bless up everybody. I know I am Hines and today in hindsight, this is your daily cup of tea.

You know, I woke up this morning and I decided to check my podcast analytics.

Now, fun fact, when I started this podcast, I would always block the analytics. When I would

upload a new podcast, I would take my hand, I'll put it on the computer screen, and then I would

go to add episode and then I would just add that episode and ignore the analytics. Reason being,

I really wanted to do this podcast from a true place. Yeah, understand? I really wanted to tap

into the essence of it. And in the beginning, since it was a new area and a new realm, I didn't

want to be influenced by the analytics. I didn't want my creative behavior to be influenced by

the analytics. You know, I believe every single one of us is creative and we all have a creative

essence, a creative touch. And a lot of us don't express ourselves or start that YouTube channel or

that creative business or whatever it may be is because we are afraid of what people will think

if it will fail, all the what-ifs and all the doubts. So in the beginning, I would simply just

block the analytics. You know, what was what Eric or Badu say? She said, I'm an artist and I'm

sensitive about my she and that's so true, right? We are all artists and we are sensitive about our

so sensitive. Sometimes we don't express ourselves. And because podcast was a new realm, I knew I just

wanted to build that foundation in me first before I even allowed myself to look at the analytics. And

now, whoo, looking at the analytics, man, we bless. Like there are a lot of people tuning into the

podcast. It's such a lovely community. It's such a lovely tribe. So I want to thank every single

one of you. But that process I applied to the podcast, man, it could be applied to so many areas in

life, especially our creative industries, especially if you have a creative urge, but you are worried

if people are going to like it, if people are even going to watch it. I say this, it's actually

better at first if nobody is really paying attention to what you're doing. Why? Everybody knows

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