Peach Podcast
Two guys and an occasional guest breaking open topics on: Purpose, Energy, Attitude, Commitment and Health through shared experiences.
Peach Podcast
EP030: Brainstorming a Brighter Future Are You Ready for 2025?!
Only 9% of Americans stick to their New Year's resolutions—let's change that narrative together. As we gear up for 2025, we're diving into the art of purposeful planning to transform aspirations into achievements. We touch on the top five resolutions, from getting fit and organized to learning new skills and saving money. Learn how reverse engineering your goals can set the stage for success, as you discover the importance of understanding the "why" behind your objectives to stay committed all year long.
We also share personal stories of transformation and the fine line between editing and eliminating aspects of life that no longer serve us. From moderating alcohol to reducing time on social media, we reflect on the bold and incremental changes that have led to a more peaceful and focused life. Listen as we discuss when to take decisive action and when subtle adjustments can propel you toward your goals, offering insights that can be adapted to your life.
And as our podcast continues to grow, reaching listeners across 13 countries and 242 cities, we express our gratitude to you, our audience. We're excited to announce a special initiative to personally connect with you through handwritten notes as we approach the end of the year—our thanks for being part of our community. Join us on this journey of growth, faith, and self-discovery, and get ready for a special episode from Hawaii as we plan strategically for a successful 2025.
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Speaker 2:Peach Podcast with Doug and Daryl. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, hey Daryl. I kind of Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, hey Daryl. I kind of just dated myself, man, you remember. Welcome back, carter.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness, I do. And also I just realized on my Christmas gift. I'm going to make sure I get you some singing lessons because we need some work, doug.
Speaker 1:Yes, please, that's all right brother.
Speaker 2:Hey, Daryl, you know I was getting ready for this episode and, man, I looked up some statistics and these are statistics.
Speaker 1:I actually have been looking at Doug the researcher, are you right, doug the runner? Doug the researcher, you're rubbing off on me, brother. I'm impressed, come on.
Speaker 2:Man, daryl's the runner now. Man, well, that'll be another episode because it's evolving and it's pretty exciting. I just look up statistics to remind myself and to remind clients and people who are making. Because what are we coming into, daryl? We're coming into the new year, and what happens to every new year? Resolutions? Man, did you know? Only about 9% of Americans actually keep their New Year's resolutions. Man, when I read that, that's so discouraging. And I remember I used to be a big resolution guy, man, and it would be, but I always made a resolution that was way over the top and way too much, way too much, and it ended up, you know, never, never, completing it.
Speaker 3:So I can see why that's so so, so 9%, Doug, I tell you I had this one item. So let's say you're walking down the street in the past, 10 people, like that, means nine people are going to fail and only one of them is going to succeed. That's kind of crazy, right Damn. Say that again, daryl. So if you're walking down every once in a while, you do this, right? Um? So if you walk and you pass, like 10 people, I think you win percentages. So that means the first nine people, they have no chance of succeeding and only one has a chance to succeed. That's kind of that's kind of nuts. Wow, that is nuts.
Speaker 2:Well, the other statistic I looked up, daryl, and I want to get back to you. Know how? How do we take, how do we give that those other nine a chance? And we'll get down that in this podcast, down the road. But do you know what the top five new year's resolutions are every year?
Speaker 3:I don't, but can I guess one? Yeah, yeah, for sure, something about losing weight or something. To me, that's the one I always hear about, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's number two. Number one, which is Two, okay, yeah, but number one, which I think is directly tied to losing weight, is exercise more. Okay, yeah, so many people aim to just exercise more. Build a routine, go to a gym, man. Gym memberships go through the roof on the first. You know it's crazy. But the second one is lose weight. The third one is get organized. You know, some people are just. Their lives are a little messy. They want to become more productive. So they like okay, I'm going to get organized this year and that's something I've tried for years. And I finally just said I'm not an organized person, darrell. I need to do something with that identity or just keep paying somebody to keep me organized. That's all good. The fourth one is learn a new skill, darrell. I think we did that this year and we can talk about it. I mean, you and I were we podcasters in 2023? No, and we weren't podcasters in the beginning of 2024. But we learned a new skill, daryl. This is cool man.
Speaker 2:Or a hobby. You know a hobby, maybe golf or something, or cycling. Maybe some people want to learn some cycling this year. We could lean in and partner with them. And the last one number five was save money and spending less. Saving money and spending less yes.
