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From Paramedic to Podcasting Innovator with Kyle Goodknight · The One Small Change Podcast

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  Welcome to the small one small change. I'm out laughing already. So
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  I am really thrilled to embark on this journey of exploration
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  transformation with you. And I'm your host, Yvonne McCoy. And I
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  bring almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience and a passion
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  for discovering growth through the power of seemingly small
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  change. And I wanna thank you for joining me on this journey.
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  And this week, we are talking with the
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  amazing Kyle Goodnight, and I wanna say
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  that we are in the same mastermind, and so
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  we probably know more about each other than we should.
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  That's alright. Except I've I've always said I've never met a stranger, so there it
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  is. So, Kyle, tell us about what you
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  do and why you do it. Wow. Boy, that's a that's a when someone
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  asked me what do I do, it's like, okay. Which which one do I choose?
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  Because I do so much stuff, and I'm not trying to be braggadocious, but,
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  my full time job is I'm a paramedic and a first responder. I've come with
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  almost 30 years of health care experience. I'm also a respiratory therapist,
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  but I don't do respiratory therapy clinically now. But, so I'm a full
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  time paramedic. I work every 3rd day as a 24 hour paramedic on a
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  911 vehicle where I respond to emergencies. I'm a
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  part of my education department where I go out and I train, the different
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  things that we need to train on every month with my with my with my
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  division. So that's my full time gig. So I'm also
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  on the backside of that. I mentioned earlier that I only
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  I work 24 hours a day. Right? But I only do one of those every
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  3rd day. So I have 2 days off. And if you've noticed a lot of
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  first responders, they have secondary gigs. They have they have side gigs.
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  Right? Well, I have a couple of side gigs. 1, I I was a I
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  was a handyman for a while. That beat me up. I've started I've started to
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  pull back from being a handyman. The second gig I did was I became
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  a voice over actor about 8 years ago, and I started
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  I've always been told that I had a good voice. I can do character voices.
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  If you want me to talk to your kid like Elmo or Grover, please give
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  me a call. I can just go right into character and talk to your kid
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  about Grover or Elmo or many others. But, so I
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  became a voice over actor. I've done some video games. I've done a lot of
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  ebooks, a lot of elearning, for voice over. I've done a lot of
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  narration, some commercials. I had one national commercial that went,
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  that went for Yahoo Fantasy Sports that went national really early
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  on. Those are few and far between for the voice over world, especially the way
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  that I do it because I do it as a part time. Well, through that,
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  I got asked to do intros and outros for
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  someone's podcast. Well, that introduced me to the podcast world.
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  And where I am now, I actually produce podcasts. I spent 6
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  years producing other people's podcasts. And about 8 months ago, I decided to make my
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  own podcast for some other things that I was doing on the first responder
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  world, and I decided to start a podcast to get the
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  word out of what I'm doing in the first responder world. Well, that spun into,
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  hey. I know how to podcast. I know my workflow is nice and efficient, and
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  I can actually help people that don't know it but want a podcast for their
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  business in a better way. So now my side gig, which is becoming
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  more and more, you know, more and more of my time is
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  now spent, and I'm not I'm no longer doing handyman work anymore.
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  I'm able to get on with people, and I was just actually on my, an
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  onboarding session right before we started recording today on one of my new clients
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  that's coming on board. And we went over the recording software, and I
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  was able to coach and utilize my education background with, with
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  that and my my technical background that I have through learning how to
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  podcast the wrong way for 6 years. Up until about 8 months ago, I started
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  learning how to podcast in a much more efficient way, and that's what I do
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  now. I'm a podcast business strategist, and I help people grow their
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  podcast, whether it's existing or just starting. And I,
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  and and that's what I do as a as a side gig, and and it's
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  hopefully gonna be something that I do in retirement and and from now on
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  because I love it. It's so much fun meeting new people and, and
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  coming on podcasts and having people come on podcasts. Well, not only is
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  he really good at that, he's a fantastic cookie maker too, I've heard.
