Episode 01: Danielle Brooks

Just Do it. 

It’s been a crazy last few days. How do you release something new when the world around you burns. When every trip outside is uncomfortable and tense. Oh… and we are also going through a global pandemic. 2020 for the win.

But as anyone who is pregnant or has had a child knows when the baby is ready, the baby comes. Not much you can do but care for, feed and love your child. And Non Traditional is my child.

Our first episode with Danielle Brooks was a great conversation full of many great nuggets of information and motivation; but it was our first episode. And even though we had done some practice interviews and I had tried to read up as much as I could on the technicalities of not only recording a podcast but doing it remotely due to the pandemic there were still some glitches.

The audio was not perfect, I was really nervous, like clockwork the webcam on my computer stopped working and I could go on. You name it, it probably happened. 

And thats were the doubt comes in. 

I am already a pretty introverted person so putting my voice out there to be judged is not exactly first on my list of things to do. And so the questions come; is it worth it to put out there? Should I wait till its perfect? Maybe I should push the release? You get the picture.

But something Danielle said in the interview struck - Just do it. And so here we are, Season 1 Ep 1 is live. I hope you enjoy the episode. I hope it encourages you to go out and chase your dreams whatever they are.

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