I'm Taking A Break From My Podcast. Here's Why.

I’m sharing the honest reason I’m taking a short break from the podcast - and why stopping before you burn out is not failure, weakness, or quitting.

After 40 episodes, 14,000 listens, millions of social media views, a viral podcast clip, chart rankings, business growth, and a whole lot of life happening behind the scenes - you’ll hear season one has really meant to me.

You’ll hear everything, including scaling Iconic Coaching, finishing a house, navigating pregnancy loss, dealing with online trolls, going viral, growing a personal brand, and learning to listen to my body.

This is not goodbye. It’s a short pause, reset, and a promise that season two is coming back bigger, deeper, and stronger.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

💜 Why I'm taking a short break from the podcast
💜 The real-life pressure behind business growth and scaling
💜 Why stopping before burnout matters
💜 What season one of *Tell Me About It podcast* achieved
💜 How one viral podcast clip changed my reach, audience and business
💜  The hidden emotional cost of going viral online
💜 Why women in business need to listen to their body, not just their calendar
💜 What’s coming in season two
💜 How podcasting can build authority, trust and business growth
💜 Why rest is sometimes the most strategic move you can make

Key moments:

00:00:00 Intro
00:03:40 Stop Before You Break
00:05:20 Season Two Is Coming
00:09:00 The Guest Lineup Teaser
00:11:00 Season One By Numbers
00:13:00 The Top Three Episodes
00:16:00 Going Top 34 Nationally
00:19:00 Listeners In 95 Countries
00:22:30 The Viral Reel Numbers
00:27:00 The Real Cost Of Going Viral
00:30:40 Reading Eighty Thousand Comments
00:35:00 When Jameela Jamil Comments
00:37:30 The Lesson To Take With You

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👉Find out more about how we can work together:

https://iconiccoaching.com.au/coaching/

Transcript

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This one is nothing like I've ever done before, so I'm excited to kind of go through this one with you. But I'm kicking this one off with an announcement that I genuinely didn't see coming, and I genuinely didn't think that I was gonna be making. And if you told me I'd be at episode one that I'd be sitting here saying this at episode 40, I probably would have laughed at you. If you even told me that I would make it to episode 40, I don't think I would have believed you either because I just kind of never thought this podcast thing would work out, but you know, here we are. So the announcement I'm making today is that I'm this podcast is being recorded on Gubby Gubby Land. We pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this land, our country, and elders past and present. I am Kate Muir, and thank you for tuning in to this week's episode of Tell Me About It Podcast. So, the announcement I'm making today is that I am taking a little breather from the pod, and it hasn't been a decision that's come lightly for me, but this is 100% not the end, like absolutely nowhere near the end. I am absolutely coming back. I already have some episodes pre-recorded, so I'm committing to myself and I'm making sure that I get it done, but it's not goodbye. It's see you soon, truly. So I owe you the truth about why, um, because it's literally what so much of my coaching business is about and what this podcast is about. And like I said to you, genuinely, it wasn't in the diary, it wasn't something I planned on happening, this isn't strategy, but here we are. And the honest truth is that life has been coming at me from like every angle, every which way, every direction, everything. My business iconic is absolutely fucking booming, and we are in a growth and scale phase, which is if you've ever grown and scaled, it demands everything from you, like literally everything. And while I'm loving that, and while it's fun, it's kind of taking like every ounce of spare time that I have at the moment. It's been eating into our date nights, it's just been doing a lot of those things, and again, it's one of the seasons that I talk about all the time, so we're just in one of those seasons. And we're also finishing our house. Um, and you know, anyone who's renovated before, anyone who's built a house before knows that you don't just kind of like get the keys and move in. There's so much shit that goes on behind the scenes, and that is also absorbing all of my brain capacity and spare time, and I have like 20 people in my house all the time at the moment. And I'm not saying this for sympathy or anything else either, but we also have suffered another pregnancy loss, which to be honest was a little bit unexpected, and I'm saying this because it's real, and because if I sat here pretending that everything was okay and I was okay, and everything was just like about sunshine and content calendars, I wouldn't be being honest with myself, and I certainly wouldn't be being honest with you guys. So I'd be doing the exact opposite of I guess of what I stand for, what my businesses stand for. So when you put all of that into one pod, the business, the house, the grief, the kind of everything happening all at once, my creative flow for this pod has quite literally, well and truly, vacated the building. And I've felt in the last few episodes that