300 Episodes Celebration! The Biggest Lessons From 6 Years of Podcasting

Sometime I can't believe Billionaires will go on a podcast with a shirtless guy on the cover...



We
are celebrating Episode 300!



When I first started this podcast, I said I was going to make 300 episodes. Now, it has been about six years, and I can hardly believe that it's finally here!



What I have Learned From 300 Episodes



My
identity and the identity of this podcast have been intertwined when I first
came up with the name, The Art of Adventure. It started with the blog. I
talked about it with people and they started associating me as "Mr.
Adventure". That forced me to become more adventurous.



This
show has evolved and progressed. Back when I started, I was trying to learn how
to travel the world, live abroad, and earn a living- basically live a life
of adventure. The podcast started with me, interviewing my friends, and
eventually developed a cohesive model and created a well-defined show with
guests who talk about adventure, metaphysics, peak performance, and business.



In
the beginning, I did not really know how to interview, how to produce a
podcast, and how to find the right guest. I had to learn as I went. If
you track the changes in the world and the changes in my life, and you overlay
that on the podcast, there are all these different phases of life that I
experienced while we had this continuity of a podcast through 300 episodes. You
might be able to see where I'm coming from as the host, in what questions I ask,
and the kind of guests I'm bringing on the show.



What
is cool is that I don't really know what I'd get from these podcasts. I have
taken so many ideas from guests. I am now a business coach, because of the
influence I had from a guest. From a cycling coach, to a podcast coach, I
finally decided on expanding to be a business coach. A guest also suggested
that I turn the ideas I get from the podcast and turn them into a book, which,
eventually became the Superconductors. Right now, I am working on a book with
adventure stories, taking some of the greatest and wildest adventure stories
from the podcast. I have grown my Instagram account from ideas I got from
guests, too. I also learned to ask more and more audacious things and make
"unreasonable requests" in asking for big things.



These
guests have brought so many ideas that I have incorporated in my life, travels,
business, family, and relationships. It has been such an amazing access point,
as the host. I hope it has been as well, for you, because when you apply these
ideas, such big and dramatic things happen for you and your life. The really
important part is that you don't have to get it perfect, but you do need
to go and try it. You can learn these concepts, but until you go and
try using them, you don't really know the knowledge, or understand how
everything works.



Right
until you go through the experience, you can't ever know what it's like until
you do it.



Now
I can say, I'm a podcaster and I’m not planning on stopping. This is one of the
best parts of my business and of my life. I am motivated to continue improving
the show and getting these guests on. I want to take this a step further and
look at what kind of collaborations and win-win scenarios I can create with my
guests. Most of my guests have some mission trying to make the world a better
place in their own unique way. If we approach with the idea of how can we
co-create together and look at creating win-win scenarios, then I think that is