Base Hits

Base Hits 90 The Alpha group begins

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:18:27 +0000

The end of an huge task is now complete and new tasks are ahead - first base is covered, we see second base, and as of today, third base is directly ahead. We're trying to cover them both at the same time. And with that, home base is in our mind. The 90th report of a 90 day challenge is perfectly timed, and I'm proud to say we're on track. We know where we have been, and we know where we're going, and we have people with us to carry the ball when I fumble or lose my way. All of this? It's awesome. .

Base Hits 89 First base covered

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:30:53 +0000

It feels like it's been a long road, but I guess it's only been 90 days - and a few off for good behavior. Base Hits phase 1 is almost complete, and the new phase is now upon me. It's filled with doubts, demons and a bit of despair. Thankfully, it's also got some people who are with me. And with them, I can do this. I can't say how grateful I am. Here's the plan for me taking manalizing to second base.

Base Hits 88 We're on SM!

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 23:52:56 +0000

It's been a long time coming, but now I've built a library of about 20 interviews, and have had some (about 5) of them edited, and have pulled the highlights, and have discovered the right format (MP4) to put them in, and have learned how to add a back bumper (you can't do it within SM, but I found a way), and have navigated my way through descriptions, hash tags and @ directs. And have added "to listen to the podcast please follow the link in my bio", and have asked my tech guru to add that. Other than that's it's been so easy!

But the day is here, and the first posts are done. Yah freaking hoo!

Base Hits 87 trademarks and communities

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:39:14 +0000

Big deal stuff. I had a big day earning money yesterday, but that's never an excuse for not moving forward with manalizing. I'm so pushed to move that forward - I can't even say. But things still moved forward. I had a conversation about trademarking Manalizing, and I'm having the Manalizing logo designed presently, and we now have the first and second manalizing groups created on Kajabi. Oh - and we have a pretty good idea of who's in that first one. Why is the second important? Because now I know how to create them and modify them. Even though it's much like making a copy, I'm still able to do it - and that's a step forward.

Base Hits 86 Pushed and shoved

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:59:17 +0000

I've cleared my schedule so I can get back on top of manalizing editing and highlights and social media and boosting and building an audience so I can save the world, but it's not happening fast enough. I have 1000 interviews that need me to do edits and highlights on. To say I'm being pushed to get that done is an understatement.

Base Hits 85 Non profit or not for profit?

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:15:18 +0000

My mind was pretty much blown when I realized while filling out a tiktok form that manalizing needed to be a legal entity, and it probably needs to be either a non profit or not for profit. Blam! Didn't see that one coming. Now I've got work to do that has nothing to do with microphones or sound stuff

Base Hits 84 Better a poster than impostor

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:13:13 +0000

Learning how to post on instagram ain't easy. I've fought with it and I'm learning that it needs to be me. My voice thoughout. While it would be nicer if I could assign that out, that wouldn't be my voice, and that can't happen.

Base Hits 83 Better a poster than impostor

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:07:28 +0000

Yay! My first real reel is now real on Instagram. That was a painful learning curve

Base Hits 83 Batteries and confidence

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:09:12 +0000

When you're trying to do as many at-bats as possible, sometimes you find that there are bigger results, and sometimes they're smaller. This report contains a very small hit - but a hit nonetheless. The other hit is a good sized one. Here's the story

Base Hits 82 Mic tactics

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:55:17 +0000

Sometimes not knowing everything about a subject teaches you the hard way to know what you must. Here's what I learned about using my RE27 mic - and some other stuff

Base Hits 81 Insta guru

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 01:47:20 +0000

You'd think posting on social media would be easy breezy right? Apparently only if you're a millenial. Instagram is hard! But I learned it. And other stuff.

Base Hits 80 Community characteristics

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:24:43 +0000

If it's true that communities of men will greatly solve the answer to how men communicate and offload their issues, then how do we set up the communities? What characteristics should they have? How is this information communicated? Here's what I learned over the weekend

Base Hits 79 Four mics

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:17:04 +0000

It's fun for me to solve new challenges. Not the usual home stuff, and not even singing or recording well stuff. This last gig was about how to record four different people when my pc only allows two inputs. I've got all this sound nerd equipment, and I'm using it. I've found that mixer boards are too much of a hassle and a crappy one adds fuzz. So my audio input device rules. But it doesn't rule alone. Here's my report.

