Special Guest Expert - Kim Doyal
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Brian Kelly:
Hello everyone and welcome, welcome, welcome to the Announcer: MIND BODY BUSINESS show. We have got a phenomenal show lined up free tonight because of our guest expert Kim Doyal. She is coming on in just a few moments, I promise. So, you want to take out some note paper and pen and get ready for some value to be rained down upon you like you've never seen before. Amazing, amazing young woman who really is a phenomenal, phenomenal Internet marketer and content generator she is amazing breath of fresh air if you ask me the MIND BODY BUSINESS show. What is that all about? For those of you that might be new to the show it all starts with the mind and I like to call it the foundation upon which our lives are truly formed. You know, when I was younger, I finally got the bright idea of instead of focusing on both those who were unsuccessful and those who are successful is to just change my focus to only those that were successful that I aspired to be. You know I wanted the results they had. In other words, and so, I started doing that and a really interesting thing happened was as I followed and worked with and read about these successful people, I started recognizing certain patterns developing that each and every one of them had. I thought well I wonder if those patterns then would relate and translate into success for me. And if it's going to work that way for me which it has that I can then help by portraying those qualities to the rest of the world as many as we can reach. And so, I came up with this concept of called the MIND BODY BUSINESS show and the patterns, those patterns were three of them and you can probably guess what those are by now, by the name of the show. It all starts with MIND which is mindset, mindset. Every single person that I got to know, in one form or another either I worked with them like side by side on stage. Welcome stage or I read many of their books or I follow them from afar through other means. They all had a rock solid. Powerful, positive mindset. And many of them had taken it to another level where many of us know about and heard of and actually practice affirmations. Something called affirmations where you're always reading in front of the mirror out loud to yourself starting off the day with an attitude of gratitude everything you're grateful for. Fantastic, phenomenal resources to utilize. But what if you could actually reprogram your mind at the subconscious level I mean, reprogram it. To serve you better. And that you can still continue with those conscious activities. So, such a science does exist, and it's called neuro-linguistic programming an NLP for short, and I'm not saying we will and I'm not saying we won't go over that particular topic on this show. It's pretty organic. We just go with the flow because it works that the best that way every single time. And then we move into the body the people that I've found who were successful really do take care of their body. It doesn't mean they're all honed the dances and supermodels. That's not what I'm saying but what they do is they take care of the nutrition that they put into their body. You know, they're they're very cognizant of what they are eating and drinking, and they exercise on a regular basis whether that be seven days a week or two days a week. It's consistent and discipline-oriented exercise of some kind. And the, the levels of exercise vary from person to person, but it is a vital and you know, a pattern component of each of these successful people. And then there's business well that's where many of us well. Oh yeah okay. Now let's talk you know it's things like marketing, sales, team building, scaling your business, it and those once you master all three mind body and then all of the areas of business, then you are operating at what I claim to be a peak level of performance which is where the name of my company came from reach your peak. So, why not attempt to reach your peak in every aspect and Avenue in life not just business which many entrepreneurs fall victim to. I am telling you that as a person that has gone and walked that walk myself. So, no judgment ever on this show. And we're here to help. That's the whole purpose of this show is to help you to get you the shortcut if you will to success. Why go through trial and error on your own when you can just model those that are already achieved a level of success and you can always improve. I'm still improving in mind body and business every single day. That's the beauty of being an entrepreneur. It never gets boring. And one of the things that reminded me of is you know being an entrepreneur was many years ago. I was, I was flown out to the east coast. I'm from the West Coast. Had a nice big deal, a big fat contract. We were gonna sign in and negotiate and the gentleman who owned the company flew me out there, having picked up in a limo, really cool experience put me up at hotel for a couple of days. I spent two days in his office, very large, corner office of course with a couch you know all the amenities. It was like bigger than most people's apartments. I kid you not. And I just remember during one of those days I was sitting on the couch who kind of were I guess at a breaking point. Not really exactly sure, it was many years ago, and he just looked at me. He's standing up and I'm sitting down he's looking down at heels Brian, you know if people just did this one thing if they just this one thing did they would all be rich. And I'm like, Wow! I wonder what that could be. And I'm like All right, what is it? And so, at that moment he turned away from me and walked to the wall right directly behind him and there stood a floor to ceiling cabinet two doors and he walked up to those two doors grab both handles opened them wide and it looked very, very similar to what you see behind me right now. It was shelf, after shelf, after shelf of books and we're not talking just any book we're talking business books, sales, marketing team building, we're talking personal development, we're talking mindset, we're talking exercise nutrition, everything was in this cabinet and I did something that might shock many of you watching right now I absolutely ignored his advice, 100 percent thought you can't you cannot, you that's no way you've got to be kidding me, reading books is the key to success I mean, sheesh I know a lot of people read books. The key is the right kind of, count kinds of books and the other key is once you read it you learn but then you need to put it into action what you've learned even then you do and I take it one step further and teach, but I didn't go through the learning process. I waited years until thankfully one day I'm with another mentor of mine and I'm, I'm actually in his residence. I worked with him for several years spoke from a stage and he was walking with headphones on and I said Hey, man what are you doing? And he pulled his headphone away from his ears. I'm listening to a book, that's a while ago and I said What? what do you mean? Listening to a book? I mean, I'm used to reading this again. Yeah. And he told me all about it. You know, many of you know about it now it's an app called audible there. Others now out there I'm sure. And I said, Man I got to check that out. And you know so this is my mentor highly successful who is walking around listening to a book actively reading in that form. And I thought wow here's number two. Another big smack in the face Brian wake up. Start reading, and I did, and I found that I loved listening to books versus reading a book where my eyes would get fatigued you know reading those pages holding the book up. You know you're you're always moving your body around for me. You just put on headphones or listen to it in the car which is my main library mode of operation and just started really absorbing amazing, amazing book after book, after book and I started compiling all of them into a library. And one of the things one of the beautiful things you can do inaudible is at any moment you hear something that really is you know a game changer. It's a point you wanna go back to and re listen to. You just tap a little icon and it stores a bookmark at that very location. So, what we're going to do now? is actually Segway over into a little section appropriately call Bookmarks.
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Brian Kelly:
Yes, and for those of you watching live or listening at this moment please be sure to take note stay with us. In other words you're going to listen and hear about resources as we go through the show both from myself and from Cam maybe Web sites maybe other books to look up other resources. Do hesitate, do hesitate to actually go searching for these things. Stay with us. Take notes now and then the recording is available and go back and watch or listen at any time. But take notes. Write down these resources. So, this one in particular is ReachYourPeakLibrary.com. Write that down. Take notes whether you have a pen and paper or a notepad on your computer or whatever it's called on a Mac. I'm not sure because I'm a P.C. guy sorry. Whatever it is and Reach Your Peak library. It's a, it's a Web site I put together one hundred percent solely. Completely, totally for you. For you the entrepreneur and the busy business professional who may already be reading or maybe you haven't started reading for either case. This is phenomenal because what this is, is a compilation of books I've read not every book I read just those that had a profound impact on me, personally, whether it be through business, through personal development or even through fitness. They're all in here as you see I'm scrolling and I put these together in this site so that you could at least recognize that one person you know, has vetted these books and that reduces your time in searching for books if you, are looking for the next book looking. ReachYourPeakLibrary.com you're bound to find one you have not read yet. If you're just starting go and look the first one that jumps off the page that looks decent don't look at the rest. Just grab it. Go and start reading that first book goes after it and do it quickly right away. And what we're going to do is play a bookmark by a gentleman of the name Willie Jolley. Amazing, amazing gentleman discovered if you will buy less brown. He's a musician by trade. Amazing, amazing entrepreneur and he discusses something that I thought was very pertinent to our guest expert who's coming on in just a minute. And that is about how he handles anything that's called a setback. He says throughout his book setbacks are a setup for a comeback. That's what a setback is a setup for a comeback, and nothing epitomizes that more than our guests expert who's coming on I promise. I'm almost there. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna play a 1 minute or so snippet from Willie Jolley book so, go ahead listen really close. And again take notes listen to what he says it's very important. Everything you hear in the show is high value. So, take notes and take it to heart. Here we go. Take a listen.
