The Century Show

EP100: THE CENTURY SHOW Today I reflect, pat myself on the back and thank you for helping me get to Episode 100 of Mike Murphy Unplugged. Episode Summary: My favorite episodes? My least favorite episodes? Which episode has the most downloads? What do I love about podcasting? What do I less than love about podcasting? What lessons I have learned from podcasting? What does the future look like for Mike Murphy Unplugged?

Episode Summary: A milestone reflection on 100 episodes of Mike Murphy Unplugged — favorite and least favorite episodes, the most-downloaded show, what podcasting has given back, and the lessons learned along the way, capped with 100 favorite quotes.

What You’ll Learn

Mike’s favorite and least favorite episodes from the first 100, and which one hit 1,000+ downloads
What Mike loves and doesn’t love about podcasting after nearly 2 years of doing it weekly
The real lessons learned: podcasting made him rich in skills and connections, not money
100 favorite quotes collected for the milestone newsletter issue

Episode 100

Launch date: Mike Murphy Unplugged went live on iTunes Friday, September 25, 2015. Why it started: simply to help figure things out personally, and to create an outlet for teaching and sharing the topics worth learning about. Teaching and documenting the process of building an online business and brand was always going to help find a real voice while inspiring anyone else trying to do the same — a genuine win-win.

Schedule: every Friday at 12:15am, with the newsletter following at 6:00am.

Side tip: show up. Listeners build a podcast into their routine — honor that.

Favorite Episodes

Episode 1: About Mike — worked hard on it and it turned out well.
Episode 17, 18 & 70 — the Roadmap Shows, which forced real thinking about business and goals.
Episode 56: The Adobe Audition Show — mostly because Durin Gleaves, the head of Audition at Adobe, emailed to say the whole team listened.
Episodes 57 & 58 — the Audio 101 Shows, which simplified audio terminology for anyone too embarrassed to ask the basics.
The mobile podcasting shows (48, 50, 52) — recorded from a nude beach under the Golden Gate Bridge, a Naples beach, and the Everglades. Pure fun pushing gear and tech to its limits, and hopefully motivating for anyone intimidated by mobile recording.
Episode 94: The Dead Show — just a genuinely happy one to make.

Least Favorite: Hardware-Heavy Episodes

Most Downloaded Episode

Episode 83: The Personal Brand Show (Part 2) — the only episode to break 1,000 downloads.

What Mike Loves About Podcasting

Figuring out the gear was genuinely fun — having the equipment to basically run an internet radio show from a bedroom never got old. Beyond the tech, the act of building a meaningful body of work matters most: the podcast functions as a journal and portfolio at once, and the built-in accountability of showing up weekly has made for real discipline. Since episode 1, at least one piece of content has been created and uploaded every single day, without exception.

What Mike Doesn’t Love About Podcasting

Writing the script every week, by a wide margin. Plenty of people in podcasting are anti-script — that’s fine, but it hasn’t changed the approach here. Do your own thing, always.

Lessons Learned From Podcasting

Podcasting hasn’t made Mike rich in money, but rich in knowledge and skill — audio, video, tech, design, creativity, business. It’s sharpened communication, teaching, and writing. It’s built real confidence and self-awareness. And it’s led to genuine connections, including a small group of supporters who’ve been there since day one — deeply appreciated.

What’s Next for Mike Murphy Unplugged

More of the same: sharing the journey and the process while making a dent in the universe. Episodes may get shorter or less dense over time, but the format is still being refined.

Conclusion

Thank you for being part of this milestone — here’s to the next 100.

The weekly newsletter always includes one quote and a batch of fun, mostly useless trivia. In honor of hitting 100 episodes, here are 100 favorite quotes collected along the way:

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” — Albert Einstein
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” — Samuel Goldwyn
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” — Maimonides
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.” — George Bernard Shaw
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” — Ben Franklin
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.” — Jerry Rice
“Try not to become a person of success. Rather become a person of value.” — Albert Einstein
“The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you discovered why.” — Mark Twain
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn
“Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection, you can catch excellence.” — Vince Lombardi
“You can’t stop someone who knows where they’re going.” — Unknown
“Well begun is half done.” — Aristotle
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” — Dr. Seuss
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are usually the ones who do.” — Steve Jobs
“I have never had clarity. I have only ever had trust.” — Mother Teresa
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
“Never mistake activity for achievement.” — Coach John Wooden
“It’s good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
“The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” — Dale Carnegie
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese proverb
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” — Roger Staubach
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” — Muhammad Ali
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“What one does easily, one does well.” — Andrew Carnegie
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Ben Franklin
“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.” — Oscar Wilde
“We can’t control the sea, but we can learn to surf the waves.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
“We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” — Henry Kissinger
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up somewhere else.” — Yogi Berra
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” — Steven Wright
“The nature of man is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.” — Confucius
“Knowledge is the antidote of fear.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.” — Mark Twain
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” — Bruce Lee
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu
“If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.” — Tony Robbins
“Practice like you’ve never won, play like you’ve never lost.” — Mithilesh Chudgar
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
“Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.” — Bob Dylan
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” — Joseph Campbell
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” — Pablo Picasso
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” — Benjamin Franklin
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“I am still learning.” — Michelangelo, at age 87
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” — Mark Twain
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — Bill Vaughan
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” — Lao Tzu
“There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl
“Do or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda
“Well begun is half done.” — Aristotle
“It’s the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.” — Jean Paul
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” — John Wooden
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” — Benjamin Franklin
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, awaken all of yourself.” — Lao Tzu
“Deal with the big while it’s still small.” — Lao Tzu
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” — Thomas Edison
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” — Dalai Lama
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller
“One finds limits by pushing them.” — Herbert Simon
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” — Robert H. Schuller
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” — Woody Allen
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” — Satchel Paige
“Yesterday, you said tomorrow.” — Nike
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
“Sometimes we live no particular way but our own.” — Jerry Garcia
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” — Dr. Seuss
“If you focus on what you left behind, then how can you see what lies ahead?” — Chef Gusteau, Ratatouille
“Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.” — Zig Ziglar
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” — Saint Augustine
“It doesn’t matter where you start. Only that you begin.” — Robin Sharma
“The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.” — Thucydides
“The journey is the reward.” — Proverb
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.” — Lou Holtz
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker
“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” — Nelson Mandela

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