July 12, 2023 • 20 mins
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Get ready as we take a deep dive into the world of starting new things. Ever contemplated launching a podcast, a YouTube channel, or even penning a book? Or perhaps there's a business idea you've been sitting on? Well, this episode has your name written all over it. With a dash of my personal experiences, a sprinkling of hard-earned lessons, and a generous helping of insights from past guests, we challenge the idea of feeling unprepared. So, put on those headphones and prepare to confront the biggest obstacle to starting - the belief that you're not ready yet.
We will also discuss the need for a strategy when commencing with limited resources. My journey has taught me the necessities - setting deadlines, making progress over perfection, and comprehending your motivations. We delve into how to leverage free and cheap resources to kickstart your project too.
Remember, perfection isn't the goal, starting is! So, whether you're toying with a creative pursuit or somewhere in the process, this episode is your treasure trove of useful nuggets. Listen in, get inspired, and remember - all it takes is one small step to start.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of We All Have Something
a listener supported podcast.
Now, if you're listening tothis when it came out, we're in
the middle of July or just aboutIt's July 12th when this
episode drops.
If you're listening to this alittle bit later, that's okay.
This still applies And I,purposely, am dropping this now
because, let's see, right beforeJuly started, i released an
episode about the mid-yearreview, about how we like to
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take this time of year to lookat where are we with the goals
and aspirations we set for thenew year And halfway mark.
It's a good time, like any halftime, to reassess, reevaluate
and refocus.
It's time to see how we havebeen doing and if we haven't
been doing well, what do we needto adjust.
And if we're doing well, thenwhat do we need to keep going?
Can we push ourselves a littlefurther or do we need to maybe
(00:42):
relax a little bit to help keepa balance?
Now, before I get into thisepisode completely, i do want to
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Thank you so much.
You're helping me cover thecosts of producing this and it
really helps out a lot.
And as I save a little bit aswell, i'm going to get some
better equipment, a better micand all that because, really,
when I first started thispodcast what three seasons ago,
almost three years ago now I hadno budget, so I bought the very
basic equipment that you couldpossibly find and that's what
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I'm still using.
Thankfully, it sounds good,it's not horrible equipment, but
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I'm Rick Schwartz, life coach,public speaker and all around
curious guy.
My curiosity, my life and thelives of the many people I have
worked with have taught me timeand time again that there are
challenges to overcome andsuccesses to celebrate.
You're listening to.
We All Have Something a podcastabout the human experience, a
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podcast about celebrating ourauthentic self.
So let's get started.
I purposely planned thisepisode to come out in mid-July
because I wanted to be on theheels of the episode that came
out in late June, before Julystarted, and this is something
that I wanted to address.
This is not an actual how tostart a podcast.
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It is not that, but I will bereferencing some of those things
, and that is in part because Ihad a conversation with a couple
of people on how to start apodcast.
They are looking to do so And,as you know, obviously because
you're listening, i have thispodcast that I've started from
nothing, all on my own.
Do it right here in my sparebedroom in my home.
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I'm also lucky enough that myday job has me work on a podcast
as well for anotherorganization, and so I'm
familiar with the podcast world.
If you will, i will say thistoo.
Even though I'm three seasonsin on this podcast, i consider
myself fairly new to the podcastworld and I really consider
myself still at a point oflearning a lot.
I do recognize I have learnedsome already in these three
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seasons and doing the other workthat I do elsewhere, but I feel
like I'm still learning, and sowhen someone comes to me says,
hey, how do you start a podcast,i will flat out say look, i
will just share with you whatI've done.
I don't know if it's the rightthing or not, i'm not sure it's
the best plan, but it's what Ihave done thus far And this is
what I've learned along the way.
So what is this episode about?
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Well, this episode is aboutstarting that thing, whatever
that thing is for you.
You need to start, the biggestblocker for anyone wanting to
start something, whether it's apodcast, a YouTube channel.
Start writing your book, yourpoetry, do your artwork, do your
photography, any of thosethings.
Jump away from the corporateworld to do your own business.
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The biggest blocker is the factthat you think you're not ready
yet.
Now I want to do a callback tothe couple episodes ago.
Back in June, lauraGastner-Oding was a guest on the
show.
She has written some greatbooks, had great insight, and
one of the things I took awayfrom the interview with her that
is still stuck with me is thatidea that once someone sees
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themselves in a particularposition or job or doing a
certain thing, they can't unseeit.
And what we know about thescience of the mind is that once
your brain is visualizedsomething, it doesn't
necessarily know if it did ordid not happen.
Therefore, it's a type ofreality, almost.
If there's something you'vebeen wanting to do, you want to
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become a chef or a baker, youwant to do your own podcast,
your own YouTube channel, writepoetry, paint again all these
possible things.
Maybe you want to be alandscape architect.
I don't know.
But if this is an idea that justpopped in your head today, okay
, let it stew, let it simmer.
If this is something you'vebeen kicking around for a long
time and you keep coming up withreasons why you can't do it yet
, that you're going toeventually, but not yet.
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There's this I got to do andthere's that Oh, i'm just not
ready yet.
