Final Episode of The Hard Thing Podcast

Becoming The Hero

Welcome to the last episode of The Hard Thing Podcast.

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done? That question has really influenced my life for the past 3 years. I started The Hard Thing Podcast with the idea that the thing that sets the super successful apart from the average is their ability to push through the hard. I wanted to discover exactly how that was done. I set out to ask some of the most successful people I knew that question. I eventually branched out to people I didn’t know. Then people who didn’t know me started reaching out to me.

The goal of the podcast was to help people improve their lives by teaching them how to do hard things. I would say, that is a terrible goal. It’s not specific at all and therefore not attainable. Or maybe it’s too attainable. The problem is that it’s too specific so we’ll never know.

I started thinking about this problem. What could I do?

I started a podcast because I believed I had something to share with the world. I wanted to help people. I wanted to really make a difference in people’s lives. But who was I trying to help?

That’s the main reason behind rebranding the podcast: to better focus on a group of people I truly believe I can help.

The new name of the podcast is Becoming The Hero.

The goal of the show is to help closet nerds become like the heroes they admire.

Have you ever watched a movie and seen one of the main characters and thought, “Wow, they are so cool! Like everything about them is just awesome!”

Well, the new goal of Becoming The Hero will be to help you become a person so that you think about yourself. Obviously, I don’t want to vaunt anyone up in ego. I just want you to be able to look at your life and feel that you could truly make a movie out of your life. I want you to literally become the hero of your story.

About 8 months ago as a test, I started up a second podcast. It’s called How to Be a Better DM. For those Dungeons and Dragons fans out there, it’s a podcast all about how to be a better Dungeon Master. I like D&D and to be honest, I like a lot of nerdy things. I also believe that we all love stories. We love movies, books, and video games and I think for the most part it’s because it shows us things that we aren’t yet but we’d like to become.

Each of us would like to be more dashing, charming, brave, daring, and overall better. We’d love to be like Indiana Jones, Sam Gamgee, or Paul Atreides. We want to be the hero.

I realized that that is the whole reason I started The Hard Thing Podcast. I wanted to help people feel like that. So now, I’m going to work on getting you to be able to look at yourself and say, “Yeah, my life is freaking awesome!”.

So here’s what you can expect from me.

1. There will continue to be a weekly episode every Monday. These shows will likely become shorter. I’ll sprinkle in a good mix of interviews and solo shows.
2. I will make the bridge between personal development and nerdy stuff.
3. I will do my very best to get you everything you need to level up in real life.

If we can have some laughs along the way, so much the better.

This is new territory for me. I am putting away some traditions and starting up some new ones. I just want to say thank you for joining me on the journey, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

Before I let you get back to your regularly scheduled ear-bud programming, let me finish with some important, albeit, boring tidbits.

1. The website will remain thehardthingpodcast.com until such time as I am able to purchase a new domain.
2. My social media handles will change, unless they cannot, in which case they will not change. If you aren’t following me on Instagram, go follow me there and you’ll get all the updates and...