811 - Showing Up Even When I’m Not Feeling It

811 - Showing Up Even When I’m Not Feeling It

From The Cliff Ravenscraft Show by Cliff Ravenscraft

March 2, 2026 · 59 min

About this episode

Cliff Ravenscraft discusses the value of showing up to create content even when feeling uninspired, reflecting on personal experiences and recent readings.

This episode did not start smoothly. In fact, this was the fifth time I hit record. No opening jingle. No outline. No clear sense of where I was going. Just a quiet Sunday afternoon and a question I’ve wrestled with many times over the last twenty years. Is there value in showing up when you don’t feel like you have something new, polished, or particularly compelling to say? I talk candidly about my resistance to creating content just to meet a deadline, and why that framing has never sat well with me. I explore the difference between creating content for the sake of output and showing up for a community that has chosen to walk alongside me over time. Along the way, I share some thoughts from my recent reading, including What’s Your Dream by Simon Squibb and Company of One by Paul Jarvis, and how they’ve stirred deeper questions for me about purpose, scale, and what it really means to build a meaningful life and business. I also take you behind the scenes of something that’s been absorbing a lot of my attention lately. The software I’m building to rethink how we discover, filter, and engage with podcast content. What started as a personal solution to podcast overload has become a…

People in this episode

Host: Cliff Ravenscraft

Topics covered

  • content creation
  • community engagement
  • personal development
  • purpose
  • podcast software

Keywords

  • content creation
  • community
  • purpose
  • podcast
  • self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: What’s Your Dream, Company of One

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