Detailed Transcript:
Good morning, beloved, my goodness, it has been a hot minute since I’ve recorded a podcast episode. And I wanted to check in and just do a little bit of a personal update and fill you in on what’s been happening in my life for the past three weeks. So just to kind of back everybody up a little bit, if you’re new to this podcast I launched in November of 2020. And I’ve been working with a podcast coach, it was amazing. And my goal was to put out one podcast episode every week. And then I jumped into an immersion program that my coach was duly doing. And that was January 2021, through April. And I thought “You know what, I can just take the reins from here, this is gonna be awesome.“And I did fairly well actually bumped up to two episodes a week for a little bit, and then dropped back down to one episode a week as we approached summer.
And it’s just been a wild ride this summer. I don’t know about you. But here in northern Wisconsin, we get three months of beautiful weather. Fall is awesome. But it’s short-lived. And everybody’s busy with school and my older girls have tennis. We homeschool. And so we move into this planning phase, right? And so the first June and July was like kind of, okay, we take a week vacation each of those months, and I was able to recover. But then we moved into August and it was like, Oh, my goodness, man. It is like the Sunday of summer.
I can see why people say that with August. It’s also my birthday month. And so just kind of giving you an idea of how to still show up when things are crazy. I actually posted in my podcast group of like, “Guys, I feel like I’ve lost my mojo like, even though life is really full right now. And I have topics ready to go and record on the dock. I’m not doing it like I’m realizing that I’m pushing it back. And so I’m like, What is going on? Have I lost my mojo, and life is just really full right now?”
And so other things are kind of taking, I don’t want to say a back seat. But there are other things that are jumping for my attention right now. So as I mentioned, we homeschool, we homeschool our seven-year-old and our four year old and it’s the first year for our four-year-old. So I’m in the planning phase with all of that trying to get it all laid out. I also am set to fly out to Salt Lake City in about four weeks. So my company convention is coming up. That’s a whole week-long travel thing. And as you know, they’re kind of ramping things up in Oh, I don’t want to say the political world. But like things are ramping up again, like we know they’re up to something, you know, with the whole pandemic thing. And so I’m thinking like, are they going to shut down travel, and then I have to drive to Salt Lake City. And so there’s been a lot of planning on the back end of that.
Plus, I just feel it moving in my spirit to plan and prepare for what might be coming down the pipes in the next few weeks or months, possibly with supply chains again. And so we’ve been doing a lot of stocking up. We’ve been doing a lot of researching because we don’t necessarily know how to do a lot of the preparation things with food. So we’ve been just making I actually made a list and like, Okay, I want enough on hand to be able to take care of my family for six months without having to go to the grocery store. What does that look like? What does that look like for food? What does it look like for supplies? What does it look like for health things? You know, our supplements and essential oils?
My husband has a blood condition. So he has to take an iron pill every day. What does that look like? Are we prepared if things were to shut down for six months, and we didn’t have access to things that we normally would take for granted and just run to the store for? What would that look like? And will we be prepared? So I’ve kind of been busy in that mode. Just getting things calibrated around the home, the homestead which we don’t really it’s not like a homestead we don’t, we have no garden. We have no animals other than our house animals. It just is kind of like a homestead inside.
So anyway, that is kind of what’s been going on in my world. And I wasn’t publishing my episodes. And so when I went to my community, my Facebook group where there’s like a student community for all of us podcasters I’m like, Guys, I need suggestions like, has this ever happened to him before? Because on the one hand, I’m, I’m super excited. And I have a lot to say.
But on the other hand, I’m not taking action. I’m like, There’s something wrong here. And there were a lot of different suggestions. So maybe you’re in a phase of life where you know, you, you’re passionate about something, you know that you’re called to serve people in that area, but you’re just not taking action and moving forward and showing up in the way that you want to be. So there’s a disconnect, right there’s a gap there .
How can you figure out how to still move forward how to show up authentically versus ghosting, right and not showing up at all?
And so I had everything from suggestions to some people put a pause on their podcasts during summer months, and they just let their listeners know that they’re taking a break. And when they’ll be, you know, coming back on again, I knew I didn’t want to do that. I actually thought about that. I’m like, yeah, actually, it’s gonna be pretty crazy until October. My older girls have tennis, we’re driving them around. Actually, this week, my daughter, my oldest sprained her ankle. I will do an episode on that.
