Cherise Lakeside: I will never be a hundred percent satisfied with anything that I do. I'm always looking for ways to improve. I know that I have morphed all kinds of things in this podcast from day one, as opposed to what I do now. For me, what gets me up in the morning, so to speak, over this podcast is the people. At the end of the day, I'm a people person, and I love connecting with people and kind of not just pulling out the great information about the project, but making them comfortable enough to relax and really share the good stuff. It was an early conversation I had because this is Arkat's podcast, it's not my podcast. And after Gable asked me to do the podcast, they said, okay, well, we're good with you. Now we have to get RCAT has final approval and we had a meeting with [inaudible] and I'm a pretty matter-of-fact person. I don't at this point. you learn a lot of things over the years. I maybe wasn't always this person, but I'm really in a phase of my life where what you see is what you get. I'm a good person and I will do anything for my friends. And if you don't like me, somebody else out there you can like and I'm okay with that. But I'm going to give it to you straight and I'm going to be honest. Because if we're going to work together or if we're going to be friends or whatever it is. Not that I'm not trying to improve every day, but this is who I am and that's how I approach this. I pretty clearly told RKAT that this is who I am. if we're going to do this, I really need to just do me. If you're looking for a formal Barbara Walters interviewer, it's just not gonna fly with me. I wanna dig into you. You're a person, and I wanna hear about what motivated you to do this and how you solved this problem. And they were like, yep, sounds good to us. I was like, damn, oh God, I have to do this. And so the initial deal was, let's do 10 episodes and see if any of us wanna keep going. And so that's what we did. And I was fortunate that a few of my early guests because this is a brand new thing, I had to go out mining for gas, which I don't have to do very often anymore, which is, I think, a beautiful thing. I picked a few people I knew well, who I knew were really smart, and really good at what they do. I was already connected to them, already friends with them, which I knew would make me feel more comfortable getting my feet wet. It was easier in the beginning because we only did audio so I could hide behind that a little bit. I didn't have to worry about how I looked on the screen or, whether I did something, whatever. The video came later. I still struggle with that sometimes, but it's like, I'm not having a cute day, I don't want to do this. But it went really well. And I started off with this stock list of questions I'm going to ask every. And I told Arkad also, I said what I'd really. Because they're like, okay, what do we want this podcast to be? And I said, what I'd really like. Here's my two cents. What I'd like to do is have it be talking about your great project through the lens of what can we teach our listeners in the process. I mean, teaching is important to me. How can we make the underlying goal of this podcast my goal? I tell every guest two things before I turn on the mic. One is pretend like we're at happy hour having a good glass of whiskey and talking about your project. And that's all that's going on here. It's just you and me, nothing else. And the other thing I tell them is, don't be afraid to get technical and teach me
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