#698 Let me bore you to sleep - 21 YEARS OF WEBSITES - Jason Newland (3rd August 2021)

Hello, is it me you're looking for? Yeah, so welcome to Jason Newland dot com. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You to Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

So I haven't made a recording for a few days. I think the 30th or 29th of July and it's now the 3rd of August 2021. Been a little bit under the weather the last few days.

Been in bed pretty much all day and all night. Getting up for a few hours and then going back to bed. Just been doing that pretty much since Friday.

So it's now Tuesday. So it's just the way. Just the way it is.

That's the way it's been and I'm trying to get myself motivated to actually make a recording. But I haven't been. But today I did manage to do some other stuff.

Some online website stuff to do with a podcast, which is good. So I managed to get some work done earlier. You know, making images, sharing the the ones from last week onto Facebook and Twitter and sharing them onto my website and uploading the podcast to the website for people to download.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So that was a couple of hours of stuff that I did, which is it's a step up from previous days as it were. My stomach's been gurgling all day.

Almost gargling like that, but inside my tummy. At one point I thought, oh my goodness, what's going on here? But I realized a plane was going over. So it's kind of.

It's made me a little bit hypersensitive a little bit. Oh. Any kind of vibration, I'm thinking, oh, is that my stomach again? But no, it's just an earthquake.

It's fine. So Facebook seems to be playing up a little bit. So if you have sent me a message lately, I might not have received it because according to my phone, not had any.

Anyone that does contact me and expect an immediate reply. It shows on Facebook that I'm on Facebook, I'm available, you know, like I'm online, but I'm not. I just got the app on my phone and it's always on.

Doesn't mean that I'm on Facebook. I'm pretty much never on Facebook. You know, I upload my pictures, you know, my podcast episodes.

But as far as actually going onto Facebook, maybe probably 20 minutes a week, if that. I might go on there every now and then, have a little look around, but I'm not on Facebook. I don't spend any time on there.

So as far as sort of being around, I'm not, if that makes sense, I'm not kind of there in person and going to receive a message there. And then I'll see messages later, but I won't see them probably when they're actually sent. So I don't have, I don't have my phone ringing and making noises and notifications and stuff like that, because that would just bug me, silly.

It's just, that used to be the thing years ago, used to be really exciting. I remember the early days of mobile phones and, you know, you could get the phone to vibrate. Some people really enjoyed that.

And I, because I used to sell phone contracts, so I kind of got into phones for a little while. Well, I got into, I kind of, I was knowledgeable about phones, if that makes sense, like Nokia phones. Now, I used to have Ericsson phones.

I had a, I remember I had a Flip Ericsson and I thought I was in Star Trek, like the original TV show. I was so excited. That was like late 90s, early 2000, 1999, 2000.

But you know, the whole like beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, that stuff, which used to be going off all the time, whenever you was with anyone. And I've actually been in a room, I've been in a room with, even then I was only in my early 30s. In fact, no, probably, no, I wasn't even that, I was probably in my late 20s.

My late 20s, like 29, maybe. In a room, I'm just thinking back, it was quite a long time ago, even I was young, really. But I was in a room with people who were in their like late teens, you know, maybe 17, 18, texting each other in the same room.

Texting each other, sitting next to each other, texting. I'll say that again. I mean, that's on a level of, mind you, I did once Skype someone that I was living in a house with.

And they were in their bedroom next to me. So yeah, that was kind of weird. I suppose that yeah.

Yeah, I suppose that's kind of a similar kind of thing. But texting someone, but honestly, all you could hear, that's in the days when that's, that's the only, the only sound you would generally get when they text. Do you remember that? Do you remember anyone remember that? Whatever, I remember the sound, the Nokia sound for the ringing.

And then of course, you got the iPhone sound. I forget what it is now, but not many people seem to use that so much now. I did for a while.

And now I just have like a normal ringing, ring, ring, ring, ring. But texting, I don't have any sound whatsoever for texting. And I can't be in a room with someone that does.

Because some people, and it's probably most people listening possibly. Okay, not everyone listening, but there's going to be some people look like, yeah, so what? So just just bear with me. I'm just being a grumpy old man.

So it's fine. Some people like to have conversations through text. But to me, that's not what texting is for.

Texting is for just like a quick message. You know, the baby's born with a boy. That's it.

You know, so unimportant stuff like that. So I just just just I want to just you know, just like maybe I'm running late. That's a good message.

