Hey Everybody! Andy here! Helping you build a career you love welcome to the tips for working
life podcast this is a little different format than you probably have seen before but i got a
great lesson i want to share with you and i think you're going to understand why as we get into the
lesson and it's about how to look at the world or a way of looking at the world where i think your
whole world and experience will get better and i've wrapped this talk into a lesson where i'm
i've i've recently relaunched the tips for work and life podcast and i want to talk with you about
why i had taken four years off from the podcast and why it's come back and that's that's part
of the story of this lesson but for those of you who are not familiar with me i'm a i'm a career
and leadership coach i have been coaching a long long time i've got a great youtube channel where i
hold live office hours every thursday i love that you all show up and that we can kick it back and
forth uh every week thursdays at 11 if you are not subscribed to my youtube channel please do and if
you are not following this podcast on one of your favorite pot podcast platforms i hope that you do
i hope that you follow it i hope that you put out a a review an honest review of what you think of
of my work and this program but i want to talk to you today about about why i brought the podcast
back and and what really sparked it for me and and what what you have to look forward to in the
future now now i i i started uh my youtube channel and podcast in 2016 and i was doing uh i was i was
circulating out videos and audios and and digests and social media messages on every imaginable
platform and it was getting exhausting it really was it was very very difficult for me to keep up
and for those of you that follow me you know that each morning when i when i when i wake up and
i i meditate and i go through you know i grab my coffee and all that good stuff and i sit for about
five to twenty minutes and every every morning five days a week but between 5 and 20 minutes i
do what i call excellence planning and there there are five major questions that i that i ask myself
each morning what what can i do to better serve my uh my customers what can i do to better serve
my community so people that follow me that might not be a premium or paying member of the milewalk
academy which is my my online training and coaching site what can i do to to better market
my services and and what can i do to optimize my systems as a business and then what should i
stop doing and as i was getting overwhelmed i realized that i couldn't i couldn't keep up with
the weekly video content and audio content across all the different platforms to be on
youtube and on the podcast platforms and on on linkedin and twitter and facebook and instagram
and some of the others i was probably on at that time i just i couldn't keep up and i thought
i need to i need to save myself a little bit of time so that the content that i give them is rich
and engaging and i can still show up for my live shows and all that good stuff so i decided that
i would stop my my tips for work and life podcast and it was it it wasn't a difficult
decision because i needed to create some space in my in my work life and in my in the workflow
and i i felt like um you know i would i would drive and i would put youtube on in my car and i
could i could listen to videos i thought people could do that and then i i realized that um
i was you know i was trying to be everywhere for everybody and that was that was that was very
very difficult for me so uh so i stopped that and you know fast forward a number of years and
and i continued to put content out into the world related to careers and job searching and
and and high performance and inspirational stuff and and leadership related things
and it was you know one day i was um i was sitting back i don't know if you could see it for those of
you that might be be watching this on the youtube channel uh but but i i i was sit back in my in my
little breakfast room next to my office and i i was sitting there in my chair and i which
is normally where i do a lot of my thinking in the morning and i i i was thinking about
how do i get give my community a better experience with me and and around the same time i i was i was
wrestling with this question i i also was receiving a number of of emails and and comments
on my youtube channel and then some of the social sites asking me why i had stopped my podcast i had
done 50 in a row never missed and in the middle of 2018 i just decided to stop
and i was exp i was explaining that it was a little difficult to keep up but i started to think
about about the experience that i was having with the people that i that i that i support and i i
i'm always looking to to deepen the relationship and i i try to imagine when i'm giving a lesson
whatever the lesson is i try to think about the other person and what they're experiencing
i don't think in terms of what is it i wanna what is it i wanna teach them i always think
in terms of what is it that they need to know or what what steps or technique or tactics or
tricks or whatever can i give them to help them solve their problems their issues and and that's
a big part of why i show up every week it on my youtube channel at live office hours is because
i want to hear what you're going through at that moment in time and so that i can respond to that
and one of the things i i think about isn't just what is it that they need to know i also think
about what it's like to experience it for them for for somebody who is spending time to pay attention
to what i am um explaining expressing or or story i'm telling or whatever it is in the hopes that it
might improve their life i try to think about how can i give them the best experience but what would
it be like to experience a lesson from me and so when i was doing my excellence planning and i was
thinking about you know years ago when i thought about what i should stop and it was the podcast
