Business Beyond Boundaries: The Power of Creativity in Business with James Walters

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I don't know about you, but I believe and think

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other day, Why is the internet not a safer place?

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a brand new episode. Now let's dive into the

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show. author of two books so far. He's really

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kicking my butt so far. I mean, metaphorically,

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of course. And James is on a mission to help

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people live their best lives through identifying

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what they really want, taking creative risks,

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and also sharing their story with others. If

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I can talk today. Holy crap. And that's what

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happens when... You don't sleep very well thanks

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to very, very hot weather and a poor AC unit

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that was constructed in the 1970s. I hope that

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building doesn't matter. I'll just say, I hope

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he's not building anymore. I'm not being a tool,

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but it's really bad. That's the reason why systems

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upgrade here and there. But that's my little

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rant today. And before we get the guest out real

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quick, I've got to turn on blast radio real quick.

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Whoops. See, this is what happens when you burn.

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Mine is all over the place. Okay. So let's welcome

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James out, and we're going to have a great interview.

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Hey, James. Hey, Jimmy. How's it going? Good.

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How are you? Man, haven't been better. It's hot

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here, too, and it is hard to sleep, but make

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and do. Definitely. So before we get started,

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can you tell us a little bit about who you are,

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what you do, how you got started, and why you

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got started? Yeah. So, you know, you read a little

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bit in my bio. I put all of those things, you

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know, dad, nephew, friend, mentor, all of those

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things, because I know a lot of people wear a

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ton of hats. And I really only started out wanting

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to wear one or two hats when I was in high school.

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I wanted I realized I wanted to be a photographer.

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And so I decided, hey, I'm going to go. to college

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for that i did it and that's what i've been doing

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for the last 30 years is my main business but

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along the way you pick up different titles right

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pick up the maybe the title of husband father

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teacher things of that sort and so i've really

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had the need for growth you know along the way

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too fill the shoes of what those things needed

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to be. Like father, you don't get really an instruction

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manual for that. So you have to figure it out

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as you go and a lot of bumps and scrapes along

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the way. And then as business owner. that's even

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worse because you get a lot of other people's

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advice and it may or may not apply to you. So

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you've got to go out there and do a lot of experimenting,

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figure out what works. And really the, the way

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it started was, you know, and that's how it so

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often happens in life. You go down one path and

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then you end up doing a lot of side quests and

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then you get to a spot where you really figure

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out where you want to go from there. And I guess

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that's, That's kind of where I am right now in

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my life, in my career, and what I'm doing with

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the podcast that I work with and the books that

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I'm writing. They are accumulating the experience

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that I've gotten and hoping to tell stories to

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help other people find their way if they don't

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have it yet. That's amazing. And I definitely

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know what you mean about the business and other

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struggle shifts, many ups and downs. And earlier

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today, I had somebody tell me that what I'm doing

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is a hobby. And I thought, really? I've been

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doing this for seven plus years. And I also have

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been, let's say, been a... around the world a

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couple few times not literally but i mean 180

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podcasts and videos uh 30 and uh speaking engagements

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on different conferences yes i haven't uh made

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consistent money etc but i was like if i'm gonna

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work on this you know at least 40 plus hours

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a week it's not a hobby It's like, and I've been

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doing this and I've been doing for seven plus

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years. It's like a hobby is like, I'll do here

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and there and blah, blah, blah. Whenever I have

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free time, that's a hobby. Yeah. Hobby's a weekend

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thing. Yeah. Of course I didn't say this to the

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person, but thanks for telling me I have a hobby.

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Yeah. Isn't it great when you get that from someone

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who kind of volunteers their ignorance about

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what you do, but maybe they know someone who

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has a podcast they do every once in a while.

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Or I, you know, as a photographer, I got that

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a lot. Even my, I tell this story a lot about

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my grandmother when I told her, Hey, I'm going

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to go to college and I'm going to get a degree

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in photography. I wasn't just going to. do it

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and she looked at me and she was so baffled and

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she looked at me concerned and she said well

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how are you gonna make a living doing that and

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i was like well no it's a job it's an actual

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job people do it and they get paid for it and

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that was 30 plus years ago but it's it's kind

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of the same it's similar with podcasting i think

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People think, oh, you've got a podcast. That's

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adorable. And they don't realize how much work

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goes into it and how much we really do, but also

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how much we love it. Because I know if you've

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been doing this for seven years, you've got to

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love it. Yeah, I really do love it. You know,

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like the podcast actually came like for. Like

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in 2020, I did it for four years, my business

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for seven years. So it's like a three -year gap,

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but as a three -year difference, but as in whatever.

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If I hated it, I wouldn't keep doing it. That's

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for sure. There's some aspects I don't like,

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but then there's other aspects I really, really

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like. Yeah. No, it's so much parallel to what

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I've been doing because with photography, I always

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love the technical part. I love the creative

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part. And those, you know, really mesh together.

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But then when you're in business for yourself,

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there's this whole business part over on the

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side that I really resented and avoided being

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completely engaged with for a lot of years. And

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that didn't serve me very well. But I got to

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a point where. I realized the business part was

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just as much of an opportunity for me to be creative

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and technical as the photography part. And so

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once I had that mind shift and I shifted that

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mindset, it was game on. And I've been having

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a great ride ever since. Yeah. So my next question

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for you is how do you stay? How do you find joy

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in what you're doing? And I'm sure you probably

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have those days where it's like, nothing's going

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right. That was my week last week. Everything

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was just a blur last week. I had a few tools,

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just kind of physical tools, some digital tools

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that were just breaking, and nothing that I bought.

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It was just some other third -party tools connecting

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to other tools. It's like, why is this breaking?

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I love, you know, I teach people creativity in

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a lot of different ways. I love to teach people

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how to tell their story, write their story. But

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really, for me, it comes down to the creative

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aspect and seeing. a problem like that as an

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opportunity to either you know go around the

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problem or figure out how to solve the problem

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and sometimes you just have to wait the problem

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out like you said sometimes it's a glitch in

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the system and you've got to restart the software

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so to speak and hope it's better but if not then

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you have to figure out okay is it a me problem

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or is it an outside of me And then that's where

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I always start. And it I guess it's more about

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distraction for me because I'm distracting myself

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from being. Usually I'm pretty annoyed if something

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comes up, but I've also started to train myself.

