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Start Now, Or It Won't Happen | Released Season 4 Launch
This episode is the hard launch of season 4. Yes, yes, it came out after 3 episodes were already posted. But there's a good reason.
Talmage talks about the need to DO "the thing" being greater than PERFECTING "the thing." If you don't get started on the mission laid before you, it could pass you by and never return.
Carpe diem, brethren, carpe diem.
0:00 Intro
4:03 Why I haven't posted
8:18 Don't miss opportunities
11:22 God's anxious to bless you
13:24 Future of Released
Remember, God is good and is planning on your success. And though you've been released from your mission, you haven't been released from your ministry.
Hey, everybody. Welcome to season four of Release the Podcast. Now, I've done it a little different than I usually do. Usually I'll announce that I'm doing a new season, but for some reason, there's some psychological thing in my head. Whenever I try to hard launch anything, it just kind of falls flat and I end up not doing it. And a lot of the excuses that I come up with is like, hey, I actually want to get some new music for the podcast and I can't start until I do that. Or I want to get a new logo and I can't start till I do that. Or I want to get a website and maybe do a newsletter, and I can't start until I do that. But that is just stopping me from doing it. That's what I've come to. And it's stopped me from pursuing this to my detriment. And I wanted to start again. There's a lot of reasons why, and that's why we're here today, is to talk about it. Back in August, a buddy of mine who is actually a guest on the podcast, Danny Garcia, he reached out, he's like, bro, there's a guy you have to have on your podcast. His name's Wes, Wes Wright. He was the first episode of this season, and so he gave me his contact number. I got a hold of him and we recorded a podcast. And I'm like, okay, when I get around to it, I'll edit it. When I get around to the fourth season of released, I'll. I'll put it out. And in the beginning of October, Danny was like, hey, bro, I'm running a marathon and I need something to listen to while I'm running the marathon. Will you please release Wes Wrights episode? And I'm like, ah, dude, I haven't done any planning. I don't know what this season's supposed to look like. I don't know what this podcast is supposed to look like. I. I have an idea. Like, I have a mission, but I don't know the path to getting there and I don't know the aesthetics I want to have. And just a ton of excuses. And Danny was like, no, bro, I need to listen to this episode. Please have it done by the time I run my marathon. And I'm like, okay, okay, I'll do it. And so I edited Wes Wright's episode and I put it out without any music, without any thumbnails, without much, much of what I wanted to do. And part of the reason why I'm so vain and Why I want it to be so perfect is because I, I'm a professional podcast producer. This is one of our studios. We just barely built this. Super proud of it. But I'm a professional podcast producer. The reason I am is because of released. I got into podcast production this way. And if I can't produce a professional looking podcast, where's my credibility? And so I was. That's the reason why I came up with so many excuses why I couldn't start yet, because it, it had to be perfect, otherwise I wasn't going to do it. And you guys have heard this so many times, but it's better to get it done than to get it perfect, because if it's perfect and not done, there's no value being added to the world or myself. And so like I said, no thumbnails, no music. I, I recorded intros and outros at my desk. I, I wasn't in one of these nice studios. I just had to make it so simple that I couldn't make any more excuses. It was just to put it out. And so I did. And the response has been so dang positive. Again, I don't know why I have to be taught this lesson over and over, but I'm glad it was taught to me again because I needed to hear it. So my current plan is to push out the content and as I go, polish the process and. And so I'm excited. I've put out three episodes so far. I'm recording this the night before I'm supposed to put this episode out, and if you guys have any good suggestions, I'd love to hear it. So when I started season three, I think I only got six episodes in and they were great episodes and I even recorded more. Some of the episodes I've already released in season four were from the season three because I recorded it back then, but I just never got it out. That was Colton Miller's as well as Jim Tarts, and it was a great time of life. I. I was just married or engaged to Mary, and we've had an incredible year and a half together. And I wouldn't trade it. It's been incredible. But again, like I've said in the past, I've felt the call to do this again. There's a Marcus Aurelius quote that says, remember how long you've been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you and you didn't use them. At some point, you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to, what power rules it, and from what source you spring that there is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don't use it to free yourself, it will be gone and never return. That quote has haunted me. It has been the thing in the back of my mind when I know that there's something greater that I must do. And the thing is, is we all have something. We all have a mission in life, and we need to seize it. Carpe diem. We need to capture it and let that energize our life. Just in the past three weeks since I've been posting, I've been. I've had more energy. Even though I'm working another, I don't know, 10 hours a week on top of my already crazy schedule, I still feel so much energy. The other day I came home after editing Jim Tartt's podcast, and Mary was like, I love seeing you smile when you come home and not so tired when you. When you know what that dream is and you just start doing it. The energy will come. And maybe that's just God saying, hey, I'm going to sustain you in this work. You're helping me, I'm