Special Guest Expert - Maurine Xavier
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Brian Kelly:
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? Two steps back. We're dedicated. Determined. And driven. We finally breakthrough. And with that is the question. And this podcast will give you the. My name is Brian Kelly. And this is the Mind Body Business Show. Hello, everyone, and welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mind Body Business Show. We have another phenomenal show lined up for you tonight because of our guest, Maureen Xavier, who is coming on very, very soon. She's actually literally in the green room right now and scratching at the screen saying, let me in, let me in, and I will very, very soon. She's an amazing young woman full of energy and great experience, and she has a great mission. And I can't wait for you to hear what that is and to see how she might be able to help you. And I know she will be able to help you because I've been doing this show for quite some time. And every single one of these successful entrepreneurs that I interview always bring some incredible advice and tips, things you can put into action right away to elevate your business immediately. So you don't want to miss a moment of this show, and especially when she comes on, because that is when the real juice is going to be put upon you. It's going to be amazing. The mind body business show. It is a show that I had developed with you in mind and I mean by you, the entrepreneur, the business person, someone who is looking to take their business to that next level, maybe even your personal life, because personal life and business are very, very similar in that in business, one must build relationships. It's all about relationships, business and life. And so what I found out that there are three main pillars to success after studying only successful people for about a decade or so, and this included mentors like personal mentor of mine, other mentors, authors of books, prominent influencers, speakers, some that are living and still with us, others that have long since passed.
Brian Kelly:
I've studied a lot of different individuals, and what I found were these three things kept bubbling to the top. I wanted to find out what perhaps would make them more successful than, say, me. And what I found was they all had these three pillars and they are the very title of this show, Mine being mindset. And what does that mean? It means that each of these successful individuals had very powerful, positive and most importantly, flexible mindsets. And body literally is about one's body. Body means that these successful people also took care of themselves, both physically through exercise and nutritionally, through what they ingest. And then business. Business is multifaceted. And what is that all about? Well, what I found is these very successful individuals had mastered the skill sets that are necessary to build a successful business and to scale it and become even more successful over and over and over again. There are many skill sets that one must master. There are skill sets like marketing, team building, systematizing leadership. I could go on. I could go on and on and on. And the good news is you as an individual, you're thinking, Oh my gosh, you got to master the skill sets and there's so many more to go. How will I ever do that? I don't have time for that. Well, there's good news. You don't have to. In fact, if you just mastered one of them and it is one of them, I verbally just said out loud, if you just master that one skill set, the others can just fall into place much more easily and seamlessly. And you yourself don't have to master every skill set. I wonder which one that could be. Anyone want to know anyone at all? Okay, I won't tease. It is the skill set of. Leadership. Once you have mastered that skill set, now, you can then bring in and manage those individuals who have already mastered those skill sets that you may not ever master or it may take you some time to. And the good news is this is what is all about. It's all about modeling success. It's all about leveraging to become successful.
Brian Kelly:
If one person tries to do everything themselves, which I'm a card carrying member of attempting to do that. And I think every entrepreneur at some point is, But if you continue to do that, then you're destined not I'm not going to save for failure, but for disappointment. It's going to take you much, much, much longer to achieve that level of success that you desire. And I will say that you deserve. So the mind body business show, I cannot wait because Maureen Xavier is coming on real quick, just like Maureen Xavier are very successful entrepreneurs. I found to a person are also very avid readers of books. And with that I want to quickly segue into a little segment I affectionately call bookmarks.
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Brian Kelly:
And I promise Maureen Xavier is on in a moment. She's coming on any second. And yes, he's there. Smile. I can see her. I love it. So. Reacher peek, library dot com. So one quick word of advice before we move on. For those of you watching or listening on podcast after the live broadcast is over. And by the way, if you're not watching live, you should be. Go to the mind body business show dot com. I said it slow on purpose the mind body business dotcom and you can register to receive nothing more than alerts when we go live each and every week. That's it. We don't sell anything. We don't pitch anything. It's just telling you we're live and here's the link. Make it easy for you because I love interaction. I love for folks who come on to ask questions, to make comments, and we'll put your name on the screen if you desire. And so reach your peak library dot com is a perfect example of something that instead of going and clicking away and looking at it on another tab on your browser while the show is going live. Rather than do that, I implore upon you to instead write it down. Good old fashioned write it down with a pen and paper or your notepad on your computer or tablet. Just write it down and keep your gaze and your attention on Maureen. Because here's the deal. I have spoken from stage many times. I personally know when I'm bringing up the Good stuff, I call it the juice, the source, whatever. I know when it's coming. And at that moment, right before it comes up, on occasion, I would see someone get out of their chair and walk out of the room. They have that all important text or phone call or they have to go to the restroom. And so I learned quickly to let them know, look, you want to go to the bathroom before you come in to the next session right away. Don't drink a bunch of water until you know it's near the end of the session. There are 90 minutes usually, and all of those.