Willie Jolley:
Other words he made it clear that setbacks are part of his daily routine part of the deal if you're going after success. He shared his perspective on setbacks and how to turn them into comebacks. Edwards said that he'd had so many setbacks and it's hard to remember them all. Yet his perspective about setbacks is consistent with all the other people I interviewed. They do setbacks not as setbacks but really as growth experiences disguised as setbacks. He said you know the old saying is true, a problem is nothing but an opportunity. And work clothes. And he said if your reasons are strong enough, they will lead you to results. I said: Tell me more. He said: focus on the why. why? why are you willing to do this? Why do you want to reach the goal? why are you willing to go after those things that are uncomfortable to go after? Why are you willing to keep going in spite of the challenges? If the reasons are strong enough, you will become unstoppable.
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It's time for the guest expert spotlight savvy, skillful, professional, adept, trained, big league, qualified
Kim Doyal:
I'm not sure Brian, really. I can't hear you.
Brian Kelly:
How's that. Not better.
Kim Doyal:
I'm like I'm going to type in really quiet.
Brian Kelly:
Oh there, she is, I put it on mute so that people can hear me clear my throat. How are you doing?
Kim Doyal:
I'm fabulous. How are you? Thank you for having me here.
Brian Kelly:
Oh my goodness. Thank you so much for agreeing to come on the show it's amazing to have you. I can't wait for everyone to really get your value that you're going to bring to the show and it's gonna be phenomenal, cannot wait, cannot wait. There we go. Got some things back in order. So. Okay well before we dive in really quick. Everybody watching live. Be sure to stick around to the end because you have an opportunity to win a five-night stay vacation stay at a five-star resort in Mexico and this is high value not one of those where you go, and you sit in for a timeshare. This is all yours. You get to do it for five nights so stick to the end so you can participate in that and maybe win that trip. All right real quick Kim. She is formerly known as the word press. Check it. She is an entrepreneur, a coach, a speaker and a content creator. She has built her lifestyle business using WordPress, podcasting, creating content and a commitment to just show up. She was widowed in 2003 with two small children. She was determined to build a business that allowed her to be at home, while doing something, she loved. Fast forward to today and she runs the community content creators is co-founder of the content creator's planner teaches content marketing and coaches entrepreneurs on growth through content strategies. I'm starting to notice the name going on here. I love it. Kim welcome onto the show. I want to ask you, so this is phenomenal. I'm so, so, refreshed that you focus on content. It seems to me at times to be kind of a dying breed if you will you don't hear a lot about it and the fact that there's somebody out there like you, that coaches in it is expert at it and successful at doing so. I was just so excited to have you on the show, you have no idea. And so, when you, you know, we now know about your your background from kind of a superficial level, if you will on the top level, if you would mind really quickly like get a little people, inside and what makes you tick. Like when you get up in the morning. And it's time to get busy, you know, it's time, it's another day. What actually you know, when your feet hit the floor, what motivates you to then continue and open your eyes get up, stretch and then go take on and tackle the day? What is that driving factor for you?
Kim Doyal:
It's freedom. You know, it's funny, it's, it's one of those things that you think about your why as an entrepreneur and you look at and obviously my kids were a big driving force and wanting to be home for them. But, if you know your love of books I have to tell you I did spend 10 years in the book industry. Brian, if I told you that like years ago. So, you know but I worked for other people for so long and I always had this internal there's something else I'm supposed to do with my life. And so, it's, it's that freedom and there's been highs there's been lows but it's always been better than working for somebody else or having a commute. God forbids.
Brian Kelly:
I love that. I asked up for a prior guest about what was it she loved most about being an entrepreneur. Same exact word, was freedom and that's you know, why she loved being an entrepreneur because you are, the interesting thing is a lot of people who don't understand, we're not yet entrepreneurs who are maybe in the corporate world who look out at entrepreneurs and hear things like that, might think oh my gosh, Wow! it's gonna be a cakewalk. I want that. I want to just be free. So, let's be clear it takes probably more effort. More drive, more intensity, more discipline than you could ever imagine being a corporate employee, to be a successful entrepreneur. What that gives you is the freedom to choose how you build your business? Where to build your business? and when to build your business? But it is no cakewalk. It's a lot of fun, depending on your, your chosen business. It can vary but, that's just me. I just wanna make that clear for those that may not be entrepreneurs watching right now. But, I would highly, highly recommend it because it's quite a ride. Would you agree?
Kim Doyal:
Absolutely! And I think the other piece of that brand is that, you may not know out the gate right. So, freedom is always my driving force and I joke that it's been this eleven-year path like, the content marketing is really been only last couple years. I've always done it. But I mean, I had a full-on web agency I had an outsourcing company I did some coaching and stuff. But, I feel like this is exactly what I was meant to do. And it took me eleven years to get here. I mean, I started the company that opened and closed its, it's been plenty of this right up and down but it was always that there's something else I'm supposed to do. And so one thing led to another because, I don't know about you, but you see people miss this and it's like, oh my gosh I want to do an online business this is what I love. I'm going to, I'm going to make a course and sell it and it's like, oh you got it. There is so much in there and I always say you get clarity through doing the work, right? Like if you master the fundamentals, you will get clear on that thing that you want to do. And so, got. It's the. I live by if it's not fun, I'm not doing it. Which is why I don't do a Web site that was never my intention. But yeah it's. Doing it will get you where you want to go. It may take a year, it may take five, it may take ten, but it's it's not always right out of the gate. I mean this is one thing to do in some from the start that's going to work.
Brian Kelly:
That's amazing. I love it. You get clarity through doing that work from doing the work. And that is my gosh that is so unbelievably true. You know, I'm just thinking back about all the different things I have attempted and I don't look it back at any of them as being failures just because I moved to a different phase,, I look at them as experience I built on that I am building on and using with each additional phase that I go through. So, that's pretty awesome. And I'm sure you get to utilize your past experience that wasn't directly attributable to content marketing, but it was other things that you can use in helping to coach, those who you come in contact with, through content marketing.
