Special Guest Expert - Allison Stillman
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Speaker1:
So here's the big question
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How are entrepreneurs like us who have been hustling and struggling to make it to success, who seem to make
It one step forward only to fall two steps back to our dedicated determined? And driven, how do we finally break through and win? That is the question. And this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Brian Kelly. This is the. Body.
Speaker1:
Hello, everyone, and welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mind Body Business Show. I'm excited because we have yet another phenomenal, phenomenal guest expert. Her name is Alison Stillman. She is amazing. She's the first individual I've ever had on this show. In fact, the first individual I've ever talked to that is an aromatic alchemist. Oh my goodness. And it is very intriguing and interesting, and I cannot wait to share her brilliance with you. So stay on until the end. You will not. You will. You will love it. You will love every moment of it because she is an amazing woman and so fun to talk to. And we're going to get a lot of value from her to help show you what key elements you can implement in your own business to get greater success. That is what this whole show is all about. The Mind Body Business Show is a show for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs and my whole purpose for this show. My mission is to bring on incredible and very successful guest experts like Alison Stillman so that all you need to do is listen, take notes and then model, which means copy. Do what she has done. Use the elements of the recipe of her recipe. The ingredients that got her to where she is and continues to keep her there and moving even higher. All you need to do is take notes and model success. That's how wonderfully simple it is to be successful. It does take work. You need to implement what you learn, but at least you now have the recipe, so you need to put the ingredients, mix them up, put them in the oven, cook them.
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You got to do. You got to do that work. Got it. All right. So again, the mind body business show it is about the three pillars of success. These came about as a result of my ten years, a little over 10 years of studying just successful people. I got focused and said, What makes people successful? I don't care about all the other ones, the complainers and whiners. I want to go after the ones that have made it and have, you know, have achieved a higher level of success, say, than maybe me and what I found. These are people that are my mentors that I know personally. These are also folks who have written books who are authors I may not have met but are still with us. These could be others that have authored books or audiobook audiotapes that are no longer with us. And what I found through this 10 year quote-unquote study is that these three elements kept bubbling to the top about why they were so successful, and they are the very elements and components of this show's name, mind meaning mindset to a person. Each successful individual had a very powerful, yet more importantly, very flexible mindset. Very important. And then body, they literally, to a person, took care of themselves physically by exercising on a regular basis. And also what they ate and drink nutritionally. And then business business is multi multi multifaceted. There are so many amazing skill sets that one must master in order to build a thriving business and then grow it.
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Many skill sets like marketing, systematized team building, leadership, sales. I could go on for a while. And the thing is to master just one. It's kind of like becoming an expert at anything it takes on average 10000 hours in that particular field. Same thing with mastering anything. The good news is you don't have to master every single one. The good news is if you just mastered one skill set and in fact, it is one of those that I mentioned just a moment ago in that list. The smallest, if you master just one skill set, then the rest can fall into place. And that's all you need to do. And that one skill set is the skill set of leadership. Once you have mastered that, and yes, you can start before you even have a team leading yourself. But once you've mastered the the skill set of leadership, now you can bring in and. Hold those people into your team that have mastered those skill sets that you have yet to master. And quite honestly, many of them, you never will. There's just not enough time for all of those things to happen. That's what makes us so beautiful. So that is the mind body business show and another wonderful trait I've noticed of nearly every successful individual that I've ever interviewed or or study. It's also a very avid reader of books and not just any books. And with that going to Segway into a little segment, I affectionately call bookmarks.
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Bookmarks born to read, bookmarks ready, steady read bookmarks brought to you by reach your peak library Scott.
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There you see it. Real quick word of note, when you're watching the show instead of clicking away and going to these resources, I highly, highly, highly recommend that instead that you write them down. So in this case, reach your peak library, write it down on a separate piece of paper, on notepad, on your computer or whatever you're watching on, and then wait till the show is over. Then go back and visit those resources. Why do I say that I would hate? I've seen this happen. I would hate for you to miss that one golden nugget that Alison is going to provide because your attention was taken elsewhere. Write it down and just keep listening and keep watching during the whole time. I've seen this happen many times from stage live events where I know I'm getting to the juicy part and I see an attendee get up because they need to go use the restroom. So if you need to use the restroom, well, it might be too late because she's coming on really quick. So I need to take care of those things when you can. But we got maybe a minute or two. This would be the time if you need to go quickly and then come right back.
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Reach your peak library is literally a resource I had developed with you in mind, and I'm talking about you, the entrepreneur, either successful or you're still struggling and trying to get there. It doesn't really matter because books in this library really cater to all levels of successful people, and I have myself personally read every book on this website, and I bet them because they had profound impact on me, either professionally or personally or both. So not every book I've ever read is in here that is just there for you. Just click the buy more buttons next to the book that resonates with you. They're not in any particular order. And trust me, this is not what I would call a moneymaking website that is not the purpose of it. The purpose is to give someone like you a nice starting point if you haven't started reading or another jump off point to continue reading. All right, I'm done blabbing because I'm excited. I want to bring on our special guest expert. And that's exactly what we're going to do right now. Here we go. Get ready. Buckle in.
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It's time for the guest expert, spotlight savvy, skillful, professional, adept, trained, big league qualified. And there she
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Is. Ladies and gentlemen, it is the one, the only Alison Stillman. Yes.
Speaker3:
Thank you so much, Brian. Great to be
Speaker1:
So, so much fun. I cannot wait. Real quick. One tidbit of of housekeeping here for all of you watching live and I see you coming on. It's great to have you here. I see it comments flying in already. We'll get to those in a moment. You see that nice red and white logo up above Ellison's left shoulder on the right. If you're watching this on video, it is the big insider secrets. Why is that important? Because they sponsor this show, and what they do is they allow me the host. They're amazing people. They allow me to give away every single show, a five night stay at a five star luxury resorts and anywhere in. They have multiple destinations Mexico, the United States and around, and they are legitimate vacation days. In other words, you're not going to show up and they're not going to take you down to the basement water torture you into a timeshare. That's not how it works. No, it's a real, legitimate vacation. Say you want to stay on to the end. You have to watch this live on VIDEO. So if you're listening to this on podcast and you want to get part of this, then go to the mind body business show the Mind Body Business Show. Don't forget the don front and down at the bottom of that page. On the main page, you'll see a registration form. All that does is remind you of our next upcoming live show, and it gives you a link.
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Immediately you click and you're watching us, and now you can. Then, as someone who hasn't seen the show and even if you have seen it, if you're here live, you can register to win multiple times. It doesn't matter how many per show won per show, but you can do it multiple shows, so be sure to stick around to the end. You do not want to miss that. Now it is time to introduce respectfully and professionally this amazing, amazing woman to my left your right on the screen. Alison Stillman is an author, transformational leader and an acclaimed, aromatic alchemist. I love that title. Her book, The Sacred Art of Anointing was the first of its kind and continues to educate people about the powerful ancient art of ceremonial anointing and was featured in the Harvard Divinity School Library. And she has also been featured in New York Times best selling books, magazines and radio shows across the country. Alison has been working with thousands of clients around the world to assist them in transforming their lives through her alchemical coaching practices. I got it right. Yes, it is amazing. This is a whole new. This was a whole new concept to me until we spoke. It's been a while now for the first time, but so intriguing. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage. Allison Stillman. This is going to be a lot of fun. I cannot wait.
Speaker3:
Thank you, Brian. Great to be with you.
Speaker1:
And yeah, we're going to dove deep and find out what it is that made you successful and has made you successful so that others can simply model and copy that. I know there's lots of experience that you have. You're obviously a very intelligent woman, very bright. And I'm so blessed that you have come on this show to share your wisdom with our audience and yours as well. And what I love to start with usually is the first word of the show in the title mind because, in my opinion, humble opinion that where we are today, whether we're successful or not, it's one hundred percent due to our own mind what's going on. It's the foundation of all of your success or lack thereof. And I love to find out right off the bat is Alison. When you get up in the morning, you know, being an entrepreneur is super simple, right? We just sway back and forth on a hammock drinking umbrella, umbrella drinks, and we just rake in the money doing nothing, right? No, it's it's arduous. It can be. It's challenging. So when you get up every morning, Alison, knowing that you have challenges ahead of you, setbacks coming up, what does that keeps you driven? What is going through that beautiful brain of yours when you get up and you're about to start another great day of changing the world
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And have such a great question? Well, I start every single day by meditating, so I get my mind in the right place to approach my day. And then one of the next practices that I do after I that I finish that is, I like to write down 10 things I'm grateful for. First thing I do when I wake up because I did a workshop with a gentleman by the name of Sean A. who wrote the happiness advantage, and he's also written a number of different books. He was a neuro scientist neuropsychologist who taught at Harvard. And you can rewire the neurons of our brain, and since the beginning of time, we have. Been hard wired to look for the negative in life, right, because it was a survival thing, and we've maintained that for two hundred and fifty thousand years. And you can override that and learn to create a positive first impulse by doing things like practicing gratitude, adopting the attitude of gratitude. And so if you first thing in the morning before you do anything, get out of bed, you wake up and you go, Oh my gosh, I'm so grateful for my beautiful home. I'm so grateful for this kitty who sleeps right next to me. I'm so grateful for the people that love me. Whatever it is that comes to mind and you write them down because writing clarifies thought and it stimulates the reticular activating system of the brain to bring you more of it, right? So. And also, if you can really get into this practice, you want to do it at night before you go to sleep. Two and maybe 10 is too many. Maybe you want to start with five or three, but get into the practice of first thing. When you wake up looking for the positive and you will train retrain the neurons of your brain to lead with positivity and happiness.
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I so love this, and I've interviewed so many successful people like yourself in the way of being that are successful and many of them do the same similar thing. They have what some would call habits, others call rituals. It's something that they do. It's a discipline. And like you said, some will do in the morning, some will do at night. Some do both. Or or just night. Yeah, or do both. And what I found is it's a common trait of highly successful people is that they have some kind of routine. That's another word for it as well. And what you're outlining here, I think, is of supreme importance to everyone. Watching and listening is like, that stuff doesn't work. If you're thinking that and you're watching or listening to that, you want to kind of erase that stinking thinking because what Alison is saying is absolutely true. I know this by experience, by doing exactly what she's saying. I used to drive long distance and I would just sit there and and say out loud what I'm grateful for. You know, the sky, the clouds, the view I have that no one else sees right now because no one else is in my body looking at what I'm looking at it. I thank God for that. I think. And you just it doesn't matter how ridiculous it can be that it sounds, but it doesn't matter. Know, I'm thankful for that little, that little weed over there and that dead twig over there and that I can see them and everything.
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It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. As long as you exhibit and exercise that grateful muscle, what else it just said is absolutely true. And I used to be that negative person. Alison and I remember back in college, like when I started college and I left the home where I didn't realize I had grown up in a negative environment. As far as what you just said, the mindset always goes to the negative thing first. It was a great childhood. I love my parents, so don't get me wrong with that, but I got to college. Oh my gosh, everyone has an opinion and it's OK to have one. And when I was at home, I couldn't. And it was interesting. So I started doing a lot of work on the mind and NLP got certified there. And everything you're saying is perfect because it all begins right here. And that's why I want to tell, what do you think about this, Alison? Do you think that someone who's getting ready to start a business, let's say, where should they begin? Should they begin on the mechanics of whatever they're going to produce and sell? Or or do you think more they should start working on their own mental state and their mindset before they venture on that? What's your opinion on that one?
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Well, I could go into a long explanation for that. I think, first of all, you have to really get in touch with who you are and what your passions in life are because you have to love what you do. It has to motivate you and drive you to want to serve in in in the way that only you can serve. And so you have to really get in touch with what makes you happy, what drives you, what you're passionate about. I know for me my whole entire life I have known what my mission is, even when I was a little girl and people would say, Oh, what do you want to be when you grow up? And I would just say, I just want to give and receive love, and they'd say, Oh, you can't do that. Honey, you have to be a teacher or a doctor or a nurse. And I'd say, No, I just want to give and receive love. And what I've learned through the many spiritual teachers and transformational mentors and coaches that I've had is that in order to give and receive love, I have to become the vibration of that or the frequency of that. And I know now that my mission is to raise the frequency of love on the planet, and I do it through a lot of different things. I have a lot of different avenues that I work through, and in order to do that, I have to become that. And so for me, that's always paramount. It's number one in all of my practices is so that I can become a better version of myself and serve others and help bring them to the place of a better life and creating more prosperity, abundance, love, whatever it is that they're wanting to manifest in their lives.
