Did my first podcast in a bit!

I speak about the different paths we can take in our lives, the fulfillment that comes from loving what we do, and loving the process regardless of the outcome. I also give an update on Speak and share some reasons why we have been successful with early pitches and fundraising efforts.

Link to iTunes Podcast: Speak With Tyler Bryden

Transcript (Unedited)

Hello everyone, it is to ride in here it’s been again. Every time I do one of these. I say it’s been a bit and I tell myself and I probably say that I’m going to be back here soon.

Now I’ve let you, let myself down. But I’m here. I’m ready to go and I’m ready to talk. You know, I try my best. I think again. This is one of those things where you need to have force of habit.

You need to will yourself into doing it and creating content struggle with this continuously.

I think again, it always comes back to at all. A couple reasons that I think people are obviously busy. I think that’s why a lot of people sort of shy away from content creation.

It takes a lot of mental capacity in Enerji to even try to do a half decent job at it.

Not for myself and I think for many other people just like what do we have to say? And you know as I’ve gotten older. I’ve really starting to realize again. Like many of us do it just how important and crucial time is. And so a lot of times you do try to be. Concerned inconsiderate of that. And sometimes if I just feel like I was sharing things that you know are so mundane or so.

You know unspecial in this world where there are so many beautiful and special things that.

Sometimes it’s possibly not we’re sharing. And you know, definitely I feel that there are many people who don’t share that same sentiment or many of us are sharing really, really everything, including all those mundane things and in many ways that I believe actually builds a strong relationship and.

And maybe the you know the mundane part of human life is something that bonds us, especially with you know, people that were following or look up to her admire. But in my case here I just don’t always have a lot to say don’t get access to all the time and space to feel like you have.

You know the ability to do it and you know a nice job recording high-quality audio but also just having the capacity to sit there and think and really focus while you’re doing this. And luckily I have an opportunity like that today. It is you know just something I can’t not say, It’s 4:20 here in Canada.

So happy holidays to all my 420 years in Canada. It’s a legal celebration this year. And I think that’s really exciting for a lot of people and you know there has been.

You know, so much hype and Fallouts and challenges, but you know also wins all throughout this process of legalization here in Canada and specifically us here in Ontario for seen quite the rollout.

And lots of back and forth between people and trying to judge how that rollout went.

I myself not too sure I think there is obviously a significant amount of people on the black market here and that’s something that seems to be echoed in the statistical studies that are being passed around. And I think that makes a lot of sense. People are boiling it down to several reasons. I think it is you know price, there is a lot of a position in pricing that the black market is doing especially some of these delivery services.

Convenience I would say even plays a factor into that. Apparently, the quality the marijuana from especially in the Ontario Cannabis Store store and a lot of these.

I don’t know government system is an LP’s or not of high quality, especially as they can’t really meet the demand right now and I don’t know if that is just leaving them to having low-quality products.

A lot of people are sort of disappointed with the amount of packaging actually associated with them. So I don’t know I mean. That seems like a small issue. But it could contribute and I don’t know, do people just not trust the government II don’t know why you know they still you know, I think those are pretty good reasons why the black market is still so existent.

But there are just some underlying features there and I think more of a psychological site of people too or just not that trustworthy of government operations and actually prefer to operate outside the system in that black market.

So what do I wanna talk about today? I guess actually tonight. It’s coming to a late night and as you know anyone who probably listens to any of these in the past, has noticed, it usually when my wonderful girlfriend Robyn is gone somewhere III’m at home here. Let me know what my home story studio here now tonight and take the opportunity for where I have some silence and, you know, try to print it into productive capacity and you know, I think. I may be told this story before, but I had a good friend who I admire very much. You always sort of broke it down to 2 things for me and that was create, your other creating or you’re consuming.

And a lot of times, especially on nights like this, I’ll find myself consuming be doing a lot of reading and watching videos or podcasts or things like that, and sometimes I think it’s just necessary for people to actually create. And so that’s what I’m trying to do today. I’ve been just you know also just I think semi-inspired by a lot of things.

Lately, some of those just some you know podcast. I’ve enjoyed myself and you know if and I’m not too deep into the podcast game really all I’d get my fixes from you know, Joe Rogan. I really like Aubrey Marcus. And so they actually had an episode here together, so that was really nice. Michael Pollan was also on Aubrey Marcus so some really interesting podcast lately. You know as I’ve shared before as well, I get my kicks out of audiobooks and you know really. You know see, Audible an Amazon product there as gods godsend almost than that. You know, no one likes to say that to a corporate entity. I guess but to me man that that that application and that subscription has paid off so many times over and I’m listening to just a fantastic book right now called Laws of Human Nature. And that’s actually by Robert Greene, who broke the 48 Laws of power. And so you know that book was that book is actually had quite an impact on you know on the world in the way from the II don’t know. I think it was a pretty popular book but you know what? What what I’ve sort of continually seen as I’ve you know, I read that book and then just explored what people were saying about that.

You know there’s a lot of hip hop stars like Jay-Z and Oz and all these people from you know from the early 90s and stuff, and there are all these people who just have contributed. Some of their knowledge and success in the way they maneuvered through this world to that 48 Laws of Power book I read that I think last year.

Fantastic book and you know get some criticism for almost giving you a path of manipulation to the top of the power hierarchy in this world.

And so be some people like that, you know didn’t like that was very interesting and you know a lot of it about psychology and humans.

And this book here laws of human nature goes. I would say even more deeply into that looking at different kinds of people narcissists or different kind of courtiers.

When people were more when courting someone different kinds of quarters who are they broken down into sort of Archetypes and then explore did you know, even showing sort of how to? How to read and know how to? I understand and deal with them if you’re facing those kinds of Archetypes. I just feel like when you get to consume. Some really good content like that, and you know, I would even say as we continue to work on the Speak project here just getting some inspiration from seeing updates and progress with at work.

And so it makes you makes you want to create a little bit again. And so again. I wanted to take this time here tonight to actually create instead of consume.

In many cases when I do that. You know you, you feel that that reward in the end and that reward is,  as many things and one thing I’ve continued to to focus on lately well, while considering this and I think even contributes to some of the pauses is in the creation for myself and for many people is just the lack of maybe feedback the lack of people listening or you know the views or the people commenting engaging with kind of content that you’re creating and so, if you’re printing. A lot of work and not not necessarily then you know something like this is a lot of work.

I’m lucky to have a good technical sound system setup and be able to do at least a decent quality broadcast without too much work. But it’s still a commitment of time and. And a lot of people are trying to build something for themselves, but also understand the practicality of the real world that we are in. And so you know when you’re creating content and you know, so many people are so passionate about podcasting long-form content right now. You put the time and you put the effort in and you don’t get the feedback, you don’t get the comments, you don’t get the likes and I think that can lead to a lot of people to don’t want to continue because in some ways, you know podcast seems to be a really direct. In a good way to sort of connect with the tribe and I think that’s really important but when you put that work in and you put that time and you don’t get that connection, it can lead to a pretty pretty pretty disappointing outcome for you.

And so in that case, a lot of people actually. Sort of stop broadcasting stop doing it. Especially in you know in the state of comparison. We’re looking around at people who are