Done Is Better Than Perfect: Season 1 Review + Season 2 Preview

I'm going to tell you something that I probably should have mentioned before I started a podcast.

I don't listen to podcasts.

Like, genuinely.

I'm not a podcast person.

I never have been.

I only listen when I'm alone in the car, which now that I don't commute anymore, is almost never.

And I know I could listen during a walk or at the gym, but I need those moments.

I need those moments to think, to process my thoughts, to not consume something for just a minute.

And I also don't like to close myself off with headphones.

My favorite part of a Friday morning in the gym is having this completely unpredictable conversation with an older gentleman who I'm pretty sure is telling me something nice or important.

I catch maybe 40% of it because he speaks Swiss German, and it makes his day and it makes mine.

I'm not putting headphones in for that.

I like to be available.

So for a long time, I had this very logical feeling, belief you're not a podcast person, so you can't start a podcast.

And then two things happened at the same time.

I met someone who was building a podcast network and who actually could help me with all the planning and the editing.

The part that I had no idea how to do, and it would probably take me so much time and annoy me so badly that I would just give up.

And I read a LinkedIn post about how voice adds nuance to a message, how you can communicate things in audio that text just can't carry.

Like that intrigued me.

Something clicked, so I sat down and I figured it out.

Turns out it's not as easy as these podcasters make it look.

Recording a coherent story, even for just seven or eight minutes, is pretty pretty hard.

And developing a season where the episodes actually fit together.

Next level.

So on take 5, after reading my script out loud for probably the 14th time, trying to sound like a person who has things together, I have screamed, like, half screamed.

This is so much harder than I want it to be.

And that's where the name of the podcast comes from, because that goes for podcasting and it goes for building an impact business.

What I did to overcome that was figure out a system.

I write a structure for the episode.

It has a reality check in it, a shift and a move.

And then I write the full script and read that out loud to myself or to my dog.

I tweak it and then reduce it to keywords and phrases before I actually record it.

I record standing up with a lot of hand movements because that's apparently what it takes for me to sound like someone who has something interesting to say, and two episodes per session is my absolute maximum.

After that, I'm done.

I'm out of words and out of energy.

Ten episodes later, though, nearly 300 people have listened, which is way more than I expected.

Significantly more.

And I'll be honest with you, whenever someone says, oh, I didn't know you have a podcast.

What's the name so I can listen, I have to do everything in my power to not tell them to basically listen to anything else.

I am proud of the fact that I did this podcast, that I didn't let fear win, and that I didn't let my perfectionism stall it indefinitely.

But this is the most done is better than perfect thing I've ever done, and I usually hate that approach.

I'm completely ready though, to go back in a year and die of shame listening to episode one.

But I also know that the only way to get to that point is to put out that first cringe worthy episode.

So here we are.

Season one was about frameworks.

The the tools, the shifts, the practical moves you can make this week.

And season two is going to be different.

Season two is about what actually happened.

Real founder situation.

Anonymized obviously, but where things went wrong.

Not the polished version, the actual screw ups.

What we tried, what worked and what didn't, and what we learned.

Because mistakes are the most information rich things in a business.

And I have a lot of that material.

Season two starts in August.

If you haven't listened to season one yet, now's a good time.

It's 10 episodes, all about seven or eight minutes.

You can get through the whole season in about an hour and a half.

You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and soon also on YouTube.

Or you go to TheSwissCastNetwork CH and if you want to be part of season two, if you've been through something messy in your business and came out on the other side with something useful to say about it, I'd love to hear from you.

Maybe you can guest on an episode or make some sort of contribution.

Find me on LinkedIn or write in the comments.

I'm Linda.

Thanks for listening.