Episode 2: What to expect from the new platform

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Episode 2: What to expect from the new platform

Welcome the god of honeybees podcast. This is episode two
and it’s mainly going to serve as a update on what kind of
content I’m trying to get to you and where to get it. It will
also be about what to expect moving forward. It’s early morning. It’s
right before work starts so I’ll try to be as clear and concise as possible
but I’m still drinking coffee so if I stumble if I’ve got to backtrack, you’ll
have to excuse me.
​     The main thing I wanted to get across was that I’ve
got an email list up and running. So, if you go to godofhoneybees.com
it’s super simple to sign up for the email list and that email that will
come out maybe twice a month. I’m not going to bombard your inbox
it’s only when I’ve got information that I think is going to help you
move through your day or I think the content is a really interesting
idea that I think needs to be shared. If you go to the Web site it’s super
easy to sign up for that email list. Now what’s going to be in the e-mail.
The podcast episodes going forward are extensions of the work I’m
doing on my book. If you didn’t know I am working on a book under
the same title, The God of Honeybees. It’s really close to being complete
and ready for another round of edits with my editor Patience Uhlman.
She runs 29pilgrims.com and I highly recommend her web site and all
the work she does. As I’m working on my book I’m coming across a
lot of really great information, a lot of ideas I’ve never heard of before,
and not all of it fits in the book in the way that makes sense. However,
in the same way that I want to share the information that’s in my book,
which is why I wrote a book, I want to share this other information
with you. So, the podcast episodes are going to be extensions of that
work that I’m doing in the book so each episode will dive deeper into
possibly a book that I’m referencing in my book, an online article,
whatever it might be. If it doesn’t fit into the book in a way that makes
sense or if there’s more information about it than I can put my book,
I’m gonna make an episode about it.
     I’m going to make YouTube the main outlet for the podcast because
I want to do it video based. I just really like that idea. It’ll still be
available on podcast platforms as just audio. I’m also going to make it
have I’m also going to do like a text version of it. I’m going to work with
Patience to edit the text transcription down for readability grammar
(disclaimer: this episode was not edited by Patience, so don’t take it as an
example of her excellent work). Perhaps you don’t have time to put in
earbuds and listen to a podcast episode. If you read faster than I talk,
which is probably the case, then maybe you would prefer the PDF
version. Godofhoneybees.com is going to have, under the blog tab,
each episode text versions so you can just read it right there.
If you sign up for the email list you will get all the information on any
source(s) I reference. That’s where I’m going to attach all the links to
the books that I might be referencing, if there’s a PDF that I’m allowed
to just send you through an email, etc. I’m also going to make really
nice looking PDF versions of the text transcription. In case you really
like information I provided, you can just forward it right from there
or just save it all in a sub folder in your email for storage. The goal is
to make it as freely and widely accessible as possible. So that’s really
going to be the best way to get connected, stay connected, and up to
date on all this stuff. Also, it’s gonna be the way I reach out to you
when my own book is ready! If you’ve liked the information that’s been
coming out in the podcast episodes the book is going to be how I’ve
connected these ideas to try to to convey a larger message. If you’re on
the email list you’re going to get notified as soon as that book is ready
to go.
     I also want to let you know about what to expect going forward as far
as availability of the content. Just the other day I was talking with my
dad, Eric. He’s the singer and bass player in the band Bionic Monk’s,
of which I am a part. I was also talking with the drummer of the band,
Brandon. We were talking about the content we make for the band
and how to make it as accessible as possible. I was using an analogy
for how to think about free content. I thought it was helpful, so I
want to propose this to you just to understand why I’m going about
things the way I’m going about them. Suppose you have two friends.
With one friend, every time you meet up with them you talk about
something interesting you came across such as an interesting article
or interesting idea or maybe some life experience that you’ve went
through and you’re wanting to share with them. If every time you
did that they said something like “Oh yeah, I just read a whole book
specifically that that topic that you’re interested in” or “I went through
a similar life experience and I came up with some things that really
helped me get through that”. Suppose you then tried to engage with
them and ask “Well, what was the name of that that book you read?” or
“What were the things you came up with that helped you through that
specific life experience?” and their response was “Well, for 10 bucks
a month I’ll let you know”. That’s not going to do a damn bit of good
because if you can’t pay them that that amount of money each month
you’ll just do without that information. Right?
