Podcasting for 1 year! Anniversary Episode!

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Hi, and welcome to Podcasting 1 0 1 with Rachel.

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This podcast is for busy female entrepreneurs who run their own

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businesses and want to start podcast or who may already have a podcast.

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I want to share practical information and tips on how you can get your podcast

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started and managing it along the way.

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I'll also be interviewing other female podcast.

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Give you real insight into what it's like having your own podcast.

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Hi, and welcome to this week's episode.

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This week mark's one year since I started this podcast.

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Woohoo.

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And, um, so this is a kind of anniversary episode where, um,

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I just wanna look back a little.

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About my, um, experiences past year and sharing any advice and tips I have around

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producing and managing your podcast.

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So this is episode 39.

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So I have produced 39 episodes of this podcast, which I'm very proud of.

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There have been a few changes recently, um, which I'll

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get into a little bit later.

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So what have I learned?

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. One of the biggest things that I have learned is that your podcast can evolve

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and we shouldn't be afraid of pausing to take a break, to rethink things, to change

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the way that you are doing your podcast, be that the frequency, um, the style.

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Uh, so with me, . As you know, if you've been listening for this past

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year, I shared an episode every.

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And I had three solo episodes a month where I would look at a different

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topic, um, like for example, how to record your podcast, how to edit

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your podcast, those types of things.

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Things that would be offering my tips and advice around different elements,

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um, to podcasting and what's involved in, in, in getting your podcast out there.

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And then once a month, I invited different female podcasts.

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Um, who run their own businesses and who have their own podcasts.

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Um, and interviewing them and talking about what it's actually like, setting

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up your podcasts, how the planning went, and all those different questions, which

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would give you, um, just real insight into what it's actually like running a podcast,

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because we all know, um, we have certain expectations or certain things that we.

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It's going to be like when in fact it can be quite different when

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you're actually in the thick of it.

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We all know that with our businesses and we think, oh, this is the way we

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get our quote unquote ideal client, and this is how it's gonna go.

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But obviously it doesn't always work out that way and things evolve differently.

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So yeah, having that ability to.

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Kind of take a look at your podcast periodically, um, and working

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out, is it still working for you?

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Is it doing what you want it to do?

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Are you getting across the message that you want to get across?

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So I have been doing a lot of thinking this year in my business.

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I've not only got this podcast because I'm passionate about podcasting,

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um, and I just, you know, not only just wanting to have a podcast, but.

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I wanted to have a podcast that was supporting my business as well.

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You know, to be fully transparent, I, I want my podcast as well as helping

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you guys with your podcast and giving you some extra tools and tips and

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advice to help you get yours going.

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I also want my podcast to help me in my business to.

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Increase my brand awareness to build my authority in the podcast arena and to

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honestly help me with potential clients.

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I do really feel that podcasting is such a powerful medium and.

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, you know, it could be a deciding factor in somebody deciding whether

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they would like to work with you.

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Um, for example, if you're a coach, podcasting is a great way to showcase

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your skills, to let people get to know you and your voice and what your vibe is.

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And it will, it all helps with your, the no like trust factor.

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and it's an extra touchpoint that people have to go and to find out about you.

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Um, I've been talking to some different podcasters and they are starting to

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see that change w how their podcast is, is helping them in this exact way

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in their business with their clients.

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And some people have said that, you know, There are, there are

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many different touchpoints in which people might come across you

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before they decide to buy with you.

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It might be a long process, like 12 months.

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They might find you on social media.

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They might read, you know, the odd bit of your post, listen to your

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podcast, maybe perhaps religiously, and then that has helped them

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decide to want to work with you.

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This is what I would really love my podcast to do for me and my business,

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and for you and your business.

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So I've decided there's gonna be a couple of changes.

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Uh, if you're on my email list, then you might have, you

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might already know about this.

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If you're not on my email list and you'd like to get weekly reminders about the

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podcast and what's going on and what guests are coming on, then I would

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love for you to join my email list.

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There'll be a link in the show.

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. But what I'd like to do now is I'm going to change, as you might have noticed,

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if you are a regular listener, that the episodes are coming out every other week.

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So this is what it will be going forward.

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I also will be doing, just doing guest episodes every other week, so I'll be

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bringing you a new guest every other week.

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And, and that guess will be other female podcast hosts or people that

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are in the podcasting industry that are doing really cool things and

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that will be able to offer you.

