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EP #331: Weiss Wisdom with Andrew Weiss
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Most people don’t quit podcasting because they “run out of ideas” they quit because they never build the systems and mindset that make consistency sustainable. Jeremy Wolf sits down with Andrew Weiss of Weiss Wisdom and Podfest Expo to unpack what actually makes a podcast grow, earn attention, and turn into real opportunities for your business and personal brand.
We get honest about expectations, especially the myth that you need massive downloads for podcast marketing to work. Andrew shares why a small audience of loyal listeners can be more valuable than chasing big numbers, plus why authenticity is becoming the advantage in a world of AI-generated “perfect” content. If you’ve been hesitating because you don’t have the right gear, the right plan, or the perfect format, you’ll hear a simpler approach: start ugly, record with what you have, and improve through reps.
We also dig into the craft of better conversations: how to prep questions without killing the flow, why silence is not your enemy, and how community accelerates everything through events like Podfest and tools like PodMatch. Then we connect the dots to personal development: accountability, habit stacking, gratitude journaling, and taking action when you feel stuck, because action creates clarity.
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Starting A Podcast Vs Building One
SPEAKER_02Starting a podcast sounds easy, but building one that actually grows, gets attention, and creates a real opportunity? Well, that's a different ballgame. In this episode, I sit down with Andrew Weiss of Weiss Wisdom. We get into what it really takes to launch and scale a podcast, the mistakes most people make early on, and how to actually turn it into something that drives real meaningful results. We also touched on accountability, mindset, and why most people stay stuck, even though they know exactly what they need to do. If you've ever thought about starting a podcast, or you already have one and it's not quite where you want it to be, this one's going to give you some clarity. Thanks for joining us. Enjoy.
SPEAKER_00This is the Good Labor Podcast, the place where local businesses and laborers come together. Here's your host, Jeremy Wolf.
SPEAKER_02Something like five million podcasts have been started, but only about 10% are actually still active. Andrew, why do you think so many podcasts die?
SPEAKER_04Oh, it's a it's a variety of reasons. Uh a lot of people don't have systems in place to do it long term. A lot of people don't know why they start a podcast in the first place. Um, a lot of people don't have the accountability, the vision, the why behind their podcast, why they want to keep going. Um, and so it's the people who are consistent, who keep showing up year after year. Those are the ones who really stand out when it comes to building their audience, to monetizing, to getting more clients, and they're missing out on a huge opportunity to be a consistent podcaster and be a trustworthy uh influencer in the space.
SPEAKER_02Wow, that was a loaded response. You went through you went through like 10 different things, and I'm trying to like track everything. I think one of the things that you mentioned that resonated and stood out with me right away was was the consistency. Yeah. I think I think that a lot of people they have certain expectations about what it is to start podcasting and what what it means and what results you're gonna get. Uh, and then they start doing it, and maybe they're consistent at first, but like anything else, you don't see the results right away, and time goes, and then on to the next thing. I I think that that might be, in my mind, the number one factor why people aren't able to continue or aren't able to get anything resonating.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you know, it's uh it you really do need to make it a habit. You need to put the time in your calendar. I mean, it if you are serious about using your podcast to grow your business, to grow your influence, um, it shouldn't be a question of whether you do it each week or each month. Um, just like you don't hopefully you don't question Jeremy whether you brush your teeth each day. Like uh you don't uh you don't you don't go to bed going, oh I guess I'll skip brushing my teeth tonight. Like that shouldn't be an option, essentially. Um, so for those who see the value and the potential in podcasting, like it shouldn't be a question. Yeah, of course I'm gonna release my podcast and that that's the beauty of having your own podcast, Jeremy, is you get to be the boss, you get to be the captain, like you get to decide, hey, do I want my podcast to be five minutes? Do I want my podcast to be two hours? Do I want to release a podcast every week, every day? Do I want to release it just once a month and call it good? Just like all the podcasting industry asks that you do something consistently. And the beauty of the industry as well is you can just pre-record the content. So you get all your work done on one day a month, and then you schedule up those episodes for the rest of the month and not stress about it. So there's a lot of ways to make sure you're consistent without stressing about, oh shoot, it's another week, you gotta do it again. Um, but it really should be something that you love doing, that you know you see the value and potential in. Um, there are yeah, tens of millions of podcast listeners just in the US that doesn't include the global audience. And on average, people spend about seven hours a week listening to podcasts. And I don't know about you, Jeremy, but I I have very loving friends and family, and I do not spend seven hours a week talking to them. So um just getting that kind of trust in someone's ear is so priceless and so valuable, and it's a huge opportunity to be part of the podcasting industry.
SPEAKER_02Do you think that another reason for the sharp fall-off is that just like expectations when it comes to starting a podcast, right? People think that they need to have millions of listeners on the podcast for it to be effective. I mean, it just depends on what you're trying to accomplish, whether you're doing it for a business or whether you're doing it for a personal project, whatever that looks like. Um, but people can get discouraged real quickly when they see that they're not getting the following, and then they can start justifying their head, well, there's so many people out there doing it, and why is mine, and you get caught in these loops in your head. Do you think that that plays into it a lot with folks out there that that start and then just fall off?
Authenticity Beats Perfect Content
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you know, you know, there's uh there's a great um metaphor I like of this kid on the beach, and uh he's the all these starfish have washed up ashore and uh they were all dying in the sand. And this kid was walking on the beach and just throwing starfish back into the ocean. And uh this guy kind of walking over, seeing this kid, he's like, What are you doing? He's like, I'm trying to save all these starfish. And the guy goes, There's hundreds of thousands of starfish on this beach, there's no way you're able to save all of them. And the kid looks at the guy and picks up the starfish and goes, Well, at least I'm saving this one and tossed it back into the ocean. Um, and so if you have that attitude about your podcast, that if you can help just one extra person, you know, get from point A to point B or have a better experience than you did in your life from something you learned, you know, that that that's one of the most important things of your show. Um, and then also kind of recognizing, you know, my other colleague Jason Allen Scott, he brings up a good point too. And it is religious, but I think it's a very good point. You know, how many disciples did Jesus have? You know, it wasn't hundreds, it wasn't thousands, it was literally 12. So if you just have 12 loyal listeners on your show, you'd be surprised on what they're willing to buy from you, what they're willing to refer to you, um, what what they're willing to um give back to you as a thank you for starting your show. Um, and it's also kind of recognize, too, that yes, podcasting audience growth can sometimes take time, depending on the niche, depending on what you're talking about, depending on your previous background. Joe Rogan is not the biggest podcaster in the world because of how good of podcaster he is. Like I like I can assure you, he does he's not the most interesting interviewer. He's not he does not um bring in the most interesting guests. Like, yes, he does bring in amazing guests, but he built another personal brand around his podcast brand. You know, he also was on Fear Factor, he's also involved with UFC, he does a lot of other things, and his podcast helps um at supplement his brand. That's why he's one of the top podcasters in the world. He's also done like 3,000 episodes, and he's also done 3,000 episodes. So that that that that helps too.