Base Hits 78 Instagram kindergartner

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:42:33 +0000

You want to start a podcast you say? Great! It's more than just becoming a sound tech, more than learning to talk to a microphone. More than finding guests and learning to interview them well. More than finding out what equipment you need and getting it. It's also about promoting your stuff. Social media? Great! Which one and why? Men? Women? What age? Instagram you say? Great! Do you know how to do a reel? Do you know how to do captions? Why won't your phone do them and somebody else can?

Welcome to my world.

Base Hits 77 Organizationizing hard & fast

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:08:02 +0000

It's coming hard and fast. What used to be difficult (getting guys to interview) is only getting easier. It seemed before that getting guys to come on would be the roadblock. Who would come on and tell the world what they hadn't told anyone? Well, it turns out it's easier than expected. People want to tell their story. I'm glad that's the case and hopefully we'll help some people.

Base Hits 76 Audio issues

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:16:04 +0000

Yesterday I did a manalizing interview with Tegun (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) and the audio settings were all kinds of wrong. Live by the audio processor, die by the audio processor. So I fooled with some knobs and arrived at this point. As you'll hear, it doesn't sound like I fixed it. Here's my report anyway.

Base Hits 75 instagram marketing

Sun, 25 Sep 2022 20:42:51 +0000

When you're planning out your social media marketing strategies, then to me that means you're almost there. You can now rest assured that it's about to be real. It's almost "out there", and the waiting and planning and waiting and hoping is finally going to result in something. Yeah - I'm there right now. Here's that report.

Base Hits 74 Flexible group characteristics

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:27:13 +0000

I gathered a great deal of information and inspiration while talking to Eddie yesterday - I love how his brain works and how he recognizes and relies on inspiration. He answered my most recent roadblock question without even looking like it was straining his brain. He's a great man. Here's what I learned while talking with him

Base Hits 73 It's moving!

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:21:41 +0000

Few things feel better than seeing the train that you've been pushing for years begin to move. It feels like the train budged. Moving forward into getting things published and marketed has been at least a 7 year project (if you include the HomeMedic stuff), and I've been waiting for what seems like forever. Today's base hits feel like I'm getting there. That's cause for some kind of super celebration! Wah freaking hoo!

Base Hits 72 Big wins & big frustrations

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:40:32 +0000

Today I had a big win. I interviewed Aaron Walker. This is a very cool dude with a large following. A very successful man, and a significant man by all standards. I did it on Zoom - another first. Because of our interview, I gained access to the gold mine of all mines - access to an unlimited supply of men. Super awesome, right? Absolutely.

Yet I still feel frustrated because the podcast isn't being marketed. It's not out there. It's stacking up and getting dusty in a corner somewhere. I talk about all of this in this daily report.

Base Hits 71 Manalizing mastermind list

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:28:31 +0000

Building the list of 12 manalizing mastermind members was tough. There are well over 12 candidates for these slots, and I'm concerned that not being in this group may potentially reduce my relationship with those who are not in. Still, 12 is a number, and I think it's the right number, and I don't believe there can be intimacy and perfect trust in a group of 30 or 50. I describe the list as it now stands in this podcast.

Base Hits 70 the missing piece!

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:52:56 +0000

After 14 manalizing podcasts where me and other men cast around for the answer, finally I'm handed the missing piece on a silver platter. If men can't find someone to talk to by themselves, then let's give them a system and organization that gives it to them!! This is the birth of the Manalizing mastermind.

Base Hits 69 No excuses

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:58:22 +0000

I'm as guilty as anyone at filling my day with things that matter less, at the expense of things that matter more. The fires almost always defeat the most important things that need to be done. Still, I was able today to accomplish both - do what wanted to be done while still moving manalizing forward. Here's how that went.

Base Hits 68 My elaborate process

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:46:55 +0000

My basic programming is to get stuff done. It's a bit harder for me to get stuff done well. So when I realize that in order for things to be up to snuff for me, they have to be more elaborate - well, that's not the default.

But they need to be awesome because this is my purpose, and stuff that's my purpose can't be second rate. So - elaborate process, here we come. Still, I find the hard enjoyable.

