This is Digital Podcaster host d by Dylan Schmid It's that time again? Bon Jour? Oh, I never know if I'm saying hat right. But I always want to say Bonjour. Every entrance, you know, you can just start it ut. Hello. Hi. Hi there. You k ow, it's funny when you s art podcasting, you wonder, wha do you say in the beginning o an episode? Because I don't k ow, you could say a lot of thi gs. How do you start it out? The e's no real one way to start ut, right? What do you say when you start a podcast? What are the first words you say? Also, hat were the first words you aid when you were born? That's hat I want to know. So what is g ing on? Just a recap, if you listened or didn't listen o a last, the last episod, I recorded that episode i an Airstream RV trailer thi g I made, I made, I didn't make it. Airstream RV thing, I st yed Airbnb over the weekend. A d I was doing a solo trip. The rip before that one, which was a few months ago, maybe like ix, eight months ago, I came up ith the idea for digital podcas er. So when I took this trip ast week, and I was wondering, oh, no, two weekends ago now, you know, I was wondering, I d n't know what's gonna come up. ow, I didn't, you know, really now what came on that first tr p I took. Because digital podca ter came a couple months after t at. It wasn't like I just left hat weekend. But I figured it w uld be at least a decent ide to keep you updated on I takea ays from that solo trip a co ple weeks ago. And really not uch has come out out of it, I g tta say, I was expecting, I d n't really know, I didn't go in ith a lot of plans. And I di n't walk out with a lot of eit er. Because I've been so busy ith work, and just creating s uff that, you know, I kind of sa it as a time to relax and to tep away from working and thin ing about creating and just kin of see what comes up. So I gues in a way, it kind of served its purpose there. But there wa so much traffic getting up t ere that I don't know, it wa n't really the getaway that I h ped it was going to be. So still not a whole lot to report on hat front. Not a lot of takea ays other than patients, becau e I just felt like I was wai ing everywhere. But I did ha e a couple ideas that I wante to share with you on this epis de, specifically talking about the state of this podcast and wh t's next, and kind of what's g ing on with this podcast So basically, I'm creating his podcast from scratch, I am d ing it in a way that there' no real, there's no real me hod rhyme or reason to it ll. Except for the fact is, I t ink it would be cool to docu ent things as starting the podc st, and then kind of almo t a journal slash blog s ash educational tool, to the be able to go back and look at, you know, what it is I did from the beginning, as I keep g ing through it, because I think hat I would think is in abo t a year, so we'll check bac in about a year or so you're g nna see like, a m jor transformation. And it's coo to see that transformation. And that only happened, you, you know, I don't know, you go it to transform, you got to s art from something to somet ing else, right? You don't just tay the same. That's not real y a transformation, if there's ike a weight loss transformat on. And someone was at 190 pou ds. And then they're at 190 po nds again, that's not real y a transformation is it, the s ort just stayed the same. So if ou, ideally, you're watching t is, or listening to this, and m ybe you're going back and revisi ing it, and I'm talking to yo in the future, and you're l ke, Wow, this is Dylan in the future, whatever. I m an, regardless, it's in the fut re, because you're not alive wit me right now. But the idea i to capture that transformation, and recordings. I think th t's always cool to see. And it's fun to be a part of that too. So, you know, in one way or ano her year, you're a part of that. And that's pretty cool. And t ank you for being a part of t at. Because I don't take it for granted nit. I don't take it for granted or granted. A d I appreciate it. And it make it more fun sharing this jour ey, which I found to be the them of today's episode, I had poi ted out was connecting connec ion and connection is the nam of the game for me in doing dig tal podcaster because I am grea. I just do my own thing. A one wolf, Lone Ranger, whatever you want to call it, just you kn w I could just work do my th ng, whatever. But what I've cre ted with Digital podcasters for ing me to put myself out t ere forcing me to, you know, con ect with people that I would ave never connected with otherw se. And it's already been c azy magnificent at that. And t's just weird to think like all the connections I've made, lik, I do thinking about hat sometimes. Because it's kin of mind blowing to me of ust having an idea, throwing it out there and then meeting a b nch of people. And no my conversations are people ike all over the world, I alw ys, you know, I've traveled ar und the world a bunch, but've always, you know, for the ost part, you connect with peo le, usually in your same coun ry, and you're saying, you know in your same area, sometimes ven in your same state, you k ow, but I've been connecting ith people all over the fre kin world, I will connect ith people India, Austra ia, Ireland, I think Ireland, oh, no, Ireland, Australia, the ame person. And where else Oh my gosh, I can't think Engl nd, different parts of the U. I don't know, I came in Portu al, I can't even think of all r ght now. But it would be cool to see on a map. And I didn't re lly picture that when I starte, I just kind of thought I w uld post maybe nobody liked it. And it probably, but I got help rom my man, Adam in Egypt, w o I connected with on Instagram. And he just gave me word of encouragement that like, you know, I didn't even kn w I needed, and it just kind of ept me going. And there were l ke, lols, you know, because t ere was like nobody at first pa ing attention. And then, you kno, I don't know, it's just like, hen you have someone else asking you for pieces of it makes you ant to then show up with them. And so I would give him you k ow, basically, me to give them t ese pieces of content. And the he would then design him up. So I'd give them the text. And the he designed him up and then ost them. And then, you know,'ve done this for other people for years. And so it's fu ny, because so much, you know, I'm like, Well, why do it for myself, even though ever one around me would tell me d it for yourself, you're doin it for them do for yourself So what would I do, I wouldn' do it for myself, I would jus do it for other people. And the e's something about just like gi ing him the text, giving him the copy, the words would be ca led for the posts, just changed the game for me in a lot of w ys. And he would then post a d I could feel like I was then