496 - How To Keep Publishing When Life Gets Full

Cliff Ravenscraft (0:00): Well, I did it. I missed an episode. Last week was the first time since I made a commitment to return the podcast answer man on a weekly basis that I failed to release an episode on Friday morning at 12:01AM. And you know what? The world is still spinning.

Cliff Ravenscraft (0:28): I could give you all sorts of details about my travel schedule, how I was in California for social media marketing world last week and spoke to an audience of around 400 people, connected deeply with a 116 people and even though I brought all of my podcast gear with me, when it came time to record this episode in my hotel room on Thursday evening so that it would come out at 12:01 a. M. Friday morning, I simply didn't have it within me. I was so spent socially and I'm an introvert so I find myself getting recharged when I spend time alone and all throughout the event I was up early in the morning and consistently with people throughout the day and had an incredible time. But when it came time to record that episode, I'm like, nope.

Cliff Ravenscraft (1:33): And then the day after the conference on Friday when I might have done this maybe just a couple hours late, no. I went to Disneyland with some folks from my mastermind group. It was an incredible day. It was the right way to spend the day. And as I went to bed in my hotel room on Thursday evening, I asked myself, Am I okay with missing a week?

Cliff Ravenscraft (1:59): And the answer is yes. I didn't feel any guilt around it. I didn't feel any shame about it. I wasn't worried about how you would perceive me if I failed to show up one week after making a commitment. I will be here every single week without fail.

Cliff Ravenscraft (2:19): You know, and by the way, my travel schedule is not over. So I got back from social media marketing world late Saturday night. I technically early Sunday morning. Then I worked Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of this week and today is Thursday. Got up early this morning, had our normal routine, Stephanie and I.

Cliff Ravenscraft (2:47): And then Thursday evening is when I typically would record podcast Answer Man. But I'm not at home. I'm not in my studio. I'm in Bowling Green, Kentucky. I'm in an Airbnb and I wanna paint the picture for you.

Cliff Ravenscraft (3:05): I have my MacBook Pro 16 inch here on a bed at the edge of a bed. It's connected with a USB c cable that goes to my Zoom PodTrak P four Next little audio interface device. I do have my Sony headphones, my where are they? MDR seventy five zero six headphones with the beautiful lush replacement ear pads that I talked about in my talk at Social Media Marketing World. And then for the microphone, I have a ton of mics that I've purchased to test out for portability.

Cliff Ravenscraft (3:47): I'm actually using the Rode PodMic. Just the $99 Rode PodMic. I do have the foam windscreen over top of it and it's it's a great sounding microphone. It's a little bit on the heavy side but you know what? It's what I threw in the bag.

Cliff Ravenscraft (4:05): Out of all of the options that I have and I have many, I chose this setup and it's of course connected with an XLR cable. Now I brought my power bank, the USB power bank so that I could record my audio or so that it could power my PodTrak p four next off of that. However, I didn't need it because I'm actually using the power from the USB bus port of my MacBook Pro to power the actual Zoom Podrack p four Next audio interface device. Now I am not recording into the PodTrak p four next. It is sitting here next to me.

Cliff Ravenscraft (4:49): I could hit the record button and I could record as a backup to the SD card. But I'm doing now what I have done for many weeks now and that is I'm recording directly into Adobe Audition. So everything that I'm speaking is going straight into the software which will capture everything in high quality and that's what I'm doing right now. But this is all just setting at the edge of the bed in this master bedroom in the Airbnb that we're staying in in Bowling Green, Kentucky. I am sitting at the edge of a bet of the bed leaning over into the microphone that's sitting precariously on the bed.

Cliff Ravenscraft (5:38): It it it's it's an odd looking setup and I'm just sitting on a chair from the corner that I pulled up to the bed and and it's it is not pristine recording environment material. It it it just is what it is. It's it's as portable as it gets. So last week I was in Anaheim, California and again I want you to know that for me there's something about if this show is going to be produced or published on Friday, even though I sometimes will have this idea, you know what, let's put Podcast Answer Man recording on Tuesday in the schedule. Even though I do that, I've never recorded a Podcast Answer Man on Tuesday.

Cliff Ravenscraft (6:26): It always gets moved to Wednesday. And even though it's always moved to Wednesday, I never record on Wednesday. It always gets moved to Thursday morning. Now I will say that sometimes on Thursday morning I record Podcast Answer Man. However, more often than not, it gets recorded on Thursday night.

