199: 10 Things I Learned from Publishing 200 Podcast Episodes: : Solo Episode with Light Watkins

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this week’s podcast episode, host Light Watkins marks a significant milestone by sharing a special solo episode reflecting on the journey through nearly 200 episodes. He opens up about the inception of the podcast, the evolution of its content, and the simplicity behind starting your own show. This episode offers a unique blend of personal anecdotes, practical advice for podcasters at any stage, and insights into the less obvious aspects of podcasting, like guest selection and equipment es...

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0:00.0	What the comfort zone is really good at doing is distorting the risk factors, distorting what you may potentially lose, distorting how embarrassing it may be to have a podcast and all the reasons why it's not going to work.
0:17.2	It magnifies the risks. That's what the comfort zone does. The comfort zone is that place that you're in without having put any
0:25.2	sort of investment in this thing that you're ultimately feeling called to do. Once you start to
0:30.8	put some investment into it, once you get the microphone, once you record a few episodes,
0:34.6	once you invest in a designer to help you with a cover for your podcast, once you publish the first
0:40.2	six or so podcast episodes, the risks that you saw in your comfort zone before you did any
0:46.4	of that are going to be significantly diminished compared to how you're viewing them from the comfort zone with no investment.
0:57.0	A friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show.
1:02.8	I'm Light Watkins, and I have conversations
1:06.1	with ordinary folks just like you and me,
1:08.8	who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith
1:11.3	in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as
1:16.2	their mission in life and in doing so they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard
1:25.6	about their story or who witness them in action or people who've directly
1:30.2	benefited from their work and the goal is to expose you to as many people as
1:35.2	possible who found their path and to humanize them by telling their story and
1:40.6	hopefully you give yourself permission to move further in the direction of whatever feels like your path and purpose because what you'll see is that anyone who's done that has had to overcome many of the same obstacles that you may be dealing with right now. And today I have a solo episode for you. So it's just going to be you and me.
2:02.6	And I'm celebrating a milestone today.
2:07.4	I've published close to 200 episodes.
2:10.2	It's actually 199 episodes. But let's just round it up to 200 episodes.
2:16.0	And the theme of today's solo episode is the 10 things that I have learned from publishing my first couple of hundred episodes.
2:25.0	And during this solo episode, I am going to talk about how I got the ball rolling with this
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