself, nothing is going to work.
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  Out for you. That's a hard truth.
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  These days, it's increasingly difficult to feel confident.
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  To accept our. Identity and our true authentic
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  selves. Especially with the rise of.
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  Social media and the disease of comparison Many men these days
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  are finding themselves lost, struggling to feel confident,
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  struggling to believe in themselves and trying way too
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  hard. But confidence doesn't come from
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  trying to be something that you're not.
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  It comes from being your true authentic self.
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  If it's your first time here, my name is Michael Riggs.
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  I'm a full time author, entrepreneur, men's personal
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  development and marriage mentor, husband and father of six.
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  And I teach men all over the world how to live fully
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  optimized, leveled up lives. So if that's something you're
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  into, definitely stick around. Subscribe.
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  To this podcast, subscribe to. This YouTube channel wherever
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  you're getting this. Because that's what we do here
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  every week. Talk.
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  About man's stuff and how to be our best selves in our lives,
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  better fathers, leaders, husbands and more.
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  And today I'm going to dive into a few success mindset.
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  Shifts. That have the power to transform
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  your whole life and the way you see yourself and the world stick
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  around. Hello and welcome to the
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  Warrior. Kings Podcast.
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  Now, the reason that you become a better communicator when
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  you're making videos or podcast episodes, things like that is
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  because you're recording yourself and then you're
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  watching it back. Whether you're just watching it
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  back or you're watching it back over and over again in the edit
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  and subconsciously your mind is making adjustments because
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  you're watching yourself. So very rarely during this
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  journey did I watch myself and say, oh, that's so cringe.
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  I need to change this, this and that about myself.
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  Like it wasn't a conscious process, but it was a
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  subconscious process in that I was making small adjustments
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  with every video. And the way that I speak, the
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  way that I present myself, my expressions, my, umm, what do
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  they call it, inflections. I was making these small
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  adjustments without even realizing it until overtime
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  after like between 50 and 100 episodes.
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  I'm just a way better communicator.
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  I can speak to a camera, I can speak to people better.
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  It's just so crazy how that happens.
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  And like I said, you won't even notice it happening, but it is
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  happening. And you might go back 100
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  episodes ago like we did and play a clip and be like, is that
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  really me? I talked like that.
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  I presented myself like that because in that first episode,
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  first of all, I was very nervous to record myself speaking.
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  But other than that, I thought that I was being very animated.
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  I thought that I was talking kind of how I'm talking right
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  now, but I wasn't. I had to progress overtime and
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  build that skill. And that comes with those small
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  adjustments that you make by watching yourself.
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  So if you want to become a better communicator, I highly
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  recommend recording yourself and watching it back over and over
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  and over again. Maybe it's in content, maybe
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  it's in a podcast, maybe it's an audio podcast where it's just
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  your voice. I don't know.
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  But there's something really, really magical about recording
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  yourself and watching it back if you want to be a better
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  communicator. The third thing that I learned
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  creating one podcast episodes is if you want to do anything,
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  start, just get started and then scale as you go.
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  Build the thing as you go. Because there are so many people
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  who wait for everything to be perfect.
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  They wait for the perfect gear, they wait until they feel ready,
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  all of these things. But let me tell you bro, I
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  started the Warrior Kings podcast recording it on my
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  iPhone, not even a new iPhone. It was a iPhone XR and I edited
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  it on a 10 year old iPad, an old iPad Pro 10.5 that I had had
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  forever. The screen was even cracked.
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  Dude, I started the podcast like that.
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  Oh, and I had like a budget mic as well.
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  I did some research and found the best sounding budget
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  microphone that would plug into my iPhone.
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  And I can't stress to you enough the importance of just getting
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  started. Don't wait till the conditions
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  are perfect. Don't wait until you're ready.
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  Start the thing and then scale it overtime.
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  Because now I have a really nice camera, I have really nice
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  microphones. I have a whole editing setup
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  with a computer and everything. Like I built a thing as I went,
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  but I just got started. And if I hadn't, if I had
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  waited, I wouldn't, you know, the Warrior King's podcast
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  wouldn't be as big as it is today.
