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 welcome back to another episode of The Road to Life podcast, special, special episode. Episode 104 people will be like 104. Why is this What? Why is that so special? It's a random number. Not so random. What's it mean? Two years? Two years. 52 weeks. A year times two. 104 straight weeks, 104 episodes of the Road to Life podcast.

It's really cool. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. This is a cool episode for us. It's kind of gonna be a little bit of a recap episode. We're gonna talk about kind of the, how it almost didn't get started at all. Some of our favorite episodes. And then we've got a bit of an announcement at the end, big an announcement at the, the end, what we're gonna do moving forward with the Road of Life podcast.

Mm-hmm. For years three and beyond. So that's gonna be extraordinarily fun, but I think it'd be interesting to kick this episode off with. Talking about how it just almost never started. Yeah. We False started this podcast, I don't know, for probably about a year we ordered our first podcast equipment. Yeah.

At least at Sydney Street. So like a year before we started, at least. Yeah. So I know we recorded an episode, we talked about this a couple episodes ago or whenever recently. On the mountain in Arizona, we had the mobile podcast equipment. We hiked up the mountain and we recorded an episode.

I remember that. Mm-hmm. Because that was the day you fell and hit your face and busted your chin and leg and you had a whole, and that was not the first episode we recorded? No, it wasn't. No. I don't know. I don't know if it was the last, either of the ones that never got released, but yeah, those.

The lost episodes, we'll call them. They're somewhere, I don't know where. I don't even know, but we've got them somewhere probably. But they never were released. And it was all because of, we talked about it a couple episodes ago with the fear of judgment and mm-hmm. Who are we to have a podcast and who wants to listen to us and what's our story and what is it?

Why does it matter? Why, who's gonna care? Yeah. Who's gonna care? Mm-hmm. And it was really fascinating that, it took us almost a year. I don't know exactly the timeframe, but eventually we were just like. Are we gonna do this or not? We've been talking about it. If we're gonna do it, let's just hit record and and release the episode.

Like , let's just get it done. Mm-hmm. And it was October of 2023. Yep. That we finally said, fine, let's do it. And we just sat down in our living room Yep. And launched the first episode. Recorded the episode, and then I had to figure out. How to like get it on the, get it on, on, on the On, on the www.

Yeah. Get it on Audible and Spotify and Apple and YouTube and all the things. Yeah. That was a big milestone. That was a big celebration. That first episode. It was, yeah. It was perfectionism was, we finally kind of put that in the backseat for a minute. , It took a minute. It wasn't easy. Mm-hmm. But , it really was, and we talked about this a couple episodes ago, but it bears repeating, , is that action is the antidote to, fear That is the title of episode one of this podcast?

Yeah. And there's a funny story that goes with that is that, you know, I. Didn't know the difference between antidote and anecdote. Correct. And I was using the words interchangeably. You, I think I even used the word anecdote when I should have been using antidote. Correct. And I think I started to use the word anecdote in place of antidote. Antidote, like consistently for years. For like a year and a half. I think it was only this year that you finally, it was, let me, in another joke. We were, in another podcast and I'm like, alright dude, , come on, comes.

So like, well, , why would you let me go on for so long? Well, to be fair, to be fair, we don't use the word antidote all that often. No. I know of at least four or five episodes that we've used today, at least two, at least the one where I let you go and didn't correct you. 5% of our episodes we've used it.

Not true. There's probably five episodes out of 104, so if, there's six, it's 5%. We're four point something percent here anyway. We use it enough that I think it warranted a heads up. I'm just saying a heads up. Hey buddy, anecdote, antidote. Two things, anecdote, cute little story antidote. Something you take if you get poisoned.

Right? , Just something easy. It's amazing how easily you know that. Now I, I do know it because I've been informed. Once you know something, you know it, but if you're never told, you don't know it. So you gotta, let a guy in on something if you know something, it behooves you to let someone else in on it.

Anyway, we're here now. We know the anecdote and anecdote thing. That's a funny little thing that came out of this podcast. A funny little anecdote, anecdote that came outta the story. And yeah. So the antidote to false starting and to fear and to perfectionism was to just hit record and go, just do the damn thing is What does Russell Branson.

Richard Branson. Richard Branson. Richard Branson from Virgin screw it. Let's do it. Screw it. Let's do it. Screw it. Let's do it. So that's what we did. Yeah. And here we are 104 weeks later. So obviously one of the favorite episodes is episode one, just 'cause of the story and , the fact that we hit record and it got us here.

Correct. So that one's cool. And we did a recap in episode 52. Yes. Obviously a year ago of our favorite episodes from year one. Yeah. So we won't go into all those ones. No. But the favorite episodes since then are the one for your dad. Yeah, I agree. That was my favorite episode of the year.

Oh, I'm gonna cry again. Hmm.

Yeah, that was a favorite one. That was a hard one for sure. Yep. Because we did it. Pretty close to right after he died, because I didn't wanna just move on with the podcast and not acknowledge it. So we did a whole episode on the lessons that we were taking from his life. Mm-hmm. So that's a favorite. Yeah.

I'm gonna turn that one into a book. Yeah. Yeah. Lots of big lessons. Rest in peace, Bobby. Yeah, it was a great episode. , It was a life well lived. He did not care what anybody thought. And actually, if you think about it, , it really is a lesson that we can take for anyone. If we were starting the podcast tomorrow mm-hmm.