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And this is only something that's come in the

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last few years, but I train myself to really

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identify right out of the gate. Like, is this

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potentially a. a five minute problem, or is this

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going to be a five hour problem that kind of

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wrecks my day? Or is this going to be maybe a

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problem that's like five days? I kind of keep

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it in chunks of five and figure out, okay, what

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am I in for? And that way I go ahead and just

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resign myself to what I should expect out of

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this and just start putting one foot in front

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of the other at that point. If you don't mind,

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I'm going to take that idea. Just put in my business

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because I'll give you an example of one of the

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issues I've been figuring out. You might have

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heard of the tools Zapier. My all -on -one marketing

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tool has an integration with that. I'm still

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trying to figure out make .com, but they only

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give you like two automations for free. I believe

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something along those lines. And then Zapier,

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I keep on getting all these unexpected errors.

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This is an error. And it's like, and that's funny.

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I set up my profiles as two. different types

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of profiles crazy fitness guy and myself two

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separate entities just because i didn't want

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to make the brand about who the hell is jimmy

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clare jimmy cole doesn't matter and but but so

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basically the long story short uh i set up everything

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the exact different wording for different posts

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etc and for whatever reason The errors are only

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happening on my profiles. I'm like, okay, where

00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:05.880
the hell do I beacon on that? And so luckily

00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:09.660
my marketing tool company is like, we'll look

00:17:09.660 --> 00:17:12.119
in this for you if you get some screenshots.

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And it's like, where do I start? And it's like,

00:17:14.660 --> 00:17:16.460
I'm getting an error here, I'm getting an error

00:17:16.460 --> 00:17:18.900
here. But of course Crazy Fitness guy keeps going

00:17:18.900 --> 00:17:23.079
out nice and smoothly. Never for myself, what

00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:27.839
the hell. Right. Yeah, something's broken somewhere

00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.180
and you feel like sometimes it's a needle in

00:17:32.180 --> 00:17:34.339
a haystack. You feel like you're untangling Christmas

00:17:34.339 --> 00:17:37.740
lights to try to figure out, okay, where is the,

00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:40.700
it's probably just one little thing that's holding

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up everything after it. And yeah, those days

00:17:45.339 --> 00:17:48.440
are usually the, it's those little things that

00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.029
are those five hour. problems and they typically

00:17:51.029 --> 00:17:54.549
start with screenshots and then it starts with,

00:17:54.710 --> 00:17:57.029
okay, is there a Facebook support page for this

00:17:57.029 --> 00:18:00.309
company or go direct to customer support if it's

00:18:00.309 --> 00:18:03.029
great company. So yeah, I feel you. Cause I've

00:18:03.029 --> 00:18:05.130
got one of those too. I've got a situation where

00:18:05.130 --> 00:18:07.470
people are signing up for things, but they're

00:18:07.470 --> 00:18:09.109
not getting the text, but they are getting the

00:18:09.109 --> 00:18:12.529
email and that, and sometimes their email goes

00:18:12.529 --> 00:18:16.470
to spam. Right. So if they get the text, then

00:18:16.470 --> 00:18:18.450
they know they got the email. It's yeah, it's.

00:18:18.859 --> 00:18:23.160
Fantastic, right? Oh, yeah. And it's like, I

00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:27.420
decided to say, if I can find another workaround,

00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.400
I would definitely do it. And they have built

00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:35.759
-in tools, but that doesn't work with my podcast.

00:18:36.380 --> 00:18:39.980
Right. And so I was like, why? I was like, can't

00:18:39.980 --> 00:18:42.240
somebody just make a tool like Zapier that just

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works? Just works. Yeah. I feel you. But just

00:18:47.869 --> 00:18:52.289
like, since they put their support on a paywall,

00:18:52.569 --> 00:18:55.170
it's like, well, we don't know how that worked

00:18:55.170 --> 00:19:01.809
out for AOL. Yeah. Wow. Well, I hope you figure

00:19:01.809 --> 00:19:04.329
it out sooner than later. I know you'll figure

00:19:04.329 --> 00:19:07.769
it out, but I hope it ends up being less painful

00:19:07.769 --> 00:19:12.930
than you thought. Me too. So my next question

00:19:12.930 --> 00:19:17.119
for you is, What made you want to start your

00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:22.460
podcast? Oh, man, it did start as a passion project

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and it kind of still is. I love stories and I

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love the stories that I love most, especially

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at my age. I'm past my 40s now, just barely.

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And in talking to people who have gotten to that

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point in life. There's just something strange

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and kind of magical about getting to that group

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of years in your life where it's not like you

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have wisdom necessarily, but you've got more

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perspective and you start wanting more for yourself.

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And some people do, some people don't, obviously.

00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:05.599
But the majority of people I do, they're like,

00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:08.099
you know, I've kind of I've been doing this same

00:20:08.099 --> 00:20:10.099
thing for a long time. I want more out of my

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life. There's also it's that point of life where

00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:17.079
you feel like it's sort of now or never because

00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:22.299
this thing doesn't go on forever. Right. So taking

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that and talking with as many people as I did

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about the some of the same issues, I thought,

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you know what, I should either write a book or

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create something because I've talked to all these

00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:38.079
folks. They all have the same issues. So they

00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:41.019
should probably, you know. be talking to some

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of the other people that I've talked to who have

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figured these things out, because there are a

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lot of people who have been through what I call

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a joyful rebellion of their own. And that's the

00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.079
name of the podcast, because it's that point

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in your life where you have checked all the boxes

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of what other people tell you success is. People

00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:04.500
like your parents, people like your college or

00:21:04.500 --> 00:21:08.299
your high school or whoever tells you, hey, get

00:21:08.299 --> 00:21:11.730
the house, get the Get the spouse, get the kids,

00:21:11.809 --> 00:21:15.589
get the, you know, diploma and then get the great

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job and you're going to be happy. And then a

00:21:18.769 --> 00:21:20.549
lot of people do all that stuff. They're super

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responsible with their life. And then they get

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to a point where they realize, you know, I've

00:21:24.869 --> 00:21:27.190
done all these things and I should feel great

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and I don't. And the part of the joyful rebellion

00:21:32.390 --> 00:21:36.089
is asking yourself, what am I going to do about

00:21:36.089 --> 00:21:40.619
it? What do I do next? I love to talk with people

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and get their story because I love stories. And

00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:46.539
that transformation story just captivates me.

