Celebrating Episode 25 of Armchair Authentic

Rhett 0:00

So here we are just playing a podcast and right now we're at over 285 different cities across the country . 10 countries .

Justin 0:06

You haven't been to Canada , but Canada has come to us . Oh Canada , we would always just sing live , but this was like going to be on national TV , and before we could be there to do it we had to go to a studio and pre-record . It was a big deal . There was 30,000 plus people in the stadium and I didn't want them to know we were lip syncing .

Rhett 0:26

They could care less .

Justin 0:27

They're not even thinking about this , I know , but you know how we overthink .

Rhett 0:29

I'm sure they had wireless mics , but there was no cable run out .

Justin 0:32

It was just a it was a microphone with an empty XLR on the back end .

Rhett 0:40

I know the male side of the microphone on the back .

Justin 0:42

It was not even plugged in . We held our hands there trying to look all legit .

Rhett 0:45

Thank you guys so much for supporting the podcast . We are so grateful you're along for the journey .

Justin 0:53

Celebrating episode 25 with you .

Rhett 1:06

Well , how are we doing Armchair Authentic Family ? It is so great to have you back for another episode of the podcast with Rhett and Justin Really looking forward to today's conversations . Justin and I get into a moment where we just simply celebrate the episode that is today . That's episode 25 , everybody , huge shout outs are happening today . Also , we dive into some moments in our life where we actually had the opportunity to do some lip singing on national TV . That's right , you heard that correctly . Then we also take some time , man , really , just to dive into a question we asked ourself what are we actually learning now that we're 25 episodes into this podcast ? Can't wait to jump into some of these conversations that we had . But before we do , I always want to take a moment to simply say thank you to every single one of you who have taken the time to rate and review the podcast on all your favorite podcast platforms . It's encouraging to Justin and I for sure , but more than that , it really is a great way that we can serve those who aren't on this journey yet . Now , if you've just now finding the podcast and you're tuning in , man , we want to say welcome home , welcome to the family . We're glad that you're here .

Rhett 2:18

You can follow us on Instagram or Facebook at Armchair Authentic , or even on X at Armchair Auth . That's A-U-T-H . Armchair Auth Pod . One of the best ways we can serve you on this podcast is to have conversations around some of the topics , ideas , thoughts and maybe even some of the questions that you're asking right now in life . So we want to hear from you Comment on social , but more than that , you can also email us . Email us at info at armchairauthenticcom . That's info at armchairauthenticcom , and Justin and I would love to respond but also include some of those thoughts and the things you're thinking about in the episodes . So , as we steward our story , we want to serve your story . All right , guys , 25th episode . We're looking forward to having some conversation . We hope you're ready . Here we go . Well , justin , can you believe it ? Today marks a very monumental episode for us , as we've set this audacious goal with Armchair Authentic and the podcast . Here we are , everybody episode 25 .

Justin 3:26

It's so hard to believe because , if you think about it , originally we talked about what if we did an episode once a month , at most once every two weeks . If we would have gone the route of once a month , we're already two years in that's crazy to think about .

Rhett 3:41

Isn't that a crazy thought ?

Justin 3:41

That's crazy to think about . Isn't that a crazy thought ? But we took on the audacious goal , as you just said , of what would it be like from February until the end of the year of 2024 if we recorded every week and then just see the grace Number one if it's possible to do that , yeah and then see what grace is on it , so we can see how we proceed beyond that .

Rhett 4:00

I don't think we ever like I don't know , I can't speak for you , but for me it just seems as if we started this with the idea if we just did one a month , that will be a huge win . Yeah , and we got into it thinking , I don't know , man , maybe we could do this week to week . And here

Reflecting on Podcast Journey and Impact

Rhett 4:14

we are , 25 episodes in , and I , I , it's just I'm .

Justin 4:18

I'm so thankful .