I've done solo haven't really been me bringing my A game and delivering on the topics and delivering in a way that I hold myself to. Hopefully, you haven't felt like that, but I definitely have. And you know, the most important thing to me in my coaching business, in my podcast, in everything is like the quality of the output that I deliver. So completely, um, my body and my mind is literally standing at the door with arms crossed, going, babe, it's time to have a break. And it's not a question, it's a must happen. And I have to listen, I have to do. I talk about burnout all the time. I talk about, you know, listening to our body, listening to our minds, listening to everything. And once my mind starts getting cloudy, it's time to take a sit down and just have a little bit of a breather. So um, look, if you do take anything from this episode, please take this. I have spent years and years and years and years and basically my whole life working myself into the ground and working myself until I energetically and emotionally shrivel up and die, and pushing past every single message that my body and my brain and everything were screaming at me because I thought stopping meant failing or letting people down or whatever, and finally, finally, I'm learning to actually listen and I'm not doing that anymore. You have to stop when you need to stop, not when it's convenient, not when it fits in, not when you know you can schedule it around whatever you've got going on. You need to stop when your body and your mind is telling you to stop, and you need to stop before you reach extreme burnout, extreme illness, or something really horrible happening, because I believe we manifest things that make us stop too, but you have to do it then because if you don't, something really bad will happen, or something really extreme will occur, or something will force you into a long-term break, which is probably also not what you want. You want to kind of do it where you can get on top of it, get back on track, and whatever. So I'm actually doing really good. I generally do feel really good. It's just that my last two active brain cells at the moment are not being very creative, and I need that to be able to write this pod. So I did actually write a whole podcast episode on burnout and how I actually conquered it, and it's episode two, how I took back my time, health, and sanity. Um, but that's literally what I'm doing at the moment. I just need to give my little brain to cleanse out and a little bit of a breather, and um, I'm practicing what I preach. So season two is coming. Like I said, I am coming back. I already have a few eps drafted, I've already got a couple of guest ones recorded, and season two is coming back on Monday, the 31st of August. Write it down, set a reminder, title it on your fucking forehead if that's what it's gonna take to remember it. And I feel like I've got a bit of a treat for you to come back to. Ep One is going to be a part two, or maybe like an expansion of that time that I deeply enraged the manosphere and went insanely, world-endingly viral for it. I'm gonna touch on that a little bit throughout this episode as well, but um, season two is gonna be bigger, deeper, darker, funnier, naughtier, all the things. All the things that I think keep you guys coming back and listening in. So anyway, strap in for that. It's also gonna look a little bit different. I'm actually really excited. I'm rejigging a few things, I'm changing the way I deliver a few things, both solo and with guests. I still definitely want to have the mix of guests and solo apps. More topics, more messages, more strategy, more business, more talking about my own businesses, more advice, stronger everything. I just want this thing to hit harder and land deeper than I guess it ever has before. On that too, if you guys have got a topic, something you'd love my opinion on, something you'd love my advice on, like tell me. It's kind of the whole point of this show. Like, I want to give you guys topics that you want to hear about as well. You know, if you ask, I can answer, I can figure it out together, we can, you know, I can create something amazing around it. It's most important to me that my listeners are really looked after and they feel like I'm talking about topics that they love and topics that they want to hear about. So slide into my DMs, hit me up, fill out the form that I've got linked on my website now, send a carrier pigeon, smoke signal. I don't really care. Just tell me about it. Appropriate, right? I'm also shaking up how I do my guest pods for season two. I'm actually introducing a lot more variety into who I bring on and more variety into how the interviews actually run because I do want these conversations with guests to feel fresh and alive and not like every other interview podcast out there or even every other Hair and Beauty podcast out there, because there are so many. So, like, if you've ever thought about being a guest, if you've ever thought about wanting to be on this podcast, shoot your fucking shot. Like, hit me up. Again, I've got a couple of different links on my podcast page on my website now, which is one is about topic requests, one is about if you want to be a guest, one is about if you want me to be a guest on your pod, it's gonna be really good. So if you are innovating, if you are