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Shine On Success
Shine on Success is a dynamic, story-driven podcast where extraordinary entrepreneurs, visionary leaders, and resilient change-makers share their journeys to success, revealing both the challenges and the strategies that led to their breakthroughs. Each episode offers a unique blend of inspiring personal stories, practical business insights, and actionable advice, allowing our guests to connect with an engaged, growth-oriented audience ready to be motivated and uplifted. By joining us, you’ll not only have the opportunity to showcase your expertise and inspire listeners but also to be part of a powerful platform that celebrates ambition, innovation, and the courage to turn dreams into reality.
Shine On Success
Shine Your Light: The Courage to Speak, Create, and Inspire
What if the voice inside your head telling you you’re meant for more is right? In this episode of Shine On Success, host Dionne Malush sits down for a powerful, soul-stirring conversation about purpose, reinvention, and the courage to be heard. You’ll hear stories of overcoming shyness, navigating grief, and boldly stepping into a calling even when the world tells you to quit.
Packed with insights on harnessing your natural gifts, trusting your intuition, and turning passion projects like podcasting into platforms for impact, this conversation is a reminder that your story, especially the messy parts, is your superpower. If you’ve ever felt stuck, silenced, or unsure of your next step, this episode will inspire you to come out from behind the recliner, own your brilliance, and share your light with the world.
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What if the voice inside your head telling you you're meant for more is right? Today's guest is Christine Blasdell. A powerhouse of purpose, impact and media mastery With over two decades in radio, multiple number one bestselling books and a thriving podcast coaching business, christine has helped thousands of voices be heard and hearts be healed. But what makes her story shine isn't just the success, it's the soul. Christine has faced grief, reinvention and starting over more times than most people start. She's a podcast strategist, intuitive business coach, author and international speaker who's built her brand on authenticity and connection. If you've ever doubted your calling, your value, your ability to rise after it all falls apart which seems to happen a lot this one's for you. Christine. Welcome to Shine on Success. How are you today?
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you so much. It's wonderful to be here with you.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited. So where are you from?
Speaker 2:Originally I'm from Southern California, but I'm talking to you from New South Wales in Australia actually.
Speaker 1:Wow cool. I love that. I've never been there, but I hear it's very beautiful. It is, yeah, I'm sure. So I'd like to open with a question like this. I think it's really important for me to find out more about you. So what's the one thing you want people to know about you?
Speaker 2:Not your title, not your resume, but who you really are. I will say that when I was really young I was very shy. I was extremely shy to the point that when I was at my grandmother's house and somebody would come over to visit as they did in the 60s and the early 70s I would run and hide behind her recliner. You know the den. In the TV den there was the two big recliners and I would go and hide and wait and suss out the person to make sure and then I ended up. You know, my career was funny, very funny, because I'm very much out in front of people, now especially. But for 20 years I was in radio broadcasting and I got to reach people and communicate with them and do interviews, just like you're doing right now with, I mean, potential millions of people, and it was so fantastic to actually come out behind that recliner.
Speaker 2:But, for those people who are shy or who have ever had that dreaded imposter syndrome, I know exactly how you feel, but I want to say that you come on out. The water's fine, it's a great place to be, and it's the only way that we can, kind of you know, convey our message. What's in our hearts with other people is to come out from behind that recliner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So what does your life look like today and what lights you up most about the work you do? Because you said now you're in front of people all the time. Right, you have all the people. So tell me about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my favorite thing is working with my clients, and my clients tend to be women in business who are overwhelmed with all of the responsibilities, all of the things that you need to do to start up a business and then to maintain it Right.
Speaker 2:And that's that overwhelm comes from having to be, you know, an accountant, a social media genius, copywriter, public speaker. You know all those different things. And what I want to tell people and as I say this to my clients is, first of all, let's take that stress and that overwhelm away. We're going to start with the things that you really love doing Right, because once you start with those things and you become successful at it, then you have the courage and the confidence to go on to the next thing. And there's just a few basic things that we want to make sure. If you have a business like a coach, if you're a coach or a consultant, that we want to cover and make sure that we are communicating that message with the world. Sometimes, as business owners, we don't. We know what we do and we know what we're good at, but we sometimes can't communicate that with the out to the outside world. So that's my job.
