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I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

In this short episode, I talk about the why behind the reason for podcasting, which was a presentation

I shared live at the last PodPro's quarterly event. For related resources, including the video

version of this episode and links to attend next quarter's event, please visit Podpros.com

slash 185. And now please enjoy today's short episode about why we all podcast.

As soon as I see people get into podcasting on either side of the mic, whether it's a podcast guest or a podcast host, I immediately find that it creates friction.

So people are talking about how it's really causing that to take a break from work or from their lives. And it's just so much work,

right? It's that friction, that friction that's just continuing to happen day in and day out of,

oh, I've got this podcasting I've got to do. I'm not saying people don't enjoy it. It's just causing

a lot of additional work and even stress or pressure in their lives. If I've not met you, my name is Alex Sanflet Bow. Today I'm going to talk about how you can make podcasting a long-term part of your life and remove that friction that you're

feeling from it. And so I've got five main points to share today. And I'm going to go ahead and just

say this from the start. Some people, I know I talk about this a lot,

but it's the most important that we can do in life or in business. And here's how I want you to do that.

I want you to ask yourself, why do I have a podcast? What's the reason for my show or for being a guest

on podcast? Like, why am I doing this in the first place?

If we don't ask ourselves this question, we may wake up one day and finally ask ourselves and say,

oh, why am I doing this? I don't enjoy it. It's not really doing anything for me. There's no why behind it.

And I find that if we want to make something enjoyable in our lives, we want to do it long term, there has to be a really

solid why for the reason that we're doing it in the first place. I want to encourage everybody,

go back and think about that. And here's also what I want you to do. Don't just think about

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