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So that's why I started the podcast. And now

00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:52.920
I talk with people every week who've either been

00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.940
through their own joyful rebellion journey or

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people who help others. get through theirs. And

00:22:00.950 --> 00:22:03.130
so that's a lot of authors, a lot of coaches,

00:22:03.190 --> 00:22:07.589
a lot of people who just help transform other

00:22:07.589 --> 00:22:11.309
people who are searching for that what next moment

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in their own lives. I love people who tell stories

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as well. I like learning new things every single

00:22:21.769 --> 00:22:27.109
week on my podcast. I'm always just learning

00:22:27.109 --> 00:22:30.440
and learning. And people are like, don't you

00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:32.680
get tired of it? I was like, no, that's the fun

00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:35.579
part for me. It's the admin crap that gets annoying.

00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:38.700
It's like, gotta follow up with this guest, gotta

00:22:38.700 --> 00:22:43.099
do this with this guest. I worry about no -shows.

00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:50.279
I actually cut back on... I finally found a way

00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:53.859
for me to deal with the no -shows. And I was

00:22:53.859 --> 00:22:57.529
like, well, if they don't show up, well... off

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the show yeah yeah and that's always a problem

00:23:02.329 --> 00:23:05.029
i've had a few of those lately and it's always

00:23:05.029 --> 00:23:07.890
frustrating because yeah all the emails and all

00:23:07.890 --> 00:23:10.930
the things go out the text the emails the reminders

00:23:10.930 --> 00:23:15.630
all of it and it's it's weird when you get that

00:23:15.630 --> 00:23:21.160
but it happens Yeah. But the nice part is, is

00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:25.440
that, you know, what happens is a way to, I found

00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:29.079
a way to kind of minimize a lot of the frustration

00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:33.019
and I can just pretty much just like, okay, you

00:23:33.019 --> 00:23:35.900
know, they don't want to be on the show. Fine.

00:23:36.220 --> 00:23:39.339
You know, and it's like, they're missing an opportunity.

00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:46.279
That's right. So my next question for you is,

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uh, What got you into photography? Was someone

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else in your family like a photographer? Or did

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you go to weddings and see a bunch of people

00:24:00.619 --> 00:24:03.420
taking pictures? Did you like that kind of stuff?

00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:09.200
I didn't really know that I liked taking pictures

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until I was probably in 10th grade in high school.

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And I first used it maybe like a lot of kids

00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:21.309
do. I didn't love math. I liked a lot of the

00:24:21.309 --> 00:24:23.630
other stuff, but I actually figured out a way

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instead of taking algebra two, I could take a

00:24:26.750 --> 00:24:30.329
photography course. And I don't know how I'd

00:24:30.329 --> 00:24:34.210
swap the credits, but I got into the dark room

00:24:34.210 --> 00:24:36.549
in that photography course. And I was I was like,

00:24:36.630 --> 00:24:40.130
wow, this is amazing. I could create. a whole

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world through the lens of a camera. And even

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though I was seeing the same thing, maybe another

00:24:45.690 --> 00:24:49.690
person I was standing beside was looking at through

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the camera, I could see it and I could present

00:24:51.490 --> 00:24:54.029
it in a totally different way. And then when

00:24:54.029 --> 00:24:56.089
I get in the dark room, I could take it even

00:24:56.089 --> 00:24:58.869
further. I can make certain parts darker or lighter

00:24:58.869 --> 00:25:04.450
or fuzzy. And that just blew my mind. And I got

00:25:04.450 --> 00:25:07.029
hooked on being able to take a photograph and

00:25:07.029 --> 00:25:10.930
create a world. That no one else had had really

00:25:10.930 --> 00:25:13.349
seen. And it wasn't like dramatic. We didn't

00:25:13.349 --> 00:25:15.529
have Photoshop back then. It was literally black

00:25:15.529 --> 00:25:19.230
and white darkroom stuff. But at the same time,

00:25:19.230 --> 00:25:21.589
when people would look at some of these pictures,

00:25:21.690 --> 00:25:24.069
it's like, oh, I know we were both there, but

00:25:24.069 --> 00:25:26.730
I didn't see it that way or I never thought about

00:25:26.730 --> 00:25:31.150
it at that angle. And so that's what got me hooked

00:25:31.150 --> 00:25:34.819
and wanted. To explore commercial photography

00:25:34.819 --> 00:25:37.539
more, which is what I did in college. I didn't

00:25:37.539 --> 00:25:40.619
really photograph people very much. I was kind

00:25:40.619 --> 00:25:45.980
of a shy kid and was a little too. shy to give

00:25:45.980 --> 00:25:48.880
a lot of direction and stuff like that. So I

00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:51.700
started with products and a lot of advertising

00:25:51.700 --> 00:25:54.160
stuff right out of the gate. And then eventually

00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:58.619
I got bored with that and got my confidence up

00:25:58.619 --> 00:26:01.980
with my photo skills after about four or five

00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:06.500
years. And then I went exclusively into photographing

00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:08.420
people, which I've been doing for the last 20

00:26:08.420 --> 00:26:12.420
some years. So just new challenges all the time.

00:26:12.420 --> 00:26:18.420
And I love it. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:21.400
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or $30 ,000 a year. I like photography as well,

00:27:22.190 --> 00:27:26.609
especially because I actually took a photography

00:27:26.609 --> 00:27:32.390
class in high school, too, I believe. And one

00:27:32.390 --> 00:27:37.970
of them was actually using a darkroom, and it

00:27:37.970 --> 00:27:45.579
was really cool because it kind of, well... One

00:27:45.579 --> 00:27:49.220
of the projects we had to do, I went to my dad's

00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:51.920
country club, took a picture of some of the chefs

00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:55.799
in the kitchen, and I got this really cool, I

00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:57.660
mean, I don't have it anymore, but I remember

00:27:57.660 --> 00:28:01.480
this picture in my head, and it was this chef

00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:05.920
cooking, and this huge big flame just popped

00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:09.920
up, and it captured right on, and it was like...

00:28:10.109 --> 00:28:12.410
that looks freaking awesome. And I was like,

00:28:12.450 --> 00:28:15.210
I didn't even mean to do it too. I was like,

00:28:15.289 --> 00:28:17.190
all right, I was already looking for that child.

