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Base Hits
by Garth Haslem
Base hits is a journal about the windy and bumpy road experienced by an entrepreneur. Garth Haslem has started a clothing business, a tanning salon, a home inspection business, a structural inspection business, a diving inspection business, and you'd think it would get easier. If that's true, it's only because he's more confident now. .Garth has three podcasts. The first is The HomeMedic, where he stores 30 years' knowledge as a home inspector. The second is Manalizing. This is a very vulnerable podcast about men and our ability (or inabilty) to navigate life. The third is this one: the diary about what he does every day to get to where his dreams happen. This is about the simple things (the base hits) he's making every day to shape his future.Garth's goals are to build enough of an income to never have to worry about money again. Then he can focus on doing what's most important. Base Hits is a journal of how that pathway looks for him.
Episodes
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Base Hits 90 The Alpha group begins
The end of an huge task is now complete and new tasks are ahead - first base is covered, we see second base, and as of today, third base is directly ahead. We're trying to cover them both at the same time. And with that, home base is in our mind. The 90th report of a 90 day challenge is perfectly...
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Base Hits 89 First base covered
It feels like it's been a long road, but I guess it's only been 90 days - and a few off for good behavior. Base Hits phase 1 is almost complete, and the new phase is now upon me. It's filled with doubts, demons and a bit of despair. Thankfully, it's also got some people who are with me. And with...
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Base Hits 88 We're on SM!
It's been a long time coming, but now I've built a library of about 20 interviews, and have had some (about 5) of them edited, and have pulled the highlights, and have discovered the right format (MP4) to put them in, and have learned how to add a back bumper (you can't do it within SM, but I…
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Base Hits 87 trademarks and communities
Big deal stuff. I had a big day earning money yesterday, but that's never an excuse for not moving forward with manalizing. I'm so pushed to move that forward - I can't even say. But things still moved forward. I had a conversation about trademarking Manalizing, and I'm having the Manalizing logo...
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Base Hits 86 Pushed and shoved
I've cleared my schedule so I can get back on top of manalizing editing and highlights and social media and boosting and building an audience so I can save the world, but it's not happening fast enough. I have 1000 interviews that need me to do edits and highlights on. To say I'm being pushed to...
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Base Hits 85 Non profit or not for profit?
My mind was pretty much blown when I realized while filling out a tiktok form that manalizing needed to be a legal entity, and it probably needs to be either a non profit or not for profit. Blam! Didn't see that one coming. Now I've got work to do that has nothing to do with microphones or sound...
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Base Hits 84 Better a poster than impostor
Learning how to post on instagram ain't easy. I've fought with it and I'm learning that it needs to be me. My voice thoughout. While it would be nicer if I could assign that out, that wouldn't be my voice, and that can't happen.
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Base Hits 83 Better a poster than impostor
Yay! My first real reel is now real on Instagram. That was a painful learning curve
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Base Hits 83 Batteries and confidence
When you're trying to do as many at-bats as possible, sometimes you find that there are bigger results, and sometimes they're smaller. This report contains a very small hit - but a hit nonetheless. The other hit is a good sized one. Here's the story
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Base Hits 82 Mic tactics
Sometimes not knowing everything about a subject teaches you the hard way to know what you must. Here's what I learned about using my RE27 mic - and some other stuff
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Base Hits 81 Insta guru
You'd think posting on social media would be easy breezy right? Apparently only if you're a millenial. Instagram is hard! But I learned it. And other stuff.
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Base Hits 80 Community characteristics
If it's true that communities of men will greatly solve the answer to how men communicate and offload their issues, then how do we set up the communities? What characteristics should they have? How is this information communicated? Here's what I learned over the weekend
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Base Hits 79 Four mics
It's fun for me to solve new challenges. Not the usual home stuff, and not even singing or recording well stuff. This last gig was about how to record four different people when my pc only allows two inputs. I've got all this sound nerd equipment, and I'm using it. I've found that mixer boards…
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Base Hits 78 Instagram kindergartner
You want to start a podcast you say? Great! It's more than just becoming a sound tech, more than learning to talk to a microphone. More than finding guests and learning to interview them well. More than finding out what equipment you need and getting it. It's also about promoting your stuff.…
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Base Hits 77 Organizationizing hard & fast
It's coming hard and fast. What used to be difficult (getting guys to interview) is only getting easier. It seemed before that getting guys to come on would be the roadblock. Who would come on and tell the world what they hadn't told anyone? Well, it turns out it's easier than expected. People…
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Base Hits 76 Audio issues
Yesterday I did a manalizing interview with Tegun (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) and the audio settings were all kinds of wrong. Live by the audio processor, die by the audio processor. So I fooled with some knobs and arrived at this point. As you'll hear, it doesn't sound like I fixed it.…
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Base Hits 75 instagram marketing
When you're planning out your social media marketing strategies, then to me that means you're almost there. You can now rest assured that it's about to be real. It's almost "out there", and the waiting and planning and waiting and hoping is finally going to result in something. Yeah - I'm there...
