Base hits is a journal about the windy and bumpy road experienced by an entrepreneur. Garth Haslem has started a clothing business, a tanning salon, a home inspection business, a structural inspection business, a diving inspection business, and you&#39;d think it would get easier. If that&#39;s true, it&#39;s only because he&#39;s more confident now. .Garth has three podcasts. The first is The HomeMedic, where he stores 30 years&#39; knowledge as a home inspector. The second is Manalizing. This is a very vulnerable podcast about men and our ability (or inabilty) to navigate life. The third is this one: the diary about what he does every day to get to where his dreams happen. This is about the simple things (the base hits) he&#39;s making every day to shape his future. Garth&#39;s goals are to build enough of an income to never have to worry about money again. Then he can focus on doing what&#39;s most important. Base Hits is a journal of how that pathway looks for him.

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The end of an huge task is now complete and new tasks are ahead - first base is covered, we see second base, and as of today, third base is directly ahead. We&#39;re trying to cover them both at the same time. And with that, home base is in our mind. The 90th report of a 90 day challenge is perfectly timed, and I&#39;m proud to say we&#39;re on track. We know where we have been, and we know where we&#39;re going, and we have people with us to carry the ball when I fumble or lose my way. All of this? It&#39;s awesome. .

Base Hits 90 The Alpha group begins

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It feels like it&#39;s been a long road, but I guess it&#39;s only been 90 days - and a few off for good behavior. Base Hits phase 1 is almost complete, and the new phase is now upon me. It&#39;s filled with doubts, demons and a bit of despair. Thankfully, it&#39;s also got some people who are with me. And with them, I can do this. I can&#39;t say how grateful I am. Here&#39;s the plan for me taking manalizing to second base.

Base Hits 89 First base covered

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It&#39;s been a long time coming, but now I&#39;ve built a library of about 20 interviews, and have had some (about 5) of them edited, and have pulled the highlights, and have discovered the right format (MP4) to put them in, and have learned how to add a back bumper (you can&#39;t do it within SM, but I found a way), and have navigated my way through descriptions, hash tags and @ directs. And have added &#34;to listen to the podcast please follow the link in my bio&#34;, and have asked my tech guru to add that. Other than that&#39;s it&#39;s been so easy! But the day is here, and the first posts are done. Yah freaking hoo!

Base Hits 88 We're on SM!

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Big deal stuff. I had a big day earning money yesterday, but that&#39;s never an excuse for not moving forward with manalizing. I&#39;m so pushed to move that forward - I can&#39;t even say. But things still moved forward. I had a conversation about trademarking Manalizing, and I&#39;m having the Manalizing logo designed presently, and we now have the first and second manalizing groups created on Kajabi. Oh - and we have a pretty good idea of who&#39;s in that first one. Why is the second important? Because now I know how to create them and modify them. Even though it&#39;s much like making a copy, I&#39;m still able to do it - and that&#39;s a step forward.

Big steps for moving manalizing forward: trademarks and the first communities. Wahoo!

Base Hits 87 trademarks and communities

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I&#39;ve cleared my schedule so I can get back on top of manalizing editing and highlights and social media and boosting and building an audience so I can save the world, but it&#39;s not happening fast enough. I have 1000 interviews that need me to do edits and highlights on. To say I&#39;m being pushed to get that done is an understatement.

when push comes to shove, welcome to my world

Base Hits 86 Pushed and shoved

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My mind was pretty much blown when I realized while filling out a tiktok form that manalizing needed to be a legal entity, and it probably needs to be either a non profit or not for profit. Blam! Didn&#39;t see that one coming. Now I&#39;ve got work to do that has nothing to do with microphones or sound stuff

Base Hits 85 Non profit or not for profit?

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Learning how to post on instagram ain&#39;t easy. I&#39;ve fought with it and I&#39;m learning that it needs to be me. My voice thoughout. While it would be nicer if I could assign that out, that wouldn&#39;t be my voice, and that can&#39;t happen.

Base Hits 84 Better a poster than impostor

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Yay! My first real reel is now real on Instagram. That was a painful learning curve

Base Hits 83 Better a poster than impostor

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When you&#39;re trying to do as many at-bats as possible, sometimes you find that there are bigger results, and sometimes they&#39;re smaller. This report contains a very small hit - but a hit nonetheless. The other hit is a good sized one. Here&#39;s the story

keeping organized where I can

Base Hits 83 Batteries and confidence

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Sometimes not knowing everything about a subject teaches you the hard way to know what you must. Here&#39;s what I learned about using my RE27 mic - and some other stuff

Sometimes you have to learn stuff the hard way

Base Hits 82 Mic tactics

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You&#39;d think posting on social media would be easy breezy right? Apparently only if you&#39;re a millenial. Instagram is hard! But I learned it. And other stuff.