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  I I keep begging him to send me cookies. But With with
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  all due respect, I have to give those cookie props to my wife. It's her
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  recipe, her family's recipe. I just am the one that makes the dough
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  and chills it so when she comes home, we can make the cookies.
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  So a man a man of many, many talents. But but, Kyle,
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  you know, as you as you you know, I think we all do this. I
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  mean, I started out at at some place totally different than I am now,
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  but everything that you you find out from
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  those things help make you unique, help make you the
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  person that you are now. But there there was probably something that
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  happened that made you decide, you know, to
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  change the way you do business or change the business that you wanna do.
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  Right. Well well, I
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  mean, the one thing that wanted me to start doing
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  more in the, you know, the digital world is the
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  physical aspect of what handyman does. You know, of a first
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  responder, it can be a physical job. I have been injured as a
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  first responder. I fell in the back of my truck and busted up both my
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  shoulders about 3 years ago, So I had to go through 2 years worth of
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  shoulder reconstruction. Well, with that happening is I don't have full
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  range of motion in my shoulders anymore. So to do handyman as a side
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  gig don't get me wrong. I've been doing handyman stuff and and construction since I
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  was old enough to swing a hammer with my dad. I've done everything from
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  foundations to full blown roofs. I've done it all. Right? Plumbing,
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  electric, I can I've I've I know a little bit about all of it. Right?
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  And but, anymore, when I go out there to do a new
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  floor or hang drywall, it's all I can do to reach up and do the
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  drills properly over and over and over again all day for 8 hours.
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  And I have this digital world that I have also
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  learned through my downtime and through the times that I've wanted to sink
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  my teeth into learning stuff about digital stuff, whether it be recording
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  for voice over or podcasting for other people. And that's when
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  I I once I started realizing that I could make a business out of the
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  digital world that I knew, I could start pulling away from the physical world.
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  So that's probably when the biggest change happens. When I became a voice over
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  actor, I realized that there was something else there that I could do
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  that if I focus my time on, I could get away from the physical
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  side of the of the handyman work. I love doing it. I love the
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  the the benefits of it. I love the creativity of handyman work. I love
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  the the satisfaction when I'm done with a project and looking back and say, I
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  did that with my own bare hands. I love that part, but I can do
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  the same thing now with podcast. I can say, hey. Look. Look what I created
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  digitally. I I was gonna say, you know, what part of what I'm
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  taking away from what you're saying is, you
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  know, is that we're not guaranteed or,
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  you know, we're not guaranteed the the the abilities of our physical
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  body, And we are all living longer. And so I think, you know,
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  it used to be the the mantra was live longer, but I think the idea
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  is that you wanna live longer and stronger. And as somebody
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  who's significantly older than you are, you know, one of the things
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  that I look at a lot is what is it that I'm creating or
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  doing that I will be able to do 10 years from
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  now? And that's where I think a podcast is an
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  amazing thing. So
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  if you were talking I mean, I had done talk black
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  talk radio for, like, 3 years. Okay. I know about that. Yeah.
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  I have some other I have some older clients that used to use that. Yeah.
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  I'm an I'm an old Not old, but old clients
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  that I have had in the past. That's the word I wanna use. Anyway, so
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  what I'm gonna state to you is there are probably people out there that are
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  saying to themselves, I can't do a
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  podcast. What would I talk about? What would I do? What you know, it's
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  too techie. It's too you know, especially if you are older and
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  you're excuse me. Sorry. Not into the
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  tech world. What would you say to people to think
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  about why you should have a podcast and how it's
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  much easier now than it used to be? Right. Well, you know, couple of
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  things that, you know, that that is kind of what podcasts
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  have done to the whole world, and we know that
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  they're they're very powerful. But the old
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  thought process and I call it old because I've changed my thought process on a
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  podcast. Podcasts were always about how
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  many listeners and how many downloads can I get? How many people
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  can subscribe to my podcast and listen on a weekly basis.