Speaker 3:Hey, for my wife, Josephine, what was that last one Spending less? Did I say that out loud, Doug, or was that in my head? I'm sorry. I apologize, Josephine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he doesn't apologize, it's saving money and spending less. But, daryl, as I was reading all these things, I thought about how important it is to whatever your goals are, man, and just because the statistics might sound hopeless, like, oh, why even try then? Right, please don't fall into that mindset. I think where people fail a lot of time is it reminds me of a quote that I'm always reminded of is if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. And I think when people get New Year's resolutions great, I'm not a resolutions kind of guy, I'm more of just building on the trajectory of just overall health into my 80s, 90s and maybe 100 years old. So if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. So just get a plan together, man. What do you know about plans, daryl?
Speaker 3:Well, I think one of the things and I think that I love that quote Wow, I just absolutely love it Good research, doug, really good research. I just I wrote those down and those are. Those are good five, and it'd be interesting to see. I bet those would be the same five for quite a while, right, because those are really good ones. I love the number four learning a new skill or hobby Right, you got to have some variety in your life, so, anyway, so thank you for doing that. As far as there, I think one of the things, doug, is you've got to plan to succeed, and when I think about 2025, and I heard this recently just listening to podcasts and as we're heading into the new year, I heard this term you should have a 2025 game plan.
Speaker 3:I like that. I like that better than resolution. You know, I know, you know you did a great job with the resolution and the key word in that, doug, is plan.
Speaker 3:Yes, you have to have a plan. You know what a plan means. You got to put effort into it, you got to do the work right. It just can't be some. Hey, it's um 1150 on December 31st and what's your new year's resolution and everything else. I really, I really liked that. So the other thing, doug, is we kind of look about planning, um, uh, a couple of things, and I did. I got a couple of notes for this podcast at a time. One of the things is um, hey, doug, what's uh, what's our, what's our peach? What's uh, what's P? What's our P word? P is purpose, purpose. You know what, as we go into next year, doug, I think one of the number one things and definitely you and I were going to talk about that in a minute what our 2025 plan is. By the way, doug and I both agreed that we don't have it all figured out but we're working on it.
Speaker 3:I think the purpose is you should have a why going into next year. I think that's where it starts, don't you think, doug? If you don't have a why, how are you going to commit to it, right?
Speaker 2:And sometimes you need to lay out your plan and then ask yourself okay, why? And you might have to do that several times, like a writer has to write down and then he throws away. I didn't like that version, I didn't like that version and, um, but yeah, the why, dude, that's huge, that is huge it is.
Speaker 3:It is, and so a couple things that you know when I started. Look at you know what makes up a good game plan. What are the key elements of planning? Uh, number one you need to have categories of what you want to go do. Have an idea of what you want to go do. A few of the ones that definitely jump out at me is, you know, health, family, money. Doug, I love your idea that you talked about the top five, of doing something new. Maybe doing something new there, and I think you have to be a little bit more specific, doug. Right, I'm not sure, doug, and you know you've been a health coach, a life coach and a lot of different things. I'm not quite sure if just losing weight is enough. Don't you think you need to be a bit more specific?
Speaker 3:for health, wouldn't it be? Hey, I'd like to lose 20 pounds. I'd like to improve. You know. Help get my blood pressure under control. I'd like to. I it feels like you need to be a bit more specific on your goals of what you need to do. Can you talk about what you've seen specifically being a health?
Speaker 2:coach. Yeah, for sure, for sure. So I love that, daryl, and talking about being specific and connecting that to why is so important? Because here's what happens If you're not specific and you don't know why, too many people get into the weight loss game with the idea that your goal weight is a finish line.
Speaker 2:And then when they get there, they come to realize that when you hit a goal weight, you've actually gotten to the starting line Right. When you hit a goal weight, you've actually gotten to the starting line right. So when you lose all that weight and you get to a weight that you appreciate and you like and you feel good in your skin with, that's the starting line, because now you have to learn how to live that way for the rest of your life or the weight comes back. So, in health, in finances and everything, if you don't get very specific, if you don't get clear, one thing that you can't do is measure it. So if you're not very clear on where you're going, you can't measure your progress.