Running late. I'll be there in 20 minutes, miss the bus or something that's really useful, a useful piece of information. Or in an emergency, mind you, if it's an emergency, use the phone.

Text in an emergency. I mean, that's just that's only one step above smoke signals. You know, if it's an emergency phone, and if it's such an emergency, phone the police.

You know, phone in for an ambulance. Don't phone a friend. Oh, yeah, I think I might.

I might. I'm stuck in a hole. Phone the police.

Phone someone that can help you. Phone the relevant people. Man.

Yeah, the house is on fire. Dad, yeah, fortunately, you know, no phone the fire brigade. This is a national service.

This is I'm trying to help. Just trying to help. I still still remember downstairs when the lady with her daughter was on the floor inside the flat.

Her mum couldn't get to her adult door. The mum was adult as well. And I said, we need to call an ambulance.

And she said, No, it's alright, a sister, I've called a sister. A sister will be here in a minute. I said, what's a sister gonna do? Is she a paramedic? No.

But she knows what to do in these situations. I said, so do I, you call an ambulance. And you know, in all fairness, she was a lovely lady.

And she was just panicking. And so I can't, I'm not going to judge that all her daughter died. So I'm not can't judge it.

She was lovely, but she panicked. And it's I've done the same. I remember once I tried to phone 999.

Because there was a serious altercation outside where I lived. I couldn't dial the number. I couldn't dial 999.

In America, in England, and in America, it's 911. It's 999. I'm sure every part of the world, you got your own sort of specific number in the UK, or in England, at least it's 999.

I think it's the same in Scotland and Wales, but I don't know about other parts of the UK. But in England, you know, in the UK, mainly it's 999. Easy to remember, you'd think that I could remember.

I'm not saying I didn't remember the number. I do remember the number is only 123 telephone numbers that I remember. My dad's home telephone number.

That's etched in my brain. My friend Duncan, who I'm not friends with anymore, but I've still got his number etched in my brain. And 999, that's it.

I don't even know my own number. I have to look at my phone to get that. But I've got, the reason I've got my dad's is because it's among the easiest, it's just a really easy number to remember.

But he's had that same number for 35 years or since I was 17, I think. And I'm what, 93 now. So I've got that mem, it's an easy.

And also, I don't have to remember the area code, because I used to live in that town. So all I got to remember is just the what six numbers or whatever it is for the actual telephone number. Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean? So it's a lot easier than a mobile number.

It's a bit chilly in here tonight, you know. Bit chilly. It was like about 19 degrees outside today.

And it was a bit windy, a bit breezy, not windy, but breezy. And my friend like knocked and we went to went for a walk to the garage. And he was shaking, he was shivering.

He's really not well. And I was, I was like, like normally, he feels the cold more than I do, because I'm a big fat walrus. But he, you know, I do, I feel the cold less than he does.

Especially, I'm not very good with cold when I'm sitting down. And that's probably more to do with circulation. I imagine his circulation is probably better than mine.

Because I'm got because I've got the size of a average mention, I'm probably maybe my circulation isn't as good. So I don't keep warm. When I'm just stationary, I don't know.

But when I'm moving about when I'm walking and I'm outside, I'm usually okay. It's not that I don't get cold. I don't I do feel the cold.

But I don't, doesn't hugely affect me unless it's really cold. And even then, you know, not that bothered, really, unless I'm standing in it, waiting for a bus for an hour, then I really, you know, then I feel it always raining, because then it gets gets even colder. But in those situations, he's like freezing cold.

And I'm kind of like, yeah, it's a bit chilly. So I can kind of generally gauge where we are. You know, he either I feel the heat more than he does, like he loves the just, you know, scorching sunshine is his, he's like Superman in a way, you know, because Superman loves the sun.

He loves the sun, absolutely. It brightens up him, he gets, yeah, he, he livens up when it's really sunny. And I like the sun, I don't don't dislike the sun.

I'm not a sun hater. But I, heat wise, I think it's people, right? Us fatties, those of those of us that are maybe a little bit chunkier than the average. Those of us that aren't stick insects, or slim, because I've been both, I've been skinny.

And now I'm fat. I've been both. So not many people, I think, have the opportunity to have been both.

Some people go from being stocky to fat, or average size to fat. Not I don't think many people go or maybe average size to skinny, if they manage to lose loads and loads of weight and stuff. And I think many people go from being skinny.

