Hello, and welcome back to the ground up show. This is a bonus episode. That's right

Normally I release this podcast every single Wednesday. I've been pretty good about

keeping this going for the past

I want to say like six or seven months. I've been releasing an episode every single week and this week

I decided to do something a little bit differently. I wanted to come at you with an additional

episode so

This one's gonna be an AMA. I am answering some of your questions. You've been sending them in over the past couple weeks

And I'm gonna be answering questions about minimalism productivity building habits

multitasking and a whole lot more. I've got people who've sent an audio as well as

video clips and I think it's gonna be a good one. So

Let's play like the music intro and then we'll get right into the podcast

You're listening to the ground up show a podcast that inspires creatives to make meaningful content and pursue their passions

My name is Matthew Vella and I'm a filmmaker best known for the Netflix documentary minimalism

And I'm sitting down with creators to talk about their process the lessons they've learned and how to make an impact

All right, so before we get into some of these questions here. I wanted to provide a little

update just on the status of the podcast how I've been doing how it's been growing it has been a pretty amazing

month or two

You know, I've been plugging away at this podcast. I started it about a year

And a couple months ago. I want to say like 15 16 months ago is it when it first started and

The first podcast I published I think it got 50 listens in the first couple months

Couple days which was I was excited, you know, it's cool to be able to see that some people were listening to it and

It grew a little bit, but I think for the first six months or so I didn't break 3,000 downloads per month

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