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What did the bra say to the hats? Hey there, I'm Mike Montague with the Playful Humans

podcast, and this is playful podcasting tips to beat burnout and have more fun, I'm Mike Montague with the Playful Humans podcast, and this is Playful

podcasting Tips to Beat Burnout and Have More Fun. I'm going to give you 10 ways to have more

fun on your podcast. The following talk is sponsored by self-driving cars. Now that there are

self-driving cars, there will eventually be a country song where a guy's truck leaves him.

All right, do you give up? What did the bra say to the

hat? You go on ahead. I'm going to give these to a lift. All right, let's start. How do you tell if

you're burned out? That's probably a good place to start. If you think there's a right way to do things,

if you are bored with your podcast already, you're getting burned out or you're

overly stressed about getting that next episode out. If you believe your work is hard and it's

important and you're struggling to get your message out to the world, you might be burning

out. If you're afraid of looking silly, you want to be part of the it crowd,

or you want to be super popular and you're trying to copy other people's podcasts, then you might

be burning yourself out. If you're searching for your purpose or what you're supposed to be

when you grow up and you're trying to find that right answer that will solve all of your problems and make this

whole podcasting thing feel super easy. You might be stressing and burning yourself out. So think about

this. When you were in fifth grade, what did you want to be when you grew up? Everybody always

asked you that question, right? What do you want to be when you grew up? While you're thinking about that, I wanted to be on the radio. And here's the thing about

fifth graders. They are really bad at picking careers. So I did it. I got my own show on Mix 903.3,

the top 40 radio station here in Kansas City. I was Romeo. I'm doing my thing. And I'm sitting in a room

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