Connect with Vernon Foster II

podparrot.com

Instagram: @vernon_foster

Twitter: @vernonfoster

I got to meet Vernon Foster II back in late 2014 at Podcast Florida. We got to hang out a bit more at Podcast Movement over the summer. I am super happy to be able to bring Vernon to you on Dreamers Podcast because he is such an inspired guy and you can hear it in this episode. You can also check out the video below of a talk he gave at Podcast Movement to help inspire the packed room that I hosted (with Michelle Talbert).

Read more about Vernon Foster II

Vernon is a highly sought after podcast educator, speaker and coach. He oversees a small army of audio engineers, graphic designers, and transcriptionists under the Pod Parrot brand. He continually seeks out new ways to innovate and strategically leverage podcasting as a viable platform for small business professionals, startups, speakers and coaches.

Episode 210

Connect with Casie Lane

thedeejaypreneur.com

@casielane

Friend of Dreamers Podcast, David Michael of PassionateDJ.com, had Casie Lane, Kilma, and I on an episode of his podcast. That is how I met Casie Lane, and we have been friends ever since! I love what she has been able to build so far, and loving even more what is on the horizon for her and her website TheDeeJayPreneur.com.

Teaching other DJs how to take their passion and enjoyment of DJing to the next level, a professional level. Casie Lane has DJed in some of the biggest night clubs around the world and battled some huge naysayers who felt that DJing “isn’t for girls”.

Episode 193

Connect with Kilma

dontkilmavibe.com

@kilmamusic

I had the pleasure of meeting Kilma while being on an episode of The Passionate DJ podcast (friend of Dreamers Podcast David Michael’s show). It is always great getting to chat with passionate people who see more for themselves than most would. Kilma has gone through a transformation when she decided to rebrand herself into a house, techno, and break beat DJ away from being only a drum and bass DJ.

Kilma is using her love of psychology to help others in the DJ scene with her own blog and log that helps other DJs find their way.

Episode 191

Listen here.

I was really happy when friend of Dreamers Podcast David Michael from Passionate DJ asked me to be on my third episode of his podcast for DJs. Talking about what it means to have purpose.

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In this episode of the podcast, I bring in a full panel of DJ/activists to discuss the issue of purpose.

I say “passion and purpose” all the time, but what does it really mean? How can you find your purpose? How can you drive your goals home so that you can advance your DJ career or skillset? An excellent and inspiring discussion takes place amongst the panel as we all present our own unique perspective on purposeful DJing. Special thanks to Joe Pardo, Casie Lane, and Kilma for joining me on the show today!

In this episode, we chat about:

• What “purpose” means in a DJing context
• How the influence of others affects our progression
• How to maintain focus, in spite of “dream stealers”
• Gaining a sense of direction
• Why it’s important to be a professional
• Personal purpose vs. professional purpose
• Common traits amongst successful dreamers

Connect with DJ Dave Cuda!

thejourneyofambition.com 

@TheDaveCuda

@CudasJourney

Facebook

Today’s topic is all about dealing with negative family members and close friends that serve up comments because of life choices that we make. Becoming a full time DJ for Dave Cuda was a decision that he made quite a while back. For him, his life choices have worked out and enabled him to enjoy the life he wishes to live out in California. It is definitely an interesting life to live, and I think there is a lot to take away from the conversation we have here.

I really would love it if you go and give this episode of Dave’s show The Journey of Ambition a listen. Because I was interviewed, and I feel that it is the best interview I’ve given to date! The Journey of Ambition Podcast Interview

Episode 126

SHARE IT OUT #PinkSA

Pink Shoelaces is an all vinyl set that I put together back in 2005. It was my first departure away from electronic dance music, and into the world of mash-ups and turntablism. I played Pink Shoelaces live a few times in Baltimore, MD at a martini bar called Shorty’s.

I thought it would be fun to put a bunch of old mixes I did from around that time period together in a collection. So I hope you enjoy Pink Shoelaces Age!

In My Planet Car

Crazy Times

B in the Pool

Magitek Quality

My List

Not A Love Song Part 1

Pink Shoelaces

Connect with Tom Ameen

TomAmeenMusic.com

@TomAmeen

Special guest co-host Tom Ameen [from episode 23] today on the first ever series of “Ladderday” episodes!

Tom and I tackle a question from Jennifer today about how to deal with difficult bosses. We both have had to deal with difficult bosses over the years, in my many different forms than just the traditional sense of the word boss. Difficult bosses can be a sticky situation, but Tom and I have some great ways to help you deal with

From there we move into how to take creative pieces of work and making them your own.

Tom has put out three piano cover albums of Disney music that has his own creative voice added to each song. While I, as a DJ, have put out plenty of music over the years where I mashup songs in my own creative voice.