Speaker 2:And if you can't measure your progress, you don't know if you're making headway or not. Man, the next thing you know you're just driving in circles and you don't even realize that you're driving in circles. You might have moments of feeling good, you might have moments of feeling like you've crushed this or you had a victory there, and those are great things. Man, definitely celebrate those things. But if you can't measure it from where you started to where you're going and seeing that you're actually making progress and not just doing circles, then, man, you're going to just be stuck in this loop. You're going to be one of those nine people out of 10 who gives up in week two of the New Year's resolution.
Speaker 3:So, if we kind of look at it, number one you need to commit to a game plan, yes, number one. Number two you need to set some goals, right. Number three you need to be more specific than just general. You need to be specific, be more specific than just general, right, so it doesn't have to be down to like, hey, every Tuesday at six o'clock in the morning I'm going to do it, but you need to be a little bit more specific, right? And then you need to have measurable goals, right? Yes, and if you have some measurable goals, that would be a starting point. And then I heard this and I really like this If you had those things, let's just be good. Game plan goals be specific, measurable goals. Then you can re, you can reverse engineer it, doug.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:You know what. And then you could put your action plan. Hey, if I want to get my blood pressure under control next year and get it down to a reasonable rate, you know what? I should probably make sure that guess what Reverse engineer. I probably should go see my doctor, I should maybe join a gym, I should commit to X and Y. But the idea is, if you set a goal out there and Doug and I are going to talk a little bit about our 2024, because we didn't have it all figured out, but we set some goals and then we kind of reversed engineered into it, Then you can kind of like say what are the steps I need to go take. So I like that. You need to have more than just a resolution. You need to have a game plan with some items and then you can start to reverse engineer into it.
Speaker 2:Right. And then, daryl, some of the things you were saying, or all the things you were saying around planning, those words are actions. Like planning itself is an action word. Because, man, I can't tell you how many times myself and I've watched many other people do it write down these amazing plans with specific goals, with such clarity, with identifying their why, but then the action doesn't come. You know, because you, there's usually one big, one of the biggest excuses people use that keeps them from taking action. And do you know what? That, what, that, what the number one excuse is, daryl.
Speaker 3:Don't have time.
Speaker 2:Yes, Time, I don't have time.
Speaker 3:Time is precious. Yeah, Time is by far, and and I don't know if maybe it's me becoming an OG and I'm a little bit younger than your OG by like a year or two but time, time is one of the most precious elements, Right, and so so here I am, Doug, and I'm I'm planning. I got these four or five big things I want to go do, Doug, where am I going to find the time to do those? In my current busy life.
Speaker 2:Yep. So that mindset, daryl, when people say I don't have time, and another one that I hear a lot is oh, I can't afford that. Now I can't tell you how many people say I can't afford your program, doug. And then within a week or two, I see them on an all-expense-paid cruise or something, spending three or four times as much as I was going to charge them to get healthy for the rest of their life, and I'm like, okay, priorities are a little mixed up and I get it. Hey, I ain't knocking any. Wish I was on a cruise with them, to be honest with you. But it's just our priorities, daryl, when we're planning. I think it's so important that we take a moment to once we have our plan all set out there, we've got the I's dotted and the T's crossed and we have, with certainty and clarity okay, this is where I'm going and this is why I'm going there.
Speaker 2:I think an important step a lot of people miss is identifying obstacles, right, because one of the biggest obstacles you're going to face is your mind, your mindset. Oh, how am I going to do this? I don't have time today. I don't have time today. I don't have time today. You're going to hear that over and, over and over again. And if you don't prepare for those obstacles, but because you did the work and identified them ahead of time, they're going to catch you. They're going to catch you and be kind to yourself, give yourself some grace, because they're going to catch you. You can, even if you do prepare for them. You're going to get caught with your pants down once in a while, man, and you just got to learn to pull them back up and keep on walking.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so pants on the ground. Doug got to pull them up. The other item oh my goodness, ava's going to love this part of the podcast. She's going to have pants on the ground. She's going to be so happy with me that we're trying to throw things in.
Speaker 3:Hey, doug, the concept of addition by subtraction. I want to explore that for a minute with you, right? So many times? Hey, doug, I'm going to eliminate social media as I'm writing the post on Facebook. I'm no longer going to be on Facebook for the next X amount of times I don't think always and I'm not saying that you don't eliminate things, right? I'm very honest with me. I've eliminated alcohol in my life, right? That is the thing that I needed to do and that's a big part of what this. So, some things you have to eliminate.
