Finding Your Purpose: Alex Sanfilippo's Journey to Creating PodMatch

What happens when corporate burnout meets entrepreneurial spirit? In this milestone 100th episode, I'm joined by Alex Sanfilippo, founder of PodMatch, who shares his remarkable journey from aerospace executive to podcast industry innovator.

Alex reveals the exact moment he knew his corporate career had reached its limit—despite reaching the C-suite of a multi-billion dollar company. Rather than becoming bitter, he committed to excellence through his last day, believing "the way you end one season is the way you begin another." After several failed side hustles, Alex discovered his passion for podcasting and identified a critical need in the community.

We dive deep into the birth of PodMatch, which Alex describes as "a dating app but connecting podcast hosts and guests for interviews." His approach to business building contains lessons for every entrepreneur: identify real problems for people you care about, create solutions that remove friction, and express gratitude at every step.

The conversation takes an inspiring turn when Alex shares his philosophy on gratitude as an entrepreneurial superpower. "I refuse to believe I'm a self-made entrepreneur," he explains, attributing his success to community and expressing thankfulness through daily practices that keep him grounded.

For aspiring podcasters, Alex offers jaw-dropping statistics—less than 6% reach 100 episodes—along with practical advice about commitment and authenticity. "People actually love the lack of perfection involved," he reassures, explaining that human connection trumps technical perfection every time.

Whether you're considering starting a podcast, looking to appear as a guest on shows, or simply seeking motivation to persist through challenges, Alex's parting wisdom resonates: "Do what you're doing longer than you think you need to do it." This conversation is a masterclass in overcoming yourself through gratitude, persistence, and finding purpose in serving others.

Check out Podmatch and connect with Alex:

nicoletuxbury.com/podmatch

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to the 100th Episode
• 2:41 From Aerospace to Entrepreneurship
• 6:18 The Birth of PodMatch
• 10:32 Podcast Hosting: Commit to 100 Episodes
• 17:27 The Power of Gratitude
• 21:33 Tips for Podcast Guests
• 26:24 Final Advice: Persistence Pays Off

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

And so, and welcome to the 100th episode of the Overcome Yourself podcast. I'm so excited to be here with you and to be here with Alex. I met Alex at PodFest. I'm trying to think are you like the first person I've met before and then I've interviewed you? Oh, that might be kind of cool. So I met Alex at Podfest. I had the amazing opportunity to go to his talk and I found out about his whole system, which is called Podmatch, and since then I've been getting paid to interview guests, amazing guests who have amazing stories, just and they're so easy to find because of Alex and what he's done, and so I'm so excited to welcome him to my show. So please, alex, introduce yourself. Let us know a little bit about who you are and who you help.

Speaker 2: 0:53

Nicole, thank you so, so much and congratulations on 100 episodes. Right before we recorded, I actually looked up the numbers because I knew this was me 100 episodes. Less than 6% of people who start a podcast make it to 100 episodes, so it's a huge accomplishment. You've just done so well here. Also, I'm someone who listens to your podcast. I love the overcome yourself. We're often in our own way right Just such good content. I mean you can thank Podmatch all you want, but it's your brilliance on picking the right people that really impact your listeners in a positive way, including myself. So I just want to say thank you for that and honored to be here and for everyone listening today.

Speaker 2: 1:29

My name is Alex Sanfilippo. I run a company called podmatchcom and I'll very briefly share what that is. It's a service that connects podcast guests and podcast hosts for interviews. I always say it works really similar to a dating app, but instead of counting people for dates, it connects them for podcast interviews. You can message on the platform schedule, do all that. The whole idea is just removing the friction involved, because Nicole might not share this with you, but I'll share it with you.

Speaker 2: 1:45

Being a podcast host is a labor of love. Nicole does this because she loves and cares about you and she wants to see your life continue to grow. She wants to see you overcome yourself in many ways. Right, it's a lot of work, and the whole idea behind PodMatch is can we simplify that process so we can just do what matters, which is spend this time together behind the microphone and ultimately help listeners improve their lives and just do more for themselves and anyway, so that's what I do. I'm a hundred percent podcasting. I've been full-time in the space for just over five years now and having a blast, so that's a little bit about me.