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Um, and I've said this word a lot, insights . Um, Like, we'll be able

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to offer you, um, advice and tips and just some help around your podcast and

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giving you something to think about.

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Maybe something that you haven't really thought about before.

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I'm part of, um, captivate is my podcast host and they have like a

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growth lab, and there's a lady that I've come across called Nick Redman.

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Who is a voice coach and she gave a masterclass, uh, talking about, um,

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warming up your voice and the importance of how you sound, which is not something

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that, I mean, obviously I, everyone kind of worries about what they sound

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about or think about what they sound about, but I'd never really thought

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about it from a voice coach perspective.

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Um, so that was really interesting and, um, I would love to have,

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uh, Nick Redmond on, on this show.

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So that's something that I'm hoping to.

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In the future.

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So those kind of things, it's all gonna be still around podcasting and just bringing

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you interesting conversations that will hopefully help you with your podcast.

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I also have something else really exciting happening.

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I met a lady called Sarah McDowell at an award ceremony.

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Um, what Ceremony, awards, drinks, um, before Christmas and she just

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happens to work for Captivate as well.

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But that's not the reason we connected.

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We kind of nerded out on podcasts.

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Cuz she has her own podcast about SEO as she, because she's an SEO manager.

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I will leave a link to Sarah's podcast in the show notes.

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You can check that out if you're interested in SEO for your podcast.

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and we just really, I really, we really enjoyed our conversation, like

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nerding out about a podcast and it got us thinking that we'd like to

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set up a community for podcasters out there, podcasters of any sort, whether

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you're podcasting for your business, whether it's that passion project.

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It's just really lovely to have a space of.

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A space for people where you can come together and talk about those different

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things and also help and support each other with things like accountability,

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like questions around editing or promotion or any of those things.

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So this podcast community will be called the West Midlands Podcast

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Club cuz that's where Sarah and I are based in the West mid.

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But it will be online.

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So don't worry if you're not in the West Midlands or even in the uk.

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We will be having online meetups so you can join the community from

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wherever you are in the world.

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But we are hoping to host some local events as well, so to help

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grow the community in our area.

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So if you are in the West Midlands, then you might be able to get

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to come and meet Sarah and I, and we can get together face to.

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I'll leave the information in the show notes for you, so if you'd

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like to come along and check it out and see what it's all about,

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then I would absolutely love that.

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So on this podcast, the upcoming guests that I have are Hollywood,

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um, is somebody that I've promoted her episode for quite a while now.

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We chatted just before Christmas, but because of all the, the break

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that I was having and a bit of a rocky start to the year, I.

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Not released her episode yet.

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So that is coming and I'm excited for you to hear that episode.

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And also, I have my chat with Nikki St.

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Paul from the Stories at Connect Podcast.

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Um, Nikki started her podcast around the same time as I did March last year.

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And so she's been going for a year as well.

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So congratulations to Nikki.

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Um, Nikki is also a really supportive listener to this podcast, and I

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greatly appreciate all your input, Nikki, that you give me and all the

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support you've given to the podcast.

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So thank you so much and yeah, I'm excited to share your episode, Nikki.

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So that will be coming in a couple of weeks, and I'll let you all.

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When that episode is out, and again, if you'd like to sign up to the

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newsletter, you will get those into your inbox every Wednesday and it

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will tell you what episode's out that day, or if it's on a week where an

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episode's not released, what's coming up.

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Or if anything else exciting has been happening with me or the podcast

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or any industry news that might, I might feel that you would enjoy

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I hope you've enjoyed this anniversary episode and listening to me talk about,

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you know, this podcast and my journey.

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I don't regret doing this podcast for one moment.

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It brings me a great deal of joy.

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To produce this podcast and to help my clients with their podcast, especially

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Hannah and Nicole from showing up solo.

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Big shout out to them.

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They're a massive supporter, um, of mine and I'm a massive supporter of theirs.

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I love, absolutely love what they are doing.

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So if you haven't already listened to the Showing Up solo podcast, which is

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also available as a video podcast on.

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Then you should definitely check that out, especially if you are a solar printer in

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business and you are struggling with your marketing, or maybe you just feel like.

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You know, you've been in business for a little bit of time now, maybe

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a year or two, and your marketing's getting a little stale, or you're

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struggling to keep consistent.

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These guys have so much tips and advice to help you out, so I would

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highly, highly recommend that you go and listen to their podcast.

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Again, I will leave a link in the show notes for you to easily find them.

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So thanks again for listening, and I will catch you all.

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Bye.

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