Because man, we would have been so lost again without our essential oils and our tools. But it’s, it’s like the time that I had planned to do podcasting and make it a priority. Other things came in and fill that time. And it wasn’t like, it was like I didn’t have control. Right of that time. It was either I had to have my teenager somewhere else. We had already planned for transportation for her, but that fell through because my oldest daughter sprained her ankle and she couldn’t drive. Not only that I was caring for my older daughter, and my next in line teenager wanted to go shopping for back to school clothes, and so things that I’m like, “Okay, here’s my week. And here’s where I planned my littles to be I paid for daycare, right? They’re gone, they’re I’ve taken that responsibly off.”
But then other things come in, and I don’t want to say invade my time, but sort of took over that plan that I had. So anyway, I have suggestions all the way from pausing your podcast for a specific amount of time, and then having a plan to reenter some people great suggestion of like, you know, what, why don’t you just talk to your audience and tell them and be transparent and authentic about what’s going on and how you’re kind of working through that. And so that’s what I’m choosing to do, of course.
And then there were other suggestions of having, you know, backup episodes in your kind of dock waiting that you can pull from should life derail you, and you can kind of recover gracefully. So anyway, I’m taking the ladder to I don’t want to really pause the podcast because I feel like in my mind, then I won’t pick up with it the way I want it to, I will probably take a longer break than I want to. And, yeah, I mean, I could feel I can feel how that would kind of take the pressure off. But in a way, I want that healthy dose of pressure. Because it helps steer me forward.
And so here I am today, choosing to show up authentically, I’m actually sitting in my daughter’s vehicle waiting for her to get done with tennis practice. Normally, my older teen my 18-year-old drives her because they go to tennis together. Well, this morning, I’m sitting in my car and I will have two hours. So like, you know what, I can record an episode from my car on my phone. I have not done that yet. This is going to be a very raw and real episode. So there’s not really going to be any editing. I don’t even know if I’m going to get my intro in here. We’ll see when it finally airs.
When you get this, I might just post it right after this. No intro music, no editing, no sound, you know, editing anything like that. I might just post it wrong. We’ll see. But that’s what I’m choosing to do. Today. I’m choosing to show up, show up authentically and give you some tips on how to show up imperfectly when life derails us. So here are my top three tips.
1. GIVE YOURSELF GRACE
Number one, give yourself grace. This comes from my friend Kristi, and she’s like, “You know what? Give yourself grace. you’ve recorded an episode every single week, since last November. That is amazing. That’s like 10 months of consistency and showing up and moving forward. So give yourself some grace.”
2. HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE
Number two, have a plan in place for when life derails you. Now, this is my first summer podcasting. Typically summary of all these high hopes and dreams and expectations and I’m going to get all this stuff done. Right because my littles usually go to daycare, my olders are kind of doing their own thing. And so I feel like I’m gonna have all this time in the summer, but year after year, this has proven not to be true. Summer actually ramps ups as our as our busiest fullest season, again, because we try to cram all the fun stuff into three months. So I’m actually going to take that into consideration going forward and I’m going to plan for next summer like what does my summer look like? And I’m not going to try to do more. I’m actually going to try to do less, but smarter. Okay. So I’ll probably have a ramp-up of episodes already planned to recorded for summer where I can pre-schedule them.
3. GATHER WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE
And number three would be to get in a group and have accountability. It’s so easy when you don’t have, you know, a boss telling you what to do, you’re not really accountable to anybody but yourself. But you have all these plans and dreams and visions and goals that you want to set in motion and have in place and so that I lost that after I’d gone through the immersion training the 90-day podcasting to Profit Course. And I kind of lost track with my pod. You know, we’re all moms, we’re all busy in the summer, and we lost touch. So we’ve created committed to meeting again, and we’re meeting next Friday and just to brainstorm and to have plans in place for, for us ourselves, but to be sharing that with like-minded people that have no other purpose or goal other than to rally together to support each other.
And so those are my top three tips for you. Give yourself grace, have a backup plan, and gather with like-minded people in your community. So that is what I have for you today, friends, and just a personal update today on the short episode. I hope you’re all doing well. I pray that you prosper in your health just as your soul prospers. And we’ll see you next time.
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