LIFE UPDATE - August 21, 2023

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00:00:01:01 - 00:00:21:16
Matthew Krekeler
All right, girl dads, it's obvious. 21st, 2023. This is Matthew from Girl Dad Nation to give you a brief life update, sorry, you haven't released a new episode in a while. Maybe you haven't noticed. That's okay. But for those that have faithfully listened and follow the podcast, thank you. It means a lot to me and I still have big plans for the podcast and more episodes coming soon.

00:00:21:23 - 00:00:45:06
Matthew Krekeler
So here's a few things I wanted to share. First, this is not my day job. Yeah, believe it or not, I don't really get paid anything for this podcast. I just do it for the love. And yeah, I mostly do this from like 9 p.m. to midnight as a side hustle. So yep. That's why, unfortunately, I cannot make this a as big of a priority as some other needs.

00:00:45:16 - 00:01:10:06
Matthew Krekeler
But in exciting news, I did get a job promotion at my day job, so that's been great. It's been awesome to get that promotion, but that also means some added responsibilities at work and things I need to kind of adjust to there. But yeah, hoping to still keep the podcast going along with everything else. So that leads to work life balance.

00:01:10:06 - 00:01:47:13
Matthew Krekeler
And yeah, that's really important to me. By as much as I love doing this podcast, the main motivation for doing this podcast is to help me be a better dad and husband. So that means that even though there's episodes in the can that need to be edited, that mean sometimes prioritizing time with my kids, time with my wife, etc. Also, yeah, we have a unfinished basement that we've been hoping to convert into a an office that we that my wife could use when she works from home.

00:01:47:13 - 00:02:25:06
Matthew Krekeler
And also an office for me and slash podcast studio. So that was really exciting. And once we were about to get into that project, we noticed that our pipes in the basement were in desperate need of repair. Unfortunately, it was much worse than we thought originally, and so several, several thousands of dollars later, we had to completely redo all of the pipes underneath the foundation, digging into the concrete, replacing all of it before we could really feel comfortable laying floor and finishing the basement as we would like.

00:02:25:06 - 00:03:00:14
Matthew Krekeler
So that really set us back. Unfortunately. And that was just like a major thing that became super urgent as the pipes were starting to like back up. It was just gross, disgusting and needed to be done. But that's where a lot of time tension and unfortunately a lot of money went to. So yeah, but at least the major repair is done once we finish kind of paying off that project, I hope to get back to hopes of building a studio dedicating to this podcast, more so in that way.

00:03:00:14 - 00:03:28:12
Matthew Krekeler
But yeah, that was a big thing. But then also coming up, super exciting. This starts this week as podcast movement Denver. So this was something that was on my radar for at least a year and podcast movement is one of the biggest podcast conferences in the world. At least they advertise so and it's in Denver, which is yeah, my home state of Colorado, which I'm super excited about.

00:03:28:12 - 00:03:56:11
Matthew Krekeler
So normally traveling, airfare, lodging and being away from wife and kids is super difficult. One of the main reasons why travel is just super limited, but because this year it's basically in my backyard, I'm super excited to go. Had to work out logistics because it is not cheap. So big shout out to Buzz Sprout for hooking me up with some tickets to podcast movement.

00:03:56:11 - 00:04:31:19
Matthew Krekeler
Denver. Super excited to meet up with them. This podcast is hosted on by Sprout, so I'll put a link in the description to learn more about their platform. If you have hopes of starting your own podcast one of these days, there's also a referral code. You can save some money, help me out as well. So yeah, but more so looking to go to this conference, learn as much as I can, meet other cool people, hopefully other dads who are also doing podcasting, learning about how they make that work in their busy parent's lives.

00:04:31:19 - 00:04:57:18
Matthew Krekeler
So thank you so much for following along. That's just a little bit of life updates. I hope to give it another update after the conference and hopefully you'll see some exciting changes, some updates, some refreshes of some of the stuff we're doing and most of all, hopefully more great content. So thank you for following along. I really appreciate your support and if you want to help out the show, feel free to share it.

00:04:57:18 - 00:05:28:11
Matthew Krekeler
Of course, hit that follow button review the podcast. All of your reviews really matter. I look at those and also I have a way to support the show financially, so that helps me, you know, balance all of this stuff, get better equipment, hopefully one day reach that goal of being able to put together a podcast studio. So if you want to do that, go to Girl Dat Nation dot both sprout dot com and then hit that support the show button.

00:05:28:20 - 00:05:44:14
Matthew Krekeler
So all of that, no matter how small, really helps me out. Thank you so much. But most of all, I really appreciate you being a listener and a fan of the show. So in the words of my four year old daughter. See you later, crocodile.