If we had never started the podcast, we were starting it tomorrow. Bobby would be someone that you could look at and be like, he did not care. He just did his thing. Whatever he wanted to do, he just did it. We talk a lot about fear of judgment, like we've talked about that multiple times in this podcast , over the years.

He didn't seem to have that. He didn't really seem to have that. No, he didn't seem to have that. He was who he was regardless of who he was around and what he was doing, and there's definitely something to be said for that. Yeah, so that was a favorite episode. I'm cheating for sure because we did a series of three or four episodes on how to disconnect, so like super satirical and parodies, almost like, yeah, yeah.

Sarcastic. Yeah. And they were fun. They were fun to do. Yeah, they were fun to do , those were funny episodes. We had a good time writing those and doing those. Yeah. Coming up with the content for those. And delivering them was kind of funny too. Super. Those were the funnest episodes. We did, I think for sure this year.

Yeah. If you want a episode where literally we're telling you how to disconnect from your spouse, obviously what not to do, obviously not really what you'd normally want , in a podcast is to learn to disconnect. But we thought, well, we'll take the opposite approach. Mm-hmm. And yeah, those three or four episodes were pretty fun to do.

Yeah. So those were great. There's another series of episodes that we did that we got a lot of feedback, a lot of good feedback on the Four Horsemen, the four Horsemen episodes.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I really enjoyed those ones. I really enjoyed researching those episodes. I really enjoyed delivering those episodes. We got great feedback on those episodes. I think they're just super valuable for people.

Yeah. Not that I don't think all the, I think all the episodes are super valuable. All the, all the episodes are, but I, really, really. Love the four Horsemen episodes because it really gives someone some really crunchy things about like avoid, if you have one of these four things in your relationship, we need to eradicate it immediately and it's basically telling you the symptoms and so that you can look for them.

And then the antidote to like weed it out, which. I think is super helpful. Yeah. Yeah. So those were definitely in our favorite. Those are definitely in our top episodes for the year, for sure. Yeah, it's kind of like picking your favorite child. Like I like all the episodes.

I like delivering the podcast. I like being able to, add value every week, and there's. Something to be said for just showing up consistently. It's really cool that we've been able to do that for 104 weeks straight. Mm-hmm. And to, deliver value and content and, . If it helped even one person, it was worth it.

Yeah. So that's kind of cool. The thing is though, is that, you know, it's, for the last two years, it's been basically us. Yep. Like, we've had like maybe three or four guests in the entire time. Yeah. Not many, no. And I think, you know, it's time to bring in another voice or two, invite some new voices in. Yeah, I agree.

Yeah. Like, I think it's helpful. Different perspectives. Yeah. Bring people on so we can learn from their journey. Yeah. , Let's hear what their journey was like, the lessons that they've learned on this road of life to this point. Mm-hmm. And so that. We can just learn from more people. You've heard enough from us.

Not that you won't continue to hear from us. Oh, you'll still hear from us. You'll still hear from us every week. We will still be on the podcast every week, and there'll be the odd one. That'll just be us again. If we've got something really important to say, we'll just hop on and say, we'll drop an episode or two.

The thing is though, is that, yeah, let's learn from other people's journey. Starting with episode 105 next week, we're bringing on guests. We're not gonna tell you the first guests, it's gonna be a super secret , it's gonna be a surprise. Mm-hmm. But it's gonna be fun. They're some of our favorite people on planet Earth and they're a riot.

They're funny. . They're just amazing humans. They're just the lovely, you're gonna love them, lovely people, and we're excited to share them with you. Mm-hmm. So stay tuned. And they're like. Ultimate entrepreneurs. They've got a lot of gold, they've got a lot going on. They're super, super great marriage.

They're super successful entrepreneurs. It's gonna be a really great episode, really great conversation. The thing is, with these episodes, they may go a little longer than we're used to with the, you know, 15 to 20 minutes what we've been trying to keep it to. Mm-hmm. But you know, when you bring a guest on, they've dropped so much gold and the conversation just flows.

Sometimes those episodes are gonna go a little longer. And with our guests next week, I have a feeling that it might be one of the longer ones. Yeah. But and just because they've got so much gold to share. So that'll be fun. And the other change is that you know, we usually drop the episodes on Thursdays.

Yep. This is gonna happen on Mondays. Yep. We're gonna switch to Mondays. So this is going to happen , like, literally this episode drops four days later on Monday. The next episode drops. So on Monday. Episode 1 0 5, you're gonna see, you're gonna see episode 1 0 5, and then from there on, we're gonna drop on Mondays with special guests.

Yep. So we're super excited to start bringing guests on. I know you're excited for us to start bringing guests on. It's gonna be great. But the one thing I do want to end this episode with is gratitude. Gratitude for you, for showing up for yourself, for listening, for being a part of the community, and.

Just building your big life and living your dream. We need more people like you doing that. Living your big life. Living your dream. Because the more good people we have doing that, the more it just, the better the world's gonna be. It spreads to the rest of the world. So thank you from the bottom of our heart for making episode 1 0 4 happen, for allowing us to be in your AirPods or earbuds, or however you listen to us.

Curse stereo every week. And. We are so, so excited for the next chapter of this journey, and we're excited that you're taking it with us. Anything else? It's all for now and we'll see you on Monday of next week. Bye.

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