I haven't learned enough.
I'm encouraging you in thisepisode to start.
The value in doing yourhomework is truly there, but set
yourself a timeline.
If you've been kickingsomething around for years and
still haven't quite gotten readyto start it yet, it's time to
set a deadline for yourself.
If you have just started theidea, you know I've been
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listening to your podcast, rick,and I kind of want to start one
too.
I think I've got some reallycool ideas for a podcast and
some good guests I could line up, and you just now started
thinking of it and you're askingquestions.
That's perfect too.
You do need that exploratorystage, so my journey to starting
my YouTube channel is a greatexample.
I kept going.
I want to do this.
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I want to create a channelwhere I can do some coaching
type stuff in that video that Icould share with people and
people can gain insight andknowledge from.
I wanted to share thatinformation with people, and I
talked about the YouTube channelright now because I started it
before the podcast.
Here's the thing I had convincedmyself I need to write camera,
i need a tripod, i need somelighting, i need proper mics.
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I need, i need, i need And Icame up with a laundry list of
things I needed before I couldeven start putting videos on
YouTube.
That was cost prohibitive.
I work for a non-profit duringthe day, i've got my own side
job, but I've got plenty ofbills.
I live in a very expensive city, which is a great city, san
Diego.
I love San Diego, but, man, theprice of living here has gone
through the roof.
So it was cost prohibitive tobuy a video quality camera, a
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tripod, a mic, some light stands, some lights create a space
somewhere where I could shootthese videos and do everything.
Just right, because I waswatching all these YouTubers,
you know, watching these peoplewho are just knocking it out of
the park.
Oh yeah, and, by the way, youneed editing material.
You need editing software foryour computer.
You need to buy into gettingmusic and all this stuff.
You know other things you needfor sound.
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And it just was all therestanding in front of me as a big
blocker why I couldn't start.
Yet I started watching videos onYouTube on how to start a
YouTube channel.
What are the things to do ifyou're on a budget, and there
were a couple of people likelook, just start using your
phone.
What you need to do is juststart.
So I put together some ideas Iwanted to put for videos.
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I shot them on my phone.
They were not the greatest ofquality, the sound wasn't that
good.
But let's be honest, phonesnowadays, smartphones nowadays,
the video quality is pretty darngood And the sound is pretty
darn good.
And you can buy a fairlyinexpensive mic to adapt to your
phone with an adapter, excuseme, so it connects to your phone
.
So the equipment cost suddenlywas nearly zero.
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I mean, it was under a hundredbucks to start making videos.
You can upload videos directlyfrom your phone to YouTube.
You can edit with apps fairlyinexpensively or free, if you
wanted to.
Some of these apps if you dospend maybe 30 or 40 bucks for
buying it outright also comewith music and different little
extra things.
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And suddenly I realized that myexcuses of waiting to get all
this stuff before I could startand no longer existed.
So I started And I'll tell youwhat.
The first couple videos weren'tthat good.
The quality wasn't that good.
A lot of them never wentthrough the process of being
posted.
I did edit, though I wasediting them, adding sound,
doing scene changes, addingmusic titles, things like that
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because I needed to getcomfortable with how to do that.
And now it's to the point whereI can comfortably shoot a video
.
I can edit it, get it ready togo up in YouTube.
Yes, it looks like it was shoton a phone, but that's okay,
it's acceptable.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
A lot of these are handheld.
The sound is right straight tophone, not always with a mic, in
fact, very rarely with a mic.
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And I'm doing it.
And I'm doing it because I wantto get that content out there.
So now we jump fast forward intothe podcast.
What is it that I needed to doto start a podcast?
I really thought it was anothergreat avenue to communicate
with people, different conceptsand ideas around coaching,
improving our lives, gettinggood mindsets, things like that
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just all the quality stuff.
And so I was like, okay, well,you gotta come up with a title.
What's it gonna be called?
Then how am I going to actuallyrecord this and on what
equipment?
and then, how do I distributeit?
Because it's different thandoing YouTube.
Youtube, you upload a video andit's there.
Podcasting's different on howit works with the RSS feed and
everything else, and I didn'teven know what a RSS feed was.
So what did I do?
I spent time exploring.
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I gave myself first a fewmonths to educate myself, to
really see if this is somethingI wanted to do.
At the time, i was not doingthis for work.
Also, at my day job, i was notdoing any podcasting, so I was
exploring the idea of doing myown podcast on my own.
I gave myself a few months toread some books, watch some
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videos, look at other podcasts,how they're being done, how
they're being presented.
Once I educated myself on theleast expensive way to do this
because, again, it can be costprohibitive.
There's a lot of equipment youcan buy for sound, and
headphones and mic and all theseother things and mixers, and,
again, you could buy a veryexpensive version of sound
editing equipment, just like youcould for video editing as well
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.
I found, though, that a lot ofpodcasters was like look,
there's free editing, soundediting equipment on your
computer.
If you've got an Apple, it'sgonna be the garage band.
If it's on Microsoft, if you'vegot a Microsoft based computer,
there's different free ones.