Speaker 1: 2:16

Oh, that is amazing. I want to say thank you, Of course, like you know, just thank you for everything you've shared. Top 6%, that's awesome, Like just amazing, right? That's super cool. Tell us, you know. Since this is Overcome Yourself, I want to hear the story of how PodMatch was born, Because I think that's such an interesting story. So can you give us a little bit of your story and how you got here?

Speaker 2: 2:41

Yeah, definitely. So I'm going to go back to what I was doing before podcasting full time. So I was actually in the aerospace industry. Now, before anyone thinks I was something fun like an astronaut, skydiver or fighter pilot, I was none of those things. I actually worked behind a computer. We were focused below the atmosphere on parts manufacturing and I really loved that job and I did really well. I worked my way to the C-suite. It was a publicly traded, multi-billion dollar company. It was a real honor and gift to be there.

Speaker 2: 3:07

But I hit this point and it was after we went public where I felt like I wasn't really fulfilled in my work anymore. And the only thing I can really tie that to is the fact is, once you go public, there's a lot of red tape, there's a lot of procedures and processes. You don't really get the opportunity to kind of work like an entrepreneur in an organization, which that term has been coined entrepreneur and so I kind of always operate that way. I did a lot of entrepreneurial things inside of an organization, but once that change happened, I was no longer able to do that and there was one time that really like I think it was the day that made me realize it's time to move on. And what happened is that one of my divisions that was running saved a full 10% in our margin. Again, we're a multi-billion dollar organization. It was a lot, and so I reported directly to the CEO. So I walk into his office and I maybe wanted a little bit of praise, a pat on the back, right, it was that type of scenario. And so I walk in, I'm like, hey, did you see the numbers in this division? And he goes yeah, I saw them. And I could hear like the distress in his voice and I was like, hey, you know like we saved the 10%? He was like, yeah, I know, I saw it. I just got my hands in the air. I'm like, well, what's wrong? He's like man, like, report this stuff. If we're going to do it first, right.

Speaker 2: 4:27

And I remember walking back to my office, which actually wasn't far from his office, but it felt like a long walk, and that was the first time in my career that I felt like a burden. I felt like it was taking time to do something that doesn't actually take time, right. And I can remember that day being the day I was like it's time to move on and I decided to start some side hustles and then all. And I do want to actually mention that I did really well in that job until my last day, like through my last day, I left on really good terms, cause I'm the type of person that believes the way that you end one season is the way that you begin another. And so, for me, I didn't allow myself to get bitter toward the job, I didn't allow myself to start slacking and saying, well, I'm going to start doing something else anyway. I think a big part of overcoming ourselves is being willing to be humble and still giving 110% even when we're not fully happy. And so, for me, I knew that you know what I want to leave here, but I'm going to do my best until the last day I'm here. I'm going to leave on that right foot, make sure that I start my next thing on that right footing as well. And so I just want to mention that it's like a little side note there, but it's really important to mention.

Speaker 2: 5:25

Um, so I started a bunch of little side hustles and every Nicole, everything I did failed. Like I'm like, how am I good at business If I can't start building websites, if I can't do some coaching, if I'm not going to be any speaking opportunities, if I can't even finish a book that I want to write, right. You know, like there's all these different things. And you know like there's all these different things. And finally, I guess I got smart. I don't know if it really now it looks like it was smart.

Speaker 2: 5:46

I don't know if it was at that time, but I decided to start a podcast because I really liked that medium and I'd done some podcasting in the past, just like some stuff with my faith. I follow Jesus, so like I got into doing some stuff with that. It was really cool. So I knew I liked podcasting. I was like what, if I can do something where I can talk to people who have successfully left a nine to five job to become a full time entrepreneur, maybe I can actually learn how to make this work. And, nicole, two things happen. One, I learned kind of the system for making that happen. But two, I realized I wanted it to be in podcasting. I fell in love with the podcasting space and that kind of brings us to current day with what I'm doing.