Cliff Ravenscraft (6:50): Usually somewhere between four to six hours before it's scheduled to be released. So Thursday is my recording day. And last Thursday, as I said, I was in Anaheim, California doing what was most important last week. And I missed the episode. This week, on Thursday, right here, right now, I brought my gear.

Cliff Ravenscraft (7:18): Thankfully, I have not depleted my social batteries. I am recharged, energized, and here I am just hours before this episode is scheduled to be released. And I am here showing up for you. And we're gonna talk about what's what goes through my mind as I think about all this. I've been thinking about what I wanna share about the importance of consistency and what to do when you miss a week and how I'm thinking about that, how I'm processing that.

Cliff Ravenscraft (7:57): And it's not just this week, next week. So basically we will get back on Saturday and I will be at work on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. And next Thursday, myself, my wife, and my daughter by the way, did I say why I'm in Bowling Green? I'm in Bowling Green right now because my daughter graduates from college tomorrow. She's She's gonna be a graduate of Western Kentucky University and that's why we're here in Bowling Green.

Cliff Ravenscraft (8:31): Next week, the three of us, my daughter McKenna and my wife and myself, we will be boarding a plane next Thursday to go to Fort Worth, Texas. We are going to be shopping for apartments for McKenna because she is going to go to law school at Texas A and M. And I'm not sure what I'm going to do next week as it relates to the show. I could record on Monday, I could record on Tuesday, I could record on Wednesday. All of those are very real options.

Cliff Ravenscraft (9:07): And also I might be packing up all of this gear to record from Fort Worth, Texas next week. It it's all to be determined. But one thing that I do know is that outside of some very outside of the ordinary circumstances, I will be here every Friday at 12:01AM. That is my commitment. But even though I'm committed to something, one thing that I'm not committed to is perfection.

Cliff Ravenscraft (9:44): So it is it is not important to me that I am perfect in keeping my streak. It is important to me to understand the reason why I've committed to being here every week and it's not to impress you. It's not to show you how disciplined I am. It's not any of those things. It is I am here because I believe in the power of consistently showing up to be available as a source of entertainment, education, encouragement, and inspiration in your life on a regular ongoing basis.

Cliff Ravenscraft (10:22): And you know what? I have people in my life that are committed to certain relationships with me, we have routines that we do together. And even though we are committed to one another, whether that be friends, mastermind group members or even family, sometimes very outside of the ordinary situations come up where we miss a committed meeting, a time of gathering. It happens. The question is is what do you do when it happens?

Cliff Ravenscraft (10:58): Hopefully it doesn't break the commitment. The commitment was still there last week but there was also a little bit in my mind that says, you know what, I wanna commit to showing up when I feel like I can be a source of encouragement. When I feel like I could be a source of entertainment and education and inspiration. And showing up last week after three full days at this conference, and actually a whole travel day before that and going even before the the the first day of the conference, there was a influencer dinner and it was late into the evening. So yeah, I there's something about the standard for which I will want to show up.

Cliff Ravenscraft (11:50): Now, am I meeting that standard in my mind right now? Just barely. I am just barely meeting the standard of what I would hold myself to with this episode. I do have an idea of what I wanna share with you. I think I have an important message.

Cliff Ravenscraft (12:09): I think there's a message of grace that's involved in missing a week. And just because you miss one week doesn't mean that you have to say, well, it's all or nothing. I guess it kinda just back to whenever I feel like it again. And maybe my schedule if you if you go on a podcasting schedule that's I will record an episode whenever I have the ample amount of margin and time to record and and my schedule's not crazy. Well, that were the case, there would be no episodes in May for Podcast Answer Man.

Cliff Ravenscraft (12:43): Thankfully, as far as I'm concerned, there will have only been one episode in May, Maybe only one episode in 2026 that I will miss and it was last week's and I feel really good about the reason why I consciously made the decision to not record. I didn't have the energy level necessary because I poured all of that energy into something that was a much higher priority and these circumstances were so far out of the norm that I gave myself grace. Now am I in my normal circumstances? No, I'm not. But I have the energy to come here with a pre thought out idea of what I want to say.

Cliff Ravenscraft (13:29): And so even though I broke the streak, I did not break the commitment. So don't fear missing a single week if you make a commitment to showing up every week for your community. Just don't let it turn into some sort of vague drift where it's hit or miss from that time forward. Just make a commitment to return, to come back. The other thing that I wanna say is that your podcasting schedule needs to be able to survive your actual life of what's going on.

