Podcast Project
“Why Does Life Have To Be So Hard?!?”
I got the idea for this podcast after watching one of my mentors, Timothy J Ward, launch his podcast for seasonal work life and it got me to thinking maybe I should start my own podcast. So I brainstormed ideas for what my podcast should be about and I finally settled on: “Why Does Life Have To Be So Hard?”
Basically, what this podcast would cover is aspects of life that we as individuals consider hard...the topics that we view as making life hard. These topics would be jobs, mentality, mindset, finances, and the like. I want to concentrate on the things we can do to make our jobs better, Monetizing our hobbies through Etsy, for crafts and the like, Displate, Saatchi Art, and the multiple platforms that people can use to monetize their photography, blogging about hobbies such as hikers making a blog about their trail notes so other people can enjoy the things that they found on their hikes, and things like that. Other concerns that can be addressed on the podcast would be meditation, mindfulness, frugality, lifestyles such as minimalism, moving to a sustainable intentional community, working in areas such as Permaculture or natural building for their homes and other structures on their property, and the like.
Other things I would like to cover in the podcast are resources that are available for people such as the VA for veterans to maybe qualify for disability, side hustles like usertesting.com or HubPages.com, and other ways to make money on the side above and beyond their full-time jobs, or day job if you will, to have income streams that are basically passive. Also, there are programs out there I’m sure that I haven’t found where people could find resources for money management, investing, and home/property buying that would help them in their every day lives.
Life does not have to be hard. Life is only hard because we make it so. If you look at the native peoples and how they lived their lives, for the most part, it wasn’t hard...strenuous yes, but not hard. These people were mostly nomadic. They followed the game and travelled to areas in which they could forage food easily and grow their crops and what have you. Their life was simple...yes, but rewarding in its own way and not hard as we modern folk consider hard.
I would also like to introduce people to new-ish and novel ways to invest their money like stash.com, the Robin Hood app, or even places like Stepbet where you join a group that has a goal of walking so many steps for a certain length of time and then the people that meet that goal or exceed that goal share in the money paid into it, which should be more than they invested into it as a way of generating a passive income doing what they do every day. Also, I would introduce people to apps like Achievement, which also monetizes your healthy lifestyles from the websites and apps that you already are a part of like MapMyHike, MapMyWalk, MapMyRide, and the iPhone health app. It takes those steps or endeavors and turns them into points that you can trade in for a PayPal payment or a gift card. There are places like SwagBucks where you can take surveys or watch videos and get points towards gift cards and payments.
I’m sure there are all sorts of other things that I could cover in this podcast that would help people out. In the state of Texas we have a bill called the Hazelwood Act where Texas veterans are eligible for up to 150 credit hours of college tuition paid for. It’s basically a bachelor degree for free! I’m sure other states have similar programs or if they don’t now they probably will in the future...some sort of way to help veterans obtain a college or university degree or even trade school certification. People have forgotten that trade schools are out there for people to learn a trade. John Deere has a trade school for fixing and repairing tractors and stuff. There is a motorcycle mechanic institute, or whatever it’s called, to fix motorcycles. It’s not a college degree program yet it’s a way for people to learn a trade that they can find a job in.
I want this podcast to be something that will help people in their daily lives to where they can realize for themselves that life doesn’t have to be hard. It’s only as hard as you make it! There are tools and resources available out there that can make life easy. There are different websites you can go to to to plan things. There’s other websites out there like flylady.com that help you manage your home cleaning and household tips to make living in your house easy.
So that’s just a few of my ideas for my little podcast “Why Does Life Have To Be So Hard?!?” and of course, as I said before, it’s a trick question...it doesn’t! Please leave your thoughts about this idea for a podcast in the comments section below.
