Milestone alert! This week I have published my 100th episode of the podcast – a milestone that has been a long time coming; with over three years of interviews and rambling, I hope that you have enjoyed it as much as I have.

I’ve learned a lot these past few years, and sometimes it’s fun to stick your head up, look around, and see where you are in relation to where you started and where you want to go. Starting with the great friends who did early interviews, through the pandemic, and now looking at new opportunities, it’s been a fantastic journey. 

That journey will continue! So on this week’s episode, I explore it a bit, get reflective, and look at a bigger picture. 

We all leave some kind of legacy. (I get it – the podcast isn’t really one). But we can bring the best out of ourselves and others … and I hope this little corner of the podcast world is one way that does that. 

Happy listening!

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Welcome to bellwether. Thank you for joining episode 100, I’ve hit the triple digits. We’re at episode 100 and, uh, it’s a bit of a milestone and it’s nice to hit milestones. And I, you know, I was just cranking along doing whatever. And I was saying, what am I gonna talk about this week? And I said, oh, holy cow, last week was episode 99. That means that this is episode a hundred, which is very exciting. And so when I think about what I’m gonna talk about today, it’s, I’m gonna talk me and that’s fun for me, right? Just once I’m gonna talk about me and, uh, and all that, I’ve learned doing a hundred podcasts and how I look forward to doing a hundred more. Um, it’s been a hundred, a hundred episodes slowly over a little over three years, three plus years, I guess it was around March and 20 you one of the years.

Speaker 1 (01:06):

Um, but I’ve been doing about 30 a year doing about 30 episodes a year. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned a lot about how to do a podcast. I’ve learned how to create something consistently. Um, learning is my thing. So I’ll talk to you a little bit about what I learned by doing that. Uh, but, but a hundred episodes, some have just me, some have been other people. I think if I look back over this, it’s, it’s a crazy time to just pause. Matter of perspective, where are we, where am I from when I first started it to doing, you know, what I’m doing now and how the podcast has changed and how my business has changed. And it’s, it’s just a fun exercise to pause and take a look around and get that, that momentary look in the mirror and, and that momentary bit of perspective, and, you know, take a look around, do you like where you are?

Speaker 1 (01:58):

Where do you wanna be? And where do you want to go? And that’s, you know, that’s my jam. That’s, that’s exactly what I like to do. So where have we landed and where are we going? So let’s chat, you know, I didn’t, I didn’t write down much for this. Um, I like to ramble sometimes. So that’s what I’m gonna do, but I, I I’m, I guess what I’ll talk about in, in three buckets is, is why I do the podcast, what I’ve learned, doing the podcast, and maybe what I think about, you know, how this will inform me going forward, I guess, and the way I, I think about things and, and I get nice compliments from time to time, not just on the podcast, but people like, um, or at least some people do like the way I think about things. And so I’ll tell you how I think about things a little bit in terms of the podcast and everything else.

Speaker 1 (02:41):

So, uh, why do I do the podcast? I get a lot of requests for info on how do I art a podcast and why do I do it and all, all of that stuff. So, um, I do it because it’s cathartic for me. And this was really, you know, for years I was just pining to get back into radio. I had a radio show years ago with a good friend. We did all kinds of stuff. And I, I did college radio, we did all kinds of fun stuff, and it was just like a cool thing to do. And now it’s just a little more accessible where I could just say, screw it, I’ll do a radio show. Why not? And that’s kind of what, what the podcast came out of. And if I look back at how it changed over time, it’s almost like I was, you know, when I think about it catharsis and, and getting things off my chest, but it’s also helping me articulate the way I think about things with my clients, the way I think about things with people, strategy and business and organizations and how they should be approaching, uh, uh, work and, and their people.

Speaker 1 (03:35):

And when you think about how quickly things change and what I wish I knew and all of those types of things, that’s, that’s really what it came down to. So, um, it, it helped me find my voice and my opinion. Uh, and if you read the book, you know, all about, I love the idea of a belief system and, and, and all of those things. And, um, I mean, it’s, it’s so cool to, to be able to have a, a valid opinion that you’ve thought through, because if it’s a feeling you have, or, and there’s logic to it, then it’s valid automatically. And that’s where, where most people skip over the validity aspect of other people’s opinions is they don’t necessarily give it that validity where if they just pause for a second figured out where validity could, could lie on that and then use that as a basis for discussion it’s, um, it it’s, you know, it’s, it’s the way should, the way people should be it’s the way people should be.

Speaker 1 (04:33):

I don’t know why more people don’t listen to me. Um, uh, but if I look back on the last three years, everything is the same, but different. And it’s, uh, you know, constant change. People are stressed. The world is changing. This was well before the pandemic, when I started this and the pandemic kind of, you know, changed the topics as it went on, you know, it’s fun to look back and, and think about all of the things that I’ve about. It’s almost like a timeline, um, which probably is more meaning to me than it would to, to any of you li any of you out there listening. But when I look back and see all the topics I had from, you know, I used my social network at the beginning, right. And, and when I think about, if you’re starting do a podcast and I, again, stepping back, it’s not just a podcast, it could be anything, it could be a book.

Speaker 1 (05:22):

It could be, you know, it could be, um, a side hustle. It could be whatever, you know, the first thing to do is just start it, right. Not everybody, it doesn’t matter. Who’s listening, cuz nobody’s listening. You know, when I first started the podcast, I had a great social network and my friends that came to do it, Dennis doing, talking about lean, uh, two sweet, who’s gonna come back on talking to pro boxer, uh, Deshaun two sweet, John’s talking about discipline and how do you get off the mat? And he’s gonna come back and talk about resiliency and those types of things. And, and so it doesn’t really matter. Who’s listening, it’s about finding your voice and what it is that you want to say and you don’t have to share it. And when people are looking for purpose, they’re looking for things to do.

Speaker 1 (06:02):

They’re looking for to make a change. One of the big fears that stops us from trying something new is what the other people will say or what if I fall flat on my face or whatever. Uh, but the nice, beautiful part about a podcast or any other things is nobody’s really paying attention. Cause nobody knows how to find you and unless you wanna put it out, otherwise you can just practice all of the time and you can do whatever you want. And it’s a fun exercise to go through and you could just test little types of behaviors. So, you know, when I, when I think about the social network at the beginning, um, Dennis, who I just saw recently, who’s super cool, too sweet Trish Trish came on and um, talked about five minutes of silence, which is, uh, phenomenal, you know, just these first like four to five to 10 interviews, Eileen Scully on her book about women in male dominated ind...