00:28:17.269 --> 00:28:21.150
Like, Ooh, let me do that. Yeah. And then you're

00:28:21.150 --> 00:28:23.269
mad because it doesn't happen every time. You

00:28:23.269 --> 00:28:25.650
know, you kind of expect that lightning strike

00:28:25.650 --> 00:28:28.109
moment. Yeah. It's cool. And stuff like that

00:28:28.109 --> 00:28:31.190
happens. So before I ask you my next question,

00:28:31.329 --> 00:28:38.170
so last year when I got to go to, to Ireland

00:28:38.170 --> 00:28:44.529
with my family for my dad's 70th birthday. I

00:28:44.529 --> 00:28:47.690
took a lot of pictures with my Google Pixel phone,

00:28:47.970 --> 00:28:52.609
and I wanted to ask you, what do you think about

00:28:52.609 --> 00:28:56.890
these phones today that have these amazing cameras

00:28:56.890 --> 00:29:00.170
on them? Do you think that they're like the next

00:29:00.170 --> 00:29:03.930
kind of thing to replace digital cameras, or

00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:07.210
do you think they're not there quite yet? I think

00:29:07.210 --> 00:29:09.450
they're definitely there for a lot of different

00:29:09.450 --> 00:29:13.730
applications. And in fact, I just, my second

00:29:13.730 --> 00:29:16.329
book, which is a photo book, it's the first photo

00:29:16.329 --> 00:29:18.069
book I've done. The first was like a memoir.

00:29:18.509 --> 00:29:21.970
And this is coming out in the fall, but it's

00:29:21.970 --> 00:29:26.970
a large format. It's all black and white photos,

00:29:27.130 --> 00:29:30.529
but every one of them I took with my phone because

00:29:30.529 --> 00:29:34.329
I wanted to limit myself to something I would

00:29:34.329 --> 00:29:39.599
have on me all the time. And these images I created

00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:42.880
were very much in the moment. And so it was either

00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:45.500
me lugging around a big camera all the time,

00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:51.420
every day, or we all have our phones. And the

00:29:51.420 --> 00:29:56.140
quality is great. The lenses are getting better.

00:29:56.740 --> 00:30:00.640
The limitations are the speed and, of course,

00:30:00.660 --> 00:30:03.539
the... Working with the lighting, because as

00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:05.880
I've always when I train photographers or when

00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:09.480
I talk to other people about photographs and

00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:12.460
really the essence of a photograph, it's about

00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:14.740
the lighting. It's not about the little I call

00:30:14.740 --> 00:30:17.740
it the little black box that takes the pictures.

00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:21.759
And that's I won't say it's inconsequential,

00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:24.660
but I was shooting album covers or not album

00:30:24.660 --> 00:30:27.519
covers, but magazine covers like 25 years ago

00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:31.809
with with really crappy digital cameras. And

00:30:31.809 --> 00:30:35.569
it still held up. And so I could take one of

00:30:35.569 --> 00:30:40.369
those cameras from way back then. And I could,

00:30:40.369 --> 00:30:43.829
you know, with great lighting, still create a

00:30:43.829 --> 00:30:46.569
nice cover today. I don't need anything brand

00:30:46.569 --> 00:30:49.529
new off the shelf. If you've got the lighting,

00:30:49.630 --> 00:30:51.569
if you've got the composition, if you've got

00:30:51.569 --> 00:30:54.670
the things. And there's a limitation to what

00:30:54.670 --> 00:30:59.670
you can do with a phone and lighting. Not always,

00:30:59.750 --> 00:31:04.400
but. in in some degrees the reason why i asked

00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:09.400
is because when there was a couple i mean i had

00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:11.920
a really some really really good pictures in

00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:16.000
ireland and it really annoyed my brother and

00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:20.319
my dad because they both love iphones and i was

00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:25.640
like Beat that iPhone. I got my nice Pixel. I

00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:28.599
even got a really good shot with a double rainbow

00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:31.960
coming over the hill and everything else. Like,

00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:37.140
yeah, see what your iPhone can do. Yeah. And

00:31:37.140 --> 00:31:39.779
they're all, I mean, they're getting better every

00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:44.299
year. And some are definitely using the app to

00:31:44.299 --> 00:31:49.069
bolster. like the limitations of the camera.

00:31:49.170 --> 00:31:52.230
I remember the Samsung used to go ahead and it

00:31:52.230 --> 00:31:55.210
was like an automatic smoothing of faces and

00:31:55.210 --> 00:31:58.190
things. And this was maybe seven or eight years

00:31:58.190 --> 00:32:00.170
ago. And I was like, wow, that's, that's actually

00:32:00.170 --> 00:32:03.670
kind of cool. It's a little, it's a little much,

00:32:03.769 --> 00:32:06.990
but I was thinking, I wish my real like big camera

00:32:06.990 --> 00:32:09.829
could do that. That would be kind of nice in

00:32:09.829 --> 00:32:12.710
a lot of ways, but I can always do that after

00:32:12.710 --> 00:32:18.730
the fact. The only thing that I couldn't do was

00:32:18.730 --> 00:32:25.549
pick up the super mode during the summer. And

00:32:25.549 --> 00:32:28.529
I was like, ah, that's a bummer. But I was like,

00:32:28.569 --> 00:32:31.190
oh, well, you know what? And I was like, maybe

00:32:31.190 --> 00:32:37.059
one day it will. Because someone on my... one

00:32:37.059 --> 00:32:40.019
of my colleagues on facebook they uh posted one

00:32:40.019 --> 00:32:44.359
from and they said their samsung uh i forgot

00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.839
what model was i think it was like the latest

00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.940
one and i had like four or five six different

00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:54.819
cameras on there and it's like wow all you just

00:32:54.819 --> 00:32:57.240
make one huge big camera on the back why don't

00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:01.619
you yeah but uh but the reason i brought that

00:33:01.619 --> 00:33:05.190
up like That captured the super moon, but my

00:33:05.190 --> 00:33:08.210
phone couldn't. And it's like, one day it will.

00:33:08.470 --> 00:33:11.990
And it's like, just one day. Yeah, one day. And

00:33:11.990 --> 00:33:18.049
I tell people, I just had this, I had a client

00:33:18.049 --> 00:33:20.789
email me about two weeks ago and they said, hey,

00:33:20.829 --> 00:33:24.170
we're about to head out on vacation. We want

00:33:24.170 --> 00:33:28.450
to get a new camera and wanted to see what you

00:33:28.450 --> 00:33:32.549
would recommend. And I said, well, I recommend

00:33:32.549 --> 00:33:35.289
just use your phone because you'll always have

00:33:35.289 --> 00:33:37.109
it with you. It's going to take great pictures.

