A leader’s goal is to guide and help people. As John C. Maxwell famously said, “A leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” That is why Andy McDowell and Zach Levy bring us their guest today because her aspiration to help people helps generate value for this episode. Tia Cristy, the founder of Tips from Tia, provides her insights on the responsibility of a leader and how it is similar to producing a radio show. Her voice is her responsibility to empower others, unlike those who sit on their platform only to spread negative things that don’t benefit others. Her authenticity leads her to success and helps her earn the trust of her audience. Tune in to hear more Tips from Tia today!
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Tips From Tia: Leadership Comes With Responsibility With Tia Cristy
We’re bringing you a person to the table on our platform to have a conversation that brings a tremendous amount of value to people’s lives. We are bringing you Tia Cristy, who has a background in media and the building of platforms. I can’t wait for her to share her wisdom with our audience. We’re bringing somebody who could fill up two pages of paper with her bio. She sent me a two-sentence bio. We’re going to go run with that and let her story come out through our conversation. I found I enjoy that a lot more than giving the answers ahead of time and letting them fill in the gaps.
Tia Cristy is the Founder of Tips From Tia, a lifestyle resource for tips on health, beauty, and life. She has humbly earned the title of personality. We’ll get into why that is. She is an expert in lifestyle, health, and beauty through radio, television, and print. That being said, Tia, welcome to the show. We can’t thank you enough for sharing your valuable resource called time with us to share your wisdom and light with the world.
Thank you so much for having me. It’s always a pleasure to see you.
You got your start in radio. Did you fall into that accidentally or did you have your sights on it? Did something magically fall from the sky? How did you end up in radio?
I’ve been in radio my whole entire life. My cousin was in radio. I never thought I was going to go into radio, but he used to call me to wake me up for school, live on the radio every morning. He thought that was a funny bit. I was not a great morning person when I was a child. He found much humor in that. Every morning it was like, “This is your wake-up call.” That started my respect for radio. I can name that tune in two notes when I hear a song usually. I was good as a young child before I even hit double digits calling the radio stations and winning these prizes.
I was never allowed to collect them because I was underage. I was eager to call and tell them the answer. That’s pretty much where my respect for radio came in. I was not thinking that was the path I was going down. I was studying pre-law. I was a club DJ and made my little side end there. I became quite popular because I was a female that could spin. I had a lot of gigs.
One day, I was at work and a radio station came in. That is where my radio mentor came from. He was like, “Your voice is fabulous. You are a riot. I love your personality. I am taking you under my wing and this is what’s going to happen.” It snowballed from there. I ended up doing a ten-minute demo, which anybody out there that’s interested in media. Ten-minute demos are not a thing. Don’t ever do the ten-minute. They make their choices in 30 seconds at most.
I ended up sending it out to 100 radio stations. I got one call back and that was to run aboard. I took the job. It was two hours away from where I lived. I drove it every day. I was there for about two weeks. The morning show asked me a question while I was walking out the door. I answered. By that afternoon, I had my own show. That’s how it went down.
My only touch with radio was a funny story, but maybe it was a precursor, a future vision of doing a show like Zach and I have done for the last few years. One, I was in a fraternity at Georgia Tech. We had one particular weekend where we didn’t have any social activities. We were trying to scratch our heads and trying to figure out what can we do to bring some fun to the fraternity house for the weekend.
We decided to make a makeshift radio station. We got a mixing board and attached a computer to it, put some big speakers out in the front yard because we were strategically placed where everybody that was milling around the fraternity houses at night had to pass by our house because we were in the middle. We pretended to be a radio station from Paducah, Kentucky.
We had a fraternity brother with a cordless phone up on the roof that was pounding his chest, pretending he was doing a helicopter report of what was going on in the party scene at the school, music choices, we had little bits from the computer. Arnold Schwarzenegger would pop in every once in a while, with some famous phrases and that type of thing. I’ve got everything on CD.
My fraternity brother was doing the radio thing up on top of the roof, had recorded everything, and put it on CD. He gave it to me as a gift a couple of years ago. I enjoyed the heck out of it. I was 1 of the 2 on the team that the radio personality was going through the whole evening, bringing music, and commentary, and so forth.
How have I not heard that story?