Also, there's different thingsyou can download for free sound
editing.
So I started looking into thatprocess.
What would it cost to get a micand a mic stand?
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What would it cost to get someheadphones?
What's the cheapest ones thataren't gonna be complete junk
but also aren't gonna bankruptme?
And look, there's microphonesout there that are like four,
five, 600 bucks.
After doing some homework andresearch I realized you could
buy a beginning podcaster kitoff of Amazon, for I think it
was under 200 bucks, i think itwas like 120, 130, and it
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included headphones, mic, micstand.
All this stuff plugs right intomy computer.
I can record this directly intogarage band.
I can edit in garage band Badabing, bada, boom.
My distributor.
I did homework on bestdistributors for price point and
what was gonna work for me.
When I was trying to accomplish, i found Buzzsprout.
I love them.
I've been with them all threeseasons And really it's pretty
amazing.
They continue to improve theirproduct without changing the
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price point, which has beenpretty awesome to ride that wave
.
I just I can't say enough aboutthem.
But all of that said thatprocess that I went through.
The point that I want to sharewith you is you need to start.
You can go on forever with.
I'm just not quite ready yet.
I'm just I'm not there yet.
I don't know if I could startdoing that yet.
And this is whether you'relooking to do coaching.
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This is whether you're lookingto start your own business,
whether you want to again writepoetry, paint paintings, do a
podcast, youtube channel, any ofit that might apply to you.
Whatever it is you've beenthinking about doing.
I would like to start doingthat, but you keep coming up
with reasons not to do it.
Give yourself some deadlines.
Put some marks on the calendarof when you are going to start a
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certain step on doing this.
You're never going to be fullyready, i guarantee you.
You will never be fully ready.
You won't be fully ready tostart your podcast or your
YouTube channel.
You won't be fully ready thanonce you do start it To do to
record an episode.
You can try and fine tune allthe things about your episodes
or your podcast or anythinguntil you know you expire, but
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you'll never get it done.
So just start.
And yes, at first it's notgoing to sound or look good, and
that's okay.
What you need to be striving foris not perfection, but for
process.
I know we hear that a lot andlike, okay, yeah, great, you
know you're already doing it.
Just blah, blah, blah.
Listen, if you are working onthis stuff, for the process of
doing it, for the fact that youknow you're going to be putting
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in as they say, putting in thereps to get better, then you are
eventually going to get to thatpoint where people will look at
your content and go, wow,that's really good.
How'd you learn to do that?
You learn to do it by doing.
If you're waiting for yourcontent to be up there, with
someone who's already three,four seasons into their podcast,
seven, 800, 900 episodesalready into their podcast or
their YouTube channel orwhatever, or published poetry,
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you are being very unfair toyourself.
Those people did not startthere.
You are not going to startthere, but you need to start.
You need to start.
If you have visualized and seenyourself in the position of
doing this stuff, then you knowit's possible.
Your brain's already like well,we can do that, so start the
process.
Now here's the other side of it, because I do work with college
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students.
I want to make sure and I knowI have some that listen I want
to make sure you understand this.
One of the key things to successis understanding why you're
doing what you're doing.
Are you doing it for thelegitimate reason of wanting to
do the thing, or are you lookingto do this because you want the
results of what it looks likewhen someone does this as well?
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What I mean by that is, intoday's world, where there is a
lot of, you get to see 5% ofwhat someone's life is like, and
you only get to see the 5%.
That is the best of the best ofthe best.
That's the best 5% of theirlife, and you get to see that
part and they're like oh yeah,by the way, i'm a podcaster, i'm
a YouTuber or I write books,and you're like I want to write
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books because I want to be likethat person.
What I see them putting outthere on social media or what's
in the news, or media in general, or how they present themselves
.
Now, here's the deal, though.
The other 95% of their life isworking, is learning processes,
collaborating with people tomake things happen.
This is not just you're goingto make a podcaster YouTube
channel, write a book, and thenyou'll live that perfect 5%
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lifestyle that you get to see.
In fact, i'd be willing to betthey don't even live that 5%
lifestyle, completely.
Some of that's probably set upfor image purposes.
If you want to make a podcast,write a book, start a YouTube
channel or write poetry orwhatever it may be for you that
you're looking at going, i wantto do that.
Ask yourself, why do I want todo that?
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It looks interesting, cool,awesome, love it.
It looks fun.
I think it'd be something Iwould be good at and would enjoy
.
Excellent, the process isintriguing to me.
I'm curious about how to editstuff.
I want to learn how to editsound or video Wonderful.
I want to be able tocollaborate with those people
and talk to them about what theydo.
Their success makes me curiousand I want to learn how they got
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there.
That sounds like you might beinterested in interviewing
people, either for a book or apodcast, whatever.
If you ask yourself why you wantto do this and it's because I
want to live that really coollifestyle I assume a podcaster
lives or a YouTuber lives or anauthor lives, or again, add
whatever version you're lookingat lives.
Double check, double check,because you are going to put in
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a lot of work for several yearsbefore you'll even get a glimpse
at the upper echelon sparkly,pretty picture that you see
being put out there by otherpeople.