Click Here to check out Tom’s newest cover! Featuring the music from Poltergeist and Halloween!

I am looking to help my fellow dreamers climb their ladders! So please send your questions HERE!!

Want to learn more about DJing? Watch this video of me giving a speech on the fundamentals of DJing!

Episode 93 (Ladderday Episode 5)

Connect with DJ Shorty T

facebook.com/djshorty

Instagram.com/djshortyt

twitter.com/djshortyt

Shorty T has been DJing for 30 years, since 1984, and refuses to be put into a genre category. He still knows how to bring the party, and his passion for bringing a smile to people’s faces is unsurpassed! Shorty T knows how to rock a crowd no matter where he is and yet still has the skills to win DJ battles! Being in a motorcycle accident, he lost his leg but didn’t let that stop him, he pushed on even though people thought he stopped DJing due to his accident.

Shorty T and I met about 10 years ago at some DJ battles. He wanted to mentor me, but  I unfortunately didn’t take him up on it until just recently. He is a great, genuine, down to earth guy and deserves all of success that he has found as a professional radio DJ!

Buy Cash Money and Marvelous’ Ugly People Be Quiet

Episode 63

Connect with DJ David Michael

PassionateDJ.com

Facebook.com/Passionatedj

@DJwithPassion

David is making his dreams go from being a long time DJ into running a successful DJ website, PassionateDJ.com.

Episode 3

Transcription

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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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welcome to the juniors podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m

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interviewing David Michael who is living
history through djing and his passionate

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DJ website

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welcome to the show David how you doing
Joe I’m doing wonderful thank you for

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coming on course glad to be a part of it

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let’s get started by giving our audience
a brief background of yourself

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sure well I’m 30 years old and I live at
home with my wonderful family my

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girlfriend Stacy and my step daughter
Lillian who’s about to turn 7 by trade

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I’m a systems administrator and by
passion I’m a DJ / producer and I guess

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serial entrepreneur i have work from
home I still you know work the day job

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and my my eventual goal is to quit the
day job and to be you know but pursuing

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my own passions full time I run away
like you said passionate DJ dot-com

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which is a blog and podcast about
becoming a better DJ through passion and

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purpose i also am working on couple
other business ideas

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Stacy and I are working on a amazon
reseller business working on some

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software geared towards managing animal
rescues and then of course just my my

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own djing and an event promotion so I’ve
got my hands and all kinds of little

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baskets and and tried trying to do
probably too much at once but I think

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that’s for me that’s what it’s all about
is i just i like i like the climb and I

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like pursuing my my passions and dreams
and and trying to get where I’m going I

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grew up here in Dayton Ohio to two
wonderful parents who are still together

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there on the oldest of six siblings so
we had grew up in a pretty full house

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outside of that event promotion
marketing there are some of my interests

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my mom into cars I’ve got the Trans Am
2000 trains and that i think are on

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little bit of video gaming and anything
technology

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those are all the things i’m i’m pretty
much stoked about well what-what exactly

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inspires you to be a 12 pretty one

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sir preneur as i said that right yeah
yeah

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I’ve always wanted I’ve always kind of
had that drive 22 want to run my own

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business or or project of some sort it
started back when I was in high school

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a buddy of mine and I actually the guy
who’s working on the animal rescue

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project with me

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we started a local automotive community
type website before Facebook and MySpace

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and social media took off we’d built up
a reasonably well visited forum and did

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events like crusens and and things like
that and I think that’s probably what

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really got me hooked on it because I
enjoyed you know even though it wasn’t

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anything that was my bread-and-butter
that was depending on my enjoyed kind of

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putting these systems in place and
managing the whole you know the small

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Empire i guess and it was it was one of
those things where I came to the

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realization that people were or
benefiting from the value I could

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provide them rather than necessarily the
time i spent working on something as

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with a day job and that is what kind of
got me thinking about you know i would

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rather get paid for my value instead of
my time so how can i make that happen

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so that’s kind of how it is has guided
me this way well that that kind of

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answers the question how did your dream
come about but let’s let specifically go

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into djing and then how passionate DJ
came about

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sure well obviously it starts with the
music I mean meet music is is my therapy

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it’s it’s what keeps me saying when I’m
you know trying to do way too many

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things that wants its it’s not my reason
for living but it’s damn high up on the

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list i mean i’m at i was born into a
musical family might father sings and

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plays tenor sax and you know both my
parents were in the church choir growing

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up and so I would sit in on their
practices and I would hear them do you

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know they would sing alto part then they
were singing soprano part in the tenor

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part and I started putting all these
pieces together it as far as how that