It’s a little embarrassing. There was some conversation that was not for public consumption. A lot would be bleeped out. It gave me an idea of what it takes from a radio personality and technical perspective to put things on. Little did I know I’d be podcasting later in my life. I’m going to have to bring some of that knowledge to the table.
How creative is it that you did this whole makeshift station and the chest-beating for the helicopter? We say that this new generation is missing out on so much because there’s an app that can make all those sounds and do all these things. I remember when I was probably in single digits, we would steal the video recorder in the middle of the night.
I would put it up on the tripod and I would “sell” everything in the house like I was QVC. It was a big to-do. I would use all the tape space and my parents would laugh. They said that they would go and there’d be no room left on the videotape. They’d be like, “There’s Tia selling the kitchen cutlery in the middle of the night.”
You did a show in Philly. You did a night show that you produced. Was it in the Midwest or up in Seattle?
I was on air in Seattle. I was on and produced the morning show in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. I did a lot of smaller stations as well like in surrounding areas, which is cool because there’s always a different vibe. I did a major market. The key is no matter where you go, you got to look at it as a major market. It’s important. There are no small fish in the pond of radio, even though people like to believe that. You got to do your thing out there, entertaining.
There are no small fish in the pond of radio, even though people like to believe that. You got to do your thing out there entertaining.
In this day and age, that doesn’t exist. You may be physically located in the suburb or out in a rural area, but with the internet, you can reach anybody now.
With a podcast, that has changed the whole game of all of it. I do not have a podcast. I enjoy coming on other people’s podcasts, but we’ll get to that when we talk about how I pivoted.
When you were doing radio, what was your favorite subject to talk about?
I enjoy doing artist content. If you haven’t caught on yet, I’m very bubbly and outgoing. I make friends very easily. There are a lot of these different celebs and artists that I would come across. They would share things with me. I would never go on and share the deepest darkest secrets or anything like that. That’s not my style at all. That’s why they trusted me to be able to be like, “I got this going on. I’m going to my mom’s even like Thanksgiving or Easter.” It allowed me to have that kind of content to share, making the audience feel closer. It was a benefit all around. I loved conducting interviews and being heavy artist content.
What do you think are the key ingredients to a successful interview or conversation? What is it that enabled you to be successful in having those conversations with celebrities to bring out things that maybe others aren’t able to bring out in the conversation?
When you’re on the receiving end of an interview, whether you’re a celebrity, as the Founder of Tips From Tia, there is a fear that comes in like, “I don’t want to sound stupid,” but also you don’t want someone to cross this line. You make your own boundary in your head or something. You don’t want someone to cross that. it’s not like you have these deep dark secrets that you’re worried that are going to come out or something. The important thing is making somebody feel safe. It’s important to let them know they’re in a safe space. You hear the old clichés and you see them on TV shows and stuff like that.
Somebody slips talking to a reporter and then the reporter can’t get out the door fast enough to get it out there to the public, or somebody snaps a photo and they’re going off to the tabloids to try to make their million dollars. That is important to develop these friendships and let people know you’re in a safe space because honestly, those friendships come back when it’s actual friendships.
You might have something come down the line later, many years from now, and all of a sudden, you’re like, “I should be able to call Tia and ask her what she thinks or if she can promote me on this.” If we’ve built that friendship, I’m going to do it for you. That’s important. Making friends, to answer your question, long-windedly. Make them feel safe and make them feel like a friend.
As somebody who’s now for a few years has been interviewed as well as interviewing other people for, sometimes what is lost is that this party of people, in our case, the three of us, are trying to co-create a conversation that is going to be filling, uplifting, and information-based. It depends on what the why of the platform is, but we’re trying to co-create.
There’s that word, creativity. You need creativity to exist in these 45 minutes or 1 hour, depending on the goals of the show. If you’re not creating that emotionally safe space, then creativity is not allowed to exist. It becomes more about me trying to force things out of you because it helps you and my ratings. It’s not about us. It’s not about co-creating. It’s about me.
If you start invoking shame and judgment in the other person because you’re not creating something that’s emotionally safe, you’re going to land with this big pile of you know what on the table in that perspective. That’s the magic that people that are very successful in the media business understand and try to create that environment to say, “It’s our platform, it’s our why, it’s our branding and everything,” but the reality is it’s about bringing people in that we can co-create with that enables that brand to be strong and exist.
