Welcome to Digital Podcaster. My name is Dylan Schmidt. Thank you for listening. Thank you for joining me today. Today's a rather short episode. And you probably already saw the title. It's what I would tell my younger self, Digital Podcaster is coming up on being a year old. The podcast itself isn't a year old. I actually was internally conflicted when I came to launching Digital Podcaster. I was basically like, I wanted to help people with podcasts. But then I didn't want it my own podcast, I thought I could just rebel. I was like, You know what, and people would be like, they assume that I already had a podcast because we call it Digital Podcaster. So if anything Digital Podcaster is like fitting the mold of what people already thought existed. But it's true. I didn't have the podcast, when I started out, I had only worked with people closely and I published hundreds and I had been on 1000s, I guess a podcast, and I had been on podcasts, but I didn't have my own. So now that I'm coming up on a year, and just Digital Podcaster as a business, because before that it didn't have a name, I was just a private consultant. Now that is coming up on a year, I thought it would be a good opportunity to share, you know what I would tell my younger self about a year ago, to the date actually of this when this is being released. I didn't even know that Digital Podcaster how it looks today was going to exist. Literally no idea. It was June of 2021 that I created it. And before Digital Podcaster I was just like making some content, I wasn't really sure. So like it was a lot of inspirational stuff, maybe some marketing stuff, these are my passions, but it didn't look like Digital Podcaster. So I thought I would share with you what I would tell my younger self. And I think you know, this is helpful for both of us. And this is also this probably would also act as a message for future me because I think that there are common themes that I think we all struggle or deal with. And I think the future me would appreciate these things as well. And what I share what I'm sharing in this episode is not things that I've like fully, you know, I'm not trying to give off like a, I've reached this state of Nirvana, I've reached this state of full understanding. I'm not there yet. But that doesn't mean I can't tell my younger self something. So this is what I would have told my younger self, a year ago, when I didn't know Digital Podcaster was started yet. And I'm scrambling for like what I want to do. I didn't it wasn't I wasn't about to like miss some bills. A year ago, that wasn't the thing, it was anything like that I just really, really felt called to share something and I had no idea what I was going to share. And actually, that's been the past eight years before starting Digital Podcaster I would tell myself, you know, when I was worrying, that I was feeling really like this has to be it like I had to either make it or break it, it was either all or nothing, I would tell myself to let go more. And I'm really good at you know, I just want to therapy ties my younger self either. But the same this is a message to my younger self is difficult. The same thing that I would tell my younger self, you know, it's you're great at trusting that things will work out for other people. So exercise that same trust you have in other people in yourself. And you don't have to fully trust yourself just like you typically don't give all your trust in someone else. Give that trust though even the same level that you would give someone else. Give that yourself. And if you do that, you know you won't lose because you give so much to other people that when you finally are able to get it to yourself, you're going to thrive beyond what you could possibly imagine. And if you were unsure if you could, you know, take care of yourself the way that you're so good at taking care of someone else. I'll tell you right now that you're just as good at it. At the very minimum, you're just as good at taking care of yourself as you are of other people and you know that you know, you know, that you're you know, going to the gym and you know what to do. And that's really what it comes down to is you know what to do. And you know how you you know, want to make an impact in the world but you don't necessarily know how to do it for yourself and trust that it's all going to work out better than you can imagine. Even in a year in trust that the more you exercise trust in certain areas of your life with around business content, you know, sharing your own message, the more you can. The more the more proof you'll have, that everything will work out how you hope it will. And the game isn't about figuring it all out right in the moment, or figuring it out, right? Because there's no right or wrong. It's just simply about asking the right questions that will help you elicit a certain response of where you're trying to go. And it's not about arriving at something. It's simply about trying to let whatever story it is you're creating unfold. Because younger self, I know that you wanted to have it all figured out. And I know you want the next year, two years, five years, 10 years mapped out for security purposes. We all do, we all need a little bit of security. But there is a lack of security and amount of risk that happens when you embark on something that's a bit unknown. So the game isn't about figuring it out right now. It's about asking the right questions and staying in the game itself. And the only way you can stay in the game is by being patient. And to keep going, despite how scary or unknown or lack of answers to the questions that you keep asking you get trust that eventually the answers will show themselves. Not on your time, but on the time that it needs to take. And the better you can get at asking questions, the better you can start to get that feel that a little bit more certainty that things aren't going to work out how you want them to work out. But even once they start to work out, it's still it's still not going to give you exact security that you're looking for. And and to keep on keepin on and to keep on going and just try to make your change your middle name to patient, Dylan patient Schmidt, digital patient podcaster. That's what they'll call me. Patience is the key for younger self. And I know future self listening, if I ever listened to this patient is probably still the key. All right, we got to keep going. My my it's all been a message for you if you're listening it's messages for both of us. But my my task if you haven't already asked yourself is where can you exercise more patients and what it is that you're trying to make? Patients is the name of the game. That's all I got for you today. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. I will talk to you soon. Bye