pioneering in a space, if you're doing something amazing or even just something fucking interesting with your life, with your business, if you've got a strong message that you want to talk about and it needs a microphone and a platform, like I want to hear from you. Like I said, there's a form linked. Seriously, shoot your shot. What's the worst thing that happens? You know, you might not be in season two, you might be in season three, you might be, I might pick you up straight away. And like I said, I really want to hear from people that are not in the hair and beauty industry as well. Of course, you're my people, and I love having you on, but I do actually really want people that are outside the industry more. Like, show me what you've got if you're doing something totally wild in a different world. I want that. I want you on this show, I want to learn about you, I want to learn about what you're doing, I want you to talk about yourself, I want you to share it with the world. Seriously. So, on that, I want to give you a little bit of a taste of what's coming because the guest lineup is pretty fucking hot. Get ready for the lacks of Mickey Ald. Honestly, you've gotta love her if you don't know her. She was actually one of my clients. She brings something very special to the table, and I just can't wait for you guys to hear all about it. She's like just wicked. My incredible friend Tamara Reid, she's coming on, and not just about the beauty business world, like we're actually talking about some really hot topics, motherhood, business, everything else. I've got the gorgeous Victoria coming from the hairstyling formula. And you know, that's a couple of my industry people. But like I said, I've got people out of there as well. Claire Burton is coming on on the list, we're having our catch-up next week. Belinda Cook, I have her episode recorded, and she is just how do I put this? There'll be cults, there'll be business, there'll be divorces, there'll be everything in that one. And it's not just about the Chukulalas, not just about the girlies, I have Peter Foster coming on, I have McNish, I have my beautiful friend Chris, who has the most incredible business in Australia, and it's totally outside the industry, and he's the coolest person ever. He would call himself a little autistic nerd burger, and that's also why I love him. But um, I'm not gonna share too much about him because he is just business level 20,000, 14 million actually. But season two is stacked. And before I get ahead of myself, I do kind of want to talk about this season as well and my little humble potty and what's actually happened over the past 40 weeks since we hit publish on F1. And it's been wild, like genuinely, properly wild. I think I look back to the reasons that I guess I started a podcast. One, I thought it would be just like a cool marketing strategy to explore. Two, I can yap all day, every day underwater with marbles in my mouth. And I think that social media doesn't provide me long enough to talk to you guys. It's also, you know, this is a better platform to do it. I know that so many of my clients and and everything listen to me when they're at the gym, when they're driving somewhere, whatever. So why not put it on a potty? So that's kind of why I started it, and I guess it just grew bigger and better than ever than like just bigger than I ever thought it would. Like I'm actually really quite humbled um by some of these stats. So at the time of recording this episode, we've hit around 14,000 listens. 14,000 listens? Like, what do you fucking mean? 14,000 of you have listened to me or you've listened 14,000 times. Like, when I saw when I started this, I thought, you know, a couple of my family members and a few loyal clients would tune in out of a bit of pity, and instead, 14,000 fucking listens. You showed up, and I'm so like I'm blown away, first of all. But truly, from the bottom of my heart, I am so unbelievably ridiculously grateful for every single one of you. Like, truly, I think, yeah, I am a little lost for words in this pod because I'm a bit emotional about it, I guess. And I just like you know, every single person who supports me by liking some of my social content, by get downloading a free ebook, by listening to this podcast, by just doing anything. Like, I don't think you actually realize, or maybe you don't appreciate how much that actually means to me. Like, I'm just just a woman who fell into hairdressing, who started a business, who decided to start a potty, and here we are. And just yeah, it's it's just feels really good. And I'm really grateful. Truly, really, really grateful. I'm never gonna take any of this lightly, really. Um, I just think you're awesome. And if you're one of my clients, you're a fucking legend and I love you so much. And um, yeah, it's the best. But I want to kind of do a little bit of a countdown because there were three crazy high-performing episodes like that kind of like blew things out of the water. Coming in at number three, episode 31 was a solo episode for me, and it's called Why I Refused to Discount and Had My Biggest Year Ever. Now, I know that actually so many of you shared this podcast via messages and you sent it to people that was, you know, you thought would really relate to this, and it had just shy of 800 listens, and honestly, that means a lot