Five Year Anniversary Episode (LA 1298)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:
Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Northern California.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about... Well, it's our five year anniversary episode.
Jill DeWit:
Yay. Oh, I'm sorry I don't have champagne and balloons and everything right now, because this is recorded a few days before this. But I either have already by the time you're listening or I'm about to later today, as this airs on Friday, July 31st, 2020, we're doing something special. So you'll see us with some kind of celebration stuff going on.
Steven Jack Butala:
We launched Land Academy on July 31st, 2015.
Jill DeWit:
Wow.
Steven Jack Butala:
And all the way up to the setting up the podcast and learning a ton about software I never wanted to learn, that entire time I said, "There's no way this is ever going to work. Why would anyone... People aren't going to understand buying and selling land. They never have."
Jill DeWit:
And what if they don't like us?
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Yes.
Jill DeWit:
And what if they get it, they just don't want to listen to us?
Steven Jack Butala:
Or all that in between. And Jill's response was, every single time, "You're crazy. They're going to love it. They're going to do well with it. They're going to respond to it well. It doesn't have to be perfect," and on, and on, and on. She was right, and I was wrong.
Jill DeWit:
Thank you.
Steven Jack Butala:
This is almost episode 1,298.
Jill DeWit:
98. Woo-hoo. We have another thing to celebrate here pretty soon too.
Steven Jack Butala:
That's amazing too. Either that, or we're just weirdo whack jobs. Usually I say, let's take a question posted by one of our members, but today I'm going to ask Jill some questions about... And she theoretically is going to ask me some about five years later.
Jill DeWit:
So we're jumping right into the meat of the show?
Steven Jack Butala:
It's all the kind of the thing. Sure. This is the meat of the show.
Jill DeWit:
All right. This is exciting. This is awesome.
Steven Jack Butala:
Did you ever think that it would end up being this?
Jill DeWit:
No. I had no idea it would be this good and be this big-
Steven Jack Butala:
Just well received.
Jill DeWit:
... and be this successful.
Steven Jack Butala:
You know what I didn't think? I didn't realize, number one, how many people we are helping. Not just like seller's getting out of their land, but people learning how to buy and sell real estate. And then number two, and this is really the meat for me, the meat of the show, I didn't realize how much I enjoyed teaching and watching people succeed. It's like a second career.
Jill DeWit:
That's good.
Steven Jack Butala:
What's your take on it?
Jill DeWit:
I agree.
Steven Jack Butala:
What's your surprising take? Or is this pretty much what you thought?
Jill DeWit:
Okay. So is that question number one? How are we going to do this? You want to ask questions or just converse?
Steven Jack Butala:
Well, it's the meat of the show. So yeah, just converse.
Jill DeWit:
Okay. So what are my biggest takeaways now five years later? I knew it would work because I know that... And that's a fact. Whatever you and I put our minds to and really put our heads down, we will go all in on it. We won't socialize, we'll stay home, we'll do whatever it takes. We'll work evenings, we'll work weekends. It's one of the nice things about us that we... And it would be hard if I was with someone that didn't feel that way. They'd be like, "No, it's dinner time. You have to stop." I'd be like, "this is our livelihood. I can't stop," kind of thing.
And we help each other too. Like even this morning, we're getting ready to change locations. So kid and I are packing the car, while you're setting up equipment.