00:33:37.230 --> 00:33:38.589
And they were like, no, no, we want something

00:33:38.589 --> 00:33:40.150
that takes good pictures. And I was like, your

00:33:40.150 --> 00:33:43.089
phone does pretty good. But they ultimately they

00:33:43.089 --> 00:33:46.329
wanted something. I think they felt better having

00:33:46.329 --> 00:33:48.910
something they spent more money on, which honestly,

00:33:49.049 --> 00:33:52.230
I think the phones now are around a thousand

00:33:52.230 --> 00:33:58.799
bucks if you get a decent one. So was this camera

00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:00.660
they were buying. But the problem was the camera

00:34:00.660 --> 00:34:04.019
only does one thing. And their phone is going

00:34:04.019 --> 00:34:05.759
to do a whole lot of stuff and take great pictures.

00:34:05.779 --> 00:34:08.760
So I'm not one of those people who pooh -poohs

00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:11.940
phones for cameras at all, as long as it's a

00:34:11.940 --> 00:34:13.940
good one and you're happy with what it gives

00:34:13.940 --> 00:34:19.099
you. Yeah. During the photography course I took

00:34:19.099 --> 00:34:25.420
during – during, it was an elective for my college,

00:34:25.619 --> 00:34:30.059
for one of my classes. And I still liked it because

00:34:30.059 --> 00:34:34.059
I had to use Photoshop. But the thing was, I

00:34:34.059 --> 00:34:39.219
had this old digital camera and I kind of just

00:34:39.219 --> 00:34:42.780
didn't like that I was required to use such a

00:34:42.780 --> 00:34:45.659
device, especially because it's like, if you

00:34:45.659 --> 00:34:49.050
wanted something a lot better. My phone could

00:34:49.050 --> 00:34:53.409
take a lot better than this because I had the

00:34:53.409 --> 00:34:56.610
lighting in my house. I had natural light coming

00:34:56.610 --> 00:34:59.829
in. So I was like, are you sure you want me to

00:34:59.829 --> 00:35:04.329
use this old device that I got 15 plus years

00:35:04.329 --> 00:35:07.170
ago? He's like, yeah, it turns them. And the

00:35:07.170 --> 00:35:09.909
professor's like, yeah, it's better quality than

00:35:09.909 --> 00:35:11.889
your phone. And he's like, are you sure about

00:35:11.889 --> 00:35:14.550
that? I mean, I didn't say that at first, but

00:35:14.550 --> 00:35:20.889
I was like, yeah. Are we sure? Yeah. I was like,

00:35:20.909 --> 00:35:24.309
I think it's a lot higher quality than 15 years

00:35:24.309 --> 00:35:28.269
ago. Probably. It's not like I'm using a flip

00:35:28.269 --> 00:35:30.550
phone because if I was using a flip phone, I

00:35:30.550 --> 00:35:33.010
mean, not like the newer flip phones, but I mean

00:35:33.010 --> 00:35:37.010
like the very old loader. Razor. Yeah. The loader

00:35:37.010 --> 00:35:42.829
roll. That was my very first phone. Yeah. I feel

00:35:42.829 --> 00:35:47.619
ancient. Oh, man. I have one of those bag phones

00:35:47.619 --> 00:35:54.639
from the 90s, but that's ancient. You know, you

00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:57.659
know what would be really cool? I don't know

00:35:57.659 --> 00:36:02.619
if you ever had one of these phones. So I had

00:36:02.619 --> 00:36:06.840
this one phone where you flip from the side and

00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:09.539
it gives you like a nice keyboard. Oh, yeah.

00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:13.780
Yeah. Why couldn't they just make it like a cool

00:36:13.780 --> 00:36:17.320
smartphone that just, the whole screen just comes

00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:20.300
up, boom, and that just type with your thumb

00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:23.219
or just on your screen with your thumbs. It's

00:36:23.219 --> 00:36:26.460
like, that'd be really cool. Nice keyboard. That'd

00:36:26.460 --> 00:36:31.039
look cool. Yeah. You know, probably as we speak,

00:36:31.139 --> 00:36:34.639
somebody's probably like going to listen and

00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:37.639
it's like, hey, that's a good idea. And they'll

00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:41.059
end up making just an accessory that kind of

00:36:41.059 --> 00:36:43.219
slides out of the battery holder or something

00:36:43.219 --> 00:36:46.079
like that that'll be kind of cool. It'll look

00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:47.840
retro. It'll look like something from The Matrix.

00:36:48.380 --> 00:36:55.739
Yes. I can only picture it now. Snap -on. That's

00:36:55.739 --> 00:37:01.159
right. So what are you doing? I'm texting. You

00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:02.900
look like you're playing a video game on your

00:37:02.900 --> 00:37:06.829
phone. I swear. I'm answering an email. It's

00:37:06.829 --> 00:37:13.849
fine. Put that stuff away. So my next couple

00:37:13.849 --> 00:37:17.710
of questions for you, where do you see your podcast

00:37:17.710 --> 00:37:22.269
in the next couple of years? Yeah. I've been

00:37:22.269 --> 00:37:25.429
thinking about that because I'm through the first

00:37:25.429 --> 00:37:29.829
year and a half of episodes. I've launched, let's

00:37:29.829 --> 00:37:32.250
see, I think I'm about to launch like episode

00:37:32.250 --> 00:37:36.989
35. And so the first year was a little, spotty

00:37:36.989 --> 00:37:40.349
like I wasn't consistent I wasn't putting out

00:37:40.349 --> 00:37:42.969
an episode every week I was still working out

00:37:42.969 --> 00:37:45.110
a lot of the technical stuff the editing stuff

00:37:45.110 --> 00:37:48.489
the flow and there were some times where I had

00:37:48.489 --> 00:37:51.690
sound issues where it just took me a long time

00:37:51.690 --> 00:37:54.489
to edit the episode and I learned from it and

00:37:54.489 --> 00:37:57.130
I never did those things again and then things

00:37:57.130 --> 00:38:00.329
got faster and so now I'm in the phase where

00:38:00.329 --> 00:38:03.199
I'm really trying to work on interviewing skills

00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:08.780
and getting a flow to an episode where I, you

