How to Start Your Movement

Written by Matt Frazier

Ever since the early days of starting No Meat Athlete, I’ve gotten a good number of requests for advice about how to start a blog or podcast. Or, more generally, about how to turn your passion into something that allows you to do it for a living.

This stuff is incredibly meaningful to me because of the impact it has had on my life, but I’ve never written or talked about it on No Meat Athlete. “Starting a business” certainly isn’t what this movement is all about, and doesn’t really fit with the other content here.

But today, inspired by a listener question, Doug and I are breaking from that rule. What this question (about starting a business around environmentalism) made me realize is that even though blog and podcast advice is a bit off-topic here, if that advice can help other people start movements that promote health, sustainability, or plant-based diets, then so much the better.

So here you have it: an episode all about how you can turn your ideas and passions into a movement or business through the internet.

Here’s just some of what we talk about in this episode:

  • Should you start a blog or podcast?
  • Why you have to pick yourself
  • How No Meat Athlete became more than just a blog
  • Why writing “for everybody” is like writing for nobody
  • How to handle criticism (because if you’re doing something attention-worthy, it’s going to happen)

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