Rhett 4:19

I'm grateful for our friendship . I'm thankful for the time that we've set aside out of our , you know , very busy schedules to figure out a way to make this important , because it's interesting to me , um , have the conversations and things I get into with people , even at like , whether it's at church or even the other day running into a store , running into somebody that's like hey , I've been listening to your podcast . I'm like are you kidding me ? This is insane , right , but all that to say , it's just it's neat to be able to steward something in a way that , you know , encourages people , inspires people , if anything , makes somebody laugh , have a good time in the midst of the chaos of our culture and hopefully learn something along the way too .

Justin 4:58

Yeah , I'm grateful too because in our field we are pastors and I've had pastors reach out and it's cool because they actually have their staff . They have some of their teams where they joke with me . I don't think they really require it . We've made this like recommendatory .

Rhett 5:12

Are you serious ? That's the word that we use .

Justin 5:13

It's like we encourage you highly to listen to this Just because of some of the subjects that we've jumped into , but what it really comes back to is the backbone of our podcast is just our . It's our friendship and the experiences that we've had that we're trying to bring , not just me and you , but we're bringing in the we have so many other great friends that we're including into the story with the hope that we're not we're not the podcast that's giving different bullet points . We just want to have real conversations and just see what happens . When we do that , so to say I'm overwhelmed is an understatement , because the numbers that we have actually been able to reach it's blown me away . And not just we love our town where we're from , birmingham , alabama , all the way , but the reach that we have been able to have and I'll let you actually give some of those numbers , but that's really blown me away .

Rhett 6:07

Yeah , and what we want to do here is we do want to give some shout outs to not only the countries but some of the cities that have been joining us , and I think it's good 25 episodes in to look at , to kind of reflect back on you know why we even began to do this in the first place but to really just thank God for the opportunity to get to steward our story in a way that truly does try to help people , and so I hope people hear the heart behind this .

Rhett 6:32

This is this is something that we want to share , just so that we can encourage you maybe in taking a step into something , and just to see how God can , can use just your faithful obedience and even your hard work , um , indiligence and consistency and intentionality .

Rhett 6:47

And so I would have never dreamed , like , honestly , when we started this it was kind of like , well , if this , if we steward our story just for our families in a way that honors God and helps our family , you know , as we were saying , before we hit record , I was like , you know , thinking back um , we got into this thing . What would it look like if we just recorded some of our conversations , those classic Rhett and Justin hour hour and a half conversations sometimes and just recorded those because there's so much that we would love to share with our kids and our family and eventually grandkids and as kids grow up and get married . And I'd give anything to go back and to be able to listen to some of the stories that my granddad had or even that my dad had , and just regular life , like real life , and how you can talk about real life in a way that also ties into spiritual significance .

Justin 7:35

Well , and having such a fast-paced society and I understand that is something that we have to be able to have a moment to sit across the table and just listen to conversation and then have it back . That's a lost art and maybe does it ever get reclaimed I can't say that it will but we had the thought of at least our podcast would exist at those closest to us our families , obviously , but even some of our friends you really just don't know much about each other that you would hear something and think , wow , I never looked at it from that perspective or vantage point Like to me , that was . That was the why . That made it all worthwhile . How we've always called this . This is a hobby of ours . Yeah , it really is . Instead of going and hitting you know , going going to for me , top golf you would actually go to a real golf course . Why don't we actually ?

Rhett 8:29

instead of go play golf , you would actually go to a real golf course .

Justin 8:31

Why don't we actually ?

Rhett 8:31

instead of go play golf , let's just go play podcast . So here we are just playing podcast and we're in over 10 countries or territories . So of course , the U ? S check this

International Shout-Outs and Musical Contributions

Rhett 8:35

out . Germany , man , germany , shout out to our Germany followers and family Come on . Canada , netherlands , india , australia , mexico , philippines , south Africa and this week , switzerland .

Justin 8:45

Switzerland , come on , I've been to Switzerland too , so when I saw that that was special , I've never been to Switzerland .

