Ready Set Collaborate with Wanda Pearson
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Ready Set Collaborate with Wanda Pearson
Transformative Storytelling with Pete Kane: From Digital Marketing Pressures to Podcast Passion and Sustained Success Through Collaboration
Don't let the media's smoke and mirrors distort your vision. Clear the fog with stories that matter. 🌤
We sit down with Pete Kane, a certified high-performance coach and celebrated podcaster, who shares his transformative journey from a high-pressure career in digital marketing, which culminated in a life-altering stroke, to discovering his passion for podcasting. Pete opens up about how this medium has not only served as a therapeutic outlet but has also become an educational tool, particularly in amplifying the voices of the senior community. We discuss the profound impacts of authenticity, relationship-building, and continuous learning, and how these elements have allowed Pete to inspire countless others.
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Speaker 2:Welcome. Welcome to the Ready Set Collaborate podcast with Wanda Pearson and my guest, pete Podcaster Kane is what we call it here. So I am so excited, pete, to have you on the show and it's a pleasure to really have you talk about you. Talk about what you're doing and how you got started. Let me see, I'm just actually I was trying to do my time here, so yeah, so, pete, I am so excited about you being here.
Speaker 3:And I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so say hi to the audience, pete.
Speaker 3:It's a pleasure to be here. Welcome to. We're going to have a good time, and whenever you're talking about something like podcasting, I geek out on it. So I'm more than excited to talk about the subject.
Speaker 2:I appreciate it and listen audience. I was on Pete's podcast a couple of times. He had me on his podcast talk about the legal shield, talk about collaboration, networking, so I appreciate him coming on to my podcast. Before I get started, I want to talk about Pete, his bio. So Pete Kane is a certified high performance coach and acclaimed podcaster dedicated to helping individuals unlock their full potential. With a unique blend of motivational insights and practical strategy, pete guides his audience towards achieving exceptional results in their personal and professional lives. His engaging podcast features inspiring interviews and actionable advice, making it a go-to resource for those seeking to elevate their performance and well-being. So, without further ado, pete, I am so excited that you're on my podcast and I can reciprocate for you being on my podcast.
Speaker 3:That's beautiful. And then, if you really want to reciprocate, you'll have me as your chaperone going to Montego Bay. Absolutely, I've been there before. I know that bay, I know that place. You know, it. Huh. It's not too late to say come on, be our chaperone.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, we would love to have you on people. Yeah, legal Shield's paying for us, so we'll take the free trip, hey look, you got to love because you earn it.
Speaker 3:And not only do you get to go, but when you earn something it's 10 times better.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Especially when you don't have to pay for it.
Speaker 2:So Pete, tell us a little bit more. I know I just read your bio, but tell us a little bit more about yourself before I start asking you questions. Yeah. So a couple of years ago I had a stroke.
Speaker 3:I was in digital marketing and I think that gave me a stroke. Yeah, the stress, the algorithms every week.
Speaker 3:I think, once you figure it out, they change it. So I'm thinking for 49 days what do I want to do Now? I can't run, I can't play golf. I'm thinking I got to come up with something else.
Speaker 3:I've always enjoyed curiosity, learning just talking to people. I wasn't an academic scholar by any means. I didn't graduate from high school with my class and a couple of failed attempts at college. So I realized that if I can't make it in academics, maybe I can make it in the world of relationships. So that started way many years ago.
Speaker 3:So when I got out and I'm just trying to practice earning a living again, which was slow my partner said Pete, you love golf, why don't you do golf podcasts? And I said man, that'd be good, because I can't play, at least I can talk about it. But talking about it and playing something two different things. I really was not like feeling it, but I was living in a senior living facility and I was just watching things, learning from people and just being around seniors gave me a different perspective and I saw the kind of the abusive not abuse, but indirectly. I've certainly have seen that. And then I started podcasting to the senior community and the vendors and the building of the relationships and really helping people tell their story and it was really storytelling.
Speaker 3:That's what I enjoy most about podcasting is really just learning more about Wanda Pearson working, more about our guests. I think we geek out on that stuff after we. It's almost like a drug, because you're learning every single day. Once you feel the learning from everybody, because every single day my belief system is changing, based on my guests, and I always journal the next day, the next morning, what did I learn from the previous day? Then I write my vision of where I want to go. I'm real clear on it, but I'm learning. I'm learning at a rapid rate and that's what excites me about podcasting.
Speaker 2:That's awesome and I appreciate that. Exactly what you said. When I retired, I said, okay, what am I going to do? I didn't want to go back to corporate we. When I retired, I said okay what am?