It’s funny. People laugh. Everything happened to me on air. I’ve had some of the best moments and the scariest. It’s incredible the things that I’ve gone through. I remember I had this one interview and it was the biggest dud I ever had. It turned into the greatest interview. We were on location too. It was not the normal element. I couldn’t hop on the computer and do my research or anything like that. Everything was sent to me. If you haven’t figured this out yet, the internet is not always right. It was hysterical that we got into this conversation and it turns out that everything is wrong.
This is probably an interview because I said to him, “You just joined the band?” He says, “Eighteen years ago,” and I lost it. I was hysterical. I said, “Oh, my gosh.” It was one of those moments I was mortified. I felt like I did not give the 1,000% that I give when I do my job. Finally, after the fifth question of being wrong, this guy is looking at me like I am crap at this point.
For those that don’t know, I have blonde hair. I never like to fall into that stereotypical look of, “She’s bubbly and doesn’t pay attention.” Finally, I grabbed him by his arm and I was like, “I am sorry. Forget all these questions.” I threw them and I was like, “Forget it. You tell me about you because I do care. Even though right now you think I’m the worst at my job, I want to know about you.” It turned into a stellar interview. It was incredible.
You were totally vulnerable. We came across as being human and totally vulnerable, which scares people. Vulnerability won the day for you. That’s strength.
It was beautiful. I was very happy with how that went. I’ll remember him forever because he did become very gracious after that moment. I could tell he was very highly irritated at first. I was irritated and mortified. It turned out to be awesome. I wonder if he tells the story as well. Maybe he’s sitting there on another podcast being like, “There was this one time with Tia.”
When producing radio shows, and things like that, what are the similarities you feel are there between leadership and producing a radio show?
When you produce a show, especially anytime you work together with a team, sometimes they have radio producers that produce content that is sent to them like syndicated programs, different things like that. The information is sent to them and then they have to produce it. They’re in a studio by themselves.
If you have a team that you’re working with, it comes down to leadership because let’s say you have a team of five and then you have these interns as well. Everybody’s looking to you to make sure that everything’s on spec and you’re not getting the wrong questions when it comes to an interview. You have to be the general in that situation. Maybe it’s not exactly your battle, but it’s your baby and you want to make sure that you’re delivering the best that you possibly can. A lot of that goes hand in hand.
You have to be the general in situations. It may not be your battle, but it’s your baby, and you must ensure you’re delivering the best you possibly can.
Producing is usually behind the scenes. You’re not in front of the microphone, the TV camera, or anything of that nature that they don’t understand what it takes to produce a show. The show itself is almost like a mini business. You’ve got a why and a platform. You’re trying to create content that is of value and exchange value for people.
You’re trying to make sure that the guests that you bring in, the content that you’re creating and everything is on point like a business is trying to do with its product or services. It’s not out in the forefront, and it’s part of the reason why I wanted to ask that question when we were with you. For people to try to get a better understanding that when you’re producing a show, I don’t care whether it’s radio, YouTube, internet, television, or whatever it may be, it’s like a mini business. Everything that you can think of in terms of leadership comes into play when you’re trying to produce a show.
It is cool because I had the opportunity to be both producer and on-air at the same time. I wasn’t constantly behind the microphone. There were a lot of things that I had to do. I would run out of the studio and be gone for fifteen minutes prepping the artist who was going to come on, or I’d be telling the interns, “Go fill up the water balloons.”
There was a lot of craziness that went through. It always made me laugh. People are like, “What, you work 4 or 5 hours a day?” I’m like, “First off, I do not work 4 or 5 hours a day, but in those 4 or 5 hours,” to also make my point, “I’m accountable for every single second.” How many other jobs are accountable for every single second? Maybe a pilot or things like that. A lot of times, people go and talk around the water cooler or whatever. It doesn’t work that way when you’re in radio. You have to be on fire for every single second because that’s money to the station or the company.
From when you started your career to now, how has media changed? What do you like about it? What don’t you like about it?
