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E678 - Blinded By Fear - When You Get Hit So Hard You Might Just Give Up on Your Podcast
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Hey. Hey. Welcome back to the How To Podcast series. It's Dave with you. I hope you're doing really well. Hope the family's good. Podcast is going great. We're bringing back some old daily. Dave's reintroducing them here on the podcast. They've got great content here for you, probably forgotten by most of you if you've listened to many of my episodes. And if you're new, you probably won't ever go back and do what I do and listen to every episode. So I'm bringing back some content that's still relevant, still means something, can still help you with your podcast. And I wanted to share a story about somebody who shared their deepest fear, and it turned out well. I won't tell you how it turned out. That's why there's a podcast. You're gonna have to listen to the end of this to find out how it turns out, but address your fears, because it might be bigger than you think it is. And if you're afraid of starting a podcast, this story might help you to kind of turn you around and help reset your vision. Hey, welcome back to the How To Podcast series. It's Dave with you. Now. I want to tell you a story that I just remembered from when I was a kid. My dad took me to some kind of, like, men's meeting, dinner, bring your kid to dinner thing, business event. And at this business event was a football player. Like, a real football player. You know, like the one you see on TV or on the field now, Canadian football. So my American friends, I can already hear you yelling at the. At the wall already. But Canadian football, the cfl, because we have our own. We're in a different country, by the way, for our American friends listening, we have our own football. Anyway, there's a football player. I don't remember his name. It was so long ago. I was little. Like, I was really there for the food, okay? And because my dad made me go, that's kind of the reason I was there. And anyways, I got to hear this football player talk. And one thing I walked away from there is I remember this story. And like, we're talking 40 years ago, 45 years ago, I heard this story, and now I'm telling you now, I don't know why it just popped in my head, but here's what happened. Football player, and he had this, like, arch nemesis, another player from another team. And the two of them would go at each other in the papers. They didn't have social media back then, so there was no Twitter. No, there's no recreational outrage on social media. None of that was available back then. So they did it through paper and interviews on the radio and tv. But these, these two players, and they don't like each other like at all. They're not like, they're not going to go out for beers after the game. These two, these guys do not like each other. Don't put them alone in a room, okay, on opposing teams. And they would go at each other, they would like pick at each other, they would like trash talk each other, they were like tearing each other down. And it got to the point where the person that I was listening to at this event was, was saying that the other guy in this, this relationship, we can call it that, actually made a statement that he was going to basically annihilate this player. He was going to hurt him and end his career the next time they play against each other, like, like flat out guaranteed that this player who was speaking at this event would never play again the next time they meet on the field. And so it led up to the point where these two teams actually did have to play each other. And these two people who were in the media, they were sharing how much they did not like each other. And it's gonna have it out the next time they play. Like, forget the game. I just want to like attack you, right? So the game finally came. A lot of anticipation, a lot of build up. And the guy that was speaking at this event, he was actually getting a little nervous to face against this person who guaranteed that after that game this guy would never play football again. He would have a career ending injury as a result of playing and seeing these two guys on the field. So leading all the way up to it, there was more stuff in the news. The news was all over. They were talking about this is going to be the a showdown for all showdowns. And it built anticipation. People came to see this game, which is scary because it's like, it's like women's fascination with true crime. I don't understand why people were so excited to watch two guys who have been jarring at each other in the media finally face off on the field. What about the football game, everybody? I don't know. Anyways, so these two guys finally hit the field and they do the game. They're, they're kind of, they're kind of pushing at each other all through the game. And this player that was speaking at this event, he went up for a play to catch the ball, whatever, and he got hammered by this guy like this was the moment that was being pushed up in the press. Everybody was anticipating it happened. It happened on the field. And this guy got smoked by this other really big player who guaranteed this would be this guy's last game, right? And he got hit by that guy who was making all these big claims, and he. It knocked him out like he was. And this was back before people knew what a concussion was. Okay, like, this is, like, way back then. People didn't care as much as they do now, which is good. Thank you for that, everyone. Anyway, so he got just destroyed on the field. And when he came to the guy that was speaking of this event, this men's event, he said he