Feb. 8, 2021

#39: Get to know your hosts, part 1. With Dr Hubert Hiemstra.

#39: Get to know your hosts, part 1. With Dr Hubert Hiemstra.
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Season 1

I recently had the privilege to be interviewed by my podcast/business coach, James Whittaker. James is an author, film producer, entrepreneur, all-round great guy and host of the Win The Day podcast. We thought we'd share it with you here on the Vet Vault, because 

A - If you're a podcaster and you get handed a well-executed pre-edited bit of audio then you'd be a fool not to use it.

B - We discuss a few things in the conversation that we think could be of value to some of you.

C - Maybe it's time you got to know us a bit better!

Enjoy. Hugh

Check out James' podcast at https://jameswhitt.com/podcast/

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You swap shocks of crocodiles.This is that worry that shocks as well up there, right?You just add crocodiles into the I'm Gerardo Pollard.I'm Ubud him strut and this is the bait.
Vault.Hey, guys, and welcome back to another episode of the vet V.We've got a slightly different one for you today.Instead of us interviewing someone, I am being interviewed by my friend and part cast / business coach James Whittaker, James is an author and entrepreneur and as you'll hear a master interviewer and all-round Legend, he has a fantastic podcast called win the day that you should definitely check out if you're looking for some inspiration from world-class performers from outside of the veterinary space.
We did this interview as a Facebook live event for his audience and while I much prefer being on the other side of the microphone, I do feel that we covered some important topics.And maybe it's time, you got to know me a bit better.So here you go.Let us know if you like this and if you do, we'll do a part 2 of get to know your hosts where I can Grill Jurado, with all of the questions.
I never get to ask him now, please enjoy dr.Hubert hamster.Well, for those who are joining us, welcome to the second installment of we are live.So, in this series, we hot podcasters, find their voice, monetize their passion, and make an impact.
My name is James Whitaker.The co-founder of we are podcast and co-founder of we are members.So what we do with, we are podcast M, we are members is help podcasters monetize their show because most people love the idea of starting a podcast, but they're not.So Savvy on the business side, so we help people really activate the monetization side to they can sustain their passion and have the impact that they I want to have on the world.
So before we introduce our special guest for today, just a reminder that we've got, we are podcast coming up on the 18th and 19th of February. 22 Day event will be covering topics, like how you can get your first 10,000 followers on clubhouse.How you can monetize your podcasts.Now, how you can establish relationships with the people that you want to.
So we've got a whole bunch of awesome topic so I know you're going to love but the real value of attending events like this apart from actioning things in real time is the people that you meet we are podcast just seems to The best people in the whole world.So for that reason alone, that is why you should go to.We are podcast.com and join us on the 18th and 19th of February.
Well, today we're sitting down with my good friend dr.Hubert hamster.As a man, I have an enormous amount of respect for who is the host of the vet V podcast and has had an amazing 20 plus year career as a Veterinary veterinarian.I always struggle with that word on three contracts valid is it you should transfer.
The spelling is a one thing I'm probably okay at so I would take Take spelling any day over over the saying it.So we're going to get into Hughes quest to build a balanced and fulfilled life and we'll reveal what you can do to find build and add value to your Niche.So Hugh, great to see you.My friend.
Thanks for being here.Thank you so much for having me, James and I'll just reiterate what James said about.We are podcast, do it.If you have any interest in anything like this, so much fun hanging out with James and and the group where with it's really spectacular.
And it's done a lot for how I think about this is Business rather than just as a hobby.So thanks James for all of that.I love it.My pleasure will give us a bit of a background into your life growing up and how you ended up in a, in Perth, Australia of all places?Well, not even Perth anymore, right?
Remember we've moved Beyond Pi.I know I thought, well, I thought we'd start at Perth and then getting your amazing Outback Adventure after that again.All right, I'll give a brief summary.So I grew up in a smallish town in South Africa called bloemfontein in the middle of kind of nowhere, studied veterinary science and Pretoria we only Have the one vet school in South Africa.
And then from there, I met my wife, girlfriend.Then at do at University at that school, went to the UK for two years, just to travel and see Europe a little bit and then decided not to go back to the South Africa, and, and made the move as many South Africans, due to Australia.