Speaker 1:So I've wore all of those hats for sure. And you know, as I grew eight years in this company, I feel like I'm at a point where I do have some of it taken off of my shoulders but there is some the overwhelm is here right now.
Speaker 1:I can absolutely feel it, and my husband just had a liver transplant nine, let's say 10, 10 and a half weeks ago. So I've been working from home for a while and now I'm like I like it so much I don't want to go back to work. You know, it's so amazing working at home. I love it. But the overwhelm of every day of what do I do next? What TikTok thing do I do? What am I doing? Posting on this, doing this group? There's so many things and I'm good at it and I'm fast at it. I can't imagine someone that's not. So if I feel overwhelmed which I don't even like to say that word, because that's not a word that usually comes out of my mouth it's just a time in my life, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah yeah, there's no, but there's. There's a lot of people out there that are very skilled, very wise, and they have their expert authority. Really, they've developed it over the you know, the years, decades, and so they, they're very talented, but what happens is we become like a deer in headlights where listen, we have, you know, information overload. Right now I, you know I'm I'm like I'm getting tired of like every time I open up my social media apps, you know I'm, I'm like I'm getting tired of. Like every time I open up my social media apps, you know, I hear some breaking news story. I'm like what's going on now?
Speaker 2:You know, I'm here in australia and I'm so concerned for my family, my friends, my colleagues that are in the us and all around the world, and so we've got that on top of our own lives and taking care of our families and our health. And you know, I mean you just it just keeps getting. You know so much stuff, but that overwhelm, that information overwhelm, is really important too. That's why, also, we need to take that time. Sometimes. We just need to take that time also to step back away from it, and I encourage a digital detox. You know, even if you, even if you, just you know, you plan it for, even if it's a day, one day, you know it's. It would be shocking to you to to realize how good you feel. But it's important to take those breaks away from that stress.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's even the effect of like reading, like I'm not reading anymore because there's so much to do. I'm always trying to create something new and you know so. I'm entrepreneur in this real estate brokerage. We have over 200 agents and I'm still trying to find the next thing that I want to do in my life. And I just turned 57 and I keep saying like I'm in the backside of my life, Like I want more than this, but I just don't know how to get it when there's so many things, and what's the next thing for me? So I understand what you're doing and I love that and I read about you and I was so impressed with what you're doing. And you know one thing as I ventured through the grief of my father passing, the podcast came into my life and I love doing it, and a couple weeks ago someone told me that I should probably quit, I should probably not do it anymore, and I said yeah, it's just, you know you're not.
Speaker 1:It's no, you're not making any money from it. You're not doing I'm like, but I'm affecting some lives, you know. And I thought, boy, I do love this and I love the idea of people getting to know the real person. You know behind the scene and I think that I pour my heart out as much as everyone else does. So you've helped so many people launch a podcast and grow their voice. Why do you think podcasting is such a powerful platform?
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, I'm going to I'll tell you, don't quit podcasting. Okay, for a number of reasons, but you had originally. When you started talking about it, you lit up like a Christmas tree right and and you can see in your eyes and you can feel it, I, the energy is palpable, you know it's, it's so powerful that you can feel it. And there's a reason that you have that draw or that pull towards it. And I tell my clients all the time, when you have that pull, that draw, that is telling you. You know this is something that I really love and it's not work, even though it does involve a lot of work. I know I've been doing it for a long time. I know how much time it takes to research your guests and to get everything set up and then afterward, after the beautiful interview, all the work that you have to do, I know, but it's, first of all, it's one of the best marketing tools you can have right.
Speaker 2:It's, you know it's your own radio station or your own television network if you're recording it for video. So you, so you have this immediate platform that you can communicate who you are, and that's the biggest thing in branding right now is that you know it's not about a product. Your product is you, your brand is you, and so I want to encourage you to to keep going. There's a statistic out there that I love sharing with with my clients who want to. They're like I want to start a podcast and I'll say listen, if you can get past the seven year, the seven episode itch okay, which is, most people who start up a podcast they quit after seven episodes.