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all worked and ended up taking piano
lessons and that led to me doing

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producing which led to djing which led
to me wanting to tell others about it so

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I i decided that i wanted to kind of a
perfect storm of me wanting to try

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things to get to have new pursuits and
and I wanted to break away from the

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routine i wanted to do something new and
I wanted to find ways that I could gain

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independence financially and it just as
far as my time goes and so passionate DJ

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came about as a kind of an experiment
the beginning of last year basically

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what happened was the the actual phrase
that I said was I want to make my

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thirties awesome and I turned 30 and sep
tember last year so that was kind of

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where it started

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so I’m like okay what what can I do that
is going to maintain my interest long

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enough to really drive something home
because i hadn’t taken on a big project

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like this in a long time and so I
basically did a kind of mind map

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exercise where I wrote out like seven of
my i think it was seven fears seven

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passions and and something else i can’t
remember exactly and and the one thing

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that just kept coming back up is is
djing you know is the one thing that i

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knew that i could write about all the
time and not get tired of it and one

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thing i’m just really interested doing
and felt that I had enough valuable

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information to share with other people
so it started as an experiment you know

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can I build traffic can I build a fan
base

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can I provide value to people will they
will they pick up what I’m putting down

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basically and and it’s been working and
it’s kind of it turns out I’m a pretty

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decent writer which I kind of knew but I
never really had applied to anything

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before I’d never had writing as an
interest until I decided to write about

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something I was interested about and
it’s kind of taken off from there helps

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when you have people that really believe
in you and you know how I found out

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about your site was through DJ z-trip
retweeting an article that you did about

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beat-matching yeah I was probably to ten
reasons why you should still learn how

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to be matched by ear

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something like that should be pretty
self-explanatory is this to a skill

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that’s the very basis of djing outside
of the song selection right yeah it was

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super cool that that particular post
went viral and and brought a lot of

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attention to the site which was a big
confidence booster for me it was my

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first kind of experience with more
people seeing what I had written

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then you know people that I had directly
guided to the site or had seen it

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through friends or friends of friends
kind of thing it was suddenly I had this

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influx of traffic with which is a little
makes you feel a little vulnerable to

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but I’m sure what we’ll talk about that
later

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well how did your your your family and
your friends received you know the first

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the djing and then later when you’re
like hey I’m gonna do this website and i

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am doing this website and oh man all
these people are coming to my study all

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the time because of this one article i’m
sure you were jumping up and down

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yeah he’s out it was received by the
head by those that are closest to you

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so is as far as family goes they’ve
always been really supportive i have

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very supportive family as far as they
don’t hold necessarily know what it is

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that I’m doing but I haven’t dealt with
a whole lot of the criticism as far as

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what why are you wasting your time on
this or that my girlfriend Stacy

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particularly has been incredibly
supportive she realizes that you know

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because I’m trying to do all of these
other projects and and do all this

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writing and this this time that requires
creative energy

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she’s really been supportive through the
whole thing and an understanding and I

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think that it’s actually inspired her to
to make some moose towards her own

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dreams which is pretty cool as far as
friends go been kind of a mixed bag

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mostly supportive

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the funny thing is the the most
negativity that you seem to get when it

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comes to friends are from the people
that are closest to you and it’s they

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don’t mean to do it it i think maybe
it’s just those are the people that you

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have maybe the most honesty you know
with like I had one particular friend

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who was kinda like why why are you
trying to do this full time are you

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trying to be a writer in a DJ and and
all the stuff when you have a good job

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that’s paying your bills you’ve got a
nice house you know you

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everything’s going fine for you and and
i had to be very clear you know it’s

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it’s not that my my job is treated me
poorly it’s that I’ve been doing I’ve

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been working this job for 13 years which
for a thirty-year-old is a long time i

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mean i’ve been doing this since I was in
high school and I’m

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I’m ready to change it up and I want to
do that in such a way that I’m you know

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every day im doing something that I want
to do and i feel like i could spend a

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lot of time on on something like that if
it’s something I love doing

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suddenly it doesn’t feel so impressive
if you love doing it anyway you know

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what I mean very much so you know they
some of them don’t really understand

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that but the ones that have that kind of
same entrepreneurial Drive or it just

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drive in general particularly motivated
people tend to understand more than

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people who are kind of stagnant in their
own situation which is kind of revealing

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and you can’t to eat you have to take it
with a grain of salt because they’re

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they’re typically not trying to attack
you or anything they just don’t

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understand or it may be revealed
something that they don’t like about

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themselves so I don’t take any of that
personally but overall very supportive

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I i have a lot of good people in my life
so I can’t really complain that’s pretty

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invaluable to have people that believe
in you and enough to support you even