SPEAKER_02One thing I will say about Rogan, though, that I appreciate about him, and I think I do think he's a very good interviewer and he's become a great uh podcaster, and I do think he has a lot of interesting guests on. One of the things that I like about him is that he is not afraid to be curious. Like if he has a guest on he and he doesn't understand something, like he's okay looking stupid. And I think most people they have their ego out and they want to, and like I suffer from this as well. Somebody will explain something to me, it doesn't click, and it's just like, do I really want to go down that rabbit hole? Um, and just being okay to do that, there's a certain layer of vulnerability that comes with that that I think resonates with people on a very deep level because we're human beings and we're all not perfect and we all struggle with all sorts of shit. And when you can have these open and honest conversations and just really dig into some of this stuff and not pretend to have it all figured out, I think that's what really ultimately resonates out there with an audience.
SPEAKER_04Oh, absolutely. Yeah, just like really digging deep into the truth. And yeah, and that's the beauty of the podcasting world is that there's not much, I mean, there's no no censorship for the most part. So you could literally talk about anything, uh, no matter who disagrees with you or not. Um, in the RSS podcast world, your your podcast can still be live. Anyone can still listen to you. So you can talk about whatever politics, taboo topics you want, or it's like talk about a really embarrassing story if you want. Um, and that's what people love about it too, is you don't have to worry about censorship, is you can literally talk about whatever you want and uh not not not hold back.
SPEAKER_02And I think I was I've been thinking about this a lot lately as I've been like trying to work with AI for editing and creating content and all this. I think a lot of people they hold back from creating personalized content around their brand, creating videos or even podcasting, whatever it is, because they they feel that they want it to be quote unquote perfect, or they don't have anything interesting to say, or maybe they'll screw it up, or whatever that is. The more we see AI come, AI is is is like perfect. It's putting out a product that's like perfect, that's not human. So I think there's a longing for human connection. So I say that the people out there that are thinking about getting out there and putting your stuff out there, be be vulnerable, right? Screw it up, yeah, right? Do all sorts of things, all sorts of stuff. You never know what's going to resonate. And people we get in our heads and we think, oh, what if we put something out there and then it's seen the wrong way? As long as it's not like horribly egregious, like it's in in one ear, out the other, right? People don't people don't hark on this stuff, right? Like they see something like whatever, they forget about it two seconds later. I think we tend to get caught in our heads so much, and it prevent prevents us from doing the things required to grow our business, grow our brand, and like really grow as a person.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, the uh the founder of the company I work with, Podfest Expo, uh Chris Kremittos, he wrote a book called Start Ugly. Uh, where essentially it's better just to get started, learn along the way than it is to like go, oh, everything has to be perfect. I have to buy a thousand dollar camera, I have to buy a thousand dollar microphone, I have to buy a thousand dollar editor, or else I can't have a podcast at all. I'm like, that's not the case. Like you can literally get started on your iPhone. You can literally um yeah, record something on your iPhone, upload it to uh whatever podcast host you want to use and um do some basic editing, garage band or something if you want to edit it at all. But yeah, just getting started is the most important thing because then you can get out of your own way and kind of learn and improve um as you go. And and I will say too, like, yeah, if you sound too perfect, then the podcast audiences probably won't want to listen to because they want to hear that authentic authenticity. They want you to be vulnerable, they want you to really dive deep into conversations and topics that they wouldn't otherwise have access to. So it's it's way better to be authentic. And if you make a mistake, that's okay. Cause that also adds to your who you are as a person anyway.
SPEAKER_02So, speaking of starting, what would you say to someone out there that has been thinking? Because I know there's a lot of people that have been thinking about starting a podcast and and they haven't done it, they've kicked the can down the road. Speak to your point about just getting going, right? Not getting too far in your head. What's like a simple one, two, three recipe, right? Like just take take the phone and like put it on a tripod and then make an account with Buzzsprout or one of those feeds? Like as simple as that. Like, do we have to do it in your microphone at that point? Or maybe you just use it.
SPEAKER_04Um yeah, so I did I did a workshop uh in the Brotherhood uh two weeks ago. Um, and one of the things I mentioned is like having the excuse of I don't know what to talk about, uh, I don't know what to say, I don't know what episode should be about. Like that doesn't fly anymore. Um, A, because um hopefully you you know a little bit about your your topic or subject you want to talk about already based on your life experience and career experience, things like that. B, there's this now very magical world of LLMs, aka, chat GPT, Claude, Grok that will literally help guide you along the way to creating a successful podcast and show. Um so for your your case, Jeremy, yeah, you could literally talk about I see there's a lot of uh plants and or ferns behind you. Uh or plant medicine, baby. Plant medicine, yeah. So like let's say you're a guy like Jeremy and you and he's uh Jeremy wants to start a podcast from scratch and he goes to Grok or Chat GPT and he goes, Hey, I want to make a um podcast about plant medicine. Um, I really believe that uh certain plants help people heal. I really believe that um if more people knew about plant medicine, they could uh have a healthier lifestyle, healthier life. Um, what are the first 10 episodes of my podcast? What should they be about? And it will literally give you a title of each episode, a description, some talking points, and you're like, oh, I actually do know a lot about those things. That's those are that's a great 10 episode idea. And boom, you literally just look at the template, look at the description. And yeah, like you said, if you only have an iPhone or a basic computer, just like click, start recording, go to Zoom if you need to, just like go hopefully everyone knows how to use Zoom by now and just um record yourself on Zoom if you need to, and then take the audio and upload it to BuzzSprout or Libson or Blueberry. Um, and but yeah, starting a podcast uh really has never been easier. There's so many tools, platforms, apps out there to make your podcast life easier. Like it used to be so complicated uh years ago where you had to like figure out how to upload to this random cloud thing and then figure out how to edit it and then figure out how to upload it through a secret link or something like that. Um, but they've made it easier than ever because people know that podcasting industry is growing rapidly. Companies want it want the industry to grow, um, brands want the industry to go. And so it's up to you to get your influence out there.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the magical AI machine out there. I wanted to talk to you about that because yes, it is easy to go out and get topic ideas and get all sorts of content that you could speak. But what it what I've found to be challenging, and there's two different things to talk about here, right? There's like doing a podcast where you're just talking at the camera, which for a lot of people can be very, very difficult and challenging. Yeah. I mean, you could put a you could put a script up on the computer and read off, but if you're not comfortable doing that, it'll come off as being scripted. It's not very natural.
SPEAKER_04And I will say, really quick, too, is that you um, you know, a lot of people do podcasting in their PJs, and because you don't have to do a video podcast if you don't want to. Like if you want to be audio only, like that, that's fine too. But like I would highly recommend you do a video where you can. But if you're like, heck no, I have a face for radio, like just give me the audio. That's fine too. Don't let that hold you back either.
