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Failure can be frightening.
However, as Winston Churchill reminds us, success is all about going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. This is I Will Not Lose Podcast. Let's jump right in.
Oh man, this one's going to be good today.
I threw all my notes out.
About an hour ago, I was putting together something.
I had been working on it all week, putting my notes together.
It was going to be all about derivative work of arts and originality.
And I realized I can't tie that into success learned from failure.
This is all about success learned from failure.
so I threw my notes out I gave my buddy a call uh V Alvarado I had a conversation with her and
she does what she always does and really kind of put me in the mood to pie and talk you know we
had some great conversations and it was just about you know what are you what are you doing
what are you trying to cater to are you trying to make things that people want to hear are you
worried? And are you putting yourself with the pressure of a large podcast with an entire team?
You know, what are you really doing? And as we talked, we started putting together some notes.
I thought, you know, this is really good. And as an early listener, somebody who helped craft the
show, somebody who's constantly commenting and giving feedback on the show, take her words
really seriously. So the goal is a conversation between friends. It was something that I
looked to do. So even, it's funny, in the first episode, I let an F-bomb drop or I had cursed.
And then I realized as I'm uploading episodes, I never checked the curse word box. So there's
a level of professionality that I'm doing consciously or unconsciously where I guess
I'm just not cursing. So I want to be more relaxed. I realized I'm pushing. How do I say it?
I'm pushing myself too hard or I'm holding myself to too high of a standard when you guys aren't
even doing that. So that can't be healthy. So as we started talking, it's like, you know,
I think it's important to really look at how far we've come. And so listen back to the goal is to
fail and I thought, are my goals still the same? Is the goal still to fail? Absolutely. Did I make
some sort of idea of success in my head, something unachievable that I am going to strive forever and
burn myself out for? I hope not. So importance of recognizing how far we've come is because
as we make mistakes, it's important to know that's just part of the growth and that's part
of the learning. Reflecting on the progress that we've made since the mistake, it can kind of give
us perspective, help us reframe it as a valuable learning perspective. I'm sorry, a valuable
learning experience rather than a failure. It's all about self-awareness, humility,
and these are things that I'm gaining through the podcast. So that was the goal when it was
time to start. And I thought rather than chug along and get further and further, let's take a
step back. Let's take a look at what was the reasons for starting the podcast. Are we still
hitting those goals or are we going to change and move forward in a different direction?
So the point was to adopt a growth mindset. And that was forcing myself to think about
the positive, you know, you have a positive and a negative in everything. You have a faith,
you have a fear, you have a good, bad, you know, this isn't like a good and evil or Jedi
Sith type thing. This is more about thinking on the positives, you know, half, this is as simple
as half a cup is half empty cup is half full, depending on your perspective. I think the way
that I look at it is if I have a deadline weekly, it helps me know that at some point during that
week, I'm going to have a positive growth mindset towards turning something towards a success.
So I thought this could be a pretty cool thought experiment. And I challenged myself to do it.
Here we are three, four months later, and it's all about admitting mistakes, creating things.
So I have lacked on the stories, I'll admit.
And I thought, you know, don't be so hard on myself.
V says to me, people love seeing the growth.
People love coming along for the journey.
So everything can't be too perfect and too clean, you know?
You know how to make stuff look good.
So just have fun with it.
Go back to having fun.
And it's funny.
It's like you get this pressure when you're about to hit record.
like, man, everything's going to hang on the next words that I say. And then I went through a phase
where we're cutting the stuff up into shorts. And as we do the podcast, it's like, what can we say
that goes viral? And we'll chop that up and we'll put it on TikTok and we'll go viral and a whole
bunch of listeners will come to the show. And we did that. And the clip that went viral was like
a side conversation in a podcast that wasn't even about that in the episode. Well, it was the
mid-journey in chat GPT about AI, the if you can't beat them, join them episode. And I put my
mid-journey tryouts up on Instagram and ridiculous amount of likes. So likes, views, any of that
stuff, engagement. So there's no point in trying to plan what's going to go viral. I don't think
anybody that goes viral with some of these reels is actually intending to. It seems to work
quite counterintuitively. So having a deadline weekly. So it was funny when we first started out,
we said we were going to do Gil Thompson. We were going to have an episode with him. I had no case
studies for how long it took. I do have a background in editing and audio engineering,
so I didn't go into it completely blind. But it took me about two weeks on and off in my spare
time to edit, get all the volume correct, the transitions for Gil's episode. And it wanted to
coincide with his album dropping. So I think a week or so beforehand, we're like, hey, do you
think we can have it ready by Friday. And I was like, well, yep, I'm dropping every Friday from
now till the next, however long. And it just, uh, it was out there. And I thought instantly,
if this takes me two weeks, how am I going to drop a weekly podcast? You know? So it was a challenge
and we were able to keep up with it by making a few budget decisions, a few ideas about when we
would have guests, what sort of guests we would have, how many camera angles, all that stuff came
down to how can we put this. But it's not a bad thing. You know, sometimes it sucks when you have
to go and drop a podcast and you know that there's a date that you set in your mind that it's going
to drop, but it's just not ready yet or life happens and things happen. But deadlines can
serve as a powerful motivator. I forget where the quote came from, but I once heard
the greatest inspiration is a deadline, you know, as goes with creativity and stuff like that.