Cliff Ravenscraft (14:08): Things happen and all sorts of unexpected things. Sometimes all sorts of undesirable things. All sorts of inconvenient things will show up in your life, in your schedule, in your travel. All of these things and much of it can be prepared around. So much can be navigated.

Cliff Ravenscraft (14:36): Occasionally, something will happen and you'll intentionally, consciously make the decision to not show up that week. But it you're but you're going to have to find a way that if I'm committed to this, I'm going to show up even when life throws me twists and turns. As much as I have it within me to do it, I'm going to show up. And like I said last week, I did not have it within me and I felt okay about that. This week, not convenient but I have it within me.

Cliff Ravenscraft (15:14): I have it fully within me and that's why I'm here. So traveling is something that is very unique for the podcaster and this really exposes whether or not the system of your content creation is sustainable. Now, there are a couple of things that you can do if you tend to find yourself traveling either expectedly or unexpectedly. If you're traveling expectedly, you could prepare yourself ahead of time. You could record ahead of time.

Cliff Ravenscraft (15:54): You could batch process several episodes in a row before you leave. You could have them edited, scheduled weeks in advance. I know some people who have episodes already recorded for their weekly podcasts months in advance. That's not me. I'm a fly by the seat of my pants kinda guy when it comes to content content creation.

Cliff Ravenscraft (16:19): I love the art of winging it. I love the art of showing up in the moment and sharing what's fully present with me right here, right now. There's an energy about that for which I am attracted. So for me, recording an episode By the way, I have batch processed before and whenever I've batch processed, here's been my experience. I find myself scheduling all of those episodes in advance and then I have something that shows up in my life, a teachable moment, a moment of personal growth, a major breakthrough or some sort of really exciting thing that I want to celebrate or some significant major defeat that just provided a life lesson.

Cliff Ravenscraft (17:10): And to think that I have to wait until three or four weeks from now to tell this story, that kills me. And and I'm like, ugh. But there's already episodes scheduled and and ugh. I don't wanna do that. So I have always preferred myself, and this is not my recommendation for you, but this is just this is a description of my own podcast production workflow.

Cliff Ravenscraft (17:38): It's not a prescription for yours. But anyway, you could potentially if you know, if if you're expecting to travel, record ahead of time. Now if you are not that type of person or if you're unexpectedly going to be traveling at the last minute, it might be a good idea to get some portable gear. Now your portable gear does not have to be as as complex as what I have here. Although mine is not very complex at all.

Cliff Ravenscraft (18:14): Like I said, a $99 Rode mic. What is it called? The Rode mic. What it Gosh, what is it? Is it called the Rode mic?

Cliff Ravenscraft (18:23): Anyway, PodMic. That's it. Rode PodMic. The $99 version. The XLR only version.

Cliff Ravenscraft (18:31): They make a $199 version that is USB and XLR And technically speaking, if I had that device, I could just plug a USB cable into this and plug it in via USB to my computer and I could record straight into Adobe Audition. And so technically speaking, that would be all I need. Now I do have a little mobile tabletop mic stand that I have the mic sitting on. So you would want a mic stand, your dynamic microphone of choice. And if you wanted to, you could go straight USB into your computer.

Cliff Ravenscraft (19:07): Myself, like I said, I have the Zoom PodTrak P4 next. I've got my nice headphones if I wanted to. I could play audio clips. I could do all the stuff that I would want to do and I can do it portably and it all fits into a backpack very easily. So if you are going to travel either last minute you it was unexpected or you're preparing to travel, I would encourage you to have a portable recording set of gear so that you can go and record from your hotel room.

Cliff Ravenscraft (19:36): Now I also have in my backpack do I have can I reach it real easily? I have some other gear. Now if I didn't have all of this, you know, dynamic microphone and the PodTrak p four next, another thing that I carry in my laptop in this little case here is the little lapel mic from Tascam. It's called the d r 10 l Pro. DR hyphen 10 l Pro.

Cliff Ravenscraft (20:08): I have two of these devices. They are basically lapel mics and they record directly into a digital audio recorder that sits in your pocket or goes on your belt clip. They got an SD card, a micro SD card that goes into it. These are not wireless transmitters or anything like that. They are simply audio recording devices with a lapel mic on it.

Cliff Ravenscraft (20:37): And they record in 32 bit float audio uncompressed WAV format. I love that these devices I have two of them by the way. That's why I'm calling them devices in plural. And they they will record until the into a single uncompressed WAV file for as long as you record until you run out of space on your SD card. So you could record hours upon hours upon hours of a single WAV recording onto this little device that clips onto your belt buckle or sits in your pocket.

