Welcome to Digital Podcaster. My name is Dylan Schmidt. And today is a continuation of yesterday's episode. I didn't even say at the end of yesterday's episode that there would be a part two. But I wanted to piggyback off in an idea. Sorry, not yesterday's episode, Two episodes ago, two episodes ago, I was talking about this idea about how I was talking with a friend with my friend, he was wanting to getting into more podcasting and content creation. And the idea that I gave him was adding more constraints around one what he is doing with his time, and how he does it. So I didn't mention this in Monday's episode. But one of the things I mentioned to my friend is, he was like, I'll just film content while I'm walking around, and all this stuff, he gave himself all this freedom. And one of the things that I suggested just to Him is no, I want to make it like a prison for you, I want to make it like really not challenging. But I want you to only record at your desk, which is ironic, because I'm recording this from my couch. But I want you to only record at your desk. And I want you to sit down and purposely make it in a short amount of time, like 30 minutes. And my friend was lit up by that idea, because if someone gives him to do something, he really excels at it. He's a professional. But one of the things that I also didn't mention to him, which will be a bit of the next task, unless he's listening to this episode, is to really narrow in on his topic. And I found and I mentioned this a little bit on the last two episodes ago, is, the more narrow you can make your topic, the more freedom you will give yourself. And this piggybacks off the idea that I was mentioning before is, the more constraints you can give a very creative person, I feel like the more likely they are to succeed. It's kind of like if you were telling an artist that they could paint or create with any medium whatsoever they wanted to do, they're likely going to do nothing, unfortunately. But if you took a certain type of art class, you would get a certain type of result from the art in the class you signed up for Right? Like in I went to college, briefly before I went to a more specific school for audio production. And when I took a while I wanted to do as art classes, and music classes. And I signed up for I think it was beginning drawing or something. I just remember we use charcoal to do the charcoal drawings. But I don't think it was a charcoal drawing class. And, you know, if I had signed up for that class, and they were like, alright, you can use any objects in the room to make your art. What is the likelihood that I will do any art or struggle with coming up with an idea? Like how hard would that be? Because I'd be looking around for what I'm going to use. And I started seeing everything as an object to make art out of right, I see an orange and I'm like, It's art. It's just orange sitting there. Wednesdays barking at absolutely nothing. You know, maybe she had a bad dream. Apologies for the interruption here. That's what I get for recording the living room. And, Yep, she's a French Bulldog. And, you know, they breathe heavy. So apologies to if you just hear breathing the whole time. Trying to make these more raw and authentic for doing a podcast today in the month of May. So when you see everything, as something that could be art, while that is beautiful, it is incredibly frustrating to the artist because the artist, their goal is to express themselves. And this is all going to work together I promise or come full circle. And that is the more limitations you can give yourself through the vehicle to create the art, the more likely you are to succeed in a way that feels like you're succeeding or the the more likely you are to be able to express yourself in that. And that might look like starting a podcast. And might not I know podcasting isn't for everybody. Not that I don't think anybody could start and enjoy podcasting. I'm just not I'm just not going to go like I don't, I'm not forcing that down everybody's, you know, content diets, I get that. But I also say that whatever that expression is, whatever that is, I think that's important like to express yourself. It's good for the soul. And it is good for other people, for one to be inspired by that freedom of expression. But it's something you know that is beautiful about being human is to be able to express yourself in that way. Like a lot of people alive today don't get that opportunity and privilege. So the fact that if you can exercise if you have that privilege, and you exercise it awesome. And so I say all this because when A when I look at, again, I'm using my friend here as an example, when I look at him, and, and he is so creative, and so locked in on relationships and so present, when I think about what we were talking about, and how specific I made my challenge for him, sit at your desk and record it within 30 minutes type thing. I, you know, it's kind of different than what I've thought, and I wanted to share that with you, because I think there is really something to the way in which you deliver. Yes, I'm coming off this high, I don't know, I'm recording this again on on Saturday. And you're hearing this a couple of days after, so I might keep making social media videos. But as of recording this amount, like 156 videos over the last 24 hours, everything is fine in my life. By the way, I've only spent a couple out of three hours recording the videos. So it's not like I'm losing my marbles. Or maybe I know, I'm not, you know, losing my mind over here. And everything's good. I don't, you know, drug free, alcohol free. I've had, in the last 24 hours, I've had two cups of cold brew. That's it. The idea here, though I'm sharing is that what's important is you give the yourself these limitations to express yourself. And I think that's an underrated thing for artists in general, because we're like, we know, we don't want limitations, we want to be free. And or we're making you know, it's different if you have a business and you're trying to attract clients through marketing and things like that. But even through marketing, there is a certain relationship aspect to it, that mark like good marketing doesn't mean that it's designed pretty. Usually good marketing means that it's clear to the person that it was intended to be for. And usually how you cut through all that clarity and all that stuff is you talk Oh, I mean, for one, you're talking to someone, the way that they could understand something you generate interest in that product, or