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Still Showing Up - NaPodPoMo 2025 #30 · Randy Unscripted

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  Randy Black: Randy Black.
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  Randy Black. Randy Black. Randy Black. Randy Black. Randy Black. Black. Randy Black. Black. He's a troublemaker. Welcome back to Randy Unscripted. I'm Randy Black, and this is episode 30 of napod promo
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  twenty twenty five. The final episode of this thirty day journey to do 30 podcast episodes
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  in thirty days.
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  And on the final episode here, I wanna take a step back and reflect on the month as a whole and what it taught me, how it challenged me,
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  and how my faith and focus helped me to navigate not just this podcast journey,
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  but life itself during one of the hardest months
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  I've ever experienced.
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  This month has been incredibly challenging,
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  far more than I expected.
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  While
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  recording a recording a podcast every day is a test of discipline and of creativity,
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  this month was marked by
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  personal trial as well.
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  On day 24
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  of this month,
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  my father-in-law passed away.
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  He'd been in the hospital and had come home,
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  but he passed away
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  that morning.
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  And it's a reminder to me that
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  life
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  doesn't pause
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  even we're committed to our goals.
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  Despite the difficulty of that,
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  I realized that routine
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  and
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  focus that I had built through this challenge
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  became a lifeline.
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  Keeping the structure of recording and releasing episodes daily
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  help me navigate the chaos
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  in our life for a couple days
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  and to maintain a sense of purpose
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  and of control
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  as we work to navigate these new things.
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  What helped me keep going during this difficult time was that need for routine
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  and for focus.
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  The structure of napod Pomo and thinking of those ideas and coming up with episodes
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  gave me a concrete way to channel my energy and maintain
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  the forward motion I created.
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  Beyond that, my faith played an extremely central role to
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  everything that's happened since then.
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  Leaning on God gave me strength to be supportive
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  for my wife, for her family,
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  and all the while still keeping up with the goal I had set for myself.
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  Now this goal was nowhere near as important as being there for them. I don't want anybody to
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  misconstrue what I'm saying there.
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  Because it's one thing to persevere
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  when things are easy.
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  It's quite another to
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  keep going when
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  life throws heavy challenges at you.
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  This month
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  reminded me that faith
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  and
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  discipline
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  can carry us through
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  even the most difficult seasons,
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  and that sometimes
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  showing up consistently is an act of resilience in itself.
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  Through this whole process this month, I've learned several things about myself.
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  First is I can meet the goals I set when I plan and I commit.
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  Second is that my faith is strong
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  and truly guides me through the most challenging times.
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  And third is that I can be the rock
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  for others when they need me
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  while still allowing myself
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  the ability to grieve and to feel
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  even when they don't see it.
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  It's a balance that
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  ultimately isn't easy,
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  but it's one I've been able to practice through this month.
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  Napod Pomo taught me that perseverance
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  isn't about perfection.
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  It's about showing up every day,
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  doing the work,
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  and trusting the process.
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  And in the end,
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  that's what makes this achievement more meaningful.
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  Looking ahead,
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  I don't anticipate that this experience
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  of producing an episode every day for thirty days is gonna drastically change my my approach to podcasting.
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  I've been consistent with Bible Bites and was shooting it straight for for some time,
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  and that rhythm's gonna continue.
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  But what it has reinforced is the value of commitment,
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  of showing up no matter what life throws at you,
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  and of trusting that
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  even during difficult times,
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  consistency
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  and faith
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  produce results.
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  And for anyone
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  who's considering napod Pomo or any other
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  creative type challenge, here's my advice.
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  Just get started.
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  You never know what you can do until you put your voice out there.
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  It doesn't have to be perfect.
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  It just has to exist.
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  You improve by doing,
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  and this month proved to me
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  that idea
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  once again.
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  I wanna thank anyone who's listened throughout this month of November
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  2025
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  as I've made this journey through napod pomo twenty twenty five.
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  It's been a month of creativity,
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  of perseverance,
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  and of reflection,
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  and I'm grateful that I've been able to share that journey with you.
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  I hope that in some small way,
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  my experience
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  encourages you to push forward in your own challenges,
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  that you embrace consistency
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  and you trust your own faith
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  as you move through life.
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  So here's the showing up every day
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  and discovering just what it is that you're fully capable of.
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  I'm Randy,
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  and this has been Randy Unscripted.