Creating this podcast has helped me become a more confident writer and content creator. For a long time, I waited for those magical days when I felt confident and self-assured to sit down and create. That's when I'd really dive in allowing the ideas to bubble up.
I wanted to be able to sit down and write or record or create content (or create art too for that matter) no matter how confident I felt, or didn't feel. committing to publish the Daily Dose of Hope podcast every M-F meant I'd have to do this on a pretty regular basis, whether I was feeling confident and creative or not.
Now that I'm 50+ episodes in, here's what I've learned:
Committing to doing this feels good and the fact that I kept this promise to myself has made me even more confident in my ability to keep going - not less.
Confidence didn't make writing and recording possible, writing and recording made confidence possible.