Base Hits 81 Insta guru

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If it&#39;s true that communities of men will greatly solve the answer to how men communicate and offload their issues, then how do we set up the communities? What characteristics should they have? How is this information communicated? Here&#39;s what I learned over the weekend

Organizing success in helping men find their way out

Base Hits 80 Community characteristics

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It&#39;s fun for me to solve new challenges. Not the usual home stuff, and not even singing or recording well stuff. This last gig was about how to record four different people when my pc only allows two inputs. I&#39;ve got all this sound nerd equipment, and I&#39;m using it. I&#39;ve found that mixer boards are too much of a hassle and a crappy one adds fuzz. So my audio input device rules. But it doesn&#39;t rule alone. Here&#39;s my report.

Base Hits 79 Four mics

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You want to start a podcast you say? Great! It&#39;s more than just becoming a sound tech, more than learning to talk to a microphone. More than finding guests and learning to interview them well. More than finding out what equipment you need and getting it. It&#39;s also about promoting your stuff. Social media? Great! Which one and why? Men? Women? What age? Instagram you say? Great! Do you know how to do a reel? Do you know how to do captions? Why won&#39;t your phone do them and somebody else can? Welcome to my world.

Fail till you figure it out

Base Hits 78 Instagram kindergartner

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It&#39;s coming hard and fast. What used to be difficult (getting guys to interview) is only getting easier. It seemed before that getting guys to come on would be the roadblock. Who would come on and tell the world what they hadn&#39;t told anyone? Well, it turns out it&#39;s easier than expected. People want to tell their story. I&#39;m glad that&#39;s the case and hopefully we&#39;ll help some people.

It's coming hard and fast

Base Hits 77 Organizationizing hard & fast

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Yesterday I did a manalizing interview with Tegun (I&#39;m sure I spelled that wrong) and the audio settings were all kinds of wrong. Live by the audio processor, die by the audio processor. So I fooled with some knobs and arrived at this point. As you&#39;ll hear, it doesn&#39;t sound like I fixed it. Here&#39;s my report anyway.

When good tech goes evil

Base Hits 76 Audio issues

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When you&#39;re planning out your social media marketing strategies, then to me that means you&#39;re almost there. You can now rest assured that it&#39;s about to be real. It&#39;s almost &#34;out there&#34;, and the waiting and planning and waiting and hoping is finally going to result in something. Yeah - I&#39;m there right now. Here&#39;s that report.

Bringing manalizing to light: saving lives and marriages

Base Hits 75 instagram marketing

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I gathered a great deal of information and inspiration while talking to Eddie yesterday - I love how his brain works and how he recognizes and relies on inspiration. He answered my most recent roadblock question without even looking like it was straining his brain. He&#39;s a great man. Here&#39;s what I learned while talking with him

Base Hits 74 Flexible group characteristics

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Few things feel better than seeing the train that you&#39;ve been pushing for years begin to move. It feels like the train budged. Moving forward into getting things published and marketed has been at least a 7 year project (if you include the HomeMedic stuff), and I&#39;ve been waiting for what seems like forever. Today&#39;s base hits feel like I&#39;m getting there. That&#39;s cause for some kind of super celebration! Wah freaking hoo!

Moving the train forward

Base Hits 73 It's moving!

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Today I had a big win. I interviewed Aaron Walker. This is a very cool dude with a large following. A very successful man, and a significant man by all standards. I did it on Zoom - another first. Because of our interview, I gained access to the gold mine of all mines - access to an unlimited supply of men. Super awesome, right? Absolutely. Yet I still feel frustrated because the podcast isn&#39;t being marketed. It&#39;s not out there. It&#39;s stacking up and getting dusty in a corner somewhere. I talk about all of this in this daily report.

A day where I win big and keep losing - all at the same time

Base Hits 72 Big wins & big frustrations

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Base hits is a journal about the windy and bumpy road experienced by an entrepreneur. Garth Haslem has started a clothing business, a tanning salon, a home inspection business, a structural inspection business, a diving inspection business, and you'd think it would get easier. If that's true, it's only because he's more confident now. .

Garth has three podcasts. The first is The HomeMedic, where he stores 30 years' knowledge as a home inspector. The second is Manalizing. This is a very vulnerable podcast about men and our ability (or inabilty) to navigate life. The third is this one: the diary about what he does every day to get to where his dreams happen. This is about the simple things (the base hits) he's making every day to shape his future.

Garth's goals are to build enough of an income to never have to worry about money again. Then he can focus on doing what's most important. Base Hits is a journal of how that pathway looks for him.