And the reason I say that isnot to pop your balloon and
burst your bubble, but thereason I say that because that's
the reality.
If you start with the idea thatyou're going to have that
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beautiful 5% lifestyle we'vebeen talking about, you're going
to be very disappointed andyou'll be very upset with
yourself and you're going tofeel like a failure and you'll
be hard on yourself and we don'tneed that.
We need to be honest with whatwe're doing and why we're doing
it.
We need to be honest with whatmotivates us and what we're
trying to accomplish.
We need to be honest with thefact that it's going to be a
process, and that's okay.
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Really relish that process oflearning and experiencing.
Like I said, i've been doingthis for three years now and I
still feel fairly new.
Like I'm still learning.
I'm still asking people abouthow they do it, what do they do.
I'm still reading articles andresearching stuff as well.
But I do want to encourage youto start.
I really, really do.
And listen, there's no harm instarting and going.
Oh well, that's not what Ithought.
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That's actually another reasonwhy some people don't start
They're afraid that they startand tell all their family and
friends, hey, this is what I'mdoing now and it doesn't work
out.
Everyone's going to thinksomething about them Oh, you're
a failure, oh, that didn't work.
Oh, i told you it wouldn't work.
Who cares what they think?
Who cares?
And you're like well, i do,rick, listen, here's the deal.
Everyone's going to have anopinion about you and what
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you're trying to do, but theiropinion is based on their
experience.
Only They're going to tell youyou're not going to do well and
fail at it because they feelthey wouldn't do well and they
would fail at it.
Find yourself that when you wantto start something and it's
calling to you, it's comingthrough you, that this is
something you want to do, youneed to do, and people around
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you like ah, really, you're notvery good at doing, i don't know
.
You're not very good atspeaking, so you shouldn't be a
podcaster.
Well, guess what, the more youdo podcasting, the better you
become.
So let them say that.
Let your first couple episodessound horrible.
Let them say, yeah, you're,what are you doing?
Keep at it.
If it's what you want to do, ifyou feel a calling, something
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you're supposed to do, thenstart.
Don't worry about what they'regoing to say.
And here's the other side of it.
Just like I said before, if youdo start and it doesn't work
out and you just say, ah, notfor me, that's called a learning
experience.
And here's the other part ofthat.
When we do something and itdoesn't work and it fails, guess
what?
There's some nuggets ofknowledge along the way that you
have picked up, whether you seethem or not, or realize them or
not.
You have learned somethingalong the way about yourself,
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about processes, whatever it maybe, maybe other people, who
knows?
But I can't encourage youenough to go ahead and start the
process.
If you need to learn more first, then learn more, but set a
deadline.
Okay, after six months oflearning, i'm going to start.
After three months of learning,i'm going to start.
Whatever it may be, the valuein doing this for you, your
personal growth, your mindset,challenging yourself, saying,
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look, i stood up and I tried.
You're going to look back onthat and you can be proud of
that, regardless of the outcome.
That's what's important,regardless of the outcome.
And again, this is the middle ofJuly, right now.
So now's the time to start.
Now's the time to start.
The days are long, the days arewarm.
Well, i guess for my friends inAustralia that, listen, it's
the other way around.
But either way, now's the timeto start.
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Honestly, why wait?
Why wait?
You might have even thoughtabout starting this back in
January, the new year, forhalfway through the year already
.
Let's do it, let's go.
If you're looking for somebodyto keep you accountable, someone
to go through some things withyou and really help you
kickstart, get ahold of me.
Go to coachrickshortscom.
That's my coaching website.
Sign up for a free discoverycall.
(19:14):
We'll connect for 30 minutes onZoom.
We'll chat about what's goingon.
If it sounds like we're a goodmatch, then my coaching is going
to help you and you're like,yeah, Rick, i want you as my
coach, then we'll go from thereas a coach and client.
And if not, hey, no big deal.
We can chat about what's goingon and say, okay, well, here's
my advice on that, here's mythoughts on that, and have a
nice day, whatever it may be.
But just go tocoachrickshortscom.
You'll also find all my socialmedia links there as well.
(19:36):
If you wanted to search CoachRick Schwartz on social media,
i'll pop up.
Zoom is there, instagram,facebook, all of them.
They're there And, of course, ido hope you found some value in
this episode, whether it was aninspiration to get started
finally, or something like oh,you know what, my brother needs
to hear this because he needs tofinally start that project.
Well, go ahead and share it.
You know, that's how this grows.
It's that ripple effect I talkabout in every episode You being
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kind, you doing something,whether sharing information,
whatever it may be.
That ripple effect is how wechange the world, and I
appreciate the fact that you'rehere listening and that you are
looking to improve your life andyou might even want to share so
others can improve theirs.
That'd be pretty awesome.
All right, thanks again forlistening.
I really do appreciate it.
Have a good one everybody.
Welcome to another episode of We All Have Something
a listener supported podcast.
Now, if you're listening tothis when it came out, we're in
the middle of July or just aboutIt's July 12th when this
episode drops.