Speaker1:
I love that answer, it's so it rings so true, and it's so interesting that there have been two camps on that topic of. You should be passionate about what you do. I've heard two sides, one would say what you say and another would say, Don't worry about that. Just go after maybe something that you're good at and that you have experience in and just going to make the money. And I'm really simplifying this. But I have found personally that what you say to be my truth is to be passionate about what you do to love what you do. Because when you do, you can become the product of the product, a product of the product and represent it, because now you're fully, wholly, totally immersed like you are, Alison. And that way you can give the most to the for me and I can tell it is for you. The most important thing is that who am I or whomever I'm working with gets the results they came for and and I will do everything in my power coaching and otherwise to make sure that that happens because I gain satisfaction when they get success. It's not about my making money that comes, but when you focus on the other person, the outcome of your client or your loved one or whatever, I found personally that the results are manifold better in the end. How is it? Does that resonate with you at all?
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Absolutely. I think the greatest happiness in life comes from being in service to others. And I know for me that my passion for plants and flowers and aromatherapy and and magic and synchronicity has totally changed my life in so many different ways all along the way and brought me to the teachers that I needed and the mentors and the coaches and. And I'm a continual work in progress. I believe that we all need teachers and we all need coaches and we all need mentors because in life you're either growing or you're declining. So you have to make an effort to continually be growing and changing and evolving, or you're just sitting back waiting to die. And and you know, when I first learned that from a business coach I had, I was so resistant to that and I said, I've been in my comfort zone and and then he said, just go outside and look at all the trees and the plants. Are any of them ever stagnant? No, they're always going to seed flowering, dying, reproducing growing growth spurts. And so when I looked at it that way because I was such an affinity to the plant world. I realized, oh, it's true, you have to constantly be growing and evolving and changing, or you're doing the slide back down to inertia and going back under the grass.
Speaker1:
I love that and yeah, resonate with that totally continual work in progress. That was a great phrase. I'm a continual work in progress, always growing. And yeah, for a lot of people, me too. I was resistant to that. In the beginning, it was like, when do we get to rest? When do I get to just say I finally made it? And then I thought about it for a long time, and I thought that would be boring. That would be really boring if I made it to whatever that false image of the ceiling is. And I can't go any farther and I'm just OK. I did it. I can cash it in, become a philanthropist or do whatever I want to do, but don't grow anymore boring. And then I found, I forget who said this, but I like to give credit, but I just can't recall the name of the person. But I they said, what you need to do is start getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. And what that means is stretch out, step out of that out of that comfort zone, get on a show.
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If you've never been on camera, get on a podcast. If you've never been interviewed and really get over that that biggest fear every human on the planet has more than death, and that's the fear of public speaking. Once you crack that, now you'll and then you'll see the results. You'll say, Gosh, that was fun. It gets your heart pumping. It's invigorating. It's, you know, Alison is calm and cool as a cucumber. I'm like shaking in my boots over here and you can't tell, and it's a good shaking in my boots. It's an excitement. It's a positive emotion of I love what I get to do. I love doing this show. I get so much from it. I get to meet amazing, amazing individuals like Alison. I cannot tell you how many. It's just unbelievable. And so the more you step out of your comfort zone, the more you're rewarded. And Alison is testimony of that. And thank you for doing that over and over, Alison, because without you doing that, we wouldn't have your brilliance with this aromatherapy and everything that goes with it.
Speaker3:
Thank you. You know, I just a great acronym for Fear. So we've all heard false evidence appearing real, right? Fall face everything and rise, right? So fear tends to make us contract and restrict and move away from it because it's scary sometimes and sometimes it's justified. You know, if a bear we're chasing, you would probably want to run. But in most cases, especially when it comes to personal development and growth, it's not comfortable, like you said, and are instinctual. Nature is to stay in a box to stay in the cave because if we go out of that cave boy, saber toothed tiger is going to take us down, right? And you have to be willing to face your fear, walk through it and rise above it. Right. That's the whole point of evolution and growth. And that's why personal development and having teachers and coaches and that push you out of your comfort zone so that you can growth is so important.
Speaker1:
Thank goodness you are laying it on thick, and I love it, I mean, good stuff, this is amazing teachers and coaches, every every sentence you are breathing is gold. I mean, there are so much to comment. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Let's go to a we have a question from a viewer, Pamela ously, and let's see how we go with this one, she says. What do you do if you have a bad day? How do you change it right then? So the day? Oh, or do you? Yeah, how do you change it right then? So the day is better? Or do you just go with it and allow the feelings? How does that work for you, Alison?
Speaker3:
Great question, Pamela. So there is a few things that I do. One, of course, is I could always go meditate, which will definitely change the energy. I love putting oils on, so I anoint myself every single morning and I anointed myself before the show and sometimes I anoint myself before I go to sleep. And when you smell certain oils, it changes the emotional center of the brain. That's the first place that is impacted when you inhale an oil so you can change how you're feeling just by smelling. And then another couple of things that I love to do. I love walking in nature, and I like to do walking meditations where I really become one with the forest and the trees and the eagles and the hawks and everything else that comes along my way. And then the last one, which is really a great one, and I learned this from a good friend of mine who's a singer songwriter and her mother used to work in the orphanages in India with Mother Teresa. And so my friend would send over her CDs and her music, and Mother Teresa would play the music for the children, and she would make them dance every single day for 20 minutes. And she said that if you dance for 20 minutes a day, you'll always be happy. So if I wake up and I'm not there and my practices, don't get me there, I have my favorite dance playlist and I put that on and I just dance like nobody's watching. Of course, only the only one really watching is my cat. I just go for it and I get all that energy out, and then I can do things like, say, positive affirmations and and statements that are empowering. And so I can change the behavior and the emotional centers of my brain by doing that.
Speaker1:
So not just one answer, Pamela. That's how wonderful Alison is, she's got it from multiple angles. I mean, I don't dance, but I will run outside and in my bare feet, so I'm earthed onto the grass and do some jumping jacks to get the heart pumping. Look up at the sun, get some vitamin D going. Yeah, I mean, I used to think all of this stuff, Allison. I used to think all of it was a bunch of woo woo, you know, once a bunch of stuff. Give me a break because, you know, the whole meal thing. Yeah, sudden. Brilliant says, I love that. Just dance. Yes. Yes, yeah. Pamela says, thank you. She likes all of those options. So yeah, thank you. Great question. Pamela, I appreciate that. Paige, I don't want to overstep, she commented. Earlier on before we started, I have a big picture outline of what and who would be optimal to have my business. That's great. Defining your avatar, you're your ideal client. That is very important that you have that page. So good job there and we can go to that later. But this is an organic show. We just go with the flow, and Allison makes that really simple. I got to tell you, she's an amazing woman and very, as you can tell, very experienced, very skilled, very knowledgeable, very intelligent.
Speaker1:
So all of those are perfect reasons to do what she does. Follow her and I'm telling you so I recommend everybody take notes writing it on. I'm producing the show, starring in it, directing it. Well, know Alison is a star, but I myself am taking notes throughout the entire show, so I'm not ever saying anything to do that. I wouldn't do myself, and I implore of you to do the same because first take the notes. There's great, a great sequence that goes with this learn, which is what you're doing now with Alison. You write it down. Then you go back to what you wrote down and then you do. So you put it into action and then you put it into action at such a deep level. Then soon thereafter, you then teach when you teach. That is when it's ingrained at the deepest level of the learning system, and that is a great formula or strategy for success. So get out and dance. She said. Do it. You wrote it down. Get out and dance. Now go tell somebody else to do the same thing you've done to learn. Do teach. Pretty simple. It's not rocket
Speaker3:
Science. So I just have to say, Brian, that when we first had our conversation and I mentioned some oils that you should be using, you know, when you say that it's kind of woo woo, you have become woo woo because you are now using essential oils.
Speaker1:
Oh yeah, and I don't think it's woo woo anymore. And and when you first said it to me, I had reached a point in my life. I'm open to all of these. I know that having talked to, you know, before, learning what you did just did a little bit. I knew you knew what you were talking about. I knew you had a success. I just go when people have success, I don't question things like I used to. I just go with it. And it's like, that sounds really odd. Instead of questing, I get a deeper interest. I get a more deeper curiosity. And you talked about, you know, we all start, we're wired to be negative thinkers and put up the woo woo symbol and say, Get away from me. I don't want to do that. I love being able to be curious and say, Wow, there's a gentleman I had on that did breathwork that helped heal just by breathing techniques, and I thought, Wow, that is. I've never heard of that until we had that. And then I did it with him. He had he gave me a session and it was like, Oh my God, it was awesome.
Speaker1:
So I'm wide open to it all now and to everybody out there, be discerning. Be sure you, you do your research on the person or persons making those claims. With Alison, I can vet for her. She is phenomenal. Without without batting an eye, you can trust what Alison says works and is true just to put that out there. But yeah, there's I don't have woo in my vocabulary anymore. As far as the way I feel about things, it's just curiosity now and then take it to the next step. And yeah, and because of Alison, I have running right next to me on my desk, essential oils. And in fact, one of those that she recommended to me when we spoke some time ago. So thank you for that. He's probably I'm still like just jazzed in high energy right now, just because I put a nice little a little cocktail in there. A combination of goodies in there, it's like, Ooh, I love it. So this is
Speaker3:
My oil is going in the background as well.
Speaker1:
I love it. Hello. Is it hilly? Hilly? How are you doing? Great to have you on. So, so great to have folks coming on and saying, Hi, I love that. Do you have a question? Go ahead and write that in the chat as well. We'll get to it. Time permitting. If you have a question for Alison, she's the guest. She is the expert. It's not the guest. She's the expert. I'm going to reframe that. So I talked about in the beginning the skill sets, you know, mastering skill sets for a business. And then I'm definitely going to following this question, ask you more about your business and how people can benefit from what you do. And leading into that, though, there are many, many, many skill sets that are paramount, they're just absolutely mandatory for any business to succeed if you were to narrow it down to the top three skill sets that you currently believe. So based on where you are today, because it's different for everybody, but where you are today in your business, what would you say are the top three skill sets that you would implore of others to work toward mastering for their business?
Speaker3:
I think we kind of touched on the first one before is my willingness to continue to grow and learn and evolve and use that learning experience to share experience and wisdom and value with others. So that it's not just me saying, Oh, this is going to be so great for you based on science or what I've read, it's no I walk through this. I know this works and I know this can really help you. And I think really having strong connections with the people that you serve, building strong relationships is really an important thing. And I think bringing as much value to the people that you serve as possible are the top three that come to my mind now. You know, everyone's got to do all the little things that you do, the website and all that stuff. But to me, that's very secondary to to I think really it's leading with a heart based business.
Speaker1:
Yeah. It's so true, you know, all the mechanical things like the website and marketing and sales, they are very important to learn and master. But if you don't have the the baseline, the the foundation built like you've just eloquently detailed out there, Alison, willingness to learn and building strong relationships, that is a huge one. Oh my goodness, I could go all day on that one. I used to be the kind. I'm an automation freak. I love automation, anything to do with automation. I'm a software engineer from days gone by and I just love anything I can do on a computer that will make my life and other lives easier. And I always thought if I just built a massive list and just automated the emails and they went out, I just sit back and rake it in. And I found out the long and hard way that is not how it works. You actually need to build one on one relationships, which takes time. And for automation freaks, that's not an efficient use of our time in our mind. But it is. It's the most efficient use, and you just learn how to sift and sort and make great relationships, not always with the intent of selling them. Just see if there's a many times I'll have folks on my show, Alison, and by the time we're done, sometimes I become a client of theirs. I don't look at it as I want to make somebody a client of mine. I look at it as, let's just have a chat and see where it goes. And because of you, I've learned so many great things about aromatherapy and things.
Speaker1:
It's just it's amazing. So just go with an open mind. That's just my two cents. I don't know why. I just went off on a massive tangent and kept going, but and then bringing bringing as much value that is. So I can tell you care. Alison, you care about the people that work you work with. You want to give them the best experience possible, the best results possible. And you wouldn't you wouldn't have said that if that wasn't true. And so I think you're talking about the foundation of the greatest skill sets to to develop. And I think I don't think there's a wrong answer to that question, by the way, but I think it's a really solid one. I'll give you that for sure. Very solid. Thank you. Yes, totally agree. What do we got? No, nobody else over there. That's good. So, OK, your business. I wanted to go touch on that. I love. I love hearing about other successful entrepreneurs and who they cater to. So what would this is a multi multi part question. Who would you? Who do you say is who are the people you cater to on a normal basis? Are they say, entrepreneurs, corporate companies, individuals who are not in business or some mixture are none of the above? And then do you have a success story or two that you would like to share with everyone? And while you do that, I'll bring up your website so folks can get a look at that as well.