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  And I don't have that same philosophy at this point in time. I'm
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  fairly new with my own personal podcasts, and I've
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  switched I've flipped podcasting on its head, and I podcast
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  my long game is the downloads and listeners. I understand that
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  podcasts take time, but how do I monetize my podcast in the
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  front end? Well, for me, my business is
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  my podcast. I have actually I have 2 podcasts. One's a, like, come on kind
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  of a passion project with the 1st responder mental health stuff, and then the other
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  podcast is for entrepreneurs or people with small businesses. And what that
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  podcast is about is having people come on and talk about their entrepreneurial
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  path. How did they get to where they are as an entrepreneur? And we just
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  you know, we we go off of that with questions. But what I do with
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  that one is every single guest I have on, I meet, and now
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  they're in my network. I can collaborate with them. They may
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  need services that I can provide for them, like podcast
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  production. I may need they they may have services that I
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  need. You know, I've I've have, like, one of the things that I part
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  one of my very first guests, I ended up buying his program, and
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  it was something that changed me as a first responder and some
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  things that I was struggling with. And that transformed into
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  my business and what was struggling with my business and my personal,
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  you know, anxieties and my my worries and my procrastination.
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  I was able to utilize his program, and I bought it, and he was
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  my guest. But I I got to know him. I got to talk to more
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  about him, and I was like, you know what? Something? I wanna invest in this
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  man because this man has made changes in other people's lives. He's proven it to
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  me. He's disgusted, and I wanna take a chance on him. So I did,
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  and I came back from a in a completely different way, both personally and business
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  wise, and that's what I do podcasting for. Podcasting is to
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  meet new people and see how we can collaborate. Well, I just I just had
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  an interesting experience yesterday where, I published my
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  podcast on Fridays. Right? Because I feel like people will have
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  time to listen to them over the weekend. Right? I mean, that's
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  kinda my thought whether it's Okay. Or not. But but I
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  I had somebody that I I did a connection call with, and they
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  said, I listened to the podcast that you put out this week, yada
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  yada yada, and I really like this person. And I said, oh,
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  well, they're having, you know, this event this coming week. And she's like, oh, I'm
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  gonna go to that. So, yeah, I think, you know, podcasting
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  is it is for a nugget of information.
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  Yep. Right? But I think more than that, it's a way to
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  get visibility both for yourself and for the person that's
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  on the podcast. And as I'm telling this story, I
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  realized that probably what somebody that I also had on my podcast
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  was like, you know, your signature block should be huge. You
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  should have not just call me, but, you know, all, you know, all these different
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  links so that so people can click on. I'm thinking, I definitely need to
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  put my podcast link in there, you know, so that people can look at it.
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  They're getting ready to you know, if I send them an email and they're gonna
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  be talking with me, they can go to the podcast and see what it's like.
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  So, you know, the the phrase that we use in our world a lot is
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  podcasting for partners. Yep. Who are the people who
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  are, most likely to share the
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  podcast that you do together with the people that you know?
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  Yeah. That they know so that your world becomes a lot
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  bigger. So tell me, I wanna go back to
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  some of the objections or fears that people have. Yep. I was gonna get into
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  that. Yep. Yeah. You know, about starting their own podcast. Yeah.
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  And that's kinda the reason why I say what I said in the beginning
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  to to describe what I use podcast for kinda helps
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  in this next in this this next answer. So one thing
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  I feel that the the conversational and the interview
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  podcast is king because if, you know,
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  people have that fear of what would I talk about? Well, everybody has wisdom.
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  Everybody has a life experience. People have a passion discussion,
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  and they can figure out what that is. And they work with they work with
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  someone who you know, like, take for example, I had a gentleman that
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  I was walking my dogs and lived in my neighborhood, and he comes up to
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  me. He knows kinda what I do, and he was he kind of he kind
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  of, asked me if I could if I had any ideas and
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  to help his business out. And it's a brand new business, and it's an apparel
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  business for golfing. And I'm like, instantly, I thought of podcasting. And he's
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  like, well, how would a podcast work? How would a he got. He got
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  all. How would a podcast work for selling my apparel?