Rhett 8:54

It is on my bucket , In fact . I've never been to all these other places . I mean US , of course . I've not even been to Canada . I've flown over Canada . Hey , it's interesting . The only place that I've been in this country , obviously , is the US .

Justin 9:09

Well , and you know what ? You haven't been to Canada , but Canada has come to us . When we sang for the Canadian Football . League years ago and we had to oh Canada , our home and native land .

Rhett 9:28

True patriot . Oh my gosh , and that's how we had to sing it right ?

Justin 9:31

That was back in the choir days we would go sing at all these sporting events with our original group that we sang with 24-7 , me , rhett and Micah and I remember on that particular occasion we would always just sing live , but this was like going to be on national tv , and before we could be there to do it we had to go to a studio and pre-record oh yeah because we had to sing national anthem and the Canadian anthem , but then we had to stand out there and they had us little monitor wedges but we had to to lip sync it yeah , it tv .

Rhett 10:04

Yeah , it was just broadcast on national tv first canadian football team . You know team and league in the states for birmingham . It was a big deal . There was 30 000 plus people in the stadium .

Justin 10:14

It was cool , but I was uncomfortable because those football players were standing so close to us and I didn't want them to know we were lip syncing . They could care less . They're not .

Rhett 10:23

I know , but you know how we overthink .

Justin 10:25

And the word of advice we were given by the TV crew was we did the Canadian anthem first , which both of them wouldn't have mattered , but O is your first word . We kept our mouth shaped in an O form Until we heard it .

Rhett 10:40

And then , once we heard , it we started singing . Yeah , and then , once we began to sing , we weren't really singing , we were lip singing .

Justin 10:46

We were Billy .

Rhett 10:47

Vanilli baby let's go ?

Justin 10:48

We were , but you know , I think we were singing . Our mics were just off . We were still enjoying the moment . But they were hearing previous recording that we did .

Rhett 10:57

Yeah , and if you're technical at all and you're watching that on TV back in the day , that does before . I'm sure they had wireless mics , but there was no cable run out , it was just a . It was a microphone with an empty XLR on the back end .

Justin 11:10

And it actually has the holes .

Rhett 11:11

Yeah , it's like you could see the male side of the microphone on the back .

Justin 11:16

We held our hands there , trying to look all legit . But that was fun , and so Canada it means a lot that you're tuning in , because I feel like we have embraced your national anthem and I can still sing it word for word to this day .

Rhett 11:30

Well , after we did that , we went back at least one other time to do it and we did it . Live at that point they let us it's amazing the delay , though , right you know like , oh my gosh , in the Legion Field right Birmingham .

Justin 11:40

Alabama Legion Field . You gotta watch out for that delay . Classic American old stadium that nobody uses anymore . Well , you got to stay locked in because you were singing with your crew . It was me , ret and micah and we have a second delay we got to lock in with each other because we're singing and you hear our words come out four seconds later and that will screw you up .

Rhett 11:58

Yeah , if we're going oh canada , then oh canada , you know we're already our home and native land , our home and native .

Justin 12:05

Yeah , true patriot , true patriot . Right , we're already singing it . Anyway , so okay so back to and back to Germany . By the way , yeah , we do me and Rhett did sing .

Rhett 12:16

Mm-hmm .

Justin 12:17

Oh , Christmas tree in your version of Oton and Bomb .

Rhett 12:20

So we have contributed musically to several of these countries Shout out to Mr Council Thank you for

Choir Memories and Listener Impact

Rhett 12:25

that . Greatest teacher on the planet . Choral director Way like unbelievable .

Justin 12:30

One of the first to call the gold out in us . He saw something special , he caught it out , and I'll still remember that moment .

Rhett 12:37

I'll never forget , like trying out for the choir . I think it was seventh grade I was in Miss Shoemaker's science class at this point and then they were doing auditions all day and he , you know , you had to sing happy birthday . Yeah , and I then I think I had to sing happy birthday along with him and do harmony or something like that , and I was so nervous going that room seeing , and next thing I know I made the choir's like oh my God , I made it Well what I remember about you .