As an adult, this is not as a kid. Lots of skinny kids are now like, seven foot tall and wide as a horse's willy, I don't know. But I have gone as an adult from being skinny, embarrassingly.

And I was embarrassed by how skinny I was to be in the other scale. And I'm embarrassed by how I look now. And so I don't know what my point is.

I guess I just want to talk about being fat, I guess. I don't know why. Why would I, why would I promote it? By the way, ladies, if there's anyone, if you're looking for a man in your life, I'm your man, baby.

If you don't mind a big fat boo. For the right woman. I would wash.

I would. I would wash. I'd have a bath for the right woman.

That's all I can really offer. How could you turn that down? I do sometimes think am I ever gonna have a girlfriend again? It's weird, isn't it? It's like I never used to really be bothered. And in a way, I'm not bothered.

But in a way, I'm kind of thinking, Oh, I wonder what it's like to be in love. You know, to like really be loved up. And I think the last time I wasn't loved up, but I really liked this, this lady that I was with.

She was from Romania. I realized I liked her. Two things.

Two reasons. And one was because I liked her smell. Like her natural smell.

That might sound like a weird thing. But I liked how she smelled. I said it to her one day.

And it wasn't reciprocal. So that's okay. She said, No, thanks.

And my smell. And she just started laughing and I never saw her again after that. It was weird.

The other thing that I realized I liked her is because I moved into this little, this little room. It's just a little basement. Well, the thing is, right is is the truth.

The truth of the matter is, I was glad to get out there because it was moldy and it was gray and it was horrible. However, when I moved in there, I was so grateful to move in there. I didn't know about the mold at the time, because I wouldn't have moved into a moldy place.

I say that now, I think at the time I probably would have moved into a cardboard box. I was that desperate to get out where I was. I so wanted to get away from the the place I was living for lots of different financial reasons, as well as just emotional reasons.

I didn't like it there. I couldn't afford to be there. You know, so I managed to cut down my outgoings by quite a lot by moving out.

So I just, you know, I was happy to get out. And I didn't care about the size of the place. It's only really when the molds, when I started getting ill and the mold was there and, you know, to be fair, if it wasn't for the mold, I probably, I'd probably still be there.

I wouldn't be here because I'd have had nothing really to complain about. Or I don't know, I might have had a flat by now, but it wouldn't, you know, I'd have been, I don't know, might have took a bit longer. But because of the mold, and it sort of helped me a little bit with that to sort of move, gave me that motivation to sort of get out and do what I needed to do.

But I was grateful to be there when I first moved in. It was perfect. Just to get out of where I was.

It was such a relief. And in some ways, if I could, I love my flat. I love I've got this place.

And this is my home. It's the first home I've ever had. And I don't own it.

But it's a home for life if I want it to be. And I waited 30 years for this thing, this place. However, sometimes I just wish I would love to just get out of here and go and live somewhere else.

But other times I look around and I think, this could be really nice if I actually put a little bit of work into it. I need a new carpet. That's probably the one thing that would transform this flat is a new carpet.

Because I know I like to moan, well not moan, but blame everything on Andre, but I can't blame everything on him now, can I? It's messy. And he's not made my mess for a couple of months. He ruined the carpet, completely ruined the carpet.

But if he hadn't been there, I reckon the carpet, it wasn't up to much to start with. It looked nice when I first moved, you know, when I first had it put in. But, but, but, but, but it wasn't very thick.

I don't think the quality was that great of the carpet, and it was on special offer. It was discounted, it was fairly cheap. I think it cost about six, seven hundred pound, I think, when I got it to do the whole flat.

I'd be lucky if I could do the flat for less than a grand now. So I reckon coming in and out with my shoes on, I don't take my shoes off at the door. I had too much nagging of that when I was younger, and going into other people's houses, take your shoes off.

We don't have shoes on in this house, you twat. I can't, I can't be putting up with that. So anyone that comes into my flat, not only can they wear their shoes, but I insist on them treading into dog, in dog's poo before they come in.

So I have a little tray of dog's poo outside so they can tread in that before they come in. I want them to bring in dirt and crap in there. I encourage it.

No I don't, but I do. I've never ever asked anyone to take their shoes off. Because that, well first of all, people wouldn't come in here.

People that I know, they wouldn't come in here. They had to take their shoes off. Just like if I had to take my shoes off to go into my friend's flat downstairs, I wouldn't visit.