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Interview Flow Without Over Scripting
SPEAKER_02For sure. Um you're a little fuzzy there on the screen. Oh no, I look clear to me, but um internet connection, maybe. I hope it comes out good. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. Um, so yeah, so okay, that's the first thing, right? Like if you're just doing a podcast by yourself or talking on the screen, that's fine. Have some notes and you'll get better. Like to speak to your point about just starting, it's gonna suck at first, but the more you do of it, like anything else, you'll get better and better and better at um looking at ideas and being able to just articulate them without reading off the script that you have. But then you have the other side of having like a conversation like this. So this is something that uh I've kind of uh uh I guess I could say struggled with over time when you have guests on the show. Like there's this there's this line between just like having a list of questions to run down and just ask questions, but then just having like an open conversation where you could discuss them. Now often what I'll find when I script out a whole bunch of questions to have, like I'll ask a question and then the guest will answer, and then via their answer, they'll answer questions one, three, seven, nine off my list. And then you're like, okay, then now you're no longer listening to the conversation. You're in your head looking at the list of questions, trying to figure out the next one that you want to ask. That's something that I've certainly struggled with. What's been your methodology for kind of parsing that and handling that? And again, I understand it comes with practice and doing more of it and just getting more comfortable. Um, but what do you typically do to balance that, to make sure that you're having like a good, engaged conversation, but at the same time, you're actually asking insightful, useful questions that are gonna pull out useful information for the audience?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, that's a great, yeah. So you brought you brought like two really good points. And so the first thing about you know people getting nervous about learning podcasting fast enough. Um, and hopefully for those listening to this show, you've you've uh had experience driving a car for the first time. Um, and I don't know about you, but Jeremy, but the first time like my dad told me to get in the car and start driving on the freeway, like I was terrified. Like, I'm like, what are you talking about? This is the worst thing ever. Like, I have to like put my blinker and check my blind spot and be able to know where the gas pedal is and the brake is. Um, and now, you know, I could if I really want to, I can drive a car with one with my knee and then have a burger in one hand and drink another hand and just be like, I don't do that.
SPEAKER_02Don't do that, by the way. This is not uh I'm not doing that. I know what you're saying, though.
SPEAKER_04Uh the point being, like, I know how to confidently drive a car now. So that that skill set of learning how to be a good podcaster will develop is the point I'm trying to make. Um, and then when it comes to asking questions, um, you know, I was talking with my buddy yesterday. He has a podcast called Block Cash, and he was talking about how the guests who come on the show, you know, what the guests who always ask for very specific questions in advance, everything has to be to the T. Uh, those are the most stressful podcasts because it, you know, that the stress comes out in in the show.
SPEAKER_02They have their answers like written down to asking the question and they're like reading the answer off of their topic more as well. Like, don't do that, please.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, exactly. Like you want your podcast to be conversational and be flowing. And and so what I what I do is um, you know, I I don't usually give the questions in advance to a guest, or I give them like a few questions as templates. So, hey, here's some questions I'm gonna answer ask you, but I want the conversation to be flowing, and so I'm gonna ask some other questions on top of that. Um, so I have like my own pre-list of questions just to make sure I'm prepared for the show, because obviously you don't want dead space to happen, be like, oh, it's a good answer. What should I ask next? Like, you don't like that that would not be good. So I have a pre-list of questions ready, but then of course, as I'm listening to the conversation and they say something that's interesting, I'm like, oh, wait, that that's fascinating. Tell me more about that. And I'm okay being able to peer off a little bit, knowing that I still have my preset of questions ready to go to come back to if I need to, but kind of understanding that uh the podcast kind of goes where the conversation flows essentially.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely. Yeah, and I just I just flashed out a little notepad. Joel is a big fan of the notes every every podcast, every Zoom call he's on, whatever it is, he's always making making little and not like writing long thoughts, but just like little notes so you know know where to come back to. And that's also an art because you don't want to you want to still stay engaged and listen to the person while you're doing that. But again, if they say something of interest, you just jot down one word that you can get back to with it. You said uh moments of blank space, right? What's wrong with that? Like what because we've all been there, right? You're having a conversation and then an exchange happens, and then there's a silence. Like silence is okay. Why do we feel the need when that happens? There's like this uncomfortable tinge that comes up. It's like, oh, well, who's gonna talk now? Like, who cares? It's fine. Yeah, the conversation's gonna go where it's gonna go. And if it if there's a pause, big deal. Not to mention you could edit this stuff if you really wanted to, anyway. Big deal.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and and uh there's actually I was also reading um an article about when uh Elon Musk went on the Lex Freeman podcast, and um Lex Freeman asked Elon a question, and Elon took like 30 seconds to answer. I saw that yeah, you saw that, yeah. And so and so the fact that especially if you ask a question and one of the people are thinking about the answer, it's totally okay to pause and wait for that answer because it, you know, it a, you know, it can help add to like the tension, like, oh, what's he gonna say next? Or B, like, oh, what's gonna happen? And C, like, sometimes it's okay to have that extra processing time to really come up with the cohesive answer rather than giving an answer just to give an answer. Um, and so it's totally okay to have pauses in your episode, especially with asking questions. And like you said, too, if you know that that's the beauty of podcasting is if you pre-record things, you can always put fix it in post-production as well, where you can like minimize the pauses or take out the ums, or if someone curses on the show, you don't want them to curse, it gives you a chance to bleep out the curse words essentially. Um, as I say um right now, but point being, yes, um uh silence can be okay within reason, depending on how you want your show to flow, regardless.
SPEAKER_02That is one of the things I noticed when I started doing this. There were quite a few ums and uhs and all these different filler words. Then the more I did of it, the better I got at just eliminating the filler words and just having space and just pausing for a brief period before the next thought. Because typically, when you pause for a second, the thought usually comes to you. And I I I've had many times where it didn't, and I'm just like, oh, I've lost my train of thought. No, I'm sure it'll come back later, and then they start talking, and then like 30 seconds later, it's like, oh, I got it now. Just came. So yeah, you just gotta do it, man. You just gotta get out there and be be more comfortable, uh, get more comfortable and just get more comfortable being uncomfortable.
SPEAKER_04That's the key. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's and just understand that you're gonna learn as you go and get better and better, and just understand that just like with any everything in life, like I mean, I have a seven-month-old kid right now, and he hasn't learned to walk yet. But I I know like when we all were learning to walk, it's like, uh, what what am I doing? I don't know how to balance, I don't know how to put my left foot from my right foot, and now we're able to do obstacle courses and run races and do all these things, but you gotta learn how to walk first and just kind of understand that you'll get better as as time goes on.
SPEAKER_02You said seven months. Yeah, that's right. I saw him. I met him when you came down here last time.