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  And I have carried that with me in all of my endeavors.
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  My book warrior husband breaks all the rules of publishing a
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  book, self-publishing a book. Even the conventional wisdom
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  with publishing a book is that you need to do a book launch.
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  You need to get people excited about the book and spend months
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  and months and months getting pre-orders and promoting the
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  thing you know. And I've seen many authors and
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  my career as an author do that and then crash and burn and they
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  waste so much time that they could have just put the book out
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  there and then scaled it. And if you're an author, if
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  you're in the publishing world, the writing world, you probably
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  think that that sounds crazy to just put a book out there and
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  then scale it. Well, guess what?
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  That's exactly what I did. I wrote the book, I self
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  published it and then I promoted it and I scaled it overtime.
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  The first month that I put the book out there, I had a good few
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  sales. But guess what?
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  Every single month after that it scaled up and up and up and up
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  until now. It's a really big book in the
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  relationship marriage space. It's I scaled it overtime and
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  that goes back to just get started.
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  Put the thing out there and then figure it out.
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  Don't wait for everything to be perfect.
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  Don't build a book launch for your life and put your life and
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  your future on hold, your success on hold because you're
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  waiting for the thing to be perfect.
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  With this podcast, with publishing the book Warrior
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  Husband, I have broken every rule of the advice that they
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  give you because I just got started and then I scaled the
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  thing and that book Warrior Husband, now thousands of men
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  all over the world have read it and hundreds of men buy it every
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  day. I did that without a book
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  launch. So just get started.
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  Put the thing out there and just getting started applies to
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  anything, not just podcasts, YouTube and publishing books.
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  It applies to everything. Anything that you want to
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  pursue, whatever your dream is, just get started and go for it
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  and figure it out as you go. I can't stress the importance of
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  this enough. The fourth thing that I learned
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  creating 100 episodes is to speak truth.
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  Even when it's uncomfortable. The truth is what matters.
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  In the early days of the podcast, I found myself sort of
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  holding back from sharing my true opinions, Sharing
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  ultimately what my truth is, what my true beliefs are because
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  of, you know, societal norms, things like that.
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  Fear of getting canceled, fear of haters, those sort of things.
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  It's fearful of modern hateful people that the things that I
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  was going to say were going to start like a wildfire or
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  something. I don't know, but I built my
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  confidence overtime and I started speaking those hard
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  truths openly. I started saying exactly what I
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  was thinking, exactly what I was feeling, being more authentic in
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  my truth and what I believed the truth to be.
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  I would step outside of my comfort zone and speak truth
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  even when it made me feel uncomfortable and those times
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  where I thought that I should hold back.
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  Instead of holding back, I intentionally went harder on
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  what I wanted to say. I spoke more truth and I pushed
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  myself to do that until now. I just say whatever needs to be
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  said, whatever people need to hear, whatever God wants me to
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  say to people, I just speak it and I speak it openly.
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  And I think that that is one of the main things that people
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  appreciate about my work, about the podcast to this day, is that
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  I do speak truth. And I'm unafraid to do that
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  because truth is all that matters.
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  Even if it's uncomfortable, even if it offends someone, the truth
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  is what matters. And here's the thing, if they
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  can't handle the truth, then they're not my audience.
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  If they don't believe what I believe or agree with me, then
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  they don't have to be here and that's fine.
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  Or they can get mad, they can leave me a hateful comment,
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  that's fine too. But I will always speak truth.
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  Because here's the thing, I would rather speak hard truths
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  than reach a small number of people and change their lives
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  for the better than appeal to everyone.
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  I would rather appeal to a small number of people and help them
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  in their lives than appeal to everyone.
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  Which brings me to my next point, which is haters are
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  idiots. And I used to care about haters
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  a lot until I realized that they're all unintelligent
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  people. There's really no other way to
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  put that. Like, I was trying to find like
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  a nicer way to say that. There's no nice way to say that
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  they're stupid. When I first got started, when I
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  first started putting episodes and videos out there, hater
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  comments used to really get to me.
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  It used to ruin my whole day, dude.
