June 27, 2026 • 16 mins
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SPEAKER_00 (00:03):
Wow, where do I even begin?
I guess I could start off bysaying she's back.
(00:24):
Welcome to the very firstepisode of Mental Memo.
This is it, you guys.
This is the intro episode.
This is the very first one I'mgonna release.
And uh, if you're watching thevideo version of this podcast,
you'll notice this is a littlebit different than most podcasts
that you are used to watching orlistening to.
And that is because I amcurrently in a park in Los
(00:45):
Angeles recording a podcast bymyself.
This is so nerve-wracking, youguys.
I hate filming in public numberone, but filming a podcast in
public, oh, so scary and itfeels so cringy, but I'm gonna
be brave and I'm gonna do it.
And I think it's with a goodpurpose and a good cause.
So I'm excited.
(01:05):
Um, I guess we're just gonna digstraight into this.
If you're new here, my name isBrie Lynch.
I am the host of this podcast,and I'm so excited to have you
here.
But I'm gonna be honest withyou, this is not my first rodeo.
I have had a podcast before, Iwas hosting it for about a year,
it was pretty successful.
I absolutely loved doing it, andI have missed it so, so much.
(01:27):
But some life circumstanceshappened and I felt the need to
pivot, which actually is apretty good transition, if I do
say so myself.
This podcast is called MentalMemo, and it was actually very
inspired by this book that Iread every single morning that
is called The Pivot Year.
The Pivot Year is basically abook that is 365 days to
(01:47):
becoming the best version ofyourself.
And the author, Brianna Weiss,writes these little passages or
poems that address a differentdiscomfort in life every day.
And I actually came across onewhen I was just flipping through
my book the other day, trying tofind the current page that I was
on.
And I came across page 91.
(02:07):
And I want to share the firsttwo sentences that she writes
with you guys just to kind ofstart this episode off.
What if you were never meant toget it right the first time, but
to build through trial anderror?
Now I just told you guys, I amnot new at this.
I've hosted a podcast before.
It was called URL versus IRL.
(02:28):
If you guys want to check itout, it is still up.
Um, and I absolutely loved thatpodcast.
It was my pride and joy.
But when I pass by this, day 91,and I'm currently on day like
161 or something like that.
When I pass by this, I felt likeit was screaming at me.
It was screaming at me that itwas really time for me to record
(02:49):
this intro episode.
It's something that I've beenputting off for a little bit
because it's scary, right?
Getting out of your comfort zoneis terrifying.
And I think that we're only abeginner once.
I actually had a really goodfriend say that to me recently,
and it was so inspiring, and itjust made me want to get past
the first step.
(03:09):
Now, what if she's right?
Maybe the reason that I don't dothat podcast anymore is because
I was supposed to continuebuilding through trial and
error.
And this might be thecontinuation of me building
right here, right now, bystarting this new podcast.
And I honestly think, obviously,I'm gonna tell you guys what
(03:30):
this premise of this podcast isor what I think it's going to be
about.
But what if she's right, right?
Now, the reason that I'mrecording at a park in Los
Angeles right now when I don'teven live here is because I've
noticed that epiphanies come inthe most ordinary moments
sometimes.
Like sometimes they're justhidden in plain sight.
(03:51):
I came to this park this morningto eat my breakfast, drink my
coffee that I spilled, by theway.
But I just started like writingand writing and writing, and I
was like, oh man, this firstepisode is gonna be so good.
You guys, I have notes writtendown.
I was writing what I thought thefirst episode should be, and I
was like, you know what?
I'm just gonna do it.
I have the gear on me.
(04:11):
Why don't I just do it now?
There's no better time like thepresent, right?
So I went back to my car,grabbed my Osmo pocket, grabbed
my microphone, and said, I guessit's time.
So I want you guys to kind ofanticipate that a little bit
with this podcast becausewhenever creativity strikes, I
(04:32):
am going to try to act on itimmediately.
It doesn't mean that my thoughtsare always gonna be a thousand
percent together.
It's gonna be a little bit moreraw and like rough than I am
probably gonna be comfortablewith.
Um, but I think it's all aboutgetting out of our comfort zone,
right?
I actually read something elseas I was also flipping through
that page, trying to get to mypage of this morning.