Cliff Ravenscraft (21:16): Now what I do when I wanna record something with Stephanie and we're going out for a walk, I will put one of those lapel mics on her. I will put one on me. We will hit record on both of them and then I clap three or four or five times and then I can sync up those two recordings in a multi track recording in post production and export them out and then I have my single audio file that I put into the podcast feed. So if I wanted to, I could record with just one of those. The audio quality is not gonna be nearly as good as this but it is decent enough for an out of the norm occasional.

Cliff Ravenscraft (22:01): I'm traveling, I'm sitting here in my hotel room or I'm out for a walk in this city that's unique to me outside of the norm of where I'm usually at back at home in the studio. There's been all sorts of ways that I have recorded things but having travel gear for you to record portable is something that I would highly encourage you to do if in fact you are committed to showing up on a weekly basis. The next thing I'll share is that not only do you not need to be perfect and and live up to some sort of false perception of your discipline and and that you're you're gonna be that person who never misses. And I now I do have some people in my life that I've known who had gone, you know, thirteen, fifteen years of podcasting with never missing an episode. My dear friend and mentor who passed away just over two and a half years ago, Dan Miller, from the time he started his podcast until he recorded his final episode just weeks before he passed, never missed a weekly episode.

Cliff Ravenscraft (23:20): And I applaud him for that and and was always inspired by his journey. I've known several others who could say very similar things. But it again, perfection isn't required for you to remain consistent and committed. If you miss, just show up again next week. However, the audience doesn't necessarily concern themselves with your perfection, what they are absolutely concerned with if they're the type of audience that has agreed to this kind of non contractual agreement that you're gonna show up and be present in their life, what they most want from you is presence.

Cliff Ravenscraft (24:07): And so for me, fact that I'm like matter of fact, can I share with you what I wrote into Chatchippy T as I after I set everything up here? I said, hey. I need help coming up with a topic for podcast answer man episode number 496. I've attached episodes four ninety five's transcript so you can remember what I covered last time. And I missed last week, which is the first time since committing to being weekly that I've missed an episode.

Cliff Ravenscraft (24:38): So effective this week, I'm back on a on schedule, but I'm not even at home. I'm traveling yet again and will be traveling again next week. So last week, I was at Social Media Marketing World all week. This week, I'm in Bowling Green for my daughter's graduation, and next week, I'll be in Texas helping my daughter sharp for her apartments for law school. And so I just submitted that to ChatGPT and it says, hey, here's some ideas that you could cover.

Cliff Ravenscraft (25:08): And I read through it and I'm like, you know what? This is exactly it. I could I feel like I could speak off the top of my head about these different items here. And I'm just being present with you. And by the way, I'm not reading from the outline, I'm not reading from the transcript, but I I did say, you know what, this is kind of what I'm looking for and my ChatGPT happens to know a lot about me, how I think.

Cliff Ravenscraft (25:36): It it it has practically every journal entry I've ever journaled. Knows so much about how I like to communicate, what I like to communicate, what my values are. And I'm like, yeah, this is is this is it. I'm being present with you and and I created enough of an idea of what I wanted to share and I hit record and I'm just like, I'm going live to drive. I'm not going to edit anything in this episode.

Cliff Ravenscraft (26:05): This episode is absolutely not perfect. But I'm here and I'm fully present. And yes, I missed last week but I'm here today from Bowling Green, Kentucky. There you go. And the next idea is that if you miss an episode, if you want, it can become content.

Cliff Ravenscraft (26:27): You could talk about consistency. You could talk about feelings of guilt and shame when you've had them in the past and how you've learned to give yourself grace and the concept of tabula rasa, starting over with a clean slate. Start today. Get back on that horse again. I mean, could turn your missed episode into content if you sit down and are willing to be authentic and transparent.

Cliff Ravenscraft (26:57): Tell the truth. And the other thing is is that podcasting on a weekly basis has a lot to do with trust. Trusting in your own ability to remain committed to something. It's trusting that when the time comes to record the content or the idea, what you want to communicate will show up. I drove for three and a half hours to Bowling Green, Kentucky today and on this entire journey here, I'm like, what am I gonna talk about?