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  But now, now that I've learned not to care what people think,
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  I've built my confidence. I've been doing this so long.
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  Like the hater comments, when I do get them, it's just
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  entertainment for me. I kind of just laugh at it.
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  Some of them I laugh a lot. And the hater comments have
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  gotten fewer and fewer overtime. Like when I first started this
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  thing, I used to get them all the time.
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  People saying really mean hateful stuff to me, that's
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  gotten way less overtime. I get like maybe one every
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  couple of months these days. But my point being, it used to
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  really, really bother me. And The thing is, if you're
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  going to put yourself out there in anything, you can't care what
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  people think about you and you can't care what people say about
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  you. You know, people are going to be
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  mean. It's just how it is.
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  Haters are going to be haters and they're always going to be
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  around. It just comes with it.
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  And like I said, haters are idiots.
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  Like there's nobody successful, there's nobody doing really,
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  really well in their lives that's hating on people that's
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  on YouTube leaving mean comments to people.
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  Like successful people don't have any time or any desire to
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  be hating on anyone. Like the people who are leaving
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  hateful comments and being mean are absolute losers.
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  And once you realize that you don't have to care because you
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  say, oh, I get it, he has an IQ issue.
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  He's doing nothing with his life except for leaving people mean
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  comments on YouTube. And if he's, he's that angry and
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  bitter in his life, and if he can just make some, try to make
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  somebody feel bad about themselves, then he's such a sad
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  person, right? And I don't have to care about
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  that. Isn't that liberating?
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  Isn't that freeing? Now I can just say and do
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  whatever I want. I can just put my stuff out
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  there without any fear or reservation of the thoughts and
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  opinions and judgments of other people.
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  Because it doesn't even matter. And there will be haters.
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  It just comes with it. And not everybody is going to
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  agree with everything you say. And that's OK.
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  We're all different. As soon as you realize that as
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  well, it's like not everybody is going to agree with my opinion
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  and my viewpoints on life and that's OK.
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  Not everybody has to agree with me.
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  If you disagree with anything I say, let me know.
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  I'm going to keep thinking what I think and feeling, how I feel.
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  And it's totally OK that you feel that way, that you feel
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  differently than me. And that's just a mind blowing
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  concept. I feel like just realizing that
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  you don't have to care what people think about you.
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  You don't have to care about being cringe either.
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  Like except the cringe. Put yourself out there.
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  Don't care what other people think and if people think
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  differently than you, that's OK. You don't have to agree with
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  everybody. That's life, that's freedom.
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  You know what I'm saying? And like I said, most haters,
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  people who are leaving hateful comments to people, they have an
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  IQ issue and you can tell like they can't spell, they can't
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  form a sentence. The things that they're saying
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  don't make any sense. I think that the ones that get
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  you the most are the ones that are like something personal,
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  maybe something that you're already self-conscious about.
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  Those suck sometimes, but once again, you don't have to care.
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  Ultimately, in the end, don't let it ruin your whole day or
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  hold you back from doing the thing.
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  It's a hard truth, but the world is full of stupid people and if
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  you're putting yourself on the Internet, that is where a lot of
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  them dwell. And not caring what other people
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  think is a massive step towards your success.
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  Trust me. The sixth thing that I learned
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  creating 100 podcast episodes is how cool it is to solve other
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  people's problems and how fulfilling it is to do that.
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  I started out as an artist and a fiction writer.
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  I don't know if you guys know that about me.
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  I've mentioned it a few times, but I wrote they're still
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  available to purchase if that's something that you're interested
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  in. If you're like, what were
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  Michael Riggs's sci-fi books like, you know what I mean?
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  They're still out there. You can find them.
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  But I used to write fiction and sci-fi and I was an artist and
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  filmmaker. And in doing that, I was kind
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  of, I didn't know it at the time, but I was kind of seeking
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  validation for myself, my own creativity, my own genius.