Speaker 2:Right, but let me ask you something, daryl. Let me ask you something because I want this to be relevant with people, because you're bringing in social media and eliminating it. Was there a time in your life if somebody would have said, eliminate alcohol, that you would have said, well, that's ridiculous, because you and Josephine hung out, that was part of your? I mean, you guys weren't crazy or anything like that. I mean you had a lot of fun, wild and crazy parties. It was fun. You had a lot of fun, wild and crazy parties. It was fun. Um, and in that environment, could you see eliminating alcohol as as even part of your life? But when you were, when you were deep into throws, it would be like that's crazy talk right that's crazy talk.
Speaker 3:what, what, why did you do that? You know, and, um, you know, not trying to get into my my story too much, but to be honest with you, doug, at times I tried to sit there and, um, I, I would, I would, would, I would, I would. For me, I would say, guess what? I'm going to stop drinking, for you know 30 days, or 60 days and everything else. And you know, for me, um, you know, that worked and it did. But then you know what? It got to the point where I had to be honest with myself, doug, and I think some ways and I think there's two E words eliminate or editing, edit for me I got to the point where I knew I needed to eliminate alcohol. That was a decision, and after I tried to edit it many times and it didn't work.
Speaker 3:I tried, the edit didn't work.
Speaker 1:I had to eliminate.
Speaker 3:But I think the other thing is, I think you have to also, sometimes you need to edit things, and I think the one thing I would say and Josephine and I do have this conversation quite a bit, because time is one of the things that's very precious to everybody is how do you subtract things that are time wasters? You subtract things that are time wasters. So I'll just give an example I heard on a podcast this week. Let's say you spend three hours on social media, right? Or let's say let's. Let's be honest. Let's say you spend an hour. Okay, fine, an hour, right. By by the way, most people spend more than that. But if you spend an hour, what if you edited to that and said guess what? I'm going to spend 30 minutes on that. You gain 30 minutes, right?
Speaker 3:How many things can you look in your life? If it's people or if it's tasks that you do, you could edit it. Maybe you don't eliminate it, doug, I mean I, you know I would, probably. I don't know what your thoughts are. I think I would start with editing things. I don't think I would go to the extreme of eliminating Maybe I'm just kind of talking off the cuff but start with editing, like I tried to edit alcohol and I realized I needed to eliminate it. Maybe you start with trying to get some time back to start, so it's not extreme. What are your thoughts on editing versus eliminating?
Speaker 2:Well, and I'm going to keep it in the context of social media because, it's funny, you brought that topic up I was actually considering for 2025, eliminating social media, and I keep thinking about it. Going well, I got the podcast, you know, we got the podcast, I want to promote it, I want to get, and so my mind is thinking about how do I plan to do this, and I'll tell you why, daryl just like, and it's probably one of the reasons why I asked you, you why Daryl just like? It's probably one of the reasons why I asked you. You know, when you were in the throes of just drinking alcohol and it was just part of your life, you know you don't recognize that what it could look like without it, if you eliminate it. It wasn't until you actually decided to eliminate it that this whole new door opened that you never knew was there, right? And so I think I'm deeply looking for and I'll tell you why, darrell's because I think social.
Speaker 2:For me personally, I think social media has become, uh like, like a drug of choice. I find myself on there a lot more than I need to be, that's for sure. I used to be pretty disciplined about it and go on and put out content and then shut it off and go. But I'm finding myself. You know just if I'm bored, if I have a few minutes, I'll open it up. Hey, what's going on in Facebook land? Or what's going on Instagram? Next thing? I know, dude, there's like 30 minutes that passes by and I'm finding myself. That's happening more and more.
Speaker 2:So I think, again in context with social media, for me personally, I don't know that editing is going to work. I'm trying to edit right now but, like you were saying, around alcohol, you took 30 days off here, 30 days here, and you realize at some point that wasn't working. You had to eliminate to find peace, and so that's something I am considering and I'm sharing that because everything I read on social media we talking 2025, not the rest of my life. But maybe I need to go inward, maybe I need to do the hard work. Maybe that's my misogi, my emotional misogi or mental misogi, to kind of just say, hey, how do I level up, how do I increase viewership or listenership with the podcast and not be on social media? Maybe I hire somebody to do social media for me or what that looks like.
Speaker 2:But, dude, I've tried the editing and just struggling with that right now, but I like editing. I love the editing for a lot of other things. Give me another topic that we could edit. Instead of social media, what's another topic you Could be a reasonable thing to edit? Maybe how much TV you consume, maybe television Netflix.