to me because it's such a core part of my philosophy. And I think also like with the economy as it is and the financial state of the world as it is, and especially in Australia, and there's been so much going on, really, for the last, you know, six to seven years, pricing and valuing ourselves can be quite scary. And charging what we need and charging what we're worth and asking for a sale can be really overwhelming for a lot of people. And I definitely know for a long time in my life, I can relate to that on every level. I was exactly like that, truly. I was scared to back myself, I was scared to enforce my prices, I discounted people all the time. I even when I started doing um, you know, business advice and coaching and consulting work before I'd really formally like executed what was then known as Summit Cell and Coach, now iconic coaching, you know, I wouldn't ever charge people properly, or I would just do so much for free and get on stages for free and just give so much of myself for free. And I just know that by enforcing your pricing and and and standing your ground and putting a value on yourself, everything changes. Better quality clients come along, better business happens, hit your financial goals quicker, you feel more rewarded, and the work feels less taxing. So if you're someone who's kind of going through that at the moment, it's a really good episode for you. So ep 31 when I refuse to discount and have my biggest year ever. Rolling in at number two is actually episode 30. So this was the week before that one. And it is he inherited $400,000 of debt and turned it into an empire with the men, the myth, the legend, Gareth Philpot. And that one smashed it just shy of a thousand listens. Gary, you're a very popular man, and I'm so grateful that you gave me your time. And I just think you're a fucking sick hunt. I think everything you're doing is great. I love what you're doing for the hair and barbering industry. I just think you're awesome. And um, I'm so happy that that one performed really, really well. And I hope you got lots of listens out of it, and you know that paid you back as well. I'm always really grateful when my guests give me all of their time and when they Yeah, I just think it's I think it's fucking sick. I just think it's awesome. Topping the charts, of course. I'm sure some of you probably already knew this one is the truth about masculine versus feminine energy with a staggering 2,000 listens. 2,000. And naturally, I'm gonna come back and talk a little bit more about that one because that's probably one of the ones that wasn't or well, I want to say it wasn't like organic, like it wasn't people who were following me and stuff. Most people I'd say would found that episode on social media. That's kind of the episode that changed everything for me. But it didn't stop at downloads because from this podcast, I have gained 10,000 brand new social followers over at Iconic Coaching and 18,000 over at Tell Me About a podcast. 18,000 like it's a small city of people that you know thought I was worth a follow. And yeah, it just blows me away. Hey, I've maintained over 1 million social media views consistently for the past three months, and we've had weeks, like multiple weeks, in excess of three million views. Three million, it's being fucking mental. And like these are the kind of numbers that I just used to look at other people's accounts and think, fuck, that must be so nice. Like, well done to them. Like, shout. And now here we are. It's happened to me. I've also been invited onto a couple of other people's podcasts, many new podcasts, a few over in the United States, which is crazy. I'm guesting for some that I've agreed to, which is really cool. And like this the reach that this little show has given me has opened doors that I just didn't really even know that existed. It's cool. And just like when I was writing out all these stats and like putting it all together, I was like, holy fucking shit, little old me. And the rankings, all right, I'm gonna brag here for a second because I think I'm allowed to in the finale for season one. Tell me about a podcast that went from living down somewhere between the 100th to 200th ranking for business podcasts in Australia, to then cracking top 100 in the Apple charts, climbing into the top 50. Then I ranked above some of my absolute favourite podcasters. Hormosy. Obviously, everybody in business knows Hormosy, right? Brit Saunders, big business, great potty. Like, what the fuck? Like, what the actual fuck? I was ranking above people that I look up to, that I admire, that I listen to, that I learn from, people's stuff who I would consume on my morning walks and my drives, and then tell me about it, hovered around the top 40 for a few weeks straight, and then reached number 34 for entrepreneurship in Australia, number 34 in the fucking country. From my little setup with my Amazon lighting, recording from wherever I happened to be that week. Fuck off. Like, are you kidding me? It's just so humbling. And I also have to shout out to my producer Connor too, who is just a ledge, who actually like celebrates this shit with me too, like sends it to him. He's like, Oh my god, look at this, you're doing this, you're ranking this, you've got all these wins, and yeah, it's just fucking cool. So um, we have you know, well over a thousand followers now on Spotify, which I'm also pretty chuffed about. And something that I I don't even know how it happened, but I'll take you there. We have listeners from six continents of the world. Six out of seven, ninety-five countries. 