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  You know, I, I wanted to be recognized for the things I was
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  creating. And it wasn't until I started
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  solving problems for other people that I found true success
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  and true fulfillment. When I started teaching men how
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  to be better in their lives based on the things that I had
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  been through and the things that I had overcome and the things
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  that I found on my own personal transformation and level up
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  journey. Once I started teaching that to
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  other men, that's when I found true success and true
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  fulfillment because it's not about me anymore.
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  It's about you, it's about helping you.
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  It's about serving others. It's not about serving my self.
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  I became obsessed with helping other people in their lives and
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  solving their problems, bettering men's lives, bettering
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  their marriages, teaching them all the things that I had to
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  learn on my own the hard way. And I just feel so fulfilled and
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  so grateful that I'm able to help thousands of men all over
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  the world now by teaching them these things.
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  On Spotify for 2025, it said that we reached 110 countries.
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  Mind blowing, dude. Like I reached men.
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  I reached people in 110 countries, thousands of men all
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  over the world. It's a little bit difficult for
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  me to wrap my mind around that, but that is what is possible
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  when you make the switch from trying to find validation,
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  trying to find recognition for yourself, and put the focus on
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  solving other people's problems and serving others.
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  This is the full realization of my calling and my purpose, and I
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  wouldn't have it any other way. So become obsessed with serving
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  others and solving people's problems and you will find true
• 18:59
  success in your life. Trust me.
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  The seventh thing that I learned creating 100 podcast episodes is
• 19:05
  that I don't like doing guest episodes.
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  I'm sorry to say, kind of crazy because I actually love all the
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  guys who are guests on my show. Wonderful people, loved talking
• 19:15
  to them, loved those episodes. I even had one of my heroes on
• 19:19
  the show, Daniel Vitalis, which was totally crazy.
• 19:22
  I was so nervous doing that episode.
• 19:24
  I was physically shaking because I have followed him online and
• 19:27
  watched his content for around 20 years.
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  Absolutely mind blowing that he would even come onto my show and
• 19:34
  speak to me and it was just such a phenomenal episode.
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  Like he carried the whole thing. I think he could gather that.
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  I was very nervous and didn't really have a whole lot to say
• 19:44
  but I asked him the questions that I wanted to ask him and he
• 19:46
  carried the show bro. Like he he absolutely killed it.
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  It was awesome. But with that being said, I
• 19:52
  don't like doing guest episodes and I think that that's because
• 19:55
  I'm an awkward communicator. I haven't really looked too much
• 19:58
  into that, but I do have like speaking face to face with
• 20:02
  people. I don't do very well with.
• 20:04
  It could be like a neurodivergent thing.
• 20:06
  I I'm not really positive. I just like I don't do well
• 20:09
  speaking to people. I'm able to talk like this on
• 20:12
  here because I'm talking to you with like these barriers in
• 20:15
  between like camera, computer, screen, edit through the thing,
• 20:19
  YouTube like very unlikely that I would be able to.
• 20:22
  Speak to you like this if you were sitting right in front of
• 20:25
  me. I want to build that skill.
• 20:26
  I want to get better at that, which is why I want to do more
• 20:29
  podcast episodes with guests, put myself outside of my comfort
• 20:33
  zone. And I do believe just like how I
• 20:35
  became a better communicator overtime doing solo episodes, I
• 20:40
  could build that skill as well. Like I could get better and
• 20:42
  better at talking to people the more that I do that.
• 20:45
  But truth being right now, I do not like doing guest episodes.
• 20:48
  It makes me nervous, it makes me uncomfortable.
• 20:51
  I overthink it for days after the fact.
• 20:53
  I feel stupid. This is just me being completely
• 20:56
  honest with you. Like I have things that I
• 20:58
  struggle with too. I've never once in this entire
• 21:00
  journey have I said, hey, I'm a perfect person and this is how
• 21:03
  you should do everything. I'm on my own journey, bro, and
• 21:06
  talking to people is not my favorite thing to do ever.
• 21:08
  So just don't like doing it. Don't like doing guest episodes.
• 21:11
  I need to do that more. I need to get better at that.
• 21:14
  But that's one thing that I learned about myself.