It's a very natural transition for us.It's our kind of Lifestyle outdoorsy very, very easy to move to Australia.And then, a recent move from Perth to the Sunshine Coast on the East Coast.Yeah, that epic road trip.Is something.I've told so many people about.Tell us a little bit about what inspired you to drive across one of the biggest countries geographically in the world, man, that it's one of the kids things are.
So, yeah, it's sort of a rite of passage.I think if you live in Australia at some stage, you have to drive the country.And we'd always thought that we would, well, when we started planning, this move, that was a great opportunity.It's a, well, we've got to get there.We've got to get our vehicle to the other side of the country.
So instead of checking it on a train, we may as well.Take the opportunity to do a trip and we were going to go down to the bottom end.I was going to do a big summer surf trip through, you know bust Melbourne and The Great Ocean Road and then come up the coast of New South Wales but because of covid and with the timing we couldn't you couldn't get into queens.
And then from Victoria because of all the lockdowns and Regional say, in to stay to the states in the different states, in Australia, have closed their borders to each other, to a large degree while depending on what's Happening.So then we decided to go around.And so the Northern Territory and far Northern Queensland, which I'm so glad that it happened that way because it's not necessarily a trip that would it?
Well I think eventually bread to convince my wife that that's was a good idea.It's hard to up there and is crocodiles in the water.Yeah I was going to say if you swap sharks and crocodiles this is that worry.They shocked as well.You just add crocodiles into the and we did a two-month trip camping.
Trip around the top brain without 97 and two-year-old Sands which was incredible.Incredible.I, anybody who is ever has that opportunity to do the top end.It's, I open it about Australia.I complete, I was always say to people coming from Africa every night you have an affinity with where you grow up.
I really like this trailer but I haven't had that deep love for country that they talk about and going around the top and completely shifted that you just got, okay?This is Australia.There's a stray Leah in the cities and then they The real Australian and it's just been a mind.
It was a mind-blowing experience the nature, and the wildlife in the culture, just just a big guy, but I loved it.Yeah, I want to really talk more about the balance side and how you how you create that balance when you're juggling so many balls.It's a bit of a bit of a sad reality.How people don't really seem to have that desire to want to explore their own countries.
They might see a travel brochure or a website or a Facebook ad for let's go to, you know, Mexico or wherever you are.If you're in America, maybe you want to go to Australia and vice versa, but I think having the opportunity, It's Unity to explore what's in your backyard, is is amazing.But before we before we get into all that good stuff can you tell us a little bit about your business at the moment?
Who do you help?And what problem you're trying to solve?So by business, do you mean the vet bolt?Now let me know about Lily.Yeah let us know about the the full spectrum of all the cool things that you've got going on on the business side.So when I so I owned a an Emergency Veterinary Clinic in in Perth sold that end of last year and but 18 months before that started to read felt which was just started as a podcast and then just found that I really love doing.
Across, but not just the bypass, the whole thing around is providing something to the profession and to the people in the profession, I really found immensely satisfying and decided.I wanted to do more of that, the red fault and its current state is a podcast.
Where we interview veterinarians who are driving is probably the best word and we can get into the problems with a patient in science in a minute if you want to.But there's a lot of veterans who don't thrive in their careers and we pick Sick people who have long and sustainable and happy careers or apparently happy of seeming happy and pick the brains about how why, how do they think about it?
What do they do?What did they do differently?And explore the different career options in which many science and the goal of that is just a bit of inspiration and positivity is fair amount of negativity in our profession Sydney.In my view and dr.Gerard.
Oh, Polly.Who is the my co-host?We, but I've come across to that and we've both found ways of Of achieving that of loving our Richmond careers and I didn't entertain years.I did not.I did not like being evade at all and I think just talking about it.And how, and how do you think about it than, to help others find that that thriving part of their career to enjoy it?
It's not always fun but it is, it should be a really amazingly satisfying career and if you don't have that, then we want to explore, why talk to people about the whys.And then a bunch of people who listen to the show said, yeah, we love it, but I would love some clinical content as well.
So we don't talk on the normal rate fault.We don't talk about anything clinical, it's all just performance in mindset and that sort of stuff.So we launched recently a earlier in this year launched a clinical.So, continuing education podcast, where we speak to specialist visits from all over the world and we, I play the role of the ignorant person because that's what I am very good at.
