I'm taking a little break from the podcast

But things will resume very soon...

After a little bit of thought over the past few months, a few conversations with close pals and some chats with Producer Laura, I’ve decided to pause releasing episodes of The Adventure Podcast for a little while.

It’s actually been quite an easy decision, and one that I’m confident that will benefit the podcast and, I guess, those of you that listen to it!

Over the past few years I’ve hit some major life junctions. I’ve got two kids, I’ve moved cities, I’ve been working (a bit too) hard and my motivation has waxed and waned. I love what I do, and I know that I’m at my best and the work is at it’s best when I’m in love with it.

Recently I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff on my plate. I don’t like doing things badly, and I put a lot of pressure on myself to be ‘good’ at everything I do. I want to be a good dad and a good husband, I want to have a social life, I want to be outdoors. I want be fit and healthy, physically and mentally, and I want to be enjoying things. I want to be good at my job, and I want Coldhouse to be a success.

I’ve felt over the last little while that I’ve been firefighting most areas of my life, and I often feel like I’m never giving anything quite enough attention. But I’ve been down this road before, and I know that often the fix is as simple as slowing down a little, taking a deep breath and pressing reset.

We’re nearly 200 episodes deep into this podcast now. When you add up the hours to organise it, record it, edit it, check it, promote it, etc etc, that’s a lot of work. It doesn’t make a profit, and it doesn’t pay my rent. BUT, and it’s the most important line in this ramble, I want to keep doing it. I love doing it, but I do want to take a stock check and recalibrate. I want to take to some time to write down what I want it to be, what I do it for and why I do it. I know I’ll find those answers easily, but I think it’s a healthy and important process.

My plan is take a month or two off. The plan will be to do a bit of a ‘relaunch’. A fresh start, with fresh thinking and fresh ideas.

Over the last part of August and September we’ll be a bit more active on social media as we share some old episodes, talk about recent ones and maybe shed some light on the new ways of thinking here at TAP towers.

Whether you’ve been here from the start or joined us recently, thanks for coming along for the ride. It’s been a blast so far, and I have zero intention of stopping any time soon. If anything, the whole purpose of this reset is to allow me the time and space to come back to it with a clearer vision of how to make it better, bigger and brighter than before.

I’ll still be on Substack and social media throughout, and hopefully see you there.

Matt