In this episode, I talk with Jason Vargo, (a guy who has the world’s greatest first name AND a daughter with the same name as my oldest daughter!) about his project/podcast/business/whoknowswhatformitwilltake focused on conversations about “getting better” (as in bettering oneself).

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Jason V: Well, my name is Jason Vargo and I am the person who does the best they can in any way they can with whatever they’re doing. And I’m looking to formulate my energies and actions in such a way that I can just focus basically on doing just that to whatever positive end it may have.

Jason L: So why don’t we catch the people up? The email that you sent me. We’ll start there. You tell me what are we doing here today?

Jason V: Well, it’s kind of funny. There’s a bit of a backstory actually, because for you, this is like probably just another conversation that we’re having, but for me, as I … how to say it. We’ve had a bit of a one sided relationship for quite some time now because I’ve been reading your emails for I think it’s been at least two years now. And obviously we’ve known each other for some years just being in the same town and all of that. But not being immediately in each other’s sphere, kind of in a second tier sort of thing. And I had an idea, I have lots of ideas and sometimes they just don’t let me go. And I had an idea about, I mean it’s probably coming up on a year ago now and the idea was just two words. It was getting better. That’s the idea. And the idea just kind of popped up to me and I sat with it, which is kind of the way that my ideas typically happen. I have a flash of an idea that makes sense, but I don’t really understand details and so I just let it sit.

Jason V: And what I realized over time as I did let it sit, that it was related to what I’ve always done, which is try to make situations that I’m a part of better in some way. And I’ve always been interested in what people do to get better and bettering oneself. I’ve always been very self reflective and really drawn to people and ideas that are for the purposes of growth and expansion and getting better. And so over time, I realized that this was something that I wanted to actualize in some way. And over time I realized having conversations about it, which is something that I tend to do anyway with the people that I talk with would be a great way to do it. And so of course, I’m thinking, thinking, thinking about it, all the time thinking about it. And again, it was one of these ideas that wouldn’t let me go. And over time I’ve been building a list of people that, wow, wouldn’t it be great, mind you, I’m not talking to them yet.

Jason V: I’ve been building a list of people that would be great, that I believe it would be great to talk to for this purpose, to explore the idea of getting better. And so it’s funny because you’ve been on my list. And you’ve been on my list for at least probably eight or nine months. And every time I read one of your daily journals, I’m like, yeah. Because I realize, I recognize in what you’re doing that’s a fundamental premise of what you’re doing too. You’re working on reflecting and getting better and obviously you’re focused on business. But I see many, many touches of deeper things in what you do. And you just, you’ve been on my list. So fast forward, however long, up until what I guess it was probably three weeks ago,