Hannah Hammond started podcasting to expand her ideas beyond writing and build connection. She's dealt with lifelong loneliness and insecurity but refused to settle despite repeated failure. Tim Grover's Relentless, which she read at 18, made her feel understood for the first time.
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I created this podcast to basically open up the book beyond the pages or beyond the COVID and show people, hey, there's more to the individual than what meets the eye. Was there a similar kind of thought process behind you creating podcasts? Relentless.
Yeah, that's exactly right. So backing up. I felt very lost and alone and insecure my whole life. Honestly, even today, I struggle immensely with self worth and connection and things like that. So I never had a community or never felt like I had love, and not from other people, not from myself and not from friends. And I was just very disconnected from it for as long as I can remember. But I never would give up. Like, I would just keep going and keep going and I would fail and I would keep going and I'd try again and I'd learn and I'd go and I'd grow. Like, I just refused to settle. And still today, I refuse to settle. Like, I believe we can have it all, not all at once, because there's a process and there's a price to everything you do. I read that book Relentless by Tim Grover when I was 18 years old. And I remember I resonated so much with that book. I was like, this is the first person that's ever understood me, and this is the first time I've ever understood myself.