2024 & Beyond: A message from Austin

This week I wanted to have a brief discussion about the future of the podcast, the changes that will be made and the future ahead. 

Thank you for taking this journey with me, I am truly grateful. 

 

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  Hello, you beautiful people and welcome to the Adams Archive. My name is Austin Adams and thank you so much for listening today. On today's episode, I'm just gonna keep it real with you guys. All right, I've been having some questions surrounding what we should do here with the upcoming new year. I've been looking at some of the metrics and Stuff was when it comes to the podcast.

So I just wanted to have a brief discussion with you guys directly about where I see this going, some changes that I hope to make in the future for the podcast, and why I, I made those changes. I'll also include some talks about, uh, new Year's resolutions and, and some things like that. So I hope you enjoy.

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All right. So I just wanted to have, like I said, just a brief discussion with you guys today. And the reason for that is because I've been doing some thinking. I've been looking at the growth of the podcast over the last year or so. And I have goals in everything that I do, right? When I go into something, it's not just to do it, although I enjoy and love to do this for you guys.

One of my goals for this is for this to become, at least in the future, a very real source of income for my family. by participating in a passion of mine and sharing the messages and conversations that I'm interested in sharing with you guys. And a part of that journey, right? When, when, you know, I'm also have a business side of me.

I always have. I've always been an entrepreneur. Immediately when I got out of the military.  I guess even before that, when I was in the military, I actually had a, a, a clothing business, um, that I started, and, uh, had a, a family member of mine that had started something similar, and they came down and helped me out, so at 18 years old, I actually ended up making more money from a side business that I had, selling clothing outside of, uh, a certain type of, uh,  a business, um, and inside of it.

So I would basically go in, set up shop. It was a women's clothing line that I would order online from basically Chinese drop shipping companies. And I would set up these, these clothing, uh, stands within these types of businesses. And it was all cash. And I would split a percentage with the owner of the business.

And so I actually made a good portion of cash. Directly from that, during my time in the military, so much so that at one point it was making me more money than me being an air traffic controller in the Air Force. Uh, so it was pretty wild, but I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit. Right, I've always been engaged in some type of side hustle business, when I was in high school it was network marketing, like I've always been, I've always had my hands dirty in, in business, and that's because I love creating stuff.

I, I love the, the,  the pursuit of taking an idea.  Cause I always have a lot of them and trying to see that come to fruition and not only come to fruition, but also to see if other people like your idea, there's not too many mediums that you get to. Take something and get real time feedback of whether your idea was a good idea or whether your idea sucked.

And business is a great medium for that because it will, you'll always know, the market will always tell you whether or not your idea is good or not. And so that, you know, segues me into the next thing here, which is that anytime you have a business, anytime you have an entity, anytime you have a business idea, there's an idea  On, you know, there's a couple of books that you should read if you, if you're in business and you're, you're wanting to dive deeper into this, but one of them is the lean startup.

And the idea with the lean startup is that you don't go, you, you go into an idea and you have what's called a leap of faith, which is your original hypothesis that you then test through the market, right? Whether you do it through different email campaigns, whether you do it through paid advertising, whether you go talk to people with boots on the ground, see if people like what you're doing and.

You'll get pretty good feedback almost immediately. And you shouldn't go into your business with this concrete sense of what it's going to be until you get consistent market feedback from running experiments.  And so anytime you see stagnant.  Uh, when anytime you don't have any growth in your business or any entity, maybe it's because you don't have what they would call product market fit, right?

And what that means is essentially that the product that you have is something that people want