It’s a lot more opportunity. I’ll go with what I like about it. It’s given more opportunity to people, especially when you think about all the resources with podcasts and people doing their video broadcasts and different things like that. Even on social media, people are getting information out there pretty quickly. There’s a lot that I sadly don’t like about it. First off, when I started in the broadcast, it was crucial. You were not allowed to have an opinion. Your opinion did not matter. You had to stay neutral in everything that you talked about. You would lose your job over having an opinion.
Now it’s to the point where you pick a station based on your opinion. That’s disturbing to me as information isn’t coming in like it used to. Instead, it’s opinions and you might get a little bit of the information coming in, but if you want the full story, it’s almost like you have to listen to both sides or all three sides to form your now own opinion. I don’t love that.
Another thing is that it’s like a lot of the writers are feeling with AI coming out. You work very hard to accomplish something and get to a point in this career and then all of a sudden, somebody that has no background, experience, or training comes in and is doing what you have strived to do and what you’ve given blood, sweat, and tears into.
A lot of people will hold onto it, but there is that initial feeling of, “I’ve worked hard to get here and now, this is taking over.” I’m sure a lot of people experienced this. Radio went from a very high-paying job down to something that you were lucky if you were getting minimum wage and they were working you to the bone. A lot of people felt hurt by that. The reason that that happened was that there were all these new outlets coming in and you also had people that would do the job for the next dinner thing. They might not have had experience, but they’ll do it. It was a numbers game. It got sad.
As I look at it, I am happy that a lot of new outlets have come together because it gives more opportunity and diversity. If you listen to some of these stations, they’re playing the same twenty songs all day long. They’re just regurgitating this material. You have some incredible artists out there whose stuff isn’t getting out until they’re on this or that platform. It keeps the world rotating.
If it’s an island, you have to get voted on the island. The island contains these 20 or 30 songs and artists that keep playing over and over again until such time you get voted onto the island.
It’s sad. You hear stories of even the artists that are like, “I don’t even want to play that song anymore. It’s being played too much on the radio.” They’re sick of hearing their own voices. When you think about it, it’s weird.
Be careful what you wished for because I’m sure back in the ‘70s and ‘80s when I was growing up, that was what everybody was shooting for was airplay. I want to be on there 10, 12, or 15 times a day because that’s what drove sales and record sales. As things have evolved, it also comes a detractor for you because people are looking for more diversity.
People want diversity because if you’re listening to the radio in the office all day or something, it’s the same twenty songs, that’s what pushed different platforms like Spotify and other platforms to not kill radio, but diminish it.
It’s regurgitating the material over and over again. It’s almost forcing. A lot of people were concerned with, “This is going to sound like the 1960s, 1970s, or something.” I remember hearing a kid in the ‘70s or ‘60s, “You would play a record backward and it would say something.” I was like, “Oh, my gosh.” I remember asking my parents, I’m like, “Can we buy a record player so I could hear it?” I remember somewhere in the 2000s there was this big thing going on and I stayed pretty quiet.
In the circle of radio, people were questioning the subliminal messaging that was coming through in these songs because that’s when they started to develop the triggers within the songs. That way, people could know when their song was being played. There was that whole pieing thing. It got crazy with all that stuff. They had to put these triggers in the songs underneath everything to make sure they were getting counted.
You moved from radio and print media to video blogging with the goal to help people. What precipitated those moves for you?
It’s very interesting how I started as my blogging. I’ve always been one to know tips on things that my friends used to call me the MacGyver when I was a kid, and I did. I always had a solution for something. I always tell people I have a vault of useless information up in here. I didn’t realize it was a superpower until everything unfolded.
I ended up getting sick. I bought a new house. When I say a new house, it was only a couple of years old. What happened six months after living there, I started getting sick and doctors were baffled. Nobody knew what was going on. I did a lot of research because I’m a nerd. I like to read medical journals for fun and do things like that.
It turns out I had mold toxicity poisoning. That causes a lot of effects on your motor and cognitive skills. I was having a real struggle with everything. I started getting brain fog bad. I started writing down all these tips. It was during a time when the websites were doing, “Get your website for $1.99.” I was like, “Sure.” I put it on a website. I didn’t think anybody would read it. I just thought it would be easy if I ever wanted to transport it later or whatever.