Speaker 2:I going to do. I didn't want to go back to corporate. We had our business Legal Shield, so I really got into that full steam, but also my social work, which helped me because I'm sociable anyway. It helped me to get into what I'm doing. But yeah, exactly. So I want to ask you this question too. So you told us a little bit about yourself. How did?
Speaker 3:you get into podcasting. So I pushed a button and it was like I know our viewers always remember that first bike ride you crashed, you skinned your knees and what did they say? Get back on it. So you know what? If you don't, you never learn how to ride a bike.
Speaker 3:So the first bunch of episodes I'm hitting the wrong button. I'm not asking this person because I'd started off with golf and I'd have foursome and I'd get there and they'd say, hey, joe hasn't talked yet. I was like, oh Joe, what about? So I was just stumbling forward and just each day I learned and got a little bit better, and so I really got used to failing and I really didn't mind it because and this is just off the subject, but it's pertinent Once you go through, once you stare death in the mirror, you survive. You have what they call mortality motivation. So I feel I'm playing with the house money. I lived, I have a second chance. So the normal fears that I had previous I don't have. So I really don't care what anybody thinks the right thing, but I don't. I'm not fearful of rejection, I'm not fearful of making mistakes, I'm not fearful of the general things that we tend to have fear of which, I think, helped me to stumble through the learning stages.
Speaker 2:And that's great. That's great how you put that in there, because I didn't. I wasn't planning on doing no podcast, but one of the networking groups that I'm in she said, wanda, you need to start doing podcasts. I said podcasts. So of course, I asked God, okay, is this something I'm supposed to do? And I talk anyway. So, like I said, you just stumbled on to doing what you're doing and you learn from your mistakes. Learning from your mistakes help you to be better in what you do, and I see you're doing a great job with that. So let me ask you something, pete no-transcript like people or things yeah people are the biggest influence in the podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but who's your man doing that in the actual world?
Speaker 3:I listen to. I don't have TV, I don't go on social. I don't even drink anymore, so I don't. I live a pretty boring life, if by standard.
Speaker 2:A healthy life.
Speaker 3:Healthy yeah, very healthy. But I listen. So I listen when I first get up and then I have my quiet time on my balcony and I do my quiet things like, let me think, patrick Bet-David. I like his. I like Candace Owens. She's a rock star. She challenges people. I love people that challenge thinking.
Speaker 3:I want somebody to be asking not tough questions but asking questions that really help people to think. So I love Joe Rogan. He's a little rough at the edges but he's darn good. He's the best out there because he's honest. And I think when I evaluate a podcast, I want somebody that's honest with me. I want somebody that's going to tell me the truth, because we've been jacked up over the years with traditional media that we don't trust them because they manipulate. Now I want somebody that's going to give me the truth. Let me decide what I believe. Just give me the facts, give me the questions, give me the engagement with the people on there so I can determine my thinking. There's a number of people I like when the health. I've probably got three or four in there In the national scene. I have a couple there. I'm just always learning through people and I think there's a circle of learning in everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's actually. I was just going to ask you about the challenge, the biggest challenge that you face as a podcaster. Is there one challenge that you face?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think so. We all do. I tell our viewers this because if I've heard this once, I've heard it at least 500 times. When I ask people to be a guest on my podcast, I hear the question how many viewers do you have? And so I say, let me ask you a question. Ask you a question If I had 10 million viewers and then I had 10 viewers but the 10, five of them became clients of yours and when the million of viewers one became it.
Speaker 3:Which is better, do you like views or do you like results? So I do it just the same way you do to collaborate and build relationships, absolutely. I have Wanda on my podcast. I know Wanda's story. I know years. If I did it the traditional way, where I run into people at an event or something like that and I got 30 seconds with them, I usually have 25, 30 minutes with a podcast guest. I learn a lot in those 25, 30 minutes.
Speaker 2:Oh, you do just by chatting here, and that's a good way of putting it there. So how do you engage your audience and build a community around your podcast?
Speaker 3:These are good questions. I believe Larry King was always. I was always intrigued by him. I didn't watch much TV, but I loved his interview, so I took a master class that Larry King did before he passed and I just picked up so much from him and just, I think curiosity creates a good mindset for podcasting. If you have a mindset of curiosity, you want to know more about your guests, and so if you're focused entirely, be present, be listening, be asking, like one question leads to another answer leads to another question. And I tell you, what I learned from Larry was just be present with your guests and never know where they're going, but follow them in such a way that you can dig a little bit deeper into who the person is, because one the guests want to know about. One day. Let's just say you're a guest on my podcast and if the guests want to know it, so do I. So you're serving your audience and you're serving your appetite for learning.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. That was a great answer, so I appreciate that. What advice would you give someone who is just starting out in podcasting?