If you're listening to this alittle bit later, that's okay.
This still applies And I,purposely, am dropping this now
because, let's see, right beforeJuly started, i released an
episode about the mid-yearreview, about how we like to
(00:21):
take this time of year to lookat where are we with the goals
and aspirations we set for thenew year And halfway mark.
It's a good time, like any halftime, to reassess, reevaluate
and refocus.
It's time to see how we havebeen doing and if we haven't
been doing well, what do we needto adjust.
And if we're doing well, thenwhat do we need to keep going?
Can we push ourselves a littlefurther or do we need to maybe
(00:42):
relax a little bit to help keepa balance?
Now, before I get into thisepisode completely, i do want to
say if you are interested inbeing a supporter of this
podcast, you can just click thefirst link that you find in the
episode notes.
When you click on that, you canfind out more information on
how to be a monthly supporter.
Now, monthly supporters help uskeep this ad free and all of
you supporters are already outthere supporting this podcast.
(01:03):
Thank you so much.
You're helping me cover thecosts of producing this and it
really helps out a lot.
And as I save a little bit aswell, i'm going to get some
better equipment, a better micand all that because, really,
when I first started thispodcast what three seasons ago,
almost three years ago now I hadno budget, so I bought the very
basic equipment that you couldpossibly find and that's what
(01:24):
I'm still using.
Thankfully, it sounds good,it's not horrible equipment, but
I wouldn't mind upgrading a fewthings.
So that's where we're headingwith the supporter stuff.
And keep in mind, if you dochoose to support, of course
I'll send you a direct emailwith gratitude and thanks, and
abundance of gratitude at that,because I really do appreciate
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You'll also be sent a couple ofstickers where you can, you
know, put them on your waterbottle, your computer, your car,
(01:44):
wherever you want to put a coolsticker, and if you are up to
it, with your permission, ofcourse, i will mention your name
on air.
Now we do have one newsupporter for this episode, but
that person has asked not to bementioned on air.
So I appreciate you, i knowyou're listening and you know
who you are, so big hugs to you.
Thank you so much.
I do appreciate it.
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I'm Rick Schwartz, life coach,public speaker and all around
curious guy.
My curiosity, my life and thelives of the many people I have
worked with have taught me timeand time again that there are
challenges to overcome andsuccesses to celebrate.
You're listening to.
We All Have Something a podcastabout the human experience, a
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podcast about celebrating ourauthentic self.
So let's get started.
I purposely planned thisepisode to come out in mid-July
because I wanted to be on theheels of the episode that came
out in late June, before Julystarted, and this is something
that I wanted to address.
This is not an actual how tostart a podcast.
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It is not that, but I will bereferencing some of those things
, and that is in part because Ihad a conversation with a couple
of people on how to start apodcast.
They are looking to do so And,as you know, obviously because
you're listening, i have thispodcast that I've started from
nothing, all on my own.
Do it right here in my sparebedroom in my home.
(03:07):
I'm also lucky enough that myday job has me work on a podcast
as well for anotherorganization, and so I'm
familiar with the podcast world.
If you will, i will say thistoo.
Even though I'm three seasonsin on this podcast, i consider
myself fairly new to the podcastworld and I really consider
myself still at a point oflearning a lot.
I do recognize I have learnedsome already in these three
(03:30):
seasons and doing the other workthat I do elsewhere, but I feel
like I'm still learning, and sowhen someone comes to me says,
hey, how do you start a podcast,i will flat out say look, i
will just share with you whatI've done.
I don't know if it's the rightthing or not, i'm not sure it's
the best plan, but it's what Ihave done thus far And this is
what I've learned along the way.
So what is this episode about?
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Well, this episode is aboutstarting that thing, whatever
that thing is for you.
You need to start, the biggestblocker for anyone wanting to
start something, whether it's apodcast, a YouTube channel.
Start writing your book, yourpoetry, do your artwork, do your
photography, any of thosethings.
Jump away from the corporateworld to do your own business.
(04:13):
The biggest blocker is the factthat you think you're not ready
yet.
Now I want to do a callback tothe couple episodes ago.
Back in June, lauraGastner-Oding was a guest on the
show.
She has written some greatbooks, had great insight, and
one of the things I took awayfrom the interview with her that
is still stuck with me is thatidea that once someone sees
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themselves in a particularposition or job or doing a
certain thing, they can't unseeit.
And what we know about thescience of the mind is that once
your brain is visualizedsomething, it doesn't
necessarily know if it did ordid not happen.
Therefore, it's a type ofreality, almost.
If there's something you'vebeen wanting to do, you want to
(04:57):
become a chef or a baker, youwant to do your own podcast,
your own YouTube channel, writepoetry, paint again all these
possible things.
Maybe you want to be alandscape architect.
I don't know.
But if this is an idea that justpopped in your head today, okay
, let it stew, let it simmer.
If this is something you'vebeen kicking around for a long
time and you keep coming up withreasons why you can't do it yet
, that you're going toeventually, but not yet.
(05:18):
There's this I got to do andthere's that Oh, i'm just not
ready yet.