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  I'm like, well, let's this is why you need a coach. This is why
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  people that want to podcast or think they want a podcast or
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  they have something interesting, they get someone that has some creativity that
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  can hear and meet them and find out what they do and then bring some
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  new new out of the box ideas to the to the table. So with
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  that gentleman, I said I said start a podcast. He's like, well, how does that
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  work? And I said, think about it. You wanna sell golf apparel.
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  How can you make it fun, make it funny, and still
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  sell your golf apparel? He's like, yeah. And I'm like, let's make a podcast.
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  It's called swing high. It's a the the
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  apparel is a I mean, I don't know what your view is, and I'm not
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  and I have my own view on on legalization of marijuana,
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  but the logo is 2 golf clubs and a marijuana leaf, and it's
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  called swing high. And, of course, when you're swinging, the word high is
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  part of it's part of the catch. Right? So I said, let's have a
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  podcast where your people you're the host, and you invite people to come
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  on and tell about their funny stories of golfing when they were
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  under the influence of whatever. Most of it be alcohol because because
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  marijuana has not been legal for forever yet. You know, it's been a little it's
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  a lot newer than alcohol. So So let's have funny stories about talking about
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  intoxication and the golf game. And, you know, and we can have
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  guests on that way. And then I'm like, and then sprinkle in
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  the people that run events. Oh, you wanna talk about your event?
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  I'll promote it on my podcast. Come on my podcast. Talk about your event. Oh,
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  by the way, I have an apparel company. Can I use your can I use
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  my apparel at your event? Can I put up a booth at your event? And
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  it could start off locally, and then it could go nationally. And he was like,
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  oh my god, Kyle. That's so smart. So I'm gonna actually have the perfect client
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  come on my I my podcast. Yeah. The stories that you sprinkle in, that's
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  that may not be your perfect client. Maybe eventually, maybe I wanna buy your onesies
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  or twosies. But when it comes to putting something into someone's into
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  someone's, like, pro shop, it's the or have it at an
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  event every time. I'm like, I know at least 10 golfing events through the
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  1st responder world. Now swing high golf may not go
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  well with that, but, nonetheless, you know, it's one of those things where you could
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  have you could you could have your apparel be something
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  that through discussing the golf outing with the individual that you bring on
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  your podcast to help them, you're helping them. Your podcast is to help
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  your your your, your guest. Your podcast,
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  when it comes to an interview style podcast, it's all about the guest. You
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  sprinkle a little bit of your knowledge in, but you really promote your guest because
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  that's where they see value, and that's where you can give them value. And
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  then through that value, they see that you're a trusted partner, and
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  podcasting for partners is is what was born.
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  So with that being said, when it comes to having the courage
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  to step out and do a podcast, 1, you have to have a little bit
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  of an idea or at least have something thrown on the wall that you'd wanna
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  do. And then you talk to somebody that's been there before or someone that's creative
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  on that side of things that can see that and create,
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  you know, put put better ideas together about how you can utilize a
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  podcast and whether it be your side gig business or your personal
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  growth or what have you. So I always tell people if they wanna do a
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  podcast, let's just book a call. Let's talk about it. Show me tell me
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  your ideas. Give that information to me. Let me see what I can come up
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  with, if there's any angles or any outside of the box thinking that could work,
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  and then go from there. Whether I've got one person that does monologues and
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  interviews, and it's a great combination. I've got people that do only
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  interviews. Like me, I only do interviews. I don't ever get on and do a
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  monologue. I just don't. I I can't hold my attention that long.
