26. Six Months In — What Podcasting Has Really Been Like

Six months. Twenty-six episodes. Countless conversations, unexpected tangents, a few technical hiccups, and more camping updates than anyone could have predicted.

In this episode of Wildly Intentional, Flick and Verity take a look back at their first six months of podcasting and reflect on what the journey has really been like.

From the initial idea and early nerves to finding their rhythm behind the microphone, they discuss what's changed since the beginning, what they've learned along the way, and how they're looking to evolve the podcast moving forward.

The ladies talk openly about the reality of creating a podcast alongside running businesses, careers and life in general. Flick shares what goes on behind the scenes as the one responsible for the technical side of the show—from editing and uploading episodes to creating the occasional Reel—while Verity openly embraces her role of turning up, talking and trusting Flick to make the magic happen.

Together, they reflect on some of their favourite moments from the last six months, including the conversations that sparked deeper thinking, the episodes that surprised them, and the unscripted moments that have become part of the fabric of the show. Yes, that includes the ongoing camping saga, unexpected interruptions, and those episodes where neither of them quite knew where the conversation was going next.

Most importantly, they explore the themes that have emerged throughout the podcast: growth, courage, identity, business, friendship, neurodiversity and the reality of being human while trying to build something meaningful.

This is a reflective, honest and often funny conversation about what happens when you commit to showing up week after week—and what you learn about yourself in the process.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome to Wildly Intentional, the podcast of business owners who refuse to play small. This is where we'll have bold talks, honest conversations and dig into what it really takes to create big breakthroughs in business and in life.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

We're Verity and Flick. We're two business owners who have built, broken, rebuilt and grown businesses in our own ways.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

And we're here to share the lessons, the mindset shifts and the unapologetic decisions that have really helped us to level up.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

So if you're ambitious, you're gross focused, and you're ready to do business on your own terms, you're in exactly the right place. So let's get wildly intentional. Hello. Hiya! You were looking at me very weird then, as if to say, I don't know if this is recording.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Well, yeah, because normally it pops up on on the right hand side of my screen, so in fact the recording started. But it wasn't, it was just because it pops up in the centre, but then it also pops up on the right, and it popped up on the centre, but not on the right. So I was just like, Oh, is it is it? Is it not? Is it It's telling me it's recording? Yeah.

unknown 1:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

You okay? Yeah, not too bad. And I've I've listened back and we weren't talking over each other in the recording of last week's episode. We weren't. No. Do you remember when my my internet dropped out and it was all going a bit crazy? So I was talking and you were talking trying to explain the fact that my internet was going weird. Um, yeah, it recorded you, not me.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

Oh, okay, cool. Did that make sense or did it sound like I was talking to myself?

SPEAKER_02 1:30

No, no, it did it did make sense because you were literally explaining what was going on. So it made sense while I was listening back to the podcast. I've not heard it back from any of our listeners whether or not it didn't make sense though.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Oh, okay, cool. Cool. Um I'm just gonna give like a caveat here because I'm yawning like crazy, because we're actually recording this at night after a full day of work, and it's like, oh, my brain is not braining anymore. I'm still braining today.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Yeah, I was gonna say, I haven't thought they're two lots, two lots of work. I'll come back from working in the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Technically, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

We've got double work shifts for us and then coming on to record a podcast. But this one's gonna be a fun one. This one's gonna be introspective and reflective and all kinds of stuff. So, what are we talking about today, Verity?

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Well, we are celebrating Flick because we are officially on episode 26. Is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is actually our six-month anniversary.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

It is one a week podcast for six months.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

I know, and we've done it one a week, every week for six months. I cannot believe we have stayed on course. We are currently arguing about whether to continue this way because I think we should take it down to fortnightly, and you think we shouldn't. But you know, despite that, we have made it, we made it through the wilderness.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

I I honestly, I'm not sure I actually would have believed when we first started this that we'd have made it to six months.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

I mean, the statistics of podcasts that make it to six months is like it's a ridiculously small amount of podcasts that that do this many episodes as we've done, and we've done it, and that's why I'm like, no, we don't want to, we don't want to drop it down.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

I'm not sure we've got any more listeners than we did in the first one, but hey ho, still we're going.