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though they don’t get it i always say
it’s to me it’s not a bell

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it’s not necessarily about money it’s
it’s not about wanting it all it’s about

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wanting to do it all

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absolutely i mean I money obviously
plays a factor

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I mean it’s already lost money man
dreams especially dreams

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yeah money is definitely important and
that plays a huge role and in my

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decision-making process but it’s what
good is money if you just collect money

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and it sits there right i mean money is
it means to an end and for me my my end

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is you know I want to be able to pursue
these these passions that are not

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necessarily may or may not be
money-making ventures but they’re just

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things that I’m interested in I want to
do that pre-dated they give value to me

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or others and you know you have to have
money to do that so it’s it it’s almost

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like I’m trying to put systems in place
to make money but in order to gain time

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it’s not really the money that I’m
trying to collect so much as its

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financial independence so that I have
kind of Independence as far as my

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scheduling and my time goes because the
time is the one resource that we do not

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have an infinite

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resource of you know I mean you can
always find a way to get more money you

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can always find a way to get more of
anything but time once times gone it’s

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gone so it’s all about getting to that
point where basically i can do what i

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want i mean in a way it’s kind of
selfish but it’s it’s not just me it’s I

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want to spend more time with my family I
want to spend more time with my music

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and I wanted you know so it all kinda it
centers around money but money is not

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the purpose for sure

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well you know I mean we both know the
tech industry is not great two people

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over the age of 50 right so so it does
make sense especially for you being in

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the tech field to to figure out
something for the next level

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even if it’s not today or tomorrow down
the road you need you’re gonna need

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something especially because I I got
really lucky when I was young in high

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school because i was going to location
of vocational school I managed to get

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kind of an internship big through the
company that I still work for today and

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impress the right person and got hired
on i have so i was i was lucky then but

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the position that puts me and now is I
have no degree i have no certifications

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I have nothing to really fall back on
other than I have 13 years of experience

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in the field and I have worked my way up
a little bit in the corporate ladder but

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you know it’s one of those things where
do I go from here

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do I want to kisses I’m sysadmin now and
it doesn’t really go much beyond that

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unless I want to get into management or
I want to specialize in something like I

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want to be a database administrator or
storage administrator and so i decided

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that i didn’t really that doesn’t really
float my boat anymore especially you

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know going down that road any further so
I’m trying to put all these other pieces

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in place so that i can do what really
what I’m passionate about and still pay

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the bills so when you got started DJing
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passionate DJ dot-com what steps did you
take to get started with both of them

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well djing itself I’ve been doing for
close to 10 years

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that you know it’s a little different
time frame than the blog which is much

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more recent but the djing thing kinda
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you know like I said I i had already had
a lot of musical influence i’ve always

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loved music and you know I i went from
playing piano to what if i can like

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write my own songs so then i would try
to like I took a couple of small

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composing classes from my piano teacher
she was like an extra like a Saturday

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thing started learning more about that
improvisation and stuff and then I you

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know 10 15 years ago I came across i
think it was probably an early early

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version of fruity loops or something for
those who aren’t aware that’s audio

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production software and started making
beats and then started making melodies

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and started going well I can make entire
songs you know right in the box so i

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started doing that and then I started
going well how can i how can I perform

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out somewhere and and share music with
people so then it led to be seeking that

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out which led to two djing led to me
getting involved with the scene and

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trying to network and which leads to
marketing and which leads to the blog so

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it’s it was kind of a long progression
over time and I never really had a

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specific plan of attack for djing other
than I’ve got stuff inside me that I

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need to get out and I want to share it
with people and that was a way for me to

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kind of bring a performance are into the
whole thing as far as starting the blog

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there’s a lot of frustrating things
about being a DJ which i’m sure you’re

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fully aware of i mean as far as dealing
with other DJs and dealing with crowds

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and and you know with the the state that
the music industry’s and now there is a

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lot of freedom for people like me to
explore things like this which means

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that it’s you know the barriers of entry
have been lowered so what used to cost a

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lot of money to get involved with and
used to require a lot of investment and

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time and connections and things to do is
now kind of a free-for-all

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I mean you can you can get on online and
download a zillion songs and some free

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software and call yourself a DJ and
that’s all it takes

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which is fine you know I don’t really
care what people do with their free time

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that’s how all of us pretty much got
started in some form or another but what

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gets frustrating is is when people they
tend to devalue the craft or at least

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value what it is that you do or you at
least you feel that way because you’re

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like hey I put a lot of time into this
this is like I’m passionate about this I

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and I put a lot more thought into this
than just hitting shuffle on my ipod so

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and i know that there are other people
out there that feel the same way and i

