Episode 122
Reflecting on 2024: The Pros and Cons of Bamby Media's Journey
Today I’m taking you behind-the-scenes to the inner workings of Bamby Media throughout 2024. I reflect on the year's pros and cons, discuss the impact of AI on podcast production, and explore how smoother processes and systems contributed to a calm work environment. I also take a look at personal achievements, challenges with software, and the effects of AI-generated podcasts.
Additionally, the episode touches upon the significance of the Bamby Media YouTube channel, free podcast audits, and team upskilling. We round off with future aspirations and the new studio space that is coming in 2025.
00:00 Introduction and Unexpected Challenges
02:12 Reflections on 2024: Pros
02:20 The Impact of AI on Our Workflow
03:33 Calmer Year and Improved Processes
05:52 Personal Growth and New Ventures
06:53 YouTube Channel Success
08:21 Client Engagement and New Services
09:13 Team Development and Training
12:40 Travel and Industry Recognition
14:15 Significant Client Growth
16:25 Cons and Areas for Improvement
22:38 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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So I recorded an episode at the end
Speaker:of last year, where I told everybody
Speaker:not to take a break from podcasting
Speaker:over the Christmas and January period.
Speaker:And then.
Speaker:I had batched all this content.
Speaker:It was all ready to go.
Speaker:It was all ready to be edited.
Speaker:I had a production schedule that I was
Speaker:working through for our podcast as well.
Speaker:And I had all this stuff that was
Speaker:coming out over the Christmas period.
Speaker:And you know what?
Speaker:We couldn't physically get to
Speaker:the editing of our own stuff.
Speaker:We actually landed a musical that we
Speaker:had to edit in the last, like two weeks
Speaker:before we were going to go on holidays.
Speaker:And then that just meant that everything
Speaker:else that we had planned for our own
Speaker:stuff to actually get our editing done.
Speaker:Completely got thrown out
Speaker:the window because we had to
Speaker:get this other thing done.
Speaker:It was a project that, uh, it had
Speaker:been with us technically since August,
Speaker:but we had been waiting on other
Speaker:people to get the things to us that
Speaker:we needed in order to finalize it.
Speaker:And then they just didn't get it to us.
Speaker:It was really frustrating.
Speaker:They didn't get it to us until the
Speaker:very last moment we were hounding them.
Speaker:There was emails back and forth.
Speaker:Anyway.
Speaker:It was very frustrating in the end
Speaker:and it just meant that as a production
Speaker:company, we weren't able to get to the
Speaker:stuff that we wanted to get to for our
Speaker:own show prior to going on holidays.
Speaker:And then of course we didn't want
Speaker:to do it in our holidays as well.
Speaker:So yeah.
Speaker:This means that this episode today
Speaker:is something that should have been
Speaker:released before the end of the
Speaker:year, hence the name Behind the
Speaker:Scenes of Bambi Media in 2024.
Speaker:I'm going through my reflections of what
Speaker:2024 was like, and you know, it's still
Speaker:relevant, of course, I'm still going to
Speaker:release it, but I just wanted to say at
Speaker:the front of this episode, Hey, I know
Speaker:this probably would have made more sense
Speaker:if you listened to it a couple of weeks
Speaker:ago, but we just couldn't get to it.
Speaker:So I hope you still find value.
Speaker:I hope it's a nice little sneak
Speaker:peek, sticky beak into what Bamboo
Speaker:Media is like as a company and what
Speaker:our pros and cons were for the year.
Speaker:So yeah, let's just get straight
Speaker:into it and thanks for being here.
Speaker:Welcome to my recap of 2024.
Speaker:I'm going to go through some pros, and
Speaker:then I'm going to go through some cons.
Speaker:The biggest pro I have to talk
Speaker:about, and it's probably also a
Speaker:con, but we're going to put it
Speaker:in the pro column as well, is AI.
Speaker:AI has been a massive pro here for
Speaker:us at Bambi because it's really just
Speaker:helped us do our job a lot better.
Speaker:You know, people talk about AI
Speaker:taking their jobs and things,
Speaker:and that's definitely happening.
Speaker:That's a huge deal for a lot of people.