helping you. Let me bless you, because you are pursuing the path that I have laid before you. Winston Churchill once said to every man, there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered to do something special to him and fit it to his talents. What a tragedy it would be if this moment found him unprepared or unqualified for that which would have been his finest hour. I think for a lot of us, we need to chase the carrot as well as run away from the stick. And the stick, in my case, is the knowledge that there is some great thing I can do. But I let it pass. That terrifies me more than anything, knowing that I have a potential for my own character, a potential to help someone. And I let it pass. I don't remember the story exactly, but President Monson, he was in a meeting. I think he was up on the stand in this meeting, and he had a prompting to leave the meeting that he was presiding at and go visit a brother in the hospital. And he's like, I can't leave right now. I'm. I'm the one conducting or presiding over this meeting. And he felt the prompting again. And he's like, I will go as soon as this meeting ends. And then the meeting ends and he runs out the door. He goes to the hospital as fast as he can, and when he gets there, he's like, hey, I'M here to see this, this brother. And the nurse says, I'm so sorry he passed away and he was calling for you before he did. That hurts me. I can only imagine what it did to President Monson knowing that you could help someone and God has given you that, that power and you didn't. Lucky for us, he took that and he decided to never let an opportunity like that pass him again. To never delay listening to the spirit again. And because of that, he became an incredible man that never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. I guess you could say it's kind of like Spider Man. With great power comes great responsibility. Spider man, he had the chance to stop a robber and instead he let him go. And because of that, this robber carjacked Uncle Ben's car and in the process shot and killed him. This tore Peter up. And lucky for us, or the fantasy world of Marvel, Peter Parker decided to take that as fuel and become a hero, a legit hero. Douglas Malick is a poet and he once wrote. The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got its share of rain never became a forest king but lived and died a scrubby thing. The man that never had to toil to gain and farm his patch of soil that never had to win his share of sun and sky and light and air never became a manly man but lived and died as he began. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger wind, the stronger trees, the further sky, the greater length, the more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by wind and snow, in trees and men, Good timber grow where thickest lies the forest growth. You find the patriarchs of both and they hold council with the stars Whose broken branches show the scars of many winds and much of strife. This is the common law of life. I love that poem because we're all going through it right now. And that's no reason to be sorrowful or anything like that. And as a lot of us return, missionaries know it was anything but easy coming home and transitioning into the normal life. But it can be great and it can be joyful. Like my life is night and day different from what it used to be. I am so happy with my life. I am so grateful. Almost every day I'm like, I'm blown away by the changes that have been made in my life because of Christ and because of his gospel and in the path that he's laid out for me. The people he's helped me meet, primarily my wife. She is one of the most incredible people I have ever met. I don't know how they were able to fit so many virtues in one person, but they did with her. And it like, oh man, I'm, I'm a lucky guy. And I know that I'm not unique. I know that God doesn't want to only uniquely bless me. He wants to bless you guys and he is so excited and so eager to do it. It's, it's one of the most, I don't know how he does it. It's one of the most awe inspiring things to think that he is ready to bless his children with the very best. And so that kind of concludes this episode of me finally announcing the fourth season of Release the podcast. I would love to get you guys involved in any way I can, whether it's having you on the podcast or having somebody you know on the podcast, or just interacting over social media. Thank you guys so much for your kind words of encouragement that have really bolstered me up to do this again. To be honest, this is such a sacrifice in my life to carve out as much time as this takes every week, but it is so worth it to, to hear people tell me how much it blessed them that day. And so please reach out. Even if it's, even if you don't want to be on the podcast, just reach out and say, hi, I really appreciate it. And if you do want to be on the podcast, please reach out. I want to hear your story. And if you know of somebody that can use this and it could be helpful to them, please send it to them. Rate this podcast, write a review. It really does help out. And just interact with the posts as well as if you're watching on YouTube, please leave a comment. I'm planning on posting episodes weekly and we're going to be talking to people that didn't go on missions but have an incredible story that can help return missionaries like Jim Tartt. He wasn't even a member, but I brought him on because he's a great guy and he was saved, like from his addiction by Jesus. Incredible story. If you haven't listened to it, go back and listen to it. We're going to be having mission presidents on, maybe YSA bishops, people that have struggled with addiction, faith crisis, loss, whatever it is. I think we're also going to have a BYU basketball head coach on the podcast who is also a mission president at one point. And so stay tuned for that. That's going to be a really fun episode. But just to wrap this up, remember, God is good and is planning on your success. And though you've been released from your mission, you've not been released from your ministry.
