Speaker 1: Hey, Sarah, and this is vocal d Vocal d fragging.
Speaker 2: Is asking yourself questions and then questioning your answers. I
also keep a d frag journal where I write out
the questions in the journal and then I answer them.
I argue with myself. I sit there and I feel
good or bad. I go through the emotional exchanges. Same
thing with the vocal dfrag. But what I love most
about the vocal dfrag is that you're preserving your inflection,
the pitch, the volume of the tone. And I strongly
suggest that you do that with your smartphone. Start using
it as a great tool for you to share your
personal thoughts, your visions, things that are moving through you.
Come back and just listen to it, ask the questions
and then question the answers. This is vocal d fragging.
I've been hit today with several different angles of why
you should be really listening to your heart. I did
a commercial for Spotify today that was based on one thing,
not podcasting in the way that people get on there
to tell their jokes, or they do their famous people interviews,
or or just get in there and just joke around
with their friends, or to basically just talk about a product.
My angle today was based one hundred percent on the advertiser,
because I was reminded that the reason why I got
into podcasting in twenty twelve was because I was trying
to design a platform for advertisers who were spending a
boatload of money for thirty second and sixty second commercials.
So I thought podcasting would be such a great angle
to take our advertisers too, And in twenty twelve, that
big old broadcasting company looked at me and said, yeah,
I don't get it, man, I don't get what you're doing,
but keep trying.
Speaker 1: And so I kept trying.
Speaker 2: And the more I tried, the more I got into
those famous people interviews and doing things like we're doing
right now. But at the same time, I documented something
inside another journal that I keep, which is called stream Thinking,
and it wanted to know why I was doing this
storytelling of this force, this tiny forest in South Charlotte,
North Carolina.
Speaker 1: And the answer that I came up with.
Speaker 2: Was was kind of odd because it was based on
one thing. When I'm gone, all of the energy that
the forest and I shared will be gone as well.
And the forest has been speaking so loudly to me
over the past couple of weeks that it says, write
the story. If you don't write the story, then no
one will know of what happened here in nineteen ninety
two growing forward, because what's going to happen to my
daily writing? If I know my wife, she's probably going
to get rid of the daily writing at the time
of my passing because it takes up a lot of
room in many, many protective boxes. So I have felt
it in my heart for the past couple of weeks,
share the story of this forest. I did a fourth
episode this morning, and I'm still going, what the hell
are you doing? So I bring this to you. When
you get into those moments of what the hell am
I doing?
Speaker 1: How far do you take that?
Speaker 2: Do you lean into it even more because you're trying
to locate the real source of the energy. What the
hell are you doing? My dad used to ask me
that question all the time. He'd walk into my room.
He'd walk out into the chicken hut with me. Well,
in the chicken hut, I was out there with a
garden hose, and I was singing in one end and
on the other end it was going into my ear
because it created an echo. What the hell was I doing?
I was singing, I was being creative. I'd like to
hear that little delay because it made me sound like
I was live in concert.
Speaker 1: What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 2: How far do you push yourself before you finally say, well,
what the hell I was doing is exactly that. It
was what I was doing and there was no payoff.
And I often wonder about those payoffs. What is it
that we're truly looking for when we set out to
accomplish something and it doesn't reach that one particular level.
I get really super jealous of these carpenters and these
instruction workers that follow these gigantic maps. This is the
way it's supposed to be, this highway, this house, But
does it really achieve that level? I mean, we may
not see it because we're not trained to see it.
I call them easter eggs at the grocery store. I
can be walking through that store and see something that's
completely out of place, but a billion people have walked
by and have done nothing about it. What the hell
are you doing? What are you doing in your life
that you see that you're feeling energy from, and yet
the only thing that's happening is you. Nobody else is participating,
and if they were, it might be a judgment call,
but that in itself serves as fuel in the way
of well should I continue doing this?
Speaker 1: Or what I mean?
Speaker 2: A guy walking through a forest speaking into a telephone,
what the hell are you doing? Well, it's called vocal defragging.
Vocal d fragging came to me because of a breakdown.