Speaker 1:I think I'm at 77 or 78.
Speaker 2:So you're way ahead of the game, right, but it's because what happens is that they think that they're going to immediately become rich or they're going to immediately become some influencer, and it's just not that way. What it is, though, is it's a great mechanism for you to get your brand out there, but also so that you can meet people that you would never meet before. You and I are probably 7000 miles away. We've now met. I know now, because you've told me a bit about yourself. I already know that, if I've got some opportunity for you because I like you, I like who you are, if I have some sort of opportunity that I think you would be great for that, I'm going to connect with you. That I'm going to. It's like the LinkedIn of audio, right.
Speaker 1:I think it's the most powerful networking group in the world, right, being able to network with people. When my husband is battling through this, I had people literally all over the world praying for him, because all the people on the podcast everyone has been. I can literally say it's been all over the world, and you know so yeah. So I mean, I kind of took what he said for a minute and I thought, oh, maybe he's right, it's a lot of work, you know why. But then I do get to share my light and I also get to share adversity, and that's the point is people that push through adversity and get to the other side. We may be a little bit of a different breed and I want to share that because I think all the stuff keeps happening to me so that I have stories to tell and share.
Speaker 2:So, that being, said, it's also a content creation machine, don't forget. You can repurpose your podcast content. You can take the episodes that you've done and turn them into chapters in a book. Let's say you did a lot. You've interviewed a lot of women that are entrepreneurs. You could do a book. You can do several books based on women in business and maybe their advice or their philosophy right you can make. You can create modules in a course. From that. You can take your video and you can create social media reels, tiktoks, you know video snippets, all those things. You can do so much with your podcast and it's great SEO for you because every single episode your name is attached to it. I can go on and on. I love podcasting.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it too. I love the idea of it, I love what it does and I think honestly in my trade in real estate, I think every single real estate agent should have one.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:They have a different. Everyone has their own sphere of influence. Past clients they all know. Business owners, they could be, you know, interviewing them and you know, in their towns. There's so many cool things a real estate agent could do in this space.
Speaker 2:And you know what. And you're talking to a woman who's married to a real estate agent. So I totally, I so understand what you go through. And because people think you know whatever they think of real estate agents, I know, I know how much work goes into it, I know how you never have a day off, even if you're on vacation, you're never on vacation. And I just recently, I had an epiphany and and I will definitely once once I get the, the, the proof done, I'll send it your way.
Speaker 2:But the, the last book that I did was the Social Media and Branding Survival Guide. Digital Marketing so Irresistible, even your Ex Will Want to Follow you. So I did this, and this was mostly for entrepreneurs in general right, and my epiphany was I need to write a book and I'm doing this, so nobody else do this, all right. So I'm going to be starting to write a series of books for the social media and branding survival guide, and one of them is going to be for real estate agents, because I think that they're so busy you guys are so busy trying to get those listings, dealing with your clients who are expecting you know, it's a gazillion dollar house. No, it's not, it's really 1.5.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to do a social media and branding survival guide for the real estate industry. You may share that with me so I can share.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think you guys are doing so much and maybe some of the stuff that I know can help, and one of them will be create a podcast, and I'll say that Dionne said it was okay, so yeah.
Speaker 1:I said you know what's funny? Cause I, I'm putting together how to be visible online just for our agents. So we have about 200. I don't really practice anymore. I'm not buying or selling with clients, I'm working with the agents. So I put together and I'll send it to you, a whole thing on why they should have a podcast and you'll just enjoy it and how to be visible online. And the podcast was a big one and I believe in it. I think it's a great thing. It's great for marketing. And I know one thing I'm not using it to the best of what you're saying, like I'm not out there doing that. So I'm going to work on that for sure.
Speaker 2:Repurpose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, too much. There's so much opportunity. So, all right, tell me what you did to take me back. Was there a moment where everything shifted for you, where you knew you had to walk a different path? Was there an adversity that? Tell me your story.