00:38:08.780 --> 00:38:14.159
know, I'm setting up the guests to have really

00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:17.440
great stories and getting them prepared, but

00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:19.739
also facilitating the conversation, keeping it

00:38:19.739 --> 00:38:23.199
moving back and forth. And that also makes editing

00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:25.699
go much faster and makes me enjoy the process

00:38:25.699 --> 00:38:27.639
when editing goes faster, because that's the

00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:32.650
part I like the least. And so once I kind of

00:38:32.650 --> 00:38:35.530
get feel comfortable getting through that phase,

00:38:35.690 --> 00:38:40.730
then I'm going into more of the how can we expand

00:38:40.730 --> 00:38:44.230
the reach of this? So I've got these 35 episodes

00:38:44.230 --> 00:38:47.369
right now. I think they're good, but I want to

00:38:47.369 --> 00:38:49.989
start making things better, want to give more

00:38:49.989 --> 00:38:54.289
value to people. And then once. And once I feel

00:38:54.289 --> 00:38:57.070
like we're there, I want to really expand the

00:38:57.070 --> 00:39:00.050
reach as much as possible so that people who

00:39:00.050 --> 00:39:02.949
are like I described, people who are in that

00:39:02.949 --> 00:39:04.429
situation where they're like, you know what?

00:39:04.510 --> 00:39:08.489
My life is great. I just don't feel like I'm

00:39:08.489 --> 00:39:11.289
doing the living the best life I possibly could.

00:39:11.510 --> 00:39:15.030
But I don't really know what to do next to get

00:39:15.030 --> 00:39:18.210
there. I want those people to be able to find

00:39:18.210 --> 00:39:21.489
my podcast, listen to it, and maybe. pick up

00:39:21.489 --> 00:39:24.070
something they hadn't thought about before and

00:39:24.070 --> 00:39:27.610
be able to decide for themselves, am I going

00:39:27.610 --> 00:39:30.269
to put in the effort to make that change or not?

00:39:32.289 --> 00:39:38.809
I definitely know what you mean. My first interview

00:39:38.809 --> 00:39:43.710
sounded like garbage. I kept it. The only thing

00:39:43.710 --> 00:39:48.289
I did to it was because it was recorded on the

00:39:48.289 --> 00:39:54.820
phone. I decided to just re -edit it to make

00:39:54.820 --> 00:39:58.199
it louder. But I kept everything else the same

00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:02.619
because I was like, it's a little too, way too

00:40:02.619 --> 00:40:07.719
late for it to update and make changes. I mean,

00:40:07.739 --> 00:40:11.599
that was just in my perspective because I switched

00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:13.519
to many different hosting companies over the

00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:16.179
years. Oh, yeah. And that hosting company had

00:40:16.179 --> 00:40:19.190
their ads in it and it's like, Then I have to

00:40:19.190 --> 00:40:24.030
go back in, re -edit this. Oh, wow. That's a

00:40:24.030 --> 00:40:26.389
lot. Then it's like, I'm not going to do it.

00:40:28.449 --> 00:40:31.510
It's not me being lazy, but because I'm only

00:40:31.510 --> 00:40:34.889
one person behind my brand, I was like, I'm better

00:40:34.889 --> 00:40:39.889
off of just keep going and keep going. Let that

00:40:39.889 --> 00:40:42.769
episode just... And it's funny, it's one of the

00:40:42.769 --> 00:40:45.630
highest -paying episodes on my show. Oh, wow.

00:40:46.250 --> 00:40:49.670
I was like, how can this thing be outplaying

00:40:49.670 --> 00:40:53.369
everything else? Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, the

00:40:53.369 --> 00:40:55.929
content was good. Just the interviewing style,

00:40:56.010 --> 00:41:00.150
you could tell that I was really nervous. Even

00:41:00.150 --> 00:41:02.789
the person was not even in the room. And, like,

00:41:02.829 --> 00:41:05.630
he was all the way in Canada. And I was just

00:41:05.630 --> 00:41:08.230
all the way just afraid. It's like, don't mess

00:41:08.230 --> 00:41:10.090
it up. Don't mess it up. Don't mess it up. It's

00:41:10.090 --> 00:41:12.389
like, damn it, I'm sounding like I'm really messing

00:41:12.389 --> 00:41:15.340
up. And now I'm just here, like. If it happens,

00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:20.360
it happens. If it's great, great. If something

00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:23.400
messes up, like a little hiccup in technology,

00:41:23.659 --> 00:41:27.320
it's like, that's not my fault. That's just pure

00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:30.960
internet. That's our technology. That's not anything

00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:35.179
I can do. I can pay for internet, but that doesn't

00:41:35.179 --> 00:41:38.059
mean that's what I'm going to necessarily get.

00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:42.079
That's right. It's one of those things where

00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.309
you definitely have to, get your feet wet and

00:41:45.309 --> 00:41:49.309
do it before you get good at it. You can look

00:41:49.309 --> 00:41:54.050
at YouTube all day and not really get the sense

00:41:54.050 --> 00:41:57.630
of what it's like to produce a podcast. But once

00:41:57.630 --> 00:41:59.429
you've done it a few times, you're like, wow,

00:41:59.610 --> 00:42:02.429
this is, number one, it's a lot of work. And

00:42:02.429 --> 00:42:06.750
number two, it's a good commitment, but it's

00:42:06.750 --> 00:42:10.610
a lot of fun. And it's also tough for people

00:42:10.610 --> 00:42:12.590
who are perfectionists. I'm a little bit of a

00:42:12.590 --> 00:42:15.869
perfectionist. And so it was hard for me to pass

00:42:15.869 --> 00:42:21.210
off my raw recordings to an editor the first

00:42:21.210 --> 00:42:24.789
time. And then, unfortunately, I was listening

00:42:24.789 --> 00:42:28.809
to the finished podcast and I heard myself tell

00:42:28.809 --> 00:42:31.610
the editor, hey, edit this part out. And it was

00:42:31.610 --> 00:42:35.130
the final, the quote, final edit. And I was like,

00:42:35.210 --> 00:42:38.110
whoa, that's not good. I need to. Apparently

00:42:38.110 --> 00:42:40.650
talked to my editor because he didn't do much

00:42:40.650 --> 00:42:44.050
editing. And so I took it all back. And so now

00:42:44.050 --> 00:42:47.329
I am doing that lonely perfectionist thing and

00:42:47.329 --> 00:42:52.809
editing all of my episodes again. Well, if you

00:42:52.809 --> 00:42:56.349
don't mind me sharing you a tip or two. Yeah.