Speaker 2: 6:21

What I ultimately decided was I want to find something that podcasters are struggling with. You mentioned PodFest earlier, which is one of the largest conferences for podcasters. It was PodFest 2020. I went to that conference, I spoke there's about 2,000 people there. When I got off of stage, I just asked everyone who would talk to me hey, what are you struggling with in podcasting? Because I learned you need to solve problems for people you care about. That's part of being an entrepreneur. And so I had a notebook and I wrote down their name, their email address and what they were struggling with.

Speaker 2: 6:45

And I heard a lot of things that day, but I heard 100 people say the same thing I'm having trouble finding the right guests for my show. I'm having trouble finding guests, period. I'm having trouble with the, the administrative process in between. Hey, I have a book, I want to be on a podcast, right, there was all these things. I was like that's the idea, that's what I want to do and that's what I went home to to accomplish.

Speaker 2: 7:04

And ultimately, I filled up three whiteboards. I was a corporate guy, so I had like whiteboards everywhere you know, and so I filled them all out and at the end of it, I just wrote like a dating app, but connecting podcasts, guests and hosts for interviews. I was like that's what we're going to build and, ultimately, that's that's what we started that day. That was March 10th 2020. And I brought on a partner, two partners actually one that was a developer, one that was in operations the operations person my wife. The business partner that is the developer he's a longtime friend and on June 15th 2020, we launched the early beta of PodMatch. And that's kind of the whole story of starting it to, ultimately, what is leading us to what we've created today.

Speaker 1: 7:42

That's such an amazing story. Thank you for sharing that with us. Um, there's so many lessons wrapped up in there. Um, it's okay to evolve, it's okay to be like you know what there's. This is not for me anymore and I want to do something else.

Speaker 1: 7:57

Um, but my favorite part of that story was there's so many, right, but what I was referring to specifically at the beginning was how you were intentional about finding a gap, how you went out into your market, right, you paid, I'm sure, for your ticket to Podfest, to be there, to be among the people, to be among your people, and you were like, hey, how can I help? And then you, and then you answer that question with with a solution, right, and like that is. That is that is what we coach our clients to do Be like who's your, who's your client, who do you want to help, what do they need, what do they need help with? And then, how can you, how can you provide the answer? And you did exactly that. Um, so I just want to encourage everyone that's listening that there's opportunities out there.

Speaker 1: 8:51

And it's dead on a dating app for podcasting, because I tell people I'm like it's kind of like tinder, but it's for podcast guests. You know like you match or you pass and then and then you you end up like doing your little podcast. So you know it's it's not, it's not weird, but it's like the good part of tinder, of like being able to match up with people, um yeah, and like being able to change. So, thank you, thank you. Like I, I don't have enough words to explain to you how amazing being on Podmatch has been. So can you tell us a little bit more about for anyone that wants to start their own podcast or that's looking for opportunities, can you tell us a little bit about how Podmatch helps them do that?

Speaker 2: 9:37

Yeah, for sure, and real quick, by the way, like I've never used a dating app. I've been married too long and happily married that whole time, which I'm thankful for. I keep on waiting for someone to actually meet in, like a love connection to happen on Podmatch and if there's ever a wedding. I don't even need an invite, I'm just going to show up and stand in the back. I just want to be there. I feel like that's like the. That's the one thing that hasn't happened yet, so anyway.

Speaker 1: 9:59

I want to clarify that I have used a dating app, but it wasn't Tinder, so it's really funny that we use those analogies. Yeah, I think that's kind of like the status or the standard Anyway yeah so podcasting itself.

Speaker 2: 10:13

Man, what a time to get into something like podcasting, and that's not like the question you have here, but I just want to share that like right now. I mean, podcasting is just becoming such an incredible thing. There was a I'm blanking on the person's name, but anyone can go to a search engine or even AI and look this up there was somebody who is really high up in the media space and basically said that podcasting is now what he considers to be driving the creator economy. Like it's people that are in podcasting, specifically hosts, but also people that are being guests. The host having like is being number one, the guest being number two. That's becoming like the driving the industry of the creator economy, like that entire economy. We're driving that forward. What a time to be in podcasting. And before I share, I'll share on both sides of the microphone, nicole, if that's what you'd like me to do, and we'll, is that all right, cool? And we'll, is that all right, cool? And we'll go do some back and forth. I mentioned earlier that Nicole reaching a hundred episodes, which is incredible, by the way. Again, like, less than 6% of people make it that far. That should tell you something about being a podcast host is that not many people make it in podcasting. As a matter of fact, less than 50% of people ever make it to even eight episodes. Like eight episodes. That's two months.

