We're Celebrating 300 Episodes
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Welcome to episode 300 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris.

I am so, so excited to be celebrating 300 episodes with you. I'm really excited. We're going to talk about 300 episodes, some of the lessons I've learned, some of the gear I've used and why you don't need to make it super complicated. We're going to talk a little bit about what's next and my commitment to you as the community. Then I'm going to be announcing a little giveaway which I'm really excited about because I love this community and I am so, so grateful for you guys listening each and every episode, each and every week. Whether you've been listening since the beginning or if maybe you're brand new, I am so grateful that you've taken the time to listen to the show and use the show and take action on what you listen to, right? Yeah? We're doing that? Awesome. I'm amped.

Thank you, thank you for listening to the show and for taking the time out of your day to celebrate with me here live on this episode 300 day. I'm so excited. I can't believe it. It feels a little nuts, a little nuts. We actually won't celebrate three years of the show until November. I think November was when we first went live with episode one, November of 2013, but we hit 300 episodes. That's the joy of doing two episodes a week. I'm just saying. Okay. Let's jump in.

I want to talk about some of the lessons I've learned over the course of 300 episodes because that's a lot of content to create. It's a lot of being in the creation space and a lot of having to show up and do it. The number one thing I've learned is consistency matters more than anything else. It's not always easy. I have been really, really consistent with the show. It has gone out twice a week every single week, come hell or high water, with holidays, vacations, impromptu moves, everything, every week, twice a week for the entire 300 episodes. A lot of that came from a really strong commitment to actually doing that. There has been no acceptable excuse to me to not get the show out, but also it's been about planning in a lot of cases and just doing the work. I've talked a lot about taking December off and the planning I do for that. We've done episodes about it. By the way, if you want to catch up on any of the first 300 episodes, hitthemic.com, there's a whole list of them. There's amazing search function coming to the website soon. Yay!

Those are almost easy because I see that time change coming or I need to prep for it. That stuff is easy. What's been hard is the stuff that I didn't plan for: being sick, especially ... I learned this probably my first year, maybe my second year. I went on vacation and I had pre-planned the show and pre-recorded the show and it was totally good to go except I didn't anticipate being sick when I got back. I had taken December off and we had gone to California. We lived in Arizona at the time. We'd come to California for vacation over New Years' Eve. I was going to be back in the office on Monday. The next podcast episode was supposed to go out Tuesday. Well in pre-recording all of my content I recorded all of December in November and October, but I hadn't planned on recording any January because I was like, "Oh, I'll be back in the office then. I can totally just wing it and I'll get caught back up. I don't need to go that far in advance."

Well, we got back from vacation and I was really, really sick. I had no voice. I couldn't keep anything down. I was really, really intensely sick. It was a couple of years ago when that really horrible flu virus was going around. I had to suck it up and get it done and do the work and record that podcast. I sou

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