Speaker 2:I think the big moment for me was you know, I was many, many moons ago. I was working for America Online, which, back in the day, america Online was the only thing right. That was it, that was Facebook, that was TikTok all put together. And in the early days, america Online had hired people that were specialists, that were writers, because it was all writing. It was all writers in their field, right In their expertise. And so I got a really great opportunity to write an entertainment column. You know, I, when somebody says hey, you know we're looking for this, and if I think that I can do it, I'll go. Yeah, that's me, I can do that. So it was one of those opportunities where I landed the gig and what I was doing was going to press junkets and premieres and interviewing celebrities and you know movie stars and all this stuff, and it was. It was cool, it was awesome, it was great, but it was it was very Hollywood gossipy type thing. You know who's so-and-so dating or what are they wearing, or whatever.
Speaker 2:And but, but I but I was very good at it and I wrote through a cartoon character. I didn't write through Christine, I wrote through this. This character that was very head of hopper, very vampy, campy, always had a martini in her hand, so she was a little smashed and she was like a Hollywood agent slash publicist. And so this cartoon character I was able to write a very funny, fun column and I did that for quite some time. And then 9-11 happened and I'll tell you when that happened. First of all, there were so many questions I had. And then 9-11 happened and I'll tell you when that happened. First of all, I didn't, you know. First of all, there were so many questions I had and I think everybody remembers sort of where they were when that happened or what they were doing. And I really had one of those moments where I was like who cares who Angelina Jolie is, you know dating right now? Really, is this really important? And I questioned the business that I was doing and spending so much time on going to Hollywood and doing these things. So it was a moment where I said I think I just I don't know, I don't know if this is it.
Speaker 2:And I was driving in Los Angeles and, as you do, you're stuck in traffic every time, whatever time you're driving. And I was radio channel, surfing on the radio and I came across this radio station that was so unique to me that it just stopped me in my tracks. And it wasn't the, the, the, the the mainstream media was very much about fear. You know scary, terrifying reports. This was more analytical and it was people's opinions about what and they were telling me about. They were telling me about the history of the of you know us policy in the middle East, and I was like what I? I was never taught this. You know what's going on. And so I actually was so impressed that I went.
Speaker 2:I drove to the radio station and I said I want to come from a place of gratefulness and I just want to walk around and thank everybody. And so I pulled in, I went into the station, the guy at the front desk who I ended up knowing for many years, I said Can I just say thank you to people? And he's like you're not here to complain, you're, you're actually here to say something nice, of course. So he let me in and he let me just walk around the office and the studio and I and I did, I just poked my head in If people weren't looking too busy. I would just say I just I want to say thank you for the work you're doing during these really troubling times, you know.
Speaker 2:And somebody said what do you do? And I'm like I write for Miracle Online, I'm like I write an entertainment column. And they said, oh, that's great. You know, you should think about, you know, volunteering. I said you can do that, you can volunteer for the station. They go, yeah, you can do that. And they said, they said you won't get paid. I said that's okay, that might be kind of cool. So I started volunteering and writing for the you know the different hosts.
Speaker 2:And then one thing led to another. Somebody was leaving, they needed a producer. I was like, well, I can do that. I guess I'm not on the microphone and um, and so I did that for a little while.
Speaker 2:And then that was that, that Hollywood golden moment. I don't know it's in every single movie. I, that moment where the star can't go on stage or, you know, broke their leg or whatever, and they're like Christine, you have to go on on on air, you have to do the five, you know the drive time show and I was like no, I, I'm, I'm not, I'm not talent, I'm not an on-air talent, I'm behind the scenes, I'm a writer, I'm a producer, I go, I do, they go. No, no, you have to. There's nobody here to do it. You have to go on. And so I was like I go, ok.