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Base Hits 74 Flexible group characteristics
I gathered a great deal of information and inspiration while talking to Eddie yesterday - I love how his brain works and how he recognizes and relies on inspiration. He answered my most recent roadblock question without even looking like it was straining his brain. He's a great man. Here's what I...
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Base Hits 73 It's moving!
Few things feel better than seeing the train that you've been pushing for years begin to move. It feels like the train budged. Moving forward into getting things published and marketed has been at least a 7 year project (if you include the HomeMedic stuff), and I've been waiting for what seems…
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Base Hits 72 Big wins & big frustrations
Today I had a big win. I interviewed Aaron Walker. This is a very cool dude with a large following. A very successful man, and a significant man by all standards. I did it on Zoom - another first. Because of our interview, I gained access to the gold mine of all mines - access to an unlimited...
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Base Hits 71 Manalizing mastermind list
Building the list of 12 manalizing mastermind members was tough. There are well over 12 candidates for these slots, and I'm concerned that not being in this group may potentially reduce my relationship with those who are not in. Still, 12 is a number, and I think it's the right number, and I…
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Base Hits 70 the missing piece!
After 14 manalizing podcasts where me and other men cast around for the answer, finally I'm handed the missing piece on a silver platter. If men can't find someone to talk to by themselves, then let's give them a system and organization that gives it to them!! This is the birth of the Manalizing...
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Base Hits 69 No excuses
I'm as guilty as anyone at filling my day with things that matter less, at the expense of things that matter more. The fires almost always defeat the most important things that need to be done. Still, I was able today to accomplish both - do what wanted to be done while still moving manalizing...
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Base Hits 68 My elaborate process
My basic programming is to get stuff done. It's a bit harder for me to get stuff done well. So when I realize that in order for things to be up to snuff for me, they have to be more elaborate - well, that's not the default. But they need to be awesome because this is my purpose, and stuff that's…
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Base Hits 67 Producing Aaron
Aaron Shields is that guy who appears to have it all. Super smart, good looking, good dude, has a strong relationship with his Savior, great musician - you know the one who seems to have absolutely everything together and is on a easy street in every way. It would appear that way. It does appear...
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Base Hits 66 I'm blessed
It never ceases to amaze me how "lucky" I am. This is also known as being blessed, guided, cared for, etc. My life is well managed, but not by me or anybody else you might guess initially.
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Base Hits 65 Audio to video to audio
The procedure for producing my stuff ought to be simple. It's not. Here's how things are developing
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Base Hits 64 making sense with Youtube
It seems that when you're a startup, you have to invent every new wheel yourself. How do you use youtube for both the pre-edit version and the finished version of a show, without having customers think they're seeing double, and watching the wrong show? Well, I figured that one out today.
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Base Hits 63 Focusing on who we're helping
Sometimes while in the woods of developing things, you get lost in the trees. Then you bump into an obvious one and it's shocking that it's there. I realized that we need to adapt our marketing for each manalizing podcast to those groups that identify. Whether that's human trafficking, bad...
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Base Hits 62 exactness and sound equipment
Being OCD about detail definitely isn't me. So when I go through 170ish podcasts, then realize I have to go through them again to get them consistent, that's my brain you hear melting. The drudge continues. Oh - and yes, I'm still my own sound guy. Let's just say I'm less than awesome at it.
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Base Hits 61 Rinse and repeat, and repeat again
Painfulness sometimes comes when the job description, especially when you're small like me. The repetitive stuff? Yeah, I hadda do it because a) I don't have full time employees, and b) only I could write the podcast descriptions. But it's done. Kinda.
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Base Hits 60 Doing the drudgery
Sometimes starting a venture like this isn't sexy at all. Today, the tasks are extremely repetitive and brain numbing. But - ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Here's what today's base hits look like
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Base Hits 59 Finding fulfillment
Fulfillment can be found in a variety of ways, but maybe it's about just deciding what you want to be and do, then doing it. For me, that's been a 60+ year journey. I think I'm there. At least I feel like this is what I need to be doing right now.
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Base Hits 58 Techie trees
Staying on top of tech is like riding a cheetah. It's even harder when you're an old geezer like me. Link trees? Replacing having stuff on my web site? Oh the weird brain bendyness of it all.
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Base Hits 57 MK4, MP3 and stuff that annoys me
The techy side of being a microphone nerd is pretty much an every day thing. On my interview of me, I forgot to record the audio separately. So why is that a big problem? Because there's pretty much nothing out there that allows me to strip off the audio from a video file! I research all day long...