(04:52):
And it says, Comfort becomes avice when what once held you
together begins to hold youback.
When what's comfortable shortterm makes you lose sight of
what's best for you long term.
My comfort zone was literallybecoming my vice.
Okay.
I can't tell you how many timesI have referenced my old
(05:13):
podcast.
I tell people, yeah, I host apodcast, blah, blah, blah.
Girl, you haven't been hostingthat podcast for a year.
You haven't been hosting thatpodcast for a year.
And it's time to get back to it.
My first podcast was released onmy birthday.
So maybe I should do the samething with my second podcast.
It feels fitting, right?
So that's kind of my goal hereis to release this podcast on
June 28th.
And if I did, first of all, paton the back, girl, proud of you.
(05:37):
You're welcome, and I'm so happyfor you.
Um, and secondly, happy dirty30.
That's right.
I'm gonna be 30 years old.
Now, I think that theinspiration for this podcast,
Mental Memo, right?
It's got an interesting littlename, uh, alliterations.
I love them so much, they are myfavorite thing.
Mental Memo.
(05:57):
It's kind of inspired by how Ioperate in life.
Uh, I don't have a great memoryas a person, and so I have a
tendency of writing things downthat I don't want to forget.
But I am a creative and I'mconstantly finding inspiration
from all over.
(06:18):
I think that as a person, I'mtrying my best to learn how to
be more grounded, more present,more attentive, more just eyes
wide open in the world that I'mliving in.
And I'm trying my best to likejust experience life a little
bit better.
I have this weird, like is itweird?
(06:42):
Or is it something that we alldo and don't really admit to or
don't think about very much?
I'll explain it to you guys.
I have a tendency of living mylife looking through a lens that
I think others are lookingthrough, right?
So instead of just experiencinglife and doing whatever it is
(07:04):
that I can do to make myselffeel alive, I have a tendency of
trying to imagine how otherpeople are viewing the life that
I'm living and viewing me livingmy life.
Is that weird?
Please tell me in the commentsbelow.
I would love to know.
Because I don't know why,actually.
I don't have an explanation forthat.
And I usually have anexplanation for everything, but
(07:26):
I'm kind of sick and tired ofit, and I don't think that
that's the point.
I think that the point is tocontinuously learn and to keep
growing and to learn from eachother.
And I think that that's whywe're able to continuously be
inspired by each other,sometimes even without speaking.
How many times have you beeninspired by a song that you
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heard or a video that youwatched from somebody else
online, or a conversation thatyou overheard in a coffee shop,
or a piece of art that youlooked at?
We're not even talking to eachother, we're not even
communicating, and we can beinspired by each other, right?
You can just see somebody dosomething.
You can watch somebody playing asport and be inspired.
You could literally physicallylook at somebody and be inspired
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by them.
Is that not weird?
I think that because I have sucha horrible memory, sorry,
landing my plane, coming back towhere I was going with that.
I have a tendency of writingthings down.
I always have a pen on me.
At minimum, I always have a penon me.
Write things down on my hand ifI have to, I'll write it down on
my forearm like a child.
(08:29):
I always have a notebook in mypurse at all times.
It's small, it's like maybe thisbig.
I have so many random thingswritten down in that notebook.
And I carry sticky notes on meif I have a purse.
Write them down on sticky notes,write them down on a napkin if I
can't find anything.
And I shove it in my pocket or Ishove it in my purse for later.
Do I always refer back to it?
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No.
Wish I would.
I've even gotten in the habit ofwriting in books that I've been
reading recently.
It's actually like reallytherapeutic.
And I think that if you're aperson that has trouble reading,
like I kind of do sometimes,physically writing in the book
and underlining things,highlighting things, and like
writing out the summary of aparagraph, for like educational
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books at least, writing out likethe summary of a paragraph has
been so helpful for me.
But that's me just gettingsidetracked again.
I want to have a place to putthose thoughts.
I want to have a place to comeback to them.
I have a folder in my phone ofvoice memos, of shower thoughts
that I have, random things thatcome up for me when I'm driving,
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and I just start talking tomyself, right?
Is it surprising?
No, I am a podcaster, but I havea tendency of just doing that.