Base Hits 67 Producing Aaron

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:43:01 +0000

Aaron Shields is that guy who appears to have it all. Super smart, good looking, good dude, has a strong relationship with his Savior, great musician - you know the one who seems to have absolutely everything together and is on a easy street in every way. It would appear that way. It does appear that way. It's also not true. Here's Aaron's take on life.

Base Hits 66 I'm blessed

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:41:02 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me how "lucky" I am. This is also known as being blessed, guided, cared for, etc. My life is well managed, but not by me or anybody else you might guess initially.

Base Hits 65 Audio to video to audio

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:38:48 +0000

The procedure for producing my stuff ought to be simple. It's not. Here's how things are developing

Base Hits 64 making sense with Youtube

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 16:09:33 +0000

It seems that when you're a startup, you have to invent every new wheel yourself. How do you use youtube for both the pre-edit version and the finished version of a show, without having customers think they're seeing double, and watching the wrong show? Well, I figured that one out today.

Base Hits 63 Focusing on who we're helping

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:40:22 +0000

Sometimes while in the woods of developing things, you get lost in the trees. Then you bump into an obvious one and it's shocking that it's there. I realized that we need to adapt our marketing for each manalizing podcast to those groups that identify. Whether that's human trafficking, bad divorces, alcohol addiction, whatever. We need to let those groups know that Manalizing and our resources are out there. Oh - and I learned a bit more about being a sound tech. There's always that.

Base Hits 62 exactness and sound equipment

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:47:05 +0000

Being OCD about detail definitely isn't me. So when I go through 170ish podcasts, then realize I have to go through them again to get them consistent, that's my brain you hear melting. The drudge continues. Oh - and yes, I'm still my own sound guy. Let's just say I'm less than awesome at it.

Base Hits 61 Rinse and repeat, and repeat again

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:53:52 +0000

Painfulness sometimes comes when the job description, especially when you're small like me. The repetitive stuff? Yeah, I hadda do it because a) I don't have full time employees, and b) only I could write the podcast descriptions. But it's done. Kinda.

Base Hits 60 Doing the drudgery

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:26:04 +0000

Sometimes starting a venture like this isn't sexy at all. Today, the tasks are extremely repetitive and brain numbing. But - ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Here's what today's base hits look like

Base Hits 59 Finding fulfillment

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:03:02 +0000

Fulfillment can be found in a variety of ways, but maybe it's about just deciding what you want to be and do, then doing it. For me, that's been a 60+ year journey. I think I'm there. At least I feel like this is what I need to be doing right now.

Base Hits 58 Techie trees

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 22:26:27 +0000

Staying on top of tech is like riding a cheetah. It's even harder when you're an old geezer like me. Link trees? Replacing having stuff on my web site? Oh the weird brain bendyness of it all.

Base Hits 57 MK4, MP3 and stuff that annoys me

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:38:36 +0000

The techy side of being a microphone nerd is pretty much an every day thing. On my interview of me, I forgot to record the audio separately. So why is that a big problem? Because there's pretty much nothing out there that allows me to strip off the audio from a video file! I research all day long and get absolutely nowhere. Finally, a friend tells me about the traffic cone software. It's super clunky, but after some fidgeting with it, it worked! That's a massive wahoo you just heard btw.

Then... I just have to eliminate roughly 1000 ums and pauses. I hope I got enough of them for it to be good.

Base Hits 56 Leadership and management

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:10:38 +0000

I've spent a career not leading anyone but myself. At over 60, now I'm doing more of that. How to be the leader you've never been? Just do it I guess. Here's what I did to be leader and manager for my team

Base Hits 55 Interviewing Me

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 17:02:36 +0000

Lightning strikes. I feel like I can't ask other men to be vulnerable if I'm not willing to sit in the same chair and do that myself. So - I agreed when Howard Little asked me to swap seats with him after his interview. He asks better questions than I do - or at least different ones. That man runs deep and I admire much in him even though I still barely know him. Here's my base hits report about the day I was interviewed

Base Hits 54 Standing near the sun

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:53:44 +0000

I thought when I started Manalizing that it would be a dark subject. That's not the case at all. There's so much hope that comes from the people I talk to, and the light that I feel from these people is simply - well, it brightens my soul

Base Hits 53 Kajabi here we come

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:05:31 +0000

Just when I thought I was reaching the rounded off part of the mountain, and it was time to roll with the machine I've created...

