Year Three: The Rising — Celebrating Two Transformative Years (Ep 109)
Celebrating two years of Dreamed It Then Real Lifed It (109 episodes since launching 11/11/2024), I'm reflecting on how consistency built confidence, eased old insecurities about public speaking and even hearing my own voice, and created a living archive of growth, conversations, and relationships. I share surprising industry stats: only 7.5% of podcasts reach 100 episodes, the average show stops around 21 episodes, and about 90% quit before episode three—while podcast listening and market size continue rapidly growing. She discusses balancing solo and guest episodes, how guests and the new “community features” (starting with The Flower Fest) have expanded her perspective, and why she keeps the show sponsor-free as free value in her business “value ladder.” Looking ahead, she outlines year three’s theme—“The Rising”—alongside her ongoing 100-day Transformation Story and plans for more video, community storytelling, and a future mobile Airstream studio.
From the Episode:
- " Two years ago, I started a podcast called "Dreamed It Then Real Lifed It," and here I am, 109 episodes later, realizing that the podcast itself has become one of the greatest examples of what this whole thing is about. Guys, we're celebrating two years of real life'ing it."
- " And the crazy thing is, guys, I'm not naturally a public speaker or someone who feels comfortable or confident speaking in front of other people... But it's embodied capacity, you know? And that was something that I earned. That was something that came after showing up consistently 109 times. Now it feels natural, and that probably surprises me the most because there was definitely a time when nothing about this felt natural at all. Like, not even a little bit."
- " If we were to talk about what 109 episodes have taught me, what two years of Dreamed It Then Real Lifed It podcast has taught me, it's that confidence is built through repetition."
- " I wasn't intending on going and having this be highly edited and highly polished and wanting it to sound, quote-unquote, "perfect." I just wanted to come in here and record. And if I stumbled or fumbled on a word, hey, so be it. If I act like a total nerd or weirdo, hey, so be it. Like, embrace it. You know? That's me."
- " Part of being an entrepreneur is getting really good at hearing no or hearing nothing. If you let that stop you, well, I don't know how good of an entrepreneur you're gonna be. So just throwing that out there for whoever needs to hear it."
- " What I know after 109 episodes is that you can have a dream, and you can have a vision, and you can imagine all the incredible things that might come from it, and then there is the part where you actually have to live it. You have to show up, and you have to do the work, and you have to keep going when things look different from what you imagined. And somewhere along the way, you realize that the experience of bringing the dream to life is changing you too."
- " It's what happens when you stop preparing to become someone and you begin living as that person. It's like, what does it look like to rise? We about to find out. Buckle up."
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