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  Know what I'm saying? And once again, everybody who
• 21:19
  has been a guest on the Warrior Kings podcast absolutely love
• 21:22
  you. If it's not a you thing, it's a
• 21:24
  me thing. It's not you, it's me #8 on this
• 21:26
  list is that podcasting will make you want to be a better
• 21:29
  person in your life. It's kind of like an
• 21:31
  accountability thing. Like if I'm here teaching other
• 21:34
  men how to be fully optimized in their lives and in their
• 21:37
  marriages, then I feel the drive to be fully optimized in my life
• 21:42
  and in my marriage. It makes me want to be a better
• 21:44
  person. I feel held accountable to be
• 21:47
  the best version of myself that I possibly can be because kind
• 21:51
  of how dare I speak and preach the things if I'm not living
• 21:55
  them? You understand what I'm saying?
• 21:56
  So I have been pushed on this journey harder than ever before
• 21:59
  to improve myself, to become optimized in my own life, mind,
• 22:03
  body and spirit. You know what I'm saying?
• 22:05
  I feel a strong drive to become the example of the man that the
• 22:09
  men who listen to me want to be, aspire to be like.
• 22:13
  And I still have a long way to go.
• 22:14
  This journey has made me want to be better and better and better
• 22:17
  in my life, especially since I'm teaching other men how to be
• 22:21
  better in their lives. Then I need to live as the
• 22:23
  example of that. And there's not really much more
• 22:26
  to say about that, but it's been super awesome to see that and
• 22:29
  recognize that is I need to be the best version of myself that
• 22:33
  I possibly can be and be pursuing that all the time and
• 22:36
  getting better and better and better in my life.
• 22:38
  If I'm going to be teaching these things to other people, I
• 22:41
  need to be the example, and that's a huge one.
• 22:43
  If you pursue anything like this, trust me, it will make you
• 22:47
  want to be a better person in every aspect of your life.
• 22:50
  So in that regard, I couldn't recommend enough #9 is that what
• 22:55
  seems simple to me might have the power to change someone's
• 22:59
  whole life. And what I mean by that is as we
• 23:01
  learn and as we grow in anything, it becomes normal for
• 23:05
  us. What was once mind blowing might
• 23:07
  seem really simple now. And you might assume, of course
• 23:11
  everybody knows that it's just this super simple thing.
• 23:13
  But the truth is there was a time when I didn't know that
• 23:16
  thing before I learned it. So you might not feel compelled
• 23:20
  to teach something because it seems so simple.
• 23:23
  You've known it forever now. It's just the simple thing,
• 23:25
  right? Well, here's the thing.
• 23:26
  The concepts that men thank me the most for that they thank me
• 23:30
  the most for teaching are to me the simplest concepts.
• 23:34
  And if I had just said, oh, everybody knows that it's just
• 23:37
  the simple thing and I didn't teach that thing, that I
• 23:39
  wouldn't be impacting that life because just because it's simple
• 23:43
  to me doesn't mean that everybody knows it.
• 23:45
  It could be a mind blowing revelation for someone.
• 23:48
  So for example, if you ask the question, how do I level up my
• 23:51
  communication with my wife, our communication sucks.
• 23:54
  And I'm like, have you ever tried listening to her before?
• 23:57
  Like actually listening to everything that she's saying
• 23:59
  when she's speaking? That's a very simple concept to
• 24:01
  me because I'm like, duh, listen to her when she's speaking.
• 24:04
  Like, isn't that so obvious and simple now that I know that?
• 24:07
  But there was a time when I didn't realize how important
• 24:11
  that was and I was screwing that up in my relationships, right?
• 24:14
  So what seems like a very simple concept might blow somebody's
• 24:18
  mind and level up their entire marriage or their whole life.
• 24:21
  You know what I'm saying? It's like, dude, I've been
• 24:22
  actually listening to everything that she's saying.
• 24:24
  I've been really attentive in doing that.
• 24:26
  I've been looking her in the eyes when she's speaking.
• 24:28
  I've been acknowledging the things that she's saying in our
• 24:31
  communications better than ever before.
• 24:33
  And thank you so much for teaching that.
• 24:35
  I'm like, so it's not this simple thing.