Speaker:But for us in the industry that we're
Speaker:in, especially at this time anyway,
Speaker:who knows the future, it really
Speaker:has just helped us deliver better.
Speaker:product, like a better
Speaker:service to all our clients.
Speaker:AI is really helping us achieve better
Speaker:results when we get given audio, that
Speaker:kind of sucks, also helping us just
Speaker:like reframe things, write better,
Speaker:develop better content ideas, help us
Speaker:with strategies and things like that.
Speaker:It, you know, it only does a small
Speaker:amount of what we do, but it gets
Speaker:us over that hurdle, that first
Speaker:step that can sometimes be half an
Speaker:hour or an hour, just trying to.
Speaker:Brainstorm things.
Speaker:If you've got AI helping you,
Speaker:it definitely reduces the
Speaker:amount of brainstorming time.
Speaker:And it often triggers
Speaker:those creative ideas.
Speaker:Just having a robot to bounce off of,
Speaker:it seems weird to say that it is true.
Speaker:So the first pro is AI.
Speaker:I've also found that it's been a much
Speaker:calmer year and a lot of people have
Speaker:seen that as a negative, as far as, you
Speaker:know, maybe reduced revenue, people not
Speaker:buying as much, all that sort of thing.
Speaker:We haven't seen that in our business.
Speaker:Uh, it's been a great year as far
Speaker:as revenue is concerned, but I've
Speaker:just found that It's actually
Speaker:just karma because I think the
Speaker:processes that we have are so good.
Speaker:The systems that we have are so good.
Speaker:The boundaries that we set are so good.
Speaker:And so it's meant that there has
Speaker:been less things that go wrong.
Speaker:I'm now in this business.
Speaker:almost 10 years.
Speaker:And I've had employees now for probably
Speaker:five, maybe five of those years.
Speaker:And every year it gets less
Speaker:ridiculous as in like, Oh crap,
Speaker:now we need a process for this.
Speaker:Oh, Oh no, we've never
Speaker:encountered that before.
Speaker:Like, how do we fix that?
Speaker:How do we change that?
Speaker:How do we evolve?
Speaker:There's been less of that that's needed
Speaker:because the structure and how we run
Speaker:everything is so like, You know, it's so
Speaker:like concrete that it's made it calmer.
Speaker:I'm not constantly trying to reinvent
Speaker:the wheel or think of new things
Speaker:or think of how we're going to do
Speaker:this thing because a lot of it has
Speaker:been set up in a really great way.
Speaker:That's been a real positive.
Speaker:It's definitely meant
Speaker:that there has been.
Speaker:been just a calmer vibe.
Speaker:So that's just, let's just take a
Speaker:pause on that calm for a minute and
Speaker:just remember that because at this
Speaker:time of year, it is not calm at all.
Speaker:And, uh, as much as I love that,
Speaker:I like reflecting on the fact that
Speaker:overall it has been really calm.
Speaker:Piggybacking off of that, it's also
Speaker:meant that there has been no, or I would
Speaker:have to count maybe on one hand, the
Speaker:amount of times that I've personally
Speaker:had to work nights or weekends.
Speaker:For so many years in my
Speaker:business, that has been the case.
Speaker:So from when it first started, you know,
Speaker:I was working in between nap times of
Speaker:children and I was working nights and
Speaker:yeah, I was working weekends and I was
Speaker:just working whenever I could because
Speaker:there was so many things, so many
Speaker:distractions, so many ways that I was
Speaker:being pulled in all these directions
Speaker:that I just I had to finally, I don't
Speaker:have to, if I want to, I can, there's
Speaker:always more things that I can do.
Speaker:Sometimes I really feel like
Speaker:working on something and it's at
Speaker:nighttime, but that's so rare.
Speaker:And so it's meant that I've been reading
Speaker:way more, I've read way more books,
Speaker:I've been writing songs again, I've
Speaker:been like sitting at my piano more and
Speaker:just, oh, there's just all that stuff
Speaker:has been so much better this year.
Speaker:And also, as I said.
Speaker:In, uh, an episode that I released kind
Speaker:of towards the end of last year, I got
Speaker:an Apple watch and that completely,
Speaker:like literally, I'm not even joking.