And I think that a lot of thetimes I'm onto something, and I
don't want to let that go.
You know what I mean?
I think that those things reallyneed a place to live.
And so for me, I think this iswhere they're gonna live.
I think that we have a lot tolearn from each other, and I
(09:56):
don't anticipate this podcastonly being a solo podcast, in
case if you were curious.
My last podcast was almostsolely interview-based, and I
absolutely loved that about it.
But I think that a habit that Igot into was that I had to
record in studio, which isreally hard sometimes,
especially with the fact that Itravel for work and my work
(10:17):
comes up really sporadically.
So hence why I'm outside in apark today facing my fears,
getting out of my comfort zonebecause creativity struck.
Just like I pull out my phone torecord a voice memo, I want to
do the same thing with thispodcast.
And I think that I know that Ican.
I just have to do it.
(10:38):
And it's gonna be a littleuncomfortable for me sometimes,
but I think that it's gonna bereally great.
And I'm so excited to share thatwith you guys.
The friends of mine that I havetalked to about this podcast
seem to really dig the idea.
They kind of think of it as likean audio journal, like scrapbook
in a way.
And I don't think that this isonly gonna be about my own
experiences and necessarily megetting my most vulnerable
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feelings out into the world forpublic consumption.
But um, I do think that we needa place for all of these things
to live.
I don't know if I'm the onlyperson that writes stuff down on
a napkin.
I don't think so.
I've seen it in movies, okay?
But I just think that gettingout of our comfort zone can be
so scary, right?
Because the thing that we'rescared of, I think that a lot of
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the times we think of that thingthat we're so afraid of to be
like a bump in the road or maybelike a little bit of a mountain
that we're gonna have to climbthat's gonna be really hard.
But what if we stop thinkingabout it like that?
What if we stop thinking aboutit as like a speed bump or a
mountain?
What if we think of it as aramp?
Okay, stick with me.
What if it's a ramp to send usinto what's coming next for us?
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What if it is a ramp that isliterally going to project us to
where we're supposed to be,right?
Like Rihanna said, what if youknew you were never meant to get
it right the first time, but tobuild through trial and error?
Maybe the first time isliterally just the road that
gets you to the ramp, right?
So that's how I'm trying tothink of this.
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This is how I'm trying to livemy life.
Um, because I'm so sick andtired of being afraid to live,
you know.
I I'm so sick and tired of justlike constantly thinking about
what other people are thinkingand how they're gonna receive
something.
I think I'm a very empatheticperson.
(12:31):
Um, and I'm a water sign, so Itend to go a little too deep
sometimes and uh not know how tocome back up for error, and then
I just I live down there andit's not good for me.
Um but sometimes it is, and I'llactually tell you about a time
that it was.
It's kind of what pushed me torecord this episode right now.
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I did a podcast recently withsome friends of mine at Race
Service.
They have a podcast that justcame out recently.
I was literally their fourthepisode, and I think that our
episode was so left field forthem that it was actually kind
of inspiring.
Like, their podcast is anautomotive-based podcast, okay?
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And for those of you that don'tknow, what I do for a living is
I'm a stun driver.
So I work on movies and TVshows, um, which is kind of
where my first podcast got itsconcept from.
Uh, it was an internet versusreality podcast.
It was very inspired by likemedia and how we see things on
our screens versus how theyactually are in real life.
(13:36):
It doesn't matter, we're notgoing to talk about that podcast
because I don't do it anymore.
But um I did this podcast withmy friends at Race Service.
They were supposed to beinterviewing me about being a
stunt driver, and instead I justkept getting way too deep into
real life stuff and then comingright back up out of the water.
And I think that it actuallyworked for us really well.
They seemed to really like it.
It was the longest episode theyhad recorded to date, and I
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think that they learned a lot,and I learned a lot from them,
and I was very inspired by them,and we started talking about
algorithms and that kind ofthing.
And the host of that podcast,Andrew, actually said something
to me that kind of made me wantto record this episode because I
was anticipating recording thiswhen I got home to New Jersey.
And he said, You can't chase thealgorithm, you have to chase
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authenticity.
And I was like, Mic drop, bro.
You should have said that onmic.