Speaker3:
So I would say that I cater to everyone. It doesn't it doesn't matter if they're entrepreneurs or they work in corporate or they don't. I really love working with people who want to change their lives, who aren't happy where they are. They are feeling stuck. They're not manifesting what they want to manifest. And I have learned I did a very intensive study with Bob Proctor, who has just this last month left our planet, and I'm so eternally grateful for everything that I've learned. And one of the things that I've learned from him and and also one of my mentors now is Dr. Joe Dispenser, is that we all come in to this Earth. And when we're born were these pure divine beings and we have to fit in to Earth. And it's an experiential realm and we go, Oh, wow, what am I doing here? What? How do I do this? What do I do? And you look to your mom and your dad and you borrow their beliefs and then you borrow your family's beliefs and your community's beliefs. And by the time you're five years old, all of your subconscious programing is intact. And then you have experiences in your life that start to build up these walls so that you survive and free will zone of suffering and you learn mechanisms to to be in this world and you're run by your subconscious programing.
Speaker3:
And so what Bob was really great at showing me is that until you change the subconscious programing, you're going to keep getting the same results. And so part of the work that I do is this transformational life coaching or alchemy coaching. I like to call it conscious alchemy coaching. And I'm really good because I've been doing it for 35 years of honing in on what those subconscious programs are. And I, it's just one of the gifts that I have from doing it for so long. Intuitively, I can ask the questions that get you to the subconscious programs that may be holding you back from really achieving what it is that you want in your life and working with the essential oils that work with the limbic system of the emotional behavioral centers and long term memory. You can change your subconscious programing and you can change the neural networks of your brain, the emotional behavioral centers, and you can completely write, write your story. You can completely write a different story. And I'll give you an example I have a a client. She's actually become a good friend. I tend to fall in love with my clients because I get to know them so intimately, but I've known her for about 30 years and she came for a session this probably seven eight years ago and I said, OK, what do you really want? What's the end game here? What are you wanting to manifest in your life? And she said, You know, I really want to buy a house, and I said, OK.
Speaker3:
This was in December said, put a date on it. When do you want to buy that house? And she said, I want to buy it one year from today, December next year. And I said, OK, great. We did the work, you know, work together for like two hours online. And I created a special blend for her and gave her her homework for months. Actually, three and a half months later, she sends me a text saying I just bought my house and I'm like, Oh, so I have lots of stories like that, you know, they just bring me so much joy because people, you know, when you really want to change, you can create anything. You know, quantum physics is such a great field to study these days because they're really showing us scientifically who we really are. You know, we've bought into the belief that we're just these human beings having a human experience. No, we're not. We're these supernatural creator beings that are having a human experience, but we can create and manifest anything we want. We just have to know what it really is that we want, and we have to reprogram ourselves to become the frequency of that which we're seeking to attain.
Speaker1:
Yeah. And being by being intentional about it and proclaiming it and then going through work with someone like Alison Stillman to make it happen, it sounds. Do you have neuro linguistic programing background?
Speaker3:
Not intentionally, consciously, but I'm sure there's a little bit of that in there. You know, I've read about it and studied it a little bit. But no, not not official training.
Speaker1:
It's very similar in sound, except for the aromatherapy, of course, and it's cool that you've got that, that what you call a sixth sense about it, where you have the ability to find out what's going on subconsciously and what programing needs to be reprogramed. And that's the good news for everyone is that we are we do have programing going on in our brains. It's like a supercomputer. The good news is it can be reprogramed for better, and Alison is one of those that can help you do that. And when would now be the right time to contact Alison Stillman, right? Like that throwing one would now be the right time to do that on purpose for fun. Oh, there's a question that I literally had the same question earlier in my mind. I just didn't bring it to the front, but I'm going to give credit to sudden brilliance. Asked what is the process of creating an anointing routine? What does that involve?
Speaker3:
Well, I started, gosh, this is probably thirty two years ago. I had a past life remembrance when I was in an aromatherapy class with one of the world's leading aroma therapists who's a doctor who's written a million books and. And it was the first time I ever smelled pure frankincense oil and frankincense is a psychoactive oil, which means it induces visionary states, which is why it's been used for thousands of years in religious and spiritual ceremony. And to this day, is still used in a lot of the sacraments of the church and is diffused in sanctuaries to sanctify them before people come in. And I have this experience and I went back in time. That's all I can say, and I started using frankincense. I bought some from the teacher and started using it in my meditations, and I remembered the anointing rites of passage that were done in the temples of Egypt thousands of years ago. And I started playing with it after about six months and putting people on friends on the table and anointing them with different oils. And I've been using essential oils for forty five, forty eight years now, so I have a pretty big collection of them. And I started putting people on the table and they started having these amazing experiences and I went, Wow, this is really something.
Speaker3:
So the very definition of anointing is to take an oil or blessed water and to rub it on someone or something as an act of consecration. And when you consecrate something you're making or declaring it sacred and divine. So a very simple anointing ritual that you can do for yourself is to take lavender, frankincense, blue, chamomile, whatever oils you have and put them in a carrier oil like Mahoba, oil or olive oil, whatever. You have apricot kernel oil so that they're not too strong. You never really want to use essential oils undiluted on the skin and make a little anointing blend, and you can anoint all the energy centers of your body. And not only will it bring you into place of alignment and balance in your body, but it'll also balance the emotional center and it will give you a sense of comfort and protection and strength when you're out in the world, which I think these days is so important. I don't go out into the world without anointing my whole body with oils because it sets up this frequency, this energetic frequency around my body, the electromagnetic field that we all have strengthens that so that we're not feeling all of the effects of everybody else's emotional states these days.
Speaker1:
That's important for sure. I guess I loved how you said Frankincense, because that's what's in my diffuser right now. It's probably a little blurry, but that's what that is and got it for you. Other fun mixtures in there. I love Frankincense. It's a good smell as well. And yeah, that's the other thing. So I was curious that too is like, do you apply it to your skin? Do you apply it to your clothes? I mean, that kind of thing. So I see it with olive oil or something like that.
Speaker3:
Yes.
Speaker1:
Ok. And look with it and don't ingest it, correct?
Speaker3:
Correct.
Speaker1:
I just want to make sure people know it's not for cooking. If you know there's olive oil included there, to be sure we're safe, but. Great question. Thank you for that. That was phenomenal. I'm checking time. We're good on time. You are an amazing entrepreneur. You're saving, you're saving, I said saving, you're changing and you're saving lives, no doubt you're helping people find a home in nine months quicker than they wanted. That's pretty amazing. And what would you say? From the point of view of being an entrepreneur, what is your absolute favorite, favorite favorite aspect of being an entrepreneur? You know, running your own ship, going your own path instead of following one that someone else is telling you where to go, what is your favorite aspect of it?
Speaker3:
Helping people change their lives, that's the number one thing, and in terms of my own personal benefit from it, I I like the freedom of being an entrepreneur. I like not trading time for money, and I like building my dreams as opposed to building somebody else's dreams.
Speaker1:
There it is. That's the source. That's the source right there. Building, Oh my goodness, still resonate with all that. Having been in corporate myself as well, it's like I literally looked at. Coworkers in sadness because they had no plan beyond what they were doing that day. I mean, it was just go punch the clock, get your your usual paycheck. At least they can count on it. So they like security and please nobody, please don't take this the wrong way. I have nothing negative to say about those who wish to be employees and work at corporations. We need them. We need them. We need all of us. We need entrepreneurs. There are percentagewise. There are far fewer entrepreneurs by far than there are employees, and that's OK. It takes a special breed not to say you're not special if you're an employee. I guess I just seem to be apologizing the whole time. But everyone's amazing. Everyone has a place. We're all put on this planet with different gifts, with the different talents. And it just it depends on what one person wants in their life. And if it's to be secure and have a job and be able to know that you're getting paid a certain amount every two weeks, every month, whatever happens to be, then that's fine.
Speaker1:
That's great. But it does take a different breed of person because it's a never ending moving wave of fun. And it goes up. It goes down, it goes up, it goes down. It can go up, up, up and down, down, down. It just it's I think it's thrilling, to be honest. I love it. It would be boring just to continue to do what I was doing back in the day, and I'll do that every day that we just uh, and I see people that work for the companies that have things on their license plate that identify them as working for another company, like the company's name and things. I'm like, Oh my, I know. And you know, Alison, that every individual has so much more to give than just that. And it kind of saddens me in a little bit and there's any way I can help them. I'd love to, but a lot of them have made up their mind and it's difficult to get them out of that rut. And that's OK. They want to be where they want to be and happy. That's fine. It's all about being happy with where you are. I just did a whole blab there. Do you have any anything to add to that?
Speaker3:
Well, I get what we were saying earlier. You have to be willing to change and change involves discomfort and you have to be willing to walk through that discomfort. And again, it's that makes us fearful. And I love the face everything and rise above it, right?
Speaker1:
I think you hit the nail on the head discomfort, that's the primary reason. Yeah. And yeah, I was in that comfort zone for quite some time myself and I totally can get that. Yep. It's like it's uncomfortable to change and it is a huge change. It's a big one. But some can, you know, ease the ease. The transition by this is what I did. I first started getting into network marketing companies like Multilevel Marketing because there was still a company that had the foundation and all of the things, you know, they did all the payroll, they did all the stuff behind the scenes that I wouldn't have to do. It wasn't such a monumental undertaking right out of the chute, and I could learn how to do better at sales. They could learn how to present in front of people back in the day when we did, you know, in the room type meetings and things. So there was a lot of great things about that. So there are different degrees in which you can go about. I did consignment, I saw greeting cards on consignment. I carried these big old racks around and put them in liquor stores and malls, and then I would go replenish them and then think real quickly. It's like, Man, I'm not making enough money for the work involved here. I'm moving on. So he doesn't learn and you continue. That's why this show is here. So you can just follow and model Alison Stillman and others like her and get there quicker and not go through the trial and error and do what she said. Be sure you're passionate about what you do, and darn near anything is monetizable. If that's a word, do you agree with that one, Alison, that no matter what your passion, there is a business that can be built around it.
Speaker3:
I do, because we all have unique qualities and characteristics. There's nobody else like you. You are you and you have attributes that no one else has. And and there's a need for that in the world. And and I just wanted to mention to I love network marketing. I have done quite a few different businesses over the years because it's a great way to bring products to the market really quickly. But I think the bigger thing about network marketing and multilevel marketing is that it allows you to become the CEO of your own business, right? And in in the corporate world, one percent of the people become CEOs at the expense of the ninety nine percent. And this gives them that ninety nine percentile gives them the ability to become the CEO of their own business. And and it's a great it's a great way to really jump into personal development because talk about getting uncomfortable.
Speaker1:
Yes. Yeah, they make it sound so easy. And so network marketing has been given a black eye for a lot of good reason. I used to I used to own a network marketing company back way back in the day. It was a travel based company and it got a black eye. The industry did, and it was due mostly to due to companies that were not operating on the up and up. They were not following the guidelines of the rules or they were making promises that there was no way they would be able to keep them. And it just gave it a bad stigma. And there are wonderful companies out there. That's the whole point of this little blurb is to say there are many wonderful, wonderful companies that are helping people change their lives. The thing with network marketing is so many companies make it sound like it's so easy. All you need to do is clone yourself. Oh, sorry, replicate yourself by bringing in someone that's like you, which is nearly impossible. And then you can just sit back and rake in the dough. No, you got to work. You got to work hard, you got to work long, and you got to really be after it. It doesn't change. It's nothing's easy. Nothing is as easy as they make it seem.
Speaker1:
Some of the businesses, some are up front, say, you're going have to work your butt off. Thank you. That's what I want to hear. I want to hear the truth. But yeah, they are amazing. That's a great entry point. If anyone's looking to break that seal of the corporate life, that would probably be a very good first step to go to one of them. I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend consignment greeting cards on consignment. I just wouldn't do it. It was a good learning. You know, I look at, I look back at it. I don't think, Oh gosh, I wish I hadn't done that. I'm glad I did. I learned from it. I learned what I don't want to do. You know, you always learn like you said, always be learning. I love that if. We're talking about so, Bob, Bob Proctor has recently passed, and there are others that have been great individuals, men and women alike that have walked this planet who have done great things. And if you were able to basically have a conversation in real time with any person that is no longer with us from history. If there was one person you could think of that, you would just like to have a chat with. Who might that person be and then why?
Speaker3:
The first person that comes to my mind is Napoleon Hill, who wrote Think and grow rich and. And the reason for that is that first of all, that book is amazing was life changing for me. But he was really onto quantum science long before quantum physics came into the realm. And that book is really based on quantum laws of manifestation. And it took him 20 years to write it, and it's a brilliant book on the quantum laws of manifestation, the universal laws of manifestation. And I would love to just hear what he learned along the way.
