If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND with your hosts.

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

You just found the world's number one fitness, health, and entertainment podcast.

This is Mind Pump, and by the way, this is our 2000th episode and to celebrate in today's podcast, we're teaching you all the things we learned

in the last 2000 episodes about podcasting. So if you think about starting a podcast or you already have a podcast, we were a friend that wants to start a podcast, this episode is for you, and it's also a lot of fun, even if you're not interested in those things, because we're fun to listen to.

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Today's episode is number 2000. I think that represents something like 3000 hours of work.

Wow, that means we're all trumpet horns. We're almost halfway to being good.

Well, we're going to talk about today's episode. So close. All the stuff we've learned podcasting for eight years, 2000 episodes, over 3000 hours of podcasting.

What have we learned? What's made us successful? And why are we the number one fitness podcast in the world?

So if you're getting ready to start a podcast, this would or know somebody who wants to start a podcast or ever thought about starting a podcast, this will be informative.

That's right. Is that the goal? I think so. I think so.

I think so. Be helpful.

Yeah. You know, we first started. I think before we get into some of the stuff we've learned, it's important to convey.

We had zero experience in media. All media. No, it's very surprising, but you're right.

I had zero. Nothing. We were trainers. We had lots of experience in fitness and health and in business.

We're all entrepreneurs, but none of us had any experience doing this. So we learned along the way.

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