Justin 12:59

It was the best decision I've ever made .

Rhett 13:01

You had a higher voice .

Justin 13:03

Your pitch was higher . So you and I remember Brian Aiken . What are you saying ? Y'all were the primary kind of tenors who he would put up there and in full disclosure . I didn't develop vocally until it was more like high school because I had a really low voice . What are you trying to say ? And in seventh , and eighth grade when you're in junior high choir , you don't sing the four-part harmony . Then it was these two-part so , it was either melody and tenor .

Justin 13:31

There was no bass . And Mr Counsel , when I auditioned , here's what he told me . So now , anybody listening who goes back into our old world , you'll know the truth now . He said anybody listening who goes back into our old world , you'll . You'll know the truth now . He said justin , I'm gonna put you in the choir , but I need you to lip sing this year because your , your , your voice is too low for actually these songs . And I did . I'm like easy a I can follow those rules .

Justin 13:53

Let's go but then when we shifted into ninth , when I shifted to ninth and we went to four part , yeah , I had such a great place into the choir program . So , mr Counsel , thank you , and I am sorry for a few episodes back that um fudged the truth a little bit and didn't go to Carnegie hall because I was . The truth was , I was scared of flying , so I used the fact that we lived in an apartment and I think we're kind of poor and I can't go .

Justin 14:17

I was really scared of flying , so I'm coming out with that now again as a reminder .

Rhett 14:22

So back to the countries . Huge shout out to any and every one of you who are listening in from these countries . Thank you so much . It means the world to us . Although I've not been physically to these places , it's amazing how God puts us there through digital technology . It really is To be able to speak to you wherever you are , and a huge shout out Thank . It really is To be able to speak to you wherever you are and a huge shout out Thank you so much for joining us on this journey . And man , send us some emails , info at Armchair , authentic . We want to hear from you , but you ready for this ? The city's in the US . Right now we're at over 285 different cities across the country . I mean seriously .

Rhett 14:56

Yeah , I mean that to me . I can't comprehend it .

Justin 14:59

I was expecting our wonderful , really cities in Alabama , where we came from , and I would even say Idaho , because you came from planting a church and coming back from there- and we have connections with friends in these areas , but I'm grateful for the friends that we do have around the country who've tuned in and also just the people who found their way onto the podcast and they've let us know that this has been very encouraging to them . You know there's someone who reached out to us and they had actually gone through . They were going through a divorce , they had just gone through one and they're in a very isolated time and they had rejoined relationship with one of their high school buddies . So these two dudes are like they're reestablishing true connection and it's helping him also deal with the heartbreak he's been through . And he reached out to us and he just said man , I came upon this podcast and it completely has been encouraging and it's helped me walk through some of the darkest times . And that's humbling when you hear that .

Justin 16:04

I would say that is why this exists but I don't think our minds went to that when we did this because we were thinking so local , but we definitely embrace and welcome you who've decided to listen , and we're very encouraged by you being encouraged 100% .

Rhett 16:16

So one of the questions that I asked myself today and that I'll ask you is what have I learned , or what are we learning ? 25 episodes into the podcast today ? Great question . And so I can go first or you can go first . It didn't really matter , but I think when I asked myself this , actually before you arrived to the studio today and we got into this , I just really began to think of how important it was . Arrived to the studio today and we got into this , I just really began to think of how important it was , and this is not in the list of importance , but it was the first thing that came to my

Accountability, Consistency, and Being Vulnerable

Rhett 16:47

mind .

Rhett 16:47

One of the biggest things that I've learned , or I'm learning , is the importance of relationship or the importance of accountability when it comes to achieving anything or accomplishing anything . Because if I were to do this alone , bro , i'm't be honest with you Like today was not a day . I felt like recording Right . I mean , there's so many other things on my to-do list right now with church and other things that I'm like man , I really my mind was focused there . I didn't wasn't feeling creative , I honestly didn't even feel like talking , but on it it's , I mean , just to be real . That's vulnerable , that's authentic . But like , the thing that I'm learning is like how accountability plays into you actually , um , you know , achieving the things that you set out to do , the goals , or I'd go with you on that too .