No way am I taking my shoes off for anyone. But when I visit Daddykins, I have to take my shoes off. That's just ridiculous.

But hey, everyone's different, ain't they? It has ruined the carpet though. So I can understand a little bit why people would do that, I guess. But you know what though? I don't come into my living room with my shoes on.

Because saying what I just said, I do the equivalent of taking my shoes off. Because as soon as I walk in, I go into my bedroom, I take my shoes off in the bedroom, I put my slippers or my cloggy things on, my Crocs. So as soon as I do get in, I do take my shoes off.

But I don't take them off at the door. You know, I'm not having someone, I'm not having someone tell me what to do. Not even me.

I would not be told what to do. No. I'm such a child.

I just, I've had too much moaning and, um, don't you mean do you do too much moaning? No, I've had too much. I've been moaned at too much over my life. That's what it is.

I just, I can't, I just, no. I'm still rebelling. I can't believe I'm like 700 years old and I'm still rebelling.

What are you rebelling against? What are you rebelling against? What are you rebelling? He can't answer. He was in a car crash 50 years ago. He can't answer.

Oh, okay. Sorry. What are you rebelling against? What you got? Oh dear.

That was probably like classic, classic moment in a movie and it almost like it meant something like, now you hear it like, what are you rebelling against? What you got? That's basically just a childish answer, isn't it? That's just like a little child. What you got? I'm rebelling against anything. I don't care.

What you got? Look at me. I'm smoking a cigarette. I'm a real man.

Oh dear. I say that I don't think I've ever actually watched that film. Is it Monster? What is it? I can't remember what the film was with James Dean.

Was he in a film with Marilyn Monroe, James Dean? Or am I thinking of someone else? But then there's On the Waterfront. Again, it's another movie I don't think I've ever seen. Mr. Brando.

And I don't watch those films. And I think I should. Because these are films that I think, well, he at least got nominated for Oscars and were brilliant films.

And there's no reason why they shouldn't be still be brilliant, because really, they weren't relying on special effects. Because the films that relied on special effects in the 50s and the 60s and the 70s, the 80s, 90s, whatever. They get very dated very quickly.

I think the only I think Independence Day holds up Titanic. Not that I don't watch Titanic. It's a love story.

But Independence Day, special effects that holds up. And Star Wars. They were very detailed.

You know, they, they, I mean, yeah, I still holds up. But that is amazing when you think that someone can now, like a 10 year old, can do those kind of special effects on the laptop at home in their bedroom. The sort of special effects that cost millions and millions of dollars 30 years ago, or 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago, can all be done by someone that knows how.

I guess it's always been cases like people that know how. But those are, I wish I'd been a bit like that a bit more interested in video editing, like video making, special effects and such. Because over the years, you think the amount of time, amount of time that I've spent of my life doing this stuff, just internet stuff, basically.

So 21 years now, 21 years of my life, I've been making websites and doing online activity, not just using the internet, but actually been actively creating something. And it's only really since 2004 that I've been creating content in a sense of hypnosis sort of stuff, sort of stuff. But before that, I was creating content as in websites.

I had a website which was called, what was it? What was it called? I'm gonna drink. It wasn't called I'm gonna have a drink. It was called tidy search.

See? And this is in 2000 as my first, first, first website I ever built. I've got the domain, tidy search. And basically, it was a directory.

Because I found that Google was just crap, in my mind. And in some ways it still is. Not in a bad way.

It's just not as specific as I would like it never has been. And the amount of outdated websites that are on Google is ridiculous. That it brings up is, you know, it's, it's atrocious, really.

But it's not Google's fault. It's, you know, I mean, not having anything to do with Google. Google are wonderful.

Please don't sue me. But I wanted, this is in the early days. Was there a Google back then 2000? I'm pretty sure there was.

But there was other other search engines I used as well. There was quite a few different ones, actually, back in them days. And pretty sure Google was around, pretty sure.

But I used to get used to come up with stuff that wasn't necessarily relevant. So I thought, well, to help people search for stuff, have it as a search engine, as a as a as a directory, you know, Google used to do that as well. Did you know that? Did you know that? I think I think it was Google.

They had what might be one of the others. They or maybe a few of the others that had the search bar, which you could put in stuff. And then you could search for UK or other countries, world, Europe, whatever.

And then it also have a directory with underneath lists of things. So you could search for stuff by the directory a bit more specific. So yeah, I think I quite like off I just seem like a good idea.