SPEAKER_04Yes, yeah, he's he's growing up quick. That's for sure. He likes to crawl around and he has two teeth he likes to bite you with, so he's very, very ferocious, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_02I don't envy you. I got I got a 14-year-old daughter, uh 11-year-old son, and I think uh I'm good, I don't want any more babies. It seems like it seems like a lifetime ago than when they were like, I don't I don't even really have a vivid memory of it. It seems so long ago, yet it seems like it went by so damn quick.
SPEAKER_04Well, I've heard that 14-year-old daughters are like the toughest to raise, though. Like, how's that how's that going for you? No comment.
SPEAKER_02All right, well that's all I'll say about that. The funny thing about about my daughter Emma, I mean, she's a teenager, uh, she's like really, really cool to hang out with. Oh like if I go out to dinner with her or go shopping in the mall, like she's a she's just a joy to go hang out with when she's like getting her way and getting what she wants. But like if things don't go her way, not so much. We're working on that.
SPEAKER_04Funny how that works. Yeah, it's just like with my seven month old, if he doesn't get what he wants, you know, I'll All heck is about to break loose.
Podfest And The Power Of Community
SPEAKER_02Indeed, man. So you you mentioned earlier that you work with did you say Podfest? Was that the name of the Yeah, Podfest Expo. Tell me a little bit more, because I know I I've been podcasting now myself for for three three-ish years, I'd say. I I I haven't done much. It's funny, there's a lot of parallels in my spiritual journey where I've been doing a lot of work on myself. I would say on the north side of 40, I've been doing like a lot of personal growth and development work on myself. Yeah. But I hadn't been building a community. I hadn't been sharing it with others and like really connecting with other like-minded folks and trying to get the message out there. And I think a lot of that was similar in the podcast space for me, in that I was doing podcasting, but I was doing it all remotely and I'm having, yeah, I'm having conversations and networking with a lot of different people and all that, but I never really like leaned into the space writ large. I never got into any of these conferences. Yeah. I never really, I don't even know that I've been a guest on many podcasts, if any at all. I haven't really like gotten out of my shell in that regard. So I'm very interested to learn more about the work you're doing at Podfest. Yeah. And then more specifically, like how you're integrated with the larger podcast community. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So yeah. So Podfest is one of the country's largest uh podcasting conferences. Uh, we get to say we're the world's largest continuous in-person podcasting event uh because we were the last big event um in March 2020 before COVID. We snuck an event at the end of 2021, and then we've been able to be consistent and come up on our 13-year anniversary in 2027 for our 13th annual event, essentially. But um, but yeah, you know, it's just podcasting is kind of like entrepreneurship. You know, why do you have to do it your own? Like, why do you have to figure out yourself? Like, hey, what are the best AI systems to make my podcast production process easier? What are the best ways to grow my podcast? What are the best ways to monetize my podcast? So, what we've done is created an amazing podcast community of people who love supporting and helping each other out, giving each other tips and tricks and um, you know, recommending guests and hosts for each other essentially. And so, yeah, we we have about 30,000 people in our community across Instagram, Facebook, uh, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok. Uh we have about uh yeah, 17,000 people on our email list and with about a 40% open rate because our community is very engaged in the podcasting space. And so, yeah, we're we're an amazing community of people who are podcasters, content creators, YouTubers, streamers who want to learn how to grow and monetize their brand. And there's so many amazing opportunities to recognize you don't have to do it alone. And uh, you know, our motto is essentially rising tide lifts all boats. Like we want everyone who is a content creator to be more successful at what they do because you're giving value to the world, hopefully. And so, yeah, we host a big annual event in Orlando, Florida. For those listening, it's um January 14th to 17th is our next big annual event. Um, if you subscribe to our email, we also have a virtual event coming up uh June 9th to the 11th, uh, 2026, um where we're talking about AI and growth. And so we'll have different themes days of like, here's how to start a podcast and uh systematize it, here's how to grow a podcast, here's how to monetize a podcast for each day's theme, essentially. Um, and so yeah, it's essentially so I run the uh director of partnerships, so I help bring uh sponsors to the event and help um sell out the exhibitor boost in our expo hall. We usually get about 50 to 60 exhibitors in our expo hall, and so I'm the one who helps uh sell it out essentially. And I love I love being part of the podcast communities because everyone's so friendly to each other, help, loves helping each other out. Obviously, they inspired me to start my own show called Rapid Results with Andrew Weiss back in January 2022, and I'm up to about 80 episodes now and coming up on 100 here pretty soon. And uh yeah, it's just an incredible community for people who are serious about wanting to grow and monetize their brand and get the connections and resources they need.
SPEAKER_02Now, the community, the 30,000 people that have plugged in, there's no this is a free community you could plug into, you can just follow, but then then you have these events. Uh, is that how it's monetized through these conferences and larger and other other things?
SPEAKER_04Other yeah, we're monetized through our ticket sales and our sponsors who help make uh make make the events possible, basically. Because yeah, the ticket sales don't uh they they don't really help us monetize, they help us break even, but it's the sponsors who actually help um supplement everything and allow us to bring so many podcasters together to help each other out. And of course, we love our sponsors and our partners to help make the events possible because they give amazing tools and resources to help our podcasters as well. So yeah, that's where the monetization comes from, though, is sponsorships and ticket sales.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, man, I gotta plug into that network, man. I'm not, I'm still not even. I mean, we spoke the first time we spoke really about any of this was right before the the the talk you did at the Brotherhood group. And I was I didn't even realize that you were doing a lot of the same things that I'm doing. Yeah, you really opened my eyes to this whole space. I gotta plug in, man. You gotta send me the information um so I can at least join the groups and and start getting some uh get myself out there.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, one of our top partners is uh PodMatch, and they have a growing podcast network too. So I don't know if you ever consider being part of a podcast network, but essentially it's uh another resource where they help podcasts grow and monetize through a shared community as well. So yeah, definitely check out Podmatch. I'll send you some links as well and connect you with the founder and uh see if you can help qualify to be in his network because yeah, he he's an amazing guy and he has an amazing platform. And PodMatch is a software that helps match uh guests and hosts, and so it makes as a host, it makes you super easy to find guests. As a guest, it makes you super easy to find hosts. So um, and they also help. Um, and what's also cool about the platform too is if you're a host and you host guests from the platform on your show, Podmatch will pay you, and so you'll officially be a monetized podcaster, which is also a very big deal.
