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Let me start off by saying — to everyone that has ever bought something, liked, shared, commented or messaged me. Thank you, you don't understand how much your actions have meant to me.

It’s been 75 days since my last Instagram post, and 209 days since my last podcast. Wow. Note, please mind the writing in this blog post, this isn’t planned or well structured. Rather this post is a flow of thoughts, which is something I should do more of and something that was originally meant to be the core of ‘Making Moves’. The following will explain what I've been doing and what's next for making moves.

Like many new things that we start, we’re full of gusto and energy. In the early days we’re excited about that new thing and we’re constantly stimulated with new ideas. Many of us that have tried something online know that this can shortly fade, especially when we set such high expectations of extrinsic validation such as likes or follows.

Of course these expectations are unrealistic, but something in our mind still hangs onto the aspects of ‘going viral’. Virality in itself is a north star for many, but even if we do get there, we often change the goal posts so often that we’re never satisfied.

For ‘Making moves’, we started off great. I kept to my core values, and let the content be born from spontaneity and freedom of thought. Even though we were validated by many, it didn’t matter — we set our own future, and that’s how I liked it.

Unfortunately, overtime we started to care more and more about validation. I guess that’s the business strategy consultant coming out in me. “What KPI’s can I set?”, “What will drive the most traffic”, “How can I sell more merch”. It was honestly quite toxic, and it drove me up the wall. Instead of resetting my expectations, and going back to the core of ‘Making moves’ — I fell out of love with the idea of ‘Making moves’ entirely.

After taking the last 75 days to myself, I’ve set out on other goals and started documenting my next venture. As I stumble through my immense catalogue of unstructured and varied ideas, I find myself coming back to not necessarily ‘Making moves’ in its current form — but back to the ideas that were once the catalyst for me to start ‘Making moves’.

I miss creating content that has real impact. Impact that was measured through the passion I brought to the table and the story that I was able to personally share or my guests share. Every time I look back on what I created with ‘Making moves’, I know in my heart that there’s something there. I can picture 5 years from now having one of the most impactful podcasts in Australia. That’s real.

Therefore, I will be back and it will still be under the banner of ‘Making moves’, however, reincarnated. In its new life, ‘Making moves’ will go back to its core — how can I bring stories to life to help inspire people of differing backgrounds to make moves. In its new life, content will be much more free flowing, finding its balance between purity and conviction. My hope is, in its new life, I'll have the inspired energy to continue to produce high quality content.

If you made it this far, I applaud you. My hope is you’ll all stick around for Making moves’ new life. I’m not sure when I'll be back specifically, but know that it is here to stay — but just not in its current form, in a new light…life.