The Podcast Journey Of Just Interesting People | Entrepreneur Chronicles #5
Let’s carry on with the exploration of my past projects. Between 2017 and 2020, I started a personal blog, a web design company, a t-shirt brand, a travel blog, a beach cleanup initiative, a YouTube channel, and a project related to infant loss. Not bad for 3 years, and hey, at least one of them is still alive! 😅
Next, I want to talk about the Just Interesting People podcast. The original idea came in 2018. Rosie and I often remembered insightful conversations we had with interesting people around the world and thought how great it would be to have those recordings to remember and share. I bought the domain name, but that was it for a while.
In January 2020, a chat with my friend Alvey Thompson Jr inspired me to finally start the podcast! We ran the podcast for nearly 3 years and recorded 157 episodes, starting with audio-only and then adding video. I loved working on the podcast. We decided to pause it in December 2022 when we started traveling intensively, as it was too hard to manage with time zones, unreliable internet connections, and prioritizing our time. But I’m saying ‘pause’ rather than ‘stopped’ because I will definitely get back to it at some point!
From a personal perspective, the podcast connected me to awesome people. I learned more about people I knew, connected with others I would not have otherwise, and we talked to a wide variety of guests, including a serious Pokemon card collector, entrepreneurs from various industries, people from different countries and backgrounds, artists, and individuals of different bodies, genders, or sexual orientations. These conversations and the guests’ experiences taught me about topics I probably never would have learned about otherwise, making me a more open and understanding person.
It was also great from a skills standpoint. I had to learn how to set up a podcast, record good-quality episodes, and easily schedule recordings. Editing an episode every week meant spending more time with editing software, and publishing episodes on podcast platforms or YouTube later came in super handy for Warrior Flow School.
Maybe the most challenging aspect for me was actually being on the show. I’m someone who likes to stay in the background. I don’t need to be the face or voice of anything, but for this, I had to step out of my comfort zone and get used to talking in front of a microphone and camera. While it’s not something I thoroughly enjoy, I don’t mind it now; I can do it. It made me a better listener because when you interview someone, you need to pay attention to what they’re saying to drive the conversation.
Overall, it was an amazing experience. To be honest, if I could monetize it and make a living out of it, I would probably focus most of my time and energy on that because making money to have amazing conversations with interesting people… I mean, what beats that? Unfortunately, it’s not easy to grow and monetize a podcast, and I had to focus on other things to sustain myself financially.
👉 This is part of my Entrepreneur Chronicles—real stories, real lessons. Dive into the full series here.