I haven't learned enough.
I'm encouraging you in thisepisode to start.
The value in doing yourhomework is truly there, but set
yourself a timeline.
If you've been kickingsomething around for years and
still haven't quite gotten readyto start it yet, it's time to
set a deadline for yourself.
If you have just started theidea, you know I've been
(05:41):
listening to your podcast, rick,and I kind of want to start one
too.
I think I've got some reallycool ideas for a podcast and
some good guests I could line up, and you just now started
thinking of it and you're askingquestions.
That's perfect too.
You do need that exploratorystage, so my journey to starting
my YouTube channel is a greatexample.
I kept going.
I want to do this.
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I want to create a channelwhere I can do some coaching
type stuff in that video that Icould share with people and
people can gain insight andknowledge from.
I wanted to share thatinformation with people, and I
talked about the YouTube channelright now because I started it
before the podcast.
Here's the thing I had convincedmyself I need to write camera,
i need a tripod, i need somelighting, i need proper mics.
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I need, i need, i need And Icame up with a laundry list of
things I needed before I couldeven start putting videos on
YouTube.
That was cost prohibitive.
I work for a non-profit duringthe day, i've got my own side
job, but I've got plenty ofbills.
I live in a very expensive city, which is a great city, san
Diego.
I love San Diego, but, man, theprice of living here has gone
through the roof.
So it was cost prohibitive tobuy a video quality camera, a
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tripod, a mic, some light stands, some lights create a space
somewhere where I could shootthese videos and do everything.
Just right, because I waswatching all these YouTubers,
you know, watching these peoplewho are just knocking it out of
the park.
Oh yeah, and, by the way, youneed editing material.
You need editing software foryour computer.
You need to buy into gettingmusic and all this stuff.
You know other things you needfor sound.
(07:08):
And it just was all therestanding in front of me as a big
blocker why I couldn't start.
Yet I started watching videos onYouTube on how to start a
YouTube channel.
What are the things to do ifyou're on a budget, and there
were a couple of people likelook, just start using your
phone.
What you need to do is juststart.
So I put together some ideas Iwanted to put for videos.
(07:28):
I shot them on my phone.
They were not the greatest ofquality, the sound wasn't that
good.
But let's be honest, phonesnowadays, smartphones nowadays,
the video quality is pretty darngood And the sound is pretty
darn good.
And you can buy a fairlyinexpensive mic to adapt to your
phone with an adapter, excuseme, so it connects to your phone
.
So the equipment cost suddenlywas nearly zero.
(07:52):
I mean, it was under a hundredbucks to start making videos.
You can upload videos directlyfrom your phone to YouTube.
You can edit with apps fairlyinexpensively or free, if you
wanted to.
Some of these apps if you dospend maybe 30 or 40 bucks for
buying it outright also comewith music and different little
extra things.
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And suddenly I realized that myexcuses of waiting to get all
this stuff before I could startand no longer existed.
So I started And I'll tell youwhat.
The first couple videos weren'tthat good.
The quality wasn't that good.
A lot of them never wentthrough the process of being
posted.
I did edit, though I wasediting them, adding sound,
doing scene changes, addingmusic titles, things like that
(08:35):
because I needed to getcomfortable with how to do that.
And now it's to the point whereI can comfortably shoot a video
.
I can edit it, get it ready togo up in YouTube.
Yes, it looks like it was shoton a phone, but that's okay,
it's acceptable.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
A lot of these are handheld.
The sound is right straight tophone, not always with a mic, in
fact, very rarely with a mic.
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And I'm doing it.
And I'm doing it because I wantto get that content out there.
So now we jump fast forward intothe podcast.
What is it that I needed to doto start a podcast?
I really thought it was anothergreat avenue to communicate
with people, different conceptsand ideas around coaching,
improving our lives, gettinggood mindsets, things like that
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just all the quality stuff.
And so I was like, okay, well,you gotta come up with a title.
What's it gonna be called?
Then how am I going to actuallyrecord this and on what
equipment?
and then, how do I distributeit?
Because it's different thandoing YouTube.
Youtube, you upload a video andit's there.
Podcasting's different on howit works with the RSS feed and
everything else, and I didn'teven know what a RSS feed was.
So what did I do?
I spent time exploring.
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I gave myself first a fewmonths to educate myself, to
really see if this is somethingI wanted to do.
At the time, i was not doingthis for work.
Also, at my day job, i was notdoing any podcasting, so I was
exploring the idea of doing myown podcast on my own.
I gave myself a few months toread some books, watch some
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videos, look at other podcasts,how they're being done, how
they're being presented.
Once I educated myself on theleast expensive way to do this
because, again, it can be costprohibitive.
There's a lot of equipment youcan buy for sound, and
headphones and mic and all theseother things and mixers, and,
again, you could buy a veryexpensive version of sound
editing equipment, just like youcould for video editing as well
(10:20):
.
I found, though, that a lot ofpodcasters was like look,
there's free editing, soundediting equipment on your
computer.
If you've got an Apple, it'sgonna be the garage band.