Speaker 3:Another good question. I love it If I had to write these questions, which I didn't that's what I would put in there. Okay, so the advice is you hear it, just do it. But I would say I'd go a little bit further. Most people get stuck on the details Got to edit it, I got to do this and they never get to what they want to do.
Speaker 3:The only thing I do is I podcast. I don't set it up. I have VAs that do certain stuff. I want to make sure I'm doing what I do best and I outsource everything else because the more it feeds your heart and it has to feed you, so if it's feeding you, because I'm not a technology whiz, I'm not matter of fact, if I had to write like because I grew up dyslexic and I misspelled about every other word, if I had to do those kind of things that that just zap my energy.
Speaker 3:There's times I've done I think I max, I think, is eight podcasts in one day and I was just ready to do more because it fed me, because all I was doing it was podcast, none of the other stuff, and I see that most people get stuck in. Matter of fact, I have a podcast. After this I called him because my 1 o'clock had to go to the hospital for a client. So I said I called the guy and said, hey, you want to do it early. He goes. No, I'm doing some editing and I'm saying you know what, you can't outsource your brain.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You can outsource other stuff, but it cannot be outsourced. You need yourself in everything, Everything else. Look to have somebody else that's more gifted in that area.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, because that's what I do. I let somebody the experts do the editing. Absolutely Because that's what I do. That's somebody that the experts do the editing. I just podcast. So we're running out down here because I want to ask you about your business. So how has collaborating with other podcasters or creators influenced your podcast? What we're doing now, right? I?
Speaker 3:love it because I get to flip the script. I'm always in your position asking the questions. Now I'm having to think about the answers and get the questions asked to me. So I think it's a circle of learning. So, if you are a good podcaster, be a guest on others, because you learn so much from the questions that are asked answers that you have to come up with. Yeah, from the questions that are asked. Yeah, answers that you have to come up with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and that's great, that's great. So what are your future plans or goals for your podcast?
Speaker 1:What is the?
Speaker 2:name of your podcast. What's the name of your podcast?
Speaker 3:I know about it. You know what?
Speaker 3:I don't have a name, but I have a signature podcast called the Echo Effect and that's really on instant gratification and I want people to understand. Have you heard the bamboo story? Okay, let me explain, let me share it with your viewers. Okay, bamboo will grow 10 years before it'll break ground, but when it does break ground, you can grow up to three feet a day. So let's just say you're doing something and it's only grown to nine feet nine years and it hasn't broken ground yet, and you quit.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm you lose out on three feet a day. If you can delay your gratification in anything, you do anything. It's called the echo effect. What did you do today? Echoes later. But you have to understand you can't get results day one. So when you start out podcasting you're building the foundation Once it breaks ground and it does, because I look at maybe 250, 300 podcasts later my business is growing so fast I can't keep up and I've aired out a lot of people anticipating it. But when it grows three feet a day you can't anticipate nothing because it's growing so fast.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely, and I love it. Yeah, and that makes sense, because I don't look at, okay, how many people looked at my podcast today? I don't look at that, I just keep doing what I'm doing. And like you said the bamboo is. I know people see who you are. They see what you're doing here. So last question and I want to get into your business real quick because I'm running out of time so are there any upcoming projects or collaborations you're excited about?
Speaker 3:Yes. So I've had coaching from a coach, started in Dallas, texas. He was a high performance coach and I was finishing the 12 weeks and he said, yes, a series of questions, and I basically said, look, I'm very disciplined, I actually have three days in one. It's a kind of a geeky thing, but anyway, I said, but after working with you, I could have gotten a six, but working with you I got a nine, 10. And so after that I of course signed up again and I went and got certified because I felt my community could use high performance coaching, because we're part of a high performance community and I didn't realize until I actually went through it, the advantages to high performance.
Speaker 3:So what I'm excited about we're establishing one, one on one. There's only so much time we have, so but that's what's scalable is group coaching. So if a person has a niche and there we know Monica, so she's as my social media starting like this week so if she invites people to be in her group coaching, she invites people to be in a pod. That's going to turn into a mastermind, because we don't want to do it by ourselves. Collaboration is everything. So if you build up chemistry and you collaborate with people in a similar interest. You're able to rise 100%, 1000% faster in whatever you do. So I'm excited about scaling group coaching and making it niched to the point we can administer masterminds with those eyes or those group of people.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, peter, and that's the name of my podcast. That's why I name it Ready Set. Collaborate yes, because collaboration is a key to success. Working with each other and helping each other. We all have different niches. We all have different ways of doing things and helping each other to grow.
Speaker 2:That really is what makes it really much different. And you touched on achieving high performance, the strategies and habits to enhance productivity and performance in personal and professional life. That is what you're doing now, right as far as with your top. Okay, yeah, so, yeah, that's one way. So let me ask you something. So how can people get in touch with you?