95, and like including some real weird ones. I wrote some of them down. So we've got listeners from the Isle of Man, which side note I'm fucking dying to get to. I would love to go over and see the Isle of Man TT. If you're an Isle of Man listener, hello, hi, can I stay at your place? Thanks. We've got Bonaire, St. Eustace, and Saba. I'm not gonna lie, I had to look that one up. It's like every time the Olympics is on and I learn a new country, I'm like, wow, I didn't even know this country was a place. And I have to look it up. I did the same thing when I was going through my podcast countries. We've got Uganda, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nic Nicaragua, I always pronounce that wrong, and I'm actually absolutely dying to get there. Ethiopia, Mauritius, Latvia, the Syrian Arab Republic. Like, what is this? What? It's insanity. People all over the entire world in places I've only dreamed of listening to me yap. I'm floored. Like, genuinely flawed. And look, it hasn't been all glamorous, let me tell you, it has not been all fun and games for chart positions, but I accidentally cut myself off completely out of the video that I did with my best friend Katie Alexander, the bodybuilding trade lady. So massive apology to those of you who are watching on YouTube and just got a nice little snippet of half my face, my shoulder, and a piece of my chair. Cool, love that. Soz, I'm not the tech queen that you think I am. I have a team of people who make me look so good. And um, on that, actually, I've put my poor producers through through it this season, to be honest. Bit of bad sound, weird lighting, random recordings from my travels everywhere, just wherever I could fit it in. And they've worked miracles genuinely. And for the most part, it has been fucking awesome. But there's been a few weird little things that have happened along the way, and then you know, rotten internet, people dropping out, my dogs barking in the middle of it, fucking it's I don't know why, but the minute I start recording is like the moment the Ford delivery people decide to deliver things that I forgot that I even ordered, like it's it's been a time, it's been the most amazing, epic, awesome learning curve, and I love it. But the number one thing that I never ever expected from my little pod. So I went semi-viral, semi-viral, can't even get my bloody words out, about 20 times across both my podcast and my business socials this season. And the beauty there was I really worked hard to level up my social media for my business. And then naturally, I don't call my podcast my business. I'll just clarify this. I don't call my podcast my business, even though it is a business because it's not the business that is like my main income source. It's kind of like a branch. It's like a you know, evil little stepsister of my business, I guess. So when I refer to business, I mean iconic coaching. And when I refer to pod, I mean obviously the pod, but like they're obviously connected. So I've worked really hard on my socials in iconic coaching. That's been one big part of the growth phase and the you know, whatever. And that's been fucking awesome. And also across my podcast. And it's been probably a 23, 24 times, something like that. So my producers, when I send them these episodes, they cut everything, they edit it, they make me sound awesome, they cut out bits where I blab or I speak too fast that it just kind of ends up one mumbled word. They slow me down to speed me up or do whatever they need to do. They also cut and create all my reels and my clips for socials for me. And so many of them landed over 100,000, 200,000, 500,000 views, tens of thousands of likes, stacks of comments and shares and all of it, regrams, whatever you call it. But one clip, one clip blew every single other one well and truly out of the water. Posted exactly 11 weeks ago from the day this pod goes to air. Fuck me, did I enrage the incels? And that makes me laugh so much because it's not like a topic that I really talk about that much. And to be honest, like the whole podcast episode is actually about healthy relationship dynamics, especially highlighting a lot of the things between my husband and myself. By the way, he's coming back for a few podcast apps next season. But this particular clip, this particular rant was like me having a proper rant about the absolute hellhole that is the dating pool. Shout out to anyone who's currently in that. It was me talking about my own experience of dating men in said dating pool. I've actually never really had a bad dating experience with a woman, so I can't speak to that. But it's also apparently the dating experience of basically every woman who's ever existed, according to my uh responses and the internet, social media, Instagram, lost its fucking mind. And let me give you the numbers because they still don't feel real. And it's so funny because I remember putting this, I put this reel out. As you guys know, I try and always post it on Monday, Tuesday, letting you know the podcast episode is up. I listened to it, I was like, oh, that's a bit