Speaker 2: 11:19

And the thing that I think a lot of us don't realize is that anything online takes time to gain traction. As a matter of fact, there's this idea that the internet wants to get to know you a little bit. It wants to see that you're serious, and consistency and longevity are two ways that the internet can understand. Is this person going to be legit? People are always like man. My podcast has been out for a month. Why is it not reaching more people? Well, search engines and AI don't want to show that people yet, because the data shows that you're probably going to quit and it's not to be rude or mean, just it's the reality of it. So it's like we don't want to show a bunch of stuff, people, a bunch of stuff that's not going to do well long-term, and so many podcasters are the same thing. When they reach 100 episodes is when things just started to change for them, and so I'm encouraging you.

Speaker 2: 12:06

If you're like hey, I want to, I want to be a podcaster, I think you have to make the commitment, first and foremost. And the best way to do that and, nicole, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this as well but I'll just share two things. One is to is to get your why right. Why do you want to start it? If you say I want to be, I want to be, I want to be like Nicole, you know, like I want to, I want to do really well in podcasting.

Speaker 2: 12:24

I don't know if that's a good enough reason. You need your own reason, right? Nicole has her own reason as well. I have my own reason. You have to start with why. Number two make a commitment. Say that I'm going to stick with this for that long, and I went public with that commitment so I wouldn't back away on it. But those two things, I think, are so, so important. We're getting started. Nicole, I just love to hear, as someone who made 200 episodes again being extremely rare what's your insight for someone saying I think I want to start a podcast.

Speaker 1: 12:57

Focus on a goal, like you said, like set yourself. My goal was 100 episodes because I was told you are not going to find your voice until your 100th episode. So the first 100 episode you give permission. You give yourself permission to be bad, to say things wrong, to show up and not look your best because nobody's watching anyway.

Speaker 2: 13:20

For you. That's not true For you. That's not true For a lot of us. For me, that was the case For. And that's not true for you. That's not true for a lot of us. For me, that was the case for you. That's not been true. You have people here.

Speaker 1: 13:27

No, no, but um, but when you're beginning, right, like you just tell yourself like well, you know, cause it's not a hundred thousand people watching, like it's going to be okay, right, but you get over those humps, but it's yeah. Like, focus on the hundred, focus on the number. Like don't look at how many people are listening, don't look at followers, like don't worry about all, don't worry about having a microphone, about having like a fancy system, like don't worry about all of that, get to a hundred, that's it, that's, that's the whole assignment.

Speaker 2: 13:55

I think that that's really, that is really great advice. And here's the thing really great advice. And here's the thing People actually love the I guess, the lack of perfection involved in it. I mean, we live in a world where there's so many AI options these days and so so many things that you can do that AI is technically can produce something perfect, right, like no ums, no pauses, no sneezes, none of that right.

Speaker 2: 14:17

But the reality is, humans connect with humans. And so if you're starting a podcast, you're like, oh well, I don't sound like Alex, but the reality is, humans connect with humans. And so if you're starting a podcast, you're like, oh well, I don't sound like Alex, or I don't sound like Nicole, or maybe you sound better than us, right, but you're like it's still not that standard. There isn't really a standard. People want to see you, they want to know you. Alex stutters from time to time. I fumble over my words. My sentences sometimes don't make sense. I have things are part of it, and Nicole's raising her hand as well, like preach right, like you too.

Speaker 2: 14:42

The thing is, though, people who like Alex, will be okay with that. People who, like you, listener today saying I think I want to start a podcast, they're going to be okay with that, because that's part of what makes you human. It makes you you give yourself permission to not be perfect, make the commitment, have a why that goes beyond you, that drives into actually serving and helping somebody. I'm telling you can make such a big difference. The last thing I'll share on this, real quick. Um, you had an episode that was really good. It was titled fear unlocked. It was. It came out. Um, it was April 15th 2025. And it was with Jennifer, and she said this.