came to, and all he could see was black. Like nothing. It was complete darkness. And he started freaking out because here he is, he went up to catch a ball, and now he's on his back. He doesn't know where he is, and it's pitch black, like he can't see anything. And he starts screaming, he's kicking. People are trying to help him, and he's just. He's. He's losing it. He's like, I'm done. I can't even see. And everybody's standing and watching this unfold on the field, and there's hushed breaths and everything's quiet. And this guy's just laying on the field and he's out. He just can't move. And it's pitch black. And he's yelling at the trainer, I can't see. I can't see. I can't see. And he's flipping out. Trainer comes running up, gets down beside him. He's like, you're all right. You're all right. You're right. He's like, I can't see. It's black. I can't see nothing. And in that moment, he thought he was done. He thought all of those threats came true. I'm not playing football anymore. And in a moment of he. He just feel. He felt like he was done. The fear overtook him. The reality set in. And you're never going to play football again until. Until. Dun, dun, dun. The trainer reached down, grabbed his helmet, turned it around, turned it around so that he. The guy could see out of it. Because what had happened was he got hit so hard, his helmet spun around. And instead of looking out of the helmet like normal, he was looking at the inside of the back of the helmet, which was pitch black. The trainer just turned the helmet around. He could see fine. Helped him up, slapped him on the butt and said, get back out there and play, you're fine. And it was funny. It was ironic that that was what happened. He had panicked in the moment that the worst had happened and that his career as a football player was done. But reality was different than what he had imagined. And all it was was his helmet was spun around. He wasn't out of football. He continued to play the game. Everything was fine. But when you start thinking about the worst case scenario, fear creeps in. And fear can make it so you can't take the next step. And what I'm finding with podcasters, see, oh, I'm back. When you, when you apply what we're talking about to podcasters, fear has stopped more podcasts than anything else. The anticipation of what could happen for this football player, the anticipation of, I'm going to have a career ending injury and I'm never playing football again if I ever meet this guy in person, that fear and anticipation that something bad is going to happen is something that happens to podcasters. We, we think that we can't recover from a mistake. We can't recover from a bad comment. We, we can't recover from somebody unfollowing us. We can't recover from a negative review. We can't recover from somebody saying, I don't like your show. And in that, we don't move forward because we don't want to, A, disappoint anybody and B, we don't want somebody to tell us our podcast is ugly. It's terrible. I don't like it. I don't like the sound of your show. I don't like the sound of your voice. I don't like your laugh. Your laugh is annoying. You say, you know too many, you know, times, you know, when you're talking, you know, all the time, you add, you know, into your sentence, you know, because it's like, you know, it's your default, you know, and I don't like your show because of that, so I'll never listen. And in that, we feel like this is a podcast ending result and somebody's going to take our show from us. I want to give you just a little out here. If somebody doesn't like your show, 99% of the time, they're just not going to listen. And remember, remember, 75.3% of stats are made up anyway. 99 of the time, they're just not going to listen to your show. They're going to move on. I've been listening to shows for a while and I've been trying to navigate the host and I'M trying to navigate the content, but the host cuts people off mid sentence. The host doesn't prepare the. The podcast is, is. It just doesn't serve me anymore and I just unsubscribe. And it's not a big ceremony, it's not a big to do, it's just, I'm done unfollow, move on. There's so many podcasts out there. This show might. Some people have already unfollowed the show. This show might not be for you, and that's fine, but for the most part, you're never going to hear from anybody who doesn't resonate with you. There really isn't a way for you to become so concerned that your podcast can have a podcast ending, career ending event. So if you're afraid of podcasting, if you're afraid of the result, remember that sometimes in the darkness, it could just be that you got hit and your helmet's been spun around and you don't know where you are, but somebody will come around you and go, you're fine. Refix you, set you up, slap you on the butt and put you back out there again. And if you need that kind of support, how to podcast CA and remember, doesn't matter how, what everybody thinks of your show, what you think of your show, and it matters how you connect with your audience. That's what you need to focus on if you need help. HowtoPodcast CA. Thanks for being here, get back out there. You're fine. So I get asked quite often, usually at the end of a podcast, like right now, Dave, how can we help you? Like, how can we as a listener, like, support the show? Can we come rake your leaves? Can we cut the grass? Shovel the snow? Watch your dog help you move? What can we do? Clean your dishes? Oh, that'd be interesting. Well, if you don't, if you can't do that because you know, you're in Poland, maybe you can help us by supporting us with our Buy me a coffee. It's right there on our website and you know, it just