And I ask the questions, we ask the questions that I know Richard practice ask stuff like its true.Quit.So we just try to provide like 20 minutes.It'll short Snippets of gold of okay.All right, there's something I didn't know to be to me listen to as a podcast just because I love broadcasting and most of its are busy people.
They don't have time to sit and do long courses online or whereas, they will drive and we all run and walk our dogs.And so the idea is just to get these little refreshes new ways of thinking with Pinnacle stuff and they're one.We're doing as a subscribers, as a paid subscription to see if I can turn it into a job, just because I said, I love doing it.
Absolutely.What about the what is it about?The profession that people seem to find dissatisfaction or lack of meaning in or to some type of just feeling like, they don't love it early on as a very good friend of mine, he was a vet.It's funny that you mention that he was a vet and ended up, completely switching, completely switching careers because he just didn't didn't enjoy it.
Well, where does that stem from?We need a long conversation.Hi James.It's what else?A wood is all the opinion but this factors that contribute to it a it's actually quite a stressful career, it's a high-pressure career, there's a lot of pressure to perform.
We go into it because most people go into vid because you have a passion for animals or animal health so you want to help.It's a helping Korea but then this is increasingly People have higher and higher expectations of the Vets as well.Back in the old days, real look, if things go wrong in the dog dies.Well, that's just the way it is not.
So these days, it's a very high pressure to do it and do it really well to a very high standard, I think a big issue is the cost of Attorney K.It is if you want to do it at a high standard, it does cost a lot of money but there's no medical medical help for Medical Aid or anything for B.
So, there's a friction in that between the V2 wants to just help but having to charge for it and clients getting angry or perceived getting angry, that's a big thing.It's it's a full-on career.If you do it full time, in terms of fits, It's on your mind often and it can be hard to get away from it and I think just burn out people just put their hearts and souls into it and often find it fairly ungrateful.
They don't feel like they get a lot of love back from from the job and just too much of it.And one last factor is it's not a very well-paid career compared to most of the professions.So people work hard, they put everything into it and they don't feel financially rewarded.Sitting there was an issue for me as well.
Yeah.In a nutshell.Yeah, yeah.I was gonna say, especially compared to some of the other medical professions out there that can of tractor, a significant amount of money often in life.There seems to be one or two moments of that, we reflect on that seem to be massive moments of transition for us.
Was there one or two incidents in your life?That stand out that the really contributed to the the path that you've gone down today or the person you are today.I think the breakthroughs for me the pivot Points to go, okay, this isn't working.
So as I said, the first 10 years or so I've certainly felt that dissatisfaction I was sort of waiting for somebody to rescue me so arrived and say, okay.Here's the other thing that you should be doing because this isn't ticking the boxes for you, but I had probably a bit of a victim mentality.
I think probably getting back to why they'd struggle, it's not easy getting into a Veterinary degree.So it's generally you have a group of high achieving people who go through school and even University pretty easily.And again this is opinion that's people might differ from me.
But you there are some people work very hard to get in here to meet school and we all work hard, but but a lot of high Achievers who who life and achievement comes fairly naturally.And then you get to a point and work we go, this is really hard, it's really right?It's not what I imagined it was going to be.
And so we have this the general public, as this is Of what it is like to be a way that I think many of its and that same vision going through with school.And then they get into the reality of work.And they go, it's actually pretty hard.It's not straightforward, I suck at it because when you start you suck at it, it takes a long time to get really good at it and we're not used to sucking.
I think so for me to get back to your question, there's a good 10 years in and I think it was just taking time away stepping away and evaluating and thinking, okay, this isn't working for me and actually consciously thinking about what can I do about it, if, if not This thing, what I remember, I had a sat at my desk was just brainstorming and writing it down and I don't know if I could swear or not but I still have an old idea that there's a there's a line that says if not this then what that if question mark big exclamation mark and it was probably if I took what pivotal moments just on a surf trip in Indonesia and at it's fantastic time with friends.
And I was riding on a scooter through this through rural just having, you know, one of those lists moments and I That a distinct moment of anger.I want more of this feeling and how we're going to do this.I'm going to achieve that and it was on the plane back.I started hatching plans, the initial plans and of course when you start hatching those plans you don't know if no idea what the end of it.
Looks like I'm learning that more and more.I still don't know what the end looks like.That was where it was when I decided, let's change this.Do something else this make plan.Yeah, you know, it's funny when I interviewed, I think it was Sharon lechter who was the co-author of all the Rich Dad, Poor Dad books, with Robert Kiyosaki that have salt.She saw more than 40 Million copies.
