January has been crazy. I don't think I checked in at all during PodFest. My talk went fantastically. There were like technical issues, but when aren't there? But lots of great questions, my stories landed well, and somebody who I need to follow up with even asked if they could hire me right from stage. So, super great.
I don't think I could have asked, except for my laptop working. I don't think I could have asked for a better experience for my first time back on stage in five years. That was great. I am working on a LinkedIn post called My Year Starts in February. January has just been crazy. I don't know if you can hear it, but I'm a little congested.
While I was away, my entire family, all of my kids, and my wife got the flu and RSV, and so I came home to just a chorus of coughing and runny noses. Thanks to maybe Tamiflu and me just catching the tail end of it, it hasn't been as bad for me yet, knock on wood. But it's just been a crazy week of everybody going to bed early and sleeping late, and supporting my family and stuff like that. Between the snow days and the sick days and the travel, January has been pretty wild for me.
That said, I don't feel terribly behind on anything. Maybe that's just because January is slow in general, though I do have a major website redesign that I need to do. I have three web design clients left, and they have been with me since the late aughts. It's really low maintenance. They're great clients, and one of them wanted a website redesign. They're a nonprofit, and I want to keep helping them out without them having to go through the rigmarole of finding a new web developer. Stuff like that. I want to help them.
Their site's like 13 years old at this point. They hired me to make a new website for them, so I need to do that. I need to record a LinkedIn learning course, and I am grateful that this is basically just a reshoot. It's for my learning PHP course, and most of it's the same. I guess I could integrate feedback into it, but some of the feedback is like, this is the best course ever, and some of it is like, this isn't even a course. This course will not rewatch, and I'm thinking, well, the goal is to teach you PHP well enough that you don't need to rewatch it, so I guess win for me there, too.
I do have a lot. Catholic Schools Week is next week, and that's a big week for my kids' school, and it sounds like they're awake now, so I will probably wrap this up quickly. Just wanted to check in here because it has been crazy, but I don't feel horribly behind, so next week will be a wash because I'll be recording. I have found that this is probably going to be a four-and-a-half-hour course, and the way that I record, it takes me about eight hours per finished hour-and-a-half, which means it's going to be about three days of recording. And then setting up the code and testing it and stuff like that, I'm using a new mechanism for the code over at LinkedIn, so there'll be a little bit of a learning curve, so I do expect that to take the full week. I do have other obligations on Tuesdays and Thursdays that I'll have to do, but I think that I'm just going to act like 2025 started in February, so that's where I'm at.
Look for another episode coming soon. I finished reading Justin Moore's book, Sponsor Magnet, and even though I'm a sponsorship coach, in his community, I wanted to read it. I guess in part because I am a sponsorship coach and I want to see what he's saying and anything updated from what we're teaching, and it was great. I think if you've listened to the last few episodes, you'll know that I have a moratorium on business books because they all suck, and I wrote to Justin and I said, thanks for writing a business book that doesn't suck balls.
Yeah, great. Highly recommend it. I'll send more of my thoughts in a different audio note, but that's it for now. Pray and hope I don't get sick, or more fully sick, and I'll see you when I see you.