As a creator myself when I first started my podcast one of my key worries was ‘what if no one listens’ and I guess that in a way translates to what if no one supports me, but one thing I have recently learnt is that you don’t need an audience. I came to this realisation when I was at church and I had this light bulb moment and what I learnt and understood in that moment was that Jesus had a purpose and an important message to deliver but he never once worried about who was listening to him or who believed in him, he was more focused on his purpose and his actual message than worrying about who was listening to him and just understanding that it was almost like a wake up call for me, I think at one point I became so focused on the numbers, on the listeners on the audience more than my message and purpose and its easy to get caught up in all of that, the audience became more important than the purpose and I think when you get to that place it can become so easy to compromise your purpose or message because you become more interested in satisfying your audience and the priority becomes generating those numbers and with that intentions can become blurred because it becomes a question of whether you truly believe in the content your putting out and can truly stand by it or if its just to simply please those listening and I think that’s where a lot of people sometimes find themselves getting lost and their purpose becomes compromised for an audience.

Integrity is so important especially when you're pursuing your dreams and I guess one of the key questions I had to ask myself is what am I willing to compromise to see results? I feel like a lot of us are perhaps naive to that question and would respond with I wouldn’t compromise anything but its not as black and white as it seems, I feel like when your audience is your motivation you can compromise absolutely anything because what becomes more important is meeting their needs rather than fulfilling your purpose.

Instant gratification, instant results, the validation of seeing those numbers rising, the satisfaction of knowing that im physically seeing results is not worth compromising something that I believe in, and that’s what matters nobody has to believe in your dreams and goals but you, you’re accountable for the decisions you make and you can go ahead and please the world but you will lose yourself in it, it doesn’t matter who’s listening, who’s following, who’s supporting you, who believes in you as long as you believe in your message and the purpose of your work things will naturally fall into place, you will never reach your purpose constantly trying to prove something to the next person, go back to that place where it was just you and your dream, back to that place where you found passion in your purpose, back to that place with no distractions, none of this extra stuff that we are constantly chasing and trying to attain, strip your goals and dreams back to its basics and remember the exact moment where you found your why, where you found that thing that makes you feel alive, fulfilled, complete and ignites passion in your life and hold onto that. I promise you, you don’t need an audience to be great, your purpose is not dependent on people, it depends on you but whatever you chose to do just remember you have to answer for the decisions you make not the next person

Discomfort is now but greatness is forever.

Gabriele Gvozdaite - DMCB

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Email: gabrielegvozdaite@dmcb.uk