Justin 17:30

Accountability is essential . Uh , you don't always feel like doing things , and when I've not felt like it , I know that you're going to be there . It's like when you go and work out and you have a buddy you're working out with . You want to make sure you show up to the gym or whatever that activity is . That's how it's been . I haven't always wanted to record every day , and I know you just said the same thing , but we know , hey , we've committed this and we're going to follow through in .

Justin 17:55

The strength that we have received is what makes that possible . I would say something that I've learned consistency really pays off . You have to just keep grinding it out and doing . It's like when I worked for an insurance company for a long time and I thought , man , if I could just do something else , I would just love it . Well , the fact is , it doesn't matter if you go live your best life and you're doing what you love . A honeymoon phase will always end , and it actually is . Are you going to show up and do the work ? And I've learned that through this process of 25 episodes . In I mean it's consistency , it's coming to the table each week and having something to bring , to bring , even if it's just our real conversation , that's how we've set this up but to be able to come to that table and say , look , we're going to have that conversation today . Consistency is huge .

Rhett 18:47

Another thing that stood out to me when I began to think about this is the power of vulnerability . Vulnerability , I couldn't truly give you the definition because I don't have it pulled up in front of me . Maybe you can help me with that . But it's this idea of just being open with maybe your emotions or your thoughts or your ideas , your creativity , the struggles , the challenges , just opening yourself up , realizing that you know I'm taking a chance here for somebody to judge or for somebody to critique or for somebody to disagree with or , you know , even agree , Right , and when you're a person like me , who is when I get around , a friend of mine told me this and I was like golly , I'm , I'm , this is so me , like I'm an overcoming people pleaser , Like it's , it's just in my nature to want to , to be affirmed and make people happy , and obviously that goes back to trauma things in my life as a kid , you know , and and trying to just create environments that always bring peace and joy . But for me , opening up and being vulnerable about , you know , even back when we did the interview with me and I opened up on some of my story and you know we we can go down those roads in the in the future episodes , but it was scary to take a step out . But it's amazing the response that I've received of wow , I didn't know you went through that but you shared that and I'll tell you what that was brave of you , but it really it helped me , it encouraged me , it inspired me and for people to say thank you for being vulnerable , Thank you for opening up , Because you know , anytime I'm trying to grow and I'm always trying to find people who are real and not for the sake of just like shock factor , real , but I'm trying to learn from people who are open enough to go .

Rhett 20:34

You know what . I've had struggles , I've had issues , I've dealt with these things and here's how I've grown through it . I want to learn from those people . I want to grow like that . I don't want to learn from somebody who's had it all together , but there is power in being able to open up in a way to share your thoughts and to share your minds , with the fact of knowing not everybody may agree or disagree and it might even somewhat impact you or whatever you think your persona is or what people think about you , but to get to the place to go , you know what , I don't care . I want to share these things .

Justin 21:04

I want to do this in a way that hopefully helps people , encourages people , but even if it's at the sake of my own demise in my mind you know right , but like it's the risk that you put out there , because technically I mean by nature vulnerability doesn't sound like a good word , because it means like you're opening yourself up and you could be harmed if you open yourself up . But you are opening yourself up and you do take shots by the trolls as we've talked about before .

Justin 21:33

But more than the negative ,

Embracing Vulnerability and Humility

Justin 21:35

there's a positive once you open yourself up to being vulnerable , that people realize oh man , he's facing or she's facing what I am . I never knew that was possible . I , as we've talked about before , I'll help coach church staffs around the country and I was talking with a pastor and this is an example of vulnerability . I was just , I was , I was in coach mode , just listening and which is what I found Don't talk a lot , just listen . And I'm listening to him and he's talking about his story and read . I mean , he was being so vulnerable and all I wanted to do . Number one I was being encouraged Cause I'm like wow .

