475. I Left Everything I Built. Here's What Happened One Year Later. (1 Year Anniversary of Shifting Focus)

Um, for those that have been paying attention for a while, um, we're almost to five hundred episodes.

I'm almost to five hundred episodes of podcasting.

And October of twenty eighteen, uh, m- myself and Nick Miller set out on a journey to be educators, and the history behind that, I had been doing weddings for a really long time and started getting involved in Facebook groups.

Especially back then, Facebook groups were all the rage.

The wedding videographers Facebook group, those of you that are in or were in that in the early, late, I guess two thousand teens, it was pretty brutal in there, and people would roast you for asking questions, basic questions.

And I was always terrified to ask questions because these technical people would get in there and basically make you feel like junk for asking the basic questions, how to light something, what lens should I use? And I just had always been a person that wanted to learn something, and when I finally could, it would take forever to learn it.

I just wanna share it with people.

And so inside these Facebook groups in two thousand sixteen and seventeen, I just started posting little helpful things, little, um, "Hey, this is what I do.

This is how I booked a five thousand dollar wedding.

This is how I make more.

This is what I've learned." And it was at an interesting time in, uh, the wedding video world.

There were a couple other, uh, podcasts and things, but really, uh, by the time two thousand eighteen got here, there wasn't a lot, uh, out in the world for podcasting education, and this was before, like, the, the course boom.

Everybody didn't have a podcast quite yet.

And so it feels like to me, I just started doing that.

Like my podcasting world and schedule, it f-- I feel like I'm a new podcaster, and I just remember being like, "Ew, I don't wanna tell people I'm podcasting," but I just...

I, I got going in this whole two thousand sixteen to two thousand seventeen range just helping people and answering questions for them.

And, uh, I started getting deeper questions and started getting some of the same questions again and again and again, and I thought, "Man, I, I should, like, record these answers so I don't have to keep doing them." Or, so I would like write a blog and be like, "Here's, here's my thought," whenever somebody would ask me about pricing or ask me about networking or whatever it was.

And my background before doing weddings was advertising and marketing, so I've always been this marketing guy and loved Monopoly as a kid.

I loved trading baseball cards and figuring out how to earn money and invest and save and...

Anyway, I'm, I'm getting a little off topic, but I, I wanted to set the tone for two thousand eighteen to me feels like just not long ago at all.

And I'm creeping up now on five hundred consecutive episodes without missing a week.

And I don't recommend this for everyone, especially educators out there.

I, I have always just been a I commit to something, and then I'm diligent, and I build systems, and then whenever the time comes for it to end, I'm, I'm done.

And the time has not come for me to end this podcast by any means.

I actually feel like I'm just getting started and really learning my own frameworks of what I wanna do and the exposure triangle and shifting focus and how to help people shift what they're thinking on.