I realize I've got to migrate everything. All of my hundreds of podcasts for everything. Manalizing, base hits, home medic for inspectors, home medic for homeowners, etc. It's all gotta be on Kajabi. Like they said in Pretty Woman. Big! Huuuge!

But- it's gotta happen. So at least I know what my direction is for the short term

Base Hits 52 It's a two edged sword

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:26:26 +0000

It's a truism that nobody can do things themselves. None of us are gifted at everything that needs to happen for a business to be successful. So - you have to rely on others. And when they're extremely part time or it's a favor? Sometimes you still have to do what you can yourself.

Base Hits 51 Proper prepping

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:48:39 +0000

Getting men to come on the show and be prepped to be vulnerable is no small task. Most men don't have the internals to do it. The ones that do need to know what I'm expecting of them so they can come mentally prepared to be vulnerable. No small task. Part of it comes with being able to describe what the show is all about. Here's how I'm handling that.

Base Hits 50 Voice over victory

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:06:05 +0000

Some stuff is just hard. It wouldn't be hard if you were that kind of nerd, but you're not that kind of nerd. You try everything and boom! Nothing.

That makes it that much sweeter when you figure it out. Voice over victory is mine! Wah freaking hoo!

Base Hits 49 The beauty of not doing everything myself

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:19:06 +0000

I think most of us think we can do anything ourselves if we put our mind to it. The fact is, we can struggle for days or months, or we could get it done in 15 minutes with the right help. I needed Nathan's help today. I needed McKell's help today. I needed what the right audio input device could do for me, and I got it all - partly because I'm willing and able to ask for assistance.

I think most of us think we could never succeed in business or whatever because we have weakness X or Y. Fact is, we're right. We can't succeed with that weakness if we don't let someone fill in those holes for us. But there are people out there who will help us succeed if we let them. That might be true for people on the other side as well, now that I think of it.

Base Hits 48 Git er done

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:59:21 +0000

Some days are pretty awesome. I get my nickels made in the morning, then I can get after things. That was today. I filmed stuff with McKell to be used in a social media ad campaign, and generally I made feathers fly. Still, I look back and wonder what I accomplished. Is that a brain thing or is it a self discounting thing? Can't answer that one

Base Hits 47 Life is hard - unless you're me

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:03:56 +0000

I interviewed an interesting, bright and powerful man today. Howard Little. Good dude. Very good dude. He's having big time physical issues - cancer, infections, loss of circulation - it's bad. But despite it all his soul is bright. He talks about how we chooses to laugh rather than cry. He talks about how we all have issues to overcome. And I agree, we do. Except me. My life is great, and I'm the only person I know who's blessed that way. Why? I have no idea. All I can do is be grateful and try to give. Here are my thoughts on my interview with Howard.

Base Hits 46 How to argue with myself

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 19:39:39 +0000

The things I do to move my business forward and achieve my purpose? Well, let's just say I wouldn't have predicted them. What hat am I wearing this time? This time it was me figuring out how to argue with myself on social media. Me. I'm not exactly Mr. Tik Tok. Still, I gotta do it so here I go

Base Hits 45 Gratitude is good

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 22:56:00 +0000

Base hits can still be made when I'm busy. And here's a bit of gratitude for me being busy. Who am I grateful to? I don't know why God the Father and Jesus Christ do what they do for me, but it all strengthens my resolve to do what they're entrusting, hoping and needing me to do. We all have purposes - here's a bit about mine.

Base Hits 44 Arguing with myself

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 01:01:51 +0000

Some days I wonder if I did anything at all, then I remember I got a lot done. This was one of those. I tend not to give myself credit for stuff when I do move forward, but I'm real good at remembering when I didn't meet the bar.

That said, I came up with a concept that will be a centerpiece of my marketing and branding. I call it arguing with myself. Might as well - I do it anyway.

Base Hits 43 Baker

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:57:23 +0000

Learning how to lead well is a new experience for me. I've learned how to run a 1 man business and can do that comfortably. Employees? Leadership? Management? Stretch. Also, now I'm a baker. Who woulda thought?

