Well hello Friends. I hope you had an amazing week! 

In Episode 51, I promised to share a bonus episode with you on the Five Lessons I Learned from My First Year of Podcasting. 

I’m ten days late in releasing it so I appreciate your patience and understanding. 

While I had the outline ready to record, I actually got a debilitating tooth issue the next day and it took a good week, a round of amoxicillin and an incredibly painful trip to the dentist for me to start feeling good enough to record it. But that’s all a story for another time.

The important thing is that I wanted to share these lessons because I think they will help you. I know they have me. 

This podcasting journey began for me on January 1st of 2021. That’s when I had the idea. I knew it was the right next step in my business but I gotta be honest. I wasn’t 100% sure I would a)., actually do it and b). keep doing it once I started.

The whole idea of putting out content into the podcasting universe with my name on it seemed scary and dangerous. 

And as a coach, I knew that uncertainty, self-doubt, and fear was coming from my primitive brain. The part of our brain that tries to keep us safe from danger. 

But still, it felt like something important. Something I needed to at least try.

So, I had the idea on January 1st and then actually published the first episode on January 3rd. AND, I was going to do it all myself. Research, write, record, edit, and produce. 

And on January 1st, I didn’t know how to do any of that.

I decided not to overthink it like I typically would do. Instead, I just made a promise to myself.

I promised myself that I would commit to at least one year and that I would publish a new episode every Sunday. 

I chose Sunday even though it’s the lightest listening day for podcasts because most people who are unhappy in their career DREAD Sunday. I know there were many periods in my life when I felt the same. So, I wanted to do something that would give people encouraging, motivational or insightful approaches that they could use to hopefully have a better, happier, more productive work (and life) week ahead.

So, I knew this would be a growth journey for myself. Just learning how to produce a podcast and to do it consistently with quality content was going to be a challenge and I knew I’d learn a lot. But as I began mining my podcasting journey for lessons, I realized it did so much more for myself than I realized. 

And I think that’s the beautiful thing about goals.

We make the goal or set the intention because it’s something we care about or want for ourselves. And when we fully commit to doing what it takes to have that new goal, to master it, it always does so much more for ourselves than we expect it to.

And this journey for me is no different. So, I hope you get some insights from these five lessons that you can apply to your own life. 

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