It did seem like a good idea at took time. And, and my idea really was to raise money for charity. So to charge people a very minimal amount, like a pound a year or something to list them on the website.

And that money would go to charity and I'd have a wage once it sort of started and it kicked off and I'd be able to earn a living wage and raised, you know, the rest of it will be for charity, like cancer charity or whatever. I mean, I always sort of moved around with my different charities, like motor neuron charity, motor neuron disease when my friend died from that. So I was kind of into that for a while, sort of maybe raise money for that.

I mean, ultimately, I didn't raise money for anything, because they didn't really take off. I didn't, I didn't really know what I was doing. I was still learning, I'm still learning how to build the website and SEO, like search engine optimization, wasn't really a thing back then, because search engines were quite a new thing.

And it was a bit, it's very a bit chaotic, you know, as far as what you search for, what you got, wasn't always very clear. Hence why I was going to do the TidySearch. And I remember I had this, I had my TidySearch website, I was going to raise money for charity.

I contacted a company, which was another charity, that made websites. And I contacted this bloke, I spoke to him. And I think I saw him in person, I went and visited him.

And he was really excited about what I was doing. He said, Yes, it's really good. And we can help you to build the website.

I've got some specialists here that some of them are special needs, but they were charity and we help people. So people like in wheelchairs and different, but some of them were like, some of them, but you know, there was those that were like experts on website building and things like that. And he said, Yeah, I've got this really whiz kid and he can help you with this.

And I said, Brilliant. So I'm away. Oh, yeah.

I'm away on holiday. But come come back next week. I'm away on holiday, but he'll be here and you'll be able to show him what what you want to do.

Okay, cool. So next week, I turned up and the bloke said, Yeah, I could do that. It's going to cost you.

I said, What? He said, Yes, it's going to cost a few 1000 pounds. No. He said, Yeah.

I said, No. He said, Yeah. I said, No.

I said, No, let me finish my sentence, please, please. No. He said, Are you going to finish your sentence? I said, No, that was it.

I just wanted you to shut up. I said, No, your your boss. It's not my boss.

You know, the man in charge, not in charge of me. You know, he's one of them. I was just like, Tony.

Oh, yeah, Tony. I know. Yeah, I'm like, Tony.

Tony, the manager of this office, this charity. He said that you're gonna that you would help me with this. Yeah, I will help you.

But it was for free. It wasn't it wasn't gonna charge anything. You're a charity.

And he said, Yeah, but how do you think we make our money to be a charity? So in the end, I just said, stuff, yeah. And I left, I walked out. And set the fire alarms off, you know, just standard stuff.

And I'm kind of just like, Oh, I can't be bothered with this. And this is just, it was a bit of a bit of a fart in the mouth moment, you know, it's like, Oh, this is horrible. I don't didn't need that.

So I just, what I did is I just, I think I pretty much just like, couldn't be bothered with it. And then my friend or my cousin had an idea, which was a website for doing it was it was kind of against the same kind of idea. But it was for health and fitness.

And what it would be is promoting health and fitness places around the country. And again, charging people to be on the website, and you know, and just do that. So he was better at the website design than I was.

He put together a a basic page to sort of show me what he wants, what we're going to do. And I was like, Wow, okay. I arranged a bank interview with the both of us in a few days time.

Okay. Not today. I'm just at the time, this is back in 2001.

I think it was beginning of 2001. I think anyway, we we had kind of a business plan idea wasn't written out should have been written out. We had a little bit of a written out.

So we needed to have the the example website built, because the website wasn't built. And basically, you need to have the website built. If you're going to try and raise money for a website, or at least it needs to be built, but offline, or partly built in just to show how it needs to be functional needs to need to show that it works.

Now we were 70% finished at the website in this work needs to be done. So we pulled an all nighter, I went around is we listened to music all night. He was on one computer, I was on another.

And we were working on the website pages to bring it all up to date. It was hard, hard work. It was.

And we did get on with it. But we we procrastinated a little bit, and then a few laughs and stuff. But we did, you know, we did get on with it all night.

And we had this interview, probably 11 in the morning. So we went there. I had some breakfast and went there.

And the managers, well, the business manager bloke from the bank said, Yeah, seems like a good idea. Now go away. It's like, we want some money, please.

No, it was really a case of, you're gonna need more than that to get any money from a bank. Which is fair enough. You know, I mean, it's it was the first time either of us had applied for a business loan for a business idea.

