In this episode, Michael gets real about why he hasn’t uploaded a podcast in 6 months and expands a conversation he started with his latest YouTube video.
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Transcript Episode 54
[00:00:00] All right guys, it’s that time again… Welcome back to the podcast! I’ve been out of this game for the last six months. I have not uploaded an episode in the last six months, and I really want to tell you where I’ve been, why I have not uploaded, and then dive into something a little different towards the end.
[00:00:50] This is a little bit different than I usually do it. First of all, I’m not walking through the streets of Shanghai like I do most often when I record, I’m actually at home in my home office, but I’m also filming it for YouTube at the same time. So just a little experiment, doing something different.
[00:01:06] Since I am recording at home, you might see my dog on screen, she might jump in my lap because she’s sitting right off camera over here, and there’s also been some construction off and on for some reason above me. So all apologies if some of that comes through the audio. So let’s dive right into it.
[00:01:23] Where have I been? So… I take on too much. Quite often I, I have way too many interests. Plus, I work full time and I’m a full time dad, a full time husband, all those things, social engagement, stuff like that. So when I looked at what I take on, I had to make some choices. For me, my crazy time of year at work starts around June and June to October.
[00:01:59] The end of October is super busy for me at work, kind of in general. So I had to make some tough choices in June, and there’s really three reasons.
[00:02:19] In June, I realized I had to set some priorities for my creative life, my personal life, and my work life in order to get everything done that I wanted to get done. As some of you know, if you listen to my podcast or if you know me personally, and I’ve even maybe alluded to it, I think a little bit in some of my Instagram posts, I have been working on a book, a fiction book—a novel—for four years, probably longer, actually, probably closer to five years at this point.
[00:02:49] I don’t work on it every day. I’ve gone through peaks and valleys where I spent a ton of time on it. And then there are some days where I hardly spend any time on it at all. But I had made a commitment to turn in my final edit to my editor, and I had to get that done by the end of the summer.
[00:03:06] So that’s basically what I poured my creative energy into: finishing that draft. Something had to go on the back burner. I’m not going to stop taking pictures because that’s a deeper passion than podcasting is, but I just had to make a choice. I had to make a tough choice. So, I stopped uploading a podcast.
[00:03:26] I stopped recording them, stopped uploading,
