{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Boost — Motivation and Personal Growth","slug":"daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647","podcast_index_feed_id":666647,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/dailyboost","website_url":"https://motivationtomove.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/3bcc3a34-470e-11ec-b372-f36bd6f72b21/image/72d3b71d3bad4e3b55d78ad87b562aa8.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Scott Smith","episode_count":1323,"summary":"The Daily Boost is a weekday personal growth podcast for adults who live in the real world and want real results. About 10 minutes a day. No canned content, no recycled material — host Scott Smith and his practical way of understanding how life, business, and the world actually work. Some days he'll pump you up. Some days he'll make you think. Some days you'll love him. Some days you'll wonder why you listened. Every day, you'll know exactly what they call him: the nicest renegade you'll ever meet. Smile. Nod. Change everything. That's the code. If you played by the rules. If you built a good life — career, business, relationships. If you decided you want more. The Daily Boost is your show. Topics include personal growth, motivation, purpose, decisions, work, money, relationships, time, and keeping your head straight when things get complicated. 20 years. 5,000+ episodes. 130+ million downloads worldwide. Every episode stands on its own. It's always real, and occasionally pretty funny — because if you can't laugh, what's the point?","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T12:18:52.324689+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647"},"episode":{"title":"Two-Letter Word Changes Everything","slug":"two-letter-word-changes-everything","published_at":"2026-06-19T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647/two-letter-word-changes-everything","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647","url":"https://motivationtomove.com","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/verifi.podscribe.com/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/MOTO2851714161.mp3","summary":"The word motivation is back in style, and just as many people are busy tearing it down. Maybe you've felt that pull yourself, fired up one week and flat on the couch the next. Today I want to settle the argument. Motivation matters, but it's not the whole story. There's a tiny word hiding in plain sight that does the real work, and most people race right past it. It's only two letters. Once you see what it does, you can't unsee it. Come on in and let me show you. Featured Story Yesterday I went back and listened to the very first Motivation to Move show I ever did. It was on an AM radio station, years ago. I'd bought the time myself, seven o'clock on a Saturday morning, because that was all I could afford back then. Almost twenty years later, the only thing that's really changed is that my voice got a little raspier. The name stuck. Motivation to Move. I picked those words because I understood what they meant, even if I couldn't have explained it. What I didn't notice for the longest time was the little word sitting right in the middle, quietly doing all the work. Important Points Motivation alone won't carry you. Build your structure first, and the spark shows up almost on its own once you're calm. Some of what blocks you is the stuff you love. The mortgage, the family, the vacations all pull at your motivation, too. Motivation is only a spark, and moving changes your state. The real magic lives in the word that connects them. Memorable Quotes Most people try to live on motivation alone, and that by itself won't get you anywhere without the other side of it. Motivation is a spark, just a flash in the dark. It's not the target, it's the trigger that sends you toward it. The minute you put the word to in the middle of motivation and move, then what you're doing isn't ra…","meta_description":"The word motivation is back in style, and just as many people are busy tearing it down. Maybe you've felt that pull yourself, fired up one week and flat o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":688,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647/episodes/two-letter-word-changes-everything/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647/two-letter-word-changes-everything.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}