And now I'm gonna take it andI'm gonna say it on my first
episode of my podcast.
But, anyways, this podcastepisode that I recorded with
them, I think it went reallywell.
I was very inspired by it, andthey told me that the the
episode was probably gonna becoming out in about a month, and
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I have literally about a monthuntil my 30th birthday, which
felt very fitting because myfirst podcast was released on my
28th birthday.
Like I said, I've taken about ayear off.
I think that 29 has been themost transformative year of my
life.
I personally don't think it wascoincidental.
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I felt like 29 was honestlygonna be a little bit of a
throwaway year.
Kind of felt like I was justgonna be waiting to turn 30.
So I figured while I wait, Imight as well better myself in
as many ways as possible.
So I made this goal list formyself.
They were vague enough.
My goals were vague enough thatI wasn't getting hung up on
details, but they were specificenough that I had a direction
and I knew where I wanted to go.
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There were a couple of things onthat goal list, and I'll just
share a few of them with you.
Read more, get in the bestphysical shape you've been in in
your adult life.
Continue to create, get betterat expressing yourself, use your
voice for good and to make myfirst investment.
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I have one goal left to checkoff before I turn 30.
And I think that having apodcast out in the world again
is just gonna make turning 30that much sweeter.
And I'm so excited to releasethis, you guys.
I think that this is just divinetiming.
Like this is just perfecttiming, and I'm so excited to
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release it.
And I am so happy to have apodcasting platform back.
And I hope you guys like theconcept of this podcast.
Please reach out to me and letme know what you think and what
you would like to hear and whatyou would like to see.
And if you guys have any likequestions, maybe I'll do like a
write-in thing.
And I think you guys are gonnalearn a lot about me in this.
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It's not about me, it's aboutus.
But I think you will learn quitea bit about me.
I think it's just gonna comeout.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
Thank you so much for listeningto me.
This feels safe.
This feels like homes.
I know I've said it a milliontimes already, but thank you,
thank you, thank you.
I can't wait to talk to youagain.
Maybe tomorrow.
Okay, bye.
Wow, where do I even begin?
I guess I could start off bysaying she's back.
(00:24):
Welcome to the very firstepisode of Mental Memo.
This is it, you guys.
This is the intro episode.
This is the very first one I'mgonna release.
And uh, if you're watching thevideo version of this podcast,
you'll notice this is a littlebit different than most podcasts
that you are used to watching orlistening to.
And that is because I amcurrently in a park in Los
(00:45):
Angeles recording a podcast bymyself.
This is so nerve-wracking, youguys.
I hate filming in public numberone, but filming a podcast in
public, oh, so scary and itfeels so cringy, but I'm gonna
be brave and I'm gonna do it.
And I think it's with a goodpurpose and a good cause.
So I'm excited.
(01:05):
Um, I guess we're just gonna digstraight into this.
If you're new here, my name isBrie Lynch.
I am the host of this podcast,and I'm so excited to have you
here.
But I'm gonna be honest withyou, this is not my first rodeo.
I have had a podcast before, Iwas hosting it for about a year,
it was pretty successful.
I absolutely loved doing it, andI have missed it so, so much.
(01:27):
But some life circumstanceshappened and I felt the need to
pivot, which actually is apretty good transition, if I do
say so myself.
This podcast is called MentalMemo, and it was actually very
inspired by this book that Iread every single morning that
is called The Pivot Year.
The Pivot Year is basically abook that is 365 days to
(01:47):
becoming the best version ofyourself.
And the author, Brianna Weiss,writes these little passages or
poems that address a differentdiscomfort in life every day.
And I actually came across onewhen I was just flipping through
my book the other day, trying tofind the current page that I was
on.
And I came across page 91.
(02:07):
And I want to share the firsttwo sentences that she writes
with you guys just to kind ofstart this episode off.
What if you were never meant toget it right the first time, but
to build through trial anderror?
Now I just told you guys, I amnot new at this.
I've hosted a podcast before.
It was called URL versus IRL.
(02:28):
If you guys want to check itout, it is still up.
Um, and I absolutely loved thatpodcast.
It was my pride and joy.
But when I pass by this, day 91,and I'm currently on day like
161 or something like that.