Speaker 2: 15:15

I wrote down the quote.

Speaker 2: 15:15

Actually, she said the more gratitude you give, you give to the future that's to come, the easier you'll step into your desires, because you train your mind to actually see it, and so, for all of us, we can't just say I'm going to reach 100 episodes. You actually have to have gratitude, the fact I'm going to reach 100 episodes. I am so thankful for the people I've been able to meet. I'm thankful for Nicole and Alex, who were able to help encourage me through this podcast episode. Train your mind to see yourself there, because without that again just looking at the percentages of how many people don't make it in podcasting you've got to do this or you're not going to, you're not going to be able to make it. I really want to see you make it, because so few podcasters actually get that far. Podcasting is not saturated because people just don't stick with it. But I really want to see that change, not so it gets saturated, but so that your voice can get heard, because your voice is the only one that might actually serve somebody.

Speaker 1: 15:59

Yes, and to add to what I was saying, it's taken me four years to get to the hundred episodes. Okay. So like, if you don't get to a hundred episodes in two years, don't throw up your hands and be like, oh, I'm a failure. No, like, maybe you just had like seasons of your podcast and then you were on break and then you came back. So that's what we'll call it. But don't give up Just if you fall off the horse. Get back on and keep going. Like, even if it takes you a little while you broke your leg, you got to heal, but then get back up and keep going, right?

Speaker 2: 16:32

That's it I love that.

Speaker 2: 16:35

You know, if you're someone who's like, okay, how do I start this thing? If you you listen, I type in how to start a podcast, buzzsprout. Um, that that's the guide I used to learn and they update it every year so it's current, that that's how, literally, I learned how to do a podcast, so you can go to any search engine anywhere and just read through that. They do a very good job with like images, videos and stuff. So if you're like on the technical side which I know, nicole, like there's, this is not the place to get into that you can very easily figure out how to do it. And here's the thing it's not complicated. Actually, nicole, when you and I started podcasting, even going back just a few years, it was a lot more complicated to actually do it.

Speaker 1: 17:04

It's not anymore.

Speaker 2: 17:05

It's been made very easy because people like us, who complained to the powers at hand, saying, listen, you all got to fix this thing, so it's it's fairly straightforward. So again, just how to start a podcast buzzsprout into any search engine. You can find the technical side of it and get started.

Speaker 1: 17:20

Yes, I use Buzzsprout too, and people don't believe me when I tell them like literally all I do is upload the episode. The titles are done, the show notes get done, the transcript gets done, I have a blog post. I usually don't use the blog post, I write my own, but I have all the assets, even social media posts, and they're like wait, wait, wait, but I thought it was more complicated. I'm like I know, but that's why you know, come check out my host, and you guys know that all the links will be available down, um, in the show notes. So, uh, you mentioned gratitude. What part, um, what part does gratitude play in this journey of yours, alex? Like, can you talk to me a little bit more about that?

Speaker 2: 18:00

yeah, uh, for for me, um, gratitude is just such a huge part. I mean, like there's no reason I should be doing what I'm doing. If I'm just and I'm not trying to sell myself short I just I was. I came from corporate Like I didn't. I didn't know anything about software, I didn't know anything about running my own business, like the reality is, I wanted to, but like I didn't know any of this stuff, and even the timing in which we launched, like I think it's it's someone looking out for me, right, and I'm so grateful for those things.

Speaker 2: 18:34

I refuse to let myself believe that this is an achievement of Alex's alone, like I don't believe in self-made entrepreneurs, self-made millionaires, self-made any of those things. I believe it's a community, it's a group of people, and so, for me, the way I express gratitude is by remembering all the people around me and thanking them every chance I get. We only did well because the first person to join told someone it was cool. I am so thankful for that person saying that Because, again, I'm posting out podcasting for the first time ever in 2020, when all my prior stuff was about airplanes. The algorithm is probably like what is wrong with this guy? It doesn't get shown to people automatically, Like someone's got to be willing to come alongside it.