If it's on Microsoft, if you'vegot a Microsoft based computer,
there's different free ones.
Also, there's different thingsyou can download for free sound
editing.
So I started looking into thatprocess.
What would it cost to get a micand a mic stand?
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What would it cost to get someheadphones?
What's the cheapest ones thataren't gonna be complete junk
but also aren't gonna bankruptme?
And look, there's microphonesout there that are like four,
five, 600 bucks.
After doing some homework andresearch I realized you could
buy a beginning podcaster kitoff of Amazon, for I think it
was under 200 bucks, i think itwas like 120, 130, and it
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included headphones, mic, micstand.
All this stuff plugs right intomy computer.
I can record this directly intogarage band.
I can edit in garage band Badabing, bada, boom.
My distributor.
I did homework on bestdistributors for price point and
what was gonna work for me.
When I was trying to accomplish, i found Buzzsprout.
I love them.
I've been with them all threeseasons And really it's pretty
amazing.
They continue to improve theirproduct without changing the
(11:24):
price point, which has beenpretty awesome to ride that wave
.
I just I can't say enough aboutthem.
But all of that said thatprocess that I went through.
The point that I want to sharewith you is you need to start.
You can go on forever with.
I'm just not quite ready yet.
I'm just I'm not there yet.
I don't know if I could startdoing that yet.
And this is whether you'relooking to do coaching.
(11:44):
This is whether you're lookingto start your own business,
whether you want to again writepoetry, paint paintings, do a
podcast, youtube channel, any ofit that might apply to you.
Whatever it is you've beenthinking about doing.
I would like to start doingthat, but you keep coming up
with reasons not to do it.
Give yourself some deadlines.
Put some marks on the calendarof when you are going to start a
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certain step on doing this.
You're never going to be fullyready, i guarantee you.
You will never be fully ready.
You won't be fully ready tostart your podcast or your
YouTube channel.
You won't be fully ready thanonce you do start it To do to
record an episode.
You can try and fine tune allthe things about your episodes
or your podcast or anythinguntil you know you expire, but
(12:27):
you'll never get it done.
So just start.
And yes, at first it's notgoing to sound or look good, and
that's okay.
What you need to be striving foris not perfection, but for
process.
I know we hear that a lot andlike, okay, yeah, great, you
know you're already doing it.
Just blah, blah, blah.
Listen, if you are working onthis stuff, for the process of
doing it, for the fact that youknow you're going to be putting
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in as they say, putting in thereps to get better, then you are
eventually going to get to thatpoint where people will look at
your content and go, wow,that's really good.
How'd you learn to do that?
You learn to do it by doing.
If you're waiting for yourcontent to be up there, with
someone who's already three,four seasons into their podcast,
seven, 800, 900 episodesalready into their podcast or
their YouTube channel orwhatever, or published poetry,
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you are being very unfair toyourself.
Those people did not startthere.
You are not going to startthere, but you need to start.
You need to start.
If you have visualized and seenyourself in the position of
doing this stuff, then you knowit's possible.
Your brain's already like well,we can do that, so start the
process.
Now here's the other side of it, because I do work with college
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students.
I want to make sure and I knowI have some that listen I want
to make sure you understand this.
One of the key things to successis understanding why you're
doing what you're doing.
Are you doing it for thelegitimate reason of wanting to
do the thing, or are you lookingto do this because you want the
results of what it looks likewhen someone does this as well?
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What I mean by that is, intoday's world, where there is a
lot of, you get to see 5% ofwhat someone's life is like, and
you only get to see the 5%.
That is the best of the best ofthe best.
That's the best 5% of theirlife, and you get to see that
part and they're like oh yeah,by the way, i'm a podcaster, i'm
a YouTuber or I write books,and you're like I want to write
(14:15):
books because I want to be likethat person.
What I see them putting outthere on social media or what's
in the news, or media in general, or how they present themselves
.
Now, here's the deal, though.
The other 95% of their life isworking, is learning processes,
collaborating with people tomake things happen.
This is not just you're goingto make a podcaster YouTube
channel, write a book, and thenyou'll live that perfect 5%
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lifestyle that you get to see.
In fact, i'd be willing to betthey don't even live that 5%
lifestyle, completely.
Some of that's probably set upfor image purposes.
If you want to make a podcast,write a book, start a YouTube
channel or write poetry orwhatever it may be for you that
you're looking at going, i wantto do that.
Ask yourself, why do I want todo that?
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It looks interesting, cool,awesome, love it.
It looks fun.
I think it'd be something Iwould be good at and would enjoy
.
Excellent, the process isintriguing to me.
I'm curious about how to editstuff.
I want to learn how to editsound or video Wonderful.
I want to be able tocollaborate with those people
and talk to them about what theydo.
Their success makes me curiousand I want to learn how they got
(15:19):
there.
That sounds like you might beinterested in interviewing
people, either for a book or apodcast, whatever.
If you ask yourself why you wantto do this and it's because I
want to live that really coollifestyle I assume a podcaster
lives or a YouTuber lives or anauthor lives, or again, add
whatever version you're lookingat lives.