Brian Kelly:
And turn off your phone because I would hate for you to miss that one golden nugget that Maureen has free tonight. And she probably has far more than one because you took your focus away. So write these things down. Write them down. Do not visit them yet. Visit them after the show. You have plenty of time. So I'm good. All right. That's my soapbox moment. And now I'm done with that. To reach your peak library. Reach your peak library dot com. That is a website again I had built with you in mind. And I'm not kidding when I say all these things and why did I have this done is because me personally, I was not an avid reader myself until the age of 47 and it's been now about 11 years. Everyone's doing the math. They got it. And and I have no problem with it. And what I found once I started reading finally at the age of 47, oh my gosh, this stuff is life changing if you don't just read it, but you also put into action those things that you're ready for. So I put this together. There's no rhyme or reason to the order. You'll see a lot of Grant Cardona bundled together because I happen to read all of his books and all in the same time or sequentially, they're just in here kind of in the order I read them. But just pick one that really resonates with you that you have not read yet. Read the description. You don't have to buy it on this website. These buttons go straight to Amazon. It's not here for me to make money. I mean, come on. Have you ever made a commission from Amazon off of a book? You know, it's it's sense, not dollars. And so it's not here for a money making thing get just get it, get the book, read it and then put it into action. Those actionable steps that you read and not every book I've ever read is in here. These are actually books that I personally read and only those that are personally read, and not all of them are here.
Brian Kelly:
It's only those that had a profound effect or impact on me, either in business or my personal life, or even both. Speaking of having a profound impact, you guessed it, it's going to be time to bring on our guest expert, Maureen Xavier. She's coming on right now. Let's get it going.
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Brian Kelly:
And there she is, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, it is the one that is the only Marine. Xavier there dancing in the streets. I love it. How are you doing tonight, Maureen?
Maurine Xavier:
I am great, Brian. I'm so happy to be with you.
Brian Kelly:
Oh, goodness sakes. So we got to get to know each other a little bit before the show came on. I'm excited because you are an amazing woman. You're doing amazing things, and we're going to elicit all that wonderfulness from you as the show goes on. Right? Before we do that, though, I do have a little bit of housekeeping to take care of, if that's okay with you. Maureen. I want to give our sponsor a shout out, those kind of things. So right over Maureen's wonderful left shoulder, you can see, and that's on the right side of your screen if you're watching live, hint, hint, wink, wink, the mind body business show dot com, go register if you're not watching live right over there you see the big insider secrets that red and white stamp looking cool logo thing they have sponsored this very show and give me the ability to offer you a chance to win a five night stay at a five star luxury resort. And there are many to choose from from all over the world. You want to stay on here? You must be watching live. And I will reveal the information that will get you the ability to enter, to win. And you just do this after the show is over. There's no massive rush. But you must be watching live and I'll know. So you don't want to miss that. And then a couple more and then we'll get move in with the amazing Maureen. So if you're struggling with putting together your own live show and you don't want to put all that tech time to learn the tech and all of the communication that goes on before bringing on a guest and picking a guest. And are there so many moving parts that people just don't realize that have not yet done one, then you want to head on over to carpet bomb marketing and write that down, carpet bomb marketing, because with that you can saturate the marketplace with your message. It's the very system we utilize for this show. It's one I've developed myself personally, and I'm telling you it is a godsend and it helps you to produce and put on a professional live, not just a show but a full blown production pre show during show and post show along with marketing juice.
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Maurine Xavier:
Thank you so much.
Brian Kelly:
It's going to be such a blast. What I like to start off with, Maureen, is you're a successful woman. You have figured a lot of stuff out. It takes a lot to get to where you are. You've been through the ups, the downs, a lot of downs, I'm sure, because being an entrepreneur, people think, oh, you just you you plug into some automated system or you join a network marketing company and you clone yourself and you just you just become successful. And it's so easy. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is one of the most challenging professions, if you want to call entrepreneurship, a profession that you could possibly choose. Would you agree with that?