Speaker:It literally changed my life because
Speaker:I went from having a phone that I was
Speaker:always using to not needing a phone and
Speaker:not scrolling social media or checking
Speaker:my emails or doing all the things.
Speaker:I didn't do any of that.
Speaker:I just have this and I check
Speaker:my emails and things when
Speaker:it's appropriate to do so.
Speaker:So my mental health has absolutely
Speaker:improved because of this Apple
Speaker:Watch and having systems in place
Speaker:that I don't have to work so hard.
Speaker:I don't have to work so hard anymore.
Speaker:I just have a much nicer.
Speaker:We also really started our YouTube
Speaker:channel at the beginning of 2024.
Speaker:That has been such a massive pro.
Speaker:I have loved it.
Speaker:I'm here on video as well.
Speaker:I just love it so much because the
Speaker:comments that we get, like the feedback,
Speaker:the community that we're building,
Speaker:we're going to be monetized really
Speaker:soon, which is, I mean, that's cool.
Speaker:Like that's a fun little thing to work
Speaker:towards to get that thousand subscribers,
Speaker:to get that 4, 000 watch hours.
Speaker:And that, yeah.
Speaker:Has been really cool to track
Speaker:the analytics behind that.
Speaker:Also the income that's being
Speaker:generated from YouTube, the
Speaker:YouTube channel isn't monetized.
Speaker:That's from people engaging with
Speaker:our services after watching us on
Speaker:YouTube or after seeing some snippets
Speaker:that we've shared on LinkedIn, that
Speaker:all is repurposed stuff from the
Speaker:YouTube channel, from the podcast.
Speaker:We've made thousands of dollars from
Speaker:YouTube so far without brand deals,
Speaker:without anything, without being
Speaker:monetized because we have a channel
Speaker:that We already have offerings.
Speaker:We already have ways that people
Speaker:can, can reach us, can work with us.
Speaker:And so that was something I knew
Speaker:coming into YouTube because I've
Speaker:worked on enough shows to know that
Speaker:already, that that may be the case.
Speaker:So it's cool that that actually
Speaker:has come to light as well.
Speaker:It's a lot of work.
Speaker:Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of
Speaker:work to have a YouTube channel.
Speaker:I'm fortunate, we're fortunate,
Speaker:because we are a podcast and
Speaker:video production company.
Speaker:It's all in house here, so it does cost
Speaker:money still, but not in the same way.
Speaker:Also really happily launched
Speaker:our free podcast audit.
Speaker:That's been just really great to
Speaker:see people taking advantage of.
Speaker:You can submit your show for free,
Speaker:and it allows me or someone from
Speaker:my team to discover a new show.
Speaker:To listen to a new show and to
Speaker:get strategic around what we
Speaker:think they could do, to do better.
Speaker:And it's not our full consults.
Speaker:It's not a big strategy,
Speaker:but it's a free audit.
Speaker:And it's been a really nice way to get
Speaker:people in to be like, Hey, it's okay.
Speaker:Like just we'll give you some
Speaker:feedback and you can grow from there.
Speaker:So that has been really good for that.
Speaker:It's also generated income as well,
Speaker:where people do the free audit, and
Speaker:then they sign up to work with us.
Speaker:That's really cool.
Speaker:And not, Actually something
Speaker:I was focused on at all.
Speaker:I really just wanted to listen
Speaker:to more shows and I wanted
Speaker:to give people feedback.
Speaker:That's a happy by product of
Speaker:something that we wanted to do anyway.
Speaker:So that's been really good.
Speaker:A pro has also been
Speaker:training team in new skills.
Speaker:This has been a pro and also a necessity.
Speaker:We can't just do the same things
Speaker:that we were doing before.
Speaker:I can't have a team that's not
Speaker:diverse because we operate a
Speaker:small team and I have no interest
Speaker:in operating a large team.
Speaker:I need people that work in BAMU
Speaker:Media that are intelligent, creative,
Speaker:and willing to learn new skills.
Speaker:And it's not like you can
Speaker:go to uni and get a BAMU.