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want to connect with them so that was
kind of where the the the blog started

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you know is on one hand it was this
experiment you know can I build traffic

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can I build a fan base but on the other
hand it’s like I actually just want to

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find these people who are like me who
think that there’s there’s more to being

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a DJ then how good you can blend between
two songs of your choice you know so i

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started doing a lot of research both in
the blogging aspect you know how do I

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become a better writer how do i write
get headlines how do i do this and that

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luckily I had a lot of the technical
background already already knew how to

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setup a website and all that kind of
stuff so that stuff was easy for me but

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the hard part is giving yourself
permission to do it in a way it’s kind

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of hard to explain but you have to give
yourself permission to succeed and

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that’s something that people don’t
really consider I don’t think but is it

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becomes very real when you decide you
want to do something it you almost feel

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like Who am I to put my thoughts out
there for the world to see or Who am I

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to be standing in front of a crowd you
know playing to this 510 hundred

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thousand ten thousand people however
many it is you know what what gives me

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the right to do that and you have to get
over that I mean you don’t want to be an

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egomaniac but at the same time you know
it’s okay to share your brand of

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knowledge with the world and if people
resonate

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with that and you’re providing value to
them then more power to you

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so getting over that initial hurdle is a
kind of a big deal and its overall it

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really comes down to be giving a crap
about what what you’re writing about and

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what you’re trying to share with people
and it’s kind of funny because there’s a

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lot of parallels between djing blogging
starting a business and these are all

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things that I’m interested and each of
those you want to ask what problems are

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people having that you’re trying to
solve

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how can I help them with that you know
as far as the blog goes it’s like how

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can I treat them like a friend and not
just guessed number thirty-nine thousand

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264 I mean it’s you know I want to
actually interact with people and feel

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like I’m a friend to them and I wanted
to gain friends out of it so that was

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really what what got me started and gave
me the push that I needed was you know i

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feel like i have stuff on my chest to
get out and I feel like somebody else

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will resonate with it and if not fine
but it’s it’s hard to bare your soul to

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an audience and so you you have to
really develop a thick skin quickly and

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that was something that I that was
really thrown in my face with that that

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viral post that actually the beat
matching post that introduced us because

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there were a lot of people that you know
right now that post has I don’t know

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it’s coming up on 200 comments or
something like that

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there-there was just as many actually
they’re the most comments are well this

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article spot on this is great thank you
for writing this I’ve been saying this

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for years . about but then there’s like
that ten or twenty percent that are like

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well if you don’t do such-and-such
you’re not a real DJ or you know get off

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your high horse and blah blah blah and
it’s one of those things like people

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obviously didn’t either didn’t read the
article to completion or I didn’t

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explain something properly and probably
the truth always something and something

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in the middle

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yeah well there’s always gonna be haters

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yeah it is and you you have to really be
prepared for that because you know I’m

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kind of some kind of branding myself as
this nice guy like approachable like

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anybody can talk to me because that’s
just how I am I can attest to that

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well thank you and so I I was like okay
I know that this is a strength of mine

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i’m going to use that I’m gonna be you
know they’re there are other DJ blogs

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out there but I want people to feel like
they can hit me up on skype like you are

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or you know they can join my email list
and reply to something and i’ll actually

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reply back and that sort of thing and
you know i i’m not an egomaniac I’m not

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judgmental it I’m feel like I’m really
easy to talk to and so to get all that

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negative attention suddenly even if it
was the the minority of all the comments

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on their it still makes you cry it just
makes you feel so bad and you have to

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get over that because it’s gonna happen
or you’re probably not making moves you

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know what I mean right up what would you
say that you did to overcome those I

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mean because i would say those are
pretty big roblox I mean I know for me

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personally you know being a DJ
competition and getting booed only once

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want one time but the crowd did not get
what I was coming from but the DJ who

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was operating the whole show for the
competition was like you know screw them

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they don’t know what they’re talking
about what you’re doing is is really

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good keep doing it because you’re
educating them

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yeah it you’re going to have criticism
you’re going to have negativity you’re

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going to feel vulnerable and the only
way that you’re going to get past that

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is it sounds really cliche but is to
just do it i mean you have to

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occasionally have to throw yourself
under the bus a little bit make yourself

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vulnerable because it all comes down to
doing a little bit at a time and you

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have to make yourself uncomfortable or
else your there’s no point because if

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you’re if you’re comfortable then you’re
not changing anything you’re not putting

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yourself out there you’re not making a
difference and you know they’re there

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would be no point in pursuing something
that every single person in the world

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agreed with

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there would be no purpose for what
you’re doing so you have to realize that

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you’re you’re going to run into that
kind of thing and and just grin and bear