     Now, suppose your second friend had the opposite response. As soon
as you try to engage them they they’re right there with the name of the
book, with the steps that they took to get through that life experience
whatever it may be. If they just engaged with you right away with
all that information, that would be a much closer relationship, right?
Now, consider further down the road, both of them come to you at
separate points and say

“Hey, I’m working on a project. If you might be able to swing five
bucks a month to just help the project stay going that would be
awesome. If you can’t don’t worry about it. It’s not going to change
the way we interact or the way we hang out. But, if you happen to
be in a place where five bucks a month is no big deal and you like
my project, could swing five bucks?”
​
Which one of those friends are you going to give the five dollars to?
Right. Obviously, it’s the person that engages with you freely because
then your interaction is not predicated on you paying. That’s why,
for this podcast for the content I’m making, I’m not going to put it
behind a paywall. Of course, when the book is ready I’ll be asking you
to buy the book but I can’t really make the physical printed book free.
I don’t know how to do that. However, it doesn’t cost me to make a
video. It doesn’t cost me to come across an idea that I think is worth
sharing. It does cost to keep the website going or you know buy some
equipment. For example, I just ordered two mic’s to try to make some
better audio in these videos and that costs some money. But this is
a passion project so any content that I make like this is not going to
be behind a paywall. I want to craft a conversation with you. I want
to craft a connection with you. These ideas are not business ideas or
anything. You know what I mean? It’s just that this stuff brightens my
day. This stuff engages my mind. I think it’s really great. I just want
to share that with you. If you are interested enough in this content
I’d like to hear from you because we’re crafting a conversation. That’s
why it’s not going to be behind a paywall.
Now I am working on setting up a page on Patreon and, initially, it’s
just going to have one tier. It’s just going to be the five bucks a month.
Like I said in the analogy, this is only if you feel like you can swing five
bucks a month because that’ll help. For example, every year you got to
renew your license on the url. I used the service weebly to make the
website and that has a monthly cost to allow me to keep using the url
that I bought. It would just help keep the lights on, so to say. Again,
only if you feel like you can swing five bucks a month. If not it’s no big
deal. All of this content that I’m making is like you and me hanging out.
It’s like we’re meeting up for coffee. I’m not going to ask you to pay
me five bucks when we meet at Starbucks so that I can tell you about
something I found interesting. I just want to craft a conversation with
you about this stuff.
So, to wrap things up because I’m long winded, go to godofhoneybees.
com. There’s a contact tab where you can let me know what you
thought about the Web site. The podcast is going to be dominantly
on YouTube. If you search god of honeybees you can watch all the
video episodes. If you’d rather listen to it in your podcast app, god of
honey bees is probably on your podcast app. If you want to read it
in a distilled version, godofhoneybees.com, under the blog tab, each
episode is going be transcribed in an edited version for readability. If
you want a really great looking PDF version of the transcription that
you can send to your friends, that you could print off, that you could
do whatever you want with, send it wherever, and you want access to
the links to any sources that I’m referencing in the episodes, sign up
for the email list. It doesn’t cost you anything.
Godofhoneybees.com is the central hub to get access to all of that.
The email newsletter will have all of the extra sources that I’m diving
into. I’ll make another announcement later on once Patreon is up
and running. Thanks for listening to this brief episode. The next
one coming down the pipeline is about using rocks to help improve
our meditation practice, our morning ritual, our prayers, liturgy, etc.
I want to talk about a method of using rocks to help improve that
practice.
Thanks for listening to God of honeybees, the podcast. Again you
can find all the extra content on godofhoneybees.com. You can find
me on Instagram @godofbeespodcast and consider signing up for the
email newsletter so they can get you all the information on the extra
content that I think you might really find interesting. Thanks again.