Maurine Xavier:
Yeah, well. One of my mentors, Dr. David Commencer, talked about it being a spiritual journey. Entrepreneurship is a spiritual journey.
Brian Kelly:
You know, I can relate with that. Truly, I mean, yeah. Definitely. Goodness sakes. That was well stated by your mentor and then now by you. What I like to find out, Maureen, because as part of the show mind body business mind is, in my humble opinion, it is the cornerstone, the foundation of our level of either success or lack thereof. And what I like to say is. Where we are today. Each of us individually, me included, is 100% due to what's going on in our own mind, between our own ears. And it has nothing to do with outside forces or or anything going on out there because we can do so much with this this brain and decide on how to react to circumstances that are better for us. So for you, Maureen, when you get up in the morning and you know that the whole day ahead of you is is is there and and there are often arduous tasks that we know we need to get done that day. Things that we're not looking forward to. But we know that doing them and doing them with all we have is just going to make us more successful. But for you, when you're getting up in the morning and you're about to start your day, what keeps you motivated? What keeps you powering through every day, day in, day out, week in, week out, month and month out, knowing what this journey is like, what is that going for you? What's going on in that beautiful brain of yours?
Maurine Xavier:
Well, the biggest thing for me, actually, is learning to know that and believe and have faith in and live that. What that I am beyond my mind so that I have my mind instead of my mind having me. So when I'm getting out in the bed. Yeah, that's a biggie I have so that I have my mind instead of my mind having me. Because you're no your mind. It does what it does. It's trained the way it's trained. It's programed the way it's programed by our ancestors, by our family, by our teachers, by your university, by our television, by our media. And sometimes we don't even realize that the way we're thinking isn't even our thinking to begin with. So that's been my number one tool for success is transforming my relationship with my mind, and that's what I support others to do, so that when the day appears arduous, when it appears like we have to power through, that we can have a new relationship with it and we can honor sometimes. Actually, I'm one of the things I'm most proud of is the relationship I have with my virtual assistant, and that I've developed with her over the last four years is I my commitment to the world and to myself is to live in the flow. And sometimes it's better off not to do that arduous thing and try to power through. It's better to put it down and let it be and come back to it the next day or the next day after that, when it can be 5 minutes and done. And over the time we've worked together, now she can actually say, Oh my God, yeah. Maureen Yeah, I just knew it wasn't ready for me to do it today and or yesterday. And then when I got up this morning, it just poured right out of me and it was done in 10 minutes. And this is a woman, you know, she didn't have the spiritual training that I did, but it's been a process of working together. What I'm being talking about, what we talk about, me showing her how I do work and how I don't do work, and now she's more in tune with her intuition.
Brian Kelly:
Well, how beautiful. Because just by sheer example, she's learning from you. And that's phenomenal. And that my gosh, what a lesson inherent in that already is everyone watching, listening that has their own business, who wants their own business is don't ever ask someone to do something that you already haven't mastered yourself or you would you would yourself not consider doing. And here Maureen is the example of of exactly what she teaches and preaches. Not only does she talk about it, but she actually implements and does it. And there are so few of you on this planet, Maureen. I'm more and more I'm seeing more as I interview people. But there are not enough. There are so many fake it till you make it, which, you know, if you're just starting out, I get it. There is a little bit of degree of that that must be employed for you to finally break through, in my opinion. And it's not fun to get to that stage. I didn't like it myself, but when you are really true and authentic with yourself, you'll be like Maureen, and you'll just do exactly what you have proven to work for yourself and for your clients and others. And that's what I love about what you just said there. Oh, goodness. Lori Ann Hood, all the way from South Carolina. I say all the way because we're both in California. So fantastic. She loves Mark Sessions here. Okay, Awesome. Welcome to the show, Lori Ann Hood. Who else? I see we have other people on. I know you're out there. Come on. Come on. Talk to us. Talk to us. Leave your comments. Give us some questions for Maureen. So you at some point decided to start this business that you have going on. What was it? I mean, see, we all go through these journeys. We go through all these ebbs and flows and valleys and peaks, and we finally come out and say, this is what I want to do. So for you, what. Actually ignited that spark in you to say you want to start this business venture and or make significant changes to it? What was it for you?
