13113: Celebrating The Math: My Podcast Episode Count
Hey there, hero!
I had a few questions as to what was up with my podcast episode count, and it all boils down to me taking my own advice.
I spent decades in broadcasting, and was one of the first podcasters ever. So…I wanted to take the time to tally all of the production from my first podcasts (the Online Tonight daily RealAudio-laden emails in 1996) through the rest of my daily syndicated days on AM, FM, XM and Sirius, on CNET, on Salem, on WGN/Chicago and WOR/New York, to the Secrets of Screen Acting Podcast, the podcasts I’d done for SAG-AFTRA, for commercial clients, the VO2GoGo podcast, this VOHeroes podcast and many more.
It’s been, and continues to be (in the audio AND video era) a blast.
And I wanted to do a bit of celebrating.
I ask you for the same contribution as last episode: what have you forgotten to give yourself credit for? What about your journey do you need to take a moment and have a moment? Let me know in the comments below.
Raw transcript:
Raw transcript:
in another episode of this podcast I
talked a little bit about
completion versus starting of a process
and it got me thinking as I was
producing that episode of the podcast
about
giving oneself credit
for the accomplishments that we have in
life especially in the business that
we’re in in Show Business where
accomplishing anything can sometimes
look like the biggest mountain in the
world and you may have noticed
that the episode numbers
changed with that episode
and I’m going to explain why in this
episode of the vo Heroes podcast
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so this is episode 13113
not of the vo Heroes podcast but of
podcasts in my life in general and
here’s
what I’m talking about we we had a
number associated with the episodes
um uh leading up to the last episode I
think it was 90 something
and I was thinking to myself this is
really interesting I’ve done a lot more
than 90 episodes of podcasting in my
life
and I actually went back to when I was
doing podcasting before it was called
podcasting in the mid 90s uh throughout
the rest of the 90s once it became
podcasting and I was part of that whole
crew with Adam Curry and Dave Weiner and
others who were part of the very first
podcasting Revolution with my radio show
I did three hours of radio every night
and then I did
a not safe for work podcast
uh because I was bound by broadcast you
know standards uh you know Community
standards didn’t need that with
podcasting and it gave me the ability to
have certain guests that I couldn’t have
on a radio show that was broadcast on
terrestrial and and and satellite radio
stations
I looked back at all of that and I’m
like 90 episodes
come on and I actually did the math it
took me about two hours to do all the
math
and I had done well over 13000
episodes of podcasting throughout my
career including the video to GoGo
podcasts the video Heroes podcasts the
online tonight online today David
Lawrence show podcasts the online
tonight or the David Lawrence personal
netcast podcast I even had Jingles David
Lawrence’s personal ads podcast
yeah
so
wow that was a blast from the past
anyway the point is
I had all of this stuff that I was kind
of discounting by saying that you know
that was episode 97 or 98 or 99 whatever
it was
and the truth of the matter is is that
it was just another indicator of the
lack of credit that we sometimes give
ourselves that I sometimes don’t give
myself but that I want you to give
yourself
I want you again to celebrate to
understand the completion but I also
want you to give yourself credit what we
do is so hard
you know it’s so hard
it’s it very rarely rewarding it’s very
rarely seen to completion
and the credit that we give ourselves is
often our Shucks G whiz kicking our
insteps and like yeah I’m an actor I’m a
voice Talent whatever
I wanted to take a moment and just
in a very concrete numeric way
really
um assume my position on one particular
stage
and in doing so encourage you to do the
same thing what we do is so hard to do
well and so hard to actually go all the
way through to the end with
and so from now on
the episode numbers this one being
thirteen thousand one hundred Thirteen
the next one being thirteen thousand one
hundred fourteen
will more accurately reflect what I’ve
been able to accomplish in my podcasting
career and my performance career in my
broadcasting career in my sharing with
you the different things that I do and I
want to know for you what are you
shortchanging yourself in doing whether
it’s being a parent or being a leader or
being a Community member or being an
actor being a performer what have you
kind of Forgotten you were able to do
that you’ve done that you’ve
accomplished that you’ve taken care of
do yourself a favor think back across
your life not about the things that you
didn’t get done but the things that you
did
and that you maybe haven’t given
yourself enough credit for
it and give yourself that credit take a
moment just go off in a corner somewhere
if you don’t want to do it wherever you
are right now and be quiet about it but
give yourself that moment
because we don’t do it enough we just
don’t do it enough
please if you want to share in the
comments Below on veoheros.com I’d love
for you to do that if you want to hit
the like button because you like what
you’re hearing in this episode if you
want to subscribe to the channel so that
you know when these things are coming
get notifications we’d love that
please take a moment give yourself the
credit you deserve
especially for deciding to be an artist
and being a performer I’m David H
Lawrence the 17th I thank you so much
for watching and for listening and I
will see you in episode 13114
the next episode of the vo Heroes
podcast
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from YouTube
Great message, David. Thank you.