Kim Doyal:
Yeah. You know, when I was in management, for retail management for the bulk of my life which was far too long. And anybody I always say everybody should do it, for like a week at Christmas because we'd all be much nicer customers. But, but it's through the doing and the other thing is that you know we were talking about for the show and there's something about this space particularly with the Internet that people think it's supposed to be quick and you know, the shiny object and all of that we've all had those discussions. And what I would say it was probably I don't know 2015 maybe that I was like, You know, what I'm going to go back and I'm the master the fundamentals I'm going to focus on the process I'm going to focus on mastery. And as an example one of the things, I implemented I don't do it today but it was a daily e-mail and I just said I'm just going to get better at this. And because when you join this face you hear about learning to write good copy engaging. Building an audience e-mailing your list all these basic things but it feels like yeah, yeah like, you know, and people kind of pooh pooh it because it's not you know six figures with a webinar in six months or whatever. And so, I think if, if we can get people to come back to this place within who you become in the process of doing those things and mastering those fundamentals is priceless because, it sounds so, silly and I'm sure you've read the book and now it's out of my head. He was one of those CEOs of success magazine the compound effect, where. Is it?
Brian Kelly:
Yes
Kim Doyal:
It's that consistent small action. And so, this email to me I'm like a kid taking 20, 30 minutes and I've been kind of following, Ben settles a great email marketer and I've been watching how he emailed for a year, every single day, and he sells what a few things but primarily he's selling a subscription, to a physical email newsletter. But I just watched it, and I paid attention I'm like oh that was funny. I like that headline and I thought I'm just going to try this. It was crickets for a good 30, 45 days and then all of a sudden boom people started subscribing but I didn't care because all the sudden I'd instilled this level of trust within myself that I'm going to follow through on a commitment, I made to me and be look what happens, with small incremental consistent action. It just it literally reshaped my beliefs about a ton of things in this space and life in general.
Brian Kelly:
And with that comes this one word, that it's, it's like a four-letter word to some people you know it's not physically four letters but it's discipline right. It takes a lot of discipline to do what you just did because you don't you can't see the end result and you're not sure what it's going to be at sometimes and you hope somebody actually reads what you're doing right. So, there's all the unknowns and you're just if you just remain consistent this is extremely valuable advice for everyone watching listening write this stuff down, because I'm going through the I have been through that very same thought process in doing this very show, you know, to be consistent to do it every single week. There is so, much time and effort and work that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen every week. So, there are times come on. QUESTION Well should I continue this and then I'll know within a microsecond I'm smacking myself saying of course because, yeah like you say you just don't. It's the journey and the things you learn along the way. I get to meet, phenomenal amazing people like you, we've never met in person, we've met out of person for that. And we were talking just what a half hour before the show came on and I feel like I've known you for 30 years. It's an amazing thing. And the beautiful thing is the relationships, that I get to build and the new connections that deep and existing connections that even further deepen and I learn, I learned so much from each of you. I'm learning from you right now and there's no way I can stop this is the positives far outweigh you know Brian. How are you monetizing that shows like it's about? It's about getting value out there. It's not about making money at every turn. Yes, there are times for it. The show I chose not to be one of those arenas. Anyway, I go off on a soapbox but thank you. You just sent off a flurry of thoughts in my brain.
Kim Doyal:
Can I, can I, can I piggyback on what you?
Brian Kelly:
Please. please.
Kim Doyal:
So, I had started the WordPress check podcast. It would. It'll be six years, if I pivoted to the Kim Doyal show. And it's funny because the only reason I did it was because I wanted to have more fun and I had always been an audio file riot like I was joking. I mean, I am the rudest person out in public because I don't hear anybody because I always have earbuds in. But the point being is I started the podcast so I wanted to have more fun. I was not attached to an outcome with it. I didn't care where it took me. I just said I want to do this. I want to be consistent with that. And it's one of those things when you create media like this, or you're creating a show that it's intangible but same thing. The relationships I gained I end up with podcast sponsors down the road. I got coaching clients, I got Web site clients and it gave me a level of credibility within my space. But more importantly it totally helped me find my voice. Pun intended right? But it helped me find my voice because, I just showed up as myself genuinely authentically and that's what blew up my brand. I had already had the word chick for five years but doing the podcast all of a sudden it was, I wasn't worried about what it was gonna do, I just wanted to give its a massive value add I mean where else can you say let me use my platform to share your message. I mean it's such a win, win and so, it's that element of you know Gary B and you like it, is always saying deploy patients and it's you have no idea where it's going to take you, but I think when the intention and the commitment is, is 100 percent behind you, you're not going to go wrong. You just have to trust and be patient.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah and that is it. Trust and be patient. And when we say be patient that means be patient, very patient because there will be there'll be times like doing a podcast that takes a lot of time and effort to put together you know, if you have a podcast where you're interviewing other people you're setting up those interviews you're vetting the people you're it's a lot, it's a lot of background and work and sometimes you just say why? and I'm so glad I'm committed and you know luckily it's only once a week I don't have a crew working for me you know, on show night it's me myself and I am director, producer, star, co-star everything right or whatever you call it. And I love it. I'm absolutely loving this especially because I get to not just meet people like you Kim but to share people like you. That's my you know, I just so love helping people in any way. It doesn't have to come from me personally. I get to be a conduit by which others will get this intense value that you are giving an amazing amount of value. Already we just started the show and I mean, we could end the show right now, value had been just like I said before raining down upon. Now you come off to me as someone you first of all I love your presence you have a lot of energy of a great you just glow about you, you're always smiling, even when we were talking before the show. So, who are you, who you see right now everybody who's watching this is her behind the curtain as well? So, you know, it can often be trying to always be upbeat because it really helps to be upbeat and positive minded when we're going about our daily business and lives it just makes us our business that much more successful. So, when it comes to doing that though maintaining that positive productive and successful mindset on a daily basis. What do you do to sustain that? Day after, day after, day.
Kim Doyal:
Yeah, I have a few things and I'll tell you, you know, I joke around that I am what about Bob right. Like I still see my therapist that I found lost my husband because she's kind of this life mentor to me and, she's taught me a lot. I mean I've added meditation to my life and you know where we're talking about audio books. I am so protective of my time and my energy and I only listen to things that make me feel better. I'm selective about TV shows like, people joke I'm going to show you this. OK so, this is Harry Potter Lego that my nephew built for me. You don't wanna know how many Harry Potter things I have around here or how many times I've watched those movies in the background and I feel like doing work on my laptop because it makes me feel better. So, I constantly put things into my mind, into my heart and very even on the weekends like doing this. Like you say it requires a lot of energy and you're upbeat. So, then there's times I'm like I don't need to talk to anybody for like two days and I'm not like shutting the world out I'm really OK. Just taking care of myself and taking time for myself. You know, I've got my kids are bigger by my dogs pure joy. I get outside. I move, you know, I do so many different things for myself that are simple pleasures. There's I love getting massages all those little things. But most importantly, is I'm protective of what I bring into my life. I don't have people in my life that drain me. I can love them forgive them and wish them well, but I don't have people that don't add to my life. And you know, I've learned as I've gotten older, I would say I'm a giver. I like to show up and be supportive and help my family. But if I can't, I can't. And that's OK. Right? So, it's, it's really learning. Again, it comes back to trust and taking care of yourself. It's that old cliché of the oxygen mask but you know game changers for me truly, meditation. Their days it's six minutes but the ability to be still and say I matter to take this or just to your point you talk about exercise and you know, taking the time to go to the gym or walk the dogs or get outside. It's those simple little things again it comes back to small consistent action but, you know, long story short I, I just keep good things coming into my life as frequently as possible whether it's podcasts or books or music. It's I literally have a Disney playlist because it makes me happy. I know the greatest showman by heart. So, I do those things I don't care how redundant or silly they might be to other people. They keep me where I need to be and I don't know, I'm a generally happy person.