Justin Herb platform
Welcome the god of honeybees podcast. This is episode two
and it’s mainly going to serve as a update on what kind of
content I’m trying to get to you and where to get it. It will
also be about what to expect moving forward. It’s early morning. It’s
right before work starts so I’ll try to be as clear and concise as possible
but I’m still drinking coffee so if I stumble if I’ve got to backtrack, you’ll
have to excuse me. The main thing I wanted to get across was that I’ve
got an email list up and running. So, if you go to godofhoneybees.com
it’s super simple to sign up for the email list and that email that will
come out maybe twice a month. I’m not going to bombard your inbox
it’s only when I’ve got information that I think is going to help you
move through your day or I think the content is a really interesting
idea that I think needs to be shared. If you go to the Web site it’s super
easy to sign up for that email list. Now what’s going to be in the e-mail.
The podcast episodes going forward are extensions of the work I’m
doing on my book. If you didn’t know I am working on a book under
the same title, The God of Honeybees. It’s really close to being complete
and ready for another round of edits with my editor Patience Uhlman.
She runs 29pilgrims.com and I highly recommend her web site and all
the work she does. As I’m working on my book I’m coming across a
lot of really great information, a lot of ideas I’ve never heard of before,
and not all of it fits in the book in the way that makes sense. However,
in the same way that I want to share the information that’s in my book,
which is why I wrote a book, I want to share this other information
with you. So, the podcast episodes are going to be extensions of that
work that I’m doing in the book so each episode will dive deeper into
possibly a book that I’m referencing in my book, an online article,
whatever it might be. If it doesn’t fit into the book in a way that makes
sense or if there’s more information about it than I can put my book,
I’m gonna make an episode about it.
I’m going to make YouTube the main outlet for the podcast because
I want to do it video based. I just really like that idea. It’ll still be
available on podcast platforms as just audio. I’m also going to make it
have I’m also going to do like a text version of it. I’m going to work with
Patience to edit the text transcription down for readability grammar
(disclaimer: this episode was not edited by Patience, so don’t take it as an
example of her excellent work). Perhaps you don’t have time to put in
earbuds and listen to a podcast episode. If you read faster than I talk,
which is probably the case, then maybe you would prefer the PDF
version. Godofhoneybees.com is going to have, under the blog tab,
each episode text versions so you can just read it right there.
If you sign up for the email list you will get all the information on any
source(s) I reference. That’s where I’m going to attach all the links to
the books that I might be referencing, if there’s a PDF that I’m allowed
to just send you through an email, etc. I’m also going to make really
nice looking PDF versions of the text transcription. In case you really
like information I provided, you can just forward it right from there
or just save it all in a sub folder in your email for storage. The goal is
to make it as freely and widely accessible as possible. So that’s really
going to be the best way to get connected, stay connected, and up to
date on all this stuff. Also, it’s gonna be the way I reach out to you
when my own book is ready! If you’ve liked the information that’s been
coming out in the podcast episodes the book is going to be how I’ve
connected these ideas to try to to convey a larger message. If you’re on
the email list you’re going to get notified as soon as that book is ready
to go.
I also want to let you know about what to expect going forward as far
as availability of the content. Just the other day I was talking with my
dad, Eric. He’s the singer and bass player in the band Bionic Monk’s,
of which I am a part. I was also talking with the drummer of the band,
Brandon. We were talking about the content we make for the band
and how to make it as accessible as possible. I was using an analogy
for how to think about free content. I thought it was helpful, so I
want to propose this to you just to understand why I’m going about
things the way I’m going about them. Suppose you have two friends.
With one friend, every time you meet up with them you talk about
something interesting you came across such as an interesting article
or interesting idea or maybe some life experience that you’ve went
through and you’re wanting to share with them. If every time you
did that they said something like “Oh yeah, I just read a whole book
specifically that that topic that you’re interested in” or “I went through
a similar life experience and I came up with some things that really
helped me get through that”. Suppose you then tried to engage with
them and ask “Well, what was the name of that that book you read?” or
“What were the things you came up with that helped you through that
specific life experience?” and their response was “Well, for 10 bucks
a month I’ll let you know”. That’s not going to do a damn bit of good
because if you can’t pay them that that amount of money each month
you’ll just do without that information. Right?