• 24:37
  It could be changing someone's whole life, even though it seems
• 24:39
  simple to me. So if you're someone who's going
• 24:42
  to be teaching something or speaking on something, or you're
• 24:45
  going to do a podcast or YouTube channel or anything like that,
• 24:48
  just don't forget the fundamentals.
• 24:50
  Don't think that it's too simple to share.
• 24:52
  Don't be constantly seeking these mind blowing revelations,
• 24:56
  sometimes those basic things and teaching them over and over
• 24:59
  again to reach more people. That's hugely impactful and can
• 25:02
  change lives. Just because it seems simple to
• 25:05
  you doesn't mean that it's simple.
• 25:06
  If you're someone who works on cars, something that seems very
• 25:10
  simple to you when you're fixing a car, not everybody knows how
• 25:14
  to do that. Like there's people Googling
• 25:16
  that thing all the time and looking up how to do it in
• 25:18
  YouTube videos and stuff like that.
• 25:20
  It might seem very obvious and simple to you, very elementary
• 25:23
  because you're a mechanic, but trust me, there are thousands
• 25:26
  upon thousands of people who don't know how to do that very
• 25:29
  simple thing and it could just change their whole life knowing
• 25:32
  how to do it. That's basically the point that
• 25:34
  I wanted to make and a huge thing that I've learned
• 25:36
  throughout this process because in those early episodes after,
• 25:40
  you know, like 4050 episodes, I started feeling like I have
• 25:43
  nothing else to talk about. I need to like learn more, you
• 25:47
  know, more complex topics in this night.
• 25:49
  And then I realized, no, like, it doesn't have to be that
• 25:51
  complicated. I could still be teaching these
• 25:54
  things that seem very simple to me and I can still impact lives
• 25:58
  because those things aren't simple and they really are
• 26:00
  impacting and changing lives. So just don't forget the
• 26:02
  fundamentals. Just because it's simple to you
• 26:05
  doesn't mean that it's simple. And #10 on this list, the final
• 26:09
  thing is that I would not be who I am today if I hadn't done 100
• 26:13
  episodes of this podcast. This journey has completely
• 26:17
  changed my life. Everything about my life is
• 26:19
  different. My philosophies on life are
• 26:22
  different. My communication is different,
• 26:24
  the way that I present myself. I'm actually making money doing
• 26:27
  the thing now, which is really cool.
• 26:28
  That's life changing for anybody, right?
• 26:31
  Just completely changed my life. Like I said before, just being
• 26:34
  in service to others, teaching people how to be better in their
• 26:37
  lives, teaching them things that I learned from when I was a mess
• 26:41
  and I had to transform my own life, when I had to learn
• 26:44
  everything the hard way. Teaching that to other people,
• 26:46
  it's just been so fulfilling. I'm so grateful to have this
• 26:49
  calling, to have this purpose, to have this opportunity, even
• 26:53
  to even be doing this. This has completely changed my
• 26:56
  life. So if you have a dream, if you
• 26:58
  have a calling and a purpose, if you have a drive to do something
• 27:01
  that you've been putting off, I highly, highly encourage you go
• 27:05
  for it. Do the thing.
• 27:06
  If you feel called to do something, dude, you never know
• 27:09
  what's going to happen. You never know where you could
• 27:11
  be in a year or two from now. Your whole life could be
• 27:14
  completely different if you just took the first step and got
• 27:17
  started on the thing. Before you were ready, before
• 27:20
  everything was perfect, before you had the perfect gear.
• 27:22
  Whatever The thing is, before the kids are grown, you know,
• 27:25
  whatever is holding you back, don't let it hold you back any
• 27:28
  longer. Because I am so happy, so
• 27:31
  grateful that I just went for it, that I just put myself out
• 27:34
  there, that I just got started and that I didn't stop, that I
• 27:37
  stayed consistent, I stayed persistent, and I really went
• 27:40
  for the thing. 100 episodes, guys, that's crazy.
• 27:43
  Like I can't even believe it's been 100 episodes already.
• 27:47
  It doesn't even feel like it. So that's another thing is
• 27:50
  sometimes things are a lot of work.
