You gotta get rid of the excuses, you gotta get rid of the need to be perfect, and you gotta keep walking forward.

If you're a creative person, if you're a baker, a dancer, a photographer, a screenwriter, an actor, a comedian, a podcaster, and you want to figure out how to make a living doing what you love, this is the show.

This is the show. Don't keep your day job. My name is Kathy Heller, and I'm a singer-songwriter. I make a living doing what I love, and I want that for you.

This is the show that's gonna help you do that, and give you not only inspiration, but some real-life strategies.

This is gonna help you figure out how to take your creative passion and turn it into a profit.

Hey guys, it's Kathy Heller. Welcome back to the second episode of Don't Keep Your Day Job.

Thank you. You guys are awesome. Why are you awesome? Because you're subscribing to the show, and you're leaving amazing comments, and you're emailing us, and you are tweeting about us, and you're posting on our Facebook page.

You're the best. Thank you. We love it. We're so excited. I can't tell you how rewarding it is to feel like what we're doing is being heard, and you guys are getting it, and it's so win-win.

So you're making us feel like we're doing something that's really valuable, and I know that I'm just so excited to show up here every day, record these episodes.

So thank you. I have an idea. I think that Don't Keep Your Day Job is not just gonna be a podcast.

I think after reading the emails that have come in, and getting to know some of you who are out there now listening, we are gonna become a community.

This is not just gonna be a community of people who listen to a podcast, we're going to be a resource for each other.

I want you to use our Facebook page as a place to go for ideas, for support. I want you to use this. If you, let's say, want to go ahead and create a candy line, or you want to go ahead, and you want to write a screenplay, or you have this great idea,

and you want to make glasses, or you want to be a floral ranger, and you have this idea for farm to table flowers, and you want to create it in a certain way, whatever it is you want to do.

I want you to go to our Facebook page and post about it, because I know that somebody out there who's listening is gonna be able to say to you, I've got a suggestion for you, or I've already done that, or you know who you should talk to?

Wouldn't that be so cool if we could show the world, the world that's mostly made up of cynics, we could show the world that we live in a place where people can support one another in helping them do what it is they love to do.

What greater gift can you give someone, than to help them live their dream? And what a great way to contribute to society, to help people go ahead and be happy doing what they love, adding more value to the world, let's do that.

And to make that even more special, I had an idea, I thought that what if you guys were to go right now, when you finish listening to this podcast, you go to Don't Keep Your Day job on our Facebook page, and why don't you write what your goals are, where you want to get to, what you want to achieve, and then check back in with us in three months, in six months.

And as you're becoming more successful, and as you're growing this, maybe eventually I'll pick a few of you, and I'll interview you on this show, and you'll get tons of exposure, and you'll get to tell us how you've been going ahead and taking the steps to do what you love, and how it's coming into fruition.

So that, that shouldn't incentivize you. All right, now let's get down to today's episode. I want to talk about what are the next steps that you can do. I know a lot of people have been so sweet, they're writing in.

And thank you so much, Kathy, I'm fired up. What the heck do I do now? All right, so we're going to talk a little bit about next steps. And then at the end of this episode, I'm going to read a couple of the questions that came in through email, and see if I can give you guys suggestions. And if those of you listening have suggestions for those people who wrote in, go to the Facebook page and post what you have to say.

I bet there's a lot of great things that can come out of this, and I'm really excited to see how we can support one another. All right, so let's get started.

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