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  The conversation is where it holds my attention. I'm I'm an extra
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  extrovert, and I like the interaction. So so I I guess
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  going back to what you're saying, look, the important thing is,
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  first of all, is to see it as a way
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  to stay visible consistently. And I think that's
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  where most people make a mistake in their business is that it's it's like
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  always throwing spaghetti on the wall. Let me try this. Let me try that. But
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  if you have something you do do consistently, and you can decide if you wanna
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  do a 20 minute podcast. I just went on somebody's show that does
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  a 15 minute podcast. If you wanna do an hour podcast
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  Yep. You get to decide the length of time and the topic and the
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  format that you want it to be in. And you own it. So it so
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  it it's and and that's what makes it, you know, yours is
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  because of the way that the the way that you do it. And you can
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  podcast, you know, just like, you know, I've come to the conclusion you can sell
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  anything. There's a buyer for anything. Right. There's a
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  podcast for for everybody. I mean, I I've been really,
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  trying to nudge my husband to do one because been saying about
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  that. Because one is he has this great love of
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  kids, and he has this great love of music. And, you
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  know, my kids have got the most eclectic,
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  you know, variety of music. I mean, they're now adults. But
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  because Oscar introduced them to all the kinds of musics that he
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  liked. And I was thinking that would be a great podcast, you
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  know. You know? Yeah. What about music? Would be. You know? And
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  kids' stories. Yeah. You know? Or And from what I hear, he's got a great
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  voice voice over too. Great voice. But you don't you don't have to
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  have a great voice to podcast. No. You don't. And so, you
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  know, if you're thinking about doing a podcast, I think
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  don't think about what the technology part of it is. Just
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  think about what do you what would you like to do and what's
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  your intention for doing it? So, you know, as Kyle said,
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  most podcasts, are not gonna get, you
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  know, immediately the high you know, we're not going for the
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  influencer model, you know, on social media. We're going for
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  The interaction model. Yep. Right. The interaction that we get to know people, we
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  get to expand, you know. And the ideal guest to me
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  is somebody that I find interesting, that has
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  interesting ideas, that I hope my audience will be interested
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  in, but also somebody who will promote their
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  episode to the to their audience. To their audience. Yep. So that their
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  audience will expand. And I always find when I talk
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  to somebody, I get better
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  at my messaging, whether it's on a podcast or something
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  else. I mean, I was on a summit, you know, recently, and I
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  realized that my message now is you don't need to be fixed, you just need
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  to be found. Right. Which is about client
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  attraction. And it was, like, it was through just a, you know, a a a
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  breakout room kinda conversation. It was like and it just popped
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  out naturally. So, I mean, you you every week you or however you
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  decide many times you put it out, you get a chance to talk about
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  your view of whatever. Yeah. And what you find is the more
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  people you talk to about it, the more you start to get
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  clarification about what it is that you that you really love.
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  So before we run out of time, let's
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  let's kind of talk about the gift that you've got for people
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  and Yep. 3 ways that entrepreneurs can, you know,
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  really think about doing it doing podcasting. Right. Right. So the
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  the the gift that I have that will be in the show notes, I take
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  it, is a it's a PDF. It's a free ebook. And, basically,
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  it kind of it dives a little bit deeper into the concept that I just
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  spoke of, but it also gives you some hints on what you would what you
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  it what you could need and debunks a few things. Like, a lot of people
• 20:31
  think that you need, like, this amazing microphone to podcast. Right? You
• 20:35
  don't. I do have it just because of my voice over background
• 20:39
  and that I've been podcasting for 6 years. Of course, I've grown. But I've
• 20:43
  had people podcast, and I've I've run a couple of
• 20:47
  podcasts where all they have is the AirPods in, and they run it off of
• 20:50
  their phone. They put their phone on a tripod. They open up Zoom or
• 20:54
  Riverside or whatever recording app is is compatible with a phone,
• 20:58
  and they boom. They they they do a podcast, through through
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  that. So, you know, that that ebook
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  actually will kind of talk about all of that stuff and
• 21:09
  and talk about podcasting for partners a little bit about how that
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  works and how you can utilize that for whatever business that you're doing.