Cliff Ravenscraft (27:43): And I'm like, I have no idea. Okay, I did not sit there and think about it for three and a half hours. I did drive for three and a half hours but I asked myself this question before I got in the car. I asked Stephanie what she thought, you know, hey, what do you think? And she's like, I have no idea and I was thinking about it for a moment.

Cliff Ravenscraft (27:59): And then I just started listening to stuff in the car. In fact, podcasts all the way down. If you're interested, the podcast that I'd been listening to all the way down here is a podcast that is an old podcast. It is an audio drama podcast and it's called a Scottish podcast. Now, I will tell you, it's a little lewd.

Cliff Ravenscraft (28:21): It has lots of cursing. It's it may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I happen to know the gentleman who produced and wrote the show and put it all together. And I enjoy it especially just because it's all it's got all Scottish accents in it. But anyway, is it let me just see if I can find is it a scottishpodcast.com? Let me let me do a search for a Scottish podcast.

Cliff Ravenscraft (28:53): And let's see here. I think I found it. It's at scottishpodcast.com. Again, lots of cursing, just be warned. But anyway, I listened to that all the way down.

Cliff Ravenscraft (29:07): I I I had finished season one. It was the when I first started listening to this podcast, was when it was first released and I listened to season one back then. And then I I lost touch up with the show. I recently reconnected with Matthew McClain. Oh, goodness.

Cliff Ravenscraft (29:26): Let me get his name correct here. McClain, I think. But let me do a search here. Matthew McClain. Yep.

Cliff Ravenscraft (29:39): Matthew McLean, m c l e a n. And just recently reconnected with him and so that got me to pull out this podcast or resubscribe to it again. It only defined that there's more seasons now. And so on my trip to California or during my trip to California, I listened to season one over again. And on the trip down here, I started season two and it's it's been fun.

Cliff Ravenscraft (30:06): I gotta stop playing with my tabletop mic stand here because I don't know if you heard that but I I know that that that audio will travel. Anyway, so but but I when I sat down here, I'm like, I I just went to ChatGPT and said, I'm looking for a topic. And and it suggested that I could talk about missing an episode. Doesn't mean that you have to break the commitment just because you broke the streak. Course that that matter of fact, says missing once doesn't break the commitment.

Cliff Ravenscraft (30:37): And so for me, I just translated that because you broke the streak doesn't mean that you have to break the commitment. So I'm not even going off this whole thing. It says, your The next one says, your podcast has to survive your actual life. And so that was That's the only line I I read and I'm like, yeah, things that are inconvenient, unexpected, undesired, they pop up. How do you navigate that?

Cliff Ravenscraft (31:02): The third item, travel exposes whether the system is real. That's the only thing I read there and I'm like, yeah. And if you know that you're gonna travel ahead of time, you record your show or ahead of time if that's who you are. And if you're not like me, I'm not, then pack a pack a bag. Have some portable gear.

Cliff Ravenscraft (31:22): That's not even in this thing. It's just like that float. And so when I say that podcasting, if you are committed to podcasting weekly, it is a practice of trust. It's trusting that in the moment you will be able to speak. The words will flow.

Cliff Ravenscraft (31:41): They will come And if they don't, then just talk about the fact that, hey, I'm here and I have no idea what I wanna say. That could be I know it may not be your standard and so I get that. But if at at some level, you're going to have to trust in yourself and your ability to tap into some sort of flow state and just let it flow. Let it come. If there's one thing I could share with you that I think might be helpful, there is a book called The Artist's Way by Julian Cameron, think, or Julia Cameron.

Cliff Ravenscraft (32:26): Anyway, it's called The Artist's Way. And this book talks about this practice called morning pages. And the idea is that you wake up each morning and you commit to writing three handwritten pages of stream of consciousness thought. You literally start writing and you don't stop writing until you've completed three full pages. And if you can't think of what to say, you write, I can't think of what to say right now.

Cliff Ravenscraft (32:54): In fact, I have no idea why I'm sitting here writing. You're just literally writing every single thought, every word that comes to mind as it comes to mind. There is the book talks about the fact that there's no expectation or requirement or even suggestion that you need to even reread it, do anything with it or anything like that whatsoever. Now, that's what the book says. I will tell you right now, I love the practice of morning pages and sometimes I get to writing and I have no idea what I'm gonna do but I get into such a flow slate and as a flow flow slate.

Cliff Ravenscraft (33:32): Now I get into such a flow state that it seems that things are coming through me. I get I tap into this source, this well of inspiration and ideas come out of nowhere and they're wrangled to the page in my morning pages. And sometimes I do two and a half pages or one and a half pages. There are most of the times I do three or four pages and there have been times it it's been more. And then for me, it the practice almost always generates something that means something deeply for me personally.

