This is only tangentily related to the imposter syndrome conversation. After yesterday's call I kept wanting to encourage everyone to just start recording and playing with the platforms. Even if the name, art, music, etc are still in progress. That way when you're for real for real recording you already know the buttons to push and have gotten over some of the tech stress. Plus you have the speaking practice and you get used to your own voice and face. It took me some hours of editing my stuff before I got okay with hearing my voice and many more hours for the video. The video still bothers me a bit and gets me stuck on doing more recording but doing more of it gets me closer to okay with that. Go head in to descript (or riverside) and play. Maybe invite a friend on to get the hang of how interviewing works. Then mess with the editing and the AI stuff. Push all the buttons! That'll at least help with the tech hangups. And you can stick with the free trial until you're ready for the real deal, so no reason to not start now. I think it's also good to practice the intro/outro and reading other copy, to make sure it sounds good out loud and you don't trip up on the words. I've found a lot of copy I end up stumbling and so I can tell it's not in my voice. Or that I'm not super excited about it. But I had to record it to figure that out, and then to play it back to see that it wasn't as awful as I thought. (Although some of it was still pretty awful.) So at this point I've recorded dozens of solo hours of me doing and saying stuff, and a lot of it I won't use. So I think it's helpful to start doing that sooner. When I first tried out riverside, I recorded a test run where I read through all of the settings and pushed the buttons, and it made a "magic clip" out of that, which it named "David laughs through confusing tech setup." I'm sharing that here for your amusement. 😂

Here's the replay from this morning!

Come to tomorrow's coaching call where we'll be doing something about that big ol' monster under the bed! (Also, I'ma gift a 30 minute 1:1 to the first person who guesses where the gif on this post came from...)

I think I've settled on using "Vibrantly Fertile" as my podcast name. This domain is available, and it doesn't seem to be used a lot. Another option is "Vibrant Fertility", but the domain is taken and it's in much wider use. My highly educated and intuitive poet friend says "From a language perspective vibrantly I think it's called an adverb and it takes the power out of a describing word. That's why I feel vibrant fertility would be stronger. Like I can tell you, I am a vibrant walker or I can tell you I vibrantly walk.... Either way, I'm sure it'll be great!" What do you all think?

Hey y'all, we heard from @Veronica Tilden that you wanted coaching calls on the same day of the week and time, so we've gone ahead and shifted my call next week to be on Thursday at 10 am PT and we'll be hosting calls regularly, every second week, at that time. See you there? (PS. @Justin Moore is still hosting this Wednesday at 10 am PT and I'll be there slightly later, too)