SPEAKER_02 3:23

Oh, we've got some regular listeners, and I look I love our regular listeners.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

We have thank you, regular listeners who have stuck with us for six whole months. I remember the first episode where we said we're just gonna see how this goes. You know, we're not very consistent, we're both ADHD, it's not likely that this will continue, and here we are. I think this is like one of the biggest achievements of my entire life.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

To consistently do a podcast every week.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

Absolutely, it's been a journey.

SPEAKER_02 3:56

You've kept two humans alive for their entire life as well.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Yeah, three, actually.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

Yeah, you're now you're now you've now got a third.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

Yeah, and my husband, that's cool. Although, to be fair to him, it's more he keeps me alive. Can't really take credit for him. I literally just phoned him now. He's waiting for me to because I I work for my mum's because I can get away from the dogs and the kids and everything else. So I've literally taken over a spare room that's now my office. So um, she lives three doors down from me. I've probably said that before, but I just phoned him when you messaged me. And I phoned him and said, Um, I know it's like half past eight, and I know you're waiting for dinner, but can you give me another 40 minutes? Because that pain in the backside flick wants to do a podcast. The blessing he sat there hungry and waiting for his wife to come back. He's hungry. I don't have to apologize to my husband. I did tell him it's gonna be a late one because to be fair, I knew that I was gonna have to do my assignment tonight. So, can I just congratulate myself on that? It took me two and a half hours, right? Just to do the like bibliological, I can't even say it. Bibliologic, I can't say it. You know, we reference people. What is it? Bibliography, yeah, bibliography, my conclusions, and get my word countdown on my assignment. So, those who don't know, I'm actually doing a level seven qualification at the minute. And if anybody's thinking of it, my only advice would be don't bloody do it, because I will never do it again. It has not been an enjoyable process. However, I've learned a lot and it's really helped me with my job, and my job has helped me with the assignments, it's brilliant. Um, but yeah, I was 738 words over when I looked at it this evening, so I had to skim off. Well, I am at the 10%, which they allow. So I said to you earlier, if I go one word over, I'm I'm done, they'll refer it, which is amazing. Um, but yeah, so I'm celebrating that today as well. But my brain is a bit fried, and so my husband did have the headset, so it's not really your fault, which I think was the point of that.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

But we're celebrating so we're celebrating six months of podcasting, and you're submitting your assignment. Yes, and I've got one more to go, and that's it and done.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Yes, we are celebrating today.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

All good, it's just amazing, yeah. Um what might what have I been up to? Well, I've actually been applying for some business awards today, which I think we should probably talk about business awards in another podcast episode because we've kind of mentioned them before, but yeah, that's that's my big plan at the moment is the fact that I'm applying for some business awards.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

I'm trying to talk you into doing it for like two years.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

I know, I know, and I've just I've literally like finalised down on some of the categories that I want to do. I've seen some other awards that have come up as well. But yeah, there's there's a whole other topic that we can talk about for business awards, I think. We need to add that in the case.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

If you want me to scan my eyes over it, I can, you know, just coming from a we won five awards perspective, just putting that out there.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

You're just gonna subtly drop that one in there. Oh, I love those days, they were brilliant. I am I am a little bit struggling, so I might actually take you up on that. But the deadline for the ones that I'm applying for at the moment is Saturday, so it's Thursday night and the deadline's Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

I'm like, yeah, that's fine. It's exciting, it's good. I'm very proud of you. So yeah. So I was just gonna say probably what you're gonna say. Should we talk about the journey?

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Yeah, let's let's talk about it. Go on then. I like that. Yeah, you can talk about it, Flick. Um, so I mean, but there have been some subtle changes that we've brought into the podcast as we've been recording them, haven't there?