Well, still haven't. He might have done, but I haven't since. And it didn't work.

But that was another one. So that was like the second, I guess a second failure of a website. And I tried, I did the, I tried quite a few different websites over the years.

The first website that actually the, I mean, I did get traffic with the tidy search. Funny enough, I did. But it wasn't a huge amount on there.

I had like maybe a couple of 1000 pages on there. With but you know, there's only so much stuff. You think for example, back in probably 2000 I went to the library and I got the yellow pages back in a day when yellow pages were big, big books.

And I photocopied the hypnotherapist section of each yellow pages for every region of the UK. And there was about 5000 hypnotherapists at that time. I bet you no one else in the world has ever done that.

They might they thought I was like, what are you doing? What are you doing? It's seriously, it's that's what I did anyway. And I was, you know, I wanted to put this into the website, type in. In the end, I ended up going into yell.com. Who had listings of the hypnotherapists, not all of them.

But I could cut and paste and stuff like that. So I did have, I think, like acupuncturists and ABCD like that. So I had quite a few so that at least a couple of 1000, if not more pages on that website.

So people did visit. But in the end, I just gave up. I kind of wish I hadn't because all these years later, I might actually have had a huge, huge busy, busy website.

But the thing is, the way I was building it, it would be very difficult to maintain it in the way it needed to be because the changes need to be changed made by the person whose business is, you know, I don't have the manpower, just one person, you'd need a staff of 1000s, excuse me to keep making changes. Every time someone wanted to change a telephone number or to say or I'm not, I'm not in business anymore. I've got a new business I want to add.

That'd be a huge job. And will it be a small job, but it'll be I imagine it'd be quite I don't know, maybe not. Maybe not.

I don't know. But anyway, I gave up on that. So because that wasn't doing anything.

But I kind of wish I hadn't in a way because it might, if I kept it just like that, I'm going to spend two hours a day. And I've done that for the last 20 years. Just with the Google Adsense, the Google Ads.

Maybe, yeah, just with those alone, I might be making 10 grand a month. Now by now, because I probably get millions of millions of visits to that website. Possibly every day, because it'd be so huge.

There'd be blimey hundreds of 1000s of pages on there. Oh, that's a nice sound of my chair. You can hear that so clicky.

It's actually wonky. My chair is actually wonky. The first time I really got any kind of success of a website was with the Help With Pain website.

And I started that in 2004. And although I didn't get any interest, you could say, well, how was it a successful website? Well, it wasn't a successful website, but it had traffic. That's what I mean by success, as in it had some traffic.

That was a good thing. So I got traffic. I got into traffic.

And I keep repeating myself. I don't know why. So that was the precursor to my... So I'd Help With Pain.

And that was the precursor to FreePainRelief.co.uk. So I had HelpWithPain.co.uk. And then in 2006, so that's 2004. In 2006, FreePainRelief.co.uk. That was the new website. So the Help With Pain got some, you know, got some people visiting.

And I think I might have had a couple of recordings on there where people could download. I'm not sure. It's such a long time ago.

But then 2016, the Help... What was it? FreePainRelief.co.uk. And then jasonnewland.com. So both of those websites were launched at the same time. Now I had jasonnewland.com, I think, since about 2000. And I don't know, for quite, I think a few years before that, I had it as a domain name, just didn't use it.

I think. So I've had it for a long, long, long, long, long time, baby. And it's the problem I've had with the jasonnewland.com, as far as traffic goes, is I've constantly been changing it.

I've never let it stay the same. By the same, I know, you know, needs to change. But as it is now, it's always changing.

But it's because I'm adding new recordings on there. Constantly, when I make new recordings, I'm adding them. It's changing that way.

I'm not completely changing the design, changing the website provider, the host, so that all the pages from the other website are now defunct. So you know, if you click on a page that you used to click on, it's not there anymore. And Google has to re-index all of the new pages.

And the old pages are still indexed on Google, and they don't go anywhere. That's a problem I've had, a problem I've created myself over the years, constantly changing the website design and trying to do something. It's been for a positive reason, trying to improve the service, trying to, you know, what I've got now is the ability to allow you to stream all of the recordings I do, as well as download them for free, stream them for free, download them for free, on a nice designed website.

I've got that now. And that's what I was aiming for all along. But because this streaming was not easy, you know, a few years back, well, quite a few years back, streaming was, you know, because of the data it took, and it was expensive to rent out that service for a website.

