I feel as though September has been a month of evolution in my thinking and goal setting. August of 2018, we made the decision as a family to give Chad a rest and allow him to focus on his writing. During that year we discovered podcasting and started and launched our podcast The Musicks in Japan in May of 2019. It has gotten a favorable response, but more than that I absolutely love podcasting with Chad. I love it so much that we are going to launch a second podcast talking about what it is like to be disabled and our various disabilities, hopefully in the next few weeks if everything shakes out the way we hope. If not then by November for sure, or so we think. Some of the things that complicate matters is that Chad has gone back to work part-time and is not able to devote all his time to writing and the podcast. As everyone knows, it takes years to be able to build the type of podcast following that allows you to podcast for a living which means making some tough choices.

One of the tough choices we had to make was Chad going back to work. This probably does not bother him as much as it bothers me, but I wish that he didn’t have to go back to work and that we had enough income from podcasting to cover what his part-time work covers. I do think we are fortunate in that with my fulltime work and Chad’s part-time work I have enough to cover our bills and reach our monthly financial goals, with the exception of being able to invest financially into the podcasts. I don’t know how I got the podcasting bug, but I have got it bad! All I want to do is create content for the podcast. I never understood why youtubers work so hard on their channels because it takes a long time to build a youtube channel and now here I am doing about the same amount of work on podcasting. It’s weird because we didn’t go into this trying to be professional podcasters and now it is my heart’s greatest desire. I hope you all enjoy coming on this ride with us as we journey into becoming professional podcasters, something I thoughts I would never do.