Double check, double check,because you are going to put in
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a lot of work for several yearsbefore you'll even get a glimpse
at the upper echelon sparkly,pretty picture that you see
being put out there by otherpeople.
And the reason I say that isnot to pop your balloon and
burst your bubble, but thereason I say that because that's
the reality.
If you start with the idea thatyou're going to have that
(16:01):
beautiful 5% lifestyle we'vebeen talking about, you're going
to be very disappointed andyou'll be very upset with
yourself and you're going tofeel like a failure and you'll
be hard on yourself and we don'tneed that.
We need to be honest with whatwe're doing and why we're doing
it.
We need to be honest with whatmotivates us and what we're
trying to accomplish.
We need to be honest with thefact that it's going to be a
process, and that's okay.
(16:22):
Really relish that process oflearning and experiencing.
Like I said, i've been doingthis for three years now and I
still feel fairly new.
Like I'm still learning.
I'm still asking people abouthow they do it, what do they do.
I'm still reading articles andresearching stuff as well.
But I do want to encourage youto start.
I really, really do.
And listen, there's no harm instarting and going.
Oh well, that's not what Ithought.
(16:43):
That's actually another reasonwhy some people don't start
They're afraid that they startand tell all their family and
friends, hey, this is what I'mdoing now and it doesn't work
out.
Everyone's going to thinksomething about them Oh, you're
a failure, oh, that didn't work.
Oh, i told you it wouldn't work.
Who cares what they think?
Who cares?
And you're like well, i do,rick, listen, here's the deal.
Everyone's going to have anopinion about you and what
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you're trying to do, but theiropinion is based on their
experience.
Only They're going to tell youyou're not going to do well and
fail at it because they feelthey wouldn't do well and they
would fail at it.
Find yourself that when you wantto start something and it's
calling to you, it's comingthrough you, that this is
something you want to do, youneed to do, and people around
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you like ah, really, you're notvery good at doing, i don't know
.
You're not very good atspeaking, so you shouldn't be a
podcaster.
Well, guess what, the more youdo podcasting, the better you
become.
So let them say that.
Let your first couple episodessound horrible.
Let them say, yeah, you're,what are you doing?
Keep at it.
If it's what you want to do, ifyou feel a calling, something
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you're supposed to do, thenstart.
Don't worry about what they'regoing to say.
And here's the other side of it.
Just like I said before, if youdo start and it doesn't work
out and you just say, ah, notfor me, that's called a learning
experience.
And here's the other part ofthat.
When we do something and itdoesn't work and it fails, guess
what?
There's some nuggets ofknowledge along the way that you
have picked up, whether you seethem or not, or realize them or
not.
You have learned somethingalong the way about yourself,
(18:08):
about processes, whatever it maybe, maybe other people, who
knows?
But I can't encourage youenough to go ahead and start the
process.
If you need to learn more first, then learn more, but set a
deadline.
Okay, after six months oflearning, i'm going to start.
After three months of learning,i'm going to start.
Whatever it may be, the valuein doing this for you, your
personal growth, your mindset,challenging yourself, saying,
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look, i stood up and I tried.
You're going to look back onthat and you can be proud of
that, regardless of the outcome.
That's what's important,regardless of the outcome.
And again, this is the middle ofJuly, right now.
So now's the time to start.
Now's the time to start.
The days are long, the days arewarm.
Well, i guess for my friends inAustralia that, listen, it's
the other way around.
But either way, now's the timeto start.
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Honestly, why wait?
Why wait?
You might have even thoughtabout starting this back in
January, the new year, forhalfway through the year already
.
Let's do it, let's go.
If you're looking for somebodyto keep you accountable, someone
to go through some things withyou and really help you
kickstart, get ahold of me.
Go to coachrickshortscom.
That's my coaching website.
Sign up for a free discoverycall.
(19:14):
We'll connect for 30 minutes onZoom.
We'll chat about what's goingon.
If it sounds like we're a goodmatch, then my coaching is going
to help you and you're like,yeah, Rick, i want you as my
coach, then we'll go from thereas a coach and client.
And if not, hey, no big deal.
We can chat about what's goingon and say, okay, well, here's
my advice on that, here's mythoughts on that, and have a
nice day, whatever it may be.
But just go tocoachrickshortscom.
You'll also find all my socialmedia links there as well.
(19:36):
If you wanted to search CoachRick Schwartz on social media,
i'll pop up.
Zoom is there, instagram,facebook, all of them.
They're there And, of course, ido hope you found some value in
this episode, whether it was aninspiration to get started
finally, or something like oh,you know what, my brother needs
to hear this because he needs tofinally start that project.
Well, go ahead and share it.
You know, that's how this grows.
It's that ripple effect I talkabout in every episode You being
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kind, you doing something,whether sharing information,
whatever it may be.
That ripple effect is how wechange the world, and I
appreciate the fact that you'rehere listening and that you are
looking to improve your life andyou might even want to share so
others can improve theirs.
That'd be pretty awesome.
All right, thanks again forlistening.
I really do appreciate it.
Have a good one everybody.
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