And I believe it was her who said she had.She didn't have a wireless, she had a wine not list.So for anything she wanted to do, she created that why not?And she never be found out.There were these things on there that's like why not give them a go and that's what led to her to her.Having some amazing having some amazing things.
I feel like anyone who goes down that entrepreneurial route and clearly you have very strong entrepreneurial Tendencies as I do it seems to be a constant tightrope between balance and impact.Some of the things that you've done in your life in the last sort of five years or 10 years, obviously, we're both still learning very much every single day.
What are some of those things that you've done to create more of that balance and try to achieve the data?They life, spend some time with your family and things while at the same time, making sure you can hit those lofty business goals that you have.Yeah.Well I'd start by saying right at the moment.
My balance is horrendous just to do too many changes in too many, trying to many things but I'm aware of it.But I answer your question James, I think for me it's a it's a cool.Just just a decision.It's a again, it's taking the time and creating the mental space to figure out what you want and what is important.
So I've got the three kids and and win.My first one was a year old.I realized I'm not seeing as much of him as I would like to.And I I sat down or in, okay, what can I do about this?What does it look like for me?What I want it to look like, I want to see him at least 10 hours, more a day and what the day a week, where I can just hang with them, or do something like that.
And then, and I had to write this down because the thing is, you said these girls and then I achieved them pretty quickly.Actually, I found I worked backwards from there and said, okay, I need this.Um, I need more time.I need the same amount of money.How much money do I need to achieve that in?
Its for me, you Entrepreneurial for me, it's not about money.I it's time.The money needs to be there, but I'm very much aware of how much money I need as a minimum to give me time.And I think that's a risk that that's often happens, is once the entrepreneurial thing starts working, do not know when enough is enough and they go.
Well, this is working, I should do more.I see the more I should do more and for me to be able to say, okay I'm hit the goal that I want to reach.So how much do I take?More time off now, right?Do I work more?So setting a goal being very clear about what balance looks like and then re very active.
Something has of learned though, is it is a Even Flow, it will be periods of terrible bed.And so, as I said at the moment, there's a lot of things happening.And I know I'm not spending enough time with my kids and especially my wife, she's always the last one.I don't want to see the kids get the time and then she might be times when she likes that.
I think my wife would say that's the case.But I'm aware of it but I also have a plan.So I know this isn't the going to be the norm.I have a goal that I'm working towards this, a room that this is an acceptable and being very strict about the thing.
You know, this isn't acceptable.So that if that means, okay, I'm going to take a pay cut.They could I got a day of work.So if I say work for me, it still means clinical work.So, clinical Veterinary work, and if it means I kind of half day out and that means we survive on less money.
Twine.That's the priority.So that that's my secret is to go except that it comes and goes in waves driven it and be honest with yourself about, is it good enough and if it's not good enough then they can actually do something about it was right behind you.They take take action then range about it, do something fast?
Yeah, absolutely.I think it's about the best advice for everyone in, in 2021.You got such a great Niche now, like it's something you clearly passionate about.Now you've positioned yourself being able to help other vets in that world, what can people do to find the niche that they they care about?
That they love.Like, there's a lot of young people out there, who, who are waiting for their purpose or their passion.Just to just, to hit them like, like an apple falling out of a tree.But in my experience, it's by going out there and exploring a whole bunch of Industries and attending events and just getting to know of any people, as possible.
It was only through that process that in my early 30s.So, maybe four or five years ago.I'm 37.Now was through that process, that I ended up going on.Wow.Now I don't ya after going through all All the shit.I I'm clear on what I actually want to do with that.
What advice do you have for people who?Yeah, that's, that's it.That's exactly it.Iced.I was so stuck on that for it for a decade.As I said, I had this constant feeling of World War.I, what I'm doing now isn't ticking all the boxes.It's not it.I think I scared to stop doing it because I didn't know what the other thing was.
And I think everybody wants to know what what is the thing that I should be doing?And you probably don't know because you haven't tried Especially with Twitter is science.It's such a defined job in you study rate as this is the thing you do and anything outside of that is super scary.
And and again, we want this thing to go.Okay?This is what the plan is going to look like and that's how I'm going to end the money that someone at this is all those practical things to consider.But for me the break-in it was to say, okay again sitting down go get one.What did I use to love?
