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Oh, okay. So if you want to start a podcast today, especially if you've thought about

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it for longer than you care to admit, because it's something that you keep saying, right?

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Like how many people are like, I'm going to start a podcast and they've been saying it

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for like the past three years and you're like, seriously, dude, just start your podcast.

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So I would say that before you even care about the microphone or any of that stuff, which

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of course is important, you got to have good audio if you're going to be a podcaster, but

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it would be to decide what is the name of your podcast and then just write down the

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first episode. What is your first episode? What are you going to talk about? Now I will

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say, I was going to say three episodes, but I'm trying to keep it even that easier. But

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I feel like a lot of people get stuck because they overthink what it's going to be. And

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I think about like, if you're going to start a podcast, you're in it for the long haul.

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You're going to have to come up with a lot of ideas. So like Ashley was saying, I think

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that James Altiger's like 10 ideas a day is a great way to kind of create that muscle.

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But think about what would be the first three episodes. Like what are they going to be and

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what are they going to talk about? What would I talk about? And then give yourself permission

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to create them knowing they are probably going to be bad. Like they're probably not going

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to be the best episodes. You're going to go back to your first episode after you've done

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10, 20, 50, and look back to your first one and think, oh my gosh, I'm so embarrassed.

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That was horrible. Like what was I thinking? But it doesn't matter. So I think a lot of

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people get really stuck in the process of the strategy, right? Like I have to make all

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of them perfect. No, because if it's, if it really is about the reps, then you do the

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first episode and then you learn and you get feedback. And then you do the second episode

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and you learn and get feedback and you just keep getting better and better and better.

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And so if you haven't started one, this is your time. You're going to create the name

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of it and you are going to just create, what are your first episodes? What, what do you

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feel so passionate about that you think I need to be behind the microphone sharing this

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message? If you don't feel that strongly about something, you're not going to want to do

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it every week. Like you're just not going to be excited to find people to talk about

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that specific topic. You're not going to be excited to sit down and figure out what am

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I going to talk about? What am I going to write? And, and what am I going to say? And

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then, again, once you do, I mean, honestly, you know, once you do a few episodes, you

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just kind of get hooked. But I will say, I think it's really important, just like when

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people ask me, you know, how the writing process and writing a book, it's, it is literally

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sitting down, giving yourself that goal. When I wrote my book, I, like a lot of people,

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I put it off because it seems like a big project, just like a podcast, seems like a huge project.

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If you think a hundred episodes, that's a lot, that's a big project, but you can do

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one episode. You can do one episode. And so writing the book, you can write 250 words

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today. That's it. That's all you have to do is write 250 words. And then tomorrow you

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write 250 words. And then sometimes you sit, sit down to write 250 words and you end up

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writing 500, a thousand words, just like in podcasting. Sometimes I, I sit down to record

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one podcast and I think, oh, I could do another episode because I'm on a roll and I get another

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episode in, but you sit down and you do the work. So whatever habit you have to create

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that gets you in your seat at the same time, whether it's every week, every day, whatever

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it is that gives you that, so that you're able to actually create. And again, not wait

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for inspiration, but you're creating the inspiration by actually sitting down and making it more

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of a practice and process than outcome.