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Hello, hello, hello. My podcast people, and thank you for joining me for your day. Another episode of My favorite Online Business podcast. You see what I did there? I'm working out the kinks, working out the kinks. If you are listening, tuning in, watching this on the day that it drops, it is Monday, August 25th.
Is that correct? Is that correct? Yes. It is Monday, August 25th and August is flying. Bye. Today we're talking about. Construction during collapse, AKA building, something, as the empire collapses around us, I am big grateful to have this podcast as an outlet to talk about this stuff. So if you are listening, whether you're new listener, old listener, though special shout out to my OGs.
Um, thank you for allowing me to have or supporting me in having this space. Um, a bit of a random thought. But I am not grateful for whatever happened to my Microsoft Word Settings. Yes, I use Microsoft Word, it works, and the goddamn spacing is messed up, and I have to manually change it every time I create a new document, which is very often, maybe it's happened to you.
If so, what'd you do? It's annoying every time the spacing is set it 7.92 after each line. I don't know why, why it would happened, so not grateful for that. Uh, also still not grateful for Donald Trump. Fuck that guy. In case you haven't heard today, fuck Donald Trump. Fuck Donald Trump. Uh, which is a good segue into today's topic, which is construction during collapse.
So this is a topic that I spoke about, uh, last week at like last week's Mafia Dinner, and I figured I'd bring it up here. Today on the potty pod because this is an outlet for me and it's also a vehicle that I wish to use to help people with their online business, things like that. So it's kind of meta, right?
Um, I have said it a million times. I brought this up a million times, uh, you know, as of late. But that meme. It goes around. It's been around, it said the dystopian movies got it right, but none of them showed the part where I'd still have to go to work. That shit is so fucking true. Right. We still got to eat.
We still got bills to pay. We still got jobs to go to. I am so grateful that I worked for myself. We still got businesses to run. And if you are in that last category, wow. If you were in that last category business to run this episode is especially for you. I think perhaps, uh, a lot of this episode may end up being just from like an action item perspective, me encouraging you to go listen to last week's episode.
Uh, thank you for linking that, Courtney. Uh, and jojo, uh, but once is never. And I received a fucking bomb ass thank you from my homie Kinsey, who thanked me for how I'm showing up and you know what I'm saying? And she also told me that one of the reasons she started her own gym was because she didn't like how little was being done across the board to take care of the people who keep the gym.
Going right, or, you know, in the space in general to take care of the people that keep gyms going, and I fucking love this. You see a problem, you solve a problem, and there are many ways to solve that problem. And I do of course, love it. When the solution is to build your own thing so that you can do it in your own way.
It's not always a solution, right? Yes. When it comes to, to things like protesting some of the stuff we're going through right now, there's no need to look, you know, first to build your own thing. Like there are already people doing the things. Go learn from them, right? But in this business space, you know, particularly the online business space, right?
'cause that's my niche. My whole shtick has always been, you know, do not replace one shitty boss with another shitty boss. You being that second shitty boss, right? We build things to be able to do them our own way. And as we're living through late stage capitalism and subsequently, you know, the collapse, we have an opportunity and perhaps, you know.
An obligation to ask ourselves if what we're constructing is perpetuating the bullshit. I don't know what the specific I action items are for you. Like I know I said, you know, listen to last week's episode, but also I don't know, spec your specific situation. And so I will plug that shit. Have a conversation with Chad JPT right and Know using Chat GPT does not use nearly as much goddamn water as mainstream media.
Would have you believe, and as they're saying they're fucking lying. You can check out episode two of my other podcasts chat, GBT, curious. We will link that episode. Thank you, Courtney. Uh, so again, I don't know what the bullshit, you know, perpetuating the bullshit means to you or is for you. But as a start, if there's something in your business or something that you're being told to do that makes you feel bad in your body, explore that shit.
Explore that shit. I'm actually looking at the camera right now. This is the total tangent, but I'm like, I did not change into one of my maestro shirts and that's 'cause it's hot here. I didn't give any life updates. I hopped to into the episode, but it's very warm here, which I love. Not super hot, uh, but I have the windows closed and everything because I'm recording and it's hot.