Live Streaming And Rapid Results
SPEAKER_02Very cool. Yeah, I've had I've had quite a few people reach out to me, I guess, through similar channels, right? Where they have uh to come on the Good Neighbor podcast and tell their story. Um, but yeah, this is all interesting. I'm glad I'm glad we we connected and we're able to do this because it's it's it's always great. I like like you said, rising tide lifts all boats. You know, I I love learning new things and and really collaborating with other people in the space. And then you mentioned that you do the rapid results podcast. I think I'm scheduled to come on next week. Your show, right next week. Yeah. Tell tell us a little bit about the show. What was the what's the the story behind it? What do you typically do? What's the format?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. So I got involved with PodFest in 2020, and then by the time I was a year into the working with Podfest, I'm like, geez, I guess I better have my own podcast show. So uh I launched my show January 2022, and I I love nerding out on business and entrepreneurship and anything with personal and professional development. So I named my show Rapid Results with Andrew Weiss. And the premise of the show is um, you know, David Meltzer coined the phrase, I believe, a dummy tax is why make the same mistakes as other people if they can tell you how to prevent those mistakes, essentially. Um, and so I ask a lot of business owners and entrepreneurs, like, hey, what are some things you wish you had known earlier on in your business process to make sure that you didn't go broke for a period of time or to make sure you didn't lose a bunch of money? Um, and so I love interviewing, yeah, business owners, entrepreneurs about their journeys to success. And I love for them to brag about themselves on the show because sometimes people have trouble trouble bragging about themselves. Um, and so yeah, it's a live stream show, and then I take the audio, turn it to a podcast, and it's a great way for me to build relationships and connect with people and and essentially, yeah, keep keep building the Andrew Weiss brand, essentially.
SPEAKER_02Very cool. So you do you do a live stream, all of them are all live? All live, yes, yeah, all live. That'll be my first. I've never done a live stream before. So that'll be my first one. I've done eight million episodes and I haven't done live. Congratulations. That's amazing. Um, there we go. I lost the thought again. Hold on a second.
SPEAKER_03Okay, no worries.
Coaching With One Small Tweak
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so you mentioned the antro. This is all part of the larger brand. It I I think it's was it Weiss Wisdom? Yes. Yeah, Weiss Wisdom. Yeah. So tell yeah, tell me a little bit about the brand and the mission. And and you know, it sounds to me like you're you're working with people to help them unlock their potential and achieve what they want out of light from like a coaching perspective and really achieve greatness. That's something that I've been very much interested in my own journey in terms of trying to um more from like the spiritual lens, yeah. Spiritual and like holistic healing and then the mindset. And there's just like this big convergence of all these things coming together, right? You have the marketing components, yeah, the building the personal brand, you have the spiritual work I'm doing with plant medicines and things of that nature. Then you have all this mindset stuff and the accountability and the brotherhood. It's like this perfect storm brewing. And it seems like a lot of the work that you're doing is very much aligned with what I got going on in my life.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. So I I love helping people make more money what they're already doing. Um, it's kind of like my mantra, essentially. And because what I've noticed is that a lot of people, like they're usually just like one little tweak away from the results and desires that they've been after, essentially. Um, so like, for example, you know, when I was helping someone in the fitness space, you know, he wanted to lose a bunch of weight, I say, great, uh, just run a mile every day for 30 days straight. And he did it, and I think he lost like 20 pounds in 30 days. He's like, What? This this was amazing. All I had to do was run a mile. Like, yeah, like easy. It's an easy game, man. Easy game. Um, and when I'm coaching people too, um, so another client I love helping, you know, he wanted to get an anime tea brand um off the ground, essentially. And he's like, Well, I posted on Kickstarter and I tried to raise money, but then nothing happened. And I'm like, okay, well, the one tweak you need to make there is that you understand that just because you talk about something doesn't mean people are gonna care. So you have to really put in an extra level of work uh to make sure that things are successful. Um, so the way Kickstarter works is that once you launch, you have to have a lot of people ready to buy in immediately on that launch date. Um, and so what I so that what you do is you essentially say, hey, okay, I want to launch a product on, you know, we're talking in April 2026 right now. I want to launch a product in May or June or July. Um, that means you need to start creating a list of people and telling them, hey, I'm launching this product on uh May 15th. I'd love for you to market in your calendar that once we launch, you immediately buy the product because the algorithms see that, hey, once a bunch of people are interested in this product right at the launch date, it must be a cool product or service. And so they're gonna want to um then send it out to other people who you haven't contacted yet and say, hey, look at this hot trending new um product or service that's going on in Kickstarter. You should buy into it too. And everyone gets really excited, like, oh, well, if other people are buying into it, I should buy into it as well. Um, and then and so with this strategy, you know, he was able to sell out of his product uh within I think about about 45 days, and it really just like changes life and just like really it's it's so awesome when I'm coaching clients, just like seeing their eyes light up for what they can accomplish. Um, and just like another client as well, like I also helped him with his Kickstarter project. He wanted to launch a movie. Um, and uh he wasn't really sure how to get started, how to go about it, how to approach it. And I helped give him the confidence to believe in himself that he could do it in the first place. And then he also was able to have a successful Kickstarter. He raised over$5,000 um within that time frame. And so, yeah, I love I love helping people make more money doing what they're already doing, give them the confidence to believe in themselves, understand what they're capable of. Um, and you know what I've kind of recognized in life too is that um, you know, for those who are spiritual, like I definitely believe that that God is in others. And and sometimes that we can't always see from inside the glass, um, you know, when we're stuck inside a bottle, like what we're capable of, what our um what our potential can be. But people who are outside the glass looking in at you like go, duh, of course you can do this, duh, of course you can accomplish this. But sometimes you're stuck from inside the bottle, like you can't see where you where to go or what direction to take you. And so that you should always be looking for coaches and guidance to help give you feedback, who knows what they're talking about, um, to help make sure you're you're accomplishing what you want to achieve, essentially.
SPEAKER_02I love what you said there, and you actually I had a thought in my head that you actually addressed as you were going through there, but about like the one small tweak, right? You could be doing something for a long time and not seeing results and stuck in your head questioning what's going on. And like you said, you're seeing things uh through your limited perspective.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And a lot of times you just need somebody to look at it from the outside and just like you said, make a small little tweak and all of a sudden things start popping off and like and just keeping the activity up and and just keeping pressing forward and keeping a positive mindset around that, like things magically start to work out when you do all that. Um, it's just so important to have, and that's one of the things that I had been lacking tremendously, as I alluded to earlier, where I was doing all this personal work on myself, but I wasn't getting any outside feedback. I was just doing all this introspective stuff, which is important.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
Accountability And Habit Stacking
SPEAKER_02You need to have course correction. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04We're gonna we're gonna see things through our own lens and you'll see accountability too, because yeah, if you are just relying on your own self to get in your own way, you're gonna get in your own way. Like it's inevitable. Like us humans, like it's so easy to get down ourselves, it's so easy to lose momentum. Um, but but what I've noticed too is it's uh you know, it's habit stacking essentially. Um, for example, like you know, you know, our perspective in brain chemistry can change so quickly with every decision we make of every day. Um, and so for example, like you know, yesterday I was out at an airport and I had a cookie, and I'm like, okay, I had a cookie, I guess I don't need to do a workout today because uh I had this cookie, so what's the point now? Uh versus if you if you get up if you get up in the morning and you do 20 push-ups, you're okay, I already did 20 push-ups, I guess I better have a healthy breakfast. And then lunchtime comes around, you go, okay, I guess that now that a healthy breakfast, I better have a healthy lunch too. And you just do like these consistent stacking on top of each other, versus if you get up in the morning and then you uh you know uh you decide to have uh you know a big donut for breakfast, like, oh like it is easy to stack negative habits.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely, yeah.