So important. In his wonderful book The Success Principles, success coach Jack Canfield recommends posting our accomplishments—diplomas, letters of accomplishment or recommendation, certificates, even thank you letters—on the wall or places we’ll otherwise see them frequently, as a way to remind ourselves not only of how far we’ve come, but also of what we’re building. It can feel arrogant… but hey, facts are facts. There’s a lot to be said for visually owning our record of accomplishment!
I love that you shared that, Trevor. When I moved to my current place and actually had separate space for an office/studio, I decided to hang my college diplomas around my desk and piano for that very reason. When life and this business get tough, I wanted to remind myself of what I had accomplished so far. It’s like garlic against the vampires like imposter syndrome. So I love knowing g that someone who professionally coaches success touts that as a good idea.
That’s a good idea Trevor. I have some martial arts diplomas on my wall that denote my rank. It’s a nice reminder of how much work I’ve done over the years.
I was wondering… At first I thought it was a typo—some variable bobble in the html. Then with the next episode, it happened again and I spend some time trying to decipher the apparent cypher.
You just saved me a lot of investigative work. 😉
But on to the root epiphany. Good on ya, mate! As usual you turned a learning moment into a teaching moment.
Thanks.
Congratulations, David, on your 13113 episodes and kudos for acknowledging your accomplishments. Bravo! 🙂
You’re a beast, David! That’s a whale of a lot of content. I just sent out an email announcing the print publication of Stuart’s Audacity Tips Volume II, which (together with Volume I) represents 104 installments of my newsletter. And here’s an inside-baseball sneak preview: I’m now producing video versions of those installments. The first set of those will be appearing on video streaming platforms near you in the next couple of weeks. It’s certainly not 13 thousand episodes, but it is great fun. Thanks for all your encouragement!
That’s going to be awesome – and it will be the basis for any number of other products you can produce from that amount of content, like, I don’t know, maybe an Audacity training course? Good on you!
That’s great Stuart! I didn’t know you had them in print too.
This is great David. I’ve had to learn to celebrate small successes because the big successes are made up of many of them. If I make the slightest improvement in my studio, my understanding of copy, even sending in a great audition, I stop and celebrate it. One of those ways is to share it with close friends who know me well enough that I am not bragging or boasting, but growing. They are part of my tribe, my journey. I have my nominated Audio Book on display on my wall too, given to me by the author, as a reminder too of where I have come from. Its a success that is a significant part of my story because I didn’t think I could ever narrate and produce an audiobook. When I don’t do this, its because I am dealing with a critical nature, or some other negativity.
A nominated book! Awesome Joseph!
Thanks to your teaching, I became an Audible-approved producer, created and hosted a radio series for Hawaii Public Radio (which continues to air) as well several holiday specials, which I produced in my home studio with Aidavity; acquired a NY based VO agent and I am auditioning for SAG national spots… and it all started with you, David H. Lawrence XVII.
Excuse spelling… Audacity
I like Audavity!!
Here’s the thing: you listened, you studied, you practiced and did the work. And that makes all the difference in the world. So happy for you!!
So much content! I love it!