When I pass by this, I felt likeit was screaming at me.
It was screaming at me that itwas really time for me to record
(02:49):
this intro episode.
It's something that I've beenputting off for a little bit
because it's scary, right?
Getting out of your comfort zoneis terrifying.
And I think that we're only abeginner once.
I actually had a really goodfriend say that to me recently,
and it was so inspiring, and itjust made me want to get past
the first step.
(03:09):
Now, what if she's right?
Maybe the reason that I don't dothat podcast anymore is because
I was supposed to continuebuilding through trial and
error.
And this might be thecontinuation of me building
right here, right now, bystarting this new podcast.
And I honestly think, obviously,I'm gonna tell you guys what
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this premise of this podcast isor what I think it's going to be
about.
But what if she's right, right?
Now, the reason that I'mrecording at a park in Los
Angeles right now when I don'teven live here is because I've
noticed that epiphanies come inthe most ordinary moments
sometimes.
Like sometimes they're justhidden in plain sight.
(03:51):
I came to this park this morningto eat my breakfast, drink my
coffee that I spilled, by theway.
But I just started like writingand writing and writing, and I
was like, oh man, this firstepisode is gonna be so good.
You guys, I have notes writtendown.
I was writing what I thought thefirst episode should be, and I
was like, you know what?
I'm just gonna do it.
I have the gear on me.
(04:11):
Why don't I just do it now?
There's no better time like thepresent, right?
So I went back to my car,grabbed my Osmo pocket, grabbed
my microphone, and said, I guessit's time.
So I want you guys to kind ofanticipate that a little bit
with this podcast becausewhenever creativity strikes, I
(04:32):
am going to try to act on itimmediately.
It doesn't mean that my thoughtsare always gonna be a thousand
percent together.
It's gonna be a little bit moreraw and like rough than I am
probably gonna be comfortablewith.
Um, but I think it's all aboutgetting out of our comfort zone,
right?
I actually read something elseas I was also flipping through
that page, trying to get to mypage of this morning.
(04:52):
And it says, Comfort becomes avice when what once held you
together begins to hold youback.
When what's comfortable shortterm makes you lose sight of
what's best for you long term.
My comfort zone was literallybecoming my vice.
Okay.
I can't tell you how many timesI have referenced my old
(05:13):
podcast.
I tell people, yeah, I host apodcast, blah, blah, blah.
Girl, you haven't been hostingthat podcast for a year.
You haven't been hosting thatpodcast for a year.
And it's time to get back to it.
My first podcast was released onmy birthday.
So maybe I should do the samething with my second podcast.
It feels fitting, right?
So that's kind of my goal hereis to release this podcast on
June 28th.
And if I did, first of all, paton the back, girl, proud of you.
(05:37):
You're welcome, and I'm so happyfor you.
Um, and secondly, happy dirty30.
That's right.
I'm gonna be 30 years old.
Now, I think that theinspiration for this podcast,
Mental Memo, right?
It's got an interesting littlename, uh, alliterations.
I love them so much, they are myfavorite thing.
Mental Memo.
(05:57):
It's kind of inspired by how Ioperate in life.
Uh, I don't have a great memoryas a person, and so I have a
tendency of writing things downthat I don't want to forget.
But I am a creative and I'mconstantly finding inspiration
from all over.
(06:18):
I think that as a person, I'mtrying my best to learn how to
be more grounded, more present,more attentive, more just eyes
wide open in the world that I'mliving in.
And I'm trying my best to likejust experience life a little
bit better.
I have this weird, like is itweird?
(06:42):
Or is it something that we alldo and don't really admit to or
don't think about very much?
I'll explain it to you guys.
I have a tendency of living mylife looking through a lens that
I think others are lookingthrough, right?
So instead of just experiencinglife and doing whatever it is
(07:04):
that I can do to make myselffeel alive, I have a tendency of
trying to imagine how otherpeople are viewing the life that
I'm living and viewing me livingmy life.
Is that weird?
Please tell me in the commentsbelow.
I would love to know.
Because I don't know why,actually.
I don't have an explanation forthat.
And I usually have anexplanation for everything, but
(07:26):
I'm kind of sick and tired ofit, and I don't think that
that's the point.