     Now, suppose your second friend had the opposite response. As soon
as you try to engage them they they’re right there with the name of the
book, with the steps that they took to get through that life experience
whatever it may be. If they just engaged with you right away with
all that information, that would be a much closer relationship, right?
Now, consider further down the road, both of them come to you at
separate points and say,
“Hey, I’m working on a project. If you might be able to swing five
bucks a month to just help the project stay going that would be
awesome. If you can’t don’t worry about it. It’s not going to change
the way we interact or the way we hang out. But, if you happen to
be in a place where five bucks a month is no big deal and you like
my project, could swing five bucks?”
     Which one of those friends are you going to give the five dollars to?
Right. Obviously, it’s the person that engages with you freely because
then your interaction is not predicated on you paying. That’s why,
for this podcast for the content I’m making, I’m not going to put it
behind a paywall. Of course, when the book is ready I’ll be asking you
to buy the book but I can’t really make the physical printed book free.
I don’t know how to do that. However, it doesn’t cost me to make a
video. It doesn’t cost me to come across an idea that I think is worth
sharing. It does cost to keep the website going or you know buy some
equipment. For example, I just ordered two mic’s to try to make some
better audio in these videos and that costs some money. But this is
a passion project so any content that I make like this is not going to
be behind a paywall. I want to craft a conversation with you. I want
to craft a connection with you. These ideas are not business ideas or
anything. You know what I mean? It’s just that this stuff brightens my
day. This stuff engages my mind. I think it’s really great. I just want
to share that with you. If you are interested enough in this content
I’d like to hear from you because we’re crafting a conversation. That’s
why it’s not going to be behind a paywall.
     Now I am working on setting up a page on Patreon and, initially, it’s
just going to have one tier. It’s just going to be the five bucks a month.
Like I said in the analogy, this is only if you feel like you can swing five
bucks a month because that’ll help. For example, every year you got to
renew your license on the url. I used the service weebly to make the
website and that has a monthly cost to allow me to keep using the url
that I bought. It would just help keep the lights on, so to say. Again,
only if you feel like you can swing five bucks a month. If not it’s no big
deal. All of this content that I’m making is like you and me hanging out.
It’s like we’re meeting up for coffee. I’m not going to ask you to pay
me five bucks when we meet at Starbucks so that I can tell you about
something I found interesting. I just want to craft a conversation with
you about this stuff.
     So, to wrap things up because I’m long winded, go to godofhoneybees.
com. There’s a contact tab where you can let me know what you
thought about the Web site. The podcast is going to be dominantly
on YouTube. If you search god of honeybees you can watch all the
video episodes. If you’d rather listen to it in your podcast app, god of
honey bees is probably on your podcast app. If you want to read it
in a distilled version, godofhoneybees.com, under the blog tab, each
episode is going be transcribed in an edited version for readability. If
you want a really great looking PDF version of the transcription that
you can send to your friends, that you could print off, that you could
do whatever you want with, send it wherever, and you want access to
the links to any sources that I’m referencing in the episodes, sign up
for the email list. It doesn’t cost you anything.
     Godofhoneybees.com is the central hub to get access to all of that.
The email newsletter will have all of the extra sources that I’m diving
into. I’ll make another announcement later on once Patreon is up
and running. Thanks for listening to this brief episode. The next
one coming down the pipeline is about using rocks to help improve
our meditation practice, our morning ritual, our prayers, liturgy, etc.
I want to talk about a method of using rocks to help improve that
practice.
     Thanks for listening to God of honeybees, the podcast. Again you
can find all the extra content on godofhoneybees.com. You can find
me on Instagram @godofbeespodcast and consider signing up for the
email newsletter so they can get you all the information on the extra
content that I think you might really find interesting. Thanks again.

Justin Herb

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