{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching","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":1287,"summary":"The Daily Boost is a weekday podcast for people who've built a good life and started wondering if it's the one they actually want. Ten to fifteen minutes. Every weekday. Since 2006. No scripts. No canned content. No recycled material. Whatever's real, that day, in front of the microphone. Topics include personal growth, motivation, purpose, decisions, work, money, relationships, time, and how to keep your head straight when things get complicated. Every episode stands on its own. It's occasionally pretty funny — because if you can't laugh, what's the point. 5,000+ episodes. 130+ million downloads worldwide. Free, wherever you listen. Ten minutes a day to think clearly about your life.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T14:18:53.545907+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647"},"episode":{"title":"What I Saw in the Parking Lot","slug":"what-i-saw-in-the-parking-lot","published_at":"2026-05-19T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647/what-i-saw-in-the-parking-lot","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/MOTO5460101917.mp3?updated=1779122432","summary":"Memorial Day weekend is here, and I caught my first sunburn of the year—Florida summer is back. It's also the time when small, unexpected moments seem to appear out of nowhere. This weekend brought Maya's ballet recital and flashed me back 35 years to a strip mall computer store, where I left with an $800 piece of plastic in my hand—and an unexpected memory. If you've ever pondered your place on your life’s timeline, slow down for a bit and come along—this story is worth a listen. Featured Story In 1990, I walked out of a small strip mall computer store with Photoshop 1.0 on a CD—eight hundred bucks I didn't really have, but I was determined to become a producer-editor, which we used to call a predator back then. Then I saw them. An older man is being pushed to a car in a wheelchair, totally silent. Thirty feet behind him, a baby in a stroller is kicking her feet, making baby noises, and her parents are smiling. Same parking lot. Two strollers heading toward cars that they didn't drive themselves to. Standing there with my $800 CD, I realized the only difference between those two strollers was time. That moment stayed with me. Important Points Remember: the only difference between the wheelchair and stroller is time. We're each somewhere on that timeline—recognizing it is key to living purposefully. Most of the stuff you think will matter probably won't, and the stuff you almost miss turns out to be almost everything. Take a breath, look at where you actually are today, and decide who you want sitting next to you in the parking lot. Memorable Quotes The only difference between those two strollers was the time and a little distance across the parking lot that day. Most of the stuff we think will matter doesn't, and most of what we almost miss turns out to be almost ever…","meta_description":"Memorial Day weekend is here, and I caught my first sunburn of the year—Florida summer is back. It's also the time when small, unexpected moments seem to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":753,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-boost-motivation-and-coaching-666647/episodes/what-i-saw-in-the-parking-lot/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/what-i-saw-in-the-parking-lot.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}