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Last week, I launched a podcast on iTunes. And on its debut, it actually ranked in the top 60 podcasts in the United States in its category. Now, this blew me away, it shocked me. But what may even shock you more, is that five days prior to me launching the podcast, I didn't even know how to podcast at all, to the person listening or watching this that has a big dream that you've been sitting on, hold tight, because this one's for you. And I don't want you to get trapped in the same question and statement that held me back from pursuing this dream for 10 months. On December 31 2019. New Year's Eve, I very eloquently wrote down on my New Year's resolutions for the coming year that my goal was to launch a podcast in 2020. I didn't put a date other than the year because I wanted to obviously leave room for procrastination. But I didn't want people to know I was procrastinating. So I would of course, talk a big game, I would tell all my friends in January, I would start reaching out to people that I thought were interesting, and I'd want to have conversations with in February. And then I use the excuse of COVID to not do anything at all. Now maybe you're hearing this thinking why would you not want to do anything with it? If this was your goal? And this was your dream? Well, because there was one thing I couldn't get past for the longest time. And it wasn't this question of what if people don't like it? What if this? What if it wasn't even a what if question at all? In fact, it wasn't a question. It was a statement that I kept saying, and that was, I don't know how to do it. I'm dead serious. That's what held me back for 10 months, because I didn't know how to do it. And I apparently, along with that didn't want to take the time to get to know how to do it either. But you can only have the same cyclical conversation with someone for so long, until they call you out and say, well, when is this happening? And you realize, oh, I don't have an answer for this. And that's what happened on October 4 2020. It was a Sunday, I talked to one of my friends who was just talking about my youtube channel launching and said, Well, what are you doing next? Conversations are awesome. In fact, every conversation I've ever had with you I wish was recorded, to which I actually you said, Well, that's a convenient segue, because my podcast that I want to launch is going to be focused on conversations that build us. And he said, Yes, I love it. That's exactly what I'm talking about. When are you doing this. And I stared at him blankly and said, I don't know how to do it. I needed to hear myself say that out loud. I needed to make it as awkward as possible for myself to realize You did this to yourself. So your lack of action was an action you chose to take doing nothing. You didn't know how to do it. So you didn't want to do it. Because if it was actually something that moved you then you would in turn move to. So I left that conversation and went home and use the best resource out there, Google and YouTube to teach me what to do first, I got overwhelmed because it was saying you need to buy this, you need to do this but a little bit. But I decided I wanted to use what I have. And this is a big thing. Because so many people get wrapped up in what they don't have. Well, what you have is you so use what you have to start to move the needle forward on what you can do. And by the time I went to sleep on Sunday night, I already had an RSS feed ready. In fact, me saying this out loud. I'm not even sure if I'm using the correct terminology. That's how little I actually know about this. But I still didn't let it stop me. I didn't buy any special equipment. I use Skype for the conversation that I had with my first guest. And then I use GarageBand to edit, learn how to edit by using YouTube videos, learn all these little things just by Googling and using YouTube taking one small step at a time. And because I took so many small steps over the course of the next five days, I was ready for lunch on Thursday, October 8 2020. Here's what I want to tell you. Because this might be the story of you as well. One, use what you have, you need to get moving first, any movement is better than none at all. What value can you bring with what you have? Think about that? What value can you already bring with what you have number two, you can learn how to do it. So don't use that excuse like I did, because this podcast could have come out in January 2020. But because I sat and didn't want to learn how to do it and didn't care about it enough until someone pushed me and made me realize how silly that was. Who knows when this podcast would have actually launched had this person not confronted me on it. So number two is learn how to do it. Number three is don't wait for permission. In fact, I had a call conversation with my boss a couple of weeks ago and I asked him a ton of questions. Because if you listen to this podcast, you know that I like asking questions. He stayed silent as I rapid fired all of the questions to him wait until I was completely empty, and then said, so stop asking permission. Just do it. That sentence though it was weeks prior to launching this podcast, haunted me in the best of ways ever since. And I hadn't forgotten it, because I realized that's what was holding me back. Who was I trying to seek permission from, or seek approval from, for pursuing something I was passionate about. Because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter who else approves it. If you want to do it, and you will love what you create, then that is all that matters. And for those of you who are still on the fence, after listening to this, let me leave you with one thing. Here's the permission you've been waiting for. Now go one step at a time, pursue that dream and let today be the day. You throw the excuse. I don't know how to do it out the window. The world needs, what you want to create, and I can't wait to see what it is