I put it on and I then concentrated on getting well. That was about a six-month process of getting the house remediated, detoxing myself, and then going through therapies. That’s what I was doing. I was writing this therapy and getting this stuff down. Six months later, I started looking into the website and it blew up. I had all these emails and subscribers and the traffic on it was outstanding. I came to the realization that there is something here. I have to give it some more time and figure out what I can do to help people. it turned into a fabulous resource. I love being able to help people that way.
It goes back to the title of my business and this show, Generating Your Value. You’re bringing value to people and they found you through word of mouth and other things that enabled it to grow.
That’s what I love about your title, Generate Your Value because I felt that way. I’ve always looked at my voice as a responsibility. People get on radio or their platform. They spread nastiness, condescension, and all of these terrible things that don’t benefit others. It is their little soapbox or whatever they do. I always realized that I had this unique power of influence over people, and people like to hear what I had to say. That’s a huge responsibility. I took it very seriously. My message has always been about spreading kindness, choosing happiness, and valuing yourself.
I never felt that I had the skill of being able to build someone a house, teach them a foreign language, or something like that. This was my way of giving value to the world. That was a very cool feeling when I realized this is no small feat. When other people sit there and they question their own value, “What’s my purpose? What am I doing here?” sometimes look at the simplest thing because it might be exactly what you giving to the world.
Sometimes look at the simplest thing because it might be what you give to the world.
One of the favorite topics that we talk about, whether they’re out on the back porch with bourbon or on this show, is love versus fear. Are you valuing love or fear? If you have fear in your own life because you haven’t done the work to heal traumas that you’ve experienced throughout your life, then you start valuing fear. You start wanting to watch reality shows and other things where you get to see people that are in worse situations than you are
It helps you feel good about yourself and you haven’t healed those traumas versus if you have, and you have a life that’s based off of love, then you want others to experience that in your own life because you get to experience it yourself. Now you start bringing value that’s based in love to whatever platform in life that you’re bringing to, whether it’s in the media or not in the media, by your job selection or the business that you created, or whatever it may be from that perspective. Both ways can bring you money, unfortunately.
Disgruntled is so 2000. It’s time for people to move into a more welcoming and empowering. Some people hate the word empowering, but creating safe spaces for people to flourish is super important. It’s a shame because you do have a choice on both sides to make money. I love the fact that I have stuck to my principles and core values throughout my whole process. I have not “sold out” or thought, “I need to change my shtick here.” That is important to be who I am and be real with people. I think that’s what has contributed to the success. That has allowed me to build these relationships and to move to the point where I am at.
Some people will say, “You could have been much further in your career by now in some ways.” That is true, but I would’ve had to sell part of myself to do that. I wasn’t willing to. I needed to be strong in who I was. That was a little bit of practice. I can proudly say that I’ve made it to where I am now and I’m still working on the course every day.
I’m sure a lot of people feel this way. I’m not exactly to the point where I want to be. Building Tips From Tia has been a process. It’s had highs and lows. The pandemic was rough on it, but it’s picking up again and people are understanding its value. I’m just going to keep doing my best to help people every day. That’s what has to happen.
What are the most popular areas of life that people come to you about for your tips? Are there certain areas of life that get more popular or more conversation going than others?
There are several different answers to that question. Mental health is a huge one. People love finding out different ways to address mental health because, with Tips From Tia, we’re always like, “Talk to your doctor.” We’re not medical professionals. What we’re giving is, “Here are some alternatives that exist out there. Always talk to your doctor first before you try or do anything.”
Mental health is something that is becoming accepted to be talked about. One thing that we’ve done with Tips From Tia is trying to make the uncomfortable comfortable to talk about. Talking about a mental health disorder, feeling depressed, or feeling anxious, there’s a big stigma that went along with that for a very long time. We gave people a safe resource to realize that they were not alone.
Another one is sexual health. Sexual health is very popular with younger generations. I always make the joke that we have middle school children. The fact is there is nothing Rated R on Tips From Tia. This is almost like where you can look up something that you’re not going to want to ask your friend about like, “I don’t know why this is happening.”
