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Man, I am so passionate about this. Man, my passion is just driving me to do this. I am so passionate

to get more into the podcasting space. I'm a passionate podcast host. I'm a passionate podcast guest.

I'm a passionate advocate of. I'm passionate. We've all probably heard people say this, right? But many of those same people that we've heard say these exact words are also the ones that seem to disappear a couple weeks later. And you're like, wait a minute, what happened, right? Like, how'd you go from I'm passionate to I'm quitting i'm done i'm stopping hello my name's

alex and phlegopoldov i've not met you before i'm so excited to spend this time with you today

and i want to take a few minutes to talk about passion and the role that it plays for podcast hosts

and podcast guests and their overall success and how to really understand it well because i think

it's something that's misunderstood the comments comments I mentioned at the start here,

I'm very passionate about this. I think that many of us are misusing the word passion. And I actually

wrote down the original word, the Latin translation of it. Passion means, forgive me if I say

this wrong, but Pashio is the way that I believe you say it, which literally translates to the word suffer or to endure. If anyone's ever heard of the movie, the passion of the Christ, the word passion is pulled directly from this. It's the suffering of the Christ. And listen, whether you're a follower of Jesus or not, like that's what I've based my entire life on, you can still say that that came in a hefty price, right? Regardless your beliefs, you're like, okay, that passion was real suffering, right? And so for me, whenever I think about that word, I think, okay, to suffer, to endure, and someone saying, I'm passionate about this, and a few weeks later, they're quitting. Well, where's the disconnect? And first and foremost, it's that we're misusing the word passion. We don't

actually understand what it means. Instead, people should be saying, I'm excited about this. I'm interested in this. This is a hobby of mine, right? Not I'm passionate about it, because if you're passionate about it, you're going to be willing to go a lot further. And the reason that people stop is because friction shows up, right? Again, the translation meaning to endure. Friction is involved. And here's a

great example. I am passionate. Become the best podcaster I can. I'm like, okay, upgrade from your free hosting provider to a paid one. They're like, I'm not that passionate. It's like, okay, well, you're not willing to suffer then, right? Podcast guests that are like, oh, I got to get on the biggest shows. I'm like, well, first you need to get on maybe some smaller ones and maybe even just

focus on the niche ones is better. And they're like, ah, my ego won't allow that. I can't do it.

I'm just not going, first you need to get on maybe some smaller ones and maybe even just focus on the niche ones is better. And they're like, ah, my ego won't allow that.

I can't do it. I'm just not going to do this at all. It's like, okay, well, then you're not actually

passionate. You're just interested. You're kind of considering something, right? And I'm going to tell you now that I think we actually have to, one, get the right definition of passion,

but two, we have to actually become passion if we are going to make it in something.

Here's something that's been true for all of eternity.

Since the world being, the right definition of passion, but two, we have to actually become passionate if we are going to

make it in something. Here's something that's been true for all of eternity. Since the world began,

people follow people that are passionate. People follow people that are passionate. And it's not

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