spicy. Fuck it, I'm gonna put it out. I was a bit nervous to put it out actually, because I thought, shit, I'm probably gonna get 500 angry, balding, middle-aged white men that hate their wives commenting on it. And I mean I did get that to a degree, but not as much as I thought. And so I posted it and my best friend Katie saw it and she liked it and messaged me and was like, lol, that is the funniest thing, and ain't that the truth? And then a few other people kind of messaged me about it, and then I went to bed not thinking about it. And then the next morning I woke up. The first thing I saw was actually a text message from Katie saying, Bro, that clip is going crazy. And I swear I had about 2,000 comments on it in one night, like within the first 24 hours. And I was like, fuck, logging into something like that is actually like the most overwhelming thing because you're like, I don't even know where to start. And lo and behold, it was actually 99% of it positive. Women in agreement, going, fuck yes, celebrating it, whatever, commenting on my epic delivery, which was actually pretty savage when you listen to it, but also if it's not about you, it wouldn't hurt your fucking feelings. Well, just say that, you know, normalize if it's not about you, fucking moving on. Anywho. So I'll give you the numbers. This is, you know, at the time of recording this pod episode a couple weeks ago. 18,000 comments, 18,000, 38,000 regrams, almost 170,000 shares, close to half a million likes, and 4.3 million views, 4.3 million from one clip of me ranting about how horrible men are in the dating world. Now, I have to kind of be completely honest about this one because that's what we do here at Tell Me About a Podcast, which is that going viral has been fun, it's been amazing, but fuck me, dead. Am I tired? Like, there like one big part of the honest reason to probably why I am feeling so fried and so burnt out and like my head is exploding is truly because that has been the most tiring, exhausting, time-consuming experience of my entire fucking life. So, like, be careful what you bloody wish for. Seriously. Did it help my podcast? Absolutely. My listens have, you know, basically tripled, almost quadrupled on every single episode following that. So absolutely it has helped my podcast. Has it helped my business? Yes, 100%. So many new leads, genuinely high-quality clients have come through from seeing me on socials, and it has moved the needle in a way that nothing else ever really has. Um, and then the flow on from that obviously is that when I'm trending, my social content is getting better reached and more people are seeing it. But like I said, the honesty part of this, and I guess the contrast of that though, is that, and and and also I don't think people really talk about this very much, is that genuine messages and real comments and actual inquiries got completely lost in the tidal wave. There were so many people reaching out with real questions, real inquiries, real connections, and my team and I did miss quite a bit of it. Our my beautiful Wonder Woman client liaison actually had to disconnect my um podcast from our booking software and our appointment software and our lead capture software because it was just too fucking much for her. And so we were drowning, and it was a hard pill to swallow. Truly, if I missed you or you reached out during that time and I never got back to you, please kick me out the bum or call me an asshole for missing you. That's so fine, I'll take that. Truly, I was doing my best to swim. I was doing my best to make sure that I was checking all the things that I posted and replying back to the people that were important and trying to keep my head above water when I was trying to hold 55 4.3 million fucking beach balls underwater, seriously. But I have actually read nearly every single comment on that reel. And the reason for that is I like to reward effort, and I think it's important to acknowledge effort in any situation. The fact that people spend so much time commenting, you know, time out of their valuable lives, like commenting to me, saying they love this, saying it resonated with them, sharing their stories, even just saying how I worded something was great, or that this, you know, this really helped them, or you know, they're like, oh my god, thank god, thank you. I shared this with a few of my friends. Like they are the reason that my podcast is doing so well and that viral reel is going so viral, and that I've got so many of you listening in now, and it probably reached people that never would have seen me otherwise. And so I really wanted to make an effort to comment back or at least like or at least respond to anything on there. And I think, you know, if you are someone who does run a business, whether that's a salon, a barber shop, a clothing shop, a fucking any any type of business or anything where you monetize your social media, if I can give you one piece of advice, and it has honestly been one of the biggest ways of capturing really great clients and great leads, is to actually like thank the people that do take the time to like and comment and share your things that you post. Even if it's just a little love heart eye emoji, or even if it's just a quick message, like make the effort and fucking respond to those people. And if you can't do that, hire someone