• 27:51
  It's really hard sometimes it's stressful, sometimes things
• 27:55
  aren't working, it's not working out.
• 27:56
  And if you just push through that, you'll reach a point when
• 27:59
  you look back and say, Dang, already we made it already, you
• 28:02
  know, it feels like forever. And then it feels like it went
• 28:05
  by in the blink of an eye. One minute you feel really small
• 28:08
  and you don't know if it's working.
• 28:10
  And the next minute you say, Oh my gosh, dude, I, I helped
• 28:13
  thousands of men in their lives and they're thanking me for it
• 28:16
  in emails and comments every day.
• 28:18
  So just really, really thankful and grateful to have this
• 28:21
  opportunity. Really just so thankful and
• 28:24
  grateful to be talking to you, to have you here, listening to
• 28:27
  you, to be able to inspire you and help you in your life.
• 28:30
  It's been a crazy journey and it's just, I can't wait to see
• 28:34
  where we go next. I can't wait to see what levels
• 28:37
  we reach with this thing. How many thousands of men are we
• 28:40
  going to reach with these powerful messages, with these
• 28:43
  episodes, with this ranting and raving that I do at a camera all
• 28:47
  the time. Where is this going to take us?
• 28:49
  You know, I'm just, I'm looking forward so much to seeing and
• 28:52
  what happens next and I can't thank you guys enough because we
• 28:56
  did this together. This is our thing especially, I
• 28:59
  mean, if you've been a long time listener of this show, we built
• 29:02
  this together because I wouldn't be here without you.
• 29:06
  Every time you listen, every time you watch, every time you
• 29:09
  click the like button, leave a comment, every time you engage,
• 29:13
  that's building the thing alongside me.
• 29:15
  So thank you. Thank you so much on these past
• 29:19
  100 episodes of the Warrior Kings Podcast.
• 29:22
  And I'm telling you, man, it is only up from here.
• 29:25
  Lots, lots, lots of super exciting, super awesome stuff on
• 29:29
  the way that I cannot wait to get out to you.
• 29:31
  So again, can't thank you enough.
• 29:34
  Thank you everyone for being here.
• 29:36
  Thank you for all of your support.
• 29:37
  Thank you for all of your words of encouragement, and thank you,
• 29:40
  God, that I have been able to help all of you in your lives.
• 29:44
  Thank you, God, for this calling and this purpose.
• 29:46
  Thank you for this podcast, thank you for this opportunity.
• 29:49
  Thank you God. But yeah, man, I hope you got
• 29:52
  something out of this episode. I hope this inspired you in some
• 29:55
  way in your life. Again, excited to see what
• 29:58
  happens next. Lots of new episodes on the way.
• 30:00
  I have a lot written already that things that I can't wait to
• 30:04
  speak on. Definitely let me know what you
• 30:06
  want to hear on the Warrior Kings podcast.
• 30:08
  If there's a topic that you want me to expand upon, if there's
• 30:11
  something that I haven't spoken on yet, if you have any
• 30:14
  questions that you want answered, definitely let me
• 30:17
  know. And when it comes to stepping
• 30:18
  out of my comfort zone and doing those guest episodes that I
• 30:21
  really don't like doing, let me know if there are any guests
• 30:23
  that you would like to see on the show.
• 30:25
  And if we align, I will reach out to that person to get them
• 30:28
  on the Warrior Kings podcast. If there's somebody that you
• 30:31
  think I would vibe with, definitely let me know that as
• 30:33
  well. And here's the celebrating 100
• 30:35
  episodes of this podcast. Totally crazy, can't believe it.
• 30:39
  Now get out there, kill it. Level up every aspect of your
• 30:43
  life. A life of overflowing abundance
• 30:45
  awaits you on the other side of you deciding to make the the
• 30:48
  switch, make the change and level up every aspect of your
• 30:51
  life. A life of overflowing abundance
• 30:53
  away to you. I love you, I'm proud of you and
• 30:55
  I'll catch you on the next one. Thanks guys.
• 30:58
  Bye.