So that's why I don't have a maestro shirt on for those either are watching. Uh, but back to the episode. Change requires that things actually change. And sometimes, sometimes when things change, they get worse first, and it's uncomfortable and it's terrible and it makes you frustrated. Right? I'm saying this to to, for the expectation management piece, which is expectation management piece, which is also something I'm very, you know, big, big on.
So you don't go into this thinking needs be the best thing ever. And I change it and like, everything's gonna be amazing. No. Like, it may, shit may get worse, it may not feel good when you make these changes. When you go talk to Chad GPT and you ask, am I perpetuating the bullshit? And it says yes. And then you're like, how do I change it?
It says this thing and you're like, oh, that feels bad. I don't wanna do that though. I obviously, when it comes to analogies and, and, and frames of reference, I'm thinking about sports because that is how my brain works and I'm very privileged and fortunate to have that be the case that my, you know, my brain can go to.
These things that are pretty benign, right? Sports, it's not like some life, terrible life, life thing that's happened to me where I'm like, I can use that as my reference point. Alright, this benign example that allows for parallels to be, to be drawn, but in this case of, you know, changing things and things getting worse.
The first thing I think of this is kind of a life update here, is Lex and I working on more, uh, this is volleyball, not relationship wise. Uh, Lex and I working on more offensive defense, and that means losing sometimes, but honestly I don't mind because I'm like, it will lead to more winning eventually, like, and it's part of the process.
Right, but I, we can feel it. There's certain epi, certain episodes, well, there's certain practices where we'll be learning something new and like you could just feel the energy in the class. People don't like being bad at things. It's a group of women, a group of high achieving women. You don't like being bad at things, and you can feel the energy.
It's just really tense, and they're like, fuck, this is so difficult. Right? Changing things can make things worse. It oftentimes makes things worse first. Right? But I've spoke about this in the past. I think I've done an episode about this, where we can look to change the definition of winning, right? And in terms of volleyball, it's like, it's not about getting more points, it's about successfully doing what we set out to do.
Right? And we can, we many times can, can alter this, right? I do realize, again, expectation management and, and being realistic with things. I do realize it's some friction. Within oneself can and will arise when this idea is applied to life and the reality that changing something, in this case, something in your online business could have a negative financial impact that you may not recoup, right?
And your intent is to help other people or people collectively. And there's no guarantee that it's even gonna work. And you're like, man, I'm gonna lose money. I'm gonna lose clients. I'm gonna speak up. I'm gonna use my voice, I'm gonna use my platform. I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull this, this way of doing this.
I'm gonna change this way of doing things. I may make less money, I may have less customers, I may have less consumers, but it's for the greater good. I get it. There's friction with that and it's like, fuck ah. I wanna acknowledge that. That's part of what I was saying earlier though. Change requires change and sometimes it's, many times it's uncomfortable.
I definitely feel. That, you know, my acceptance of this has become way easier. This fact that it's like will feel uncomfortable, I definitely feel that it's become way easier to lean into because I'm 40 and it's not like a magical switch happens, but I just think that as you get older, you've accomplished more things many times.
And I think a num good number of you listening to this are around my age. So I'm gonna lean into that, that you get this right. But the age plays a factor because you've gotten your flowers in many areas. You've done the thing, you've collected, the things you've had your success. Right? And you're like, oh, like I know what's on the other side of this and so I'm willing to lose it.
I'm willing to risk it. I'm willing to say like, this isn't the way, right. But also folks, I want you to understand that I am not sitting here as we talk about potential financial losses and and repercussions in one's business. I am not sitting here as some millionaire far from it. I still have student loans and probably will forever those predatory fucking rates.
Terrible. I am, you know, in the same breath. I can also say I am way better off than many people when we look at actual statistics and like everyone in the country, like, yeah, but I am by no means, you know, financially set. I still gotta fucking work. And that is where I find myself asking the same question that I'm asking you to ask yourself, is what I'm constructing contributing to the bullshit, you know?
