How To Grow Into A Better Niche By Embracing What Makes You Unique - With Andy J. Pizza

Brian Hood (0:30)

Christopher J. Graham.

The sad truth is, Chris is not here with me today because I'm still in Thailand, actually. It's actually not bad news or anything.

He is in Ohio, I'm in Thailand. The time difference is too weird here for us to do an episode that we normally do. So we actually have a treat for you today with a guest host. But before we get to that, just let you know, I am wrapping up my second week in Thailand. I've got about three weeks to go, and it's been a really fun trip actually. Right now, I am actually recording this intro with a really, really sketchy set up on it. I'm actually not going to mention specific gear because I don't want to be gear slutted on my own podcast. But I'm recording on my laptop with some very basic gear. And I'm right by a pool at our resort, which is kind of cool. So if you want to see this, you can follow me on Instagram and check my stories. I've been doing a lot of updates while I'm on this trip. That's Brian Hood with two zeros. So Brian H00D, and you can find me on Instagram. And there will be stories from this specific one if you follow me within the next 24 hours. Anyways, some of our highlights so far, we had a awesome cooking class in Bangkok where I selected a frog to be cooked. And I had some tom yum soup with frog in it.

And we cooked a bunch of other stuff there as well. We went to an elephant rescue park in Chiang Mai. That's actually the name of it, the Elephant Rescue Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where we got to interact and feed and kind of lead around a bunch of elephants that were rescued from. There were a few from a circus. There were some that were just too old to do, to stay healthy at the farms they were at. So they had to, since the medical costs were so high, the farmers basically sold or gave away the elephants to this rescue park.

And one was rescued just a few months ago from a logging farm or logging community in Laos, I think.

And it's blind in one eye. And it's really, some of these elephants have really sad stories, but it's a cool way to do elephant tourism in an ethical way. Instead of going to Thailand, don't ever ride elephants. Don't go to any circuses or anything where they have elephants that are being ridden or jumped on.

But if you want to see elephants and pet them and interact with them and feed them, I highly, highly recommend the Elephant Rescue Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand. And then, if you've probably heard, the coronavirus is here in Asia. And there's quite a few cases in Thailand as well. So Meg and I, my wife here, we decided to escape up to Pai, Thailand.

And we've been here for like the past week or so. We leave tomorrow. We're actually heading out to Seam Reap in Cambodia tomorrow. But we've spent the last week here, just mopedding around, kind of being lazy, getting some work done by the pool. If you've been following me on Instagram, you've seen me pretty much post every day out by this pool, just working on my laptop, getting some stuff done. So like I said earlier in a previous episode, this is kind of like a work-cation for us, where we're both working and traveling at the same time, but it's been a whole lot of fun. So this episode specifically, like I mentioned at the very beginning, is co-hosted by Andy J. Pizza. If you don't remember Andy J. Pizza, go back and listen to episode 78 It's called Motivation, Mindset, and Getting Out of Your Own Damn Way. He has been hugely successful on his own podcast called Creative Pep Talk.

And I think his podcast is probably 10 times the size of ours at this point. So it's very successful, and it's amazing for Andy to even give us the time of his day to spend an hour and a half of his time on a co-hosted episode, taking my spot on the podcast. So I felt like, honestly, in this episode, I was the fly on the wall, listening to just the two of them talk about business. And there's gonna be parts that are not relevant at all to you. If you're just trying to do a studio, there's parts that are really relevant to you if you eventually want to branch out and do some other type of business or entrepreneurial endeavor. But the core of it all is trying to find your niche through finding your purpose.