Justin 22:11

I've been through stuff like that and that that helps me not feel alone . And here I am supposed to be there for him . I'm being encouraged and I'm like I just want to . When I see this person , I'm going to give them a big old hug , because they open their self up to this vulnerability and it's like you have no clue .

Justin 22:29

The people that you influence right now in life . They're being led by you who's opening from a vulnerable , not a I've got it all together type life , and they're being led in a way that you didn't get to be led , maybe because you could have come from the hard nose side of someone who they don't think about that and they might beat you down . And God has allowed you to reclaim this vulnerability and redeem some of this negativity and he's turned it in where you're now stewarding your story .

Rhett 23:00

Yeah , and when I think about vulnerability too at least for me I think through the lens of I want to be the best communicator I can possibly be and communicate with excellence and intentionality and consistency . When it comes to what I do on a Sunday , when it comes to preaching God's word and it comes to teaching his word , like I know exactly where we're going . I know here's like . I know exactly where we're going . I know here's the point , here's where we're going , this is what we're going to say , and so I'm just here . Here's a vulnerable moment .

Rhett 23:28

Okay , I'm opening it up , like when , before , we did this podcast or when we went into it . I'm like there's another side of red . See , a lot of people know the platform side of red . The platform side of red is , you know , it's a little bit more polished . It's it , and I'm trying to do my best to present in a way that I'm respectful for people , their time and and so I do it in a completely different way . And so it's like the platform red , when it comes to my communication style , is what I'm saying , not who I am , but like the way I communicate is going to be a little bit more clear , a little bit more on point .

Rhett 24:00

But moving into this podcast , how we talked about being authentic and capturing our conversations , the ums , the ahs , the I don't know . Let me think about that for a second , like that's real right . And so the vulnerability for me was well , if I open up on the podcast and just have these conversations that are just you and I hanging out , it's not very polished . It can almost come across as what he speaks for a living Right , you know , but I , but we wanted to approach this .

Rhett 24:28

That's a great point , but it's so true , like we want to it . It it's a moment of going . Man , if I put myself out there in this platform , you know I and people listen to it and they're like I don't , I don't know if I really , you know , would want him to come and speak Right , and that's just honest . That's vulnerable , that's so real . It's real , though , because that's the but . What's interesting is it's like the opposite happens . The moment people begin to hear your story , they're like man , I'm getting to know sides of you I didn't even know existed and I love this . And not that you can carry this type of conversation in this kind of format on a Sunday when you're speaking or communicating .

Justin 25:05

Yeah , you know your spaces , but that's the gifting side . You know what gift to bring into different settings .

Rhett 25:11

Right .

Justin 25:12

But what a vulnerable statement you just made . Because what you just said , everybody listening is feeling that . Whether you would want to admit , you're feeling that or not . Those are some of the secret thoughts that we keep locked away inside , that if I talk , they might think that I'm a fraud .

Rhett 25:28

Right . And again , I'm not talking in an integrity standpoint . I'm literally talking about just the here's where we're going today and this is just a different format . And so , because this is a different format than a Sunday , that's the reality , and I think a lot of people have these personas that they create , whether online or on Facebook or Instagram , and if they're like , well , I've got to live up to these standards of comparison , if you will .

Rhett 25:53

I know we talked earlier about what you know , some of the ways we can dive into that today and maybe we'll go there . But , um , yeah , so just being a vulnerable opening up , that's something that I'm I don't think I'm ever going to just feel like I've , like I'm going to be okay with this Even as I was sharing that story , I'm like , oh God we might need to edit this out , I don't know , but , but either way I just there's something to be said about , you know , opening up to people in a way that connects on a different level , outside of just this .

Rhett 26:25

You know , everything's got to be smooth and perfect .