SPEAKER_04You're like, oh, I already had a donut for breakfast. Uh might as well have a bunch of bacon on my burger for lunch. It's just it's things stack quickly, that's that's for sure.
SPEAKER_02It's uh what is it, James Clear that's in atomic habits that talks about habit stacking, right? And and building on that. And I just actually I just did a podcast uh right before this with Vinny from the Brotherhood, Vimice, yeah, uh, from Quality in Home Care. We talked about the same thing with um we were talking about exercise. It's like you think you would think that if you exercise, you'd be like, oh well, I did the work now now. I'm good, I can eat whatever I want. But what happens is you start being more conscious about your diet because you're like, I just put in all that work, I did all that. Do I really want to go? I want to ruin it, yeah. Blow it and ruin it. And then again, just like you said, habit stacking, it just keeps um keeps building on itself. So yeah, that's good stuff, man.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. So yeah, creating a system of accountability and it's essentially yeah, you put in a deposit towards someone who can hold you accountable, and you don't get that deposit back until you consistently do one habit that you know will positively affect your life um for the next 30 days. And that's why I tell people it's just it's just one habit that if you were to focus on that, that that can really make a big difference, whether it's making more money, whether it's being healthier, uh, whether it's being happier, like what's the one thing you could do every day that could really make a difference for you?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and you're speaking of running one mile every day. I will say this, I'm a big runner. It's definitely hard on my knees and my body, but in terms of like my overall health, ever since I started running consistently, every time I go to the doctor, I get complimented on the health that I'm in. And I'd never ever heard that in the past. And I just go, it's like, oh yeah. I mean, I've been I was told several times by the doctor that, oh, you're perfect.
SPEAKER_04I was like, oh, this is a female doctor or a male doctor, Jeremy.
SPEAKER_02I mean, what I had a male and female tell me, use the word. I shit you know, use the word perfect. I'm like, oh, thank you. That's a very big comp a bit.
SPEAKER_04That's really good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And then to the to the point where I just went to the doctor and the female nurse didn't tell me. She's like, Oh, everything seems good. She didn't say, I was like, wait, you mean I'm not perfect? Oh, how dare they?
SPEAKER_04How dare they? You gotta turn your flirt on a little bit better than apparently.
Gratitude Journaling And Future Vision
SPEAKER_02I'll work, I'll work on the game. I'll work on the game. Yeah, you mentioned the spirituality. Are you big into spirituality? Do you have any um introspective practices? I know something for me, breath work, uh meditation. I love doing like cold plunge, ice bath type stuff. Yeah. What what's your thing?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, um, I definitely believe in uh showing gratitude every day. So I have a uh a manifestation journal um that I use to you know be productive. And at the end of every day, it's like, hey, what are you grateful for today? You know, what did you achieve today? How can you improve tomorrow? Um, at the beginning of each day, uh, the prompts are like, what are you grateful and excited for today? Um, what will make you happy today? Um, and and so uh yeah, I I definitely I definitely believe that meditation and and journaling is definitely one of the best life hacks because you know, when I'm not journaling my thoughts, like I'm just really in chaos mode, essentially.
SPEAKER_02Circling around your head. Yeah, that's one of the things that that does for you, right? Is like like we have so much crap going on inside our head to be able to take that out of your head and put it down somewhere.
SPEAKER_04It's so needed, absolutely. And I think it's like the pen to paper feeling is a is a good experience too. So um, yeah, it's a definite required for everyone to journal, in my opinion.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, or even just using uh I hate to say using AI for some of that, but in terms of like organizing your thoughts, like in terms of ideas, you get an idea or something. If you don't distill it from your head, if you just keep it floating around, there was not much room for new ideas. But if you take that idea and then you speak to your AI of choice and say, Hey, I got this cool idea, create a framework around that and then stick it in Google Drive. Maybe you do something with it, maybe you don't, but you just made room in your head for more downloads to come.
SPEAKER_04There you go. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you got the baby?
SPEAKER_02Bring the baby in.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah. I was just saying, I think uh the mom has got to get going to work. So we got we're gonna bring the baby in. What's this? This is baby Ajax, and so Ajax. Yeah, he's uh he'll be seven months old next week, and uh yeah, he he likes he likes the camera and he he uh he likes to constantly be moving, that that's for sure.
SPEAKER_02Future podcast extraordinaire.
SPEAKER_04Yes, yes, Ajax. How are you doing? And uh what's cool actually is Ajax is a Podfest baby uh because my wife and I met through the podcast Podfest world. Yeah, she was a speaker at one of our events, and uh I invited her a Zoom call after, and uh now we have Ajax here.
SPEAKER_02So uh funny how things work out, isn't it?
SPEAKER_04Funny how things work out.
SPEAKER_02You you are you now you have a super special place in your heart when it comes to podcasting. This is you met your wife there, your life was yes, oh absolutely driven in that direction through podcasting. That's lovely.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. We had an epic uh wedding on a rooftop in New York City, and um, and yeah, I know just uh yeah, definitely a pod podcast biased person for life. That that's for sure.
SPEAKER_02Cool, man. All right, so let's I think we could probably leave it at that. I know um anything else, anything else you want to touch on before we wrap up here? I was gonna leave with uh a couple words on gratitude and uh and what yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04I'll defer to what you want to do. I think I think AJ asking out for a little bit. So uh I don't think we're in a super rush if you want to keep um ask asking questions. No, these are great topics about uh yeah, podcasting and personal development and um yeah, business growth and and and all the above. So yeah, whatever's also on your topic list, uh dancing baby.
SPEAKER_02I got it in my head for some reason that you had to you had a hard stop at 12 30, but I guess I guess you didn't. I don't know where I got that.
SPEAKER_04Oh no, I was bringing the baby on uh around 12 30, but you know, I you're cool with the baby on. Okay, cool. Yeah, as long as you're okay with the dancing baby.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, yeah, of course.