Brian Kelly:
And that's good. I mean the way you show up is how. It's going to enable you to help more people. Right. And so, your, your date the way you handle and approach each and every day is a direct reflection of how much you're going to be able to serve people and as a result of that how much is how much success you're going to achieve doing that. And you said so much during that, that, that was so on point one I was just comparing back to old corporate days myself where you can't choose anything, when you're working in a corporate job, you can't choose who you sit next to the toxic person that, you can't stand or the toxic manager or boss or whatever. And, so that's another I was just going back to the original comment of freedom. That adds to the liberation and freedom. And the thing is is if you're not taking care of yourself first, you Kim, then there's less of you to give to your clients to the world to serve to spread your vast knowledge and expertise. So, this is very important. The point is I'm just trying to solidify everyone is that it's very important to take care of yourself in fact someone just commented on that very thing on our live. SHARON folks said I'm, I'm a giver too but self-care is important. She's right on point. So great. Great stuff. This this is amazing and awesome. I love it. Every show is different. And this one is really moving my needle, really moving. I love it.
Kim Doyal:
I have one more thing to that.
Brian Kelly:
Please.
Kim Doyal:
Like, you always joke around about Harry Potter and I really do have sort of go tos based on my mood. And one of the things I've learned my therapist taught me is really to pay attention to what I'm feeling physically, is an indicator like, I know that when I get angry it tends to be in my head, when I get sad it's in my chest, when I'm excited and nervous it's in my stomach. And so, if I'm not totally sure like if something's off I can sit back and I'm like, oh OK I'm feeling a little unsettled. I need something spiritual to listen to, but I'm feeling fired up I need to look Gary B I'm going to go all in tonight you know so, it just depends. Or if I'm feeling cerebral and I need to write for a little bit I put on you know rain and wind or whatever or so, it's just trusting and knowing what I need because we can't I mean, the whole hustle. I actually, had a little of the hustle movement for a while and then I pivoted it because it had, it comes from that alignment with it. So.
Brian Kelly:
I always say this from stage, you know, the mind and body they are a team. And more importantly the mind and body are your team, and yes your every cell of your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts and if you're not taking care of your body your mind is directly affected, just as you so elegantly explain how that works and you know, that's why these patterns of successful people include both, mind and body and then of course business mastering the business aspects and so, perfect segway into actual exercise whatever means that happens to be. How important is it. Have you found it to be now in your life in your business and even in your personal life?
Kim Doyal:
Well, you know it's crazy is I've always been somebody that moves and then the last few years I had some really personal heavy stuff going on with one of my kids and so, it was it took a lot out of me and I mean I used to drop the kids at school and go straight to the gym, straight to the gym and then you're sitting all day. And so, I hit this point where I was like you have to make this a priority again. And you know, even all my years in retail management I was on my feet all day had to walk eleven thousand steps, no problem. I like feeling strong and so I stepped back and I'm like you have a lot to do in this lifetime still. You need to get in peak was in peak performance also. But you know, you need to take care of yourself and step it up. I've really gotten back into that because I missed that. I don't know. Your body feels that when it's like that I need to move I need to move so, you know for me it's it's really simple like I said take the dogs OK. I'd like to do Pilates I like doing weights a lot too. And so, it's I've had to step back into that because I wasn't feeling good because I was emotionally exhausted and drained and I the flip side of that Brian is that I didn't judge myself for that, I was really in survival mode and this isn't talking way back when I lost my husband but this is just the last few years and so there is a lot of survival mode. And I, I just allowed myself to do the best I could. To be honest with you I didn't judge myself which I think has gotten me to this place for like I'm ready to rock and roll now like life is good. I feel so grounded and where I'm going that, that has to be the priority in order to do the things I want to do in my life.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah. Can't agree more and I love. I love how you're talking about judging yourself not judging yourself. I've had so many clients in the fitness space. I have a 90 days to peak performance program that includes fitness and nutrition and mindset with an NLP to get the first two of these patterns rock-solid. And one of the things I always tell him because there are certain times when they can't do all 10 reps let's say maybe they can't do 10 pushups and that's like and then they come to me and and like they feel downtrodden they're beating themselves up inside and I'm like well hold on a second. Let me. Let me ask you something did you actually try, and did you give it everything you had to get those seven reps in? that you did successfully get it? Well yeah, but I didn't get it. But you did you put everything you had into those seven. Yeah, I said well don't kick yourself in the butt for that instead. And I tell them to literally do this put their hand up raise it up do now turn it back, reach back behind you and Pat yourself on the back for those reps you did do. And I have him say it out loud. Good job and then their name and get in the habit of praising ourselves. We are our own worst enemy aren't we. When it comes to self-talk
Kim Doyal:
This is another one. My therapist is like this genius but I was very I was telling her story one time I was very proud of the fact that I had started catching the negative self-talk. So, I would catch myself doing it and I was like I can knock it off. Ok, Like I would shut myself down she goes. OK, that's good. What if you said Oh sweetie it's OK. And I was like oh, it's a lot like you know. And so, learning those little tricks. And so, I would, I would catch myself and I was really stressed and like. Kim it's OK you're tired let it go or you know like I'm a big juicer I have been juicing like I mean I do tons of green juices I make my own juices but I've been doing that for almost five years now, pretty consistently and I'm like I get some really good nutrition. I know I'm doing something good. So, you know, it's allowing yourself that acknowledgement and human for human.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah. And it's so important to give yourself acknowledgement to give yourself to be OK with, with you did do you're going to change every day you're gonna be tired some days or days you're just not gonna have you know, you can get those days where you feel like you're in the zone and everything's going right and then you have the other days where the opposite is true and that's when we want to then start kicking ourselves in the butt so to speak. And what you just said was spot on, that the key is just being aware that you're doing it. That's number one. Number two is a quick reframe, like you said all that's ok sweetie or you know we're just the opposite. You know, it's like oh boy you you really you just didn't make it to the finish line. And however. I made it quite a way farther than I was before I started. So, you know, get my myself right.
Kim Doyal:
Exactly.
Brian Kelly:
You know, so, it's just we always beat ourselves up. So when you get into that all of these mindset tools and techniques that we're discussing coming out right now you can put into play right now everybody watching or listening not, not that you can put them in play, you should. And make it a point to put them in play. Be aware of your negative self-talk. You know, we're here to help. This is what the show is all about provide value to you. And it's not going to help you if you don't put what you learned into action. It's one thing to learn. It's another thing to do. So, we highly recommend you do both. All right. I already know I can already. Well I'm pretty sure that you're quite an avid reader. You've already made good comment about that. What book would maybe either what book are you reading now or what was the last book you read that had an impact?
Kim Doyal:
Well, I just finished. This is marketing myself by Seth Godin. He was so, so good. I you know I've, I've read I love Seth Golden's work. I love his message sometimes. He's hard on audible because he's so chill and mellow. But this is marketing is one of those books that I listen to completely and then I bought it. And he has a saying and I think this is the book where he says content marketing is the only marketing left. So maybe that's probably why but it really his whole philosophy just comes back to. That. Yes there's psychological triggers and marketing and and why we buy and all of those things but it's kind of that doing the right thing is always the right thing. But he makes you look at it and he is so great at telling stories about companies who have done the opposite of what everyone expects and how it's worked and so that was fantastic. I just started reading essentialism and Greg I can't remember his last name. So, yeah I read a ton of books but this is marketing was fantastic and I'm reading a central as I do. Amazon loves me, I'm like oh I was the audible I need the hardback book or I'm like Oh but then I want it on my kindle too, so I can read it and it's just ridiculous. So, I've got Jay Abraham's book that I'm reading too. How to get all you want out of everything you've got or something like that I guess. Yes. Yeah. So, yeah I read a lot and I'm always reading a novel too.