If you go on Tips From Tia, you are going to find the answer probably on why you feel this way or why this is happening physically. We’re always saying, “Go talk to your doctor.” Those seem to be the two that stir up a lot of conversation and relationship stuff. One of the big popular ones that get a lot of traction is DIY home stuff. Still to this day, the number one searched topic is, “How to get rid of dandruff?” Everybody wants to know how to get rid of dandruff. Number two is, “How to get rid of a hickey?”
Those are the two subjects that rarely have ever come up in conversation in my life. That’s where the middle school and high schoolers come in.
The answer affects everybody. I would say the high school of middle schoolers. The hickey one is for sure.
I would imagine this move took some rebranding. How has that rebranding gone and what do you feel from your experience of rebranding are the most important aspects of a brand?
We’re in the process now of discussing a new rebrand just because the site has been up for many years at this point. I always tell people I’m like, “It was the bee’s knees when it came out. Now it’s dated.” We want to make it a self-serving website. You can do it now, but it’s a little bit harder to navigate. You can type in lemons in the search box and five articles come up about what to do with lemons. You could type in pimple and ten articles that come up on anything that has to do with a pimple, how to get rid of it, and how to prevent them. The rebranding is being discussed right now because I have my vision.
My vision is crystal clear. I need to make sure that it gets implemented the way that I wanted it to be implemented where it does become able to be the number one household resource. I want Tips From Tia to be that trusted resource that anybody who has a question on how to get a stain out of something, or, “What can you use lemons for?” go straight to Tips From Tia and know that they’re getting the right information. That’s one of the number one reasons why I started it. I was tired of googling something and getting the wrong information.
When I heard somebody tell somebody else how to get a red wine stain out of a carpet by using white wine, I felt enraged. I was like, “Where did you hear that?” They were like, “It’s online.” Sure enough, it was the number one thing on the search for how to get rid of a red wine stain. It’ll dilute the red, but now you got a big nasty, sugary, gooey thing happening. It’s awful. If you want to know, you got to go to Tips From Tia. We know how to get rid of that.
The most common philosophy, when it comes to branding, is about the trust level and experience that you have, whether that’s with another human being, you’re talking about a personal brand, or with a company. That notion based off of the value you’re trying to bring with Tips From Tia hits the nail on the head. It’s more readily apparent.
It’s out there in the open because what you’re trying to do is be a trusted resource for people to help them solve problems in their life from that perspective. I hate to use this term, but it’s almost like you’re the poster child of branding from that perspective because you’re trying to be that trusted resource from people’s lives across the board, not one little specific area.
Sometimes it feels like a huge undertaking and sometimes it’s easy because telling the truth is easy. Trying to help people for me is easy. I know that some people can struggle with that, but that’s my core value. I’ve always wanted to help somebody and speak the truth as far as I know. There are new technologies that have come out. There are new things.
I need to be able to go find these tips because there are life hacks everywhere on social media now. Go sift through that stuff and say, “This is legit.” One of the things that we started doing was saying when something doesn’t work. If it doesn’t work, we’re like, “It doesn’t work. Why waste your time?” We spent 30 minutes testing it out and it didn’t work. That helps our cause in becoming that trusted resource.
Tia’s a perfect example of that Be Do Have model. One of the common themes in Tia, we call them golden nuggets on our shows, are those things that people can take away from the conversation. What the three of us are co-creating this conversation is, “Who are you going to be in this world?” Your journey has all been about the being. Now, you’ve moved into a period of your life where your due is Tips From Tia. That aligns with who you want to be in this world, which is a trusted resource. Truth is the answer. Love is the answer. By doing that, you get to have joy, happiness, and success in life because you did it in that order with that focus.
For me, it’s not hard to want to help others. Sometimes when you’re doing the right thing, it seems like a fetal battle. That’s when people get turned around. It’s a, “People quit five minutes before the miracle,” kind of concept. That’s what I would say to the audience. Keep on plugging away because if it’s your passion and moves you, it’s going to be rewarding no matter what, whether that be financial, spiritual, or emotional. Keep on pressing on.
Keep on plugging away because if it’s your passion and moves you, it will be rewarding no matter what, whether that be financial, spiritual, or emotional. It is going to be rewarding.