Speaker 2:Very reluctantly, I hated the idea of it. I sat in the studio, I put the on-air light go on. It was like magic, it was. It was all of a sudden I was in my element and I started communicating. I just started talking and that began my love affair with an audio, the art of the interview, radio for 20 years, that's. That started my career there. So that's out of something that was so disruptive to so many of us. Yeah, it made me question and I actually went with that feel. You know what I'm saying. Like I said that old life, that was fun and great, but this is what I'm really meant to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. It's a great story and I think that time of all of our lives was so unique and I do remember exactly where I was that moment and just the sadness in the whole day was just tragic. But overwhelming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you've been open about experience, grief and personal loss. What helps you navigate through that pain and keep creating because creating has been the thing that's got me through a lot in the last two years Like I'm a creating machine and I was a graphic designer before I don't know if I told you that but now I'm like a major creator. Creator, but anyways, I'm not making any money with it, but I'm doing it just to make me feel better. So there's that. So tell me about you. What's what helped you navigate through pain, personal loss?
Speaker 2:Well, I find that, yeah, for me too, I'm I'm very much a creator. I'm either create you know, with my clients I'm working on creating their brand and their you know messaging and all that good stuff or I'm writing books. I love that process. The latest thing that I'm doing is and I love again in expert authorities from all different aspects, right, so somebody who's a LinkedIn expert, somebody who's a copywriting expert, somebody who's a podcast guest hosting expert, I pull together all these people and then I give our audiences these free resources, free gifts, and it could be a program, could be a course, and I love that because everybody wins.
Speaker 2:I believe in that win, win, win theory. So it doesn't cost anything for people to get access to all these tools and resources, but it helps us get out to a new audience. Each person who's in this bundle gets out to a new audience, so the audience wins. We win because we're in front of new people. And then there's more creation. People can use those tools and resources to start their podcast, to start their TikTok channel, to you know all that stuff. So I love doing that, and that's my first. One is going to be coming out in July, so I'm very excited about that you have many great assets on your website.
Speaker 1:I would look it's so. There's so much good stuff there. So thank you for that, because I love that you're helping people. And again, giving and receiving that's such a huge part of my life and I love that in you too. You just give and give and give, and so you kind of reinvented yourself, right. So 2000, I mean 9-11 reinvention, right. So what's a piece of advice you give to someone who's at the beginning of their reinvention journey, someone like me that may be looking at the last phase of my life. And what do I do next? You know, even though I love the real estate company, I'm going to stay doing that because it's my passion, I love it, but I love other things too. So give me a piece of advice.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, so. So, first of all, the important thing is is that that you tapped into and when we were talking even about the podcast, how you lit up those things. It's called going after the low hanging fruit, the things that bring you most joy and that you could do in your sleep, that are so easy for you to do. I love to have people focus on those things and then we work around. If it's something that they're like, yeah, but I need to make money at it, then we work at ways, how we can generate that income Right, and there's several different ways that we can do that. When you have a big change. Another huge change for me was my wife found me many, many years ago on Instagram, on you know things you might like, and she stopped on my, on my picture, stalked me for a while and then started communicating with me. Now that was many years ago and then started communicating with me. Now that was many years ago, but I you know I had. It was a moment where, when COVID happened another interesting thing Pivot right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had a thing where I was supposed to see her in April of 2020. I was supposed to fly back. I was going back and forth. We were married, but I was going back and forth from Los Angeles to Sydney, new South Wales, and so I was going back and forth and I was supposed to have a trip in april. And she said she called me up, she's like there's something going on with this covet thing. I think you need to bump up your flight. And I was like it's, it's like a flu. What are you talking about? Right, it was the early days. I was like, oh, come on. Now I said you know how much work it is to reorganize everything. And she's like, no, I just think you need to. So I went and checked my flight and my flight was gone. It was just like like I had never made it.
Speaker 2:And so I got on the phone to the partner airline. I was like, um, I'm supposed to fly into Australia in April, and why is my flight gone? And they said, um, the Australian government said they're going to shut down the border, and so all the airlines are canceling flights. They're just they're canceling them. And I said, no, I have to get out to my wife. We've got, you know, her children. Are my children now? Right, our kids are there. I said I got to get there and she said there's no flights, there's only one. It leaves today, in a couple hours. Do you want it?