I was putting it on paper. Then I was talking
to all of these actors and musicians and artists, and
they said, well, what is vocal defragging? I want to
participate with it. I couldn't put my journals out there
because what of my journals have to do with you?
So therefore we created vocal d fragging in a way
of saying, what the hell are you doing? Why the
hell are you doing it? Do you really need to
be doing it? Is there a payoff? Or do you
really want a payoff? Sometimes we do things to do
to find our place to be in a place of
acceptance by way of saying, yeah, I did it, what
do you want to do about it?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll do it again.
Speaker 2: For instance, like the day that I became an artist
on canvas was a total accident. It was because I
spilled ink on my daily writing, and it took the
shape of a perfect wine glass. To this day, when
I see that picture or that painting, I go the
hell was I thinking? Most people would rip it out
of the journal and throw it away, but no, I
had to preserve it because it changed my life forever.
So in asking what the hell are you doing, maybe
we should say what the hell would you like to
be doing? And how much time and energy you're going
to place into it. We've all been convinced that there
has to be a return on the investment.
Speaker 1: I get it, that's business. I've talked with directors.
Speaker 2: In fact, the director of the new John Travolta movie
mob Land, we talked about the business side of making movies.
Speaker 1: We've talked about the business side of a grocery store.
I get it.
Speaker 2: There's got to be some sort of return on the investment.
But the situation is based on one more thing, you
yourself and the energy that you have, and how much
of it are you willing to spend in order to
do what the hell you want to do. When my
wife retired from being a school teacher, the woman at
the Social Security office said, hey, welcome to a new life.
You now have the power of choice. I remember listening
to that phone conversation, and I was moved by it,
just like I was moved by the the ink spilling
on the piece of paper that took the shape of
a wineglass. Moved because welcome to the power of choice.
At that moment is when I said, I will never
work another job again. That's my choice. See, I do
have an essential job. I do do things with the
movie promotion company. I do do things with my mobile
DJ service. But it's not a job. It's a choice.
I make a choice to do that, and changing my
mindset of what the hell am I doing it really
gives me a better opportunity to enjoy the love that
is shared in the things that I'm doing. Yeah, being
at a grocery store what a pain in the ass, right?
Not really, there's a lot of stories there. There's a
lot of everyday average people combined with rich ass people,
famous people, unknown people, old people, young people. They're all
coming into this place and they've all got something to share.
And if you take the time to listen, my god,
the return on the investment is just mind blowing because
you see for yourself what a true community is It's
not like going to a church. I love me some church, okay,
But church people they dress up and they put on
their little candy coat of plastic, bathroom mere smiles, They
bring the little Bible, they do things like them. But
it's not sharing to reality now. The moment they get
in their car after the preacher man has talked, that's
when reality sets in. But at a grocery store, there's
reality there. What the hell are you doing? I ask
myself that every time I go to this grocery store,
what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm being with my community.
Speaker 2: I'm charging up my batteries as a writer, as a
creative person, I'm like hanging out with other people that
are also created. They're just not talking about it. I'm
listening to their stories. I'm watching them come into the
store at odd ball hours, and then when I say
something to them, they're going, WHOA, You actually noticed that
I came in here at this time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I really did.
Speaker 2: So on this episode of Vocal d Frag, I really
do want you to ask the question what the hell
are you doing? And in the moments of trying to
come up with an an sir, the goal is to
find yourself in a place of discovery as well as recovery,
because your life is going to get stronger when you
find yourself being more truthful with yourself, instead of buying
things to cover things up, instead of going on to
social media, and finding yourself in that place of well,
if I say this, I've released all my statement. Hey, look,
if there's some things that are pissing you off in
the world, I get it. You're not supposed to talk
about politics, you're not supposed to talk about religion.
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2: Then put it in a defragged journal, not necessarily a
vocal journal, because there's a lot of stuff in the
political world that you don't need to be saying, because
you're going to create a storm that's going to ruin
a lot of relationships.
Speaker 1: Don't be doing that. What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 2: Ask the question, question the answer, find yourself in the mirror.
Speaker 1: I'm arrow and that's vocal. D Frak