Speaker1:
Yeah, I mean, I think it consisted of a large number of interviews of other highly successful people. That would be interesting because he would be like kind of the surrogate in between all of these people. So you can get a lot of information about a lot of people from one individual. That's a great one.
Speaker3:
Yeah. You know, it's interesting, too, because I'll just share the one thing that that, you know, was the strongest part of that for me that he here he interviewed five hundred families over 20 years to learn what they all did to create enormous wealth in their families. And the one thing that they all did and there was only one is, they said affirmations out loud two to three times a day.
Speaker1:
There you have it. It's not woo, woo. And so if you're resistant or hesitant, not you, Alison, but those watching and listening if you are resistant or hesitant to follow that advice. And I would just say you're resistant or hesitant to be successful because it's just like making a very good cake. I don't eat cake, but that's just frosting came in my mind. And so to do that, if I was given a cookbook with the recipe for a phenomenal cake, I guess German chocolate cake was my favorite as a kid. I used to love that if I was given a recipe with the directions, the measurements, the time, you know, stir it up in a pan, use this whisk. Put it in the oven for a certain amount of time. Take it out. Put the frosting on. If I was giving that, having never baked a cake myself, I'm pretty confident I could. I can make a pretty darn good cake. Why? Because I have the right recipe. The same is true in business. All you need is the right recipe. As Brian says, pointing at Allison, saying that for the podcast, listeners who are listening only and all you need is one recipe.
Speaker1:
There are many, many recipes for great cakes tons. And you can be successful at making a lot of different cakes, but in business, you only need one recipe. It doesn't matter where it comes from. It doesn't matter if it's got different ingredients. As long as it's congruent with your value system, you just find one that works and we have one sitting right in front of you. Her name's Allison Stillman. She has the recipe. Just connect with her. Oh my gosh. I just look at the time. It was perfect timing. Just connect with her and then go back to that cake that she gives you the recipe for. And then you'll see great results like the woman who wanted a house in a year and she got in three months. Huh? Is that a coincidence? No. Allison knows what she's doing, and she's there to help you. That's the other beautiful thing she wants the best for you. And so with that, I wanted to give you an opportunity real quick, Allison. You got a quick gift. Bring up your website again, and you can tell people how to get that gift. And I think everyone should do this. That's watching or listening.
Speaker3:
Yeah. So this is based on a lot of work that I did with Bob Proctor and Dr. Joe and around my coaching business. And it's a book that I wrote, a small book that I wrote called How to Transform Your Life, and it's based on the practices of gratitude. And you can go to my website, which is Allison Stillman, and just sign up to get the book and then you'll get a link to download the book for free.
Speaker1:
And yeah, I mean, everyone who's watching this, everyone is listening to this. Write this down. It's there are two L's twice. Alison Stillman That's a. I own. S T, I L L M A N doing that for our listening guests. So Alison Stillman go there and it's it's above the fold. You'll see it near the top. Scroll down just a hair and there's a place for you to put in your first name and your email address, and then you will get a free gift from Alison. And you know what, even though it's free, I'm sure it's valued at much greater than zero dollars. And one of the things that I just implore upon anyone who takes advantage of this is to treat it as though you just paid nine hundred and ninety seven dollars for it, because if you don't value it, you won't open it, you won't divulge it, or you won't not divulge you won't devour it. It's another word you won't go through the content and take the action that is presented therein. So thank you for that and we're not done. Ladies and gentlemen, stick around. I haven't forgotten. There is still another price to give away. You all probably remember that, and we'll do that in just a moment. And one of the things, Alison, I know her. Gosh, I can't believe we're near the end already. One of the things I love to do to close out every show is I like to ask each guest a particular question and what I found over.
Speaker1:
I can say it over the years, I've been doing this for about three years this show. The answers have been profound. It just been amazing. And it's been just a joy to get the reaction from each individual. And it's a powerful question. It can be a little bit personal. I'll explain that a little bit more in a second. But before I do that, for everyone to stay with us live, good job because now you're going to learn how you can win a five night stay at a five star luxury resort. Compliments of our friends at the big insider secrets. The CEO is Jason Nest, a dear dear friend of mine. I'm going to put it up on the screen now. And so for just a moment, you have our permission to take your attention away just long enough to put this your all in. In fact, maybe better write it down. Well, I'll keep this open for a couple of hours after the show's over. Write this URL down and then enter to win. It doesn't matter how quick you enter it, that's not going to change the the odds of your winning. So you can go to our I am for vacation. Open up your browser and go to this website WIP, which stands for Reach Your Peak, which is my company name.
Speaker1:
R.i.p. I am forward slash vacation. Make sure it's all lowercase. And look, we're not going to. You're not going to get any sales materials of any kind. You're just going to be entered into the offer or the the giveaway to win a vacation. And you will also be added to a notification of our next live show. And if you don't want to receive those anymore, you're going to opt out. We honor opt outs, unlike some others, so we don't want you to go through anything you don't want. Like to respect your wishes and that's that. So go ahead and do that. I can't wait to see who wins, and we have one amazing final, earth shattering question to ask Alison. And now, after all that buildup, she's probably going to what the heck is this question? Well, the cool thing about this question, Alison, is there is no such thing as a wrong answer. It flat out does not exist, so that can. The exact opposite is true. The only correct answer is yours. That's the only thing that makes this personal because it's unique to you and. Yeah, that's it, so I know you're a vet on these podcasting shows and things, so you're probably not nervous at all. I get that you're a professional. Are you ready for this big, amazing question?
Speaker3:
I just have one other question before you ask me that question, can I enter the contest to win the trip? Absolutely.
Speaker1:
We have had guests win. Yes, I'm not kidding. Yes. So yeah, you have competition out there. Those of you that are watching live, Alison's going to enter. She might win. And yes, good question.
Speaker3:
I'm ready for the question. I'm teasing.
Speaker1:
All right. Here we go. That's a good way to get the get a good steak going. Here we go. All right, Alison Stillman. How do you. Define success.
Speaker3:
I think the ability to go to sleep at night with a smile in my heart and knowing that I've made the world a better place.
Speaker1:
Hmm. I love it. Love it, love it, and I love how you took a moment. You know, some get it like instantly, others take a moment like you did, and that's the other thing, it's just right. It's because it's yours, and I could tell that was you went deep with that and. That was authentic and beautiful. And thank you for that, because what I'm going to do eventually is put together a collaborative book with all of these answers, including yours, and I'll then reach out to you for your permission to add it into the book and give you some more exposure. I know you don't want that, but we'll definitely make sure that happens. I'm kidding, but definitely not kidding on the book. And with that,
Speaker3:
You can have my permission. I already give it.
Speaker1:
All right, it's done good. Yeah, I'm going to compile that, and it's going to be a fun, wonderful book. And it's interesting, Alison. I'm not kidding. No two people yet. I've been doing this three years, this show and that question for three years, no two people have answered it the same way yet. I always say yet because I'm expecting it to happen, but it's so unique to every individual their definition of success. So what does that tell everyone out there? I'm not successful yet. Well, according to your definition, maybe. Which is the right definition, that's your answer. But in other in other people's eyes, maybe you are a resounding success. How many times have you heard that? Well, my gosh, you've made $10 million and you've got the mansion, you got the the spouse of your dreams. You're successful as heck down. They're going on having achieved what I set up to achieve it. So I don't feel that way. It's amazing. I love this. And Alison, I love you for coming on the show. Thank you so much. You've been an absolute treat. Oh my gosh. Incredible wisdom, intelligence and results. And for those of you watching listening. Alison Stillman, two LS and the Alison to Alison Stillman, go and opt in to get that e-book and get in contact with her. And on that note, real quick, Alison. What is an alternative or potentially even better way to get in contact with you? My God, I'm tongue tied tonight. Is it just social media email you're choosing? So folks can reach out to you and start a conversation
Speaker3:
About social media? My email is a l'Élysée at Alison Stillman. People can always email me. Yeah.
Speaker1:
Fantastic. Yeah. Just look up, Alison Stillman on social media, I'm sure. And you just have to see this beautiful face and you know that you found her and you're in and you can start friending her and and be be professional about it, be courteous and know that her time is valuable, as is yours. We get that. And just take advantage of her brilliance. But don't take advantage of her. How's that? All right. I love it. Alison, thank you so much. I deeply appreciate you coming on the show. It's been an absolute blast. We are going to call it a night. That is it for tonight on the Mind Body Business Show, I'm your host, Brian Kelly, and we will be back again next week with another phenomenal episode until then. So long, everybody and be blessed.
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Allison Stillman
Allison Stillman is an author, transformational leader, and acclaimed Aromatic Alchemist. Her book, The Sacred Art of Anointing was the first of its kind and continues to educate people about the powerful, ancient art of ceremonial anointing, and was featured in the Harvard Divinity School Library. She has also been featured in NY Times Bestselling Books, magazines and radio shows across the country. Allison has been working with thousands of clients around the world to assist them in transforming their lives through her alchemical coaching practices.
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So, here's the big question. How are entrepreneurs like us, who have been hustling and struggling to make it to success, who seem to make it one step forward, only to fall two steps back. Who are dedicated, determined, and driven. How do we finally break through and win? That is the question, and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Brian Kelly, and this is The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show.
Brian Kelly:
Hello, everyone, and welcome, welcome, welcome to The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. Super excited for tonight's show. We have not just one, not two, not three, but four, four amazing guest experts who are joining me tonight right here on this very stage.
Brian Kelly:
They are waiting in the wings at this moment. So let's get busy. Shall we? The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show, that is a show about what I call the three pillars of success, and that came about as a result of my study of only successful people in the last decade or so. And these patterns kept bubbling to the top and those patterns being mine, which is mindset set. Each and every successful person, to a person, had a very powerful and flexible mindset. So I learned that and said," I need to implement that". Then body: body is about literally taking care of yourself. Through nutrition and through exercise, exercising on a regular basis, and again that was another pattern of very successful people and in business. These successful people had mastered the skill-sets that were necessary to create, maintain, and grow a thriving business. They're wide and varied. It's like marketing, sales, team-building, systematizing. It goes on and on and on, leadership. There's no one person, in my humble opinion, that could master every single one of these. All you have to do is master just one, and I actually mentioned one of those. It was in that list. I don't know if anyone caught that, but if you master just one of those skill sets then you're good to go. That skill set is leadership. When you've mastered the skill set of leadership, you can then delegate those skills off to people who have those skill sets. See where I'm going? Good. That's what successful people do; the ones that I studied, anyway, over the course of about 10 years. That's what this show's about. It's a show for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. I got four guests waiting, and I'm not going to wait any longer. So, I think we should just bring them on. What do you think? Let's do it.
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Brian Kelly:
And there they all are. These amazing, beautiful guests on The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. How are you all doing? Altogether, too. That was phenomenal, I love that. So real quick. All of you, I hope you don't mind for just a moment. I want to do some housekeeping? I wanted to mention to everyone watching here live. If you stay with us till the end, you can win a five night stay at a five star luxury resort. All compliments of our friends at The big insider secrets dotcom. You see them flying by on the bottom of the screen right now. It's an amazing, amazing vacation stay. Stay until the end, and you'll learn how you can enter to win that wonderful prize. We also have this. If you're struggling with putting on a live show, and it's overwhelming and you want a lot of the processes done for you while still enabling you to put on a high-quality show. And connect with great people like the ones we have tonight, and to grow your business all at the same time, then head on over to carpet bomb marketing dotcom. Carpet bomb marketing, saturate the marketplace with your message. One of the key components that is contained in the carpet bomb marketing courses, and this is one that you'll learn how to absolutely master, is the very service we use to stream our live shows right here on The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. Over the course of the past, now it's over nine years, we have tried many of these, "TV studio solutions" for live streaming. I'll tell you right now, Stream Yard is the best of the best. It combines supreme ease of use along with unmatched functionality. So, go ahead. You can start streaming high-quality, professional live shows for free. Yes, I said it. For free, with Stream Yard right now. Visit this website, and do this after the show over. Take notes while the show is going. So write this down R-Y-P dot I-M forward-slash stream live. R-Y-P dot I-M forward-slash stream live. Fantastic. Now let's get to the real fun, and the fun is these amazing people. Dylan, Julie, Tim, Christian. How are you all doing tonight? Thank you for being on this amazing show. Yes. So, what I'd like to do is open it up. Let the folks get to know you just a little bit now. Ok, guys. We're talking sixty seconds or less. All right. Just lay it low here, but we'll just go and order. I usually go ladies first, but let's just go around the circle. It's easier for me who's running the show. So. That's what's important. Right? So, let's start with Dylan Shinholser. Go ahead. Take it away. Give us a little brief background about you, what you do, and your business.