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Base Hits 56 Leadership and management
I've spent a career not leading anyone but myself. At over 60, now I'm doing more of that. How to be the leader you've never been? Just do it I guess. Here's what I did to be leader and manager for my team
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Base Hits 55 Interviewing Me
Lightning strikes. I feel like I can't ask other men to be vulnerable if I'm not willing to sit in the same chair and do that myself. So - I agreed when Howard Little asked me to swap seats with him after his interview. He asks better questions than I do - or at least different ones. That man…
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Base Hits 54 Standing near the sun
I thought when I started Manalizing that it would be a dark subject. That's not the case at all. There's so much hope that comes from the people I talk to, and the light that I feel from these people is simply - well, it brightens my soul
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Base Hits 53 Kajabi here we come
Just when I thought I was reaching the rounded off part of the mountain, and it was time to roll with the machine I've created... I realize I've got to migrate everything. All of my hundreds of podcasts for everything. Manalizing, base hits, home medic for inspectors, home medic for homeowners,...
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Base Hits 52 It's a two edged sword
It's a truism that nobody can do things themselves. None of us are gifted at everything that needs to happen for a business to be successful. So - you have to rely on others. And when they're extremely part time or it's a favor? Sometimes you still have to do what you can yourself.
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Base Hits 51 Proper prepping
Getting men to come on the show and be prepped to be vulnerable is no small task. Most men don't have the internals to do it. The ones that do need to know what I'm expecting of them so they can come mentally prepared to be vulnerable. No small task. Part of it comes with being able to describe...
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Base Hits 50 Voice over victory
Some stuff is just hard. It wouldn't be hard if you were that kind of nerd, but you're not that kind of nerd. You try everything and boom! Nothing. That makes it that much sweeter when you figure it out. Voice over victory is mine! Wah freaking hoo!
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Base Hits 49 The beauty of not doing everything myself
I think most of us think we can do anything ourselves if we put our mind to it. The fact is, we can struggle for days or months, or we could get it done in 15 minutes with the right help. I needed Nathan's help today. I needed McKell's help today. I needed what the right audio input device could…
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Base Hits 48 Git er done
Some days are pretty awesome. I get my nickels made in the morning, then I can get after things. That was today. I filmed stuff with McKell to be used in a social media ad campaign, and generally I made feathers fly. Still, I look back and wonder what I accomplished. Is that a brain thing or is…
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Base Hits 47 Life is hard - unless you're me
I interviewed an interesting, bright and powerful man today. Howard Little. Good dude. Very good dude. He's having big time physical issues - cancer, infections, loss of circulation - it's bad. But despite it all his soul is bright. He talks about how we chooses to laugh rather than cry. He talks...
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Base Hits 46 How to argue with myself
The things I do to move my business forward and achieve my purpose? Well, let's just say I wouldn't have predicted them. What hat am I wearing this time? This time it was me figuring out how to argue with myself on social media. Me. I'm not exactly Mr. Tik Tok. Still, I gotta do it so here I go
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Base Hits 45 Gratitude is good
Base hits can still be made when I'm busy. And here's a bit of gratitude for me being busy. Who am I grateful to? I don't know why God the Father and Jesus Christ do what they do for me, but it all strengthens my resolve to do what they're entrusting, hoping and needing me to do. We all have...
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Base Hits 44 Arguing with myself
Some days I wonder if I did anything at all, then I remember I got a lot done. This was one of those. I tend not to give myself credit for stuff when I do move forward, but I'm real good at remembering when I didn't meet the bar. That said, I came up with a concept that will be a centerpiece of…
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Base Hits 43 Baker
Learning how to lead well is a new experience for me. I've learned how to run a 1 man business and can do that comfortably. Employees? Leadership? Management? Stretch. Also, now I'm a baker. Who woulda thought?
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Base Hits 42 Running around rocks
Most of us men think we're strong. Give us a problem, we'll solve it. We do. We solve. We finish. We go. But asking us to talk about what it does to us? That's an uphill climb. And what happens when we do? That's interesting too.
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Base hits is a journal about the windy and bumpy road experienced by an entrepreneur. Garth Haslem has started a clothing business, a tanning salon, a home inspection business, a structural inspection business, a diving inspection business, and you'd think it would get easier. If that's true, it's only because he's more confident now. .Garth has three podcasts. The first is The HomeMedic, where he stores 30 years' knowledge as a home inspector. The second is Manalizing. This is a very vulnerable podcast about men and our ability (or inabilty) to navigate life. The third is this one: the diary about what he does every day to get to where his dreams happen. This is about the simple things (the base hits) he's making every day to shape his future.Garth's goals are to build enough of an income to never have to worry about money again. Then he can focus on doing what's most important. Base Hits is a journal of how that pathway looks for him.
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