Maurine Xavier:
So this business venture was really spawned, well, my soul journey, like my soul. If you were to look at the numerology of my name, it's about my name I was born with. It's about freedom. And I was introduced to network marketing back in 2007. I put the product in my body. It brought me to life. I started going to meetings and I wanted to help people become physically, financially and emotionally free. And I have been an accountant like three, you know, I'm 60 years old over three decades of my life, or maybe even four was CPA Financial, you know, a control or a mortgages person. But I was never passionate about it. So I wanted to help people become physically, financially and emotionally free. I was like, I'm going to make $1,000,000. I'm going to have a team. I'm going to change the world. I shove shit out, I shove stuff down everybody's throat and I learn and I learned. I learned and I failed. Failed financially. I'd spent more money than I had made. And I took a step back after my children were raised. And I went back to accounting and honestly, my life force started to go away. I actually got suicidal for a period of time because I was not honoring my joy, I was not honoring my passion. I was had one foot on the dock and one foot on the boat, you know, one foot on the dock, holding on tightly to security and the other foot on the boat wanting to fly. And it was after I finally had a come to Jesus with myself and chose to put both feet on the boat, I went through a radical spiritual awakening. I had been in a transformational leadership mentorship, one on one in groups and in teams with again, my teacher, Dr. David Kang, Minister for. Six years at that point in time. And after a radical spiritual awakening, you know, I'd spent I spent I'd spent a decade learning the what works and what doesn't work. And I, I basically showed up at a at a business academy. And I said I said, God, I don't know exactly what I'm here to do.
Maurine Xavier:
Show me. And I knew with my channeling and my experience and my commitment to what works, I just I showed up and I started supporting women who are here to be who are trailblazers, who are committed to their passions, who are committed to making a difference to the world and who have blocks. We all have blocks where we don't always know where they come from. When you introduce me, I do. I do channel guidance so I can come through. Me Where are your blocks? Is it this? Is it In this lifetime, at three months old. Is it three lifetimes ago? And for viewers out there that think it's weird, that's just the way it is. That's the way I roll. Is it three lifetimes ago, that decision you made, money was bad or evil or you had to give yourself away in order to avoid being killed. And so that's what I do. It's from my own personal experience, walking my walk, talking my talk, knowing what works and what doesn't work, my own ongoing journey. Then I'm here to support others, to live the passionate, productive, powerful and profitable life that they're here to live.
Brian Kelly:
Is that amazing or what? I'm talking to the audience. Is that amazing? I mean, what a wonderful, phenomenal story. And I will interject. There is no freaking way you are 60. No way. No way.
Maurine Xavier:
That's nice of you. Yep, I am.
Brian Kelly:
And I'm being honest. No, I would never would have thought that. So I'm supposed to be the senior member here. Not that has anything to do with ego or anything. It's just I just usually am. I feel like I'm usually the senior guy person on the show. But yeah, honestly, there's no way. Anyway, you're. You've done well. You've done very well in taking care of yourself. That's obvious. And I think I think that's part of the fact is because you figured out how to get your life force back. You know, I could so relate with a lot of what you are saying, because being an employee myself, I went through that as well. I mean, I hated I hated what I did. I hated going in. I hated drudging, getting my butt up and driving in and then coming home and being tired and nothing left except for the weekend. I just did not I despised it and I knew something wasn't right. So I can really relate to that. And here's the thing. I'm not saying anything negative toward either network marketing because I brought that up earlier, not at all. Or working a full time job or even a part time job. Nothing at all. Negative. It's just what is it that makes you in general happy? What makes you happy? What drives you? What gives you that? I love how you said a life force. What gives you that motivation to keep going every day? And if you don't feel it, then perhaps it's time to start searching and you can. I've tried different things. I've tried different businesses until I got to the one I'm doing now. I was I thought I was actually pretty happy and fulfilled. And then I realized, wow, I wasn't I wasn't anywhere close to it. But now I am. I'm like, I'm loving what I get to do. This is freaking awesome. And this is part of it. It's this is not my business, this show, but it is an integral part of it in a different way. And so this is one thing I love doing is interviewing amazing people like Maureen Xavier.