Base Hits 42 Running around rocks

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:01:57 +0000

Most of us men think we're strong. Give us a problem, we'll solve it. We do. We solve. We finish. We go. But asking us to talk about what it does to us? That's an uphill climb. And what happens when we do? That's interesting too.

Base Hits 41 Defending the show

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:29:51 +0000

Sometimes when you ask a guy to be vulnerable, people get uncomfortable. Not just the vulnerable dude, but others who are not used to that. I witnessed the results of that.

Base Hits 40 Face shots

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:11:27 +0000

I feel like I'm getting to where I can start streamlining things. It's not about a thousand tasks that must be done before I get started - at least not at the moment. It feels like now I need to be moving into the production phase. Get stuff out, get it marketed, get it moving. But for today? Face shots is my base hit

Base Hits 39 Much stuff

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:34:39 +0000

There are always a lot of competing interests in a life. Entertainment, body, relationships, money, keeping business afloat, starting new ones - the list goes on. Still, how do you make sure that what's most important stays at the top of the list? How do you make sure that little stuff isn't eating up all the time for the big stuff? Here's that podcast

Base Hits 38 Lever drama

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:29:13 +0000

When you're the CEO, the janitor, the marketing guy and the tech guy, things can sometimes get interesting. Still, I'm learning and growing, and there are mistakes that I won't make again

Base Hits 37 That sucks

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:51:26 +0000

There are a lot of rocks in the road when it comes to doing manalizing. First, men don't talk about stuff because it's vulnerable. Second, when men are vulnerable it doesn't always come out well or get taken well. Then I fear that it becomes evidence that men shouldn't be vulnerable. This sucks, and I don't have an answer. Sure wish I had someone who could answer this for me.

Base Hits 36 Manager and tech geek - all in one

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 16:53:13 +0000

Being a podcaster and entrepreneur means you get to wear a lot of hats. Some of them I'm not comfortable in - like being an audio tech geek. Or like managing people in a professional way. Still, I've got it in me because I have to have it in me. There's a way because there must be a way. Here's my Friday report.

Base Hits 35 Formatting the format

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:01:32 +0000

I don't know how many people are better at arguing with themselves than me, but I'm exceptionally good at it. As a businessman, I'm used to coming up against a business decision that I'm not feeling qualified to make, but knowing that I don't have anyone who can help me who is experienced in that arena. So I just make it. This is not unlike the experience men make every day. This podcast includes one of those moments for me

Base Hits 34 A day for the dynasty

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:51:29 +0000

Sometimes I get some time to get things done. This is one of them

Base Hits 33 Dudes and motivation

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:42:13 +0000

Wouldn't it be nice if the path to entrepreneurship, saving lives and helping men off their respective islands were always glamorous, motivating and easy? How will I ever know even if any of my efforts are making any difference? Here's my daily brain struggles - as well as my arguments I have regularly with myself. Part of being me I guess.

Base Hits 32 Failure and guidance

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:13:22 +0000

Today was a near failure but gratefully I have a team. That team includes people on the other side who are most anxiously engaged to help me succeed. I'm doing all I can to listen

Base Hits 31 Depression and surprises

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:01:07 +0000

For a guy who's used to be outside doing stuff, it feels less than great when I have an involuntary day of not doing stuff. I know, manalizing is my purpose and future, but today it feels like I've got to do manalizing because there are no inspections. So that's my report. And then something happened.

Whoever is pulling the strings does have a sense of humor. This is another entry in my gratitude journal

Base Hits 30 Sweetness

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:55:23 +0000

Today I departed from a report of all the base hits I did - there were plenty because I was granted a good deal to time to get things done. Those were all overshadowed by the sweetness that was my interview with Todd Nielsen. Great man. And I know I only breezed by how deep he runs. Some day when I have him back, I hope that I'm able to draw out more of who he is and get it captured on sound waves for all of us.

Base Hits 29 Competition and Capacity

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:29:21 +0000

I have a lot of things that are important to me. My wife and family, then comes my future. I need to keep in shape, manage my inspection business, keep up on my voice (brain exercising and fun), manage homemedic and manalizing, exercise the body (swim and bike), keep up on the yard (tree landscaping is killin me), and make sure my employees are well guided. It's a lot. Today is an example of how I went too far in one area and left nothing for the rest of the categories.