SPEAKER_01 7:42

Um so yeah, I'm still I actually think we started to bore ourselves. So we were like, yeah, we need to shape this up, we need to do something.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Yeah, we we need to try and I mean try and stay on topic as much as two ADHD women can stay on topic. Um, but I think the topics that we had, we came up with them an awfully.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Can I just interrupt you there? Because even that sentence.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

We don't apologise for it.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Oh, okay. I'm just gonna interrupt you there. Um, our regular listeners probably, when you said, you know, we try and stay on topic, they probably burst out laughing and in their heads were like, not once of you stayed on topic, ever. Ever.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

Fair, fair fair point. Carry on. No, I just mean the fact that so we came up with a load of topics, didn't we? But this was back when before you were you weren't back employed, so we came up with them very much on the business coach side of what what you used to do. Yeah. Um, and we tried to stick to those, even though you got employed and sort of changed what you were doing, and my business was evolving, and we didn't really evolve the topics with it.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

You mean I went over to the dark side?

SPEAKER_02 8:50

I'm not saying that.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

I did, I did go over to the dark side. I quite like it though.

SPEAKER_02 8:57

You love your job.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

I do, I really do. I wish I didn't, but I do.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

Um, but yeah, so we we we realised the fact that the topics that we had weren't really serving who we were. I think we probably came up with too many topics to not actually allow us to evolve with them as well.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

Um so yeah, so we we're we're changing that. I think we're only going to come up with a few topics at a time, unless like you know, the awards thing, something comes up while we're talking and we go, actually, we need to do an episode on that.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

And I actually really like the direction we're going in now because I think we were getting a little bit, we were feeling a bit stale, I think. And it didn't really make sense to us anymore. Because obviously, when we started this, I still had my own business, and then it was literally a few episodes in, really, wasn't it, that I got offered a job. And then it was like, Well, we won't say anything, we'll just carry on. And then I decided to just announce it and go with it because you shouldn't be embarrassed of the life changes you make, um, should be proud of them, and then we just kind of tried to keep going with it, and it was like I was drawing on experience of like the past 13 years, but it just didn't feel relevant to who I am now and what I'm doing now, and actually, what I'm doing now is like there's lots in there that's really valuable, whether it's for business or life, and also with the trauma inform stuff for me, because I just qualified and all that, and then I was dumping it and it just didn't make sense because like you know, I was really passionate about that and I wanted to bring it in again, so we kind of over the last few episodes, our regular listeners, I hope you've noticed, um, have kind of, you know, I've calmed down, so I'm not quite so shadowy. Um, and we've taken that kind of you've taken the business and marketing side, and I've taken the trauma-informed side and the the way we feel about that. And I think that's a really nice balance. And I think that's a really kind of I like it.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

It works because like you focus on the internal, like what's going on inside your brain with the that trauma-informed sort of coaching stuff. Whereas I focus more on the external of visibility, you know, the showing up, you know, how is that showing itself to your audience and you know, to the public and things like that. So we've got that kind of internal, external juxtaposition, which I think really works, plus it's us, and we can just chat about anything and everything can just watch as your brain goes, how does she make a link between those two things?

SPEAKER_01 11:16

And yet, and you do every time you make a link between the most random things. I think one of my favorite things over the last six months is all the analogies that you come out with, you just come out with random phrases for random things, and it's like, how did you ever process that information? How have your how has your brain kept that information in your head and puts it into your mind right at the right time? It baffles me because your brain is amazing, you pick up so many things, and you have kind of made the is it is analogy the right word?