Speaker 3:TV consumer. Can I put it out there, doug? We're supposed to be honest right After the you know F happiness. You told me, darrell, on that bike ride you said I told you I can be more honest. What about editing people? Oh, wow, yeah, and I'll throw it out there. We talked about this a little ahead, prepping for this thing.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you can eliminate people, but if you are in a habit, there's somebody in your life that maybe doesn't fit with all your goals a family member or a friend or something you don't want to eliminate them. I mean you don't want to eliminate people. I think eliminating people in certain situations is probably a good thing. In other situations it's probably kind of extreme. But you know what, you know what. Maybe you spend a little less time with them, right? Maybe you do things on your terms with them, right? Yes, I mean, Doug, to be really frankly, you know what, you know what For certain people in my life that are really good people, but if a lot of the things that I did with them involved alcohol, I've had to edit some of that Doug, and that doesn't mean that they're not people I like and I still stay in touch with them and everything else.
Speaker 3:but I've been able to edit the amount of time I spend with them. So I know it's kind of a tough topic. But you know what? Maybe you could edit certain people in your life and so maybe you don't do those three or four things or you just do maybe a couple of things with them. But I don't think elimination is always the answer. I've tried to more edit things and kind of get back time that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that. I like the concept of definitely. I believe editing should be your first try on anything that you're trying to adjust and move towards. Dara, I love what you said about you know if they're not in align with your goals and where you're moving forward like. You have this recipe in your brain and can you talk about that a little bit, because I found you to say yes. You're saying yes to so much more.
Speaker 3:You know it's funny because you and I both have had this kind of epiphany. I think I've edited things where maybe I've reduced them, but I think I say yes to more things. And why do I say yes? If they're aligned with my values, if they're aligned with health, if they're aligned with helping people or good things, I would be debating. I just say yes, Doug, Like hey, you know what? We're going to go snowshoeing this weekend with Paul. Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Paul, friends, exercise doing something I haven't done before. Why wouldn't I do that? And so I find that I'm saying yes to more things that are more attuned with my values and my core principles, and I think, honestly, saying yes to more things is probably eliminating distractions that I would have. So I don't think I don't think we want to take this as a negative. I think a positive could be. Guess what? Maybe you're saying yes to more things that are aligned to your goals.
Speaker 2:So, boom, that's right man, say that again, saying yes to more things that are aligned to your goals, aligned to your goals. You're not just because there's the movie with Jim Carrey. What's it called?
Speaker 2:Yes, man, he's saying yes to everything and a lot of cool stuff came out of that man, but a lot of crazy stuff did too. But I think if you really get specific, daryl, like you just said right, we were talking about planning man you got to get specific. And so if you are clear about what your goals are and you create this recipe in your head so that when people are asking you to do stuff, man it's like is this in line with my goals? Is this serving others? Is this you know ABC? You're going down this checklist.
Speaker 2:You're like, yes, and now you're filling your life. You might be unavailable for a lot of things and a lot of people, but those things are probably not serving you. You're not available to go hang out in a bar and eat wings and drink beers anymore, because you're snowshoeing on a Sunday, with guys out there in nature and man enjoying experience, mother Nature at its beauty, with the snow and all that stuff. You're filling your life with all kinds of really rich experiences that will bring lots of long-term memory and stuff like that. So that's cool there.
Speaker 3:I like that. Let me, let me, let me, let me, let me addition by subtraction yes, can truly be addition. Explain that, if I think about it, Doug yeah, the things I've given up pale in comparison to the things I've gained.
Speaker 2:Say that again. Daryl, Say that one more time.
Speaker 3:Nice and easy. The things I've subtracted from my life and given up pale in comparison for the things I've gained. I mean, we probably had 19 texts and we are all fired up about going snowshoeing this weekend and we have no idea exactly what we're going to do but we know when we're going to leave.
Speaker 3:We know where we're going to start and, by the way, we might put a pin out to peach podcast in case we get like snowed in, because it's going to snow on us Right? Um but, um, but you know what I mean. I'm fired up about that, doug.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too. That's going to be fun.
