1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,440 What's your reason for jumping on this podcast? 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:04,000 Are you just jumping on a bunch of podcasts 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:05,680 to let people know about you? 4 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,740 Or what do you think your goal is in podcasting? 5 00:00:08,740 --> 00:00:10,960 Yeah, first of all, I appreciate you having me on the show 6 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,360 and I appreciate you asking that question 7 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,160 because I think it's something 8 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,320 I believe everybody should be doing. 9 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,120 I have multiple podcasts that I host and run 10 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:23,640 and we're always looking for guests 11 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,680 and looking for people to be on. 12 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,240 So I believe this is, 13 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,000 you gotta kind of eat your own dog food if you will. 14 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,160 So one reason is being that. 15 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:31,600 And yeah, I mean, this is the way 16 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:32,920 we communicate nowadays, right? 17 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,080 I mean, it's funny, I would just pick my kids up, 18 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:37,760 they're doing summer school and I'm driving back 19 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,200 and outside the, not the school they're going to, 20 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,680 but another school by our house, 21 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,600 there's a bunch of news reporters out there 22 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,040 and they're reporting on a story and I saw them out there. 23 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:46,880 I said, I wonder what it is. 24 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:48,320 I turned the news on and you go and I was like, 25 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:49,800 oh, okay, they were talking about metal detectors 26 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:50,640 in the school, right? 27 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:51,460 Kind of irrelevant. 28 00:00:51,460 --> 00:00:53,640 But the point is, is that this is how information 29 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:54,480 gets out now though. 30 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:55,920 It used to just be the news, right? 31 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,360 Like, how did you get people to hear your story 32 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,000 or hear who you are or know who you are? 33 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,540 Used to have to like either do something 34 00:01:00,540 --> 00:01:02,660 to get on the news, good or bad, right? 35 00:01:02,660 --> 00:01:03,680 That's how people knew who you are. 36 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,480 You had to take out an article or get an ad 37 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:06,760 on a bus stop or something like this. 38 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,160 I mean, this is the way, number one, 39 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,320 that we communicate and let people know who we are, 40 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:12,680 I think is by being on podcasts. 41 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,040 The second thing is it's a great way 42 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:14,880 to connect with people, right? 43 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,920 You and I have never met, we've never known each other, 44 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,080 but I can't tell you how many podcasts I've been on 45 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,720 or I've had people that were guests on my podcast. 46 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,520 And just because we have that short 20, 47 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,500 30 minute conversation, you almost feel like friends 48 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:26,480 when you meet each other in person 49 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,000 or you stay in contact for a long time. 50 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,280 So for me, it's one of the greatest forms of networking. 51 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,560 Obviously that was amplified during COVID, 52 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:33,440 like everything else was, 53 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,640 but I really believe it's just a great way to meet people 54 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,240 and going back to my vision of I got a guy, right? 55 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:39,680 This is the way I've met people 56 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,440 and know what they do and know who they are. 57 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,400 And it's something I encourage all my clients to do, 58 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:44,560 go be guests on podcasts. 59 00:01:44,560 --> 00:02:00,560 So I gotta kind of eat my own dog food as well.