You know martyrdom, isn't it? Right? Becoming intentionally, becoming financially destitute doesn't make you morally superior. I get it. We got bills to pay, right? We got to eat. I got, I don't know what Rupert is. It's hiding. You got a good life. I gotta uphold for him and moose. But I do have the ability to pause and think and analyze and act accordingly.
And so, you know, my, what I'm throwing out to you is if you too, have the ability to pause and think and analyze and act accordingly as it relates to your business. It is really, in my opinion, worth doing. So. All right, short episode today. That's all I got for you. Uh, go back and listen to last week's episode if you haven't already.
Um. I guess we can hop into real quick life and business updates. Lots of volleyball, lots and lots of volleyball. We had MBL Manhattan Beach Open this past weekend, uh, Alexa and I just watched literally 11 billion hours of volleyball. Kim came and stayed with us and kb her husband, which was really nice.
I have both of them here, and it was really just, it was fun. I, I still wanna go back. Toad, I'm ruined by Shaad. I want to watch international volleyball far more than I wanna watch. Um. Far more than I wanna watch, you know, just the US volleyball. Although I will say the women's side is so deep, and I sit there with frustration because there's just so much talent, and I'm just like, where do these women go?
What do you end up doing? Like no one makes money in this sport. The sport is failing the, the leadership is fucking terrible. They're running it into the ground. And I'm like, if I was independently wealthy, this is like one thing I'd wanna fund at. First of all, I'd be like, no, cats are homeless. They all have something.
But I also be like, let me fund this thing. Let me bankroll this thing for a bit. So it actually takes off like there was a 16-year-old, I think she's 16. This woman, a girl's named Sarah Wood and she's outta Florida. Oh no, she's outta Pennsylvania, I think. And they, she like flies around the country, her dad, and you know, they fly around and they do all these tournaments and like all this to say they are the kids in that family, but they really support this girl's, you know, career, volleyball career.
And I'm like, that's amazing. And also some part of me is like, for what? Like, I'm all about athletic accomplishment and achievement, but it's like so frustrating to me to be like, we are putting, she's putting all this time and, and everything into this and there's like no future. Like it just kills me. We could have such a good fucking life and get, and I get it.
Good is subjective. Good is, you know, 100% dependent on like your, your values and everything, but like. Things could be diff very, very different than they are now. And all I can do, and all I can really say not all, but one of the top things, things that comes to mind, you know, first is, am I contribute? Is what I'm constructing, contributing to the bullshit, right?
I'm saying that, hey, if I was independently wealthy, I would. Donate to this bankroll it. Well, do I have any expendable income right now that I can be putting towards something? And I do make donations every month to this, um, what is the word I'm looking for? Environmental. Cause uh, I got staffed outside of the grocery store at one point and I was like, you know what?
I will donate. I will, I can afford $25 a month. Um, so just asking myself the things that I'm building are the actions I'm taking right now contributing to the bullshit. Are they fighting it? Am I waiting for, you know, to be a different person, to be in a different position in order to start doing the things I wanna do?
Can I do them right now in some way, shape, or form? Right? So that's the volleyball update, that's the life update, the biz update that new podcast folks. Check it out. I'm big proud of it. Chat, GBT, curious, uh, it is cruising. And I get to ask myself about that question. Am I contributing to the bullshit? I have a podcast.
It's talking about ai. All right. But I really do believe that just covering our eyes and being like, it's not here, we just don't use it, is not the answer, which is why I started the podcast. I wanna educate people. I want informed consumers, informed customers, informed users. Uh, so that's what I'm doing over there and I, I'm really enjoying it.
So check it out if you haven't already chat, GPT. Curious. Get the website chat gt curious.com. Um, so yeah, check it out if you're interested in chat, GT or AI in general. And that's all I got. You all right? I realized I said like four minutes ago. I'm gonna wrap it up and then look at me. Still yapping.
Still yapping. Alright. Officially, they're gonna wrap it up here. As always, endlessly, endlessly appreciative for every single one of you. Until next time, friends Maestro. Out.
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