00:42:56.469 --> 00:42:59.530
I mean, I'm not a master editor or anything because

00:42:59.530 --> 00:43:02.289
I'm not saying that at all because I made my

00:43:02.289 --> 00:43:05.570
own mistakes as well. But there's a tool called

00:43:05.570 --> 00:43:10.639
Podcastle. cloud -based they have a free plan

00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:17.400
they basically uses AI technology to help you

00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:25.610
edit to make it level out terms of voices I don't

00:43:25.610 --> 00:43:29.429
take out all the ums because I have learned from

00:43:29.429 --> 00:43:33.429
others that if you take out the ums, like all

00:43:33.429 --> 00:43:36.489
of them, it might not flow very well. And for

00:43:36.489 --> 00:43:38.949
me, I actually tried that and it sounded really

00:43:38.949 --> 00:43:42.860
bad because then it's just a blank spot. how

00:43:42.860 --> 00:43:45.719
do you get from this work to this work it is

00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.719
not naturally at all i mean and this person who

00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:54.539
did that like we kind of had like a snippet of

00:43:54.539 --> 00:43:57.539
what it would sound like so it's like so and

00:43:57.539 --> 00:44:00.460
how do you do that and it was like one big blank

00:44:00.460 --> 00:44:02.920
and i was like oh this like that sounds garbage

00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:06.739
i was like i couldn't do that so uh podcast so

00:44:06.739 --> 00:44:11.559
kind of just helps me Edit it with AI. It has

00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:15.400
different functionalities. I don't know what

00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:17.539
every tool and nook and cranny does, but I've

00:44:17.539 --> 00:44:21.079
been using them for the last four and a half

00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:26.139
years I've been doing this. I definitely like

00:44:26.139 --> 00:44:29.260
them. They're one of my favorite tools for editing

00:44:29.260 --> 00:44:33.659
because some of the other ones, I'll just say

00:44:33.659 --> 00:44:36.000
it's a little bit more complicated than I feel

00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.780
it needs. Yeah. Somebody told me about Audacity.

00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:43.219
And not picking on Audacity, but I was like,

00:44:43.420 --> 00:44:46.420
okay, I really don't want to learn a whole new

00:44:46.420 --> 00:44:50.239
tool. Because some of the other hosting companies

00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:53.780
I was using, they gave me an easy -to -use editor.

00:44:54.219 --> 00:44:58.320
And so I'm used to, obviously, easy -to -do editors.

00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:02.219
And so I was like, I need something like this,

00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:06.000
but somewhere else. And so when I found podcasts,

00:45:06.219 --> 00:45:09.079
I was like... Yeah, I like this a lot better

00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:11.639
just because it's straightforward to me. I can

00:45:11.639 --> 00:45:14.280
say, oh, okay, I know what this tool does. I

00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:16.239
know what this thing does. I mean, I might not

00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.760
be able to spit it back out to you to tell you

00:45:18.760 --> 00:45:21.099
what it does. But I was like, oh, well, this

00:45:21.099 --> 00:45:23.880
does this, this does that. And it has a lot of

00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:27.039
help water goals too. And the customer support

00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.519
is like pretty much very, very fast. So it's

00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:33.920
nice waiting for Comcast customer support. That's

00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:40.500
important. Exactly. So I just wanted to share

00:45:40.500 --> 00:45:42.739
that with you. No, that's great. Thank you. I'll

00:45:42.739 --> 00:45:47.440
check it out. And no pressure if you want to

00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:51.940
use it or not. I mean, I'm not going to pay to

00:45:51.940 --> 00:45:56.039
use them or anything. I mean, they're paying

00:45:56.039 --> 00:45:59.139
me with their sponsorship for my show, but I

00:45:59.139 --> 00:46:05.840
get paid either way. Nice. So my last few questions

00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:08.480
for you is who is your favorite podcaster and

00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:13.400
why? And feel free not to say me. My favorite

00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:19.139
podcaster, man. You know, I don't know. When

00:46:19.139 --> 00:46:22.619
I listen to podcasts, I tend to go one of two

00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:26.079
directions. I'll either listen to. something

00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:29.320
that's purely for entertainment or i'll listen

00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:33.679
to something that is more about books or about

00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:37.219
publishing but purely for entertainment i listen

00:46:37.219 --> 00:46:41.159
to this one called two girls one ghost and it's

00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:44.679
they're hilarious it's these two ladies they're

00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:48.639
in massachusetts and They essentially compile

00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:52.539
these ghost stories and it's all really, there's

00:46:52.539 --> 00:46:54.760
a lot of history to it. So it's not just spooky

00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:57.820
ghost stories. They've got a ton of like why

00:46:57.820 --> 00:47:02.659
people think a certain place is haunted and they

00:47:02.659 --> 00:47:05.500
go through the history, which I find fascinating.

00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:10.119
And they do, they spend probably their first

00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:13.860
15 or 20 minutes. It's a long time at the beginning

00:47:13.860 --> 00:47:18.099
of the episode. catching up with each other and

00:47:18.099 --> 00:47:21.260
talking and shooting the breeze. And that part

00:47:21.260 --> 00:47:23.400
is actually kind of fun. I always thought, okay,

00:47:23.460 --> 00:47:27.119
if I was listening as a listener, would I be

00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:28.739
annoyed with that? And then I realized, wait,

00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:31.039
I am a listener and I am listening and I'm not

00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:33.579
annoyed with it. And so it must be great. So

00:47:33.579 --> 00:47:38.280
they are probably one of my favorite go -to podcasts

00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:43.059
right now as I'm walking, riding on long car

00:47:43.059 --> 00:47:47.000
trips, that kind of thing. You know, I always

00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:51.219
think my house is haunted. Yeah. And I'm not,

00:47:51.300 --> 00:47:55.539
like, you know, being sarcastic. There's some

00:47:55.539 --> 00:47:59.719
days where I hear, like, these loud creaks at

00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:02.480
night, and it's like, is somebody breaking into

00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:04.900
my house? And it's like, this is ridiculous.

00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.800
It's like, I get this thing is an old house,

00:48:07.900 --> 00:48:12.500
but I don't like it. Yeah, it's talking to you.

