IAM2334 – Unlock Your Business Potential by Creating Space to Allow for New Opportunities

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Intro 00:01

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Gresham Harkless 00:29

Hello, hello, hello. This is Gresh here and it's episode number 2334 the I AM CEO Podcast. It's hard to believe that I've gotten this far with the podcast and it's getting towards the end of the year.

So one of the things that I wanted to do with this year is just kind of think through some things and talk through some things that I'm hoping to do with the podcast.

Give me a little bit more of a sneak peek of what's going to happen in the new year. And honestly, I was back and forth about where whether or not to kind of ultimately continue with the podcast, to do the podcast in the way that I've had done it over the years.

And going back, I mean, I think this podcast I've been doing probably for the last maybe 6 years or so which is kind of insane to kind of think about.

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So as I'm getting into the season, I also have a baby boy on the way. Literally this week, we started to think a little bit more about how you're operating, what you're doing, what things need to change and evolve, how you need to grow and do all those things.

So I'm going through that period in that season. So I actually started the podcast about 6 years ago, back in 2018, obviously a lot has happened, especially during with the pandemic, but it's been not always a daily podcast, but it ended up growing up to be that daily podcast.

So as we're going into this new year, we're talking about 7 years of doing what eventually became a daily podcast.

And I believe that podcast became daily, not too long after I started. I think for the first 6 months I did it as a buildup and then it ended up becoming a daily podcast.

So done a lot of episodes and a lot of interviews and I really want to take a lot of this upcoming year to I think spend more time thinking more on how to experiment.

And one of the things that comes up as one of the themes for the podcast interviews is to make sure that you are, and I'm going to look right over my shoulder, the power of space.

The power of creating space and how that space is a being a really big thing that can allow you to kind of grow and expand in this year is really going to be this upcoming year is really going to be very much so that that experiment that opportunity to kind of see how and what things will end up being.

And I think a lot of times when we look and when we create space, we are often looking externally say what more do I need to add? What more do I need to do in order to reach whatever the goal might be?

But I think so many times we look past exactly what is in front of us and what might be gold or opportunities or so many valuable things that we can use and leverage.

So one of the things I'm really excited about going into this year is of course continuing with the podcast interviews. I think it's going to be really awesome.

Obviously, I started a new business as well to the franchise brokerage business, BlueStar Franchise, and to be able to kind of go through and develop an opportunity for me to kind of help people get into franchising.

I think that's gonna be really, really valuable. So you'll see and hear more franchising content as well too around that world and what that can do for people in those opportunities there.

But I think the really big thing that I really want to hold space for is just this opportunity to kind of experiment.

I've done over 2,000 episodes, interviewed a lot of people, and I just feel like I've been scratching the surface on opportunities.

So while we will continue with the same cadence as far as like having the podcast, I think you're gonna see a lot more experimental ways that we're gonna kind of test out to see what really sticks and what maybe doesn't stick as much.

And I think really staying true to the spirit that you need to have so a year or so ago I actually created some space and I just repurpose episodes all year.

And as much as I thought about doing something like that because there's still a sizable amount of episodes that have not been repurposed yet.

I really wanted to be a lot more kind of flexible in the things that I wanted to look at going into this upcoming year.

So look for more content and information, but look for that opportunity for us to kind of experiment to do that and understand like more than anything else to see or know you that you wanna try to get from this episode is how powerful it is to create space and create space so that you can experiment and do those things.

So as I'm coming around the 11th year, It'll be the 12th year of my digital marketing business. It'll be the 7th year of this podcast.

And really looking and evaluating what and how you want to kind of show up is one of those things, because who I was when I started the digital marketing business, the podcast business and the podcast itself is not who I am now and who I will ultimately want to be.

So I think it's creating space and time and just experimentation so that you can kind of see what that next step or that next avenue is going to be so very exciting times I'm definitely for the podcast.

And some of the things that we hope to do I'm super excited to really delve into that the franchising world and talk a little bit more about that.

But as I close out the year, think about like what that I've learned from this previous year and what things I want to look forward to.

Just remember how powerful it is to make sure that you have space in the things that you're doing because when you create space, whether that's on a daily basis, weekly basis, annual basis, whatever that might be.

It's gonna open you up and unlock you to potential different ways that you can operate within your business.

So I'm super excited about that, excited about what's gonna come. Of course, elated about and extremely blessed to say that we're bringing another son into this world.

So looking forward to that, praying for all health and all the things for you as well to your business and your family.

Yeah, as I start to close things out, looking forward to all the things, but remember how powerful it is to create that space.

Outro 06:16

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