#InMyMind: Season 1 Finale!!!! It started with Ep.1 now we're here Ep.30! From 1 play to 3,000 plays later and now we're here!!! This episode is the Season 1 wrap-up so it has some of my favorite snippets from previous shows along with a new and fresh cumulative perspective from 29 prior episodes.
I started this podcasting journey with Ep.1 and for two weeks I only had 1 play...and I am sure that 1 play was from me, but a podcast of over 3,000 plays begins with 1 play. After I launched the podcast, I didn't even promote it, I didn't promote it because I was scared.
What was I scared of? I was scared of being judged, and being mocked, and honestly I was just scared of being successful. That just goes to show you that even after I jumped out there...I still didn't believe in myself, I didn’t believe in me, which is not only dangerous it's deadly!
Once I started my podcasting journey by stating, "that life is about choice, chance and opportunity. You make the right choices to give your self a chance at the best opportunities," and with that said, once I made up my mind to do the podcast, my choices led to many chances and the chances I took created more opportunities.
The podcast literally took on a life of its own! People started reaching out to me just to tell me to, "keep going...", "I like what you're doing...", "you're inspiring the people...", "you've helped me in so many ways..." and the quotes go on and on and on...
My podcast was a spin off and started by me making a choice to be on the #truthmomentpodcast with "The Voice Behind the Truth" Ms. Mika Joi and once I got bitten by the podcasting bug, I created "In My Mind: Everybody Knows Chris" and then "The M.E.N. Show" and thus the universal ripple effect that led to these shows also led to other shows being created and to the creation of opportunities and now we're here!
Your gifts make room for you and puts you in the presence of greatness. The opportunities that were created are boundless and they were started with just one choice. That choice was to "Bet On Myself!" Now it ain't easy in fact it is hard, and like my old ball Coach Willie Richardson use to say, "it's hard, but it's fair," and it's fair because it's honest! And it's honest because I should be the only one paying for the choices I made. Once the choice was made I had to develop nerves of steel.
Needless to say that after I built up the nerve, that nerve led to momentum, the momentum developed into a following. Now I have people asking me when am I dropping the next episode and that really means the world to me because for the longest time I felt like I didn't have a voice, a message, I thought that I didn't have anything to say. Now people are tuning in to hear what I have to say and all I started doing was sharing what was In My Mind...what do you have to offer?
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