Bonus: 30 Days, 30 Stories: Get to Know Me Better! - November 1

Mak Yl Hooli
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I'm Mak Yl Hooli, and this is the Life Shift Candid conversations about the pivotal moments that have changed lives forever.

Mak Yl Hooli
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Hello, everyone.

Mak Yl Hooli
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This is a special bonus episode, and hopefully it is the first of 30, 30 bonus episodes that you're going to hear on the Life Shift podcast.

Mak Yl Hooli
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I'm laughing a little bit because I am going to try to do something this month that scares me, which to me kind of feels like maybe I should try it because it scares me.

Mak Yl Hooli
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to do something very similar to what you might hear other people, other creatives in the space do, specifically writers.

Mak Yl Hooli
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They do this National Novel Writing Month during November, and every day in the month of November, they write a certain amount of words.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And I guess the goal is by the end of November, they've developed a habit of writing every day.

Mak Yl Hooli
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They've gotten a little bit farther in their writing for their novel.

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And it's just like a really good practice.

Mak Yl Hooli
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Last year, I saw a couple people in my podcasting circle do something very similar, but for podcasts, and that was they would release an episode of their podcast every day.

Mak Yl Hooli
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Now, it wasn't a real episode, I don't think, because that seems like a lot of work, a lot of interviews, be really hard for me, who is someone that has a full time, real job, I say, and then I have this podcast as my passion project, something that I love to spend a lot of time on, but don't have as much time to focus on the podcast.

Mak Yl Hooli
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So what I intend to do is to drop a bonus episode every day, and it would be something short.

Mak Yl Hooli
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Hopefully this is something short.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And I guess my thought is over the next 30 days, maybe you'll get to know a little bit more about me, a little bit more about the host of the Life Shift podcast.

Mak Yl Hooli
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I think you all know my story if you've listened to these episodes.

Mak Yl Hooli
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But maybe I can hit on different things about my life or my perspectives on different things in these little bonus episodes.

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So that's what I'm going to do.

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I don't know what today will be about, I guess I can say, which probably if you've listened to the show, you kind of know.

Mak Yl Hooli
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But the Life Shift podcast started as a school assignment during a bonus master's degree that I did during the Pandemic.

Mak Yl Hooli
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I was certainly bored and looking for things to do.

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And so I got a master's in mass communication.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And every term I took a class that scared me and an elective that scared me in spring of 2022 was a podcasting course.

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In this course, we had to kind of do a lot of research.

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We had to look up target audiences, and luckily the target audience of those of you listening actually align with what I researched back then.

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And the main assignments for the class were to do two interview podcasts episodes.

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And so I chose two of my friends that I knew had some Life Shift moments in their life.

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And I recorded interviews with specific questions and kind of followed the instructions of the class.

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I did very well in the class and I loved it.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And I thought, wow, this is really something that I didn't know I needed.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And as of Today, which is November 1, 2024, I've recorded 164 episodes of the Life Shift podcast.

Mak Yl Hooli
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I believe 153 episodes have been officially released as of today.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And it's kind of crazy to think back on the spring of 2022 when I was just recording some episodes as assignments.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And now I've been able to talk to so many people that I probably never met in this world, all because of creating the show and putting it out there.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And it's been worth every tear, every stress moment, every dollar that I've spent.

Mak Yl Hooli
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It's just been such a journey that I never knew that I needed.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And so I'm really excited about it.

Mak Yl Hooli
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I know that's kind of a cop out for this first episode of this little bonus series for November.

Mak Yl Hooli
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But I'm going to be back tomorrow with my full intentions of doing this every single day in the month of November to share something new.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And I made a list and I forget what tomorrow is already.

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So I'm going to come into this blind every single day and I'm going to just share whatever that prompt is that I've created so that maybe by the end of November you get to know a little bit more about my day to day life or the things that I think beyond.

Mak Yl Hooli
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You know, the fact that I lost my mother when I was a child and then had a really tough time with grief and then lost my grandmother as an adult and then recently just lost my little puppy.

Mak Yl Hooli
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Well, he wasn't a puppy, but he was 14 and a half and I think you know all those pieces of me.

Mak Yl Hooli
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So maybe over the month of November you're going to learn a little bit more.

Mak Yl Hooli
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So with that I'm going to say goodbye and I'll be back tomorrow.

Mak Yl Hooli
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And hopefully you will also be back tomorrow.

Mak Yl Hooli
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Have a great one.

Mak Yl Hooli
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