Speaker 2: 19:13

So from day one, I've just remembered that gratitude is a huge part of it. And so, for me personally, every morning I write it down Like I'm a, I like checklist and stuff like that. I write it down to like express gratitude for three things every morning and at night, same thing. What are the three things today I'm thankful for, I'm grateful for and to me, just remembering that and very practically just being like you know what, today I'm thankful that I get to do what I get to do, like I love every minute of what I'm doing. I have some tough moments, of course, but I love this. It's so fun. I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for this interaction that I get to have with you today, nicole, and with your listeners. This is a gift to get to be here, to get to talk about this.

Speaker 2: 19:45

So to me, like, gratitude is a central point of what I do, and I find that actually is a great way to overcome yourself, like it really is, because we, when we get prideful, when we get arrogant, and we're thankful for us, because it's us, us, us and we, we did this right that you're, you're slipping into yourself more and more. The way you overcome yourself is by remembering it's not only you, it's other people, it takes a tribe, it takes a community and for me, I can't express enough how grateful I am for that and that's why I love going to like the conferences and stuff like that and I don't go to sell anything. I don't like set up like a booth with like sign up now, like I don't do any of that, it's just straight up. I just want to hug everyone who I've had the opportunity to your question. But it's so. It's so central to what I believe into the way I run things.

Speaker 1: 20:32

And it's true, because everyone wanted a piece of Alex. I couldn't get close enough to be like, hey, alex, let's talk Um. But thankfully he had set up pod match, um, so yeah. So I know that that's definitely a hundred percent how you are in the conferences and stuff. So I know we touched on the hosting side of PodMatch. Do you want to give a few tips for my fellow authors, my fellow coaches, who might be interested in being a guest on different podcasts?

Speaker 2: 21:00

Absolutely, and I'm actually going to go back on something with the host. If you're like I think I want to start a podcast, my advice is first try being a guest. Just be a guest one time. If you're like I hate this, it's the worst. Trust me, you don't want to be a podcast host. If you're like I love it, you get you kind of get like the bug, like the itch for it, then yes, by all means, get out there, do your own show, find your own niche, your own vertical.

Speaker 2: 21:19

But the podcast guesting side of things is so much fun, I mean it's just great, is great. You get to show up like today, and I get to add a lot of value and hopefully leave a lasting impact. And then I get to, I get to leave and I get to help Nicole promote it and get out to my audience. Some of you were like Alex, how'd you decide to start pod match? I can now just send them to this episode. Not that I'm looking to avoid conversation, but if a hundred people are asking him one day, it's very easy for me to say listen to the questions Nicole asked me and they kind of get the same great interaction and I think that that's the beauty of podcast guesting is it gives you the opportunity to build this know, like and trust with people that you otherwise might never get to meet, and so I find it to be very, very powerful, and that, to me, is kind of the central point of it. It's developing that know, like and trust, and it's also impacting lives in a really positive way.

Speaker 2: 22:03

If you're like, oh, I want to be a podcast guest, listen, I'm gonna say the same thing. Step one have a really powerful why, like, what's your reason? If you're an author, it shouldn't be just to sell your books. It should be to go out there and really serve somebody well, and the byproduct is they might buy your book. Right, it's get out there and really help somebody like. I have this knowledge, I wrote this book on it. I want to get this out there, whether they buy the book or not, I want to serve somebody with what I've learned, with what I know. Being able to do that, I think, is so important.

Speaker 2: 22:28

And the next thing I'll mention is doing. Doing the research is really important. Like, example, today the only podcast I listen to today, and listen to a bunch of episodes, is Nicole's podcast. I listen to overcome yourself today intentionally, because I'm like, I'm going to be there.

Speaker 2: 22:41

I want to show up in the right way, like Nicole my that you say is, but if she refers to herself as Nikki, I want to call her Nikki, which most people name Nicole. Like, please don't call me that. So, anyway, if you're referring yourself as that, I want to know that. I want to show up, I want to hear that and I want to use the same lingo that you use on your show. I also want to know that, like hey, there's no hard pitch in the show, right, there's no opportunity for me to be a and showing up in a way that really serves them well. To me, those two things having that why and showing up prepared makes a huge difference as a podcast guest, because most hosts have had the guest that you can tell they never listened, they don't know anything about the show. They're reading your name off the bottom corner of the screen. Thankfully it's there and that's it right, and we want to make sure that we show up different than that, because that shows to a listener.