SPEAKER_02 11:53

I don't know. Well, it's the connotations, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 11:56

It's the links, the the yeah, yeah, and the kind of references that you make, and it's just and they're all really good. I like writ write them down and I use them, they're amazing.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

It was like the um, I was thinking about it the other day, I can't remember where I was, but somebody said, Oh, I'll give it to me sandwich logic. And I brought back up like, no, don't use that. Don't go for the fact that you you sandwich that in between two good because you only ever focus on the fact that there's a ham sandwich or a cheese sandwich. And somebody went, Where on earth have I heard that? I was like, Oh, you'll have listened to the podcast because I said that on the podcast and already took it and ran with it. Um, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

It's been great. What's been your highlights?

SPEAKER_02 12:35

Um, I think the fact that for me, the highlight has genuinely been that we don't edit edit these episodes, we we we are just and that it kind of feeds into who we are. You know, the whole reason why we we don't apologize to each other, we said right at the beginning, but I don't know whether we've revisited it since, you know, other than the fact they're calling each other out and we apologize, um, is because you know, as a as a business owner, you have to own your mistakes, right? You have to say, okay, I did that thing and I did it wrong. And you know, as women we we constantly apologise for things. So um, yeah, where was I going with that? I was going, I can't come back. Um, what's been my highlight?

SPEAKER_01 13:15

I do think the uh the episodes where we go completely off beast, the women gone wild episodes have been like the the Yeah, the menopause ones and the ADHD ones.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

Those have those have been really fun to explore as well with the ADHD of like talking about the process. I will, I promise at some point I will actually take the paperwork down to the doctor.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

I was just gonna say, haven't actually taken that paperwork yet, because that's been about six months in the make-in. No, it's still not, it's still sat in your desk, right? Okay, it's well no, it's sat in my computer, I need to print it off. Oh, right, okay. So you're still three steps away from it then. Um okay. I would not say that I'm gonna remind you, but let's face it, I'm not so no.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

Well, Rob said something the other day, and I kind of went, Oh, okay, yeah, now I understand why he's he's he's very much pushing me to get the diagnosis and so forth. And then we saw a reel last night of um a teenager who did basically a gender reveal thing for her ADHD. So if she got confirmed ADHD, she had one, she had like lemon filling on her cake, and if she if she wasn't confirmed ADHD, it was going to be a chocolate filling, and so she did the whole wine glass upside down with her older sister into the cake to see whether it was lemon or chocolate. And I was like, I was like, okay, now I want to do that.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

But I feel like I've missed out now. What an opportunity. I think that's just brilliant. I I don't think I could have done that though, to be fair, because I was so offended by the two counts of significantly impaired. I'm still not over it, that I don't think I could have celebrated it at that point of time. It was like still, you know, it's still it's still great.

SPEAKER_02 14:54

Well, it was the fact that we watched this video, and Rob was like, you know, you can just buy yourself a lemon cake if you really want to, you don't actually have to do a gender repeal if you want lemon cake. I was like, no, but it'd be really fun and think of the socials and think of the video opportunities. And he's like, Yes, but you could spot the ADHD on that kid because she was so excited by the fact that she was gonna get cake no matter what the outcome was.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

And I'll like releasing the popper before the cake even gets announced on the basis that that's just my style, and two, because there's no way you're having chocolate cake, it's just not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

I don't even like chocolate cake, to be honest with you. So I'd be really lemon cake's the best, it's a really good choice. Lemon cake's lovely, lovely. Yeah. Um, what's what's been your highlight sometimes that whole thing started with me saying what's your highlight?

SPEAKER_01 15:45

I think mine's a bit deeper, I think. Like I I've loved all your kind of um references and things, but I think for me it's it's almost helped me transition through the self-employed stage to the employed, and then almost doing full circle where I'm thinking, I love my job, I want to keep my job, but there is something like missing, and I kind of want to do something as well. I don't know when, I don't know when I'm gonna do that, but I I've kind of loved it's almost the journey that we've been on has almost kind of helped me to settle in because it's it's like um I get to talk about it, so it helps me to process everything that's happened.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

