The Journey to Success: Keep Moving Forward - I Will Not Lose Podcast - #0013

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[00:00:07.060] Yo, yo, yo, what's up? What's up? What's up? Good morning. Good evening. Good night. Good dusk. Good dawn. Shout out to my listenership, wherever you're listening in from Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google, Stitcher, YouTube.
[00:00:22.480] If you're watching in, thanks for giving me a reason to get dressed, making me invest in all these cameras. Could have just been an audio podcast, but you guys keep watching, so we'll keep putting the content out.
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[00:00:40.840] computer headphones tv car stereo smartwatch bluetooth speaker you could have been anywhere
[00:00:46.720] in the world right now but you're here out of uh the recent statistic i read was 200 000 podcasts
[00:00:54.760] put a weekly episode up so when i say you could have been anywhere in the world like you have
[00:01:00.760] access to so much content, so thank you for putting me in your listening schedule. Thank you for coming
[00:01:06.020] back week after week. Take a moment to be present and recognize that it is now, right now. Whether
[00:01:12.960] your right now is working, running, exercising, cleaning, laying down, flying, driving, be grateful
[00:01:19.680] we're alive. Failure can be frightening. However, as Winston Churchill reminds us, success is all
[00:01:25.940] about going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. One thing to keep in mind is that
[00:01:32.800] success is about the journey, not about the destination. So what that means is if you can
[00:01:37.860] really find yourself happy with making your mistakes and knowing that's progressing you,
[00:01:44.500] kind of the topic of this episode we're going to talk about is the importance of persevering when
[00:01:49.320] you're not number one. And I think especially in a global market now where you're competing with
[00:01:55.760] literally anybody with the internet in just about anything you do, um, social media, all that sort
[00:02:02.440] of stuff. It's important now more than ever, you know, uh, as Emily Dickinson said, my biggest fear
[00:02:09.120] is to be a big fish in a small pond. You know, it's not just being the best at your city anymore,
[00:02:14.960] your region, you know? Um, so it's going to be interesting. Uh, before we get into the episode,
[00:02:23.530] I do need to just, I need to make a short disclaimer. My neighbors are bumping music
[00:02:29.150] so loud. They have been playing music until 1030 or 11 last night. They were still playing it when
[00:02:38.810] I fell asleep. And then, so yeah, I have no intentions of waiting until they're done on
[00:02:44.690] a Sunday night to record. I wanted to get the weekly episode up. So I apologize for any audio.
[00:02:51.510] we're going to try to get it taken care of in editing. So you're probably not even going to
[00:02:55.830] hear it. Sorry for mentioning it, but back to the show. You got to persevere, man. You got to just
[00:03:02.170] keep going. Not everything's going to be perfect all the time. You can try your best to do it.
[00:03:10.170] It's just about improving from here to there. So 200,000 podcasts drop every week. I think
[00:03:20.990] podcasting was at a peak in Corona. It's not as heavy as it was then. A lot of the corporations
[00:03:27.370] got into the podcast game then too. So, you know, I'm taking a look at it and I'm like, wow,
[00:03:35.270] I really need to take the same mentality I had as a wrestler, the same mentality I have when
[00:03:41.370] just anything competitive that I do in my life. You know, I used to be very, very competitive and
[00:03:47.830] I thought all it was about was being number one. And that was in a pool of, you know, hundreds of
[00:03:56.090] people. And then you see, I mean, look at like leaderboards in a game. You have hundreds of
[00:04:02.390] thousands of people playing, you know, you're not even top 100. You remember when you went to the
[00:04:06.910] arcade and there might've been 50 names and you could put your initials in AMO, Antonio Miguel
[00:04:13.130] and I'd try to get that up to number one. And it was just a local area. Now the arcade games,
[00:04:20.230] they connect online. So everybody who bought that arcade game, Street Fighter, NFL Blitz,
[00:04:27.650] they're playing online and it's just, it's crazy. It's crazy. So a lot of times it comes down to
[00:04:37.490] promotion. You know, we'll talk content. We'll stay in the social media lane for a little bit.