SPEAKER_04Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_02Keeps me young anyway, as I'm getting older. Of course. But you mentioned it, we were talking about like journaling and gratitude. Um one of the things I've noticed when it comes to that kind of thing, uh, writing down like your wins or thinking about your wins from the day before, when you start these practices, whether it's gratitude or kind of recounting wins, you might be hard pressed. You might sit down with your little notebook and you're like, you can't think of things to be great. You put down like, oh, my family, my this, my butt then you run out of things to think of.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And you're like, oh, that's kind of tough exercise. Same thing with wins. What about you can't remember what you won yesterday. But the more you do that, the more you build the muscle and the habit. What happens is is that throughout your day now, you start looking for wins. You start looking for things to be grateful for because you know you're going to do that exercise. And the more you do of that, it's like the floodgates open and you start filling up pages with all things you're grateful for. Uh, and I've noticed that that happens with doing it consistently and and really uh and then and then when you stop doing it, like anything else, the well seems to dry up. But there's always things to be grateful for, and there's always wins out there to be had.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, um, you know, this was a good prompt in uh I don't know, it's a brotherhood call or a different call, but yeah, someone brought that up as like, yeah, when you're writing gratitude again and again, again, like you be repetitive and you can go into like autopilot and just like, are you really grateful if you're just an autopilot when it comes to gratitude, essentially? Um, and another guy brought up a really good point about this is like, okay, well, if you were to write down things you're gratitude, grateful for that hasn't happened yet, that can still keep that that spark, that, that, that passion alive, going, like, oh my gosh, I'm so grateful. Like, I'm my name is Jeremy, and I have one of the top plant medicine podcasts in the country. And then a year later you have one of the top plant medicine podcasts in the Western hemisphere or in the world, essentially. Like, oh, that's really exciting. I'm I'm really grateful for that. Um and so when you write down things you're grateful for that haven't happened yet, I think that's what helps creep the guides you alive. And then, of course, yeah, you know, make sure you are in the meantime being intentional with your gratitude and really meaning it like, hey, I'm grateful for good health, I'm grateful for my family, I'm grateful that I have I can work virtually, that I have clients, that I have money in my bank accounts. Like, hopefully you are genuinely grateful for that because that would allow more abundance to come to you, is just recognizing the gratitude that you already have.
SPEAKER_02Yep. Joe Dispenza talks a lot about that. Right. It's like f like visualizing the thing that you want and then feeling the emotion that's associated with having that thing. And rewires your brain to attract the thing that you're trying to accomplish. Yeah. It's a very subtle thing and it sounds like woo-woo-e when you hear it, but it's so damn true. Oh my god. I think he suspense he uses the words like little little synchronized synchronicities start popping up, little he calls them breadcrumbs from the divine, right? That's interesting that that happened. And it's just like you're you're you're paying attention to things in the right way. And the more you do so, the more seemingly magic starts to happen.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. No, it's just like you're already living the experience you want to live, and like the universe can't tell a difference between um as long as you're in the feelings of heightened emotion and excitement, and actually as long as you're putting the action in too. Um, yeah, I was telling Salisha, I don't know if you have you heard of the show The Last Kingdom on Netflix by any chance.
SPEAKER_02Dude, my wife has watched that. I love I love The Last Kingdom. My wife has watched that show multiple times. Really?
SPEAKER_04Okay. Yeah, no, and I love this show because I think it speaks to a great point too. Like, obviously, you know, I I love I love God and I love and I love Jesus. And um, you know, I think the show speaks to, you know, obviously, you know, I don't know how fictional or non-fictional the show is, but it's a great point that the in the show, um, for those who haven't seen it, essentially, like they're the the Christian Saxons, you know, they're being raided by the Vikings. Um, and uh when they're being raided by the Vikings, you know, they spend most of the time just praying and hope and praying to God, saying, Please God protect us, like hopefully uh uh God be with us, like and all this. And like, and in the meantime, the Vikings are like, okay, cool, you can pray, but we're still gonna burn your villages and take all your take all your silver. And it's not until they have this like quote unquote pagan guy. He's like, Okay, it's great you're praying to God, but let's actually fight back, let's strategize, let's figure out how to put into action how to actually defend ourselves on top of praying to God. Um, and it's just another reminder as well, like, you know, praying and manifesting isn't good enough. You have to put in action, put in the work, um, and then uh be be supported divinely on top of that. You can't just sit in your room all day and pray, and then everything's gonna magically come to you. Like action's very important too.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'm gonna sit on the couch and manifest abundance all day long. But that is that is a very important distinction, right? Because the the mindset and the manifestation will only take you so far, you have you have to couple that with action. Yeah, action and action breeds every action cures everything. Like, even if you don't have the right mindset, if you just get out there and take action, the mind will follow.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and Benjamin Hardy uh talks about that too. How like if you are ever in a bad mindset and in a bad headspace, feel like you're not making any progress, like just do 20 push-ups, like just go, just go run a mile, and you'd be surprised. Like the confidence boost, the clarity that comes to you going, oh, okay, I I got this, I could do this now. Like, yeah, I can assure you, like you'll be less depressed, you'll be less sad, you'll be less stagnant if you just get your body moving, get your blood flowing. Like if you go call a potential client or call a potential friend for an energy boost, like, yeah, if you just sit and wallow by yourself, it's not gonna do you any good.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, if you're if you're in a bad headspace, you will never ever think your way to clarity. Yes, exactly. Action will lead to clarity. Yeah, to speak to your point about like one of the things that I I thankfully I work from home, I make my own schedule. Uh, if I'm ever stuck, I did a video on social media about this as well. Whenever I'm like caught in a loop and I'm just stewing in it, I do all I need to do is just get my shoes and go run. Yeah, and like magic, it's like all the cobwebs got shaken out of my head, and then inevitably 15, 20 minutes into the run, I have a thought. It's like, oh wow, that would be a good idea. And it's like, oh, I'll do that when I get back. And it's like, oh, let me do that. And then by the time I get home from the run, I got 10 ideas. I'm juiced up from the run, I'm ready to go, and I'm right back in it.
SPEAKER_04So move, it might not be running, like for whatever, whenever you're even yeah, taking a shower, um, and just uh, you know, who knows, maybe uh going to going out to get a meal or something, or just like going something.
SPEAKER_02Break the pattern, the energy, right? Yeah, whether it's I mean push-ups, exercise, shit, just you go out, just jump up and down, dance, move around. Jumping jacks, yeah. We're all energy, right? And when we're stuck in something, the best thing you can do is move the energy around, and that's how you that's how you unstuck yourself.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, exactly. Unstuck yourself, exactly. I love that. Yep.
SPEAKER_02Oh man. Um what else? So what do you what do you like to do? You play sports, you like to what do you like to do for fun? And you got you got a seven-month-old, you got any kids, or is that it?
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, this is my fun right here. Oh yes. Uh uh, he's my only kid. Uh, and uh yeah, I I want more, you know, so start working on convincing the wife to uh agree to agree to have more, so we'll we'll see. Um you want a 14-year-old? Uh maybe possibly. Joking joke, I would. I know, I know. Um yeah, he he's also the first grandson on both my our parents' sides, so he's already very spoiled. Um, but yeah, for fun. I mean, I love playing basketball. I love um, you know, doing cool adventures. Um, I I like uh going to the spa. I love uh um, you know, I'm doing an obstacle course next weekend, uh the Spartan race in Seattle.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so I did uh I went to Argentina with uh Billy Dupree. Oh yeah, you did that group. I can't pr I can't remember his last name, Dupree. What's what's Billy? You know Billy? His last name Dupree or Du R anyway, he's done like 60 Spartan races.