I think that the point is tocontinuously learn and to keep
growing and to learn from eachother.
And I think that that's whywe're able to continuously be
inspired by each other,sometimes even without speaking.
How many times have you beeninspired by a song that you
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heard or a video that youwatched from somebody else
online, or a conversation thatyou overheard in a coffee shop,
or a piece of art that youlooked at?
We're not even talking to eachother, we're not even
communicating, and we can beinspired by each other, right?
You can just see somebody dosomething.
You can watch somebody playing asport and be inspired.
You could literally physicallylook at somebody and be inspired
(08:09):
by them.
Is that not weird?
I think that because I have sucha horrible memory, sorry,
landing my plane, coming back towhere I was going with that.
I have a tendency of writingthings down.
I always have a pen on me.
At minimum, I always have a penon me.
Write things down on my hand ifI have to, I'll write it down on
my forearm like a child.
(08:29):
I always have a notebook in mypurse at all times.
It's small, it's like maybe thisbig.
I have so many random thingswritten down in that notebook.
And I carry sticky notes on meif I have a purse.
Write them down on sticky notes,write them down on a napkin if I
can't find anything.
And I shove it in my pocket or Ishove it in my purse for later.
Do I always refer back to it?
(08:51):
No.
Wish I would.
I've even gotten in the habit ofwriting in books that I've been
reading recently.
It's actually like reallytherapeutic.
And I think that if you're aperson that has trouble reading,
like I kind of do sometimes,physically writing in the book
and underlining things,highlighting things, and like
writing out the summary of aparagraph, for like educational
(09:12):
books at least, writing out likethe summary of a paragraph has
been so helpful for me.
But that's me just gettingsidetracked again.
I want to have a place to putthose thoughts.
I want to have a place to comeback to them.
I have a folder in my phone ofvoice memos, of shower thoughts
that I have, random things thatcome up for me when I'm driving,
(09:33):
and I just start talking tomyself, right?
Is it surprising?
No, I am a podcaster, but I havea tendency of just doing that.
And I think that a lot of thetimes I'm onto something, and I
don't want to let that go.
You know what I mean?
I think that those things reallyneed a place to live.
And so for me, I think this iswhere they're gonna live.
I think that we have a lot tolearn from each other, and I
(09:56):
don't anticipate this podcastonly being a solo podcast, in
case if you were curious.
My last podcast was almostsolely interview-based, and I
absolutely loved that about it.
But I think that a habit that Igot into was that I had to
record in studio, which isreally hard sometimes,
especially with the fact that Itravel for work and my work
(10:17):
comes up really sporadically.
So hence why I'm outside in apark today facing my fears,
getting out of my comfort zonebecause creativity struck.
Just like I pull out my phone torecord a voice memo, I want to
do the same thing with thispodcast.
And I think that I know that Ican.
I just have to do it.
(10:38):
And it's gonna be a littleuncomfortable for me sometimes,
but I think that it's gonna bereally great.
And I'm so excited to share thatwith you guys.
The friends of mine that I havetalked to about this podcast
seem to really dig the idea.
They kind of think of it as likean audio journal, like scrapbook
in a way.
And I don't think that this isonly gonna be about my own
experiences and necessarily megetting my most vulnerable
(11:00):
feelings out into the world forpublic consumption.
But um, I do think that we needa place for all of these things
to live.
I don't know if I'm the onlyperson that writes stuff down on
a napkin.
I don't think so.
I've seen it in movies, okay?
But I just think that gettingout of our comfort zone can be
so scary, right?
Because the thing that we'rescared of, I think that a lot of
(11:24):
the times we think of that thingthat we're so afraid of to be
like a bump in the road or maybelike a little bit of a mountain
that we're gonna have to climbthat's gonna be really hard.
But what if we stop thinkingabout it like that?
What if we stop thinking aboutit as like a speed bump or a
mountain?
What if we think of it as aramp?
Okay, stick with me.
What if it's a ramp to send usinto what's coming next for us?
(11:49):
What if it is a ramp that isliterally going to project us to
where we're supposed to be,right?
Like Rihanna said, what if youknew you were never meant to get
it right the first time, but tobuild through trial and error?
Maybe the first time isliterally just the road that
gets you to the ramp, right?
