Leo Skeppi

I didn't feel like I could.

I feel like I was told by life what was good or bad about me.

I don't know where the fuck that comes from.

But the weird, weird, weird thing is...

When I first started my podcast, I did like 60 something episodes over a year doing it before it ever got any traction, before it ever got like people listening and tuning in in numbers that people would look at and be like, okay, it's successful.

But I was confident in my episodes.

Every single week when I put out an episode, I was like, yes, this is a good episode.

I could feel good about it.

I was like, okay.

This will be appreciated.

And that's the one thing, it's like the value that I saw in myself and what I was doing and the things that I was sharing, that is what carried me to keep going.

Because I didn't have the external validation of, oh, there's followers, there's people watching all this shit.

It's like, that wasn't there.

I actually could see and feel the value in what I was doing.

And that's what carried me to keep going.

And then it was just a matter of time before...

the views caught up.

But in my head, I was so convicted in myself and what I was sharing that I was like, okay, the internet's eventually going to appreciate what I'm sharing and what I'm doing.

They're eventually going to appreciate it.

And then I got to a point, I was like, it's probably going to be after I'm dead.