Dylan Shinholser:
Yeah, absolutely. So like I said, my name is Dylan Shinhoser. I own a couple of different businesses. I'm owner of a company called, "Experience Events", which is event management. I'm also a director of business development at a virtual event, event ticketing, and virtual event platform called, "ViewStub". As well as a co-host of another show called, "Event Masters", where I just ramble all day, every day about how to produce better experiences. It's really all I know and love to do is events. That is my less than 60-second pitch about myself.
Brian Kelly:
That's a good one, too. I'll tell everybody I've spoken with you in person. We had a call some time ago, and this gentleman, Dylan, is made of integrity and great character. So, reach out to him if you need any assistance in any of the areas he talked about, or if you just want to say hi to a really great guy. Then get in contact with him, and at the end of the show, we'll go through that. Please. Somebody remind me if I forget how to contact each of you. Because that's very important to me. This is the reason I bring this show to the forefront. (It) is to bring people like you into the lives of those who may not know who you are yet, and even those that do, to experience even more of your brilliance, your experience, your knowledge, and your value. It's not about me. This is about you. Always, always. Every time. I have one guest, usually. I just feel like I'm in this big family right now. But let's keep moving. Julie Riley, amazing young woman. Take it away.
Julie Riley:
Yes. So, I am Julie Riley. I am the social media manager at StreamYard. The platform we're using right now. Prior to my time with StreamYard, I owned my own marketing agency. I've been in digital marketing since two thousand and seven. So the very, very early days of the start of it is when I jumped in(to) digital marketing, and I love just being able to help others succeed in their business.
Brian Kelly:
Fantastic, and I will also say that I have spoken with Julie in the past. Both through a typewritten chat form and verbally. I think it was Clubhouse first time, which was phenomenal. Yet another phenomenal person, incredible integrity, and character. And yes, you're going to notice there's a pattern about this with the remaining two. It's the same thing. Hopefully, we can get the last one to talk a little bit. That will be nice. I'm just having fun because we were having fun before the show started. The one smiling. The biggest down there with the green hood; not pointing anyone out or anything. Thank you, Julie, for coming on. Yes. These people, Julie and Christian specifically, I know Christians coming up here in second. They're non-stop. They don't stop working. It's evident because of the very software research we're using right now. It's of grand quality for a reason. It's because of people like Julian Christian who keep everything rolling smoothly on the back end. Dylan's there nodding his head emphatically because he gets it. It's a lot of work, and they're doing it masterfully and we appreciate you. All right. Enough of the favoritism here that felt like favoritism. Julie's our favorite. Timothy McNeely! My buddy, my friend from just a little north of where I reside. I believe. If I remember.
Timothy McNeely:
Central California, baby. Bakersfield. Yeah, my name is Tim McNeely. Today, so many dentists and driven entrepreneurs are just not sure if they're getting advice that really makes a difference for them. They may have a financial adviser who is giving them some advice on their investment portfolio, but they're not really sure that they're on the right track to really maximize their net worth outside of their business. That's what I help them do. Maximize your net worth so that you can keep taking care of the people you love, support the causes you care about, really make that difference in the world, and build an amazing life of significance. I love doing streaming because I get to talk to some of the best of the best out there and share the knowledge with the beautiful entrepreneurial community.
Brian Kelly:
I'll tell you something on a personal note as well. Literally, we talked earlier today, Tim and I, on a Zoom call. He just reached out to me and said, "let's catch up." I had him on the show some time ago as a single, solo guest, and he was phenomenal. We've just kind of maintained a relationship, a friendship ever since. He just wanted to reach out and say, "Hi" and "What's up? What do you want to talk about?" We just started talking about business and things. He gave me resources that will help me in my business, and hopefully, I reciprocated it somehow. I don't know if I did, but it is the people like Tim, like Julie, like Dylan, like Christian. That is the cloth that they are all cut from. They are here to help people. That's why I love entrepreneurs. I love all of you. I mean it. I do. I love you. You guys are amazing. I didn't even get a crack at a Christian on that one. Jeez, I mean... there we go. That's a little better, but I'm telling you, he's working on StreamYard our stuff right now as we're on the show. I mean, I'm.
Christian Karasiewicz:
I'm really trying not to, seriously.
Brian Kelly:
The founder Geige Vandentop. If you ever watch this, there's a message to you. Ease up on your people. Alright? Just having fun. Alright, Timothy, you're an amazing guy. Thank you for spending your valuable time and coming on here. As well as Dylan, Julie, and the ever so talkative one, Christian. I'm not going to attempt to say your last name. I'll let you take care of that one. Welcome to the show, Christian. Let's hear all about your brilliance.
Christian Karasiewicz:
Sure. Thanks a lot for having me. My name is Christian Kerasiewicz. I'm the content marketing manager at StreamYard. So, pretty much anything you see on our blog that we're going to soon be launching. I'm the mastermind behind that. So, I do that. In addition to that, I also host live stream reviews, a YouTube show. We also do on the StreamYard YouTube channel where we invite people on to talk about their live streams and help them work through some of their problems, some of their challenges that they might be having with getting community or building a show. Thanks a lot for having me. I appreciate it.
Brian Kelly:
Oh, my gosh. Thank you again, Christian, for your time and being here. I mean, he's literally building a blog while on a live show. I mean, that's a great thing. I'm not even kidding with this one. That is phenomenal. That is showing such dedication. So, it's more than that. It's passion. It's love. You know? What time is that where you are, Christian?
Christian Karasiewicz:
About 9 o'clock, or yeah... about 9 o'clock.
Brian Kelly:
(Nine o'clock) PM. Ladies and gentlemen, in case you're watching this recording. Yes. By the way, I'm going to be on twenty-five different platforms after this is over. So no pressure, but don't mess up. I'm just kidding. So, this is a phenomenal group of people, and I can't wait to dig in. Christian, just what you just said, what you do is right down the alley of what I was hoping to talk about tonight. It'll go organically, but I wanted to talk about... I mean, look at Julie, and look at Christian, and look at their images. Look at their video. It is gorgeous. Here, we'll start with a really gorgeous one first. Look at that. I mean. If there were nose hairs that weren't in place, we'd see them. That's phenomenal, and there is Julie. Wow. Very beautiful. Even more beautiful. I should just have her up like this all the time, and we can just talk in the background. Because, you know, maybe more people would come on. So, you guys have phenomenal camera setups, and here's one thing I always like to preach to those who are getting into the live streaming game. Does it take money? Yes, it does. It takes resources. It takes cameras, microphones, (a) computer, internet, good internet, fast internet, lighting, doesn't have to be fancy. What I always say though, is, do the best you can with the resources you currently have. OK, I wanted to start it off that way because what we're about to talk about with Julie and Christian is their cameras. They are top of the line. We're not talking a one-hundred or two-hundred-dollar webcam here. I like to let ladies go first. So, Julie, do you have a story when you first turned on your new camera versus when you had the webcam and what that looked like and felt like.
Julie Riley:
Oh, my gosh, I turned that camera on, and it was immediately noticeable (the difference). I actually did a live on my personal Facebook page where I logged myself in as a second user into StreamYard. I had my Logitech camera that I had been using up as a camera and then had my new one. So, I could do back and forth and show everybody the difference between the two. What an upgrade that was. The Logitech served me great for years. It didn't stop me from going live, but that upgrade was immediately like, "oh, I can never go back down now".
Brian Kelly:
So, that so that is one thing. Let's say you're on the road, and I can imagine at some point both you and Christian, maybe, you'll be sent on the road to maybe support conventions and things that are on the road. Now, you want to stream live, what are you going to do then?
Julie Riley:
Well, you know, the great thing about the Sony is (that) it's a small camera. Tripods, portable ones, are small. I can take it with me. If all else fails, and I'm either on my phone or I'm on my little webcam or even my built in webcam, it's not going to stop me from going live. Is it going to be exactly what I want? No, but more than likely I'll have the Sony with me.
Brian Kelly:
Thank you for saying that. I mean, that spoke such volumes. I hope people are taking notes that are watching. Definitely take notes on this. Because, look, the show must go on. That's what I say, and this show tonight is the result of a guest who unfortunately was ill and could not make it on. So, I scrambled and found these four wonderful people to say, "I'll come on and do a panel with you." And that's it. The show must go on, and I'm going to either do it with people or I'll do it solo. It doesn't matter. Consistency is key, and we can talk more about that, too. I love how you're just talking about, Julie. Where, look, I don't care where I'm at. If I've got something and it's my time to go live, and I don't have my gear. I'm doing it.
Julie Riley:
Right.
Brian Kelly:
I love that commitment. So, thank you for that. For everyone listening, that's important. Yes, quality is important. Like I said, do the best you can with what resources you currently have. That includes, wherever you are. You may have a DSL camera that Julie paid five-hundred thousand dollars for. Oh, sorry, it wasnt that much.
Julie Riley:
Thank God it wasnt that much!
Brian Kelly:
What was the model of that again?
Julie Riley:
A6000.
Brian Kelly:
What does it run about?
Julie Riley:
It was about seven hundred.
Brian Kelly:
OK, not too bad. A little bit less than five-hundred thousand. Not much but yeah.
Julie Riley:
Yeah.
It's a phenomenal thing, and I love that that's your attitude toward commitment. I'll tell you. You have a similar attitude...anytime I go and ask for support through the back side of StreamYard community. I mean, like through messaging. When I say the backside, that's sounded weird. When I ask for support, you're always there. I mean, you don't sleep, and I appreciate that. So, keep not sleeping for everybody's sake. Christian, you do the same. So, Christian, what about you? When you made that initial change from whatever camera you had before to this unbelievably clear one year look you're working with right now. What did that feel like the moment you saw a difference?
Christian Karasiewicz:
So, it's very interesting actually. So, this is actually what I was using before. I've been using this for quite a number of years. This is a Logitech Brio. It does do 4K. I invested in this one and eventually came out, and the quality was fantastic. The only thing was, though. I wanted to scale. So this was great for traveling, for example. This is what I took around with me. Super portable. It's got the ability to put it on a tripod. Fantastic, but it did not allow me to scale, so I had to always take up another USB port and all that sort of thing. When I moved to the Sony, the Sony looked very good. I will say the one thing you have to do, though, is you need to go through the settings. There are a few adjustments you want to change. That's what's going to actually enhance your picture quality of it. It's a fantastic camera. It's a Sony 6400. Then, really, the other side to it is also the lens. So I'm using a Sigma lens. So, that I think is the real big difference. I mean you have the kit lenses it comes with. I did make the investment in the the additional lens, which I think that's actually what's contributing to why it looks so good. I will say from a quality standpoint, again, start with what you have. You know, the key things for live streaming. Audio is going to be your most important part. Then also, if you, for example, are using one of these webcams, make sure you have enough light. These things look great with a lot of light. When you don't have a lot of light, you're going to see pixelation. You're going to see distortion and things like that. So, turn it back to you.
Brian Kelly:
Especially with light, if you turn on the green screen feature, you really need to have good lighting then. That's the biggest time. I'm so glad to be liberated from that. Even though I loved it. This is actually a natural well behind me. I painted the entire studio. I actually occupy my daughter's former bedroom. I've been here for four or five years now, and I finally got rid of the cartoon drawings and the yellow paint. I'm a real boy now. I have a real studio. This is awesome.
Christian Karasiewicz:
That looks really good by the way. I was very surprised (by) your background because that looks like one of the standard backgrounds people would normally bring up during a live stream. One that has, you know, the gradient going around the outside. So, whoever did the painting on that fantastic job.
Brian Kelly:
Why, thank you very much. My wife did most of the work to be honest, but I feel like that helps with that. Yeah.
Timothy McNeely:
If you want that comparison between cameras. Right. Christine was just talking about the Logitech Brio. That's what I'm on, and you can see the massive quality difference between Kristen and Julie versus the webcam. So. Right. (A) huge step up.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, we'll point that out in glowing detail right now.
Christian Karasiewicz:
You're using a green screen. Right?
Timothy McNeely:
Yeah.
Brian Kelly:
Your sound, Christian, is smooth. I mean, you have a great radio voice. Having that microphone, I think will pivot to that too. Dylan, what are your thoughts on cameras? Yours looks actually really decent right now? You're on (a) green screen, correct?
Dylan Shinholser:
Correct. Yeah.
Brian Kelly:
It looks really clean. You've done a good job with all the lighting. It's almost like you've done this before, and you know what you're doing.