Brian Kelly:
Oh that's awesome. So, I love how you mix you know pleasure and business and you said you've said that from the onset that you do things that make you feel good and make you happy and that's so important because if you're not happy during the day then what's the point. What's the point of all this? Really. I mean, when it comes down to it it's refreshing to hear you, you know just be that transparency. Hey if it, if it, if it doesn't make you feel good I'm not doing it. So,, that's it. And that's the way everyone should live to a degree. Kids you know that's different. You got to pay attention and do what your parents tell you. But even if you don't like it it's interesting you said Seth Godin because I've not yet read a book by him and I just purchased it today yesterday a book by him, by him called the dip. Have you read that one?
Kim Doyal:
Yeah. I have not read the dip. I've read all market. It was all marketers are liars. It started out as something else. I've read Purple Cow and he's got I've got a few of his books but I've heard the dip is really good. You know it's funny. So I would say, I mean, I've obviously read a ton of business books do. I think this is probably one of my most favourite marketing books of all time is a lot of stuff that I've read. And you know the interesting thing to Brian is it depends on what you're trying to get from the book right in terms of a I would say general and it's a little bit like where we're going right now. I mean, it's not a book on copy it's not a book on you know, sales techniques per say but I loved it. I loved it. I'm, I'm seriously thinking I'm going to start doing video Amazon reviews because I want to get on the radar because I'd love to interview a. So I'm like I'm going to start doing video Amazon reviews.
Brian Kelly:
I think that's brilliant.
Kim Doyal:
Why not?
Brian Kelly:
That was absolutely a brilliant idea. Wow!
Kim Doyal:
That was a big thank you. Right
Brian Kelly:
Yeah. I mean, if everyone watching this is I mean, there's plenty of room to go around. I'm sure Kim would mind a few nuzzled up next beside her with another video reviewing the same book that she ends up to review. But what a great idea. I mean, talk about getting exposure out there and then people that follow, that is just genius. That is a genius and the more I think about.
Kim Doyal:
Because my other hashtag ran I told you is everything is content right? And so, what does that mean. If I, if I'm telling people to show up and genuinely be themselves and then I go, and I do a little screen capture of me leaving a video review I'm like Just give right? I mean, that's a piece of content for me as well not that that's why I'm doing it but the whole thing is, how can I get leverage feels like I'm trying to be sleazy because. But it's just I want to give. How can I encourage other people to give? How can I show people that this is fun and you can do something with it? So, I just play this all feels like play to me.
Brian Kelly:
That I love that, that is just such an absolute phenomenal idea. My gosh I. Yeah, he could do that repurpose it all over the place YouTube have it transcribed and make articles from it. I mean my goodness it just goes on and on podcasts from it. You'll be up. It could be a podcast. Literally right?
Kim Doyal:
Yeah absolutely. Well I do. Again, you want to get them interviewed and just keep going. I mean it's content for your site like you said you can read there's just you. It's kind of limitless. You can do it.
Brian Kelly:
That's like this show. I repurpose on to at least 15 different podcast platforms to repurpose and it's putting an e-book form going to make a book compilation out of it. Wink wink Kim you'll might be involved down the road be a co-author. That's a great way to do a collaborative book where you don't you have to put pen to paper or type in the keyboard. You just send it to an editor and say make a book out of this please. Thank you very much. So, there's so many ways and repurposing you we could go on for days on that. I love it because that's just working smart. And there was a guy who was it said it, was an author of a book. I know, I can picture his face relentless was the name of the title a book and he took issue with the same work smarter not harder, he said. Who in their right mind came up with that and who would follow? He said No it's work smarter and harder. Oh like this guy! That just stuck, it just stuck. So, I was gonna say Work smarter, not harder but now let's work smarter this work smarter and continue to work harder.
Kim Doyal:
Can I, Can I add one little snippet. Because this is kind of a pet peeve and I won't go to ranty with every passing of content because there's a lot you see content agencies and I'm not thinking of anyone specific or calling anybody out. I don't believe in doing that by where it's like oh you know come on Well, we'll record you know 60 videos then we'll repurpose it one we'll do this business, niceness and then your content is done for the year. Well the problem with that is that it serves the creator not the audience. Right? Because I can tell you there's no way that I would create a video today that I think it's gonna be valuable in September. I have no idea. So, like I'm a big believer in the you know the twelve-week year the 90-day sprint. But, I think the repurposing of content that was created with the right intent is goal, create better content promote it more you know give it more time and attention maybe repurpose it. It's not about massive quantity, massive pushing because there's no listening happening then there's no conversation there's no dialogue it's like, well I'm just gonna go make a bunch of stuff schedule it, push it, and I'm done and I can go do my thing while content. You need to be present for it to work. Otherwise it's just noisy. It's different if you have you know a massive platform already and you have tons of people following you or a million purple person email list. I mean that's completely different. But for the people that are you know not they're getting started or have something and are just now getting into content marketing and repurposing. Just do it with the right intent and then give that that you created more time and attention and energy versus massive quantities being pushed. Start listening and having conversations. I just I don't like the message that it's just about. You know, churn and burn content push it and leave it. I think as the social platforms have gotten more crowded. Algorithms change you know you need to be very cognizant of what you're putting where and why you're doing it.
Brian Kelly:
I couldn't agree more. I remember going back a very dear friend of mine still a very dear friend just a difference of opinion recommended that I actually find a PR piece of private label writes, piece that was already written you already know him going with us and. Slap my name as the author and publish it as my own book and that way you become an instant author and I'm like but that doesn't serve anybody. I mean that just. That's, that seems like so phony to me and he has the greatest intentions that a gem of a person this person he just just bad advice at that moment in my opinion and so I'm actually in the deep in the throes of writing my first full of full length book about two thirds of the way through it, and I wanted to ask you that question regarding that I'm curious genuinely, curious. What do you say to those who have books or have written a book or in the process of writing a book about repurposing content of their book into like blog posts and articles and those kinds of things or should they still just do what comes to them in that moment?
