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in the world right now but you're here out of uh the recent statistic i read was 200 000 podcasts
put a weekly episode up so when i say you could have been anywhere in the world like you have
access to so much content, so thank you for putting me in your listening schedule. Thank you for coming
back week after week. Take a moment to be present and recognize that it is now, right now. Whether
your right now is working, running, exercising, cleaning, laying down, flying, driving, be grateful
we're alive. Failure can be frightening. However, as Winston Churchill reminds us, success is all
about going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. One thing to keep in mind is that
success is about the journey, not about the destination. So what that means is if you can
really find yourself happy with making your mistakes and knowing that's progressing you,
kind of the topic of this episode we're going to talk about is the importance of persevering when
you're not number one. And I think especially in a global market now where you're competing with
literally anybody with the internet in just about anything you do, um, social media, all that sort
of stuff. It's important now more than ever, you know, uh, as Emily Dickinson said, my biggest fear
is to be a big fish in a small pond. You know, it's not just being the best at your city anymore,
your region, you know? Um, so it's going to be interesting. Uh, before we get into the episode,
I do need to just, I need to make a short disclaimer. My neighbors are bumping music
so loud. They have been playing music until 1030 or 11 last night. They were still playing it when
I fell asleep. And then, so yeah, I have no intentions of waiting until they're done on
a Sunday night to record. I wanted to get the weekly episode up. So I apologize for any audio.
we're going to try to get it taken care of in editing. So you're probably not even going to
hear it. Sorry for mentioning it, but back to the show. You got to persevere, man. You got to just
keep going. Not everything's going to be perfect all the time. You can try your best to do it.
It's just about improving from here to there. So 200,000 podcasts drop every week. I think
podcasting was at a peak in Corona. It's not as heavy as it was then. A lot of the corporations
got into the podcast game then too. So, you know, I'm taking a look at it and I'm like, wow,
I really need to take the same mentality I had as a wrestler, the same mentality I have when
just anything competitive that I do in my life. You know, I used to be very, very competitive and
I thought all it was about was being number one. And that was in a pool of, you know, hundreds of
people. And then you see, I mean, look at like leaderboards in a game. You have hundreds of
thousands of people playing, you know, you're not even top 100. You remember when you went to the
arcade and there might've been 50 names and you could put your initials in AMO, Antonio Miguel
and I'd try to get that up to number one. And it was just a local area. Now the arcade games,
they connect online. So everybody who bought that arcade game, Street Fighter, NFL Blitz,
they're playing online and it's just, it's crazy. It's crazy. So a lot of times it comes down to
promotion. You know, we'll talk content. We'll stay in the social media lane for a little bit.
when you're putting out content and you're comparing the new form of social acceptance,
which is how many likes, how many shares, how much engagement something has,
it's hard to say your stuff will even be seen. So if you know you've been seen by a thousand people
and 300 people like it, that's a damn good day. That's great engagement if you've got 30%. Now,
I'm not a huge master on social media. I can't tell you exactly that sort of stuff. I'm in a
different expertise of digital marketing, but it just goes to show that if you have 10,000 people
looking at your stuff and 300 like it, yeah, it's still 300 likes, but that means of the amount of
people saw it, your actual conversion rate of people that engage or saw something. So
um, it's a hard gauge when somebody can do better at promoting content. And then we look at that and
say, well, that has more likes that needs, that must be more official. You know, I wish the scale
went with the people that put the most work into what they do. And this goes, this is not,
not complaining about podcasting. I'm not complaining about art talking about in just
about everything you do, you're going to have the, you're going to have somebody that's getting
promoted more. There may not be an objective, you know, especially with art, you can't say
what's objectively good. Well, you can, there are some rules. You can say art is objectively bad,
but for the most part, it's somebody's artistic expression. You can't put a quantification on
that. You can't quantify what somebody's feeling was when they translated it into that art.
So if I go on to I love on Reddit, you go into our drawing and people have they just started drawing a week or two ago and they say, I want to document this and they don't get flamed.
It's not like the only stuff that gets promoted is absolute great art.
So it's more of a democracy there.
When you get into what is objectively the best and you think the level of playing field.
So there are, whether it be artists or podcasts, there are artists with studios and artists underneath them and they can create their vision or a creative director at an agency that has more manpower to put something out.
There's entire newscasters and rooms of editors putting together multiple cameras and great work, and they're posting to YouTube the same access as somebody who has a cell phone and just records themselves, no stabilization, just goes crazy and talks, no microphone.
they can update to the same visual medium. So it's not a world to get discouraged. I mean,
I can't believe the amount of creation. Even in 2016, I felt Snapchat was very limited.
Now you have CapCut and all these things that you can put together reels. And I mean, my son,
shout out to Jaden, puts out amazing content that he's just editing on his phone. He showed me
CapCut. So the playing field is lower, but there's also such room for creative expression.