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it I mean there’s I haven’t found a
better way to deal with it personally

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it’s harder for me to deal with
criticism and negativity from people i

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know then randoms but it still affects
you

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yeah that the only the only advice I
have is just keep doing it little bit at

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a time I mean baby steps you know my
most interaction that I’ve ever gotten

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on the blog so far is that post that
turned out to be kind of controversial

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and I was not intentionally doing that
because I didn’t go out there and make

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some like sensationalist headlines and
called somebody an idiot or anything

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like that I just put my thoughts on
paper and some people are gonna think

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that you’re Satan for doing that and
just accept it it’s fine so is there any

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parts of your dream your dreams that i
haven’t quite worked out well i’m still

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trying so i’ll let you know obviously I
haven’t been able to quit my job yet but

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i’m still very early on this this
journey I mean I i decided about a year

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ago that i wanted to quit my job and
work for myself I’m not there yet but

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I’ve made so much progress that I I
never would have thought that I wouldn’t

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be as far as I am I mean I’ve got you
know a good readership I’ve got a

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mailing list with several hundred people
on it

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I’ve got people who are writing me every
day thanking me for you know the writing

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that I do and the podcast and everything
so I’m finding those people that are

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resonating with my message and at the
same time you know i’m working on these

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these other business ideas that are
moving slower than i would like but you

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know I’m seeing results so it’s it’s one
of those things well maybe I’ll start

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this business and just dip my toes and
then it makes me a hundred bucks and I’m

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like okay proof-of-concept i can’t i
can’t quit my job but I’ve proven that

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this is going somewhere and so I’m
that’s basically where I am with all of

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my projects right now is I’m I’m proving
to myself that this is okay this is

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where I need to go so yeah that’s a i’ll
let you know if I have any major

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failures I don’t feel like I have so far
but I’ve also traded very lightly as far

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as making investments in things growing
too big too fast

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this whole time I’ve approached it as if
it’s a marathon not a sprint

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via if I could give some advice it is
important to stop and smell the roses

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why you’re doing all this I mean I’m
it’s really easy to get you know for me

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I’m working a full-time job and I i do
work from home now I telecommute so that

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helps a lot with that flexibility but
it’s it’s it’s important to not just do

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what you’re passionate about but to be
passionate about what you do you know

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stop and smell the roses I mean don’t
don’t let life pass you by

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while you’re pursuing your dreams
because sometimes sometimes part of the

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dream is is the pursuit

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you know what I mean and if you position
yourself to where you’re you’re working

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on something that you care about

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it’s not going to feel so much like work
even if your schedule is full

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even if you know your we stayed up too
late you’re losing hours of sleep if you

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love what you’re doing it really goes a
long way but you also have to think of

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how that affects other people

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so I’ve had to to really be careful that
I don’t cause problems in my family life

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because i’m always gone are always
locked in a room writing or always you

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know lock locked up behind my DJ booth
or whatever it is there’s only so much

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time in the day so for me it’s it’s a
time management issue and I’m still

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working on that so if i were to say one
thing that’s not that hasn’t worked out

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that has been a problem for me or a
hurdle it’s time management so that’s

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something I’m very much working on you
know getting up a specific time every

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day whether i have something to do or
not and making sure i’m done at a

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certain time of the day so that I can
give my family the attention they

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deserve that sort of thing

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yeah i mean it’s it’s gotta be tough
especially working from

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home you know there’s there’s no problem
there’s no reason to be up

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it’s not only the office where okay I
gotta be here at eight o’clock some

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going to have a problem if i’m not there
a clock

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yeah telecommuting has been a nice
transition because it’s it’s helped

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introduce me to that time management
problem without like completely messing

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everything out because I’m just kind of
dipping my toes and it’s like okay I’m

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not running my own business I don’t have
all that responsibility but i’m learning

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what I need to do to manage my schedule
how to communicate with Stacey about

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what I’m gonna be doing that day and
it’s it’s been an adjustment at least as

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much for her as it’s been for me because
it’s it’s hard for her to realize that

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you know when i’m working you need to
pretend I’m not here or I’m you know

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they they say that if you get
interrupted it takes you like 15 or 20

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minutes to get your train of thought
back to where you were and everything

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that I do requires that kind of creative
energy you know the djing the music

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production writing all that stuff that
I’m interested in

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if i get interrupted it it’s like all
the the thoughts just fly out of my head

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and I have to start over and so it’s
yeah finding those tactful ways to you

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know say that hey I need someone
interrupted time all that kind of stuff

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the other thing is having a good support
network is good and you you all you have

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to kind of pursue that on your own as
far as surrounding yourself with

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like-minded driven people so like a have
a couple of buddies that we haven’t for