Speaker:Podcast editing degree, like you
Speaker:can get an audio editing degree,
Speaker:but there's nuance in podcasting.
Speaker:And so people that come to
Speaker:me, people that work with me
Speaker:often don't have the skills.
Speaker:They don't have all the skills
Speaker:that I need them to have,
Speaker:but they need to be ready.
Speaker:They need to be willing.
Speaker:They need to be the kind of personality
Speaker:that will Learn that wants to learn that
Speaker:wants to grow that wants to experience
Speaker:new things that wants to be challenged
Speaker:And so i've really enjoyed that this
Speaker:year where i've thrown things at them
Speaker:and be like you got to learn this.
Speaker:You got to learn how to do this
Speaker:and they've been yeah, cool, we'll
Speaker:learn it and it sucks for a while
Speaker:because you know, they're not good
Speaker:at it straight away and No one's
Speaker:good at anything straight away.
Speaker:It's it's Something that is hard to do.
Speaker:So I've enjoyed giving them more things
Speaker:to do, training them in new things
Speaker:and seeing them develop the skills.
Speaker:Because I know that more skills
Speaker:is always a good thing, no matter
Speaker:where you go, no matter what you
Speaker:do, no matter who you work for next.
Speaker:If you happen to leave, you
Speaker:have skills that you can use.
Speaker:So that has been.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:We also welcomed a heap of
Speaker:fantastic new clients this year.
Speaker:Ones that are really aligned, ones
Speaker:that are on packages that allow
Speaker:us to do a lot more for them.
Speaker:It used to be that all I was doing,
Speaker:all we were doing was audio editing.
Speaker:We were just editing things and
Speaker:just putting them up on podcast
Speaker:platforms, which is very satisfying.
Speaker:Like it's, it's much easier to do, but
Speaker:the fact that we have clients and so
Speaker:many of them that package things up,
Speaker:that want us to help them repurpose,
Speaker:that want us to do video snippets,
Speaker:that want us to write really good
Speaker:articles, want us to share things on
Speaker:LinkedIn for them, for YouTube, for
Speaker:all these things, it just means that
Speaker:we're allowed to be more invested.
Speaker:In what they're doing and the
Speaker:outcomes that they're receiving and
Speaker:I personally really value that We
Speaker:don't take on heaps of clients again.
Speaker:I want to keep this team small.
Speaker:I want to keep like the this the sphere
Speaker:of People that we're working with to a
Speaker:to a manageable level to a level where we
Speaker:can really be More hands on and so when
Speaker:we do get clients that I feel like really
Speaker:work They want to improve And we're able
Speaker:to help them improve because they're
Speaker:on packages that allow us to do that.
Speaker:So that has been a definite plus.
Speaker:And then in the same way, also a
Speaker:plus, a pro is that we've lost clients
Speaker:that aren't like that, that have,
Speaker:you know, teeny tiny budgets and that
Speaker:need to scrimp and save and can't.
Speaker:You know, invest.
Speaker:And I get that massively.
Speaker:I understand that people have to
Speaker:leave, that people's, you know, needs
Speaker:shift, that the way they need to do
Speaker:things shifts, that maybe they bring
Speaker:a VA in house and then they think
Speaker:they'll just get the VA to do things.
Speaker:All of this is valid.
Speaker:All of this is completely
Speaker:fine for us as a business.
Speaker:It's just nice that that transition
Speaker:is best for everybody, I think,
Speaker:is what I'm trying to say there.
Speaker:So the pro there has been really good.
Speaker:We've been able to fly interstate
Speaker:this year and help with
Speaker:podcast, setting up recording.
Speaker:We've been able to go to studios
Speaker:in different cities and, you
Speaker:know, be creative director.
Speaker:We've been able to go to clients houses,
Speaker:set up all their equipment, showcase
Speaker:things for them, record tutorials.
Speaker:The travel element of this
Speaker:year has been really fun.
Speaker:I sit.
Speaker:here almost every day, all day.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:When I get a chance to go outside,
Speaker:like to go somewhere and meet
Speaker:clients and help them with this stuff
Speaker:in person and get paid to do it.
Speaker:Like what?