So I kind of like that our life has changed, or mine in particular has changed so much from the start to where we are now. And it's almost because when I first started this job, my I was such a hypocrite because my confidence was on the floor. Like for the first three months, I struggled like crazy because my ADHD traits came out in force. Because, of course, all the traits, all the tools that I'd learned and I built up over the years to protect me in business all went out the window when I was employed. It was a completely different scenario. So I've had to learn new tools and new way of doing things. And for the first three months, I was finding that really difficult, probably four actually. It's only in the last couple of months that I've really started to really love it and I'm getting into it. And I feel like this has kind of followed me on that journey and it's helped me process things as it goes along. And I'm glad that I decided to kind of tell people that that's what I was doing because I think I would have found it really difficult and really dishonest if I hadn't have announced that. It would have felt like I wasn't I wasn't speaking the truth. So I wasn't speaking my truth, and that would have kind of it wouldn't have sat well with me.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Yeah, you'd have gone back into masking and it it it was noticeable, I think, in the in the two episodes that we released where you were still trying to hide the fact that you were employed. Um, because I think you know, if I look back on the six months, you've probably mentioned IMC more than you mentioned Blue Giraffe, although you have talked an awful lot about the Tower Tribe. Um, but I don't know whether that was just because it was so close to when you did go back to being employed that it just kind of I I don't know, was a mental block for you. I don't know, but yeah, I I you know it's in those two episodes you were very I want to say guarded, like you could I I could tell because I know you so well, you know, we we've known each other for a very long time now. It's been nearly eight years that we've known each other.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

Is it? Oh, shut up, really? Oh my god, time flies.

SPEAKER_02 18:22

Um I first reached out for social media support in Thailand 2018, 20 beginning of 2019. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Oh god, that's I can't believe really eight years nearly. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 18:33

Yeah, you're stuck with it. It feels like a lifetime ago, it does feel like a lifetime ago, but at the same time, it feels like yesterday, it's really weird.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

No, no, she's she's not old enough to be like you know in secondary school.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

Ridiculous, in it. I mean, it's brilliant and she had a great night, but it's primary school. Come on, how American can you get? It's like just an excuse to cost parents money. You know, I can understand it leaving school, but it's you know, this tradition started like a year before Isabella did it, and it was like, Oh, here we go, so but I'm not taking anything away because Molly had an amazing time, she loved it, and she looked beautiful. I was very proud of her, she had a great night, so you know, just in case, because you know, Molly pulls me up on things I say, so just in case she ever gets hold of a podcast, Molly, I'm really proud of you, and it was lovely, and you dressed up.

SPEAKER_02 19:22

Molly should just be starting school to me, not not going to prom and and finishing and uh no.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Well, eight years ago, she was literally in nursery. Yeah, exactly. Crazy, it's really crazy. And Isabella's going into like year nine. She's just uh she's a proper teenager, proper teenager. What at all? Um I love you, bells. Yeah, it's just yeah, it's been crazy. It's been eight years. Wow, okay. I'm just gonna put a caveat into what you just said earlier about like IMC and Blue Giraffe. Um, you know, I don't, I think maybe for me the reason I didn't talk about blue giraffe so much is because I haven't actually closed the doors. And I there is something stopping me from closing the doors. I can't, I can't. And you know, we've had conversations that there is kind of ideas floating around at the minute. Yeah. And I feel like the universe is at play a little bit and excited Peppy did come out again this morning, but she's gone back in because you know she's exhausted. Um, but yeah, I I haven't, I couldn't shut the door to it. And I think and I think maybe that's why I didn't talk about it, because it made me sad because Blue Giraffe, I loved, I just loved everything about that company. I loved it, and I had huge dreams for it. Not to say that I regret anything because I don't, I really love my job. I was always meant to do this job, but there is there was always something, and I think now because I'm kind of coming back around, I know why I I didn't talk about it much, and I know why I didn't close the doors, and I think there is still there's life in the old giraffe yet. Animal reference, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

