Episode 100 is here, and I am recording it on my iPhone from a makeshift desk in Bangkok, where I am living and running my whole business for the next four months. Three years ago I turned on a microphone with no plan and no idea if I would make it to episode 10. This one is not a highlight reel. It is 10 things that 100 episodes have taught me, and more than anything, it is a thank you.
In this episode:
It did not start as a podcast
Episode one was never meant to air. Why you do not have to have it all figured out to begin, and how to start messy.
Slower served everyone better
Why I moved from weekly to two episodes a month, and how the pace that gets recommended to you is not always the right one.
Value your time, not just your work
The year of no, why boundaries protect your time, and why I choose the word value over worth.
I learned to love the quiet
How solitude went from something I avoided to the thing I would protect first.
Shut up and listen
What 100 guest conversations taught me about listening, choosing whose advice to take home, and why not all advice is good advice.
Build it so it runs without you
The Bangkok lesson. A business that cannot run without you is not freedom, it is a job you cannot quit. Build your systems now.
AI is the taskmaster, I am still the brain
How I actually use AI in my business, where I leaned in too hard early on, and why nothing hits the public eye without me.
I am not here to yap
Why the loudest voice in the room is not always the one worth your time.
Free does not mean it costs nothing
A personal ask about feedback, and why we should tell the baker the bread was good.
You don't have to do any of this
The one I most want you to hear. Take what serves you and leave the rest.
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