How are you? Come on in here. Happy, happy, happy, happy Monday. Yeah, by the way, if you're sensing that Scott is, he's still kind of sloppy. He's still kind of raspy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm still sick. Hang on for the right. I need a boost. I need a daily boost. I need a daily boost. I need a daily boost. Come on in. My name is Scott Smith. Good to have you. Can I just sit down? I'm going to sit down. I don't feel good. Okay. So here's the thing. I got sick last week. Friday show. You heard about that on Friday. And one thing I've learned is that when you do something with your voice like this, then one thing I've learned is as soon as it comes on and I have shows to record, I get to it as quickly as I can. It may not be perfect, but I can tell you by this afternoon, it's going to be worse than it is right now. So I'm actually recording this on Thursday, and I did the Friday show, and I said, okay,

let me do Monday because then they give me the weekend to kind of recover here. And I feel pretty good. I actually feel in pretty good spirits and everything, but, man, I am just a millisecond away from just the worst cough you wanted to hear in your ears this morning. So thanks for putting up with you today.

You know, it's kind of interesting when I,

when I started doing this show 20 years ago,

and over the years since then. The only time I actually don't like doing the show is when I don't feel good. And it's not that I don't like doing the show, it's just hard to do. It hurts the voice and I got to keep stopping and starting. It's hard to get through, you know, I mean, silly me, I used to do nine minutes. I was easier. Now it's 15 minutes. That's really hard. But you know something too? I like opportunity. I'm an opportunity kind of guy. And I did voiceover for many, many years. That was my job. I did full-time voiceover for, I think it was 15 years. It was a long time. That's all I did. I got out of bed and I would drive to the studios, TV, radio, all the networks everywhere,

a film trailer is the whole thing.

I would do those things.

And in the beginning, if I got sick, I would just call and say, hey, I'm sick.

I can't make it today.

And they just, fine, we'll see you next week, right?

Or I'd lose the gig. But one day I'm talking to one of my agents and they said, wait a second, you sound like, I mean, we could use that voice. Get on down here. Let's have some fun. So I can't, I can't, I went to the studio. And suddenly I'm like way down here in a world where everything goes wrong at just the wrong time. Stuff like that, right? And I suddenly started making premium dollars working when I was sick. And it's called me whenever you're sick, Scott.

And I would started making premium dollars working when I was sick.

And it's called me whenever you're sick, Scott. And I would do that. And I haven't done that voice forever, but it was kind of fun to do. So you can turn anything into an opportunity, can't you? Okay. So today, I do something a little bit different, largely because I have to. I just, when I get a situation like this,

when I get sick, sometimes you get a little rambly sometimes, but I get very real because I'm just kind of going to flow through this stuff, right? And the last thing I want to do is sit down and prep anything out for you. And I rarely prep that much anyway. I bullet point things out, and then I get to let my brain do its thing. I trust my brain. I trust in how I can associate things and communicate with you. I trust myself so much that I will just, I'll do bullet points and then put the other 10 shows for you. And it's very easy for me to do. But when I'm sick, the easier thing for me to do is to remember something I did for somebody else. And Dave is a client. Dave's going to know I'm talking about him. And he came to me. He says, Scott, I got this video I'm doing on YouTube. He does these little short videos, these reels, these shorts. He does those. He says, I really want to make those better and more professional. And I want to do a podcast too. Now, I don't help a lot of people do podcasts. There's a lot of folks who do do that. Do do? And for 27 bucks, you can buy a course and you can go make a podcast. Anybody can do it now. So I don't worry about that. What I do, though, I did it again today. What I do, I should say, is I understand to make a hit podcast and a podcast you can build a business on. There's some nuance and there's a really a way to do it. And so it becomes part of my coaching program. So when somebody comes to me, I teach them to do the things beyond just technically making the podcast. And

you're going to learn one of those things today, okay? Not specific about a podcast, but more in

terms of communication. Because these days, all of us have to communicate really well. In the age of

attention right now, that's kind of what you got.

If you can get somebody's attention, you can win the game.

All of us are content creators now, every single one of us.

That is something like it was ridiculous about.

On LinkedIn, I forgot what the number was.

I was listening to CEO of LinkedIn the other day. And the number of content creators, it was like stupid. It was like 900 million people listen to them up as a content creator. Is that crazy or what? But in the day and age we live in now, where so much what we're doing is automated with AI and everything and people are so busy, if you're not a good communicator, you're just not going to get the job done. So Dave was going through this. And what happened, and let me give a little backstory on this. I had done a program, done my inner circle program. And I taught about a 20-minute segment on the pre-planned responses, which I taught you as well. And he said, well, how long it take you to make that? I said, I don't know, eight or ten minutes. I was walking my dogs around the block and I had this idea to teach it and I came back and made like five slides

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