Dylan Shinholser:
I try. Yeah. So, I actually when I first started doing it, I started listening back on my phone. When this whole pandemic hit, I was using the one inside your laptop and realized very quickly (that) I'm on calls all day, live streaming shows and stuff. I was like, "I got to set my game up." So, I haven't made that leap yet to the DSLR, but I will. I'm on a Logitech, one of the models. I won't even lie because I'm not that tech-savvy. It was expensive for Logitech, so I bought it. I was like, "it's got to work." So, yeah. So, that's where I'm at. I agree heavily. I think it comes down to, because we get asked it and I know you guys get asked, it comes down to what you can afford at the moment. Then always trying to push the limits of production value. Right? My background was a wall. It was just like random yellow wall, and now I have a giant green screen wallpaper now. So, now, I can be wherever I want which is a concert. That's where I want to be, and that's where I'm going to be.
Brian Kelly:
You're the one on the stage, brother. Not the audience.
Dylan Shinholser:
No, I'm actually the guy behind the stage. I never want to be this. It's actually weird for me to be in front of people. I'm the guy behind the stage telling people to get on the stage.
Brian Kelly:
Pushing them forward. Well, you do a good job, Dylan. I wouldn't know any different. Maybe your calling is to step out from behind and be on front more often.
Dylan Shinholser:
We will see. Twenty twenty-one has a lot of stuff, and I've got a long way to go. I got super bored in twenty-twenty so I might as well talk.
Brian Kelly:
I've gotten to know you a little bit over time, and you've got a great personality. I think you need to shine in front of more people. That's my humble opinion.
Dylan Shinholser:
I appreciate that.
In the front, not behind the scenes. It's okay to be behind the scenes on occasion, but someone like you with your personality and your integrity, your character...get out there, buddy. It's a disservice if we don't get to see you. Let me put it that way.
That's what a mentor of mine said. He was like, "dude, you're actually being selfish by not talking more and getting it out." Because like I said at the beginning, I only want to help more people create better experiences and events. Make them flow better and make them more money as humanly possible. At the end of the day, I just want to travel the world with cool people and do cool things. I've learned a lot, and a lot of people need some of that experience. So, I got a stern talking to by one of my mentors. He was like, "dude..." I was like, "alright, it's alright. I promise." I started live streaming then had to get better cameras, better lights going on. It's crazy up here in my little command center of all these different lights, webcams, and monitors. Everything you need to do to pull these shows off.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, I love it. Christian, go ahead.
Christian Karasiewicz:
So, I want to throw something in there real quick. We talked about various types of cameras. If you're just getting started, use that built-in laptop, the webcam. So then you can take it up a notch. You can go to the Logitech. The C922. That's about, I think, a 60 to 70 dollar webcam. So, don't overpay by the way. It's about 60 to 70 dollars. Get it from Logitec, probably. If you find an astronomical price on Amazon, move up to like the Brio, for example. If your budget allows it, that's about one hundred fifty dollar camera. Then move up to a DSLR. For example, Julie's got that, the Sony 6000. I would also say if you happen to have a smartphone, this can be used as a webcam. Essentially, if you think about it, this is a thousand dollar camera. Because you paid a thousand dollars for this device of sorts, and this will give you some phenomenal picture quality. If you already have a smartphone and you don't have to have the latest iPhone, it could be pretty much any iPhone and Android phone. You just need an app such as one called,"Camo." There's one called,"Erion." So, there are lots of apps out there. Don't think like, "hey, I have to now go drop a bunch of money." Look at the phones you have lying around. Those are going to be great ways to fix your picture quality.
Julie Riley:
I've been going live since 2015, and I only had this camera last year.
Brian Kelly:
That's it. You keep reinvesting. I had a good friend of mine who were business partners. He said, I'll never forget it,"sales drive service". When you're making money, you're able to invest. You're able to up your game, and I love that. So many great points. You can just set a phone on a tripod and your camera will look better than many people's webcams. For sure. One of the things that I would recommend, this isn't just a plug StreamYard, is to get at least get the free plan. Do they need any more than the free plan to be part of the community, Julie?
Julie Riley:
No. They can come to join the community even if they're just getting started into streaming. We do like everybody to have the free plan so they have an understanding, but we'll still let you in. Agree to the rules. That's the big thing. Yeah, come join the StreamYard community. It's really a "stream yard" community.
Brian Kelly:
It's a very valuable place because questions like what Christian just addressed are often asked (What do I need?). I'm just starting. I'm a newbie. I see that so much in there. What can you do to help with a camera or microphone or computer? You can go there if you have those questions and ask, and the community will fill in the blanks wonderfully well because they're a great bunch of people. Just like Tim down there who's gotten pushed to the side for a while. So, Tim, is this your first camera that you've been using for live streaming so far? Did you have one before it?
Timothy McNeely:
Yeah, right. I started with just an HD one. Right. Logitech and then jumped up to the Brio. Been happy with that so far. But, you know, it's interesting how the game keeps growing again. That's the thing, right? Just get started! Just do this. I started with just using zoom and recording those for my interviews, and then I realized (that) I need a better platform. I need a way to kind of do that live production. Now I'm doing Stream Yard and got intros. Just get started with whatever you've got and kind of build that proof of concept. You know, I recently just upgraded my lights because I bought the cheapest lights I could at first. I just wanted to do something, and done is better than not done a lot of times.
Brian Kelly:
I totally agree with everything you just said and like what Christian was saying. If you're going to put money into anything, make it the audio side of things first when you upgrade. I was fortunate. I started over nine years ago streaming live. This is a DSLR. Not a DSLR. Good grief, XLR microphone. It's old school. It's not even USB. So I plug it into a mixer board, and from there into my computer. I've used it for years. It's been just amazing. I've never had to do anything with my sound as a result. For you, there are great USB alternatives now. Oh my gosh, there are so many out there. Someone like Christian could probably point you in the right way. Someone like the StreamYard community could push you in the right way and tell you,"these are the ones". I have a connection with the guy who is a sound expert. I've never heard of this before. He has a studio that does 4D sound. I don't even know what that means. Four dementional?
Christian Karasiewicz:
Sweet.
I don't know what that means, audibly. He was telling me about speakers in the ceiling. I'm like, holy moly,. You don't need that obviously for a talk show like this, but think about the possibilities and have fun with it. The bottom line is, when you go on and go live. Enjoy yourself. I'm trying to do that a little bit with these fine people tonight. Thankfully, they're still here with me. I haven't upset them too great, especially Christian. I keep picking on him. Poor guy. I appreciate you all, and it's okay to have fun on your show. Would you guys agree with that? Is it okay to have a little bit of fun?
Julie Riley:
One hundred percent. If you're having fun, your audience is going to be having fun with you.
If you're not having fun... I don't believe in doing anything that I don't find fun. It's a life motto of mine. If I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it. Yeah. Like you said, Julie. If you're not having fun with it, then how in the world do you expect the viewers to want to have fun or engage or interact? It starts with you.
Brian Kelly:
Absolutely, absolutely. One of the things I wanted to pivot to is something I'm deeply interested in because the product that came up earlier when I did the quick ads spot. I like to solve the pain points that people are having in their live streaming experiences. I'm curious. I'll bet, Julie and Christian, you guys have seen and heard a lot about that. I actually had a team member of mine from my company put a poll up in the form of a meme, a graphic. What's the right word? I am having trouble with words these days. It's an infograph. That's it. Simple. I was a little bit shocked by the result, but I was just curious what you guys think. What are the biggest pain points you're seeing? (Either) that you're having individually. Tim, if you have that as well. Dylan as well. Dylan, you probably hear about a bunch of it as well. What are the pain points you are seeing come back over and over and over again? I'm having a horrible time trying to find another guest on my show if they're interview style, or the tech is just blowing my mind. Even though StreamYard is so simple. I'm having trouble with x, y, z. Let's just go around the horn. Dylan, if you don't mind, I put you on the spot. Can you think of any of those pain points that keep coming up over and over again?
Dylan Shinholser:
Yeah, absolutely. The biggest thing I see is they underestimate what it does take. I totally agree. Why I promote StreamYard to our clients and everyone I possibly can is because of the ease of use. People go into it and think shows are just like setting up the webcam, and they can be. Setting up the webcam and just talking. Right? There's a lot of back end stuff to this. These shows and I'm learning that as doing my own now. I'm like, holy cow, I'm about to hire fifteen people because this is absurd. But, yeah. I think that's the biggest thing that I see is underestimating it, but also at the same time, they overcomplicate it. They have to think (that) they have to have all these bells and whistles and seventeen thousand cameras and two million dollar microphones. It goes back to our first point of "just do it". It doesn't need to be overcomplicated, but understand going into it, there is some work that takes and understand that you do have to respect what it takes to put these on. At the same time, don't overcomplicate it. It's funny how people work. They overestimate or underestimate it, but then heavily overcomplicate it at the same time. I think that's the biggest one I see.
Brian Kelly:
I'm so glad you brought that up. I've said this so many times, people don't realize what goes on behind the scenes before the show even comes on live for that episode. The amount of time and effort. If you want to do a live show that's of quality and represent yourself and your brand in a way that you want it to be represented professionally. It takes a good amount of work for every single show. That's why I automated nearly every process (that) I use now. It took time to get there, but you can use a team. You can get a team. Like you said, Dylan, to also help out. For me, it's all about quality, and more time is spent before the show by far than the show itself. After the show is over, another good deal of time is spent. That is in the minor edits, the repurposing, the marketing, and everything else that goes beyond. The live show is this tiny window of time, and it's the fun is part of it by the way. When you have everything automated, the rest is not "not fun" because you're not doing it. It's all automated, but definitely great. Thank you for that. Julie, what has been some of the big p.. sorry to wake you up there. What have been some of the big pain points? You are wide awake. I just starttled you. You've seen over and over, I bet you've seen a bunch of them.
Julie Riley:
Oh, my gosh. So many, you know, especially because I'm approving all of the comments that are coming into the group. I think one of the huge ones is that the hesitation of people who believe that they have to have everything perfect. That they have to have all of the backdrops, the overlays, the banners, the super expensive microphone, and the super expensive camera. That they have it. The room behind them is messy. They haven't thought about turning to just a blank wall because they're like, "well, then I don't have a fancy studio set up." They get to this point where they're trying to create perfection, and perfection is a fairy tale. It doesn't exist. There is no such thing as perfection. There is, again, where Dylan said the overcomplicating it. They've got to really just slow down and go, "what do I need to get this process going?" What is the minimum to make it happen? From there, then I can then build on it, and build on it each week. Go, "okay, I got live. I got the first one out. I got the jitters out. I hate the way I sound." When I had my agency, I would tell my clients. They'd be like, "I can't stand the way I sound." I'm like, nobody likes the way (that) they sound. There's actually, and I say this all the time, there's a term for it that is a term for not liking the sound of your own voice. I tell people, you have to get over that fear. They're like,"I don't look good on camera, I don't know how to be on camera." The other thing I tell people is to set up a fake Facebook group with nobody else in it but you. Go live in there a bunch of times and just get those jitters out. Get that feeling of pressing the button and going live. Then invite your husband in, your sister, your mother, or whoever. Somebody so that you're talking to somebody. From there, build up each time. As we said with the cameras, again, you can you can slowly build. You can slowly add in the overlays. You can slowly add in the backgrounds.
Brian Kelly:
My goodness! I absolutely love it. I have my own Facebook group that I use just for that. Nothing more. I go in there, and I test things for StreamYard and other things in there. I go live in there because there's no substitute for going live. We've got more buttons to click, and things kind of change their arrangement just a little bit in the window. If you practiced it 20 times without going live, then you go live you're going to go, "what the heck just happened?" I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. That was perfect. Perfect advice. I love that. We've got a comment coming in or two or three. Yeah. Kelly, crucial. Kruschel. Sorry if I got that wrong.
Dylan Shinholser:
Kelly Kruschel. It's Kruschel. She said she's on my team. She's a friend. Hey, we've got a supporter.
Brian Kelly:
Love it. Love it. Then Fran Jesse, I know her. I'm getting ready to make my first video essentially input. Yeah. Reach out, Fran. We're friends. I will give you assistance in any way you want because this is the greatest this is the greatest avenue for media on the planet, in my humble opinion, for so many reasons. One is people get to see you. I love clubhouse. It's also phenomenal in different ways, but people get to see you. They get to interact with you. They can engage with you, and they get to see your essence. It doesn't cost you, the studio owner, studio time. If you do this in the old days when you have to go to a television studio and you want to do a show, it would cost you thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars just to use the studio. Let alone get the media time to put it up on a television station. We're living in wonderful times. It's the greatest time to be alive, in my humble opinion. I'm a tech geek. I'm not young anymore. I'm fifty six, but I can't wait for the rest of what my life has to hold. Yes. You're welcome, Fran. Any time. Wonderful. Wonderful. Alright. Where were we? I got all messed up and loving myself there. We're going to have fun. I'm being real. This is like... I don't know. I'm the most relaxed (that) I've been in a long time with everything that went on today. It was one of those weird, everything-going crazy days. I feel like I'm at home with you guys. That's why.