who can because again, people are taking time out of their life to like you, to acknowledge you, to support you. And you know, it's kind of one of those, I guess, popular topics at the moment is that it's like, oh, you know, clients or random people are much more interested or much more supportive than some of your friends or some of your family or some of everything. And that's so true. How about we remind them that we're really appreciative of that and that they're great and we love them, and thanks for being a part of my life, and thank you for like doing that for my business and helping me to get engagement to get future customers and sales and whatever else. Even if you have to do it at 10 p.m. after you've just worked 13 hours on the floor and you're trying to simultaneously have your first toilet break and eat your first meal of the day and respond to people, doesn't matter, just do it. Promise you, it's really good. Those also open up conversations. So, what I know for a fact on that viral reel specifically, nearly 80,000 comments. There were only about three, maybe four hundred negative ones. All from Bite Hurt Little Man babies who don't like when a woman talks about them, or dares to describe them out loud, or dares to speak about their own experience, because god forbid our experience at the hands of a man hasn't been great, and that poorly represents their gender. Oof. It hurts their little feelings, inverts their penis. I don't know, I don't fucking care. Plus a handful of mega misogynistic women, a few crummy little trolls that are under their crummy little bridge in their mama's crummy little basement. And some of the questions I've been getting about that is like, oh my god, but how do you not get upset or how does it not affect you, or how does it not get to you? The first part of that is, and I said this earlier, if you're triggered by something on the internet, if something hurts your feelings, it's probably because you're about it's about you and you've got to do some reflecting work. I also think there is quite a big difference between women going, men could really do better, they could really start treating us as humans, they could really start getting help for all of their needs and all of their requirements and actually start becoming a better person, versus what the manosphere says about women, which is that women should submit, women are second to men, women should be in the home, women should be in the kitchen and like be really degrading to women. Here's me trying to say men do better, and here's men trying to say women be worse, be less, you're less than us, chalk and cheese, totally different things. So if a man's getting upset about me going, be better, do better, bring more to the table, be a better person, be great for your potential partner or your actual partner, and that hurts your feelings, it's probably because you know you're an inferior fuck and you actually need to do better. I said what I said. As well as that, the people who call me fat, troll, ugly, dumb, it doesn't hurt my feelings because it's not true. Oh, you call me fat? Whoo, burn. Like, I just don't get hurt about that. If I don't value you as a person, if I don't value what you have to offer, I don't value your opinion. If I wouldn't sit down and have dinner with you, I don't care what you have to say. Say what you have to say, do whatever you need to do to fill your own cup and make yourself feel like a big man. I don't care. Cam, my husband said it better than anyone else. And he literally, the I'll take you back there. The morning that I woke up to that text message from Katie and I was lying in bed, and in our bed, I can look to my right and I can see into the en suite, and Cam was getting ready for the day, doing his hair, whatever, it's a whole process in the morning. And I was like, oh my god, there's so many comments in here about this. And I was reading out some of the comments about it of like the negative things, and Cam's like, yeah, but the people who are bothered by that are the people who it's about, and I was like, see, intelligent man tings. Seriously, he doesn't get hurt about it. He's a good person, he treats women well, he's respectful, he works on himself. Of course he's not upset about it. But anyway, more on that in my episode one of season two. I'm gonna go right in there. I'm gonna call it all out, I'm gonna discuss everything. But truly, over 17,000 of you commented with love, with agreement, with solidarity, with support, with acceptance, with appreciation. And so many of you sent me the most beautiful messages. So many of you told me that you had left your evil, horrible partners and you were grateful for messages like this and to know that you're not alone. So many great men also commented, being like, I'm a man and I agree with this, and we fucking love you too. That's a real high-value man. A high value man isn't some rich fuck who thinks he can have a wife that stays at home and does nothing and gets to give up her whole life for him. Ew. Um, any man who, by the way, calls himself a high value man is genuinely the most low-value man on the planet. Anyway. So I honestly reckon that was like less than 2% negatives. Like that's the actual ratio. So next time the internet tries to tell you that the world is full of hate, just remember those numbers