then i thought about more to present day what is it that i could do to deepen the relationship
and while people could show up at live office hours or they could watch a video on youtube
and there's a ton of energy if you've never been to one of my live shows but there's a
ton of energy you can feel it there's camaraderie there's support there's people cheering each other
on there's people yelling and cheering at me and asking me great questions and
it's just a ton it's ton of great energy and a ton of fun but i also then thought
about well what about the person who wanted to listen to this on the podcast and a podcast
is it's completely different even though it's the same lesson and as i was thinking about how
i could make any of my lessons a better experience for somebody else i was thinking about the person
who is on the train in the morning going to work and has me in the ear or somebody who's trying
to listen quietly at their office or somebody who's out walking the dog and it's it's just her
and me or him and me or them and me and they're they're listening and they have me in their ear
for an hour talking about whatever it is i'm teaching and what that's like and it's a very
intimate experience and i feel like that's when it hit me that when somebody would ask me well
why did you stop and that their preferred medium was spotify or google podcasts or apple itunes or
you know ipodcasts or what whatever it is wherever they're listening whatever they're doing
and or they're on an airplane they wanted to download the you know they wanted to download the
clip and i just thought about i i need to be there for them that that that is such an intimate deep
relationship and i need to that is a way to better serve my community and so if it takes me a little
extra time to do these things in this format and give them the audio and and and give them the
lesson this way and serve it up this way that that was the way i was going to do it and and and and
the part of the story that i i really hope hits home with you is it we get we we get distracted
by our own internal automated way of thinking the way the outcomes we want for our projects our
teams our business our whatevers and you really need to take time to to think about what is it
that my customer is going through what is it like not to know what i know what is it that i can do
to enrich in the experience with wherever they are however they're listening in whatever format
or medium resonates best with them some people like to read it some people like to watch it
some people like to listen to it some people do all of that and so i want you to know that's why
the podcast is back in full swing and every every tuesday it's simulcast with what i
release on on on youtube a very much careers related and job searching related format
or lesson and on every friday i'll be releasing things that are a little bit more motivational
and inspirational and career development related and and sometimes the topics will bleed over as
they often do um but you know what my my view is i want to be a place that you can go my my platform
wherever it is that you want to listen where you can go whenever you want to get anything you need
related to finding a great job and thriving in it and also how to live a wonderful life
and there's there's a lot i feel like i can offer and i will do it in all the different
formats but i i want you you to know that however you're watching this or listening to this and
wherever you are in the world i want you to know i'll be there for you and you can count on that
and and it'll be a wonderfully regimented schedule it's been wonderful so far we are you know we're
already up to i don't know what you know this might be episode somewhere in the 70s and uh
and and and we're coming at it two two two times a week and uh it's just it's just been a lot of fun
and so i i'm gonna be tinkering with the formats and and how we do this and some of it'll be direct
to camera like this uh combination with the audio i i have i don't have it all figured out and
that's the fun part of it and i hope that you take that lesson away with you too you don't you don't
need to have it all figured out you need you need to get in motion and and you just you need to get
in motion and you need to stay in motion and and and once you get into it you'll you know i always
say you know you don't get it until you get into it and and and once you're into it no matter what
your plan is you're going to know a heck of a lot more after you take the first step and after you
take 100 steps you're going to know that much more but keep going don't change your goals you might
need to change your plan but uh but stay stay locked in on that so i hope i hope you enjoyed it
i i just want you to know that's what did it for me was the convergence of really thinking about
you know just the intimacy and and the depth of of the relationship that i have with
you and that um and then i just want to make sure i'm there wherever you wherever you want to watch
or listen because i greatly appreciate your your attention and i i cherish it i remind myself of
it every single day many times and i want you to know that uh wherever you are in the world
you know i'm i'm sending you great vibes i'm sending you great energy and i'm sending you a
lot a lot a lot of cheers because you got this i mean it life is really really worth it and
it doesn't it doesn't need to be easy and i have found that an easy life is rarely a happy life but
but life it it just everything you do it needs to be worth it
so i hope you enjoyed today's episode i know it was a little bit different and uh wherever you're
listening to me i want you to know i'm thinking of you and i hope you uh you go out and you get
them today and uh subscribe to the channel and and please and whatever subscribe on whatever
podcast platform that you want to but i really look forward to seeing you a couple times a week
get out there be good we'll see you we'll see on tuesday or friday take care