my friends welcome to this special episode of the sheep get sheared podcast
I'm your host Austin creed and my friends I did a piece and that I'll probably
put in with this video called the crossroads and the reason I called it
the crossroads was well it's actually a long story but essentially today's
episode along with what you're about to hear is an ongoing story not one even
though this is not a live show it's something that's ongoing and so as it's
something I'm currently in you're getting a little backstage pass into my life
we could say you don't care well that's okay you don't have to care right now
because as the show grows this will become a piece of sheep get sheared
history in which I will refer back and the loyal fans of the show will remember
forever but that being the case I'm getting a little off topic the topic of
the today's show is the crossroads and it's about making hard choices which is
ironic because I literally did a whole show about hard choices not too long ago
and so it was very fitting I suppose but my friends the problem is it's easy to
talk the game and not know what you're gonna do when life really gives you a
pipslap in the face and your face with a difficult choice you know difficult
choices are easy to plan for but you can't plan for everything because you
think you know what's gonna happen you look at watch the movies you listen to
other people go through hard times and you think you know what the plan for but
you never truly know how you're gonna respond until a situation presents itself
and the current situation that I'm in is having to decide between the career that
I've been working on for the last couple months my couple I mean since August of
last year or do I do something else now my passion is this show my passion is to
write books my passion is to do this show and to explain to myself and to you
how the world as I see it and talking about people politics popular culture
and about men's issues that's what this show is all about the show was made when
I was back in college because I was sick and tired of people talking about issues
that I could counter late on but not fully they didn't approach it in the way
that I wanted or dive deep enough in topics that I cared about and I could
sense that you yes you listening to the show whether it's on your computer on
your iPhone your Android or on Chrome you know that this show hits you
differently you know that you're listening to this show and you would
normally have hung up by now but you're you're interested you want to know what's
going on behind the scene you want to understand and you can hear the
anguish in my voice because you know that something's going on and my friends
you know I'll tell you the story I'll tell you a story probably because my boss
doesn't listen to the show or he doesn't even know the show exists I don't
advertise it to him it's kind of like my private snapshot if you will or my my
private Instagram if you know what I'm talking about my boss came to me so this
last week I'll start the beginning this last week I was at a conference for my
work and this conference was every single day eight to five o'clock with lunch and
a couple breaks here and there but we were just learning all about the roofing
business all about what was going on when it comes to roofing siding gutter work
and how to relate to customers how to deal with manufacturers you know stuff
that is largely kind of boring but it's incredibly important to our job the
problem was as the week progressed the drama that had been building over the
course of the last couple months started to really simmer and heat up and then
it started to boil over and that boil over point happened yesterday yesterday
my boss comes up to me and tells me Austin here's what's going on you got to
get rid of your girlfriend and I said what he said yeah I don't want her on
my team you remember my girlfriend right her name is Reagan she was on the show
before she on the show last yeah so in other words he wants my girl he wants
me to break up and fire my girlfriend and to do that immediately or he wants me
off his team so essentially I'm having somebody dictate to me what I need to do
with my life now don't get it twisted he's not an evil man he's done a lot of
good for me in the last couple of months but the problem is I don't like the way
the table is set I left the military well I didn't leave it I was medically
separated because there were so many issues going on in my life and I tried
to just get away from that type of environment that was just so unbelievably
stressful on me like that and not only stressful but toxic and yet here I am in
the same exact situation I tried to run from I tried running from it and yet here
I am and so my friends the crossroads is real he literally even told me he said
the crossroads are here you're looking at it there's a path to the left there's a
path to the right behind you is the chasm of the past you can and when you
lean back you can feel and a little pebbles does a trickle off right into
the ravine you can't go back can only go forwards you gotta choose the left path
or the right path and that's where I'm at right now that's what this weekend is
all about because I have to decide my fate and my friends I'll tell you the
truth I'm really leaning towards not doing the job I'm doing right now and
going full-on content creation focusing on the building this show because this
show has been around for a year and a half almost two years now and it's been
a part-time thing but I want this to be my full-time show I want to go back to
having a full camera set up I want to go back to really throwing myself into this
show because this show is what I'm passionate about I love talking to you
my friends who listen to the show you may not know me in real life but to you
you know parts of me I mean man that you've never maybe met more than a lot
of the people in my life who know me and my friends you're special to me even
though we're not big just yet this show is the most important thing in my life
truth be told because to me you matter a lot it's very easy to get caught up in
the big marketing of other shows and it's really easy to just not listen to
people and as I've talked to some of you my YouTube comment section and sometimes
you hit me up on X the more I interact with people more I realize how important
this show is there are people I listen to when I was younger that helped shape my
life coach Greg Adams is a huge one shout out to him Stephus Cole was a huge
one these guys are gonna need no more like reddish pill guys but dude perfect
wasn't he ways to watch them a lot with their type of content and my friends
it's incredibly important that wherever you might be facing in your life I don't
know what you're doing but it's important to never just take what you're
given it's important and realize if you don't like the way the table is set
don't be afraid to turn over that table do what Jesus did walk up to the tax
collectors table and flip that right over don't take that don't just sit there
and say you know what I like where this table is set by gotta choose something
no no you don't powers like real estate it's all about location location
location and I found myself in a very unsavory location frankly and it's not
the first time either I'll tell you that my friends I'm sure you've been in
situations that were very unsavory yourself where you like the wood the hand
you've been doubted felt like you maybe you you've given away three cards gotten
free back in like I'm gonna throw back in you got more maybe through on four and
you got back for that's where I'm at right now my friends I don't want to fold
those songs like no win fold them no win to walk away no win no run I'm telling
you my friends I'm trying to get away from the situation I'm trying to get
clarity so I can make the right choice because when you're on a crossroads
sometimes none and I'm I'm saying don't I mean none no option seems right or
these all seem like they have merit and you don't know which one to choose I feel
you I'm in it right now but what I will tell you is you have to slow down and
ask yourself what do you actually care about I don't know my son really self
improving hokey motivational speaker type but I really want you to pause and do
what I've been doing over the last day and ask yourself what do you actually
want to do because a lot of the jobs and working ever since I left the
military have been to help fundraise to afford to do this show buy better
equipment to get better marketing material to reach out to a wider
audience that's what this these jobs around I've been really pouring into is
to find to help build this show and the brand of the sheep get sheared podcast
and knowing that the wolves aren't just slaughtering the sheep anymore they're
shearing them coming back every season and taking something from them over and
over and over again and my friends we are the sheep who are getting sheared over
by not only corporations the government big tech I could go on and on and on and
it's important that we highlight this because it's something I'm passionate
about I love doing this I know some of you who love listening to the show you
can't get enough of it how I know because you're here every single show my
friends this is gonna unfold as days go on and I'm gonna let you know how
everything plays out the more I learn but don't be afraid to let me know what
you think of the show what you weigh in on this I want to know what you think
because I'm on a very difficult choice that I have to make do I go out in the
unknown or do I play it safe do I really go full on what I care about or do I
play it safe I risk it all risk a little bit or risk none let me know what you
think about the subject how do you how's it affected you what are you doing in
your life and how has it played out for you when you've had to make a hard choice
like this my friends let me know I want to hear what you have to say because
your input your input matters to me we might not know each other face to face
or maybe we do but I really want you to know that your opinion matters to me I
wish I could sit down either at the pub or at the coffee shop and have a drink
with y'all and we can talk about this but you take care of yourself my friends
I'll let you know what happens as the days go on and then decisions are made
take care of yourselves I'm not here peace