Philosophy in Action: NoodleFood : Endorsement

On Tuesday, I received two fabulous emails from fans of Philosophy in Action Radio. Here’s the first:

I have been listening to all your podcasts for the past year now, and I am almost current. I don’t have much I can do in the way of contributions, but I wanted to at least take a minute and tell you that I am sincerely grateful for the work you have done. You’ve cleared up a lot of things for me, and the sense of life that you and Greg portray is inspiring. I hope to one day be able to re-pay you for all you do for me.

Here’s the second, which came with a generous tip:

Dear Diana, Thanks for the great work you are doing! My wife and I are big fans. I greatly enjoyed some of the recent interviews, especially the ones with Andrew Miner, Craig Biddle, and Dr. Daniels. Happy belated birthday and happy holidays!

I’ll write up a proper statistics report at the end of the year, but in the meantime, I’m happy to report that November had over 31,000 listens or downloads and December so far has over 27,000 listens or downloads.

That’s pretty awesome, but I want even more growth! So once we resume broadcasting after the holidays, I’ll upgrade my BlogTalkRadio subscription from “Premium” to “Plus,” which will double my monthly quota of promotional impressions from 5,000 to 10,000. That will help us present rational principles for real life to an even wider audience. (Yay!)

If you want to help make that happen, please throw some end-of-year love into our tip jar. You can do so using the links below.

If you’ve already donated lately — and particularly if you donate via a recurring monthly subscription — thank you so much! You rock! In return for that support, if you have a question or topic that you’d like to hear me cover, just e-mail me at diana@philosophyinaction.com to make the request. I’ll happily oblige.

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Just as a quick reminder, my ninety-minute podcast on finding good prospects for romance and friendship is still available for purchase. You just need to make me an offer that I can’t refuse!

You’ll find an outline of the podcast, as well as other details, in this post. Here, I thought I’d let one of my listeners, Isaac, speak to the value that he’s found in the podcast:

I can’t tell you how valuable I’ve found your podcast on romantic relations! To start, and as you mentioned yourself, it was just as applicable and valuable to more ‘ordinary’ relations. Simply thinking of the relations you have with people in terms of acquaintances/friends/close friends and whether the time and effort you spend is in line with your values is a powerful tool.

You mentioned the danger of limiting judgment in romance to a purely ‘sense of life’ level, and I think you struck on the biggest problem most people, myself included, have with romance! Really analyzing your own values and how they mesh, or clash, with others is vitally important in even casual friendships, and not carrying that over to romantic relationships leads, well, nowhere!

And the simplest advice of all, “doing nothing is a recipe for getting nothing!” It’s good to be reminded that identifying ourselves as Objectivists doesn’t automatically make us immune from the dangers of following our guts over our heads, or being passive! We still have to act, so thank you for your work in applying excellent principles to the actions all too many of us leave to chance!

What can I say to that, other than: YAY! Overall, I’ve gotten very positive feedback on the podcast, and a number of people told me at OCON that they’ve been putting my advice to good use.

As I explained in my original post, I’m selling the podcast, but not by the ordinary means of setting a price. Instead, I’m accepting or rejecting offers.

If you want the podcast, fill out the form below, offering whatever you think reasonable. If your offer is satisfactory to me, then I’ll accept it. I’ll send you a link to the podcast, as well as instructions for payment. If your offer is too low, then I’ll reject it. You’ll owe me nothing, but you’ll get nothing from me.

I won’t haggle: you have one chance to make me a good offer. So your offer should represent your judgment of the likely worth of the podcast to you. As with the pledges, I’ll happily offer a refund if you’re unsatisfied with the podcast, provided that you explain your reasons why. Also, you’re welcome to share the podcast with members of your household — but no one else.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in the comments or e-mail me before making an offer.

Update: Oh, lovely! Notice what Kevin Wroblewski wrote in the comments:

I found this podcast very useful in my life. I put it to work at OCON and found that I had Diana’s voice in my head many many many times throughout the conference. OCON was FILLED with social situations where I was surrounded by new people (I have always been an introvert when in comes to environments like that) but instead of feeling awkward, I practically instantly felt camaraderie with so many of the people there. Now I am sure a large part of this simply had to do with the nature of the people attending OCON to begin with, but whenever I was standing in conversation with a group of people, I continually would catch myself doing the things Diana points out NOT to do in this podcast and would immediately correct what I was doing. Usually this was involving my body language such as having my arms crossed in front of me when talking to people.

Additionally, I very much noticed OTHER OCON attendees putting Diana’s advice in this podcast to work as well and I took note of how effectively it worked for them too! I guess the secret is out!

Thanks, Kevin!