Now, if I taught my son to absolutely only be the best and delete his posts that don't get
tons of likes, I mean, I think he may be, well, I'm not going to speak for him, but I think kids
or anyone in general may be discouraged to post their content because they're holding themselves
to a standard of having ridiculous engagement and shares. I mean, when you go through and you
scroll through TikTok, you're seeing your friends content and you're seeing stuff with like the
numbers don't even make sense. I'm like, this has 330,000 likes. Christ, it's insane. So if you just
look at your own growth and know that you're not plateauing, know that you have some sorts of
goals. I was surprised. I looked at my listenership. I got to know a little bit more about you guys,
where you're listening from, who you are, male, female, super, super important as we craft the
show and put something together. But I also know that if you choose to listen to a podcast that's
a hundred hours worth of multiple people's work on a Sunday night or a Monday when we drop,
rather than my podcast, that's fine. That's not going to get me discouraged. It's not going to
stop me from putting content out. It's about the journey, not about the destination. I'm just going
to keep repeating that throughout this whole thing. There was a story, I'm not going to cite
source, but I don't know where I read it. A story about a developer who had worked on a game. They
literally were the person creating the game, creating the mechanics. They understood how this
game worked on a ridiculous level. They were a play tester of the game for like 18 months. So
it was their job 40, 50 hours a week to play this game. They decided that they didn't like the
corporate development world they wanted to get into just being a competitive gamer
and why not play the game that you helped create within a week wasn't even top 100 top thousand
there were people who had just picked up the game in a week so you're always going to run into
somebody better than yourself um i'm not going to i'm not going to shout him i'm going to shout
him out, but I'm not going to say by name, but this was a state champion wrestler. And, um, I'll
shout out his school. It was a North Hampton guy. And I ran into him and he was wearing a jacket
with his name on it. And I mean, I recognized him regardless, but I just said, yeah, man,
you have no idea what that name means. That's strikes fear into everybody's heart. That's a,
that's a great name. You know, you're really good giving him his props and stuff. And he said, yeah,
man, you know, one thing I learned is you're always going to run into somebody better. You,
go into bigger and bigger tournaments and it's just about being your best, you know? So literally
didn't know that would stick with me and, you know, help craft my mentality, but it, it just
goes to show, like, if you're discouraged about not being number one, you'll never reach your
true potential. You have to look at what you have done. You know, um, when I got into wrestling in
District 11, Pennsylvania. I didn't know how competitive District 11 was. You can Google it.
It has been for a long time one of the greatest areas for wrestling. Big shout out to Iowa.
And we'll tie this in because I had spoke to a national champion in Army. Shout out to P-Funk.
I don't know if he wants me putting his actual name on, but I want him to share some of these
stories when I have him on the podcast, but he goes and he tells me when he wrestled nationally,
he would be out and they said, you know, uh, you're pretty good. You must be from Iowa or
something. He said, no. And then one of the other guys says, yeah, he's from that Valley.
So nationally they call it that Valley, the Lehigh Valley. Uh, they were naming high schools,
Easton, Northampton, Nazareth. They knew the names of our high school wrestlers and
just the level of competition on a national level. It's insane. Now, if I would have known
when I got into wrestling that it's some of the best districts and the best state and the best
country in the world, I would have never. I mean, it's hard enough just to go mano a mano with
somebody in a singlet in front of all your friends anyway. So I wouldn't have stepped up to that
level of competition. Not then what I knew then, maybe with what I know now. But I never looked at
it. I just looked at it as it was something new I was learning. I was improving. I was getting
better. It was a great outlet for me. And it was about the journey. I mean, um, there's
tournaments that I didn't place first in and it's great showing the medals to my son and stuff. He's
like, wow, this is awesome and stuff. So, um, uh, all just the more reason to enjoy your failures,
learn from them know that it's part of it i mean uh i named my first episode the goal is to fail
and still may but the fact that i could look back three months later said wow i did that
consistently and it's growing people are sharing it more people are listening uh it's a reason to
keep doing it it's a reason to stay on a consistent schedule so um what else do we got here in the
notes. You know, I'm going to wrap up shortly. The other thing I have in my notes is that even
when you hit black belt, there's masters above you. I mean, I must've just, I was saying in my
notes, I'm currently a shout out to Exile Jiu Jitsu. I don't have his pen. It's over there on
the floor. I'm not going to grab it for the camera, but I've been training over at my buddy,
Evan Robinson's studio. And he brings in people of all sorts of caliber. It's like, man, these
people would wrap me up like a pretzel, but it's great. You know, they're all completely humble
and it's about my journey and what I can learn and already what it's adding to my life and sticking
with it and kind of growing from there. So I'll probably check back in around three months or so,
sorry, three months or so, let you guys know what's going on there. I do have some announcements.
uh hang on one second you know what we'll keep the announcement short so i'll just fly off the
top with them but we're gonna do some different things for season two i'm thinking we're gonna
go 15 episodes and then drop a season two uh some of the things i've been keeping uh bonus content
episodes that i'm still editing because i want to add more visuals make it more uh more for the
youtube and put some more produced stuff uh still want to put everything out on a consistent
schedule, but you can look forward to some guests, some multiple camera angles, just shopkeeping
stuff. This is a great creative outlet. It's a fun hobby. So thank you for your patience with
me as we grow. Thank you for rolling with us as we make the mistakes, you know. Keep us in mind
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