the observer watching an acco nt. And I could then also kin of play with it and be like, O, I don't like this, I like t at. Let's go in this direct on. Because you know, when yo're doing everything, from the dea to the design to the posting to the critiquing, that's har to get like a look at that. Bu if you can kind of give a sta ter for some thing, and then som one else those in their vision, and then you can look at it like you kind of skip a step there ith the whole grading and the designing part to me, I d n't know, it's, it's been, t's worked out pretty, not for e ery step of the business. But for that, at least social m dia part, it really helped feel ike give it legs and see wh t I liked and didn't like, w ich made it a lot, it made growi g a lot easier than than it w uld have just by myself, becau e I know I would have give up somewhere around the July. A d I told them this a lot. A d I don't work with them anym re. But not that nothing aga nst them, I just don't really w rk, I don't really feel like I eed them anymore. Because it got like to this point where t's oh, you know, I get hel in different areas of the busin ss. But as far as the social m dia business, I didn't really eed help there. So I just, you k ow, do the some of the design s uff my own now, but it helped ge me to this point. And I'm get ing more help now with with som of the social media stuff. Bu it helped me get to this p int where I was able to focu on more of the connection ith people. Because the desert, ike a lot of the time consuming art of creating the content was handled, so I could just f cus on connecting. And as I was like, focusing on connectin, I was like, oh cool, the're engaging with my content, c ol. It doesn't totally feel ike it's my content, because I'm not like the person doing every tep of it, which, you know, I d n't need to be the person d ing every step of it, it's, ag in, all the stuff I tell every ody else, but it's hard to tel it myself. So, you know, I di n't need to be the person that c uld let him do that. And th n I could focus on the connect on. And then I started forming t ese real connections with people and it was like pretty awesom to see that transformation, I g ess happen of something from scr tch then becomes a little somet ing and it's gonna grow nto something even more and kno ing that but that only hap ens because I get to help along the way. It's I feel like I sta ted from scratch, just havin an idea. And, you know, I get elp from different sources, it h lps me get to this next stage w ere then I like, can breat e a little bit because I'm get ing help in some form. I can f cus on some other thing of the business, like different sea ons of life, you know, and then I'm good, but you know, like, no by myself, but like kind of d ing it a little bit more by my elf to get to this next level. And then I'm at this new level ow, where, you know, I'm ust growing things and it's star ing to get a little bit ore interesting and It's fu ny, because this whole time've thought of this is lik an experiment. And it i an experiment, but at the ame time, it's like, also beco e a legitimate business now so there's that. I mean, it's not like I, I don't know, t's weird. It's weird when yo do it, and you do it for your elf and you, you don't really t ink about all the things in our head of well, this full for ure workout because you don't now them. And there's a lot of s uff that doesn't work out. And why should this work out when o her stuff has failed, right? Li e I said, it would be impo ter syndrome, but it is working ut. And it's cool to see hat growth. And I guess the connecting with people is re lly been the name of the game for me. Because without hat connecting, without hat connection, none of this s uff would be happening. It's l ke, you can't grow somethin by yourself, whether it's get ing help with the designs, get ing help with some sales s uff getting help with, I mean of course, there's like the pps and stuff I get help with. But I'm talking like real human is even with clients, like the nly reason the clients, the cli nts are humans. And I treat the as humans. And we have eal relationships. And those eal relationships, there' an exchange there. And that's all connection. And I've al ays felt, you know, I ave empathetic in a lot of w ys, always easy to connect ith people. But you know, at the same time, people can als be draining. So seems, you k ow, kind of scary in a way w ere you're like, Oh, my connec ion is the name of the game. And now I'm going to have to do hat more and more. But if I can if if not if, because I can b ild in strategies to regulate hat more. It's not as much o an issue. So that's the thou hts about that. And that's his week's episode Short, sw I think it's short. I don't know how long I've been going. But yeah, geez, I don't know it doesn't sound upper. Doesn't feel like upper represent at all. But it's, it is an upper I promise. A little tired. Just busy, busy past few days. So yeah, so things coming up next on this podcast. So I'll be featuring interviews with people that will be doing, I'm interviewing have already been interviewing all sorts of different people. And I'm going to chat with people on this podcast and be doing these solo episodes. Haven't quite figured out the schedule yet. But it will probably be something where we do you know, probably every Tuesday is just like a solo episode. I want to make it a little bit more blog educational, like some some type of takeaway, not just like me teaching you one particular thing every week, but maybe sharing your story. Maybe it'll just be me teaching you one thing a week. I kinda want to keep it open. I don't want to make it to pigeon holed. And then I don't know about every week, there being an interview, but most weeks there will be an interview and I'll try to separate that a little bit. You know, maybe put that later in the put that later in the week, probably Thursday or Friday or Saturday. I don't know one of those days. I gotta figure out a day. Maybe Saturday, Saturday kind of feels like a good day. Also doesn't feel like the week, you know, I don't know feels kind of good. We'll try that maybe. But yeah, if you want to start your own podcast, just send me an email to hello at Digital podcaster.com. I've got trainings, I'm most active right now on Instagram at Digital podcaster. So find me on there. Say hello. If you're not on Instagram, I don't really know what you're doing. If you're more of that Twitter life. I'm on Twitter at Digi podcaster. And that's where you can say hi. And I'm active on Twitter too active on all of them. But yeah, thanks for listening again. I mean it and I appreciate the support and if you are interested in podcasting, hit me up. Alright. I'll talk to you later.