Speaker 3:They could go to Pete Cain, certified chpccom. So that's Pete Cain, k-a-n-e chpccom. Or they can call me direct. My phone number is 404-428-3006. So if I don't recognize the number, leave me a voicemail. I'll call you back. Yeah, talk on the phone every day.
Speaker 2:Yes, or text him. He answers me with text.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, I'll text too, but I'm really more of a talk to people. But I'm really more of a talk to people. Oh yeah, I love to really talk with people because I just I think it's a long lost art. I have plenty, I have the time to talk to people because I think, like you said, we're building relationships and we're collaborating. If I'm talking to people, I'm building relationships and I'm collaborating May not be on the podcast, but I'm talking indirectly with somebody.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and this is another one of your key topics intentional networking. Yes, I'm considered a networking queen. I guess you're considered a networking king, right? So touch on intentional networking real quick, okay.
Speaker 3:I think the difference between networking and intentional. You have to be honest with yourself of the results. Now, if you're intending just to have a social club, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with being social, it's very important. But intentional is I go to a networking event to build specific relationships. So I don't go to meet 100 people, maybe it's five, and I'm going to talk to those individuals and I'm going to talk further with them. So I think being intentional about because if you're not monitoring and tracking your results, you'll get into a lot of situations where you think you got to be everywhere, got to go to this, you got this night, this morning and this lunch and before you know it you're just running around town like a chicken with your head cut off. A chicken with your head cut off, or is not good. Be very specific about where you're spending your time and be intentional about building relationships.
Speaker 3:Sometimes I know I see this people go around and give their 30 seconds. I bet you three quarters of them are thinking about their 30 seconds, not what they heard. They're going. Oh, what am I going to say? Because you're thinking of yourself. Think about it. Wanda says she's into Legal Shield. I've happened to have that for 25 years. I believe in it. I'm going to see what Wanda has to say because maybe there's something there I can help Wanda with Help. Enough people get what they want. You'll get what you want.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, I love it. I love it, Pete. So if you would like to be a guest on Pete's podcast, reach out to Pete, because I'm telling you I think I've been on three or four of your podcasts, Pete. Yes, oh yeah, so I wanted to reciprocate and have him on my podcast. But, pete, thank you so much for being on my podcast, ready Set.
Speaker 2:Collaborate with Wanda Pearson Audience. Make sure you follow Ready Set. Collaborate with Wanda Pearson on all podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, pete, we even on Audible. I had no idea we were on Audible. Dang, that's good. Yeah, so we're on Audible, so yeah, so definitely make sure you connect with Pete, because he is a great person to talk to and I know we're actually part of a collaboration book that's gonna be coming out for seniors and I'm looking forward to that and getting out there and speaking and helping seniors that's what's important.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. If I can give one more plug, because you said that book, it reminds me August the 1st. If you're in Atlanta, the Church of the Apostles, having a big event for seniors, there'll be anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 people there. So that's something you want to be a part of. It's free to come, but reach out to me. We'll be talking about it on our podcast. But if you want to do business in the senior community, you want to be there. If you're a senior, you want to learn from the people that are there. You got to know who your resources are out there that are there. You got to know who your resources are out there. What you don't know, you don't know. But if you know that there's legal help affordable legal help then you can take advantage of it instead of paying a thousand bucks an hour or whatever the going rate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah About that, about that. So, no, thank you. So, yeah, definitely put me on your list. I definitely would love to come to that, dennis and I and I to that, because that's my goal is to be able to help everyone get that affordable legal protection with our services. So, pete, thank you so much for being on my podcast. I am so happy and you gave some great tips. So, people, please make sure you reach out to Pete and talk to him about how you can network, collaborate with him on his podcast. It used to be Is it still? Kennesaw Happenings, pete?
Speaker 3:Yeah, on Spotify it still is. We'll be switching in here in about a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2:OK, OK.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but yeah, you can just search my name, pete Kane, and it'll come up, because we do put that out there.
Speaker 2:Awesome, awesome. Thanks again, pete, and thanks to the audience for listening to the Ready Set Collaborate. Make sure you stay tuned for the next episode of Ready Set Collaborate. I got more podcasters. That's going to teach you how to podcast and give their experience and their tips. Thank you, thank you, pete.
Speaker 1:You're welcome. Thank you for tuning into this episode of Ready Set Collaborate. Thank you for tuning into this episode of Ready Set Collaborate. For more information about the host. Head to WDPearsonAssociatescom, and that's P-E-A-R-S-O-N. Want to connect? Send an email to Wanda at WDPearsonAssociatescom and, as always, stay tuned for the next episode of Ready Set Collaborate.