00:48:13.299 --> 00:48:16.960
Yeah. I was like, no, thank you. And like, if

00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:19.480
this is something that's haunting me, get the

00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:22.980
hell out. Yeah. Just like check the door. Yeah.

00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:25.800
I was like, I am out of here. And it's like,

00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:28.019
I don't, it's like, I've seen some previews for

00:48:28.019 --> 00:48:30.559
scary movies and I'm not getting this at all.

00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:33.380
You know where that, you know where it is, you

00:48:33.380 --> 00:48:36.559
know where it's going. Yeah. So it's like that

00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:39.480
commercial. It's like. And we all know that people

00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:42.679
on scary movies have very bad logic and they

00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:44.460
just stay at the same exact house. It's like,

00:48:44.500 --> 00:48:49.219
I'm out of here. And they all, as soon as somebody

00:48:49.219 --> 00:48:51.599
busts in, they run upstairs to the attic or whatever,

00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:54.239
or down to the basement. Yeah. Instead of out

00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:59.340
into the street. It's like, also like that commercial

00:48:59.340 --> 00:49:05.329
where that guy. who does all the chainsaws in

00:49:05.329 --> 00:49:08.269
the movies and whatnot. Oh, yeah. They make bad

00:49:08.269 --> 00:49:11.250
decisions. It's like the car is literally right

00:49:11.250 --> 00:49:14.710
there. They just take it, drive it. The guy can't

00:49:14.710 --> 00:49:17.889
find you. It's like they have to come hunting

00:49:17.889 --> 00:49:21.030
down for you. But, geez, if you drive off, like,

00:49:21.070 --> 00:49:25.570
I don't know, 20 states over, you probably can't

00:49:25.570 --> 00:49:28.789
find you anymore. Yeah. You'd probably be better

00:49:28.789 --> 00:49:32.119
off for sure. Well, we'll just stay there and

00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:34.619
we'll be the heroes. It's like, yeah, you go

00:49:34.619 --> 00:49:40.019
do this. Good luck. And my last question for

00:49:40.019 --> 00:49:41.920
you is where can people follow you, find you,

00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:43.599
learn more about who you are and what you do?

00:49:44.340 --> 00:49:48.860
Yeah, thank you. My website, I've got a website

00:49:48.860 --> 00:49:52.230
that's jameswalters .com. And that's kind of

00:49:52.230 --> 00:49:55.409
where I keep all of my projects. So my latest

00:49:55.409 --> 00:49:59.349
book project is there. And there's a blog dedicated

00:49:59.349 --> 00:50:03.449
to the podcast. The podcast is a joyful rebellion

00:50:03.449 --> 00:50:06.650
dot com. And it's a separate site, but they all

00:50:06.650 --> 00:50:09.389
kind of lead back and forth to each other. So

00:50:09.389 --> 00:50:12.190
those are the best two places. And all of those

00:50:12.190 --> 00:50:15.789
have Facebook and Instagram accounts as well.

00:50:15.809 --> 00:50:18.289
If you want to follow along on our adventures.

00:50:21.170 --> 00:50:23.329
I'll definitely put all those in the show notes.

00:50:23.789 --> 00:50:28.409
And I just also want to say real quick, you know,

00:50:28.409 --> 00:50:32.489
it's funny. One of my professors in college,

00:50:32.730 --> 00:50:37.210
when he used to be alive, he told me I need a

00:50:37.210 --> 00:50:42.489
portfolio website for all my school projects

00:50:42.489 --> 00:50:46.849
and whatnot. As I say, I hate my portfolio site

00:50:46.849 --> 00:50:52.769
the most. Oh, yeah. But just because I have more

00:50:52.769 --> 00:50:55.889
passion for my own business than the portfolio

00:50:55.889 --> 00:51:02.670
side, it's like if I was really, if I needed

00:51:02.670 --> 00:51:05.289
to do something else to support my business,

00:51:05.429 --> 00:51:11.150
I would show my business as my portfolio versus

00:51:11.150 --> 00:51:14.550
the other stuff that I've ever done. It's not

00:51:14.550 --> 00:51:19.329
that the other stuff was. crap. It's just that

00:51:19.329 --> 00:51:23.309
I spend more time and energy on this than my

00:51:23.309 --> 00:51:26.809
portfolio. And it was like, you got to revamp

00:51:26.809 --> 00:51:29.670
it and whatnot. And even my other professors

00:51:29.670 --> 00:51:32.070
said to me, it's like, Jimmy, your website is

00:51:32.070 --> 00:51:34.909
your portfolio. And it's like, screw your other

00:51:34.909 --> 00:51:37.369
one. It's like, are you really going to show

00:51:37.369 --> 00:51:42.769
somebody your, I don't know, 15 second video?

00:51:44.929 --> 00:51:47.630
of something that you did in class and it's like

00:51:47.630 --> 00:51:54.429
no and she's like exactly that's right yeah because

00:51:54.429 --> 00:51:57.530
you you grew you moved on and you moved on to

00:51:57.530 --> 00:51:59.730
better things that's your business site now and

00:51:59.730 --> 00:52:02.530
that makes total sense that you would leverage

00:52:02.530 --> 00:52:04.989
that show that as what you're doing now that's

00:52:04.989 --> 00:52:07.869
the that's who jimmy is now you you don't really

00:52:07.869 --> 00:52:10.929
need to show who jimmy was five ten years ago

00:52:10.929 --> 00:52:17.840
right Yeah. I actually do. I do have it linked

00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:22.860
up on my about page. Okay. But I was like, I'm

00:52:22.860 --> 00:52:28.719
not ashamed of it, but just to my horror of it,

00:52:28.900 --> 00:52:31.659
it's like my website's more for crazy fitness

00:52:31.659 --> 00:52:36.940
guys, a little bit more interesting and up to

00:52:36.940 --> 00:52:42.739
date than the other things. Yeah. It's garbage.

00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:49.679
Got to start somewhere. I appreciate you being

00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:51.920
on the show and I would love to have you back

00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:55.579
in the future. Well, Jimmy, I was really happy

00:52:55.579 --> 00:52:58.880
to connect with you and it's been such a great

00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:01.079
conversation. I've had a blast. Thank you for

00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:03.800
having me. Thank you. And let's stay in touch.

00:53:04.219 --> 00:53:07.480
All right. I'd love that. Awesome. Have a good

00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:10.550
rest of your day. Thanks. You too. So that's

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