Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening
everybody. Welcome to today's episode of the
Never Peak Project Podcast. I'm your host, Coach
Ranger, and in today's episode I'm going to kind
of use this as a self -employment update, a little
bit of a dumping of ideas, and just kind of going
through things that I've been thinking about
when it comes to the podcast and the coaching
business the last few months. really just kind
of jump into it. If you haven't noticed, I've
been a little bit more lax on uploads lately.
Still very consistent, still at least doing weekly
posts, but I have been having a bit of a harder
time finding guests that I want to have on the
podcast. I don't think it's for a lack of amazing
people out there. I mean, I do have a list of
folks that I have reached out to or kind of have
in the chamber, but I think what I want to start
doing moving forward is aligning it more so with
the lessons learned from my walk across the country.
Right now, there are 39 things that I learned
from the walk across the country. I think that
a lot of them kind of align with various business
and self -development topics, and while I have
been talking a lot about business and self -development,
I do think that the frame of going through the
walk across America lessons learned those metaphors
and combining that with The mindset and business
topics I'm already talking about I think that
that would align my content a lot more And when
it comes to guests why I bought that up specifically
is finding guests that can speak on those specific
topics Again, I have had fantastic guests on
I'm so glad and lucky to have had people I've
had on on I just think that It would be more
aligning, more specific with the content that
I'm posting. I have a couple more guest episodes
that I do want to work on getting on the podcast
and get on, just because I do personally want
to speak with them. But I think that my goal
moving forward is to start doing these solo episodes
starting next week based off of the various concepts
from my walk across the country, what I learned.
and then start aligning guests with those specific
topics. And all that is really just to honestly
make the most use of my time. As I've mentioned
before, there are a few different books that
I want to write about my walk across the country.
The very first one is the Walk Across America
Journal, where it is basically just a day -by
-day update of thoughts, things that happened,
or... events from the walk as a whole. That is
still a work in progress. I am slowly chipping
away at it. It is kind of hard to remember everything
and you know come through the notes that I took
on those days, the text messages I sent, photos,
pictures, videos. Just really trying to make
sure that I flesh it out as much as possible
so that it's as unabridged and fantastic as I
can make it. Right now in the journal I am about
halfway through Texas. So I only have a little
bit left of Texas New Mexico, Arizona and California
and I took quite a bit of time off in California
as well as Arizona Really hoping that those three
ish almost four weeks that I took off Make the
writing the rest of the journal a lot easier
since some of those days I kind of just vegged
out or When I take multiple days off in a row,
I've been kind of combining them into just general
things that happen since not a ton happened during
that time. The second book that I want to write
is more so like a lesson slash self -development
slash business development book. I recently read
a book by a gentleman named Sean Patel called
Self Made Success. Ivy leads shark tank entrepreneur
reveals 48 secret strategies to live happier
healthier and wealthier and I really enjoyed
it was written in a way that is very easy to
read and he separate out these 48 secrets of
success into Eight or nine different categories
Just based off of you know, universal success
mental success productivity marketing academic
social entrepreneurship It was just a very easy
read and I just really loved the way that he
put it together. I would I kind of want to think
about a way of using that style for my book and
my content. So something similar to, you know,
man walked across country reveals secrets to
success. I think that that would be a interesting
and unique way to present this information. Where
the guests come in specifically is I want them
to have some kind of knowledge, expertise, background
in these specific topics. So that when I go to
write the book I can say, just like in my conversation
with blah blah blah blah blah, this is what this
looks like. This is why this happens. So things
that I might have noticed on the walk, kind of
like the idea of objects in mirror are closer
than they appear. One of the last episodes that
I did, the idea that pain in the background causes
issues in the foreground or kind of subconsciously
controls your life. I would really love to have
someone on that can explain a little bit deeper
why our past affects our future, how our past
makes us to be who we are today, and how we're
able to actually let go, change, fix, saunter
around, and make those changes so that things
that happened in the past are no longer controlling
your future. Just understanding deeper why that
happened, because just because I experienced
something similar while I was on my walk doesn't
mean that I really understand why that is actually
happening. So to just kind of recap this brain
dump of Ideas what I'm gonna start doing moving
forward with these solo episodes as soon as possible
is they will all be based off of these Lessons
that I've learned on my walk across the United
States Once I get through a couple more guests
that I'm excited to have on and I want to talk
to personally I'm going to start aligning them
a lot more specifically with these topics Hopefully
I can double up on some triple up even go a little
bit deeper in a way But I think that it would
be very useful for me the time that I have and
the attention that the listeners give to focus
on this stuff in particular rather than the topics
that I have laid out right now, which I think
are useful. I still think are great. I think
there's more to be done specifically with what
I've learned from the walk. The other big thing
is in terms of updates for within range coaching.