Cliff Ravenscraft (34:19): And it's all handwritten. I now do that on my iPad Pro, the the 12.9 inch or whatever the big iPad Pro is in my Apple Pencil and I use the Notability app these days. And I'll just I'll just write and write and write and the great news is that I can export those as JPEGs and I can attach all of those JPEGs into a chat GPT thread and it has the ability to do optical character recognition, OCR. Surprisingly, it can read my handwriting very well. And I have it read it, and I say, hey, like a full review, a reflection on this.

Cliff Ravenscraft (35:02): Share with me, what are some thoughts? What are some patterns here? What are some insights that would be helpful based upon the things you know about what's going on in my world, who I am, what my values are, what my priorities are, the things I am currently focused on creating in the world and I so enjoy that. And so the reason I'm bringing up the idea and the concept of morning pages is because there's never been a moment or there's never been a day when I sat down to do my morning pages that the the flow didn't kick in. There's never been a time as long as I'm willing to just start writing, something always comes.

Cliff Ravenscraft (35:44): There's always something there and I think it's the active habit of doing morning pages and I don't do them every morning. I do them frequently but because I've done it so much and I have such deep trust in that flow that it's easy for me to say, you know what, I'm committed to showing up every week. I will be here on Fridays at 12:01AM and I still consider myself to be consistent with this commitment even though I missed last week. So how about you? Have you ever thought about making a decision to showing up weekly?

Cliff Ravenscraft (36:30): To being present and being a part of your community's life, to showing up even when travel comes up unexpectedly or even expectedly and back to back week after week after week? And are you afraid to do it because you can't guarantee that you're going to after you speak to nearly 400 people and over the course of a few days have deep meaningful connections and conversations with a 116 people and then your social battery is absolutely exhausted. Are you afraid that that will happen? Are you do you lack trust that the content will flow even if you have the gear? These are the kinds of things that I was just hoping to have you think about.

Cliff Ravenscraft (37:23): And you know when I was hoping to have that as I it all came, all of this, everything you've just heard came after I hit the record button. I hope this has inspired you. If you've listened all the way through, I would love to hear from you. Just say, hey, Cliff. I really appreciate the fact that while you're down there in Bowling Green, you've hunched over the edge of a bed leaning into your Rode PodMic portable gear, hanging out in the bedroom while your wife is in the living room waiting for you to finish reading her Kindle.

Cliff Ravenscraft (38:06): I appreciate you doing that. It would love I love hearing that this was important that I showed up for you. I'd love to hear it. Did you miss me last week or did you not even know it? Did you did you not even notice that I wasn't there?

Cliff Ravenscraft (38:20): I'm interested in hearing your feedback on that as well. But yeah, I just love that I have this show. There are some times when I'm like, should I have done this? And the answer is always yes. I have asked myself, should I have actually gone back to a weekly schedule?

Cliff Ravenscraft (38:41): You know, for the first, oh gosh, I think it was thirteen years, I was producing several shows on a weekly basis and I was showing up consistently for those and very rarely did I ever miss an episode. And then probably about a year before the pandemic, it was right around the time I found the book, The Prosperous Coach and I started building my business a different way than content creation. I went to this place where I said, you know what? I'm actually going to go down to only one podcast, the Cliff Ravenscrap Shell. And I'm only gonna produce that episode when I feel inspired.

Cliff Ravenscraft (39:25): But don't worry because I feel inspired quite often. And it turned out that there was always at least one episode every month and usually two. But for a series of a few years, I did not produce episodes on a weekly basis. And so since I've come back right at the beginning of this year and I said I'm gonna do Cliff Ravenscrap show every single week. I'm gonna do podcast Answer Man every single week.

Cliff Ravenscraft (39:54): And oh by the way, I missed the Cliff Ravenscrap show this past Monday as well. And again, it was a very conscious choice, a very conscious decision to do so. It was it just was what it was. And and there have been times when I'm right up against that deadline to get these things recorded so they'll get scheduled by their committed time. I asked myself, man, was this the right decision?

Cliff Ravenscraft (40:21): And and every single time the answer is yes. Even when I missed the episode last week. Anyway, I can't wait to hear from you if you want to reach out to me. My email address is cliff@cliffravenscraft.com. Until next time, I encourage you to take everything you do to the next level.

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