SPEAKER_0460. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02You're hiking in the woods, he's telling me all about the the Spartan stuff. I'm like blown away by it. Yeah, and that's you said it's your first one that you're doing, or uh it's my second one.
SPEAKER_04I I've done a few other obstacle races as well, like I've done like a mud run, a bubble run, and stuff like that. I just did a muddy dash. Oh, you did okay, okay, very fun. Yes. Um yeah, when I was in college um to help train for my marathon, I did the this the Spartan Beast, where yeah, I think it's like uh 12 miles of optical course races, and uh that that that that was a lot, but um yeah, this one's only uh I think 10K or 12k or something, something like that. Um I mean you ran a marathon? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, you know, I wanted to get less than four hours, but um, and I will say but I trained for it by doing sprint workouts um because I don't know about you, but I don't like long distance running. Like I get bored easily and I just uh I I like to be very efficient with my workouts, and so like my workouts are consist of um high interval, uh high intensity interval trainings is what I do. So I'm just like 20 or 30 minutes of like really intense workouts three to four times a week. And when I did the marathon, I it would it was like a workout plan where you would think like jog for a lap and then sprint for half a lap and jog for a lap, sprint for half a lap. And yeah, I mean I was I never felt like physically tired um from running, just my legs didn't want to run anymore. Um, and so I got yeah, I got four hours and eight minutes, which I'm proud of. And um, you know, we'll see if I do another one in the future and try and get under four hours. But um, but yeah, I think uh also doing a lot of push-ups, I think, helps too because obviously it helps with your oxygen intake and all that. Um, but I highly recommend everyone should do a half marathon or marathon because it's a really amazing experience and gives you a big confidence boost the rest of your life, especially because the origin of it, someone died running it, so you can survive running it, you're you're in good shape.
SPEAKER_02Speaking of of half marathons, I'm actually the farthest I've ever ran is 10 miles. I'm doing a half marathon next weekend. Oh my toenails is already halfway from falling off. Oh, I bet. Yeah, hopefully uh I did a 22-mile ruck with the guys and um toenail issues. So hopefully the toenail stays intact. But I'm gonna do this half marathon and I'm excited about it. To speak to your point, like sometimes I enjoy the long runs, sometimes I don't. But one thing that's usually consistent when I start running, always like inside the first hundred or two hundred feet, like the thing I hate most about it is also the thing I love most about it, which is like I'm always thinking, how can I continue running? I don't want to keep going anymore, but I keep going.
SPEAKER_04Well, and there's that runner's high that happens too. And I think just it's like with everything, everything in life, like the first few minutes of running, you're like, This sucks. Like, I like I I hate this. Like, what's going on? And then the next few minutes, like, oh, I actually feel pretty good now.
SPEAKER_03No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_02No, often I will run, and especially maybe like after a few miles, once I get into a group, but the first couple of miles for me is always like, oh my God, what am I gonna do? Should I turn around and go home? Can I even do this? How am I gonna run 13 miles? I can't even run one mile. I can't even run one yard. Yeah, again, you just you train yourself to keep going, and it just builds that that muscle, that resilience, that discipline to keep going when things are hard. And that translates translates so beautifully in everything else you do in life, like when you're involved in a stressful situation.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, well, and and like uh like for me, um so I I made a post about this. And uh like for me, like I'm all about getting as much motivation to do things as possible. And like I know, you know, for a lot of people out there, you know, doing three to four workouts a week sounds like a lot. Um, but but for me, what I tell myself is uh I only shower on days that I work out. Yeah, it's all like okay, I I better get to the gym. It's been a couple days, like I really need to shower or else uh won't be good. Um, but also, you know, I'm really into like you know, Roman history and Greek history and stuff, and it's just like okay, like if the Spartans could handle, you know, really tough uh physical regimens and workouts to become one of the world's best warriors, I can handle this little five-mile run or 10-mile run, essentially. And so uh sometimes it's kind of fun to have those kind of motivations too. And when I was running the marathon, um hey, that's my microphone. Hey, hey, I need my microphone back.
SPEAKER_02Okay, he wants his his time to speak.
SPEAKER_04Sorry. Um, yeah, when I was running the marathon, um, yeah, I downloaded a bunch of TED talks to listen to and TEDx talks, and then obviously audiobooks and music. Um, but it was also helpful too, is that they gave away free pancakes um at the end of the marathon. Um, and that was good motivation while I was running too. It's like, oh, I gotta get those pancakes. I gotta get those pancakes. So, you know, as much motivating factors you can get, the better. And obviously, I did the Eugene Marathon, it was helpful. They had a bunch of like um like Gatorade juices and like cliff bars to help keep you going. And um, if you ever do a marathon, like another reason why it's such an amazing experience is because it's so fun, like having thousands of people cheer you on and say, Go, go, go, you got this, and like it's so so surreal. And you know, Sleece and Iron New York, and we think we're looking to do the New York marathon one day. And um, and so uh, but yeah, it's a highly recommended experience. That that's for sure. I love that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I would like to definitely run a marathon at some point, but but we are going to ruck a marathon in three weeks, two or three weeks. Oh, nice, okay. So we're doing 26, whatever it is, 26.2 miles at a brisk pace. We're gonna be going at like four miles per hour. Um, so that should be exciting. So if if I don't get to run one for whatever reason, because of the knees or the back, at least I will have ruck it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I was talking to a guy who uh um yeah, he's actually speaking at the virtual event in June. For those tuning in, he's talking about um his topic talk title is uh ten thousand dollars or um or I think it's like hundred thousand dollars or ten thousand followers through Instagram. Like, which do you want? Um, and he was talking about how he did a uh a hundred mile um walk and uh how he recommends that people do that too. But he he started off by saying, Well, I ran 100 miles. I'm like, What that's amazing! And as I was learning more, he's like, he actually walked it, but still 100 miles straight within like 50 hours or something like that is still crazy.
SPEAKER_02So it's still a heavy amount of mileage on somebody would appreciate that that much.
SPEAKER_04And it helps use it for motivation too, is like when you hear these stories of people, like when you're running your marathon or doing your rug, you're like, okay, if that guy could handle 100 miles, I can handle 26 miles. Like, I got this. Like when things are getting tough, just have that confidence.
SPEAKER_02Cool, man. All right, let's leave it at that. We've been going almost an hour here. Um, let me just give you a moment to share with the audience how they could learn more. What's the best way to connect with you? If they'd like to engage you and um and connect, what's the best way to do that?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, um, yeah, you can follow me on social media, the Andrew J Weiss. Uh, Weiss is spelled W-E-I-S, and the is T-H-E, um, in case you'd help hearing that. So, yeah, the Andrew J Weiss on social media. You can also reach me, Andrew at podfestexpo.com. Um, yeah, always love connecting with people looking to uh yeah, grow their brand, improve their life, reach reach bigger goals, and um yeah, see how I can help in any way.
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