Justin 26:27

Well , I think one more thing that I would add that I've learned from this it goes hand in hand with vulnerability and it's humility . And what I mean by humility is other than what you're already thinking , but you know , even in the scriptures , when we're listening to what Paul is writing to the churches , he's like hey , don't consider yourself too highly than you should , but put others ahead of yourself . It's that mindset of others focused . And this podcast that we're doing , for example , it takes a lot of humility on both sides because we're constantly negotiating in our conversations .

Rhett 27:05

I don't mean like we're like oh , take a , five , take a hand , give me a five , give me a 10 , give me a 15 . I don't know how people do that anyway .

Justin 27:12

Yeah , that's a pretty good gift , but it takes a negotiation just of the spirit and of just as we're having little creative talks before because I might have an agenda I want to talk about , rhett might have an agenda he wants to talk about , but we're kind of laying it down and we're seeing how it can work hand in hand .

Justin 27:34

So there's a lot of , there's a lot of give and less take , give and less take .

Justin 27:45

But what I've found by doing that , I feel like we wrap up our episodes and it felt like it was so unified in what we came up with . But if we would have come in set with this mindset of I've got to get this story , you've got to get this story and it's more about our own agenda and humility doesn't win out , you're going gonna be discontent because you're not getting what you think should always come out . And so humility is a way to live , not just on a podcast , but obviously if we're living that way in our life , it really just kind of makes its way into the podcast . But it's key that we have a constant humility to be able to serve one another on this process , almost to help each other's dream or concept or innovative idea for a particular episode or what's coming up that we're looking to each other I'm looking to Rhett's interest , not my own , and Rhett will say the same thing he's looking to my interest , not his own and we end up both getting this perfect thing said . That needed

Set Up For Next Weeks Discussion On Comparison

Justin 28:42

to be said .

Rhett 28:42

One of the other things that I didn't realize that was going to come up , that I'm learning after 25 episodes in , and this is something that you and I have talked about as we've gotten into this , and that is how comparison can just creep in and just steal your joy . Yeah , it's like it's never enough . Never , when we got into this , we did not get into it with the idea that we were going to reach 10 different countries and over 285 different cities . Like sure Could we dream that ? Yeah , absolutely , but that really wasn't where we were wanting to go or what we were thinking about . So it's important . One of the things that I'm learning is the importance of vision and keeping your why in front of you .

Rhett 29:25

Because , that has been a constant conversation for you and I is that why are we doing this ? Because it's so easy to get caught up in the comparison trap that we're not doing enough based off of what is out there there and you it's interesting with algorithms you start looking up podcast stuff , you start looking up all these different things and stats and whatever , and it's like then you're inundated on your feed about and it comes across as if why you are such a loser . Yeah , you're not doing . Yeah , I mean , what kind of impact do you think you're actually making ? Because abc person over here is crushing it and here's how you need to and here's how you need to market , here's how you need to do all these things . And that comparison can creep in and it can steal your joy and you have to fight for that and I think that's something we can carry on in a conversation beyond this episode , maybe into the next episode .

Justin 30:16

Yeah , I agree with you . Next episode unhealthy comparison . That's what we need to focus on , because I have a feeling everybody who's listening can relate to this , because we're all looking at the feeds you talked about , we're all having things that happen within our own world and we realize man , I thought I did pretty good . Enough is never enough .

Rhett 30:36

But until then , thank you guys so much for supporting the podcast . We are so grateful you're along for the journey . We love you guys . It's the 25th episode . Have an incredible day . Enjoy your week everybody .

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Justin 30:49

Thank you for listening to Armchair Authentic . With Rhett and Justin , we had a great time celebrating episode 25 with you . Hey , we'd love to hear from you to see what this podcast has meant as well . How can we continue to help you ? From you to see what this podcast has meant as well ? How can we continue to help you as you steward your story ? You can reach out to us at info at armchairauthenticcom and if you would take a minute , would you rate and review our podcast ? We're already overwhelmed with all the people who are listening and all the different places , but when you rate and review , it helps bring to the attention our podcast to those who might not yet have heard . Well , we really look forward to seeing you again , but until then , have a great week .