Michael Sharkey, a podcast professional, radio programmer and talent coach joins the show today to discuss how he voluntarily left the media world in 2014 after 25 years and the life-changing experiences that came after. Together they discuss why audio is so powerful, how to understand your relationship with fear and why it is important to honour your fire in the belly.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Start with a podcast, and then from that podcast you can move on doing different things with video such as Zoom chats or videoing yourself promoting your podcast. You can then have your podcast transcribed which allows people to identify which parts of the episode they would like to listen to.
• In the spectrum of conversation and the dialogue we have as humans, there is something that spiritual leaders throughout history always bring up, which is, that if we spend our life helping others, we will find true happiness. Happiness doesn’t live in fancy cars or big houses, it lives when helping others.
• We all have a gift, and some people realise this and others don’t. One of the saddest things to see is people working so hard in a job they hate because they need to pay their mortgage and feed their families. That person has a mission but that mission has been suppressed by culture and society.
• Nobody is going to overcome fear. You need to understand what your relationship is with fear. Wait and see how your story unfolds and be okay with the outcome.
• Fire in the belly is passion. This means that you have a passion that you want to share as well as uncovering other people's passion. Passion is that fire. It is important to understand and honour your fire in the belly. It is an extraordinary thing and as we uncover it we find some of the answers to our bigger questions. There is a reason why people have gut instincts.

BEST MOMENTS

“The people listening to Fire In The Belly are eavesdropping on this conversation. If we do it right, they can walk away with something that they can digest and think about regardless of where the conversation goes.”

“Audio can be so powerful.”

“Serving others is what brings me the most joy. It is what I love to do.”

“The answer lies in just staying present.”

ABOUT THE GUEST

Michael Sharkey:

“What happens when you spend a lifetime in the media and walk away voluntarily? You hear radio differently and see the media world for its opportunities and faults. After spending 25 years in broadcast radio, running commercial radio stations (most recently for Cox Media Group), I took a sabbatical in early 2014. While the experience for me and my family was life-changing, I knew this experience would give me the distance I needed to chart a path forward for my career in radio/media. I once heard the expression, "when you're inside the bottle, you can't read the label." This applied to me when I was on the radio. When I walked away, I got outside the bottle, read the label and knew the direction to go. My takeaways from this time moving forward: Radio is still meaningful, it's just being programmed poorly (mostly by executives). Spoken word is incredibly powerful and growing daily with the rise of podcasting. If 20-34 year olds spend 82% of every day staring at their smartphone, you better make the radio experience meaningful for them on this device. Finally, if you want to bring radio to Millennials, you have to unlearn everything you've ever learned about radio and execute it completely differently. The Spotify generation wants radio (I’ve researched this), but you have to give it to them in ways you're not currently thinking of.”

ABOUT THE HOST

The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire In The Belly’.

Pete is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Coach, Property Investor, and father of 3 beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in Project Management and Property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire In the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others.

Pete can connect with people and intuitively asks questions to reveal a person’s passion and discover how to live their mightiest life. The true power of ‘Fire In The Belly’ is the Q&A’s - Questions and Actions!

The ‘Fire In The Belly’ brand and the programme is rapidly expanding into podcasts, seminars, talks, business workshops, development courses, and rapid results mentoring.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.facebook.com/mightypetelonton/

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mightypete

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