Speaker 3:By the way, guess what, doug? Do you know? It's funny Tony and I did a small like a one mile trail up in Calaveras County and we had the kids with us. We were up there on some of the big trees and everything else, and so we did it and we've always talked about, oh, this would be really cool. So Paul, who's a great friend of ours, has done it before Right, and so we're going to try it and it's going to be good. And guess what, doug, am I worried about? Oh, my goodness, doug, I'm going to miss NFL weekend. No, no, trust me, I can watch the replays and everything. By the way, the Niners aren't having a great year, so maybe it's good. But think about it. I haven't even thought about we're going to miss the football games. I'm fired up about what we're going to go do. Right.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, no, no, I think it's a great item, hey, doug, if we kind of transition one, we're not at the end of the year and we're talking about 2025, which means we need to start planning for it. And so, doug, you and I have talked about it. We are going to go create a personal plan. Yes, we definitely are going to talk about our team, kind of team peach, which we've got some great members. We've already talked about what we're going to set for the year, right, and also you and I you know what, guess what we're going to set some goals for the podcast, right. Yeah, so we got a couple of weeks so we don't have everything figured it out, but we're going to go do that.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm excited about, daryl, is this podcast started. I think you had shared with me the idea of us partnering on a podcast and doing it was April 7th you said is that right Of 20,?
Speaker 3:April 7th.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, it was during a run. What were?
Speaker 3:you doing that day, Doug? What were we doing that day?
Speaker 2:We were running 10 miles. We were at an event, we we needed a metal that had the uh, the 10 on it. So we, we found an event that had a metal and it had a 10 on it, cause we had the 5k that we did and we had a half marathon and we had a bunch of other ones but we didn't have a 10. So, um, we got that and we talked about we had, man, we had an amazing conversation, daryl. That was, uh, a lot of things were unfolding in my life. I was uh, you know, as you know and and other close family members know that you know, I'm just going through some personal stuff right now and it's it's hard, man, it's hard, but, uh, I remember making that, that commitment with you. Do you remember what we? What was our first commitment, daryl? What was our first commitment?
Speaker 3:Well, after like six months of saying, doug, you'd be the best person I could ever remember doing a podcast, because you're great at social media, you've got some great wisdom, you've got a great voice. You should be out there. Um, we committed on that somewhere between we were talking mile two and mile 10. I think it was probably halfway in between, it wasn't at the end.
Speaker 3:And we committed that we were going to start a podcast. Yes, and we committed to three things. Yep, number one, which is the most important, is we're going to start, yeah.
Speaker 2:Which took us about two months, man.
Speaker 3:It took us. It took us about, uh, about, about, about two months to do that, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Um, what was the second one?
Speaker 3:The second one was that we were not going to get attached to an outcome and that, and basically, doug, I don't know, I'm just saying let's say, let's say something horrible happened to you. Your tombstone will be. I'm not tied to an outcome, because Doug is the. Doug is literally the, the. You should get a tattoo, a headstone, everything else, and he's in. He's literally talked everybody into that. And we uh, we text multiple times a day with multiple different people and it's about the process, not the outcome. I love that. And the third one is we committed that day that if we're going to do this, we're going to do it once a week, all the way to the end of the year.
Speaker 3:Yes, till the end of the year, and have we held through that?
Speaker 2:Daryl, man, we're here doing it. Man, we got uh this episode. Uh is going to land Gosh. I think we'll have maybe a week or two left of just episodes. One week you're going to be in Hawaii, man. We got to either pre-record that or get you live.
Speaker 2:We definitely got to get you live in Hawaii because you're doing your Misogi, so we're going to have a bonus episode on that for sure. You were talking about the 2025 goals. I'm excited about the 2025 goals because you and I didn't really I mean other than those three goals. Number one was just start. Number two, you know, don't be attached to an outcome. And number three was, you know, every week we were going to commit to recording once a week, and we we've accomplished that this thus far. God willing, we'll finish out the last couple of weeks of this year.
Speaker 2:But, man, what's it going to look like, daryl? Because, man, you're a very strategic thinker. I mean, that's what you do for your career. You've got to be super strategic. You've got a plan, you got to forecast and project. You work a lot with numbers and with people, and so, you know, I'm excited, but I'm also a little nervous, like, well, what's, daryl? You know what's your end? Because we collaborate. You know, I'm going to hear what you have to say and you're going to hear what I have to say, and together we'll come together with a solid plan that we both know is going to scare the shit out of us, because we don't. You know, if we're going to plan some goals. They're going to be goals. Neither one of us thought we could have a podcast that gosh. What's the stats on our podcast? Right? We had no listeners in April 7th. Where are we now in as far as broadcasting? Where does this podcast broadcast?