Speaker 1: 23:29

Absolutely, and talk to me about how they can use Podmatch to find amazing hosts like me.

Speaker 2: 23:36

Yeah, sure, yeah, whichever side of the microphone you're on. The idea behind Podmatch once again, I know I already shared it is just to remove the friction involved between. It puts the right people together faster and you're not forced to have anyone on the show. There's a pass button. For a reason we always say so. It's just a matter of finding people quicker. But yeah, podmatchcom forward slash free is where I always tell people to go. Whether you're a podcast host, guest or aspiring guest or host will give you some quick wins that you can read in less than five minutes and it doesn't ask for your email address or anything like that. And that's podmatchcom slash free. It's just to help you really get started or, if you're already getting started, to really take things that next level. So, yeah, I encourage people to check that out.

Speaker 1: 24:12

Awesome. Thank you so much, Alex. I will make sure that I include all the links that he mentioned, like I said before, in the show notes and I'll include my affiliate link down there if you guys want to join Podmatch, if you guys want to check it out.

Speaker 2: 24:24

Please use that everybody. I don't mean to cut you off, but please use that affiliate link. That way I can thank Nicole. I love to thank again, gratitude being central, I can know that she's helping. So, yes, please, if you are going to check out Podmatch, please use Nicole's affiliate link. Sorry to cut you off.

Speaker 1: 24:37

No, no, not at all, but do definitely check out the free resources that Alex mentioned, and I'll below Awesome, all right. So now that we know how we can get on Podmatch, you've given us the gift. Thank you so much for that, alex. How can the listeners follow you on social media?

Speaker 2: 24:54

Yeah, most of my. Actually, that free page will have my links and stuff like that. So anything you dive into, you're going to find me pretty easily. But I'm just Alex Sanfilippo Good luck trying to spell it. That's why I always send people to Podmatch instead of finding me. But I'm active on most social platforms. If you see me posting there and you reach out, it's me. I don't have any virtual assistants and I don't use AI to help me with frontline communication. I fully believe in being the one having conversations with people. It's the part of what I do that I love. So if you reach out, wherever you reach out, you're going to get me and I look forward to having a conversation.

Speaker 1: 25:24

Awesome, all right, and now, before we sign off, final tip what's that big tip that you give your clients that just like they're like this is this is worth my weight in gold.

Speaker 2: 25:35

Yeah, do what you're doing longer than you think you need to do it. A big part of overcoming ourselves is this idea of self-discipline, of persistence, of persevering, and that's really what refines us as humans, that's really what makes us stand out, is being willing to do things longer than we feel comfortable doing them when we know that's actually serving us. So that's like.

Speaker 2: 25:57

My last tip is whether it's podcasting, whether it's writing a book, stick with it longer than you think that you're capable of right, and just keep on going, because that really builds this internal thing that helps you get out of your own way. It teaches your body to understand that like, hey, your feeling is not in charge. What we're going after, what our head wants, that's what we're going for. And so I always just tell people keep on going on, press on, don't give up, don't stop. Greatness is always just a few steps away, right, and we're always getting closer and closer to that and we might not even realize that we might already be living in it many times. So just learn to enjoy the process as well.

Speaker 1: 26:30

I love that. That reminds me of what I call making trust deposits, when you say you're going to do little things and then you do them and then you can give yourself credit and you build up your confidence. You build up your trust in yourself and you build up momentum. So I love that so much. Thank you for sharing, alex, and thank you for being here for the 100th episode. I was so excited.

Speaker 2: 26:51

Congratulations again. Seriously incredible achievement. I can't wait for the next 100 episodes as well.

Speaker 1: 26:57

Thanks me too, so hopefully they'll be bigger, better and faster for the next 100. So thanks again, Alex. This has been absolutely amazing. Don't forget to check out the free gift from him and we will catch you guys next time on the next episode of overcome yourself, the podcast. Bye.