0015: That Giddy Feeling Even Though Everything Around You Is Burning

ever have one of those moments in life
where you feel immense and overwhelming
gratitude and you don’t know why you’re
almost giddy with excitement ah I felt
that way this week and I don’t know why
but I’m gonna explore with you in this
particular episode of the vo hero’s
podcast I think it’s the number 404 now
usually that’s page missing from your
from your web browsing right you go to a
page you get a 404 error but in this
case 404 was the number I woke up with
this morning
of the number of teachers that have
grabbed teacher course online I was
hoping for like 10 or 20 at the end of
the first week you know it would have
been a nice slow start in case there was
something wrong with the lessons or
wrong with the website okay then I could
fix it and I would be making my mistakes
on a smaller stage as I’ve talked to me
like it’d be like I did this project for
a bunch of student filmmakers before I
did it for actual professionals but we
had that many in the first two hours and
it was just like a soft lunch I didn’t
like make a big announcement about it
this week I started adding Facebook ads
and I have as I said last week a PR firm
working on things for me and we’ve been
on a few outlets but I think it’s been
word-of-mouth and I didn’t think I would
feel this spectacular about it I thought
oh this will be a nice thing and I’ll do
a nice thing and it’ll be a nice thing a
lot of nice things in there right but it
turns out that this particular project
for me has been nothing but good news
not a single one of those 404 teachers
that have grabbed the course have been
anything but grateful and lovely and you
know I’m just waiting for that first
sort of you know idiot that shows up and
I’ll be ready for it
but seriously everybody loves it and I’m
not Tooting my own horn I’m just amazed
at how good I feel about this I mean in
a time when you’re constantly barraged
with junk and awfulness and life’s worst
societies worsts your Health’s
worst this has just become a really
lovely way to spend my time sheltering
in place now am i working on other
things yeah I am working on other things
but this has been amazing and the reason
I wanted to bring this up with you is
you’re the one who I soft-launched with
you’re the one that I told about this
last week you’re the one that’s mostly
responsible for so many teachers getting
the course so I want to take a moment
and share some of that gratitude with
you I couldn’t be more grateful for you
and your support and your spreading the
word about teacher course online comm
without you I might have been around 20
and so thank you thank you very very
much and if you wouldn’t mind keep
spreading the word think about the
teachers that you know and think about
how hard it is when they went home and
they had to teach online and they didn’t
know how and I’ll keep building the
course out I’m adding more and more
lessons all the time and I’ll make you
proud I promise if you’ll recommend me
to your teacher friends
or if you’ve ever felt this good
I wonder if you have let me know what
caused that was it the birth of your
children was it
finding your mate in life was it seeking
and getting the kind of engagement in a
career that you really wanted was it
becoming a voice-over talent who knows
was it landing a really great role I
don’t know but what was that moment of
absolute joy absolute giddiness let me
know in the comments below I’d really
appreciate that and I thank you so much
for listening and for watching I’m David
H Lawrence 17th and I’ll talk to you
next time.