[00:04:41.970] when you're putting out content and you're comparing the new form of social acceptance,
[00:04:48.090] which is how many likes, how many shares, how much engagement something has,
[00:04:52.790] it's hard to say your stuff will even be seen. So if you know you've been seen by a thousand people
[00:05:00.510] and 300 people like it, that's a damn good day. That's great engagement if you've got 30%. Now,
[00:05:08.950] I'm not a huge master on social media. I can't tell you exactly that sort of stuff. I'm in a
[00:05:14.610] different expertise of digital marketing, but it just goes to show that if you have 10,000 people
[00:05:21.450] looking at your stuff and 300 like it, yeah, it's still 300 likes, but that means of the amount of
[00:05:28.670] people saw it, your actual conversion rate of people that engage or saw something. So
[00:05:34.610] um, it's a hard gauge when somebody can do better at promoting content. And then we look at that and
[00:05:42.540] say, well, that has more likes that needs, that must be more official. You know, I wish the scale
[00:05:47.720] went with the people that put the most work into what they do. And this goes, this is not,
[00:05:53.360] not complaining about podcasting. I'm not complaining about art talking about in just
[00:05:59.080] about everything you do, you're going to have the, you're going to have somebody that's getting
[00:06:05.380] promoted more. There may not be an objective, you know, especially with art, you can't say
[00:06:11.620] what's objectively good. Well, you can, there are some rules. You can say art is objectively bad,
[00:06:17.760] but for the most part, it's somebody's artistic expression. You can't put a quantification on
[00:06:23.040] that. You can't quantify what somebody's feeling was when they translated it into that art.
[00:06:29.080] 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.
[00:06:42.280] It's not like the only stuff that gets promoted is absolute great art.
[00:06:47.420] So it's more of a democracy there.
[00:06:50.900] When you get into what is objectively the best and you think the level of playing field.
[00:06:58.920] 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.
[00:07:13.380] 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.
[00:07:32.380] they can update to the same visual medium. So it's not a world to get discouraged. I mean,
[00:07:39.920] I can't believe the amount of creation. Even in 2016, I felt Snapchat was very limited.
[00:07:46.040] Now you have CapCut and all these things that you can put together reels. And I mean, my son,
[00:07:52.380] shout out to Jaden, puts out amazing content that he's just editing on his phone. He showed me
[00:07:59.760] CapCut. So the playing field is lower, but there's also such room for creative expression.
[00:08:08.620] Now, if I taught my son to absolutely only be the best and delete his posts that don't get
[00:08:15.860] tons of likes, I mean, I think he may be, well, I'm not going to speak for him, but I think kids
[00:08:20.740] or anyone in general may be discouraged to post their content because they're holding themselves
[00:08:27.900] to a standard of having ridiculous engagement and shares. I mean, when you go through and you
[00:08:35.660] scroll through TikTok, you're seeing your friends content and you're seeing stuff with like the
[00:08:41.320] numbers don't even make sense. I'm like, this has 330,000 likes. Christ, it's insane. So if you just
[00:08:52.500] look at your own growth and know that you're not plateauing, know that you have some sorts of
[00:08:57.960] goals. I was surprised. I looked at my listenership. I got to know a little bit more about you guys,
[00:09:03.420] where you're listening from, who you are, male, female, super, super important as we craft the
[00:09:10.060] show and put something together. But I also know that if you choose to listen to a podcast that's
[00:09:18.860] a hundred hours worth of multiple people's work on a Sunday night or a Monday when we drop,
[00:09:25.640] rather than my podcast, that's fine. That's not going to get me discouraged. It's not going to
[00:09:30.660] stop me from putting content out. It's about the journey, not about the destination. I'm just going
[00:09:37.900] to keep repeating that throughout this whole thing. There was a story, I'm not going to cite
[00:09:45.660] source, but I don't know where I read it. A story about a developer who had worked on a game. They
[00:09:54.100] literally were the person creating the game, creating the mechanics. They understood how this
[00:09:58.840] game worked on a ridiculous level. They were a play tester of the game for like 18 months. So
[00:10:04.600] it was their job 40, 50 hours a week to play this game. They decided that they didn't like the
[00:10:12.400] corporate development world they wanted to get into just being a competitive gamer
[00:10:17.320] and why not play the game that you helped create within a week wasn't even top 100 top thousand
[00:10:28.220] there were people who had just picked up the game in a week so you're always going to run into
[00:10:35.800] somebody better than yourself um i'm not going to i'm not going to shout him i'm going to shout
[00:10:42.900] him out, but I'm not going to say by name, but this was a state champion wrestler. And, um, I'll
[00:10:48.740] shout out his school. It was a North Hampton guy. And I ran into him and he was wearing a jacket
[00:10:54.980] with his name on it. And I mean, I recognized him regardless, but I just said, yeah, man,
[00:11:00.560] you have no idea what that name means. That's strikes fear into everybody's heart. That's a,
[00:11:04.880] that's a great name. You know, you're really good giving him his props and stuff. And he said, yeah,
[00:11:09.060] man, you know, one thing I learned is you're always going to run into somebody better. You,
[00:11:12.400] go into bigger and bigger tournaments and it's just about being your best, you know? So literally
[00:11:19.060] didn't know that would stick with me and, you know, help craft my mentality, but it, it just
[00:11:26.340] goes to show, like, if you're discouraged about not being number one, you'll never reach your
[00:11:33.160] true potential. You have to look at what you have done. You know, um, when I got into wrestling in
[00:11:41.180] District 11, Pennsylvania. I didn't know how competitive District 11 was. You can Google it.