Kim Doyal:
No, I mean I think that's super smart right. But that's taking a book that you created with the right intention. And it was like I want to serve people with this book. So, how can I get the book into more hands. That's marketing, the repurposing as I look at it that it's just marketing. I mean more of where it's like show up let's record you know sixty-three to five-minute videos we'll get the audio we'll transcribe it and it's like, I'm going to tell you I did that test because, so I have a Facebook group and we ask people what's your biggest challenge with content. I have thousands of answers now. They're pretty redundant at a certain point. So, I thought OK, I'm going to take ten of those. And I got all into it right. I even changed my shirt made videos so it's like I looked like I was filming on different days. And it's the way I talk. I cut myself off and stuff. It was so much more work to take that audio and try and turn it into a decent blog post not to mention I talk quickly and I was trying to keep it under three to five minutes. I was like This is garbage. I am not. I literally recorded 10 videos like I am not publishing any of these other ones. And I thought it would have been so much more beneficial had I taken the time to write because, I enjoying writing now. I mean, I was never a bad writer in school but like my first blog post was a paragraph. It was heinous. It's like a robot wrote it. And so I enjoy the process though of doing it. And I think it didn't serve anybody. It was like this generic. Like. Question and Answer It's like take the time to answer the question thoroughly and then I don't know drive traffic to that post promote it ask questions if you can get some engagement like do something more that maybe if you've taken that post and it was really good and then you want to go record a video because you'd like to have the video for it that's different but the natural intent for that, for the post was to solve a problem for somebody not how much content can I get out quickly and fast. It just, it was, it was horrendous. I was like That was the biggest time. But I learned, I know what not to do.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, and that's good. And you learned very quickly you did one session of. So, I get it I get what you're saying though it was just churn and burn like putting out content just for the sake of putting out content and no other reason. Just so that you can have more quantity. That's really yeah. And you can tell when someone's not into it. It's too transparent that way. So, this, this is great advice. You know, it's gonna it's gonna go right in the face of a lot of people who want to do as much as they can to automate everything. I know I am an automation freak. I love automating everything I possibly can. And I finally learned the hard way, that automation does not give you very good sales. It just doesn't work. It's a relationship business.
Kim Doyal:
Exactly. I'm sorry to jump in, this but so there's because it's funny you say that. And you know, we were talking for everyday watching I was asking Brian before because I'm getting like obsessed with automation. I believe in segmenting and I think we're getting to this place where it's about quality, subscribers and not so much quantity. That's not going to do any good. But if you have it kind of goes back to the thousand true fans article. Right. But in the case of being smart and keeping engaged and having a conversation with people those automation to me are brilliant. If, if you're paying attention to how people are behaving and then you make an offer based on a behavior that you can't automate you, write like right. You have to do you. And so, that's where I don't, I don't know I just show up. It's like, it's a work in progress forever. But I so I think like what you're doing with automation is gold I think, I think so many more people could see you know another five hundred dollars, a month, if they set up a couple automation and made an offer from you know a follow up sequence maybe and it's. So those little things because those can change lives. Somebody maybe like this is not working. Oh my gosh! This is working. You know. So, does that make sense. I think you're automation is that you're doing can be gold. But then there's other ones, just like pushing to social platforms.
Brian Kelly:
Right.
Kim Doyal:
Yeah. I think repurposing is great, but I think there's also some value in showing up, and manually posting and testing and being there to see if you can get a conversation going so you have to test it.
Brian Kelly:
Totally agree. Showing up is so important. I preach it and teach it myself just show up like physically, personally automation. I use it more in the back into to systematize the business not so much for the selling process. It's part of it. It's a part of it, of course, to keep things fresh in from their mind. You know, they're just reminder emails that you can write that aren't they don't need to be deep and they do have to be current but they're just reminders. Hey, I noticed you haven't taken action based on automation telling you that they haven't taken action. Things like that that really help streamline and make your life easier. For me, automation is about more freedom right?
Kim Doyal:
Yeah
Brian Kelly:
It takes, it's kind of like a vehicle you know, it takes time and it takes money to maintain and update and change the oil but your vehicle runs smoother longer with an oil change it's similar with automation there's, there's actually a lot of upfront time investment of both time and money and testing to thoroughly get it working but I'll tell you what. The moment it's dialed in it is like the sky's open and the harps are play and it is like, oh! this is awesome! and now it's automated and you basically do a few little, little manual steps to make the whole thing run. And I'm huge on it for that, definitely and getting help. I have three apprentices now working with me that helped me in different areas of marketing social media. I watch everything they do. I make sure that it's in my value stream. It's not gonna be anything I have means in pictures. I ensure that there are any if there's any women on it that they are clothed and you know there's certain value systems that I want to be reflective of not only my business but of myself and just yeah automation from many different standpoints that is so beneficial. And yes, you can use it in the sales process but what you just said is combine it with personal showing up in person, on lives, in interviews you know, and, and be there present at the moment like even when you're typing in a new blog post that's you being present and there and showing up you about say something.
Kim Doyal:
Well, I was, I was just thinking in terms you know what this sales piece and all of those things, that to your point like you're on-boarding for the Shah was just ramp up. It was, it was a system. It was beautiful. I was like, This is really goal. So, that is super valuable, and I think what we have to remember is I don't know about you, but when I find somebody that I get turned on to I'm like I just want to consume them I'm like, OK, you've got a podcast I can binge, I want this. And so sometimes if when people are showing you, that I listen to this I read this I like this, they you know, it's like I don't know you pick up a new hobby here's a great example. So, you know I launched this plan or whatever. And part of my previous life I actually owned a scrap of stuff from 1998 - 2000. I was an art major for a while. I've got this real crafty side of me right. So I started getting into journaling last year and I got into water colors and then I was like I'm gonna go back to lettering. I actually had some bought stickers that I designed when I had to scrap it sir. So, ask me how many pens sets I've bought. Right. Six months because. Right. I got really into it. So, I want to hear from the pen company when they've got a new product. I want to hear from the people that I'm watching on youtube who literally have a million subscribers because they're showing their their layouts and their spreads or whatever. The point being when somebody comes into your space and they're really hungry and they're consuming that give them the opportunity to take it a step further is kind of what I mean from the sales perspective in that, that's where automation can be magical because you can personalize someone's journey based on how they've interacted and engaged, with what you've already provided them.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah. Yeah it's magic you're right. Magic is a great word for it especially when you have it all dialed in and in working. You actually pointed out one of the holes in the automation because I made a change, because you've got an email you shouldn't have, because you had already taken the action. And I looked it up, and I said oh there it is. I found it. So, thank you for pointing that out, so that it goes.
Kim Doyal:
I'm just like I, I did submit this right.
Brian Kelly:
I know the e-mail says, I know where I'll get busy sometimes and I'm like huh. I know she did because I saw that come in. I was notified that you finished and like that's interesting I missed something somewhere. So, I'm constantly nonstop fine-tuning refining and improving. And I love it. And it has to be, it just gives a a level of professionalism and I wanted to stand out from above and I'm not in competition with anybody but I've seen too many other lives on where they just they pull out their phone there's wind in the background or walk in somewhere. I'm like Wow! OK. I mean, it depends on what they're trying to achieve. I get it. I wanted this to be for me, the important thing was you, Kim it's my important thing is for my guest, to look the best, the brightest, the most colourful to look the most professional to have you know a professional setting within to bring your, your juice your magic to the world. It's important to me. So, I put a lot of time and effort to make sure it was quality. And that's what drove me, to do it. Not for me personally. It's to make my guests shine in the light that they should shine in. So.
Kim Doyal:
Well you've done a great job.
Brian Kelly:
Thanks so much.
Enough about that and me because it's about you. There's one question I absolutely have to ask you. I know we started a couple minutes late so we're going to go a couple minutes longer if that's OK with you. I'm great. I could go for another hour or two for anybody watching just stay on. We might go well under everyone's and respect everyone's time but there's one thing that I noticed time and again you know how many times have you come in to like a seminar where a networking event a webinar where they talk about, you know, the importance of marketing and the kind of skate along the surface of different forms of marketing different approaches of marketing. But how often do they do that. And you walk away not knowing exactly what the heck you're supposed to do to successfully market like give me some. Yeah, give me something tangible what where do I start. What tool? Because to be honest, there are many, many, many avenues and forms of marketing out there, and of those many there are quite a few that can be used successfully. And so, it's just a matter of picking one that works for your business and starting there and if you find that it works continue with it and then look for more, for you personally what, what. How do you go about marketing your business.? You know, what. What really has been your most successful form of marketing that someone else could emulate and maybe model your success from?