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a little while now but we every week
once a week we are meeting up just a

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local bar grill to talk about our
various entrepreneurial pursuits and

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kinda like a mastermind meeting you know
we just get together and talk even

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though all of our projects were
completely unrelated getting that

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outside perspective that being said you
really can only count on yourself as far

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as getting things done

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so while it’s important to have that
support network i don’t think that you

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should rely on anyone else if you’re
trying to get things done

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and I I don’t mean to say that you can’t
rely on anybody but don’t depend be

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dependent on somebody else if it’s
holding you up you know it’s you have to

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learn how to say no or learn how to move
things along without causing problems in

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your relationships with people

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yeah definitely I mean I one of things
always held me back was I needed an

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artist to convey don’t think that i was
looking to to do and then i found that

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in Matt fortunately arm and he’s been
very very good for me and and i think

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i’ve been very good for him getting you
know moving are our passions forward

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anyway so do you have any dreams for the
future

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I mean you’ve dabbled in that here but
anything that you’re willing to share

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for the future

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sure well obviously quitting the day job
is the most immediate thing that I’m

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trying to do that’s kind of like a is
this it’s an immediate milestone that’s

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within reach

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so that’s that’s kind of my my focus now
just because it’s it’s something that I

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can digest and and I feel that I can do
i also would like to do something in the

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autism space and i’m not quite sure of
what that is yet but the reason is you

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know I guess that early at the beginning
I’m the oldest of six siblings and two

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of them are on the autism spectrum my
younger brother Benjamin is nasty has

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asperger syndrome and then mice sister
was the youngest the only girl she’s got

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called pdd-nos which is also autism
spectrum it stands for pervasive you see

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pervasive developmental disorder not
otherwise specified

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so it’s essentially it’s an umbrella
term it’s it’s a catch-all autism covers

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00:30:51,50 –> 00:30:56,930
so many different things but she’s she’s
very low functioning she’s she’s 12

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years old but she’s more like dealing
with the 23 year old but she is also a

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huge inspiration to me and just I just
left my sister to death and I said it’s

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really kind of it’s made me want to do
something I don’t know if that’s you

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00:31:14,210 –> 00:31:15,200
know philanthropic

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00:31:15,200 –> 00:31:19,220
or even if it’s just starting and
occasionally vent to where I can donate

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00:31:19,220 –> 00:31:21,919
to you know some society

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00:31:21,919 –> 00:31:25,159
I’m figured out where i’m going with
that yet but something in the autism

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00:31:25,159 –> 00:31:28,399
space would be something I’d like to do
I’d like to travel more

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00:31:29,29 –> 00:31:33,679
that’s something that I’ve not really
been able to do and is kind of part of

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00:31:33,679 –> 00:31:39,80
why i’m doing all this as to have that
the freedom to to go and and have

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adventures and basically i’d like to be
a little more prolific and successful as

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far as my DJing and producing goes so
that I can share my craft with more

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people outside of you know my own town
I’ll probably always want to be building

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businesses or attempting to because i
enjoy the climb and I think if i can get

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to the point where I’m financially
independent then that’s only gonna drive

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00:32:05,59 –> 00:32:10,700
me to want to do that more because I i
enjoy building things building systems

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00:32:10,700 –> 00:32:14,929
anything that comes as my uniform I
systems administrator background but I

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00:32:14,929 –> 00:32:19,100
like putting all the pieces in place and
in that sort of thing and finally just a

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00:32:19,100 –> 00:32:23,658
building kind of a legacy you know
making making my mark on the world even

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00:32:23,659 –> 00:32:28,250
if it’s only to a handful of people i
think that’s more important to me than

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how much money I make or where I live or
that sort of thing you know I want to

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make an impact on people’s lives

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00:32:37,159 –> 00:32:41,929
well you know if you need help with the
autism stuff let me know I’m going to

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00:32:41,929 –> 00:32:45,679
help you out in any way i can I mean I
know we’re not right like next to each

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00:32:45,679 –> 00:32:49,519
other but we share a state in between us

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00:32:49,519 –> 00:32:52,880
yeah I mean that you know the world’s
getting smaller every day

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00:32:52,880 –> 00:32:57,19
it definitely is so is there any last
thoughts you’d like to share with our

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00:32:57,19 –> 00:32:58,669
audience

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00:32:58,669 –> 00:33:03,860
yeah sure I actually have a quote if you
don’t mind if that’s not too cheesy but

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its success is typically about doing
more of the things that you know you

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00:33:08,929 –> 00:33:13,309
should do rather than learning the
secrets you don’t know so I’ll read that

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00:33:13,309 –> 00:33:17,450
again success is typically about doing
more of the things you know you should