Speaker:You know, it's, it's so nice.
Speaker:It's really, really a beautiful thing.
Speaker:So going into state and being able
Speaker:to share that time with my partner
Speaker:as well has been really, really good.
Speaker:I've judged and attended the
Speaker:Australian Podcasting Awards,
Speaker:which is always a good time.
Speaker:The awards were fun.
Speaker:As usual, the judging process was great.
Speaker:There are challenges with that
Speaker:method, and maybe I'll do that
Speaker:in another episode at some point.
Speaker:But I think being able to
Speaker:highlight podcasters, listen to
Speaker:their shows and Really dive into
Speaker:them has been very rewarding.
Speaker:Like it's such a rewarding thing to be
Speaker:able to give back and judge shows and
Speaker:give them some constructive feedback.
Speaker:So I've really loved that.
Speaker:And then also being able to fly down
Speaker:to Sydney, go to the award ceremony,
Speaker:meet some people again, catch up
Speaker:with clients who were shortlisted.
Speaker:That was all just such a fun time.
Speaker:I have two more pros.
Speaker:One of them being that we've helped
Speaker:clients achieve significant growth.
Speaker:And we have that data because
Speaker:we have certainly the ones that
Speaker:we do a lot for and that are
Speaker:on like our podcoach packages.
Speaker:It means that we track everything, like
Speaker:not just their podcast downloads, but
Speaker:we look at what their LinkedIn and what
Speaker:their Instagram and what their YouTube's
Speaker:doing and all these different platforms.
Speaker:And we look at how those things are
Speaker:going over time, the comments that
Speaker:they get on articles, you know,
Speaker:how website traffic, like all this
Speaker:stuff seen significant growth.
Speaker:That is so cool.
Speaker:And again, that's why we like
Speaker:working with clients that require
Speaker:bigger packages that want to work
Speaker:with us in a bigger way because we
Speaker:can actually help them do things.
Speaker:So that's been so satisfying.
Speaker:And then the last thing that I was just
Speaker:over the moon about for this year was the
Speaker:fact that I got gifted some microphones.
Speaker:Oh my God.
Speaker:Like this one I'm using this SEDCMA
Speaker:that I'm using is my favorite.
Speaker:microphone and it's like a brand
Speaker:that I absolutely adore as well.
Speaker:And the fact that I was able to receive
Speaker:these from the YouTube channel, like for
Speaker:the YouTube channel, the YouTube channel
Speaker:was like teeny tiny at that point too.
Speaker:And I still was able to get
Speaker:these beautiful microphones.
Speaker:I have some other things as well
Speaker:that have been supplied, um,
Speaker:for me to review and use and
Speaker:give feedback on, like, that's
Speaker:something that I really want to do.
Speaker:I really want to have that
Speaker:be, this channel is where I
Speaker:go, this is, It's terrible.
Speaker:And this is good.
Speaker:Use this.
Speaker:Don't use this.
Speaker:And I know it's only my opinion.
Speaker:Everyone has opinions, just
Speaker:like they have bumholes.
Speaker:For me to be able to go with my
Speaker:20 years of experience in audio
Speaker:production and help people not spend
Speaker:a thousand million dollars on things.
Speaker:They don't need to be spending
Speaker:their money on has been awesome.
Speaker:And so to get gifted some stuff,
Speaker:which is actually of an extremely
Speaker:high caliber, and I would buy
Speaker:anyway, has been really, really good.
Speaker:So big plug to Essie for this
Speaker:because Essie have just created
Speaker:a beautiful microphone and
Speaker:others in this suite as well.
Speaker:So that's a lot of pros.
Speaker:It's pretty good, isn't it?
Speaker:Like that's a lot of things that
Speaker:have, have gone well this year.
Speaker:Now I'm going to get into
Speaker:the cons because when there's
Speaker:pros, there's always cons.
Speaker:You're not going to have like
Speaker:an amazing year the whole time.
Speaker:I want this to be relatable.
Speaker:I want it to be true and
Speaker:I want it to be honest.
Speaker:So let's get into some cons.