I feel like I’ve got so much more I want to talk to Tia about. Maybe we’ll put a Generate Your Value hotel room with some other guests and bring you back for some more of your wisdom.
I would love that.
How could somebody reach out to you if they wanted to be a source for you with tips, co-create with you, or get some wisdom out of you?
I have ten links that I usually give people. I consolidated everything down into the Linktree. Just go to Linktree/TipsFromTia. You can find my website and my social media there, and anything that maybe we have going on. Maybe one of the fresher articles. There are a bunch of things on that Linktree. Feel free to click on through.
This has been a phenomenal conversation. We always ask the same question at the end of every episode, and there’s no right or wrong answer. It is your answer, which I feel is going to be a mic drop from our conversation far. What do the words generate your value mean to you?
It comes down to continuing to learn from me. If I’m not learning on a daily basis, I don’t feel that I have brought value to myself, but I think also in the process of me learning is where I’m able to generate value for others. Hence, Tips From Tia. It comes down to me reading medical journals and also having a dictionary so I can look up words I don’t know in the medical journal.
If I’m not learning on a daily basis, I don’t feel that I have brought value to myself.
I love to expand my mind and the experiences that I’ve been through. The fact that I make safe spaces for people, things have been shared with me, and that information is all learning, so then I can generate that value for others. I think it’s a beautiful thing. Thank you. I love the value that you guys are generating too. This show has been amazing. I loved being here. I will come back anytime. It’s been so much fun.
I want to bring her back to an episode on storytelling. Zach and the audience are not aware of this, but we had a guest last season that talk about storytelling. He’s written a book about it. Mark Carpenter is his name. That episode is still going very strong. He’s the equivalent of your dandruff and sexual help.
His episode, more than any other in the previous two seasons and second and I’ve been on, have been going very strong. He’s in the top ten for this season. It tells you about the power of storytelling in life. We’ll pick that as a topic for you to come on next season to talk about storytelling because that’s what you did as a producer. You’re telling stories.
That was one of the pivots that I made with the pandemic. As I pivoted from radio, I went more full-time into writing and doing storytelling.
We can’t thank you enough for taking your valuable time to come out and share your wisdom. I feel like we hit on some major current themes that exist in our podcast, whether it be the be, do, have, or love versus fear. There are a ton of golden nuggets for our audience to take away from our conversation that we co-created in an emotionally safe place. Hopefully, you felt that way from that perspective.
We were talking about media and how it’s changed. Zach and I are on this pilgrimage to get the industry to change that button that has the word subscribe on it to change it to follow. Zach and I are on a journey with this show. Much like you’re on a journey on your Tips From Tia, we’re on a journey as well to bring and generate value in this world.
We tell people to follow us instead of subscribing. Follow us on the journey because we’re trying new things. We’re having conversations and learning from people that have got wisdom that come onto our show. We’re learning and growing as much as our audiences from that perspective. Value doesn’t get created. It doesn’t get generated unless you share it. If this conversation landed in your lap, Zach and I don’t have a magic button where he puts the button in and automatically lands in the lap of every single human being on the Earth.
We should find that button.
The value of that button would be through the roof. We’re talking about trillions, not billions. We’re calling it trillions if that was the capability. Readers, if you got some value out of this conversation that was co-created by the three of us, then share it so it lands in somebody else’s lap and they have the opportunity to have the value created and generated in their life.
If you don’t share it, it lands flat. It never reaches them. That opportunity never exists. We always are trying to make an effort at the end of all of our shows to keep home hitting on that point that there are too many people that reading and they get value out, “What a great episode,” and I ask a question, “Did you share it?” “No.”
I shared one of your shows before we got on.
We appreciate that. Come back next episode. We’ll have another great episode with another great guest like Tia that we’re going to co-create with them in an effort to generate value in your life. We invite you to come back and read that episode, which we hope and pray that you will share so that value keeps getting spread around the world. We’re on that mission.
That’s part of Zach and i’s being and doing an effort in this world, such that everybody who reads this is going to have joy, happiness, and success in their life. That’s why we do it. That’s why we take that valuable resource in our lives called time to be able to do it for that reason. That’s part of our being. Have a great day. Keep generating your value in this world. We can’t encourage you enough to do that. We will see you again for another great episode.
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