Hi, my name's Josh Haroldson. As a kid I never liked school all that much. What I really liked was summer vacation. Because that's where you got to work on whatever you wanted. For example:

• A couple summers I had a lawn service which taught me you could make money on your own by providing a useful service for people. I only bought enough money to buy a snowboard, but now, I'm a top-rated freelancer on Upwork.
• Another summer I learned to use my camera while backpacking. And a few years later ended up as an Instagram suggested user doing paid work for companies like Vayner Media and Food+Wine.

Dang. Turns out those summer projects can be pretty useful.

So, now that I'm a stay-at-home dad I figured, "Hey, why not bring back the summer project?"

Enter, the podcast. AKA my Copywriting Course Summer Jam.

What I want to learn:

• How to launch and edit a podcast.
• How to regularly create small pieces of re-usable content.
• How to promote a podcast to my first 1000 downloads.

My Goal:

• Have fun and create something I can share with my kid someday.
• Get to 1,000 downloads. That might not seem like a lot in the social media world, but me talking to a room full of 1,000 people would be pretty neat.

Link to the podcast:https://dadalwaystoldme.com/
Link to my social:  | @joshharoldson on Twitter
Link to the blog: https://joshharoldson.co/journal/

How I plan on promoting it: 

Instagram

Newsletter

Word of Mouth

Time Limit: Q3 of 2022. June 1st to Sept 1st

I will update this thread every few days with numbers and progress. Follow along!

The easiest way to grow a business is first optimize everything you've already got.

For example, if you want to optimize your business for the rest of 2022, just having rough goals like this could be helpful:

Or even doing something simple as pre-preparing for seasonal events can position you better

I personally plan out each month with a little goal sheet like this:

Then for yearly goals I'll sit around with some buddies and discuss, then come up with a few solid goals:

It feels like change is in the air for the world....maybe some recession-style stuff. This is often when great companies get built.

I'm curious, how are you planning for the 2nd half of the year?
• Write down goals?
• Discuss with friends?
• Other methods?

Reply in the comments and let me know!
Sincerely,
Neville Medhora