If you know when something needs to be done, it helps you prioritize your tasks. You can manage
them more effectively. It is kind of an art being able to be calm under the pressure, but
increased focus, increased energy. They're often heightened when you know you're getting close to
a deadline versus if I said, I'm just going to drop the podcast whenever the podcast is ready.
I mean, sure, there'd probably be some amazing episodes with insane visuals and transitions and
do a ton more writing and prep, but it just wouldn't push. It doesn't give you that challenge.
Like, listen, nothing in life that feels comfortable really gets you further.
Like everything comes from uncomfort.
Everything comes from taking yourself out of your comfort zone and pushing yourself.
So make realistic deadlines.
Don't tell yourself, you know, if I honestly thought that it wasn't possible to put something
out every single week, I'd take the liberty to make it a biweekly or a monthly show or
something like that.
but as I'm talking to V, she's like, have fun with it. Just have fun. So I have a conversation
with my son that we're going to be dropping in season two. The whole idea of season two coming
up is exciting because it's documenting the growth. You know, people ask why have a season
in a podcast? You know, it's really about having some sort of set. So goals that I want to do in
addition to sponsorship. I mean, there's all sorts of giveaways. There's all sorts of fun
subscriber stuff, structures that I want to add to the show, different guests that we want to have
on Unlimited Caliber. It'd be great to have additions to the staff and team. But you know
what? That's all part of the journey and you can't rush that. It's no fun. It becomes something that
you just have to do. And I never want to say I have to record a podcast this week. I want to say
I get to record a podcast. I mean, look how cool this is. People talk about, hey, I want to do
that. I want to see what gets into it. And people have even reached out to me and said, hey, you
know what? I think I'm going to start a podcast. Would you be able to help me? Hell yeah, man.
Hell yeah. Let's talk about it. Here's some stuff you could pick. Here's some equipment. In fact,
if I'm not using one of these mics or I upgrade, let's keep in contact so we can go with it.
being part of groups online, Reddit and things like that. I've discovered new podcasts,
new podcast hosts, improved on my mic technique all by going and looking and just being part of
a community. So being able to post and say, I have a podcast, somebody who would say,
oh man, that's not like Joe Rogan or that's derivative of these other podcasts. He's trying
to be this or something. Listen, I'm not trying to be anybody. The goal is and always has been
to fail, learn and have fun along the way. I did find myself getting away from the latter,
the fun along the way stuff. So did adopt a growth mindset, have pushed myself super proud
to look back at everything that happened so far. But man, in the first episode, we had the second
episode as well. Even, um, in Gil Thompson's episode, there was a smoke alarm going off,
um, completely unprofessional, but you know what it's happened before. And some of the greatest
moments in radio or podcasting were not planned. They weren't perfect. They didn't have a crew of
people listening in or editing things out in the background. So, you know, it is what it is.
and as far as dropping on time you know what nobody drops on time and so if i'm doing this
as a hobbyist why should i put myself like why should it be the end of the world you should see
me man i get totally upset i'm like oh my god the podcast isn't going to drop on time like there's
tens of thousands of people and you know what even if there was that many people waiting on the drop
People who do this full time and professionally don't always drop on time.