Speaker:One of the biggest cons that we've
Speaker:had this year is in our business,
Speaker:the software options that we have
Speaker:to produce the content that we
Speaker:want to produce are not good.
Speaker:We've got tools, which I won't name.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Some of them are really falling
Speaker:short in, and I would love to be
Speaker:able to create software that I can.
Speaker:We can use that art is for us that
Speaker:we've created that we know is awesome
Speaker:and everything We're relying on other
Speaker:people creating tools and software
Speaker:that we can use in our businesses that
Speaker:work Although a lot of them are good.
Speaker:There's nothing that's right up there.
Speaker:There's nothing that's like yes This
Speaker:works and it works on repeat and
Speaker:it's exactly what we need and it does
Speaker:everything we want it to do That's
Speaker:been a con for me because there's
Speaker:been so many times throughout the
Speaker:year where I've been like, ah, if we
Speaker:just had this, like if we just had
Speaker:this thing, then that would solve a
Speaker:lot of problems and it doesn't exist.
Speaker:It doesn't exist.
Speaker:I know you're probably listening to this.
Speaker:Well, why don't you create it?
Speaker:That just seems like a lot of work.
Speaker:It seems like a lot of work.
Speaker:If you are a person that is
Speaker:a software developer, you're
Speaker:looking for a new adventure, then
Speaker:certainly reach out and we can chat.
Speaker:But yeah, that's been a real con,
Speaker:is that we're not currently at the
Speaker:place where I feel like what we
Speaker:use as software is What I want us
Speaker:to use that the all encompassing
Speaker:tools, isn't they're not quite there.
Speaker:And there's a bunch of
Speaker:AI stuff coming out.
Speaker:Most of it's pretty terrible.
Speaker:I know it's going to get better, but
Speaker:there's things that are slowing us down.
Speaker:That could be sped up by specific things.
Speaker:I won't go any further into it,
Speaker:but that has been something that
Speaker:has been annoying me this year.
Speaker:Another con is AI generated
Speaker:podcasts spamming podcast platforms.
Speaker:Flippin notebook LM, okay?
Speaker:I did a video on a podcast episode on
Speaker:this, actually a couple of them, uh, a
Speaker:few months ago where, yeah, I was just
Speaker:breaking down like, just there's so many
Speaker:AI podcasts now and they're all terrible.
Speaker:They're all terrible.
Speaker:All the ones I listen to anyway.
Speaker:There would be over 2, 000.
Speaker:There's probably 3,
Speaker:000 of them right now.
Speaker:It's just dampening the whole, the
Speaker:whole spirit of what podcasting is.
Speaker:I don't like it.
Speaker:So I found that to be a con.
Speaker:I think the gimmick is cool.
Speaker:There's a certain purpose for it, but I
Speaker:don't think that it belongs In podcast
Speaker:platforms for people to get confused
Speaker:between it being real and it being a
Speaker:fake person doesn't sit right with me.
Speaker:So I haven't enjoyed that.
Speaker:Another con is I would have
Speaker:probably liked to take on one or
Speaker:two even bigger projects this year.
Speaker:So we've worked on some
Speaker:incredible stuff this year.
Speaker:It's a really good, uh, clients.
Speaker:Everything's like working well
Speaker:in that regard, but I kind of
Speaker:want to get to a next level.
Speaker:In that space as well.
Speaker:We've been doing this a very long time.
Speaker:I want things that are a
Speaker:little bit more challenging
Speaker:for me at this point, because.
Speaker:I need the challenge too, you know, it's,
Speaker:it's something that I know that is going
Speaker:to happen, but the projects haven't been
Speaker:as big as I'd like in, in this year.
Speaker:Has meant for a calm year though as well.
Speaker:So, you know, pro and con there together.
Speaker:Another con, not being a hundred
Speaker:percent clear on our next move.
Speaker:There's so many ways that.
Speaker:This business can go that sometimes
Speaker:it gets a little bit like,
Speaker:yeah, but where, like, where do
Speaker:we actually want to head next?
Speaker:Where do we want to place
Speaker:ourselves in the industry?
Speaker:Who do we want to work with?
Speaker:That evolves over time.