Because the other thing was written in science.You once you study it and you start working, it's all-consuming.And, you know, most veteran students before they get into vet school, they have other things that they like, they create, if they might have an artistic Flair or used to music, or sports or something, and then there's no time for that the reticle most Vehicles.
It just becomes this one thing you begin to illuminate brainwashed and I had to sit down and literally right down again.I like this remember that you used to like doing music.Remember I like writing so for me the thing was all right I've always liked literature and words and writing.So I said I'm going to start writing.
No idea why it's know, very few writers make money.So I knew that it was probably not going to be my big gig but I said causes a look, I'm gonna ride I'm gonna have something published that I didn't publish online somewhere in the three-month period.Not sure why, but it's not going to do it and then that leads to the next thing and the next thing and then you go all.
I actually don't like that.So Rising.But I like this.And then as you say, I've skipped a Google, I keep kicking rocks and seeing what's under them and the Rangeley.You find the thing that you're looking for, you don't know what you're looking for, but it's under there, somewhere, going out being more proactive.
I'm actually a fairly introverted so wouldn't wouldn't go out and expose myself to other people by conversations and asking questions but forcing myself to do that.So the more people you meet, the more people go.Oh I like what you're talking about there.
Lets you know, let's talk about it more and the one thing leads to the other.I had a Quote, I forget who said this, but it says, don't worry about what you going to do with your life.Just do.What's in front of you with as much Elegance as possible?And the answer will come and I feel that more and more strongly.
Yeah, it's a principle.I remember hearing from Jim realm when I was young, just threw his recordings.Obviously not from Jim Howell personally it was talking about going the extra mile, most people don't even go.The first mile.So getting into that habit of going the extra mile and doing what you can.I mean, it sets you up for whether it's a job that you're in, that's relationships, you ran.
All of that stuff, that then creates those opportunities that can can start to come to you.It's funny.You mentioned how writers don't get money?My very first lecture because I have a, literally a degree in English and writing from the University of Queensland.And my very first lecture, they said, put your hand up if you want to make money from riding, you know, two hundred hands went up.
And then the guy said, well, you're not going to make any money riding and I was like, huh?And that was the day and a dual degree doing business because I thought, hey, I want to be a writer but I don't want to be homeless at the same time.Yeah.Yeah exactly.Now that's yeah.So that that that's it and I'm amazed.
It's exactly what you say about the extra mile.I read another quote that said the extra mile is a very lonely place.You do that, extra mile and show a little bit of enthusiasm, and I'm just astounded how people resonate with that.Yes, yes, opens doors, people's got this person.
So, so for the first 10 years of my career, I was the Windsor and the victim and the I'd complain about stuff would work, but not do anything.About it.You just do a little bit.You don't think a fire, just just try and put something extra in.And then doors, just open and people want to be around you and do stuff with you for sure.
What about that decision.When you created the vet Vault, where you would really position yourself as helping other vet.So you were positioning yourself as being in the top 1% of your profession.Did you have any doubts around that things like imposter syndrome, creeping up in that process?Or was it something that actually felt quite natural for you?
Thirdly, the Imposter syndrome is, deaf They are, you know, there's as somebody who tries to coach me the bed was not about me.It is we talk to other people.Now, I'm learning stuff through this.
And as I learned stuff, I'm happy to share it, but I don't have it figured out and I think none of our guests have either.So I think just realizing that and you guys are really good at teaching, this is, It's you don't have to have it all figured out to be able to help other people.I share what I learn and And I might change my mind and a year later I say something else but it's a journey and I'm happy to share the journey.
As I said, I'm introverted, it doesn't come naturally.I think that's why I like podcasting because I don't have to, it's not live.I could edit it then it's not standing in front of it or well.They're having said that, that first episode sweating bullets to weird thing, as soon as that microphone goes on initially, like people can hear me.
So yeah, it took a bit of getting used to but I enjoyed thoroughly now.Yeah, it's horrible.Isn't that first episode?I shy We found one, was it a few months ago, I found the very first podcast episode I ever did on YouTube was on someone else's show.When I was like, oh I, I close that tab quicker than I'd ever close.
It's a before and then leave listening to your own voice integer and show that took me a while to get to get used to.I didn't even know how strong my accent was my head up my head.I said quite Australian these days and the first time I started it as a piece of God is really strong, so let me connect.