service or whatever it is you're trying to market. But I think there is a little bit of creativity that involved in that. And again, I guess you get that creativity by limitations. If your goal is to create marketing, for example, I'm giving so many examples. If your goal is to, you know, do marketing, and they're like, you know, we want you to market the service, that can mean so many things that can mean a billboard, that can mean a Facebook ad, that could mean creating content on social media that can mean a website that can mean so much stuff. But if we're like, hey, we want you to make a billboard, for this building or this, whatever it is you're trying to market, not building. I mean, it's a business, whatever it is you're trying to market, you know that if I gave you the challenge of making it up on a billboard, you would find a certain thing you go, Okay, this is the realm that we're operating in. If you're outside of that realm, it's going to be really tricky, because I didn't tell you we're operating on a billboard, or it was going to be a email, you know, sales, email or something. So I think identifying those boundaries with which you want to create are super important. And then narrow down in that, whether it's your topic, which again, I think will be the next challenge I give my friend here, which I haven't given them yet, because I just want him to get kind of set up with the gear first and where he's recording and just get comfortable pressing record. But narrow in on the topic that he'll be making, I think is going to be the next step. And so what does that mean for you listening, my challenge for you is in your pursuit of being creative, and being free and making all this you know, content, whatever it is that you want to make, whether it's your business, whatever it is, give yourself the freedom within some limitations. And that sounds like a contradiction. But there is something to be said about some of what you can do in an extremely confined set of boundaries. And I would just challenge you to lean into that lean into the boundaries, not as a way that you're being told to shut up, as I asked Wednesday to stop barking right now, but in a way that you are allowing yourself to go deeper on one thing, and I'm saying that from experience, because the more the deeper I go on podcasting, the deeper I go on my own kind of journey, the better the rewards seem to be. And that's I guess what I'm trying to share in this episode, there's a lot of rewards when you go super deep with one thing. The same goes for a relationship. Honestly, the deeper you go in a relationship, the more likely you are to find the fruits of that relationship. If you never went deep with someone in a conversation or anything like that, you would one probably have the idea that people just you just don't go deep with people, but you would never have that experience of truly connecting on a on a deep deeper level with human being and you wouldn't experience you would be missing out on one of the experiences that we get as humans. And that's, you know, maybe the most philosophical way I can relate it to content. But it's true. It's so true is the deeper you can go in your content, whether it's on a specific thing. I guess that's why I look at content like a form of self discovery in so many ways. If I had to lay it all out, you'd probably be everything I've said in this episode and Monday's episode. So I hope that offers some clarity around the creative process when it comes to content, whether it comes to podcasting, whether it comes to entrepreneurship, because a lot of the same principles apply in entrepreneurship, and they all overlap each other. That's why I can't have a podcast just about podcasting. Because I, I want, I want to connect all the dots. And there's so many more dots than the tactical thing of this is exactly how you talk on a podcast or something like that some generic sounding thing, because there's so much more to it. And it's all inner weaved, right, it's all inner weaved in some way. And I like connecting those dots. But at the same time, I will kind of contradict myself and say, you don't want to always keep it interweave. Do you want to box it in, or else you're going to feel like you're living or you'll put too much importance on the creativity and art and you'll start not only judging it more, but you'll be so attached to it that when someone gives you feedback on it, or someone comments on it, or someone interacts with it, you'll make it such a bigger deal than it needs to be. So one of the ways you can get around that is by simply not being so attached to it. But giving yourself a box to it to you can kind of write it off to like, oh yeah, I made this thing and like a minute Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, what are those, you didn't like one of those videos I made like 150. Or it was just no big deal. Right? You can minimize it in your head a little bit more rather than this is the only thing I've made. This is my whole life's work wrapped up into one thing. While that overall might be true, you're still living and breathing so you can keep on making stuff. And that's all I got. That's all I got. I hope you're doing well. Thank you for listening. I sincerely appreciate it. I'm enjoying recording these podcasts. And I'm enjoying recording from the couch. Today because it feels very casual. I feel casual and locked into my office. But something about the couch five feels really nice. So I really appreciate you listening. With all of my heart, it would mean the world to me, if you would just leave a rating and review. It helps the show. It helps people discover it more. And it means the world to me. Thank you for being on this journey. If you would like to follow Digital Podcaster off just podcast, make sure to go to digital podcaster.com podcasting academy.com I'm on Digital Podcaster on all the major social media networks would love to say hi. So send me a DM. And let me know if you listen to this. If you listen to the specific part, we'll see if I remember this. But you can try and fake me out here. Just mentioned the word lemon, lemon. Don't give any other context. And let's see if I remember that I said this. And if you're listening now send me a DM on any of the major platforms with just the word lemon. And we'll let giggle at the fact of whether or not I remember. I don't know if they'll remember. Alright. I hope you have a great rest of your day and I'll be back tomorrow for this podcast that day for the month of May. Let's go