Speaker 3:to Well, I think the thing that really excites me is we're in 13 countries and we're in 242 different cities Wow. And the one thing that Doug and I because Doug has done an amazing job and, by the way, you think I'm the organized one, doug is the one that's organized the setup of the podcast Big shout out to Megan. That really taught us a lot of different things about how to set up and execute a podcast. He does the editing and everything else. But we got some good stats. And the cool part every week is we see how many new cities we get. It's three to four new cities a week, and so the reach on that. So what would you like? My wildest dream, somewhere between mile 20, excuse me, mile two and mile 10 on April 7th is we'd be in 13 countries and 242 cities.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, that was. That was crazy, and I remember talking about it and getting ready to do our first show is like we had to keep reminding ourselves, man, if we could just impact one person. You know if we can make a difference in one person's life and some of the text messages we've gotten along the way and the people we've run into along the way who just share you know how much they appreciate the content we're putting out and again and again, a lot of the content is just interviews. It's not just me and you and you know we try to find people.
Speaker 2:I love, daryl, that you and I are, because you can open up any podcast show and get you know celebrities and and the you know the big name people. Those are a dime, a dozen out there, man, and I think you and I are really committed to and we may have some of those people from time to time as we grow, but I think right now, where, where our, our lane is, we're trying to find, we try to connect with ordinary people doing extraordinary things and to us, man, that just helps. I think that helps our, our audience say well, gosh, if that person's doing it, why can't I do it too. This world is filled with ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and I love that we get to interview them. We got some really cool interviews coming up down the road.
Speaker 1:Ricky LaRocca.
Speaker 2:Strongman is going to be coming up down the road, but I'm just excited about our 2025 plan and goals.
Speaker 3:We're not there, yet I am. I am Not there yet, man. We're not there yet. We're not there yet. But hey, doug, let's take maybe one minute each, right, doug? We didn't have it all figured out last year.
Speaker 3:No not even close. But guess what? 2024, top of mind. I'm throwing this out there real time. Being honest, yeah, what were the things you thought about? What were the things as you went into 2024? A word or kind of a goal or anything else? What were when you think about it? Because we weren't quite as planned, we didn't quite have a game plan last year, but we had some ideas. So what was your thought on 2024 for you?
Speaker 2:yeah, and I love that we weren't as planned. I love that we we're growing with our listeners, daryl, like we you meet doug and daryl, don't have our shit together, man and we're learning, but we've grown a lot and we hope, uh, to bring a lot of people with us to grow with us, yeah, for the rest of our lives. But my last year, daryl, I, I, uh, I started picking a word. I didn't do New Year's resolutions. I started finding a word that resonated with me and one night I was sleeping and had a dream and a word was given to me and this word I'm going to say the word. It's a very common word, but I have to break down the context. The word was remembered and I woke up and I dreamed about Jesus in the Catholic Mass. Jesus says do this in remembrance of me. And the way it was explained to me in my dream was that remembrance. It wasn't like, hey, remember our dinner last week or remember that movie last year. It was more about two words, about re-member, like bringing back together my life with a life in Christ and so remembering my soul, my mind, my body into that process.
Speaker 2:And I tell you, dara, I definitely elevated my scripture reading this year elevated my attendance at church on Sundays and on the weekends, and you know cause? I'm a normal human being, sometimes I miss that. But I started getting back to focusing on planning my weeks around church. Like the first thing that goes into my calendar is church, whether I'm away for the weekend or not. I'm like, okay, well, let me put church in first and then everything else is gonna fit in around that.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I've got to shift and shuffle and that, you know, we all have to slide things around once in a while, but for the most time, man, it's pretty solid. So that's and gosh, darrell, I'm just going to be real transparent with you right now. You know, like I said earlier, I've been going through a lot of just personal things and again a lot of it is from my own doing. I take full responsibility for it. I acknowledge my parts and the mistakes and the errors I've made in my ways and in my life. But when that word remembered came to me, you know, to bring me back whole with the life in Christ, I didn't know all this stuff was going to come down.
