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After 5 years and 233 episodes, I’ve recorded the ultimate episode of The RV Entrepreneur podcast.
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A bit of greater than seven years in the past my good friend Sean sat me down proper earlier than I married Alyssa and mentioned, “Heath, I really like you man. I simply wish to see you end one thing you begin. You’re getting married now and have a much bigger accountability than simply your self.”
This was all with reference to our loopy thought to purchase an RV and take a yr to go to all fifty states. It was a painful, however sincere dialog and one which in the intervening time stung (as a result of it was true) however I used to be genuinely grateful he shared with me.
For a very long time, I struggled to see issues by way of.
I began a brand new enterprise, solely to let it flounder. I obtained actually excited a few enterprise thought solely to desert it by the weekend.
My fundamental purpose once we hit the street was to turn out to be an individual who sees issues by way of.
Once I began the RV Entrepreneur podcast in 2016, my purpose was to really see it by way of and publish 25 or 50 episodes (tbh I’m undecided which quantity it was), however this week I launched episode quantity 233 — and it’s additionally my final.
Earlier than sharing the explanation why I wished to only say thanks to anybody studying this.
Thanks to the 514 individuals who have left opinions on this present and for everybody who has listened, downloaded, or shared the RV Entrepreneur podcast over the previous 5 years.
Additionally, for all of the individuals who have taken trip of their day to be a visitor or despatched considerate emails and messages to us sharing what the present has meant to them. As a content material creator, I can’t even start to explain how a lot that meant to me. It was actually the gasoline that saved me going.
In fascinated with what I wished to share from a learnings perspective on the podcast, there are one million issues.
However I didn’t wish to try to rehash key classes from 200+ episodes of the podcast, so as a substitute I made a decision to depart you with the three most significant classes this podcast personally taught me.
My 3 Largest Takeaways from Internet hosting the RV Entrepreneur Podcast
#1 You don’t should be an knowledgeable to share useful recommendation and make an influence in folks’s lives, however you do should be sincere.
Certainly one of my largest fears when beginning this podcast was the truth that on the time I used to be genuinely struggling to determine enterprise and the way it blended with this loopy life we’d chosen. I advised Alyssa that I felt like an imposter beginning an entrepreneurship podcast once we have been barely getting by with our enterprise.
I feared that naming the podcast “RV Entrepreneur” would come off like I used to be making an attempt to be one thing I wasn’t or appearing like I used to be additional forward than I used to be. So as a substitute of making an attempt to behave, I simply shared the place we actually have been in enterprise.
I posted episodes the place Alyssa and I talked about what we have been going to call our weblog and the way a lot cash we have been making (or weren’t making) in varied endeavors.
In a variety of methods, this method made all the pieces really feel lighter to me. I used to be by no means making an attempt to be an knowledgeable, I used to be simply making an attempt to be useful.
This course of made me understand that if you happen to’re much less involved with feeling or trying essential and extra involved with being useful — you go additional. You don’t should be an knowledgeable, you simply should be sincere.
#2 An undiscovered area of interest feels too small to most individuals whenever you first inform them about it.
Once I first began this podcast, it appeared like a reasonably small variety of folks would ever care a few enterprise from their RV.
Individuals actually laughed after I advised them concerning the present.
Nonetheless, I knew from beginning our Fb group that there have been no less than a handful of people that would actually care concerning the content material (or no less than I hoped so).
For those who’re fascinated with creating or beginning one thing and you are feeling there’s a goal group of individuals on the market (even beautifully small), I’d encourage you to chase after it and see what occurs.
Don’t low cost your first-hand data simply because it appears unconventional or not confirmed but. Show it.
#3 A fan turns into a good friend and subscribers turn out to be a neighborhood whenever you carry folks collectively.
Probably the greatest selections we ever made with reference to this podcast wasn’t truly concerning the podcast — it was concerning the resolution to carry collectively this neighborhood in particular person at our RV Entrepreneur Summit in 2017.
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This occasion modified the trajectory of our careers in no small approach.
The folks we met who had listened to this present grew to become a few of our greatest associates and even enterprise companions. The collective group grew to become a real neighborhood. Till that second it was only a podcast with subscribers on a dashboard. The gathering of like-minded folks was the place the true magic occurred.
And as I discussed firstly of this electronic mail, we’re placing on our fifth RVE Summit right here in Colorado this fall from September ninth by way of the twelfth.
We’d like to have you ever be a part of us.
We’re internet hosting boondockers at our soon-to-be an actual campground property and we’re going again to our OG 2017 RVE Summit dimension and solely releasing a little bit greater than 100 tickets.
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We have already got a number of superior audio system lined up like Much less Junk Extra Journey, RV Geeks, Joel Holland of Harvest Hosts, and RV Miles who will probably be sharing their tales this yr at RVE.
For those who’re thinking about attending this yr, you may seize a ticket and study extra right here.
Why I Determined to Give up Recording Episodes
In a Fb group I’m in, somebody requested me, “From a content material creator’s perspective, why are you ending the present?”
There are just a few causes for wrapping up the podcast.
Nonetheless, the first one is that what I’m most excited and enthusiastic about proper now isn’t studying learn how to create a distant enterprise, it’s studying learn how to create a hospitality expertise for our campground.
As an interviewer, what creates vitality in a dialog is real curiosity. For those who’ve ever listened to a boring interview, it’s possible partially as a consequence of the truth that the interviewer isn’t truly within the particular person they’re speaking to.
When somebody takes real curiosity in a dialog, they will make even mundane matters attention-grabbing.
This curiosity is what has fueled me over 5 years and 233 episodes. I’ve liked the conversations I’ve had with nomads from all walks of life and discovered one thing from each episode. And this curiosity and keenness is one thing I’m excited to hold over into what’s subsequent—our campground.
A parting thought on abandoning one thing that feels “profitable”
Though I felt strongly it was time to wrap up the podcast, it was nonetheless actually exhausting to let it go and took me a few months to completely decide to the choice.
The present nonetheless has tens of hundreds of listeners and I obtain common emails about how significant it’s been for nomads and entrepreneurs. Plus, as a part of our enterprise, it’s worthwhile yr over yr.
Letting it go and transferring from specializing in being an RV Entrepreneur to being an RV park proprietor is a large shift for Alyssa and me. We’re abandoning one thing we all know and love for one thing fully unknown.
Alyssa is engaged on her second ebook proper now and it shares the story of our first yr on the street and the way we—not with out some velocity bumps—truly completed our quest to go to all 50 states. We’ve been speaking loads about that first yr on the street and the unparalleled pleasure and vitality we felt diving into RV life when it was a very unknown journey. It was terrifying and thrilling all of sudden.
That’s the identical pleasure I really feel after I unroll blueprints for our campground and brainstorm methods we will ship on a contemporary tenting expertise. There may be a lot ardour and enthusiasm in each dialog (which is a part of the rationale we couldn’t wait to host boondockers at an RVE Summit this yr!).
Life is brief and whereas it’s simpler to remain in our lanes, I don’t suppose it serves us to take action on the expense of progress and pleasure.
Once more, simply wish to say thanks to so lots of you who’ve listened to RVE over time or reached out with a form notice about an episode. This has been an extremely significant chapter for each Alyssa and me and we’re excited to collect with this neighborhood once more (in particular person!) this September.
Wishing you all of the success,
Heath