Speaker 2:And you know, it was one of those moments where you like, you know, yes, like I'm looking around in my house, I'm not at all prepared. I'm looking around in my house where I have all my stuff. I don't know what's going to happen when I'm going to come back, if I can get to the airport, I said, yes, book it. And literally I got off the phone and, in the fastest way possible, I just threw stuff in my suitcase. I threw my microphone, my computer, pair of pants, whatever I could, and called a dear friend and said can you please rush me to the airport? And we went and LAX was empty Like it's never happened. I was like it was like a ghost town, the busiest airport in the world. It was like nobody there.
Speaker 2:And I got on the flight and I had the eeriest feeling when we took off, like I wasn't going to be able to come back home, which was true for two years or whatever. And so I landed here in Australia and I did have to reinvent myself in many ways because all my client everybody was in America and so here I was here. The good thing I guess out of it was that when COVID happened and we were all locked into our dwellings, people were scrambling to pivot, to upskill. So I was actually quite busy because I was an online coach right At that point. Most of my clients could have me on Zoom and we would go through creating their business or revamping their websites and stuff.
Speaker 2:But it was again. It was one of those moments where it was a real dark, weird time and I it just the universe threw me into this place that I'm supposed to be and I'm so glad I took that flight. I'm so glad that I'm here because if I would have been separated from my wife and our kids for two years, I don't know what I just would have gone crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was definitely perfectly timed there. So you pivoted, you started over, you reinvented yourself and thankfully Zoom became so popular. I wish I had stock in it. I'm sure everyone does, I know we would have been making tons of money. But a lot of good things happened for me in that space too. Because we couldn't sell houses, we had three months of no income coming in, but after that for three years it was just unbelievable. Real estate in Pittsburgh, where we don't have big highs and lows, you know. But now we're stable again. But yeah, so you read something about your intuition playing a role in your business decisions or personal pivots. Can you share a little bit about that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't. I don't market myself as a psychic, but I work intuitively with people. So, because my intuition has just helped me so much make those big decisions and leaps, just helped me so much make those big decisions and leaps. So when I'm working with somebody and they tell me a little bit about what they're doing, then a lot of times I'll just get an intuitive hit on where we, the direction we should go, cause, again, everybody, people, can be very overwhelmed. They don't know where to go.
Speaker 2:First. Do I, do I what kind of tick talks do I start creating? What about this, that, the other? And so I like to allow my intuition to come in, and it will. A lot of times I'll be talking to them and I'll just be jotting down little words, little things. And it's been a real, it's been, it's a fun adventure, because I get stuff that comes to me that I would normally not even think about and I'll say hey, what about? You know? I'll just say what do you think about this? I'm being told that we need to have a title for you, and this title would be whatever blah, blah, blah. And they're like oh, my God, that's, that's amazing. I've always, you know, I've always, I've always wanted to be that or I've always thought about that. But I do use my intuition. When it comes to those things and my own life you know my own I'm like I don't think. I think everything is telling me I should not do that, so I will not do that.
Speaker 1:It's good that you listen to it, that's for sure. Some people I'm not sure they hear it, but I don't think they do it so you're not just building a business, you're building a legacy. So what's next for you? You're doing all these cool things, I mean on social media. I was super excited to have you on when I saw it came up and I was like, oh my gosh she's amazing and I couldn't wait to talk to you.
Speaker 2:So what's the next thing in your life? I? You know what I? I really I love the the legacy aspect of things. I've.
Speaker 2:I've got a a few clients that are up there a little bit in age and I love working with them because they can reflect. They're not in that hustle time where they have to, like, you know, I have to make all this money, I have to do this, that and the other. They're reflecting on their life and they still want to give back. They want to inspire people or motivate them. So I really love working with my elderly clients. Right, I've got one who she's 82 years old and she has more energy and spark in her and I can see her on stages. I can see her doing, you know, keynote speaking events and things like that, and I would love for her to have a podcast, although that's not her personality. Her personality is more to be a guest on podcasts. So we're going to be working on getting her booked on shows, because if it's too much, I already know if it's too much work, she's going to go. No, I'm too tired for that, I mean.
Speaker 2:I think about being tired in your eighties, right, yeah, you know it's like you deserve a break, okay, but she is so inspiring and such a lovely person to hear her story, so we're going to be working on that, and that's that's really where I want to go. Now, too, I want to work with those folks who purely want to get inspire people or motivate them with their story.