Kim Doyal:
Podcasting, hands down as I for a while I did a dozen for your podcast service. I don't do any service working work. And it was so easy to sell because I believe in it. One hundred and fifty percent. It was something that I like video too so I'm not a video by any means but there's something about the fact, that there's like this intimate conversation when I'm listening to a podcast like the world does not I'm not paying attention I'm not. I mean, I'm doing what I'm doing. But the bottom line is it's an intimate conversation you can take it word wherever you go. We're all time staff right. And so, it's, it's something that you can do passively like I love. It's funny like, you know my kids are bigger now. We go to visit my parents as far as I am all you good. You got like I'm listening to something you know, and I love that but I'm like to me it's like two hours in the car. What can. What can I listen to? What. And again sometimes it's something spiritual, sometimes I don't do a lot of novels, audiobooks anymore. But, but it's really, it's that there's something about podcasting and I think it's you know it's fun when I started doing the podcast then people would read it they're like I can totally hear your voice. Now when I read your writing and they get to know you because you hear the intonations right. And so, I think there's something about the way it registers. And I just think you know, where things are heading. We've got voice search coming up you know you've got Amazon Alexa skills which I haven't touched yet. I am committed to doing that. But there's something about podcasting that I just think it's neat. It's this it's this intimate conversation versus a video that you have to be super focused on you can take it with you wherever you want. It's very easy to consume but what's unique about the podcast is you know, it's kind of like texting it or even emails. It's like you can interpret things how you want but when you get to hear someone's the way they say that you know, and here's a video that I'll never forget. I don't know. I was 22 or somehow was on the phone. I was at my mom's like I had never heard the word totally you so many times in my life because I could say Oh totally, totally. I'm like, Oh I'm totally right? So, you can you hear that in someone's voice and you're going. I know, I know, I know, I know. Right? So you get to really I don't know why I'm so on right now I'm sorry the group can pick it up but podcasting. I just think it's this intimate conversation. And it was like in a way, I felt like I was cheating after I'm like I'm totally getting like this hour of coaching from somebody that I want to know more about this topic and there's a I always say the perception, this influence, this influential perception because of who you've had on your show who you're connected with. You have no idea. I can't tell you how many podcast interviews have led to a good friendship that I had no idea where it was going to go or what was going to happen. But I liked what somebody was doing. I wanted to know more about the topic. I had an audience I had a platform. I mean it was great one somebody reached out to me. There's a book called MCO for growth by John Jansen duct abducted marketing and Phil Singleton. Phil and I had this amazing podcast interview. He referred me to be on Duct Tape Marketing my podcast downloads shot to thirty thousand a month, when I was on duct tape. It didn't sustain. But the point is, I was a duct tape marketing so, you just don't know where those things you're gonna connect and you're simply it's like doing your show. I just like podcasting because I think there's it's a lower point of entry than video interviews and shows.
Brian Kelly:
Absolutely it's, it's much easier to start up and execute don't have to get all dressed up you know and put on the good threads and.
Kim Doyal:
Do my hair.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah yeah me too. I mean I spent hours.
Kim Doyal:
Well, you know, you've got, you've got anchor on your phone now. I mean it's free. You can you can monetize it. There's just. Anyways, I will not keep selling podcasts and I have nothing to gain from it. And I think it is easy for people to jump in and you.
Brian Kelly:
It sounds like your successful method is an interview style format in podcasting.
Kim Doyal:
Yes or no. I think my ego's too big for just an interview so I do a solo show one week and then I do an interview and I do a full hour-long solo show. And it's funny because some of those will have better downloads it depends. So, here's a great example for a physical planner right. And we did a Kickstarter and I've so accepted the fact that I never give myself enough runway for marketing. It was a great eye opener. We didn't hit the Kickstarter funding fight. The product's taken off. So, I did a whole podcast episode and it was why a failed kickstarter. Logistics are how a failed Kickstarter led to a successful product. And I just told my story and it was therapeutic to write. I realized we did a whole hell of a lot of work and accomplished a ton but massive market validation this happened from end of August to December like we did it. We did this, and so it was really therapeutic. And so, I just shared that whole journey and I said I probably wouldn't do a Kickstarter again. This is why whatever. So, you know, I like doing those solo shows too because I peel back the curtains you know like the sucked or guess what. I had a huge win and people go along with that journey with you and it's it's phenomenal.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah. So true stories, whether even if they're not true if you're just telling a story. So, yeah it's something I learned though speaking from stage that kind of blew my mind. The concept blew my mind originally was well I want to give them I just want to like cram I'm full of content give them content, no dial it back bro let's do some, let's inject a story here that's put one here that's put on here and I'm like Yeah but but the stories all have a purpose in those cases they're always themed appropriately to move into the next or segway into the next topic. But the story I don't bring people and keep them on..
Kim Doyal:
I'm getting way too tired I'm sorry. So one thing that another book that I would recommend for people is story brand by Donald Miller.
Brian Kelly:
Story brand?
Kim Doyal:
Story brand. It is amazing. And then he has a free resource that will help you create your story brand. But this was a total game changer for me. This was something I listen to driving my daughter down to L.A. I was coming back. I'm like I'm gonna listen to a story. We've all heard the hero's journey right? And so, you think of the Hero's Journey. But he flipped it on its head for me because he said it's your audience that needs to see themselves as the hero you shouldn't be the hero, when you're using the hero's journey when you're talking to your audience and creating content you know. And so, of course my example always Harry Potter I'm like, OK so my guess my reader my, my listener whatever they need to feel like Harry in this story and they need to build a put themselves in my place. And so, it's something that you know, content and even through teaching it's framing it in a way that somebody can relate to it and see themselves in that story. And so that's what I've done for myself it's like when I share that crap it's like oh! I'm not the only one who's failed is what.
Brian Kelly:
Yes.
Kim Doyal:
You're helping other people. Yeah.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah. You're becoming relatable. People can relate to you. You know, they see you, you know they hear you on podcasts they see all over the web, they assume you are wildly successful and your life is perfect, and you know, if they cannot relate to a perfect life and often they will just shy away and say well they're too good for me. I can't even approach them. They're just too big for me. The key is to be as transparent as possible without getting too personal of but it's so cool that you know what you're saying is so perfect because it's just as important to express our failures as it is our successes, because it makes us human and that connects that connection. You know, like and trust factor it just really solidifies that. And it does it. The way you're talking about it, in a very authentic way, which is key you know, you don't want to be out only about this. My goodness we ran away with time and.
Kim Doyal:
I could get going.