[00:11:49.040] It has been for a long time one of the greatest areas for wrestling. Big shout out to Iowa.
[00:11:57.760] And we'll tie this in because I had spoke to a national champion in Army. Shout out to P-Funk.
[00:12:06.220] I don't know if he wants me putting his actual name on, but I want him to share some of these
[00:12:11.020] stories when I have him on the podcast, but he goes and he tells me when he wrestled nationally,
[00:12:19.630] he would be out and they said, you know, uh, you're pretty good. You must be from Iowa or
[00:12:24.270] something. He said, no. And then one of the other guys says, yeah, he's from that Valley.
[00:12:28.810] So nationally they call it that Valley, the Lehigh Valley. Uh, they were naming high schools,
[00:12:33.870] Easton, Northampton, Nazareth. They knew the names of our high school wrestlers and
[00:12:43.230] just the level of competition on a national level. It's insane. Now, if I would have known
[00:12:53.380] when I got into wrestling that it's some of the best districts and the best state and the best
[00:12:59.220] country in the world, I would have never. I mean, it's hard enough just to go mano a mano with
[00:13:04.900] somebody in a singlet in front of all your friends anyway. So I wouldn't have stepped up to that
[00:13:10.720] level of competition. Not then what I knew then, maybe with what I know now. But I never looked at
[00:13:16.880] it. I just looked at it as it was something new I was learning. I was improving. I was getting
[00:13:21.000] better. It was a great outlet for me. And it was about the journey. I mean, um, there's
[00:13:30.520] tournaments that I didn't place first in and it's great showing the medals to my son and stuff. He's
[00:13:35.960] like, wow, this is awesome and stuff. So, um, uh, all just the more reason to enjoy your failures,
[00:13:46.070] learn from them know that it's part of it i mean uh i named my first episode the goal is to fail
[00:13:53.210] and still may but the fact that i could look back three months later said wow i did that
[00:13:59.990] consistently and it's growing people are sharing it more people are listening uh it's a reason to
[00:14:05.930] keep doing it it's a reason to stay on a consistent schedule so um what else do we got here in the
[00:14:14.680] notes. You know, I'm going to wrap up shortly. The other thing I have in my notes is that even
[00:14:24.770] when you hit black belt, there's masters above you. I mean, I must've just, I was saying in my
[00:14:29.510] notes, I'm currently a shout out to Exile Jiu Jitsu. I don't have his pen. It's over there on
[00:14:35.510] the floor. I'm not going to grab it for the camera, but I've been training over at my buddy,
[00:14:41.370] Evan Robinson's studio. And he brings in people of all sorts of caliber. It's like, man, these
[00:14:47.710] people would wrap me up like a pretzel, but it's great. You know, they're all completely humble
[00:14:53.590] and it's about my journey and what I can learn and already what it's adding to my life and sticking
[00:14:59.690] with it and kind of growing from there. So I'll probably check back in around three months or so,
[00:15:06.230] sorry, three months or so, let you guys know what's going on there. I do have some announcements.
[00:15:12.770] uh hang on one second you know what we'll keep the announcement short so i'll just fly off the
[00:15:26.460] top with them but we're gonna do some different things for season two i'm thinking we're gonna
[00:15:31.640] go 15 episodes and then drop a season two uh some of the things i've been keeping uh bonus content
[00:15:38.100] episodes that i'm still editing because i want to add more visuals make it more uh more for the
[00:15:44.000] youtube and put some more produced stuff uh still want to put everything out on a consistent
[00:15:49.700] schedule, but you can look forward to some guests, some multiple camera angles, just shopkeeping
[00:15:55.100] stuff. This is a great creative outlet. It's a fun hobby. So thank you for your patience with
[00:16:02.700] 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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