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The Podcast You Keep Delaying has a Listener · Your Mic

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  Everybody is a somebody to somebody.
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  The problem is, we don't get to choose who somebody we are.
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  Welcome back to Your Mic.
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  My name is Freddy Cruz, founder of Speak Podcasting.
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  If you are looking to launch a show, or if you've already launched one and you need a little help getting back on track, hit me up, freddy at speakpodcasting.com.
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  Now, back to being a somebody to somebody.
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  Here's why I'm bringing it up.
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  Somewhere out there, a small, teeny tiny number of people got inside your head.
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  Maybe they talked you out of starting a podcast.
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  Maybe they talked you out of filming a video.
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  Those people, quite frankly, suck.
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  And you know what sucks more?
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  You, for letting them stay there.
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  And it's not me being rude.
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  We can love people.
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  We can be loved by people.
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  And still nobody is coming to save you.
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  In 99 years, I once wrote, almost nobody is ever going to remember that you and I were ever here.
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  I wrote about that in my second book, They Canceled the DJ.
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  And that should not depress you.
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  It should actually set you free.
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  And you don't need my permission to feel that freedom.
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  You've already got it.
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  Believe me.
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  Now, maybe you needed to hear this because you are somebody to somebody, and that somebody is still waiting.
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  Maybe you're a three-time cancer survivor who built a business after everything tried to take you out, and you still haven't told that story on a mic or on a camera.
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  Somebody out there needs exactly that story.
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  We don't know who.
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  We don't know where they live.
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  We just know they're out there.
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  If you don't have a show yet, or you started one and maybe you stopped because life got in the way, and sometimes that happens, maybe it's time to put on your big kid pants, dig that mic out of the closet, and start recording again.
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  Now, here's how you get moving today.
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  Send me a message, freddy at speakpodcasting.com.
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  I want to do this because usually it's for sale, but I want to send you a free copy of 100 Podcast Questions That Don't Suck.
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  Read them out loud.
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  Answer them honestly.
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  Record yourself doing it.
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  Get the transcript.
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  Feed it into your favorite LLM.
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  My favorite is perplexity.
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  Ask it to build you a 10-episode roadmap in your voice.
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  That's it.
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  That's 10 episodes you did not have an hour ago.
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  And it's not necessarily easy, but it's simple.
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  There is somebody out there who needs to hear your story.
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  And there's somebody standing in your way.
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  And if you don't know who that is, find the nearest mirror and tell that person to get the hell out of your way.
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  Thank you so much for listening.