I have just released the 100th episode of the Creative Spirits Unleashed Podcast. For most of the 99 episodes of this podcast, I have been your host. In this episode, the tables are turned. This time, it’s me answering some thought provoking, and in at least one case, tear-inducing questions asked by Stevie Delahunt.
Here’s how this episode came to be. I began working on a 100 episode retrospective about a month ago. This alone is a daunting task, because that’s a LOT of episodes, and my guests have inspired a lot of wisdom. Encapsulating so much inspiring advice in one single episode might be a bridge too far.
Just as I was realizing a retrospective will take more than one episode, I got this message from Stevie: “I saw that you are at the 99th podcast, and I was curious who the 100th podcast was going to be…someone should be interviewing you on your podcast. If you don’t have anyone, I will do it! You should be the 100th guest on your podcast, just so you know.”
Without blinking an eye, I jumped on this offer. Stevie was kind enough to send me some questions, and I may be borrowing many of these for future podcast guests.
One of the things we talked about in this episode is a glaring insight I’ve gleaned in my look back over the last 100 episodes over five years. What I thought this podcast would be about has taken a slightly different turn. Where I set out to explore issues in balance work and life, I found that instead, the prevailing theme is balance under pressure. It’s a subtle difference in words that is night and day in practice.
That means in a few episodes, I will be changing the language at the introduction to reflect today’s reality.
In the meantime, enjoy this episode where Stevie interviews me.