Keep it 100 on the land, the sea, the sky

um but we're gonna get to that we're gonna get to that in a bit first of all i want to say welcome welcome to everyone who's listening if it's your first time listening then i really appreciate you being here thanks for giving me your time and space and so whether you're at the gym or you're shopping at the mall or you are walking the dog i just really hope that you're going to be encouraged and inspired and you know the whole reason that we started this podcast in the first place was to have a little bit of more space to talk about the realities of being a freelance classical musician because My brand on Instagram is really to share a little bit more behind the scenes, being authentic.

If you don't know my story, I was lost and stuck in perfectionism and comparison for a really long time.

And only seeing the highlight reels of everyone else really kept me thinking small for my own self because I just felt like I could never do that.

I would never be able to get there.

And so now that I was able to crawl out of my perfectionism, as I like to say, that I'm on the other side to a large degree, not fully there, but stick with me.

I like to share a little bit more authentically on my Instagram.

So I do try to put the behind the scenes.

I try to talk openly about things that I'm reframing in my mind, whether that's negative thoughts, or I have a series right now called how not to spiral as a classical musician.

just different ways to say the open realities of, hey, we're all out here.

We're all putting ourselves out here.

And it's tough to constantly have to try not to compare yourself from what you think success is, what you were taught success is, what you're still hoping your career will transform into, and just having a very small glimpse into someone else's career, their life, and then thinking that that's their reality.

So Anyway, all that to say that the podcast was also supposed to be a place where I could unpack ideas and share more vulnerably about my process, but also to invite incredible guests, which we have done.

So the reason why it's such a big deal we made it to 100 episodes is because fewer than five to seven percent of all podcasts make it to 100 episodes.

So usually there's a massive drop off right at the start.

The vast majority of shows are abandoned long before hitting 100.

And roughly 44 to 90% of all creative podcasts quit immediately after recording just a couple of episodes.

So there you go.

That's why this matters.

5% of people make it this far.

I didn't do it alone.

And in this episode, I'm going to tell you everything about how we got here, some things that I've learned, and we have the countdown, very special countdown.

So we're going to do the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

And it's going to be five things I learned So four ways we actually stayed consistent to get to 100 podcast episodes, because I should have looked up the statistics of this, but I think most podcasts who start do not make it to episode 100.

So that's a really big achievement to celebrate.

And I say we because I have a team, which I'll get to.