Speaker 1:Well, I think I may have had the youngest podcast guest. I had an eight year old. I could go. Oh my God, I love that. He was adorable, he was so cute and I loved it and he was so excited. It was really cool. So, yeah, so if she wants to be the oldest, I would gladly take her on, if she wants to talk an eight-year-old.
Speaker 2:I haven't, I haven't had, I don't think I've, I don't think I've interviewed and I've been interviewed by a young person, um, I don't think they were eight, but they were pretty young. They had their own podcast and um, and that was fun fun.
Speaker 1:I'll send you the link whenever we can. It's just so. It's very short. He didn't you know, it wasn't very long, but it was adorable, so I'd love that.
Speaker 2:I'd love that.
Speaker 1:So what message would you share with someone who feels silenced or stuck, but knows deep down they're meant to be heard?
Speaker 2:I will tell you that you never know. I have this story where, because people say, well, who's going to listen to me? And again it's a bit of that imposter syndrome, right, I'm too old, I'm too this, that the other who's going to want to hear my story, who's going to want to work with me? And my thing is is that you never know who's reading your blogs or who's looking at your videos, or who's reading your book, or who's looking at your videos, or who's reading your book or who's listening to your podcast. You never know.
Speaker 2:And I tell my clients all the time, when you're creating something, if it's a book, if it's a podcast, if it's a video, whatever it is. Imagine a person that you really admire. You love the work that they do. Maybe they're a writer, or maybe they're a speaker, or maybe it's a celebrity, whoever but somebody that you really, really admire their, their work and what they do. Imagine them consuming your content and when you do that, you automatically start to up level and you start to go oh, you know what? I'm not going to just throw stuff out, to just throw it out, to just post stuff. I'm actually going to be aware of what I'm doing and pretend that my favorite so-and-so is watching it, reading it, listening to it, whatever.
Speaker 2:And I do that because one time I did I found out that Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner who I'm a huge fan of Lily's and Jane Jane Jane is the writer part of the team. They're married now, but many, many years ago I found out that they were reading my column on AOL and they actually thought I was funny and they were reading it every day and I was like what? And they're like, yeah, we think you're funny. And I'm going how is this possible? Because you never know. So if you up-level, if you put your stuff out there, imagining that that person it could be a family member maybe it's your mom or your dad who you really admire, but somebody that you really, really, really admire write for them, speak to them, and you'll find that the quality of the work that you do it just goes through the roof and it's so important.
Speaker 1:That's probably the best piece of advice I've ever had about podcasting.
Speaker 2:Ah, there you go.
Speaker 1:This was so powerful. You reminded me that my voice is power. In my story, especially the messy parts, is what makes us magnetic, right, and so that's huge. So if this conversation has helped you, even just one person I always say affect one person every time, but I really want to affect a lot more than one person. Do me a favor and like, subscribe or share this episode, because that's how we amplify the voices like Christine's and mine. So where can everybody find you? Where can they connect with you?
Speaker 2:It's super easy. They can go to my website, which is expert authority coachcom. They can also find me by my name, christine Blasdalecom, but people have a hard time spelling that. So, expert authority coachcom, and they go to that website too. There's a quiz that they can take, okay, and it's to rate their, to find out where their expert authority lies to, and you'll get a little scorecard at the end. Super easy. But these are questions that you should be asking yourself anyway. Okay, these are important questions. It doesn't matter what field of work you're in, what you do, but it just it's a great way to score and see where your expert authority mess lies. That's such a word, but, uh, it's, it's. It's actually fun to take too, it's, it's, it's quite intriguing.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna take it as soon as we hang up and I want to tell you thank you so much for being here with me because you're proof when purpose meets pain, the world gets light, and thank you so much for being that light and you really are a joy and I see why they like reading your column, because you're just so amazing to be in front of. I can imagine just reading about you.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you, darling, and you keep doing what you're, you just keep doing it, you just keep doing it yeah, I'm gonna keep doing it.
Speaker 1:Hopefully we connect here soon, because I'd like to find out a little bit more about you, and I hope you have an amazing day.