Base Hits 28 frustrations and roadblocks

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:18:58 +0000

Some days everything becomes a roadblock. What should be easy is nearly impossible. And then important things fall off the plate. And then you spend all night dream/thinking about how to fix the hard stuff. And - no shocker here - you wake up and it's still not fixed. That was my day

Base Hits 27 Fails, tech issues and inspiration

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:24:08 +0000

It must be true that when you're swimming in the muck the most, that's when you get help from above. That's happening to me today.

Base Hits 26 Marketing, producing and fails

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:31:42 +0000

So sometimes I realize that I don't have the answers, and nobody I know does either. This is one of those times.

Base Hits 25 Good friends are awesome

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 21:29:02 +0000

Sometimes I need to be reminded that no matter what I do to achieve my goals and fill my purpose, it's not about me. I can work my butt off, but I still need to rely on others, including God himself. Can't do it myself, no matter how much God and friends may think I should. Here's how the Lord and my friends came through this time.

Base Hits 24 The home buyers train gets fueled

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:00:59 +0000

The path to podcasting entrepreneurship for me has been roughly an 8 year exercise in patience. So many tens of thousands of dollars spent in anticipation of someday getting it back. That day may be just beginning as I explain the latest of my efforts to get the HomeMedic train rolling - and why I'm less passionate about that these days

Base Hits 23 Time and money and gratitude

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:36:12 +0000

I think I'm like a lot of people: whatever I get, I want something else. It's human nature to complain. The thing is I realize that the Lord is giving me what I say I want - even if I keep changing my mind as to what that is. What is vital, at least from my point of view, is gratitude. If I keep complaining that I don't have now what I want next, then there will be problems. I'm certain of that.

Base Hits 22 July 4 and empty nester entrepreneur priorities

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:52:58 +0000

When you're married to the awesomest woman on the planet and you have a day full of free time, sometimes you have a choice to make. You can give her the quality time she's hoping for and deserves, or you can spend the day getting stuff done. I'd rather keep her. That said, I did strike something of a balance between the two.

Base Hits 21 Those peaks are killing me

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:29:44 +0000

My voice is supposed to be great - that's what everyone tells me. That's a good thing, right? Well, my voice is a pain in the hiney when it comes to the editing. I blow into the microphone and it thinks a hurricane hit. Then I have to go back in and edit all the peaks. Painfulness.

Base Hits 20 8.4 Miles

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 15:01:21 +0000

Some days just feel like that. You have 2000 little tasks to do, and they all have to get done, but it feels like you're not accomplishing anything important. This is one of those days. Despite that, there are some wins here. And one big win.

Base Hits 19 Listen and ask questions

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:43:32 +0000

As I do the manalizing podcast, I listen extra carefully for the secret sauce from the people who are winning at life and relationships. I got a pretty good one in the episode with Colby the deck guy. Nope - I don't know his last name, but he's a very cool dude.

Base Hits 18 OMG it's everywhere!

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:38:26 +0000

This is about a moment that shaped my future. Somebody I know fairly closely confided in me that my message hits pretty close to home for him. This is the moment that confirmed to me that this is my purpose. That I'm doing what I've been gifted to do. It's very reassuring, very liberating, and very saddening. It's everywhere - and there's only one of me.

Base Hits 17 Physically fat

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:16:18 +0000

I've come to realize that being the podcaster ain't all studios and microphones. Someday when someone actually cares about what I'm doing, I'll be invited out into that real world place where I'm flapping my jaw with more than just one person in front of me. And there? I can't be a lump of man-ishness.

Base Hits 16 Prepping properly

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:13:11 +0000

This manalizing podcast thing I'm doing ain't just a walk in the park. I found this out the hard way, and I'm a bit guilted that I didn't prep one of my good friends well enough. Feeling like I laid a fast one on him. Here's what I learned

Base Hits 15 Mixing it

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:09:33 +0000

Sometimes being a podcaster means you gotta be a techno geek. At least the geek part comes relatively easy for me. Here's my battle with techy stuff, and how doing it became another base hit for me

Base Hits 14: Sound tech r not me

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:23:45 +0000

It kills me when I do an earth shaking podcast like the one with Jordan Hanks, and the sound levels aren't right. Too puffy sometimes, too weak sometimes. Worse, it's me that's the problem. Ugh. Here's what I'm choosing to do about it

Base Hits 13: Magic Questions under construction

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:35:44 +0000

What I learned about puff shields? I'm not immune. In fact, I think I'm the reason they were invented.