Downloading is always like using a different service to do this, to do that. I just wanted it all in one place. But not just all in one place, but to have the facility to be able to offer thousands of recordings without a limit on the data that's used, without a limit on space, on how many recordings I can have uploaded, or to make available.

So it took me many, many years to find the right service, the right website host for my needs, or for my podcast, for my needs, for my service needs. And I have. Now, if I was to find another website host that was even more suitable for my needs, and I swapped over, that might look better, and it might be better in some ways.

But I'll be starting all over from scratch again. And the only people that will come to my website that will find it, are those that know, already know the website address, like jasonnewland.com. And I'm still amazed that every now and then I get someone contact me and say, what's your, what's your, do you have a website? What's your website address? And they say, I'm a regular listener. Do you have a website? What do I say at the beginning of every single recording that I've ever made since 2016? 2016.

2016 2006, not 16 2006. Blimey. Wow.

The last 800 years, all I've been saying is jasonnewland.com. Exactly. Welcome to jasonnewland.com. Very. It's I thought it'd be like ingrained, ingrained into people's brains like, Oh, yeah, that's jasonnewland.com. I don't want that address in my head, but it's there.

It's stuck. Let me get it out. So I think I'm going to be embedding the YouTube videos into my website as well.

I've embedded a few, but I'll have a different section as well for the videos. But it's just trying to fit it all together. Because when you got as much stuff as me as much content as I've got.

It's it's not easy, easy to have it organized. I mean, I have got it organized. I think I've done an okay job of organizing it.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments. I everything is organized. I'm going to organize by number, I organized by pod by different podcasts on the website.

And also have like a latest recording section. So all the latest stuff is there, as well as the actual individual podcasts, where you can go through the whole lot of them. Either stream for free or download for free.

Not only that, they're all organized. So if you go into this recording on my website, when it's up, you click on it, not only will you be able to download it for free, be able to be able to stream the version, just the one without music, the version with music for two hours, the last two hours, the one with music that lasts for four hours, or five hours. So you got and a video if there's a video, you know, depends if I've made a video or not.

I bad is it ain't bad really. It's not a bad little service. I think it's quite good actually.

Oh, I really I really like actually. Do you really? I think it's okay. For little old me, you know, just for me.

I've done a lot of the the pain relief, free pain relief.co.uk. Now that I think I had, I think I had about 50,000 views of that website in the first year, which for me, I was really pleased with. Cause that sound of a train in the background, got the windows open. No wonder it's a bit chilly.

I had, I'm trying to think what I did to promote it. No, I gave leaflets out locally, put leaflets in the shop windows, post office windows and stuff like that. Because I was offering free pain relief service in my local area.

And also, it picked up, I was getting people and then I was getting people for other things. And then I was, I was in the local paper for one of my clients who had arthritis and that the website was promoted on there. So yeah, it was things were going really well, actually.

But then I got more and more people that wanted to see me for other things and that was very flattering. Annoying or not annoying. Maybe that's not annoying.

It's not the right word. Just not what I wanted to focus on. I wanted to focus on pain relief.

But I was pretty good at helping people to relieve their anxiety and stress. It's something that I did a fair bit of and was successful with it. And I guess that's sort of the road I've gone down in a way.

When all I wanted to do was pain relief. Back in 2006, if you said to me, oi JJ, JJ, your zip's undone. Do your flies up mate.

You're an embarrassment. If you said to me, would you like to spend the rest of your life helping people with chronic pain? Just every day seeing people coming into a place and just seeing them and helping them with chronic pain using hypnosis. I'd have said yeah.

Happily spend the rest of my life doing that. I loved it. I wouldn't want to spend like eight hours a day doing it because that's too much.

But happily sort of see maybe four people, five people a day. Three, two people a day, one person a day. Not too many people a day.

Maybe some groups. So maybe four people a day and maybe a group session a couple of times a week. Or maybe a group session every day.

Maybe just group sessions. I don't know because I was doing both. I was doing group sessions for relaxation and that's kind of where my success was as well because people were really loving what I was doing.

And oh, a bit of gas. And I was surprised by that because I don't know. Just all I was doing was just talking, guiding them to and making some suggestions along the way.

But just you know a group of people anywhere from like three to 19 or 20 but sometimes like 12. Never big big groups. Occasionally I'd have like a larger group but never a huge amount.