Speaker:And then with the dawn of like AI and
Speaker:all these tools that are coming out
Speaker:to speed things up and for people to
Speaker:do things themselves, there's also
Speaker:that, like, how do we need to evolve?
Speaker:To match.
Speaker:So what's our next move?
Speaker:What do we want to focus on?
Speaker:I'm not 100 percent sure on that yet.
Speaker:It's something that
Speaker:I'm still playing with.
Speaker:Like, there's a few different angles.
Speaker:And I know that that's kind of not
Speaker:a con, but I like to have goals.
Speaker:And I don't have my next
Speaker:goal kind of set yet.
Speaker:So yeah, that's been a con.
Speaker:The last one is sitting
Speaker:at my desk too much.
Speaker:I've been sitting at my desk more
Speaker:than I want to sit at my desk.
Speaker:I mean, I have a sit stand desk.
Speaker:I stand, but that's not,
Speaker:that's not the problem.
Speaker:I'd like to get out more in 2025.
Speaker:And that's why I did put the call out
Speaker:just on Instagram, even just to say,
Speaker:Hey, if anyone's doing live events,
Speaker:you want someone to come and speak
Speaker:about podcasting, I'm up for it.
Speaker:I.
Speaker:spent a lot of time in this studio
Speaker:this year and I know that this studio
Speaker:is going to be short lived too,
Speaker:like we'll be moving to a new space
Speaker:in probably six to eight months.
Speaker:I haven't enjoyed this space all that
Speaker:much just because it's small and I feel
Speaker:quite closed in and although that's
Speaker:really good for content creation.
Speaker:Not much natural light.
Speaker:It doesn't suit my personality
Speaker:being so small, you know, so that's
Speaker:something that I'm looking to change
Speaker:in 2025 to get away from my desk
Speaker:more, to have a different setup.
Speaker:That's all going to be a transition
Speaker:phase and I will take you on the
Speaker:journey of setting up the new
Speaker:space when we get there as well.
Speaker:But that's something that's, it's felt
Speaker:like a little bit of a downer this year.
Speaker:That I've been spending so much
Speaker:time in this room, even though I'm
Speaker:not working nights and weekends,
Speaker:to me, it's still too much.
Speaker:It's too much time here.
Speaker:I'd like to be writing music,
Speaker:like playing music, to be
Speaker:performing maybe music.
Speaker:Into 2025, because I feel like
Speaker:my creative juices, my energy is
Speaker:gained from doing those things.
Speaker:And I'm just starting to, like,
Speaker:at this point, really get that.
Speaker:Like, I really understand that that's
Speaker:something that I need to be doing and
Speaker:I haven't been doing enough of it.
Speaker:So, like, Yeah, that's
Speaker:been a con this year.
Speaker:It's too much time at the desk,
Speaker:and I'm sure so many people
Speaker:can relate to that as well.
Speaker:Okay, that's my wrap up of behind
Speaker:the scenes of BAMI Media, what's
Speaker:been going on in my head, what have
Speaker:been the pros, what have been the
Speaker:cons working here at BAMI Media.
Speaker:Overall, we've had a fantastic year.
Speaker:There's not really any complaints
Speaker:that I can actually make.
Speaker:There's a few cons, there's
Speaker:a bunch of positives, but I
Speaker:think that it's important to be
Speaker:And I hope you've enjoyed it.
Speaker:If you have, please let me know.
Speaker:If you're on Spotify,
Speaker:you can leave a comment.
Speaker:If you are on YouTube, you
Speaker:can leave a comment there.
Speaker:Apple hasn't come to
Speaker:the party on that yet.
Speaker:So there's no commenting for you guys,
Speaker:but you can reach out to me on Instagram.
Speaker:and LinkedIn.
Speaker:I will share an article on
Speaker:this on LinkedIn as well.
Speaker:If you want to connect with me
Speaker:over there, I'm also on Medium.
Speaker:Medium has been going
Speaker:very well this year.
Speaker:A lot of our articles have
Speaker:been doing extremely well.
Speaker:There's many places that you can
Speaker:reach out and let me know how
Speaker:you're going, what you've enjoyed.
Speaker:And I hope you liked this style.
