7 Years

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I got a little reminder from Transistor, my podcast host, this morning: How I Built It is 7 years old.

Over the course of 6 weeks in 2016, several life-changing things happened to me:

  1. I got married on June 11th.
  2. We found out we were having our first child on July 10th.
  3. I launched How I Built It on July 27th.

You might read this and wonder why I’m lumping in the launch of a podcast with marriage and fatherhood, and while I don’t think they’re equals, all 3 deniably changed my life.

By launching How I Built It in July 2016, and I don’t think I’m being dramatic here, I changed the trajectory of my career.

Sure, I started podcasts in the past, but this one felt different.

Less than a year later, I’d quit my full time job with a 3 month old at home, bolstered by the initial success of the show.

A year after that, I’d get the first piece of advice to focus on helping people podcast.

Today, I’m no longer a full time web developer. I’m a podcast and automations coach.

Podcasting has changed a lot in those 7 years. With the help of AI, better recording tools, and stiffer competition, the podcast space is more exciting than ever before.

I’m grateful I bought an Italian domain in June (got the idea from my honeymoon), that I decided to start having conversations later than month, and actually went through launching the show.

I’m also grateful for a supportive wife; I wouldn’t be where I am without her.

The show is enjoying renewed success thanks to some experiments I’m working on that I’ll share with my members (another benefit of launching the show) soon.

For now, I’m looking forward to the next 7 years.

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