Um I think that's I forgot what I was gonna say then. I was like, I started that sentence and brain went sideways, you know. That that thought got completely derailed. Um so yeah, I think you know, looking at the podcast, because I think we started to do reflection of when we met and on the journey that we've been on. Actually, I think this was the right decision for us because we've been saying for ages, haven't we? We've been trying to work different ways of actually how we could get back to working together. Yeah. Um, you know, l regular listeners of the podcast know the fact that I used to work for you when it was IMC Social. Um, you know, or or people who followed my story, they they've known me um under IMC Social before I started the social dragonfly. Um, and there was always a, you know, even when I stopped working for you and started up on my own, there was always that, you know, you're not getting rid of me, Verity. You might not be my boss anymore. And this was just the the perfect way, I think, to bring us back together um in terms of a business collaboration. And you know, we're not saying that there's not going to be something in future, there's not going to be more things potentially, but it's just this was the right thing, I think, for us and our our relationship.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

And I, you know, just gonna say that I I do think that it's leading to a potential collaboration of sorts, potentially. You know, let's just tease a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

Um, but yeah, and I think, you know, I looking at the podcast as well, it works for us that we don't we don't edit a lot. I mean, we did have to edit the other week where you got the the work call. Um, we could just about hear the the ringing, um, like the team's little jingle um in the background, and we had to, you know, we had to splice the episode as we record it. But I think it worked for us. I think actually, you know, being completely honest with with you, our listeners, yeah, um and with each other about the fact that no, sometimes you know, life gets in the way of business, and you know, obviously for you, work got in the way of pesky work.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

Work people that pay my salary every month. How dare they interrupt my lunch break?

unknown 23:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

How dare they want you to actually work and not you know sit and chat with sit and chat on the podcast with a friend.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Just in case anybody's listening, I do always do this on my break because I do not do it in work time. I'm just saying no, she does. I will I will back her up on it before a ridiculous o'clock or after a ridiculous o'clock, or I sneak it in at lunch some hour and again. But that's rare.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

It's very case, you know. Normally, normally I'm out and about as well with networking, so we can't do it in the middle of the day. It's normally first thing in the morning. Or it's like I say, it's half past eight at night tonight, and we're we're recording.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

Yeah, everything in the morning is always fun though, because that those are the episodes where you know you throw your coffee over yourself, which is probably another highlight, actually. That was that was a good one. Watching.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

I still need to release the video of that, my face during that my whole interaction of life.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

It's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

Brilliant. Yeah. So what do we think is gonna we're gonna are we gonna change? Are we gonna tweak? Are we gonna improve? Are we gonna add to the podcast?

SPEAKER_01 24:08

I I think we're going for me. I think we're going in a really nice direction now. And this is new to us because it's only been the last couple of episodes that we've really started to bring this in. But I think going down the route of um you with the kind of marketing and business aspect, so you on the external and me on the internal, I think it just it's a really nice blend. It really works well because often we don't kind of associate the two together. I mean, I know that you've got a background in psychology and you do bring that in. And even when I at the social media agency, actually, we did use to talk about the psychology of it and how it affects you. But um, for me, obviously, it goes a little bit deeper with the nervous system. There is that kind of element to it, and I just think I think that's the really nice blend. I kind of want to explore that a little bit and see where that goes, really, because I think that might be a really there's like two angles for our listeners. I I like it, yeah, feeling really comfortable with it.

SPEAKER_02 25:03

Yeah, it I think it works really well. Like I say, like I said earlier, it works really well for the balance with us, with how we with how we walk work together. Um, I think, you know, I mean, I'll go we'll go out and say this again, is the fact that I'd like to see us doing more, you know, releasing more reels and videos and snippets and stuff of this for you know, socials, things like that. Um, unfortunately, it's one of those of when my business gets busy. Yeah, I love that. But you can't see the fact that Verity's pulling her face when I'm saying this because she's like, Yeah, that's gonna be our new flick, you know that, right?