Alongside my one -to -one life coaching and business
consulting through the Renaissance Center, I
am adding in pesticide safety training. If you
don't know anything about me, that would be kind
of coming out of left field, but if you do know,
you will know that I grew up in ag and farming.
I was an FFA, had my American degree. I went
to UC Davis for ag economics, worked in farming
and ag for a couple years straight out of school.
worked for the County of Stanislaus as an Ag
inspector for a couple years. So Ag and farming
and all this has really been something that I
have really enjoyed and I'm really excited to
be getting a little bit more back into it through
coaching and consulting by adding pesticide safety
training to that. I did get certified last week
as a pesticide safety instructor. So now in the
County of San Mateo, my goal is to add that as
a part first as my services through the Renaissance
Center, doing a little bit of faux or mock inspections
for pesticide safety, records, et cetera, but
also just doing training for applicators and
field workers. So that's fun and exciting and
a thing that I am very much looking forward to
doing. And there may even be a spin -off podcast
where it will be updated. a few times a month.
I don't want to make any promises right now because
this is going to be the main podcast. This is
the main one I want to put my time, attention,
and money and energy into. but I would like to
find a way to promote that other part of the
business as well. That about wraps it up for
the major updates that I want to post about in
regards to the podcast and the business. The
other main thing is that I am looking for speaking
opportunities. I am a member of Toastmasters
and I've made it to the district level competition
where I will be competing with the humorous speech
contest this upcoming Saturday. And I would really
like to find more ways to talk about my walk
across the country, the lessons that I learned.
So if you're listening right now and you're in
a company that does lunch and learns, monthly
meetings, you bring in guest speakers, keynote,
etc. I would really appreciate the opportunity
if you could reach out to me. My email and contact
information will be down in the description.
I can talk about the walk specifically, lessons
that I learned, apply all that information to
your specific organization, nonprofit club, etc.
to make it more tailored and customized to you.
So please just let me know. And other than that,
Those are the main updates that I have right
now. I super appreciate I know this is a little
bit of a weird episode I hope that you still
got something out of it. I would really say that
the biggest lesson here for me is to not be afraid
of changing things up Like staying focused on
the mission, but understanding that the road
can kind of shift over time I Felt a little bit
weird about making a post talking about how I'm
gonna be changing a whole bunch of things when
something that I preach is being consistent.
But I think that what separates this out from
just straight up stopping something is I've been
doing a lot of posting, a lot of the podcast,
posting consistently, doing the work, putting
in the hours. And now I'm just trying to find
a way to make it more effective and useful for
my brand, for my listeners. And then just kind
of differentiate my content from every other
27 year old white guy with a podcast. So thank
you so much for your time, attention, and energy.
I super appreciate it. If you could take just
a few seconds to leave a review down in the description,
I would super appreciate that. That'll help the
content out to more people so that we can help
more individuals live the best life possible.
Thank you as always and remember the best is
yet to come as long as you are willing to make
the decision to never settle, never quit, and
never peak. I'll see you guys in the next one.