and also just remember that the people are hating, they're not happy. Happy people don't hate. Period. So the good, the massively overwhelmingly positive everything totally outweighs the bad. It always has. It also got so fucking surreal. I fangirled so fucking hard. I had a comment from Jamila Jamil, and if you guys don't know her, she's fucking amazing. I went and saw her live in Brisbane only last year with my friends Megan, Claire, and Sarah. She's a baddie. I look up to her so much. She commented, calling it a male consequences epidemic. Em Rosciano commented, one of the best podcasters. Chantel Ford commented, I have bought from her before. Will fucking Hitchens use my reel in one of his reels. He is amazing. I've fangirled him for many years. Isaac Butterfield also shared me in there. People I've literally watched and admired suddenly engaging with something that I made is kind of like it doesn't feel real. It's so fucking cool. Oh, and someone labelled me a fat Abby Chatfield, and honestly, if I can take that, she's a legend. Sign me the fuck up. So basically, the purpose of today was a celebration of what my season one of Tell Me About It podcast has been for me. Thanking every single person who has, even if you've listened to one episode, I love you and I think you're amazing, and I'm super grateful for you. And 14,000 listens, 40 weeks, six continents, 95 countries, 28,000 new followers across my social media, top 40 in the country, actually top 34, sitting above the podcasters that I look up to. One viral moment with 4.3 million views and half a million likes, and just a whole lot of love from a whole lot of you. And it's so sad because I'm sitting here wrapping up this season. A bit of sweet, I shouldn't say sad, it's not sad because I'm literally back in like two months. But I've had like four of you message me today. Um, one of you listened to one of my earlier pods and was like, this was the most insightful thing I've listened to in a while. I had one of you being like, oh my god, that's the second episode I've listened to, and I just fucking love all of it. I love how much of you praise me for swearing. I this episode has been additionally next level sweary. So sorry if you're not about that, but I guess you wouldn't listen to me if you aren't. Yeah, so it's just it's just kind of sweet to just hear those things. I think we get so wrapped up in like the day-to-day life and the doing of all the things and the business and the entrepreneurship and the families and the life stuff. We kind of forget to do any sort of reflection on our own achievements, and we forget to sit in everything that we've created and everything that we're doing and everything that we've done, and it's just really nice sometimes to hear that you've helped someone, even if that's just I put a smile on your face for five minutes, or you know, I gave you a piece of advice, or I know quite a few of you had even said I gave you like the golden ticket to be able to execute something you're a bit scared of, and like that just fills my heart in more ways than you actually understand, and I get more out of you guys gaining from me than I do that from gaining from you. So the biggest lesson though, the one that I kind of want you carrying out of here, I guess, isn't about the numbers, it's the thing I told you right at the start, which is stop when you need a stop, stop before it's too late, stop before you ruin everything, including yourself, not when it's convenient, not when it fits in, when you need it. It needs to happen, it needs to happen, yeah? When your body and your mind tell you it's time, finally listening to mine, I want you to listen to yours too. So this is what season one of Tell Me About It podcast looks like, and it's been wildly, ridiculously, unexpectedly amazing, polarizingly beautiful, all the things. And so, this is me signing off on season one, not goodbye, never goodbye. I have way too much fun doing this, and I also get to talk to the most awesome people, and I also get to like connect with so many of you. It's just a little hiatus. A little bit of a rest, refill, refuel, finish the house, look after my heart, come back to you stronger than ever. If, like I said, you're thinking that you want to be a guest, I would love to hear from you. It's never a promise that you'll be on, but please shoot your shot. I obviously don't want to have too many similar people back to back. I want to make sure you're all spread out and you're all like well placed and it's a little bit more strategic than I guess the wigging it that I've done for my first season. But send me your topic ideas too. Send me a DM, send me a message. If you've got a great topic idea or something you want to know more about and more information about, or you want me to talk about, bloody hell yeah, let me know. I would love to cover that for you. And um, you know, if you want me on your pod, I'm here. Um but literally I cannot wait to see you after this little break. Monday, the 31st of August, same time, same place. Season two, pick a boulder better. Everything. So thank you for the most unforgettable season one. I really do love you all to bits. It's been a bit mushy gushy, hasn't it? Who am I? But I'm Kate Muir, and that's it from season one of the Tell Me Better podcast. Go and rest. I'll see you on the other side.