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00:33:17,450 –> 00:33:23,59
do rather than learning the secrets you
don’t know I and the reason i bring that

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00:33:23,59 –> 00:33:28,440
up is because I i think that people feel
like they’re these massive

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00:33:28,440 –> 00:33:33,750
barriers in front of them and their
dreams and i think that the biggest

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00:33:33,750 –> 00:33:38,910
barrier is it is ourselves I mean giving
giving ourselves permission to try

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00:33:38,910 –> 00:33:44,970
things being willing to take small risks
or even larger wrists and I’m you know

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00:33:44,970 –> 00:33:48,510
it’s it’s not some that there’s some big
secret to success

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00:33:48,510 –> 00:33:55,350
it’s that you need to actually take baby
steps and I came to realize this when

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00:33:55,350 –> 00:33:59,459
you know I had thought about trying to
to start businesses and start writing

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00:33:59,460 –> 00:34:04,440
and start doing this and that and I
would just think about it and then a few

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00:34:04,440 –> 00:34:07,170
months later I would think about it and
then a few months later I would think

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00:34:07,170 –> 00:34:12,630
about it and the next thing you know
it’s been 5 10 years and I’m like how

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00:34:12,630 –> 00:34:18,270
far along would I be if I had taken this
baby step 10 years ago and you come to

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00:34:18,270 –> 00:34:23,250
realize that it’s not really that there
are these big hurdles in the way it’s

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00:34:23,250 –> 00:34:26,370
just that there are a lot of them and
you need to go get out there and start

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00:34:26,370 –> 00:34:30,600
making mistakes and figuring it out and
the sooner you do that the sooner you’re

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00:34:30,600 –> 00:34:34,350
going to be well on your way in this
modern age we have more opportunities

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00:34:34,350 –> 00:34:39,870
than we’ve ever had to advance ourselves
to pursue our dreams to follow our

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00:34:39,870 –> 00:34:45,690
passions and it seems like even so we
have at least as many if not more

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00:34:45,690 –> 00:34:51,330
unhappy people and uninspired people
then have we’ve ever had and maybe

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00:34:51,330 –> 00:34:55,739
that’s just kind of a social effect of
you know us were able to see everybody’s

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00:34:55,739 –> 00:34:59,669
thoughts all day long on you know
whatever screen happens to be in front

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00:34:59,670 –> 00:35:08,130
of us but it seems to me that there’s no
reason outside of just complacency to be

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00:35:08,130 –> 00:35:12,450
an unhappy drone yeah I mean there’s
some you are absolutely right

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00:35:12,450 –> 00:35:16,710
there’s plenty of opportunity for people
to to find themselves and find something

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00:35:16,710 –> 00:35:21,870
out there that they can be passionate
about and be happy with and can

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00:35:21,870 –> 00:35:27,930
hopefully make money with absolutely and
it’s kind of what you know again it

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00:35:27,930 –> 00:35:33,930
takes money to make dreams that it does
and in I honestly i would love you know

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00:35:33,930 –> 00:35:37,770
since I’m i feel like i’m pretty much at
the start of my journey as far as that

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00:35:37,770 –> 00:35:38,520
goes

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00:35:38,520 –> 00:35:42,90
and i would love to maybe follow up with
you

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00:35:42,90 –> 00:35:46,560
in six months or a year and give you an
update if you’d be willing to have me

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00:35:46,560 –> 00:35:49,799
back on i would love to have you all for
follow-up so I think that’s going to

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00:35:49,800 –> 00:35:54,360
turn into a thing with most of my guests
how ya back on

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00:35:54,360 –> 00:35:58,200
awesome yeah I would love to be part of
the man well thank you very much David I

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appreciate you coming on and everybody
feel passionate DJ dot-com go check it

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00:36:03,780 –> 00:36:08,220
out if you’re into djing or even if you
just know a little bit about the eating

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00:36:08,220 –> 00:36:15,359
and want to learn more and NPS a lot of
the the messages that I put out there on

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00:36:15,360 –> 00:36:19,830
the site have a lot to do with personal
development and you could probably pull

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00:36:19,830 –> 00:36:23,69
a lot from that even if you’re not a DJ
so well you’re very inspirational

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00:36:23,70 –> 00:36:24,450
person’s home

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00:36:24,450 –> 00:36:28,799
yes that is very true from the writing
because I vibration i personally read it

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00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:32,130
all right well you have yourself a
wonderful day David thanks so much to

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00:36:32,130 –> 00:36:36,330
appreciate being on thank you very much
take care thank you for joining us for

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00:36:36,330 –> 00:36:39,600
this episode of the dreamers podcast

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