So that's how I'm trying tothink of this.
(12:11):
This is how I'm trying to livemy life.
Um, because I'm so sick andtired of being afraid to live,
you know.
I I'm so sick and tired of justlike constantly thinking about
what other people are thinkingand how they're gonna receive
something.
I think I'm a very empatheticperson.
(12:31):
Um, and I'm a water sign, so Itend to go a little too deep
sometimes and uh not know how tocome back up for error, and then
I just I live down there andit's not good for me.
Um but sometimes it is, and I'llactually tell you about a time
that it was.
It's kind of what pushed me torecord this episode right now.
(12:52):
I did a podcast recently withsome friends of mine at Race
Service.
They have a podcast that justcame out recently.
I was literally their fourthepisode, and I think that our
episode was so left field forthem that it was actually kind
of inspiring.
Like, their podcast is anautomotive-based podcast, okay?
(13:16):
And for those of you that don'tknow, what I do for a living is
I'm a stun driver.
So I work on movies and TVshows, um, which is kind of
where my first podcast got itsconcept from.
Uh, it was an internet versusreality podcast.
It was very inspired by likemedia and how we see things on
our screens versus how theyactually are in real life.
(13:36):
It doesn't matter, we're notgoing to talk about that podcast
because I don't do it anymore.
But um I did this podcast withmy friends at Race Service.
They were supposed to beinterviewing me about being a
stunt driver, and instead I justkept getting way too deep into
real life stuff and then comingright back up out of the water.
And I think that it actuallyworked for us really well.
They seemed to really like it.
It was the longest episode theyhad recorded to date, and I
(13:58):
think that they learned a lot,and I learned a lot from them,
and I was very inspired by them,and we started talking about
algorithms and that kind ofthing.
And the host of that podcast,Andrew, actually said something
to me that kind of made me wantto record this episode because I
was anticipating recording thiswhen I got home to New Jersey.
And he said, You can't chase thealgorithm, you have to chase
(14:19):
authenticity.
And I was like, Mic drop, bro.
You should have said that onmic.
And now I'm gonna take it andI'm gonna say it on my first
episode of my podcast.
But, anyways, this podcastepisode that I recorded with
them, I think it went reallywell.
I was very inspired by it, andthey told me that the the
episode was probably gonna becoming out in about a month, and
(14:41):
I have literally about a monthuntil my 30th birthday, which
felt very fitting because myfirst podcast was released on my
28th birthday.
Like I said, I've taken about ayear off.
I think that 29 has been themost transformative year of my
life.
I personally don't think it wascoincidental.
(15:01):
I felt like 29 was honestlygonna be a little bit of a
throwaway year.
Kind of felt like I was justgonna be waiting to turn 30.
So I figured while I wait, Imight as well better myself in
as many ways as possible.
So I made this goal list formyself.
They were vague enough.
My goals were vague enough thatI wasn't getting hung up on
details, but they were specificenough that I had a direction
and I knew where I wanted to go.
(15:23):
There were a couple of things onthat goal list, and I'll just
share a few of them with you.
Read more, get in the bestphysical shape you've been in in
your adult life.
Continue to create, get betterat expressing yourself, use your
voice for good and to make myfirst investment.
(15:45):
I have one goal left to checkoff before I turn 30.
And I think that having apodcast out in the world again
is just gonna make turning 30that much sweeter.
And I'm so excited to releasethis, you guys.
I think that this is just divinetiming.
Like this is just perfecttiming, and I'm so excited to
(16:05):
release it.
And I am so happy to have apodcasting platform back.
And I hope you guys like theconcept of this podcast.
Please reach out to me and letme know what you think and what
you would like to hear and whatyou would like to see.
And if you guys have any likequestions, maybe I'll do like a
write-in thing.
And I think you guys are gonnalearn a lot about me in this.
(16:27):
It's not about me, it's aboutus.
But I think you will learn quitea bit about me.
I think it's just gonna comeout.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
Thank you so much for listeningto me.
This feels safe.
This feels like homes.
I know I've said it a milliontimes already, but thank you,
thank you, thank you.
I can't wait to talk to youagain.
Maybe tomorrow.
Okay, bye.
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