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Like I'm totally thinking that because the in the one ADHD moment where I got really excited and was like, Yes, I'm gonna commit to this and I'm gonna market it and I'm gonna help flick, that lasted for like a week.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Yeah, you did it for like a couple of episodes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

So and I really do, I really want to promote this. It's just I I just can't. I just it's me. I can't, I can't find the time to do that, which is ridiculous. So it is all on you, and it has been, I'm very aware of it. Um, and it sucks because actually we probably think we could have done much more with it, but also I wonder if I go into the nervous system and behaviour behind the behaviour and all of that. I wonder if I felt a little bit of a barrier because we hadn't quite decided, we haven't quite found our way forward yet, and it feels more natural to me now. So maybe you will see a little bit more of me promoting it on social media because it feels like it's sitting better with me now. I feel like we've been through the exploration stage, we kind of found our feet a little bit, and now I'm like really happy with the direction we're going in. So maybe that was what was stopping me. And it's interesting, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Because I mean, as we said right then, very, very beginning, like the pair of us, we both thought independently of starting a podcast for such a long time, and we had such barriers to to doing it of like, oh, it's gonna be really technical, it's gonna be really difficult. I mean, I had so many barriers on like, well, how long is it? I don't really want to do it just me talking to you know, an empty room and like hoping somebody out there is listening. I wanted to have this kind of conversational piece, but you know, in that that random one-to-one where we just jumped on a call together because it was like, right, what's going on? I've got all these things in my head, and you helped me through that. And I was like, I kind of want to start a podcast, but I want to do it with somebody in that moment where you were like, uh, Fleg, what do you mean you want to start a podcast? I've been saying for six months I wanted to start one, and here we are, we've been doing one for six months.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

It's yeah, I'm just gonna put it out there though that I've still got all those barriers because you've done all the work. I still couldn't do one on my own because I still can't do the tech side or the editing side or anything else. So um, you may have removed those barriers, but you know, I just rock up and talk for half an hour to an hour every week. Let's face it, there is not a lot of effort from my from me.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

Um but yeah, no, I I've found like even working with some of the I mean, do we even want to talk about like what it took for us to record our intros and outros?

SPEAKER_01 28:04

Oh my god. That took about six months in itself. We actually started this a year ago. I think we don't know. That was a nightmare. I think we need to redo that actually. I think as much as as much as that was traumatic in itself, I do think we need to consider a new intro and outro because I think it needs to move with us.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

Yeah, because the the intros and outros are still very much on what what it was when we first thought of it. And and like you say, we've we've evolved. So yeah, but I I have some ideas on that because you'll notice that that on our intros and outros, there's like a sentence that I say, then there's a sentence that varieties, and and back and forth. And we've got two different versions of it. So there's one where I start, and then there's one where Verity starts. And we say the same thing, we just and I've I've got some ideas on that of what we can do, so we'll discuss that often. But it's not gonna be as traumatic. Okay, I hope it's not as traumatic as that first recording.

SPEAKER_01 28:57

All right, which is the idea of you having some ideas is like sending my nervous system. Well, no, fine. It does, it needs to evolve because we we're very different to how we were when we first started, so it does need to evolve.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Yeah. And and I think, you know, it's it's good, you know, it it works for what we started with, but I think where we're going to be taking the podcast now is is you know, we need to we need to we need to ramp it up and do a little bit better. And plus, I notice a fact that we we only say our first names. So actually people are looking for us, you know, or they they listen to our podcast and they want to come find us on socials.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

Don't come find me on socials. I am not available on socials, just say in. I'm available in our group. You can find me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn's alright. I'm still very in and out on Facebook. Actually, I've privatized my Facebook now because I don't use it for business, so it's like my you won't get into my personal account unless you're my friend. But you know, maybe the blue giraffe. I'm a friend. You have, yeah. That's because I haven't done my latest at all. No joking. I'll never get rid of you, Flick. Um thanks. Yeah, blue giraffe is alright, because that's still there. It doesn't exist in terms of content right now, but that's there and and LinkedIn's there. So yeah. So yeah, well, happy six months, Flick. It's been a ride, I've loved it. I'm very proud of it.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