Speaker 2:You know from my past actions and so, man, I think I was being prepared for this journey I'm on and that I'm currently in, because I tell you what, man, regardless of the turmoil going on internally and externally, I have peace, daryl. I have peace through my faith and, gosh, man, it just feels, it's so empowering. It doesn't mean I'm always like happy and feeling good, but I'm confident in peace, like there's just this overwhelming sense of confidence in peace that I have. And so that was my 2024 thing. I'm still going through it, I'm still riding it out and I love it. It's something that I'm going to build on. I'm not letting go of that. I'm going to continue to increase my faith, elevate my faith life. But what about you, brother? What was in 2024? The January rolled around. We're looking back almost a whole year now. What rolled across? Did you have a resolution? Did you have a word? What would you?
Speaker 3:do. I didn't have a resolution. I think this guy I know his name is D-Flex, I don't know he's got this whole concept of words right. He got me on the words because you've been doing words for a while, you've been in words for a couple of years, right?
Speaker 3:So you know you did that and you know, to be honest with you I think you know my sobriety and everything else my number one thing, my work for this year, was peace. Right, yes, and you asked me I don't know two, three podcasts ago, have I found peace? And the reality is, you know me as good as probably anybody next to my wife and everything else, but I can confidently say that the actions I've taken and just kind of saying yes to be more things and be more aligned with my values, has led to better peace. So I don't think I had a full plan for the year, but I wanted peace and I feel like my actions, like you said, maybe a little bit my higher power helped me lead that, but so I definitely feel that and you know I think that's a big thing. So remembered, I think, is great, it's awesome to hear and, by the way, you know, I know we know each other pretty well. We're, we're we're not just here once a week right, your commitments, you're remembered to your faith, to being at church, to being more spiritual. You prove it every week. I mean, you're that, that's, that's kind of you. You've said that's my priority and that's what I'm doing and it's awesome to do that and I can't be happier that I've been able to execute from a peace perspective. But also I'm super excited about we still got a couple weeks left.
Speaker 3:I can tell you one thing the word peace is a big, important thing to me. Monday, as I was heading out to the airport, ava was in the mass and I told you this Ava was in the mass and she had a special part and it was at her school and she was up in the front and she was singing and doing some reading and she had a role in the mass, right, nice, and there's a part in mass where you go peace be with you right, right, and where they do this. And I told you this and you know, peace is my word for the year, and I'm probably about 75 feet away from Ava over there, and she looked at me and said, when peace be with you, she gave me the peace sign.
Speaker 1:Right and.
Speaker 3:I gave her the peace sign back and you know, I, just you know, you know that literally warms your heart right. Whenever things look bad or anything else, you think back to that. So, remembered Doug. Yes, Peace, Daryl, and uh, we're going to be a little bit more organized going into 2025 and we're going to set the world on fire right?
Speaker 2:yes, um as much as we can 2025 game plan doug and daryl yeah and again, people out there and you might be thinking man, I haven't even thought about it and this is what'd like. Daryl and I are literally in the same. Like we know, we have goals for 2025. We just don't know what they are yet. So we've got to practice what we preach, man. We've got to plan, we've got to identify obstacles, we've got to you know the key concepts of planning. We're going to go through and initiate and ignite those things in ourselves and our planning. So, daryl, we'll have to plan some time to get together and do that, and then let's definitely follow up with everyone and let them know what we came up with, maybe on our last episode or whatnot, or maybe the beginning of the year. We'll find a way to translate that or convey that over to the audience. I think that's it.
Speaker 2:I do want to remind everyone and I'm always forgetting man. First of all, I want to say thank you to all the people who follow us and all the people who send us love through via regular text message. But there is a text message, little link. If you look at the show notes, whatever podcast, wherever you're listening to the podcast there's a little word that says send text, please, please, please, any comments, any thoughts, any ideas, any topics you want us to bring up, hit that button and just type it in there. Man, type it in there. We would really appreciate it.
Speaker 2:We get a lot of love from our Santa Rosa listener, the Fixer man. He's always commenting on there and just giving us some love. I mean, he's probably the most consistent message person in there and that's awesome. And I think what I'd like to throw out, daryl, if it's okay with you, is man, if you'd like, daryl and I are going to commit to writing some personal notes to some people and just reflect on this year, what it's brought to us, and just connect with some of the audience. If you'd like to receive a personal note or just some Christmas wishes or New Year's wishes, text us your address and we're going to need your name, obviously. So when you do send that text message in, it comes through anonymously, but you can put your name in there as well, but text us your address. We'd love to send you a little note and just say thank you for listening and we appreciate you very much. So with that said, daryl, let's just wrap it up how we always do brother, god bless and peace out, peace out, we're out, each out we're out.