Dylan Shinholser:
It's been one of those years.
Brian Kelly:
Thank God that last one is over.
Dylan Shinholser:
Yeah, yeah. Sure.
Brian Kelly:
So, okay. Pain point. Let's go back around one more. Tim, what do you have?
Timothy McNeely:
Yeah. When I first started doing this, my whole goal was to get out there and to talk to the different experts in the different areas of the challenges that my my clients face. I started off as an interview show and just using Zoom to record the video. Then all of a sudden I had the video. Now I had to put an intro in. I had to put an exit in. I had to extract the audio so I could do the podcast. My team members and myself were spinning our wheels. Just trying to really kind of create a workflow around the creation of this content so we could get the message out and help people with their challenges. For me, all of a sudden, the revelation was (that) I can do this live. I can have people type in (and) ask comments as I'm doing the show. Not only that, from start to finish, I can produce the whole thing going live. Right? You go live. You can play an intro now. You can throw in little commercial breaks. You can throw in the outro, and then it's done. Download the audio. You throw it up, and now you've got your podcast. You don't have to upload video to YouTube and Facebook and LinkedIn. It's done for you now, automatically. So really my biggest pain point was just the production side of things and putting everything together so that I could keep talking to people and doing the fun part. Right? I don't want to get caught up in all the details of making this. I want to talk to people, learn, and share that knowledge. Really, a lot of the pain point, just using StreamYard has really been absolved because it's a turn-key easy to use platform.
Brian Kelly:
Amen to all of that brother. Here's the key for everyone that's ever going to do a live show or has done one. The most important part is that you show up and you be the talent. That means you need to be dedicated mentally toward what the task is at hand. If I have too many things going on, like production-wise, which I used to when I didn't automate things. That's in the back of my mind. Did I dot every "i"? Did I cross every "t"? What's going to screw up on this show? Versus showing up fully for my guest. Being there for them. Getting out of myself and my own business and being present for the other person, that's what I'm about. Lifting up the other people, that's what my show's about. It's important to me.
Timothy McNeely:
Actually, if I can touch on that talent piece, Brian? I think he brought something up so important for everyone listening to this. If you're doing any kind of a show where you're interviewing people, chances are (that) the person you're talking to (is) a little bit uncomfortable. Your job, as the talent, is to spend some time before the show really crafting what it's going to look like. What direction are you going to go in? You want to make that person you're talking to look like a star. The more you can rehearse with them and put them at ease, you're going to end up with a much, much better show. Because you've taken a little bit of time to make sure that (the) other person is going to shine just as bright as you do. So, take that time to work with your guests beforehand through interview guides, through little questionnaires. So that you can help prep them, to keep them on a thread, and you can really help them deliver their message. Most people are not trained professional speakers. They just aren't. I've hired some of the best speaking coaches to help me develop messages, stay on topic, and learn how to tell stories. People don't invest time, energy, and effort to do that. You can help them do that through a briefing before you start your live with them.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah. That's why I was saying before, I do a thirty-minute preshow. All of us were on here for 30 minutes getting to know each other, making sure all the tech was good, doing some checkout. You were talking about people being nervous and stuff. That's why I'm riding Christian so hard with all these jokes and stuff because it broke his nervousness. You can see his sweating. I am so kidding. This guy's raw. He's a rock. He's awesome. He's a pro. I love this guy, man. I always pick on the quiet ones. I don't know why that is. Christian, man, you're bringing massive value. All kidding aside, you're very experienced. You're matched for what you do. You've said already so many amazing things. What about you, brother?
Christian Karasiewicz:
I'd say this. I think a couple of the pain points. I think one is people want to ask, "how do I get better at my live stream?" I think (that) the first thing is practice. To Julie's point, I think you mentioned having overlays, backgrounds, and all this other stuff. Look at it like this. You want to show your audience as well while you're helping them. You're doing this with them. You have everything at the same time, and you're trying to make everything perfect. Your audience is going to be like, "I'm not going to stick around this person because they've done such a good job already. I won't ever get to that point". They start having that self-doubt. The key thing is going to be practice. You don't have to have every single one of the overlays. Maybe start with the the intro or the thumbnail, and maybe you have an outro for example. (Those are) the first two things you do. As you build the show, then you can add segment graphics. You can add videos. So, you can scale it, but you don't have to have so much at one time because then it's just too overwhelming. That's point number one. Pain point number two is that people, for some reason, think that they're going to immediately be able to monetize their live stream. I say pain point because everybody's like, "oh, I bought all that equipment." Now, you've got to figure out how to pay for all that equipment, you know? If you're struggling already with your business and growing it, then you're not going to immediately monetize live stream. You have to have an audience. You know, you have to build that community. When you go live, they're tuning in because (of) the social platforms. They want to see that you're bringing viewers, they want to see engagement. So, point number two is monetizing your live stream. There are ways to do that, but don't always set out with monetization being number one. It could take a couple of years to monetize. So, get started. Build on it, then make those investments as your business is growing. Yes, mic drop. Yes.
Dylan Shinholser:
Do you have that mic? Just a mic drop? Because I might need to get one.
Brian Kelly:
It's actually super.
Dylan Shinholser:
Yeah, super real.
Christian Karasiewicz:
That's pretty cool, actually.
Julie Riley:
I like that.
Brian Kelly:
It's actually part of a magic trick that you put in a paper bag. It's a long story, but I found one more affordable that would not break my keyboard because that's what it landed on. You didn't hear it. Oh, my gosh. Golden nuggets there, as usual, from Christian who I give a lot of hard time to. I'm going to stop because you're amazing dude, and I don't want to get mad at me. I want you to be my friend. So many great things. So, you said two years. I was like, wow. I was watching an interview. How many of you have heard of Lewis Howes? Former professional football player and turned incredible entrepreneur. He's all over the place. He was being interviewed, and the guy interviewing him asked him a question. He said, "so, Lewis, if someone came to you, and they were talking about the fact they wanted to start a podcast. Now, we're talking just the audio version. That's what a podcast really is for everyone that may not know it's audio-only. Not video, even though they're going that way." He said, "well, here's what I'd tell them. First, you got to actually be consistent. Whenever you decide to do it, do it at that same day and that same time every week or multiple times a week. Whatever that happens to be. Number two, more importantly. You must commit yourself to doing that for at least, the magic number, two years. If they are not willing to do that, I would tell them, don't even get started." We didn't talk about monetization. None of that was discussed during this Q&A. That was telling. Who was I talking about this earlier with earlier today? It's not necessarily about monetizing. It's about building your platform, and I wanted to add to that. It took me in two years. I was just hitting that moment in time of my live show. That's when the momentum started. He was spot on, and so are you, Christian, about the two years. Then using a certain strategy (that) I use, I continually ask for referrals in a certain way. I eventually landed the one and only Les Brown. Some of you know who that is. Some of you don't. I've noticed some don't and Im like,"what rock are you living under?" He's amazing, and he's been on my show. Because of that, the two-year commitment is my point. Not talking about monetization. Then what I found after doing this for two years and striving for excellence all the time in every facet, I'm talking about the preshow communication with upcoming guests and the setup and the prep that they all go through and my system makes sure they do. The show itself and then after the show, all the post-production, everything that goes into it. Once you have that, people notice and my show, without my intending it to be, became an incredible, powerful lead magnet for my business. Focus, just as Christian was stating so properly, does definitely, positively impact your business. If you do it right. You do it high quality, and again, within reason within the resources you have. Go ahead, Christian.
Christian Karasiewicz:
I was going to say. That's another point that people look at, and they want to generate revenue off of it. That revenue may not be actual money upfront. It may end up being (help) (to) drive more leads to my website. It's not necessarily driving more people to my social channels. You're following is... It's OK. That's not going to necessarily grow your business because you had five more followers on Instagram or something like that. It's potentially getting them back to your website, which can be an opportunity for them to schedule a coaching call with you, maybe buy a product from you, learn from you for example. You're not going to get every single person to become a customer, but you're going to be able to use it to generate more leads.
Brian Kelly:
Totally, totally true.
Dylan Shinholser:
That's why I do it.
Brian Kelly:
You see on the top of this screen "streaming live on" and then five. We're doing it to eight right now or seven right now. "Listen-on" down below. On the bottom, there's actually twenty five of those like us could fit them all. Roku now was on Fire TV. Look, you're not making money from those, but here's what happened. How many of you have heard of Kevin Harrington? Shark Tank? Original Shark Tank? He has a partner named, "Seth Green", and they do a podcast together. They've been doing it for years now. They have five-hundred plus episodes. We got introduced, Seth and I. I met Kevin. We shared the stage once. I'm not name-dropping, but yes, I am. It was awesome, and it was fun. Seth reached out. We were connected by someone else. We were introduced, and Seth did his own homework. He came back, we literally talked on Zoom, and he says, "wow, I did some research. I looked you up and, my God, you're everywhere." I just wanted to say, "yeah, that's right." So, you want to get out there. That's why, shameless plug, I call it, "carpet bomb marketing". You saturate with everything you've got within reason. Right? If you can automate it, it can be near or completely free. So just do it. Why not add it to your arsenal? So, it works. Just be consistent to a minimum of two years. Get in touch with people like Julie, Christian, Tim, and Dylan. You might make that even quicker than two years. I'll direct you to the shortcuts that many of us did by trial and error.
Timothy McNeely:
Touching on the monetization piece, a good friend of mine runs one of the top coaching consultancies out there. Right. Very, very successful. Runs a great podcast, great show. I ask him one day. I said, "have you need any money doing your podcast?" He thought for a second. He says, "naw, I've actually lost money doing it. The relationships that I've made...I've made millions off (of) that." If you approach it from that standpoint... There's different goals, but I always approach, you know, what's the end result? What are you looking for out of your show? Why are you doing it? That's how you can measure the success of it. Is it helping you achieve whatever goals you set for yourself?
Brian Kelly:
Totally agree. It's very similar. Isn't it? To writing a book? I'm holding up another namedrop. Yes, it's very similar to writing your own book. Because a lot of people want to write a book and make a living off of the sales of the book. I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, most of the time it just doesn't happen that way. If anyone comes up to you and you're talking to them... During the course of conversation, maybe you ask them what they've been up to? Or, hey, I've authored a book. The moment they say that, in your eyes, do they not lift up in an influence in your mind? Right then and there? Instantly. It builds authority. That's exactly what this live show, and live shows like it, are doing. When you're giving evidence of it by spitting it out to all of these platforms, there's no way people can't find you and know that you're serious. You know, it's showing that you have a commitment level. It's showing that you have a quality level of professionalism. It's not about the show itself. It's like, well, if I do business with that person, or will I... Will I want to do business that person? If they're professional. Yes. If they put on a shoddy show, they might give me shoddy service. If I do business with them. Does that make sense? People want to (be) representing yourself in the best. Do it the best you can, but do it. Please, don't delay. Don't try to be perfect. You heard everybody talk. Go ahead, Dylan. You had something?
Dylan Shinholser:
Well, yeah. There's indirect ways to make money with shows, live streams, and of course direct (ways). Right. Direct is selling sponsorships, ad-space, all that good stuff. The indirect monetization is so much more powerful. When I do shows or when I hop on shows or anything, it's literally just to build a top-down awareness of myself. I just want people to know what Dylan Shinholser is. Then that way, because I do multiple things, I'm never trying to sell one product at any given time. I'm trying to sell myself, and what it does is it gives me that outlet to do it. Then if you're hosting a show. Right? This maybe goes into some other topics around how to market and things like that. It's a powerful relationship tool because when you can open your platform to other people that you're looking to connect with. I'm in the business of working with influencers and throwing their events. Well, the best way to connect was get them on my show. It gave me a reason to reach out that wasn't pitchy or sales. It was more or less. Hey, man, I just want to give you an outlet, because I think what you talk about is cool. Tell my people about it. After the show, I was like, "hey, man, what are you doing next Tuesday? I need a speaker." Or "hey, man. I have some ideas (that) I want to pitch you or (some) things. They're more receptive. So, I always do shows and things not about the direct money I get, but the indirect thing. It's the indirect impact that I get from relationships, or people sharing my stuff out and people go, oh man, he sounds semi-intelligent unless they're watching this. Then then they'll go, okay, great. Let me go over to this platform that he runs with this business that he does or whatever because he sounded halfway intelligent on that show. Right? So, I think the indirect monetization is what most people don't... They don't get that the instant gratification of like that five thousand dollars sponsorship check. When I forgo that and go on to bring on much more money on the backend with the people I connect with, in the top influence that I get.