All right, you gotta, you gotta start off with g'day mates to make me make you all to come out.I'm trying to teach you a two-year-old daughter to say g'day mate.So over here, on the Mean Streets of l.a. when people walk past her and they hear a little two-year-old, say g'day mate.It's interesting what you're talking about on that, on that podcast side, the reason so many podcast aren't started as because people are worried about positioning themselves as that as the hero yet, positioning yourself as the guide as we talked about a lot in, we are members where the customer or the audience, the person listening to the show, your guiding those people.
They are the You just taking them from where they are at the moment to something a place that they want to be, and it's a great lesson for anyone out there that you do have the capacity to be able to do that.You can ignore all of those feelings of imposter syndrome.That all of us have by thinking, hey, we're not an expert or we're not Gary vaynerchuk in our field of being able to get it done.
Is there any particular benefit or reward or something that has come out of the podcast that really, that really stands out.You like what, sir?What's something that has happened?As a result of you making the decision to start the all cast.
You feel like is is possibly worth the price of admission.As far as he knows putting those reps into this point.So, that's right.It's such a, you two, you know what to do, rewarding thing?It is, and this is something you go on about, but it's 100%.The main thing is relationships, especially with the interview format broadcasts.
I've fallen in love with every guest a little bit.It's the weirdest thing by the end of it, because it's such an unusual thing is to Into somebody's life that to be to be in a position where I can ask you a heap of really personal questions.It's weird out the dynamic between your shifts, instantly by the end of the episode of.
Like I had, I've had one or two incidents where I personally made somebody who we've interviewed previously.And it's so weird because I feel like I'm a really good friend of theirs after an hour and a half conversation was because of probe of Providence and it makes them feel comfortable.So the, the relationships that I've gotten out of it as gold, it's worth That the admission price by itself but then again you learn I'm asking questions that I want to ask.
I'm not asking, I'm not making up questions for that.I think other people want I want to know.How do you do this?I'll what's it like to be a radiologist.I how do you make balance work for you and I'm learning, I'm learning stuff.My personal growth since Banning the cat starting.The podcast has been way better than reading books and stuff.
Because I I integrate it and I think the fact that I'm doing the interview and then editing and writing a show notes, I'm learning so much from its really is incredible.The same with the clinical stuff.I'm sorry.I don't have to do continuing education because I'm talking to world class Specialists picking their brains and then making sure that's why the innovator I know my stuff now today, yeah, that people think are where there's like one and a half million podcast out there in the world or whatever it might be.
It's like to me, just as you said, it's that forced learning, every couple of weeks or however, Whatever frequency your show is along with the relationships that you establish.Even if No one hears.The episode that you are recording that to me is why a podcast is is worth the price of admission.
And then and I will say though that when you do get feedback, and I think the frustrating thing with the podcast is because you put it out and there's not a, it's not a comment section or something like that.So, actually engaging with the listeners doesn't happen all that often.But even just the occasional email to say, look, that dreary Ali Dead episode means so much to me to go.
Yeah, what you doing is were While I'm learning.And if some, if one other person learns from it, fantastic and it does help with, it has helped me a lot of growth in terms of this when I would have been super nervous to have this conversation with you, with people potentially listening into it two years ago.
And now, I'm not because again, I've learned that it's not about my opinion, it's a bit about conversations and I could talk about the challenges.I faced and faced.And if somebody else can gain from that, I don't have to come with the answers and come with the questions and we we talked about it and if it makes the listeners think a little bit and just go, you know what, not the older, my career you ever tried?
I should just end, I'm not going to tell you how to do it but just thinking about it and it's very, very satisfying.I love doing that, which is why I want to do more of it.Yeah, absolutely.Will tell us about the podcast you have with your kids.That's been on ice.As I said, I'm overcommitted does went over to new clinical jobs.
Started a brand new job yesterday.I was, you can see, I'm in my scrubs so I'm going from one job to the other a minute.So that bed was put on Hiatus a little bit, but that's actually my favorite podcast.Me and my because the best description of a podcast.I mean it's amazing.That I think that's got two legs.
I should get back to it.I think that's actually good.So I was driving with my VIN six-year-old, son.Just the tumors in the car.We went camping overnight.Dab.Try and do that.Just Dad and one kid every now and again nights away.