But everyone seemed to enjoy. I mean this was, I did it at two different places. A drug rehab center and an alcohol charity.

So both of these charities had counseling and help people to get off drugs and alcohol. And the, what I did is if anyone does go down this road that I'm on and what I did is instead of trying to talk my way and sort of explain what I did. What I did is I showed them.

So what I did in my interview to, so I did yeah both actually. Both the interviews for both the charities because I did the alcohol charity first. Norcass it's called.

And then Mycenae which was a drug rehab. But I think it might have rechanged, changed the name and I'm not sure if it does the same stuff anymore. Last time I saw it was doing family stuff.

So I don't know. Yeah but what I did anyway. What I did is I just said to them why don't I just go through what I do.

I had no idea what I do. I didn't, I wasn't doing it was I? I just, it was just an idea I had about doing group, group relaxation sessions and they, the alcohol charity and they also did gambling as well. They help people with gambling.

They were interested so I went along and said well let me just show you what I do. Talk is cheap baby. So let me talk more.

And I did. I got a couple of them just to sit down with their eyes closed. I just went through a relaxation session.

They liked it. They said yeah good let's do this. And the next one is I actually ended up getting headhunted.

It's the first time I've ever been headhunted before. By the Iceni. They went into the Buddhist shop looking for me.

And they gave, my friends in a Buddhist shop contacted me and said give them a call. This person wanted to see if you'd be interested in doing relaxation sessions because they'd heard of me doing it with the other charity. So I think there might be someone who was going to both charities or something and then he talked about me or whatever.

But anyway I ended up going there and I did exactly the same thing. I said and they still gave me an interview so come along. I said okay.

And I said well the best thing to do really instead of just talking about it, why don't you gather a few people and we'll just, we'll do a relaxation session. Let's do it. And the lady in charge she said well we can't do it with the clients until we've seen because I had to get criminal checked and insured and stuff like that.

So they just did it with me and about three or four members of staff and maybe a couple of volunteers, something like that. And I just did a group session with them. I think there's about five of us.

And it was done. It was easy, like okay. So it's just like no talking needed.

Just just do it. This is what I do. Let me show you.

So I quite, I quite like that way of doing things. I mean in a way really. I think if I was ever going to do anything like that again as far as volunteering.

But I'm volunteering now and I really, I'm volunteering my time. Although I do miss the human aspect of it. I don't miss doing the group sessions because it's too long ago to miss it.

Does that make sense? It's you know I haven't done it since 2007, November or October 2007. So you know it's 14 years ago. You can't, how can I miss it? I can't, I can't even really remember doing it.

I remember doing it but I don't remember what it was like. Not really. It's too long ago.

But I could easily do it again. In fact it'd be easier now than what it was then. Having made so many recordings.

But I just, yeah there's that human aspect which which was quite nice. Which was the route I was going down. That's the route I wanted to go down.

Which is why I started the, or enrolled in the counselling degree. Because I wanted to go from volunteering at these two charities to working at both the charities. And to continue with the online free podcasts and videos that I do.

And then just spend the rest of my working life there at those two charities. And continue on with my online stuff. And that was kind of where I was thinking.

To like yeah I'm really going to make a difference to the world. But also to be able to see it with my own eyes. And to experience some of the help.

Or some of the changes that I've helped produce. Because doing this I can't, I can't see. I don't get to see any benefit of what I do.

I get the occasional message. But in person even if I've got, maybe in the past I've seen someone. Just something not simple.

The thing is what can be simple to me is not, it can be traumatic to another person. So someone came to me because they had a fear of bridges. Now it's quite a simple thing to, it's quite an easy thing to change.

But to her it was huge. And the change was huge. And she was, she just couldn't believe like in one session.

Because she came back. I always, I always like people to come back the next week. Just to sort of see how the change is.

Sometimes even if they say yeah I don't need to come back. It's like well come back next week anyway. I like to sort of check.

Even if it's only for 10 minutes just come back. It wasn't paying me anything anyway. And just to see if the, you know, check the change is still there.

It's quite nice to see that. To see someone that was unable to drive over a bridge and suddenly, or not suddenly, but now they can. And the amount, you just, yeah, it's just it, the transformation is just lovely to see.

Because it opens up confidence in that person in other ways as well. it is all you're hearing isn't it I could be talking in any language you just like zoning out All right, I'm going to go. Thanks for listening and yeah, take care.

Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Lots of love. Bye.