will help us to a stay fueled because, you know, we drink a lot of coffee around here and it helps the show. So if you want to help us, it's out of the goodness of your heart. I can tell you that listening to the podcast to this point, you've already helped us so much. But I do have people saying, dave, I'd love to, to give back something small, even just to the show. Buy me a coffee link is on our website. HowToPodcast CA and you can support the show that way. It would mean a lot to have you on our team supporting what we do here. If you find value in the show, then that's great. Share the show, tell somebody about it. And when somebody says, dave, I want to start a podcast, who should I check out? Oh, you should go check out the how to Podcast series. Because of all the great co hosts and all the things that happen here, the meetups, everything. And I would appreciate that. And then fill her a cup once in a while if you can. But again, thank you so much for being here and supporting the how to Podcast series. Take care. Talk soon. Hey, you're still here. Awesome. This is great. Okay, so this is the bonus stuff we do at the end. So again, part of this show is not just talking about podcasting, but actually demonstrating for you ideas that you might want to steal for your own show. Now, I've been doing Daily Daves for the podcast for years now, and they're unnumbered episodes, bonus episodes. Okay, they don't have a number attached. Like, this is episode 678, but this was a Daily Dave. This had no number attached. And then when you upload it to your hosting site, you have the option of bonus trailer or regular or full episode. So this was always a bonus episode, but it doesn't count to the numbered episodes from my show, the total number. So I have my numbered episodes and my bonus episodes. So. But I have to kind of add them together to find out my total. So what I'm doing is scattering a few here and there this year to bring them from being a bonus episode into being a numbered episode. That's all I'm doing. And I'm just playing with this. And the content's still good. It's still relevant. It's. It's me, the younger version of Dave, But I'm bringing it forward just to kind of play with this and fill up my account, fill up my. My podcast and my calendar with these episodes, because I'm doing a daily episode. So this. This is good stuff that probably most people haven't heard. So that's all I'm doing, just bringing it forward. There's another little trick you can do as well, and that's to play with the. The release date of your episode. So go back in your account, your catalog, if you've been doing podcasts for a while, there's probably some episodes when you look at your listener data for that episode, specific for that episode, not your show, but for the episode you're going to See where it's kind of just fallen off a cliff and nobody's listening to that episode anymore. Pretty well flatlined. No new listens. Grab that episode, especially if it's still relevant, it still has meaning, and just go and change the date of that episode to a more recent date. What I do is I copy the date before I make any changes. I put it in the show notes for that episode so that I can remember to put it back to where it came from. That's a little trick. But then change the date to not today or tomorrow, because I would flag it as a new episode, but change it to yesterday's date. And what it does is it brings old content up and surfaces it with all the new current episodes. Living the Next Chapter. If you go there and look at Living the Next Chapter and sort it by date, you're going to see like the most current numbers. You'll see them numerically and they all make sense. And then there'll be this random one or two or three or five that have are completely out of sequence. Like I'm in the 700s, 760 right now. And you'll see episode 23. Like, this is a mistake. No, Dave just pushed that up to the top of the list. So when you're looking at the most recent episodes, you'll see that episode 23 is right there next to episode 752. And I'm just doing that to give these episodes life. And it's been really working. And I don't hear people talking about this. This is playing with your podcast, trying things out that nobody else talks about. You can't break anything. My only caution is don't make it a new episode if it's not a new episode. That kind of feels like you're kind of playing games with your audience a little bit, but bringing old content up to the top of the surface so people can see it for the first time for new listeners who have never gone back into your old catalog. And people who have listened to it years ago probably forgot all about it anyway. And it just brings it up to the top of the list. So no harm, no foul. And if you've already listened to it, it would have been marked as played as well. And in like Spotify, I can click on all my unheard episodes compared to all episodes, so would have already filtered it out because I've already listened to it when it came out years ago. So there's really no harm at all in this. If you're not sure what I'm talking about and you're like, I just like someone to show me. Then you can look at my episodes. Or you can come and reach out to me through how to Podcast ca. We do a screen share over zoom. I'll show you exactly what I'm doing, and maybe this will bring new life to old episodes. You've done great content in the past. It's a shame to have it just sit there dormant. Maybe you can bring a new life by just playing with the dates. Love to help you. How to Podcast ca. You're not going to hear this tip anywhere else, by the way. If you do, it's probably because they stole it from me. Have a great day.