EverydaySpy Podcast - Spying on Season 5

Episode Date: December 10, 2020

It's been an exciting and fun 4 seasons of growth! And I'm super pumped to give you a peak into what I am working on for season 5. If you've been thinking about jump-starting your plans for 2021, then you are in the right place. This is a community that serves you... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage. I am absolutely blown away when I look at how far we have come together. So here we are spying on season five, wrapping up season four, and we have over 250,000 downloads of this podcast already complete. We have more than 2,000 people who tune in to learn these espionage. lessons weekly, and we're at the end of our second year. Out of 850,000 podcasts that are out there right now, we are in the top 15%. I don't know about you. I had no idea what to expect when I started this podcast, and I can promise you I did not expect to be in the top 15%. So here we are at the end of 2020, we spent 2020 working and traveling through the Middle East. I was able to record.

interviews with live, current, undercover intel officers and share that with you, we were able to give you skills that helped you get through the pandemic and some of the election madness of this year. And to celebrate these last two years, I am really excited to dig into espionage concepts in season five that you can use to dominate 2021 personally and professionally right from the start. Here are some of the topics I want to talk about in season five. I want to talk about tradecraft and how you can use tradecraft in everyday life. I'm going to dig into the benefits of failure. I'm going to talk about constructive versus destructive efforts.

I'm going to talk about prioritization. I want to teach you about efficiency and discipline and the order of execution. I want to talk about something called task saturation. I want to teach you about you stress. I want to teach you about the advantages of physical activity for creative problem solving. I have a whole list that I am super excited to jump into. in season five. But that's season five. And today we're just spying on season five with a really simple bonus episode. And this bonus episode is one that I think is really important to setting the stage

for what will make 2021 a success. And I want to talk about community, because I feel like people misunderstand community. People think that community is a requirement, like a duty or some kind of obligation. And they believe that because that's how our culture has set community up. Just think about what you hear. You hear about community service. You hear about community watches, community projects. The message that you get is very clear. You serve the community, but the community doesn't have to serve you. It's no surprise that we've seen communities split and divide so much in the past 50 years, breaking themselves, along lines, lines according to race or age, sexual orientation, religion, even income bracket.

When I was a teenager, growing up in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, my parents moved us into this big subdivision that had a neighborhood pig roast every year. I mean, this was the model of suburban America at the time. Not too rural, not too big city. Everyone had a half-acre lot and a two-story home that was basically cut from the same half-dozen designs. It doesn't take you long driving around any part of America before you start to see these subdivisions. The annual pig roast was the thing in our neighborhood. It was the one thing that the whole neighborhood planned for

and talked about and got excited about all year long. There was a pig roast committee. There's a pig roast schedule of events. There were promotional flyers. Everything you could imagine for us. business or for some sort of concert basically went into this community pig roast. It always had great food, loud music, tons of people coming and going. And it was absolutely expected that everyone in the neighborhood would participate. And that expectation is exactly what killed the event over time.

Don't get me wrong. It's great to participate in groups. that share your passions or your interests or your values, but it's completely different when you are obligated to put time, effort, and money into something just because you belong to the group. And it's expected of you. Anyone who has been part of a networking group, a toastmasters club, a business referral chapter, or even a public school chapter knows that pressure, knows that expectation that I am talking about. I watched my parents go from excitement the first year of the pig roast to boredom by year four and outright contempt by year six. My sisters went from being excited to eat outside and light sparklers to ditching the party to be with friends while mom and dad were distracted.

And our family wasn't the only family that went from present to absent as the years went by. Now, in Intel circles, elite operators also have communities, but our communities are very different from those that I see promoted in social media, on the boards of community centers, and by pushy social clubs. We see community as a way to serve each individual inside the group, to serve them in times of need, or times of growth, or times of celebration. Service is the difference between a community that lives and one that dies. If individuals serve the group, it dies.

But if the group serves the individual, it thrives. Because when you or I need help from the group, we get it. When we have questions, we get answers. And when we want to celebrate, we have a group of people who understand why that celebration matters. No mandates, no obligations, no expectations. That's what makes a community powerful. And a powerful community makes the people in that community stronger. Just look at what you and I have done together in the last two years. With a quarter of a million downloads and thousands of brothers and sisters sharing espionage lessons like this all around the world, we have created our own spy.

tribe, a community that serves each individual, a community that serves you, where you are, when you need it. That's why the spy tribe is growing, even while countless other communities are withering away. Your time and your energy matters. They are limited resources that you will never get back. Invest them in a community that serves you, that serves your family. That serves your family, that serves your faith, that serves your business. And if a community makes you feel more obligated than supported, that is not a community worth your time and your energy. It's time to ditch the pig roast and find a different party. I'm proud to be part of the Spy Tribe, and I'm happy to be serving those in my community with knowledge, with challenges, with games,

and with gifts, like my New Year's gift to you at Everydayspy.com forward slash gear. Everydayspy.com forward slash g-e-a-r. Community fails when it's an obligation, but it grows when it serves. And that is everyday espionage. See you in season five. Everyday espionage is dedicated to one thing,

educating everyday people. I know that not everyone will listen, but those who listen will learn. If you learned something new today, click subscribe, review, and share the podcast with a friend. Find me on social media at EverydaySpy or on my website, everydayspy.com. If you are up for a special challenge,

visit Everydayspy.com forward slash operations and join me for an authentic spy training mission. And above all else, remember that knowledge is freedom.