Brian Kelly:
Hey, that's the beautiful thing about doing it in this venue I'm not on a radio show where we had to cut it you know eight minutes ago we can go as long as necessary but there is one final question, I would like to ask you I ask it. I've asked it of all the previous guests and it's a big one. It's a heavy hitter and it's, it's something that everyone should stick on for. Before I do that though real quick let's get into the prize because I haven't even gone to that with the five-star Mexican resort. And here it is it's on the screen for you is you watching right now if you're watching live this is how you enter to win a five-star vacation stay in a are a five-night vacation stay in a five-star Mexican resort and you can do it one of two ways you can go to either the web and go to ReachYourPeakLLC.com/vacation. It's on the screen right now for you again that's ReachYourPeakLLC.com/vacation or if it's easier for you to stay with us on this live show and go to your phone and text PEAK the word peak P-E-A-K to the number 661-535-1624. Again that's the word P-E-A-K 661-535-1624 definitely yes do this now, go ahead and go on your phone keep open a new tab on your browser to keep listening because you don't want to miss the answer to this question and by the way this is brought to us, by our good friends at power texting.com Jason and Rhonda. Phenomenal, phenomenal people love them dearly and they have a phenomenal service called Power texting.com. In fact, of course I use that service. It's an amazing service site. I highly recommend you check that out. Anyone that's in marketing or an entrepreneur. It is absolutely a godsend for me and my business anyway. So, let's get back to. The star of the hour right here. It's not me. It's Kim and this. So, just to kind of level set it to ease, ease any tension that might have been brewing based on what the heck is this question going to be that is building up just so, you know. Kim there is no such thing. None. No such thing as a wrong answer. It's impossible. And in fact it's just the opposite. The only right answer. Is yours. And what I found to date that every, every guest I've asked the same exact question of has had their own unique answer. It's amazing. It's really, really interesting. So, are you ready now that I've built it up?
Kim Doyal:
I'm, I'm all going to be out.
Brian Kelly:
It may end if it takes you a moment to come up with the answer. It's ok don't worry about dead air time. We're all friends and family here. So, here it is Kim. How do you personally. How do you Kim. How do you define success?
Kim Doyal:
Living life on my terms.
Brian Kelly:
Take your time and think about it.
Kim Doyal:
Living life on my terms is success.
Brian Kelly:
I think that's a new record.
Kim Doyal:
Yeah I'm not. I'm not. There's not a lot of dead air with me as you can probably tell.
Brian Kelly:
I love it. And yeah, so, some answers are similar but none of them know or are two or exactly the same. I've heard of others say freedom. Others would say something. Then start elaborating and then then you'd realize OK the real answer was later down the road years is definite there's no.
Kim Doyal:
Yeah.
Brian Kelly:
And I love that. I love that you're absolutely certain. You already know what success means to you. And that's a great definition. I'm going to compile a list of all these answers and make another, you know, sub like a booklet kind of thing of.
Kim Doyal:
All.
Brian Kelly:
How do you define success. Learn from the most successful people you know. Entrepreneurs that walk the planet what their version of success is. Maybe you'll find yours there too. Kind of some like that. So thank you for that and thank you. You know what. Also I we have that prize to give away you. Also I noticed had something that you would like to offer for those who are watching and it it's. I'm going to bring up the site. It's a six-part free course and I'll just basically. Turn it over to you once I get it up on the screen here in just a moment. And There we go. So, go ahead and take it away and tell folks how to grab this amazing resource.
Kim Doyal:
So, you can go to ContentTrafficKickstarter.com. And I've had a couple people with a redirect for it. If that doesn't hit, it's KimDoyle.com/content dash trip traffic dash kickstarter. Sorry for the wordy you are all there. The direction takes you there. This is the whole part of this free course and you guys I went deep in this six-part. There's like 30 modules but they're all like you know, five to eight minutes they're not super long. But my goal is to get people to start publishing. I want you to just show up and so I talk about using, using the different platforms and we go into like you can look at the pulp the modules like getting started if you're not sure Jedi mind tricks because I really believe in mindset same thing. You know, you may think you've got nothing to say but to quote Dr. Seuss. No one is you than you. Right? And so that's who we are is the only differentiating factor we have now with content to be honest with you. You know, so, I talked about growing an audience asking the right questions being asked right questions and how to use those questions a platform persuasion. What you're doing on the different platforms and then in secret that most people ignore. So, this is a completely free course you get an idea of who I am based on it. I just want people to get over their fears and their thoughts. You know, web content is just being afraid to hit publish. You just need to start doing it. And so, that's my goal with this course is to get you to take action. You start creating content. Start finding your voice. It again is through the doing that you're going to get clarity and you're gonna get stuff nailed down way quicker than thinking you're gonna get hit the lightning bolt. So, it's, it's I love content marketing obviously but it's a completely free course and it's I think you'll get a ton out of it. I've had plenty of people tell me they should, I should have sold this, but I really want people to get a good feel and build a solid foundation for content marketing. And I do have other testimonials that I've not obtained but I thought this was kind of funny when I was building the landing page.
Brian Kelly:
(Laughing) And I love the fact that you have a sense of humor to go with everything else and keep it light, keep it real. But look at all of this. My goodness looks at all of that content. And she is asking of you to pay a whopping zero dollars. All you have to do is click on the button and follow the instructions. Thank you so much for that. That is amazing. Amazing and what I'm going to do really quick, is once I get you back on the screen is I'll put up the link that you discussed on the live so folks can then just click on that and go straight to it. Awesome! OK. Now finally, what I would like to do is is have you can give our viewers and listeners what is the best way your preferred way for them to get in direct connection with you to contact you?
Kim Doyal:
I was going to say Facebook but I mean even e-mail me [email protected]. I would prefer that to be honest with you because if I read it and Messenger and I'm out and about and I forget I can't market as unread I am pretty much Kim Doyle and it's still why I yell everywhere online. You can join us on our Facebook group content creators. I'm pretty easy to find. I would say my web site just came to all .com but email is probably the best to be honest with you I feel a little bit old school. I use messenger all the time and I love it. But, especially for not connected as our friends it might be harder to get back.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah.
Kim Doyal:
Sorry about that.
Brian Kelly:
I love it. We have a. We have a co-star in the show now.
Kim Doyal:
Goodness.
Brian Kelly:
Real quick.
Kim Doyal:
If you really, really quiet. I'm sorry you had all these great roles and I'm like they were like show we should have been off right. So.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, that's, that's some say you're supposed to be off. Let's get going. Let's walk time. Let's go.
Kim Doyal:
Yeah.
Brian Kelly:
Well fantastic. Kim can't thank you enough. This has just been an absolute joy. I kid you not. I'm absolutely truthful. This has been what an eye opener I've got notes, I've got books. I hope everyone else did the same and took notes and are gonna go read those books another one by Seth Godin I'm gonna grab since we got off the air here. For those of you watching, listening can't wait till the next show in our next amazing guest expert. But for now the woman of the hour Kim Doyal, thank you. Thank you, so very much, for coming on and and just raining down all that value. For everyone watching and listening. Thank you Kim.
Kim Doyal:
Thank you Brian.
Brian Kelly:
All right. Everyone else we'll see you again next time on the Mind Body Business Show. That's it for now. Be blessed. We'll talk to you soon. Bye, bye now
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Kim Doyal
Kim Doyal, formerly known as, “The WordPress Chick”, is an entrepreneur, coach, speaker, and content creator. She has built her lifestyle business using WordPress, podcasting, creating content, and a commitment to “JustShowUP.” Widowed in 2003 with two small children, she was determined to build a business that allowed her to be at home while doing something she loved. Fast forward to today and she runs the community, Content Creators, is co-founder of the Content Creators Planner, teaches content marketing, and coaches entrepreneurs on growth through content strategies.
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Narrator :
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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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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