Behind The Mic: Become Your Own Superhero with Laban Ditchburn

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Hey, amplify your family. Michelle Abraham, your host here today with a behind the mic interview. You know what today guys, I've got a special treat for you. I've got a Laban Ditchburn with me today. He is the world's best courage coach, and the host of Become Your Own superhero. Hey, Laban, how you doing?

Michelle Abraham Lovely to see you face as always thank you for having me.

Well, I am so glad. And for those of you guys are only on audio, you have to see Les with amazing outfit. He is coming to us all the way from Mexico with no shirt on, but a nice white blazer and a purple handkerchief in in it. So you're dressed for the occasion. I love it. And I can guarantee you probably just have shorts on underneath, right?

It's exactly what's going on. Yeah, I must correct you. I must correct you add an associate. It's actually a light pink coat. So maybe you can see that through a very important distinction.

It is very important now that I know that it's light pink, I can sort of see the light pink. Yes. Awesome. Well, oh my gosh, tell us. I want to share your story. But I am never going to do it justice. So I would love for you to kind of like, take us on your podcasting journey. What the heck made you start a podcast? And like why, but guys, let me tell you live his podcast is one of those anomalies. It's a podcast that has gotten some great traction with it. You've inspired us so many humongous names to come onto your podcast right from like day one. And so I want to dive into that part of that is in this conversation. But first of all, let's just hear like what inspired you to start a podcast in the first place.

Wow, that's so cool. And it's interesting to see how you were in that space where everyone was hugging everyone's speaking engagements were being canceled and just like the fear and like hanging over that whole industry, yet you dove into the seat, very similar industry of like podcasting where you are speaking on your own show, and you've made it successful. Successful go at it. And so, I'd love to share, we'd love for you to share with us like, what is it about reaching out to people that I know you're the world's of courage best courage coach, and, you know, it's one of those things, I think a lot of people don't have the courage to reach out to people that have had a name or that you maybe admire and feel like you're out of reach. But having a podcast gives you that opportunity to reach out to some of those people. Is there anything that you've done or said in those conversations or reaching out? Or is it really just having the courage to pick up the phone and or pick up or third an email and reach out?

Yeah, I think you hit the nail right there like to that you're worthy of having conversations of that level, like, and I love how I've heard you say this before how you've tried treated everyone, as as, as an equal to like, you don't see them as any better than you or, you know, and I think that's where it puts people in some sort of weird state where they feel like, you know, teammates, or reach out because they're, you know, that self worth piece a little bit, too. I love the way you approach things with how can I add value to this person's life? So give us an example of a podcast interview that you've had where, you know, showed up? There was, here's your podcast guest Dee, and and, you know, they're going to give you some amazing content. What are some things that you've done to help you know, add value to someone else's life? Just because I know I have I know I've heard the stories may seem like a weird question. I know some of your answers.

Yeah, so great. Such a great insight. Now, I'm curious about your first question, though, what what was what was the what was the thought behind that first question? Was it just out of out of out of curiosity for genuinely out of curiosity for if it were his answer, or was that kind of a plan thing for like, shock value?

Do you know what I I think there's probably a little from Column A little from Column B, and maybe column C that I don't know about, you know, sounds like we're joking about it. But it's a real challenge that my wife and I are looking to get to the bottom of and because I've been able to ask that question of other people. You know, I asked the Jana Van Zandt, as well, who's Oprah Winfrey's coach? And she introduced us to some faith healers and some people, some spirit guides and, and so we've been I've done this with maybe half a dozen people since that, right. And I'm getting outcomes that would don't exist to regular people. For free. Right now, this has cost anything. And I don't know how else I can describe how beautiful that is. It's an unintended, beautiful byproduct of doing a podcast, right?

Yeah. And life changing too. Right. Like I mean, some some of those connections that you've made now from the podcasts have gone on and you've done business things with other people or you have an event coming up actually in September. Do you want to talk about that for a second?

Amazing. And you and Anna also got to spend some time in the US going and traveling and and it was really cool to hear that you stayed at a lot of people's places, or met up with people who you had interviewed on your podcast as well.

We stayed for two out of the three months, we're in the US, former podcast guest or people that have come through podcasts, multimillion dollar mansions on like Austin, like the most extraordinary stuff. And again, like it didn't cost anything, it's, and we've been able to pump a whole heap of value and some of those people's lives as well.

I mean, I just love that the way the magic and the connections happen for you through your podcast. And so what do you think has really, really helped transpire all those connections of staying connected beyond the podcast, and I know that's something that people talk about a lot, where it's like a podcast episode sometimes can feel transactional to people and it's there, you know, it's really should be the beginning of a relationship, and you've done a great job of continuing those relationships on any advice for our listeners that are maybe struggling with that.

Absolutely, yeah, that's a really great explanation of that. And I hear it's interesting how much that law of reciprocity comes into play by leading with just being able to give and the supporting, and doing it so genuinely as you do, I think that's a really, I do think that's an innate quality and so on, or this evening, that's a skill that's learned.

Love it. That's a great reminder. I remember being so caught up on like what the next questions gonna be in interviews when my early on podcasting days that you missed it, you missed the good stuff, because you're so focused on what's coming next. Doesn't make for a good listen for your audience. Yeah. So even before we let you go any, any words of advice for our podcasters or thinking about starting out a podcast or thinking about putting the time into creating one?

Yeah, don't do it. It honestly is one of the greatest things I've ever done. It's, it gave me a platform where there was none. It gave me credibility where there was none. It gave me a voice where there was no voice and And it's given me a skill set that has become incredibly valuable. I've become not just a podcaster, but a publicist, a PR agent, a super connector, you know, the ultimate networker, and you can create a wonderful lifestyle for yourself off the back of doing this, and stick at it. Get 100 episodes in year before you decide whether you want to stop

100 episodes fresh or the amount of personal development that happens in those first 100 episodes is great, too. Awesome. Well, thanks so much, David, for being with us. Any last words of where we can reach out to you connect with you find out more about what traps you.

Look, I definitely want to talk to you. Yeah, I'm the world's best carriage coach. And I teach people how to take bold, massive and strategically courageous action to facilitate their own miraculous outcomes. And I do that through being a podcast host, a speaker, a coach, and I've got a mastermind and I run events, right and all of that can be found through the website, leaving ditchburn.com The upgrade your life tour is Tickets are available now upgrade your life to a.com We've got some really great early bird tickets available to an amazing lineup. And yeah, love to hear love to hear from you and love to engage with my audience and happy to share any, any other nodes

that I keep. above anything else. I will be there at the upgrade your life tour, you can hear that or come and lead us and come and join us there. We will we will. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Well, David, thank you so much for being on with us today. We'll bring you back lots more times because there's lots more to uncover about being the world's best courage coach that I think our podcast listeners need to hear. So until next time, amplify your family go out there, go check out Labor's podcast, go grab a ticket to the upgrade your love tour. And we will see you in Florida in September then.