And and he's animal upstairs, Wildlife, obsessed and, and And I thought, let's listen to a podcast in the car and I was looking for a podcast, I thought surely, there's got to be some animal related kids podcast and they were some but I just didn't love him.They were the best.
Only other thing is they always come with these facts because they read all these animal books and they come to me with these wild animal facts that I go, I don't know if that's true, right?That I've got to double-check that like some random.So the first episode was, the question that the thing he said to me in the car, I said it, did you know that hippos have pink milk?
And I was like, I know I didn't have, that's true.I'm gonna have to Google that.And and that that was my idea was born.I was like, okay, let's do this.Let's do an animal podcast for kids with my kids.So they my co-host and the end.The story is they come with the fact with an unbelievable animal fact, because I don't believe it and then I go and research it.
And then we come back and we have a talk about this animal and took say some cool things about it.And then we answer the question or they statement?Is it true?Or is it false?I love doing it.I absolutely love it.It's just the time of anything and everything that's made it.So it's called the focus is called.
Unbelievable animals.It's out there.There's still the episodes are still out there, but we haven't released a new one for about six months.Yeah, it's so good about just a difference of just how eclectic shows can be.I mean, it seems like the best ideas come from people either in the shower all weather doing.They're not trying to force.Like what's a really good idea that I could think of right now?
Yeah yeah.Yeah.We just wanted to scratch out its it I will say people listen to the my friends listen to the podcast and they got That's so cool.You guys have so much fun.We've had some big fights in the world grumpier than my bigger and then I get on like a week doing this recording so you can start.
So I do it.Welcome back to the Happy Family podcast.Exactly.I'd be full by the to hear.That is a lot of it.Well, you are one of the ogs now, we are members Community, which launched in August 20, 20 to help podcasters, do amazing things, with their, with their podcast.
Is there anything that stands out from, from your time?With the group, as something, particularly, beneficial for podcasters?Who are thinking about getting to that next level?What's OG Original Gangster, I believe.Oh Jesus, it's just a, it's a Thinking for me, it's the community for show.
You have like-minded people trying to achieve the same thing and then when we have sessions other people come with solutions, to things that I get stuck on, I joined because I want to take a nickel help, you know, how do I get better sound out there?I get so stressed out by software and things like that, it all the new tech things.
So that's why I joined.And initially, I was disappointed that it wasn't very heavy on that.And then I went, oh, hang on, that's not the important stuff.The footsteps way.Is that how you think and what you do with it and how you engage your audiences.And so it's just a completely different?
I say way of thinking, but it's actually just thinking it's now in my mind, I'm much more aware of the marketing thing and production and how to get good ideas.And I know it's that's the main thing is completely changed.My my brain really.
And then the support, if there's a technical question is there, we just shoot questions and somebody comes up with the Best person in the world in this davic to give us a deep dive so I know it's fantastic.It's fantastic things.It's so Emily.It's a very it's a big it's a big commitment and again it's like doing any exercise or anything is the days where I think, well, I've got a hundred things to do.
I don't actually have time for an hour and a half session, and then you do it afterwards it, it's like, finishing the gym going, man.I'm so glad I did that.That was so worth my time.Yeah.Well said, my friend will Sid when our you've got to get off to work.Now, so, where's the best place to be?People to go and learn more about you.Oh cranky, I should have prepared it.com.
Check us out.Valid come.If you want to learn more about the clinical episodes, there is a tab on the side that says, clinical content, that will take it to the clinical podcast that lavage.You check that out.We're on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.If you look for the weight, well, try and keep it entertaining reach out.
Please reach out.We love it.I love getting emails and messages.What do you want us to talk about?Who do you want us to interview?Guys with us, I love it.And if you would like you to resurrect, unbelievable animals podcast, you can send that to.You can send that through the dude.Yes, please, thanks so much for coming on the show.
So if you know of anyone who's a vet, send them along to the vet bulbs.com, it's an amazing podcast and hugely beneficial for for the vet industry.And don't forget we've got, we are podcast coming up on the 18th and 19th of February.So if you want to learn more about how to monetize your podcast and connect with some awesome podcasters from all around the world, so we are podcast.com and grab your ticket.
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So get out there and make some magic and we'll see you very, very soon.Thanks for having me James, thank you for everything you do.Thanks so much.
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