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  I've actually approached a gal who has a a brick and mortar,
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  and it's a very, it's all local artists in the
• 21:24
  side of her shop that are selling their their stuff, not just paintings, a
• 21:28
  lot of handmade stuff, everything. Well, I talked to her about doing a podcast
• 21:32
  where her local artists come on and promote their art, and then she can
• 21:36
  have this another thing that podcasts do is make you an authority in the
• 21:40
  space. So she can be authority in the space of
• 21:43
  local small small artists and promote them
• 21:47
  to get them more seen and have something to that her clients that come
• 21:51
  in and support her have something that they could, 1, tune into once a
• 21:54
  week, once a month, however long many shimes she wants to do it eventually once
• 21:58
  she decides, and they find out something new about her shop that they may not
• 22:02
  have known. So it's you can really think outside the box when it comes to
• 22:05
  podcasting, because remember, we are in a digital age that has
• 22:09
  got some amazing tools. Those amazing tools
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  can give you exposure, and what I mean by that is we all know the
• 22:17
  word Google. Everybody knows Google. Go in and search something on
• 22:20
  Google. Most likely, one of the first things you'll see come up is a
• 22:24
  video short. That video short may have that
• 22:28
  keyword that you were looking for. More often than not, video shorts show
• 22:31
  up before websites now. So the software that I
• 22:35
  use, the the the the workflow that I teach
• 22:39
  builds in automatic shorts
• 22:43
  or reels, whatever you wanna call it. They my system calls it viral moments
• 22:47
  because they're not allowed to use the word short or real because that's patented by
• 22:50
  the by the YouTubes and the Facebooks of the world. But it generates
• 22:54
  these things that are TikTok esque, real esque. They're
• 22:57
  the vertical video that automatically splits up the 2 people, puts the
• 23:01
  words on the screen, and boom, you can push that out on your YouTube channel
• 23:05
  when you're doing a podcast because I highly recommend doing video podcasts
• 23:09
  because YouTube is the number one podcasting platform now
• 23:13
  above any other pa podcasting platform because of
• 23:16
  the video content and because of the stuff. So
• 23:20
  doing that, you get that exposure that brings people more
• 23:24
  into you, and utilize the tools that are available now that are much easier than
• 23:27
  the old way. I I will just add to this. Probably
• 23:31
  one of the if you're still, like, on the fence about what would I what
• 23:34
  would I do my podcast about, one of the things I would suggest
• 23:38
  you do is make yourself a list of 10 things or 10 topics
• 23:42
  that you could just riff on for 10 minutes without any notes because you're just,
• 23:46
  like, into it. And and and that is a way to
• 23:50
  take a look of, you know, start thinking about what I would do a podcast
• 23:53
  about. And the other thing that I would suggest is if you're just
• 23:57
  starting, and let's say you've got a full time job, you may wanna pick
• 24:01
  one of those things that is more in your hobby field or where
• 24:05
  you wanna go when you leave your job Yep. So that you can actually
• 24:08
  actually start building that. Okay. Yeah. So, you will
• 24:12
  find all of this great information in the notes.
• 24:16
  Kyle, you know, I love what you've done with podcasting. I love
• 24:20
  what you've done. And and and and I guess what I would say to you
• 24:23
  is you don't have to get stuck on, you know, the
• 24:27
  technology of it because there's lots of help for that. So alright. So before
• 24:31
  we run out of time, I wanna ask you, when was the
• 24:34
  last time you did something new for the first time?
• 24:41
  An ice cream moment. That's why we call it an EMS. Because when your
• 24:45
  first time you do something that is like, oh, the first time you deliver a
• 24:48
  baby, you have to provide ice cream to the whole crew. 1st time you do
• 24:51
  like, when you're a brand new EMS person, 1st time you do an IV stick,
• 24:56
  you I you know, ice cream. So we call those the ice cream moments. Man,
• 24:59
  the first time I've done something for the first the last time I did something
• 25:03
  for the first time oh, boy. That's a
• 25:07
  boy, you put me on the spot on that one. We may
• 25:10
  have to we may have to think a little bit. You have to splice this.