Brian Kelly:
The magic word there was "relationship".
Dylan Shinholser:
Relationships all day, every day. That's all I do- is build relationships, and how can I do it? Do more shows like this. Can I get it out? You're on like forty-two different podcast or outlets here, right? Every one of those. Every time you put a show on it, you're building a relationship with someone on that platform. Even if it's just you talking, and they're listening. You're building that relationship. Everything (that) I do, is built on: how can I develop relationships? Live streams is just an amazing way to do so.
Brian Kelly:
Posting them is one thing. Right? That's a great thing. What I learned through a podcasting expert friend of mine is the maybe not as equally important, but possibly greater importance, is getting on other people's shows. That includes audio podcasts only. He explained how his business skyrocketed when he did what he called, "podcast guest marathons". He would have someone get him booked in his team. He would carve out three days and just say get as many as you can for me. He'd do that. Then when they ask him about how to get in contact with him... This is the gold right here... It's not go to my Facebook page and look up my name and message me. He would tell them to go to his podcast website and from there to subscribe. Now he's building a following. It's genius. It's so genius. I just want to impart that. The cool thing, though, is when you're hosting a high-quality live show that opens the door for you to be a guest on many more.
Dylan Shinholser:
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Being a guest is what goes back to the authority building. Right? If I can build my authority, I build my influence. If I do have something to sell... If I'm trying to build my brand or whatever it is or I'm just trying to get to as many people as possible to talk about events with them... That authority I call it, "authority hacking", being able to get them on your show. That'll get your show in front of their audience, and then going on to other shows helps you develop your authority. It's like writing a book. I was I'm a guest on this show, this show, this show. It's like writing a book. Your authority starts to become a little bit more when you're leveraging their influence. Right? When you're a guest on the show, if that show has a following, you becoming a guest on that show gives you authority because now you have the validation of the host that everyone is following and love. So, I can authority hack by getting on other people's shows.
Brian Kelly:
It leverges. You have a whole new tribe watching and interacting with you as well. I mean, this is one of the most powerful things people can use. If they just get out of that rut of trying to find a way to make money with it directly, that's when they'll see the real value come through. It's about building relationships. It's long-term. Not short, quick kill. I got to make a commission and run. It's build a relationship. Establish it. If you go into this with the mindset of it not being for directly making money, I personally think you have greater success. The long-term plays always work better than the short-term. Short-term works can work, but they're temporary. The long-term is a lot more permanent and lasting. Just think of all the wonderful bread crumbs you're leaving throughout the world. Through all the venues and platforms we've been talking about. In speaking terms, if you're on stage, that's what we call a "stage swap". Where you would be a guest on someone else's stage in return for them saying, "okay, but I'm going to do the opposite." We'll have you on our as well. The same thing with podcasts and live video. It works really great. Just make sure they're a fit.
Dylan Shinholser:
They've got to fit. (It's) got to makes sense.
Brian Kelly:
Both ways. Yeah.
Christian Karasiewicz:
I want to add something real quick to that. If you are consistently going live, so it's great to be consistent, go live on a regular basis, but also think about the long game. It's a couple of years, for example. Also, don't be afraid to be making changes and adjustments as things are moving along. It's not about substituting equipment. It's about looking at your process. For example, you mentioned Brian, that you have automation on some of the things. Think of smarter ways to take bigger jumps ahead. If I have to send someone an email, and I'm like, "hey, do you want to be on my show?" Then I have to deal with the whole back and forth. Well, okay. Yeah. What time? Then I have to send everything back. There are tools out there like Calendly, Harmonizely. You can send a calendar link to somebody and they can only book a certain slot for example and vice versa. This takes out the guesswork out of having to do all that back and forth. That's a way to work smarter because now you want to book people for your show. You send them one link. The person then doesn't have to send you a message back, and you can even use it to collect feedback for your show questions. There's not a lot of back-and-forth and downtime.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, absolutely. I do that as well, and it's a godsend. I could not do what I'm doing. I would not do what I'm doing without the automation part of it. I have an onboarding form. You guys all... Most, not all of you went through it, but that was a mini version. Julie, you went through the big version. I then changed it right after I saw that. Like you said, make adjustments. That's what I did. I'm constantly doing that. Improving. I have a document automatically generated in Google Docs with your bio. The answer you had to why you think you would bring value to the show. Also, all the questions you chose to be asked for the show. Some of you didn't see that. So everything's done. The Q&A part used to take hours and hours doing manually. Now I just give them thirty-eight questions. Choose ten, and we're good. You tick the box. You choose what I'm going to ask you. (I) just made it a system, and it has worked beautifully. I don't even use the ten questions hardly. I use maybe the first three. Then we go organically like we've been doing tonight. My God, it's six twenty-nine! Are you kidding me? I'm having too much fun. Real quick. I know everyone that came on in the beginning. You heard this thing about a prize. We're going to do that real quick, and we'll come back and wrap it up. For those of you watching, remember in the beginning I said, "take notes and don't go clicking away and stuff like that"? Now I think Dylan, Julie, Tim, and Christian will also give you permission to do what I'm saying, and that is take out your phone. Take your gaze away from us for just a moment, but you'll still have to look back. Yes, yes. You can do this too. Please, do. What I want you to do....
Dylan Shinholser:
I need a vacation.
This is how you can enter to win a five-night stay at a five-star luxury resort of your choosing. Here's what you do. Take out your message app on your phone. Fire that up- your text message app. Where you would type in the name of the person normally that you're going to text. Instead, put in this number: three, one, four, six, six five-they're all doing it behind the scenes- one, seven, six, seven. I love this. Three, one, four, six, six, five, one, seven, six, seven. If you're watching this and you're not a guest, go ahead and write this down because I gonna take the screen down. I want you to get it. This will be open until the end of the evening. Where you actually put in the message... Where you might put emojis, those kinds of things, not emojis, just two words separated by a dash or a hyphen. Those words are peak (P-E-A-K) dash Vacation (V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N). All together. No spaces. Peak vacation. Send it off, then monitor your phone. You're going to get an automated response back asking you for your email address, and that will then officially enter you into the contest. Compliments of The Big Insider Secrets. Our buddies, Jason Nash, the owner. Dear friend of mine who lets us give this away every single week. Every show, actually. We do more than one a week now on average. So go ahead, get that entered. I can't wait to see who's going to win that. You're going to be asked later, you don't have to if you're the winner, to provide your Facebook information. Just your profile so we can say congrats and give you a high-five online and get others to come watch the show. To be honest, that's another strategy. We're just rolling back the curtain. That's why we do it this way. You can offer incentives like that. My friend has offered that to anyone who is my friend. If you're not my friend, you don't get it. If you're on as part of the panel here, they're all my friends. Christian may differ on that opinion, but I think he's my friend.
Christian Karasiewicz:
I'm your friend. Yes.
Brian Kelly:
Ok, good. I picked on you so hard. I apologize, but you're just you're a fun guy. I appreciate you for putting up with it. I definitely do stuff like that. Implement it and announce it in the beginning. That helps retention. I'm just pulling back the curtain for everybody. You can do different things like that. Having multiple people, I noticed, is also a little better than just one every single time. So, mix it up now and then. Alright. I know we're a little bit over, but I want to give you each another chance for a final parting tip. Anything you want on live streaming. It could be hardware, software, how you smile, what bling you wear, don't wear, your makeup. I'm wearing some, by the way, just so the guys know. Yeah, I don't know what they call it. It's not like guy up.. guy-liner, but it's like makeup. I know. That was bad.
Dylan Shinholser:
I haven't heard of that one.
Brian Kelly:
I just did that. I'm not a young fart anymore. Anyway. So, Dylan, we'll do the same thing. Go around the horn. What would be one final quick tip, or parting words of advice, you can give our wonderful viewing and listening audience?
Dylan Shinholser:
Keep it simple stupid. Don't overcomplicate it. There's things that you need to do and standards you need to meet. At the end of the day, keep it simple stupid will allow you to not overcomplicated it (and) get overwhelmed. Once you get overwhelmed, it's a wash. I would just say as a life advice, event advice, live stream advice, just keep it simple stupid and keep it moving.
Brian Kelly:
Real quick, I got to interject on that. Just so people know that that comes from an acronym K.I.S.S. So we're not calling everybody stupid, for one.
Dylan Shinholser:
Well...
Brian Kelly:
That was great. I have a friend who is Sicilian in nature, and he did this from the stage. He talked about it, and he brought up the whole thing. We're talking about doing it without complicating it. He goes, "It's like K.I.S.S. Who knows what K.I.S.S means?" Someone raised their hands. They said, "keep it simple, stupid". He goes,"Oh, no, no. It's keep it simple Sicilian." He lighten the load of the stupid part. I thought that was cool. Sorry, Julie, what is your parting tip?
Julie Riley:
You know, you're going to have to get started at some point. In order to do that, you're going to have to get over your fear. Go practice. Get those done, but also go watch and find other people that you resonate with their live shows. Start to take pieces from each of those. Now, obviously, you cannot go copy their live show and recreate it. You can pull little things from multiple different people's live shows that you like and that resonate with you. If you're comfortable and things are resonating with you, you're going to exude that comfort and that confidence out to the rest of the world.
Brian Kelly:
I love it. I love it. Alright. The man, the myth, the legend, Timothy J. McNeely. What is your final parting word of advice?
Timothy McNeely:
I'm going to close with a story. The purpose of this story is to illustrate the power of doing a show. July 20th, 1969, the first man walked on the moon. He left his footprints up there. On the moon, there's no wind. There's no rain. There's no weather, and those footprints today in twenty twenty-one look exactly like they did in nineteen sixty-nine. They're going to be exactly the same a million years from now. You too. You leave footprints on the hearts and the minds of everyone that you come in contact with. In streaming and having a platform, that's your opportunity to leave your footprints and to have an impact on people. Get clear about what your message is. What's the impact you want to have? If you do that, all of the other puzzle pieces are going to fall in place for you.
Brian Kelly:
Oh, baby. Okay, I've got to do it. I've got to do it. That was amazing.
Dylan Shinholser:
You have to get one of the little lower third animation gifts that are possible here on StreamYard. It's just a mic drop every time someone does one.
Brian Kelly:
Not nearly as much fun though, bro.
Christian Karasiewicz:
That's true. Fair. Very fair. I'll give it to you. I've got to get me one of those little squishy microphones.
Brian Kelly:
A little sound effect like I just broke my desk or something. That would be good. Alright, Christian, you've had a long time to think about it now. No pressure, but this better be a good one. I'm kidding. What do you have?
Christian Karasiewicz:
Let's see. The best piece of advice, I think, would be don't have gas or gear acquisition syndrome. You're going to watch people doing their live streams, and they're going to go and be like, "hey, I got to get that mic because this person upgraded." Oh, they got a new webcam. Remember? If you develop a plan, the whole thing is work the plan.. work the system. It's great (that) somebody else got some equipment, but it doesn't mean that you need to go out and get that yourself as well. Remember, work your plan. When you get to the certain points, maybe set that as a milestone. If I get to a certain number of viewers, for example, or a certain number of subscribers on a channel, then I might need to upgrade something. Don't be buying stuff just because someone else is doing so.
Brian Kelly:
Sales drive service. I love it. You guys are amazing. Thank you so much for coming on. Everyone who watched live. Thank you for coming on. Those of you that watched on the recording. Thank you for spending your valuable time with us, and those listening on the podcast. The same goes for you. Definitely. I hope you took a lot of notes because these are experts in the field. They are giving their value, their heart, their experience. They only charged me two-hundred thousand dollars for it. It's really been a deal. I'm kidding. They charged me nothing. You got incredible value from these amazing, amazing professionals. I can't thank you all enough. I appreciate you Dylan, Julie, Tim, Christian. Thank you from the bottom of my heart with all seriousness. I know we had some fun tonight. Thank you, Christian, so much for letting me pick on you so hard. You've been a great guy. I look forward to getting to know each and every one of you at a deeper level. If you're open to that after tonight. Appreciate you all. On behalf of these amazing people, that's it. We're out. My name is Brian Kelly. I'm the host of The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. Until next time we will see you. Be blessed. So long for now.
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