Yeah. And let's let's see what the next six months is gonna be like. Yeah. I'm excited. I'm excited.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Thanks to those who are regular listeners stuck with us. Um and hopefully you like the changes that we're gonna go through. But let us know, you know, there is that Facebook group that we never use and nobody uses. Um we'd like to use. So feel free to come on there and tell us what you think and what have been your highlights over the last six months and what do you want to see in the future? That would be a really good conversation.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

That would be a very good conversation. Um, I'd really, yeah, I'd I'd love to know what what pick what's your favourite episode of the last, you know, answering answers on a postcard of uh what was your favourite episode? Is it one where we've shared real business insights or we're or where we've just got a little bit of a rant and a bit we've got a bit nuts?

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Yeah, those are my favourites, definitely. Yeah, when we just go a bit wild.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

But I also love the fact that we weave our personal stories because I need to I need to know where where we are with the archery, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

Oh, she hasn't mentioned it.

unknown 31:20

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:21

Um, however, I know it's still there. It is, it is something that she's kind of um talking about. I suspect it'll come up again soon, but she's it's you know it's the end of the year, so she's very, very preoccupied by things going on at the minute, but um, it will come up. I will keep you updated.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Um of course, you know, we we need to follow up with the camping.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

Well, the camping we've kind of decided that we are going to go with the decision of buying it later in the year and then starting it from kind of spring next year. They're still very much open to the idea of camping. We are going to do it, but it just we haven't got enough weekends this year to excuse me, to do it. So there's no point in buying it yet.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

Well, last week last weekend I spent my first full night actually asleep on a camp bed. Nice. Which was yeah, last time I slept on a camp bed, I hadn't quite worked out my uh my camp sleeping cycle because the the when you're in charge of somebody else's kids, like I I just don't sleep because I'm like, my god, what if they have an issue in the middle of the night? But no, I slept on a camping bed. Unfortunately, it was an oh an X RAF camping bed, which means that it was the noisiest thing ever because it's designed for when they're this would be Molly.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

Hang on. She's not gonna accept that. Hang on, let me message, see if I can message her quick enough to say stop calling me, stop calling, I want to call.

SPEAKER_02 32:49

I'll be fine. It's because she's hungry. Um, but yeah, so my my campaign bank was very, very squeaky um because it was an old one. Um so yeah, hopefully, you know, when you get your camp bed, it'll be a new one and it doesn't squeak like-minded. Yeah, that's my idea.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

I'm still a bit of a an inflatable kind of girl. We'll see. I don't know. I need to test it. I still think it would collapse under my weight.

SPEAKER_02 33:19

Right. Um, I think we we ought to wrap this up then. So we've had a bit of a camping update, we've had the archery update.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:25

And we've reflected on the last six months.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:27

Because you know, Molly's calling you.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

She is, yeah. I won't tell you what she wants. I definitely won't tell you what she wants. She kill me.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

That's because you mentioned her name.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Yeah, absolutely. Um, well, thanks for a great six months, and thanks for listening for the last six months.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

You still do as well.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

Six months. Yeah. Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_02 33:47

Let us know. Like I say, let us know what your favourite episode has been for the last six months. Um, yeah, let us know what your thoughts are on the changes and updates that we're going to be bringing in very soon.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Yes, do that. Okay, I go to bed now. I'm gonna eat and go to bed.

SPEAKER_02 34:03

Right, folks, we'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

See you next time. Bye. Thanks for spending this time with us on Wildly Intentional. If this podcast sparks something for you, take it with you and act on it. Don't forget to subscribe, share, and come and say hello online.

SPEAKER_02 34:22

And remember, bold talk leads to big breakthroughs with no apologies.