You know, it is great to say, and you know, I'd love to look at a full year and say I dropped
every day at the same time, the exact same time. But you know what? I'm looking in analytics and
people take a couple of days to get to it anyway. That's why I moved the drop date from Friday to
Monday, because you're not going to listen to it over the weekend. I'd rather you catch up on last
week's episode over the weekend and you're not going to miss anything. I don't cover, uh, current
events, you know, um, just if you're taking the initiative to search for a new drop and seeing
that it's not there, that's a win for me. That's a win. That means that I'm creating something that
people want to come back to. So yeah, you don't drop on time. It definitely fucks up the algorithm
them. And I'm sure somebody says, oh, fuck this guy. He didn't drop on time. He's not taking this
seriously. But you know what? It'll drop. It'll drop. There'll be one episode a week. And you'll
get it when it comes to your smartwatch, Bluetooth speaker, headphones, PC, whatever you want to do.
I did believe in myself. I did come into this believing in myself. But it's amazing to see
how many people said, oh, that's something that you should have been doing. And not necessarily
that I was meant to podcast, but just that I seem comfortable doing it. I'm in my bag,
as some would say. And that means the world to me. Like, that's super awesome. This is the one
thing. I mean, I've been in multiple businesses and this is the one thing that everybody has said,
at least to my face, yeah, that's definitely something you should be doing in. I'll tune in,
I'll check in. And then whether you do or you don't, that's fine. There's no pressure. There's
even the podcast that I follow that I miss episodes. So when people are like, oh, I missed
last week's episode, I feel bad. That means the world to me that you're listening in and checking
into it. And it's something that we can discuss in person. So point of this episode, the goal is
to Fail Part Two. That's probably what I'll title it. And I'll just check in every quarter,
every couple of months and talk about where we're headed, what we're doing. I do kind of mention
that throughout the season as we go. And just know because I try my best to make this look good,
sound good, sound great. I'm still a hobbyist. I'm still an amateur. So be easy. And as long
as you give me that respect to know that this is something that I'm taking time out of my week to
provide content for, and you can choose to listen to it. You can choose not to, but doing this pro
bono to put great quality content out there and it's beneficial for me in the meantime. So it's
a win-win for everyone. I wanted to shout out this card I was given to a gift from, I don't know if
she wants me to shout her out on the podcast, but I will mention her. I talk to her in person
if it's cool, but she gave me this card. She knows who it is. It says, uh, every failure
brings you one step closer to success. Um, she's a teacher. She gave this to her students. So this
is a pretty cool card. I'm going to keep this as a little talisman with the, the card. So if just
one person goes and switches their mindset or says, you know, that's that's great or gets
one episode out of it. I think that's absolutely, absolutely great. I don't need more than one
person, although they are there and they have spoken to me. But just to remind myself, keep
going to check in, say, hey, you've got something that's super dope, even if you stop now.
To be able to have three months worth of content, audio and visual put up there that you did, all while not taking too much time away from your career, family, things like that.
I think that's a win.
And at every point, these are real crossroads people come across.
Like every artist has said, I don't want to create anymore or there's no money in this or why am I doing this?
I'll never be good enough.
I mean, they look at another artist and it's like, wow, I can't create at that level. How did that person do that? Every podcaster has said, hey, you know, this is too much work or we can't drop this or that last episode was corny. It's like you move on.
You know, these these podcasts. One of the things that I did keep in mind as I structure this is longevity and being able to go back and listen to an episode. So the Kanye episode, that's going to die. People aren't going to be talking about that forever.
But switching and getting into some more serious topics or growth mindsets, stories of success learned from failure, public announcement, probably going to change these stories of success, switch it more to growth mindset to give an idea, to give people who don't know me or people who are just discovering this podcast online, which I know is extremely rare.
people don't just stumble across new podcasts the game is completely saturated so if you're
listening to this you probably listen to it from a share from somebody telling you hey check this
guy out those are the people that i'm really really appreciative for for you to go and say hey
check this out this is something this guy's doing means that i'm putting out at least enough quality
that people will share it because people do not share mediocre or bad. They definitely don't share
bad content. So unless it's to laugh at it. So yeah, if you are a technical whiz and you want
to laugh at my lighting or my video ability, that's super cool. If there's little mic sounds
or mouth sounds that I'm not editing out, I will, you know, like I said, it's part of the journey.
I will put more time into editing as we put it together.
If that turns you off, come back in a year.
We'll still be here, God willing.
All right, let's see.
I'm just going to check how far we are.
I have one more thing in my notes, but yep, we're right at that 20-minute mark or so.
So we're going to drop to the outro.
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