• 25:14
  I don't know because I do I I am so busy. We don't splice and
• 25:18
  dice. We don't splice. I oh my gosh. Because I do so many
• 25:22
  different things. It's a lot of stuff is not the first time,
• 25:25
  but, gosh.
• 25:29
  When was the last time you met somebody when was the last time you met
• 25:33
  somebody new and exciting? That would be something new for you. Well, you know what?
• 25:36
  Let me let me do this. So I'll tell you what. The last time I
• 25:39
  did something for the first time is
• 25:43
  deal with me.
• 25:47
  It's deep. I've never put myself first
• 25:51
  ever. Maybe when I was a kid.
• 25:55
  Kids put themselves first all the time. They're selfish. Right? When you become
• 25:59
  an adult, you become a first responder, and everything is about what you do and
• 26:02
  the community you serve, you tend to get into this pattern of not doing
• 26:06
  something for yourself, and then it's a problem 20 years down the road.
• 26:10
  Like, for me for me, I had a blind side at 26 years in. I
• 26:13
  came home from work one day, and I was lost. I had no clue what
• 26:17
  was going on. I wasn't suicidal, but I had a problem. I don't know what
• 26:21
  the problem was, and I raised my hand.
• 26:24
  And through that process and through the years of coming through that
• 26:28
  because I needed to unpack a lot of stuff, I realized that we
• 26:31
  need to do, it's a buzzword right now, self care.
• 26:35
  There's a lot of stuff on self care. Everybody feels like they don't need
• 26:39
  it. I don't need self care. 100%, you do.
• 26:42
  So the last time I did something for myself was actually
• 26:46
  do and and this goes back to the program that I one of my guests
• 26:50
  came on, and he had a self care program, if you will, the a generic
• 26:54
  that's a generic umbrella of what his program is at, way deeper than that. And
• 26:57
  through that process and through learning what he taught me, I am
• 27:01
  I can literally know for a fact that
• 27:05
  I can put the time into myself that makes me a better
• 27:09
  person for anyone watching me, for anybody tuning
• 27:12
  in, for my family, for my wife, for my dogs, for my
• 27:16
  community. I am a better person because I was able
• 27:19
  to really go ahead and understand what self care
• 27:23
  meant and do it. So I guess that's that's that's pretty deep,
• 27:27
  but that's that's a big one, though. That's a that's a big one. It is
• 27:30
  a huge one. It is a huge one. Alright. So before we
• 27:34
  probably run out of time, I need to put in the the the commercial.
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  And so for all of you that are that are watching, I hope you will
• 27:41
  subscribe and share and encourage other people to share share this on
• 27:45
  social media. And what I the reason that I do this
• 27:49
  is I wanna help supercharge your business through connections. And
• 27:53
  it's my way of giving back to the community and fueling your quest for growth
• 27:56
  and impact. So I hope that you will join me for the One Small Change
• 28:00
  and continue coming in as we embark on this this journey
• 28:04
  of tiny shifts that yield monumental transformation.
• 28:08
  And if you haven't done it yet, you should listen to the first episode that
• 28:12
  I'm on and get a sense of what it's about and,
• 28:15
  you know, how it can help you. So, Kyle, you got, like,
• 28:19
  one minute to give us your quote, your words of wisdom before we
• 28:23
  leave. Don't be afraid to try new things
• 28:27
  and utilize what you've learned in the past on whatever new thing is.
• 28:31
  And if that new thing doesn't fit you, that's okay because you learned something
• 28:35
  in the process of doing that new thing. Absolutely.
• 28:38
  Absolutely. And so I always say, remember,
• 28:42
  change is simple, but it's not always easy. And it requires courage,
• 28:46
  resilience, and a willingness to step out of your comfort zone. And if
• 28:49
  you're feeling comfortable, then you need to push a little bit
• 28:53
  more. So join me next week for the one small change, and
• 28:56
  until the next time, stay curious. Thank you, Kyle.
• 29:00
  Thank you.