Also, I've been doing my interviewees and my listeners a disservice. I get that letting an interview flow is one thing, but when it causes or allows an interview to not be as complete as it could be, then I've harmed everyone. I used some fabulous training put on by Rob Cornilles (gameface.com) and put together what I believe are excellent questions that will steer the discussion, without letting things get left on the side of the road.

Base Hits 12: Asking Better Questions

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:16:19 +0000

Taking on a subject like this requires that I have my A game going where it comes to listening and asking the right questions. I realize that not just asking questions, but asking the right questions is key to the success of helping men everywhere. And it's not just the men I'm helping because there are marriages and families and lives involved. Here is a description of my journey

Base Hits 11: Facebook setup and moving the train

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:30:27 +0000

Some days it just feels like the train insists on staying right there. I push it forward, and it doesn't move much. How is this thing going to get to 60 mph when I'm pushing and it doesn't want to move?

Base Hits 10: When I suck as an interviewer

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:08:40 +0000

Doing the manalizing interviews can be tough - men don't talk like that! We don't share the inner workings of our soft touchy feely side. Shoot - we don't even like to acknowledge our touchy feely side. And then Garth goes and just stabs a friend of his with questions about that stuff? Tough. Here's my afterthoughts about yesterday's interview with Robert Snow.

Base Hits 9: God is in charge

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:51:57 +0000

So I realize from time to time that I should rely on "the rules" less and on my own judgement more. The Lord has given me the guidance I need and it's up to me to accept.

Thankfully, I was arguing with myself about Sunday shows, and had come to the wrong conclusion. Here's how I was redirected. It makes sense now - the "rules" that I put on myself based on the guidance from others are simply guidance. Only God and myself make the final decisions.

Base Hits 8: Authenticity

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 21:41:13 +0000

The day was busy with fires, but I still got my base hits. Here's what I realized about how to make the podcast and the interviews authentic. It doesn't have to be a repeat, but it does have to be authentic!

Base Hits 7 Interview with Frank Photiadis

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:20:43 +0000

My interview with Frank was my primary base hit yesterday. I talk about that and the little techy issues I'm running into as well. Bumpers, bouncies, wire issues, etc. This path toward serving the world is full of all kinds of little skill sets I have to learn

Base Hits 6 How words will revolutionize my business

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:18:32 +0000

Just a few words, done in the right places can change a business. In this episode I explain how the phrase "there are no coincidences" and "when the student is ready the teacher appears" applies to me and my business. By the way, Rob Cornilles. If you can find a way to be taught by him, do it. It's worth whatever his price is.

Base Hits 5 Maybe a confession

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:32:02 +0000

Maybe just to keep me humble, but right after a day that was nothing short of a grand slam, I struggle to decide if I got my base hit. Maybe I did, but it felt like more of a walk - or a strikeout. Here's why.

Base Hits 4 Sometimes it's a grand slam

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:28:42 +0000

My impromptu interview with a human slice of sunshine was nothing short of life changing. In this podcast I talk about meeting her and what it was like to interview such an inspiring and life brightening person. Jo - thank you.

Base Hits 3 Following my plan

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:26:55 +0000

It's awesome when your plan and reality meet up. When it doesn't? You improvise. At least I do.

Base Hits 2 It's Sunday - Where is the plate?

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:19:50 +0000

Personal mental struggles that give an inside view of Garth's brain. His competing values and thought processes. Admittedly, some of it is brain twisty, but there are principles behind them all

Base Hits 1 Why I'm doing this

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:10:01 +0000

Base hits results from a challenge to make progress every day for 90 days - something of a 90 day challenge. I know that if I don't measure progress for each day, I'll forget all about it.

So I was going to journal but then I figured I'd file my journal in the closet or lose it. Then I was going to blog it. Blogs are not my style. Podcast it? Yep! Then I know that both you and I are holding me accountable.

This is the story of an entrepreneur as he moves from being a simple home & structural inspector to someone who changes lives, and who finally takes the steps (the Base Hits) needed to live his Purpose.