For the 210th episode of The Copywriter Club Podcast, Rob and Kira are guest-less, which means it’s just us, talking about what’s going on in our lives and in the club. Here’s what we covered this week:

what we’ve done to create a routine during the “shutdown”

an update on the new podcast format—what we think about the extra work

what else we’re working on as we update other parts of The Copywriter Club

how we’re trying to make everything we do more helpful for copywriters

what we’re doing differently with our email today

trying to create a better separation between work and “life”

how we spend our “CEO” time and what we’re doing differently

what we’re reading right now

why you should ask Kira to do something crazy right now

how we’ve adjusted our mastermind to virtual—and the success we’ve seen

To hear what we shared on this episode, click the play button below or download the episode to your favorite podcast app. There’s a full transcript below as well.

The people and stuff we mentioned on the show:

Kirsty Fanton

Liz Green

Rosie

Theresa

Brandon

Fina

Perry Marshall

The Copywriter Accelerator

The Copywriter Think Tank

Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

Ian Stanley

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Alchemy by Rory Sutherland

Kira’s website

Rob’s website

The Copywriter Club Facebook Group

The Copywriter Underground

 

Full Transcript:

Rob:   Never a clever way to start when it's just you and me.

Kira:   On a rainy Monday. It's raining here. I feel like I just want to curl up in bed, but instead we're going to start this podcast. And so, Rob, how are you?

Rob:   I am doing great. Before we get into how we're actually doing, we should say, this is the 210th episode of the Copywriter Club Podcast, and if you're wondering why there wasn't a funny or story based intro, it's because we don't have a guest today. It's just you and me. And we just want to give a little bit of an update and maybe a review of what's been going on over the last couple of weeks. So then to answer your question, I'm doing great. How are you?

Kira:   I'm good. I was just thinking it would be fun to do our new commentary that we've added to the last 10 episodes. If you all haven't noticed and add that to this episode, so we can add commentary on top of our commentary and just go really meta with it.

Rob:   It could get a little meta. It also might get annoying. This is where we break in to say that was actually totally wrong, what you just said, Rob.

Kira:   But we're jumping in here. It's been a while, I think, since we've really shared what we've been up to in our worlds and in the Copywriter Club and our copywriting businesses. So when you reflect back over the last few months, Rob, how are you dealing with world craziness, recession, all this stuff, COVID? How is your family doing? How are you doing?

Rob:   At this point end of summer, middle of the fall, we're doing pretty good. I think we've figured out a routine. I was one of the lucky ones who, very early on, got the virus and I spent a whole week being kind of sick and very tired.

Kira:   I forgot about that.

Rob:   In fact, I was watching a video that we recorded back in April and I saw myself. I was like, oh my gosh, I look half dead. I look horrible. But yeah, we've gone through the school cancellations and summer, and then my kids are actually back in school at school. At least they've had one short break because the number of infections rose to whatever the level is that it hits and then they cancel school for a week or so. They've actually gone back now the second time and things are pretty good.

Rob:   We do better with routine at my house, especially when it goes around school. My kids are older. I have teenagers. And so there's not a lot of supervision that needs to happen other than just sort of getting kids out of bed, which is a teenage challenge. I was that way,