Brian Kelly:
My goodness, 60, my rear end. No way. That's that's phenomenal. And thank you for for being vulnerable and letting everybody know about everything. That analogy with the dock and the boat. That's perfect. Just perfect. Excellent. I have not heard that from anyone else before. That was really neat. So, okay, I love this that you have a network marketing background. Now, look, you went through the mistakes. That's what we all do. Yeah. And actually a lot of people think that and I was one of them that had to be perfect and never make mistakes. And that's how you became successful. And it isn't interesting that the reality is it's the exact opposite. It's make a ton of mistakes, not on purpose, but if you're not putting yourself out there and open to make mistakes, you're not going to grow and move forward. Make the mistake, learn from it, alter your course and move on. And you went through that yourself as one example with network marketing. I did the same thing. I was in network marketing, and in fact, I co-owned one of those companies for a while and that was also turned out to be a mistake. But nothing against network marketing. I mean, it nothing. It's just it wasn't for me. But that's a great lesson in its own right, and that is to fail and fail often and fail fast and get over and past it and learn and move on. What is your philosophy and thoughts behind that?
Maurine Xavier:
I agree. And I also I would add to the recovering CPA, and I'm also a recovering perfectionist. So making mistakes is still one of the things I'm challenged by. I have a tendency to overdo and try to get things exactly right to avoid the pain of either failure or making a mistake. And part of what I've learned is because what was failure to me and what was a mistake to me. So I totally agree. Making mistakes is a huge part of it. And I also have great compassion for people who avoid making mistakes like the plague.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, I think I don't know if there's any human on the planet that hasn't been there or some many still are there, and sometimes I'll regress back to it. I've noticed. But you know, the successful me says Snap the heck out of it. That's not going to get you anywhere.
Maurine Xavier:
And one of the things I would add about failure is to be really clear. And what is your definition of success or failure if you're trying? My my journey is about living. Living the living the journey and not having our success tied to one particular picture. One particular goal, one particular outcome. That's one of the things I consider myself an expert at is supporting women that one woman in particular have been dealing with by selling a house in a certain period of time, and it hasn't been working as quickly as she wanted to. It's like, okay, well, what did it represent? What was the essence of it? To get to the essence of something. And when you get to the essence of it, you may realize that you don't need to have that particular thing in order to be a success.
Brian Kelly:
Exactly. It's like stacking pebbles every day. You give yourself the the I can't think of the right word, the permission to give yourself micro successes all day long. You know, if you have a to do list and you're knocking out things on that to do list, every one of those is a success that you finish and those that you don't finish. It's not a failure. It's just it hasn't been done yet. Or there's another term or phrase I hear often and I love it is there is no such thing as failure, only feedback.
Maurine Xavier:
I love that.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, yeah, I love feedback. Oh my gosh. I asked for it and it's not always pain free. But the thing is, oh, I love this phrase in in. I used to follow bodybuilders. I used to lift weights a lot. And one of the phrases always there on the big posters on the walls in the gym was no pain, no gain. It's actually true. You know, one must go and experience some pain. To. Punch through. I have not seen anyone other than those who might win the lottery, but then they seem to self-sabotage and spend it all or throw it all away. If you don't go through some pain and I don't mean it has to be literal physical pain, but if you don't go through some struggles, some learning, some feedback, some moments, some setbacks, then man, it's going to be tough. So get out there and make it happen. Oh, we got a couple more comments. Sue Ellen, so proud of you, Maureen. I never tire of hearing about your journey and watching how far you've come. Ooh, that's nice. Oh, we have a question coming in, and this is great. You talked about with me earlier, and we'll get into this in more detail. This person must know you as well, Kathy Bibby. Does that name ring a bell?
Maurine Xavier:
Yep, she does. Yes, I know her.
Brian Kelly:
Okay, so you mentioned that you also you work one on one and you work with groups. And we'll get into that in deeper detail here in a moment. But she asked a great question. She says, What was or is your number one challenge working with groups? This is a really good question, actually.
Maurine Xavier:
It is because of the type of the work I do, and it can be so deep. The biggest challenge of working with groups is is the confidence of holding a container of work with deep work with people in a way that's not that's going to service everyone and my own and again, my comfort level, my growth, my sweet spot is one of another. One of my habits is that I was that I was I needed to make everyone happy. So at some level, I had avoided doing groups because it's the oh, who is not who's going to be mad at me, who's going to work for who's going to get triggered, who am I going to tick off? So it's for me, it's been letting go of the prospect or possibility or responsibility. That's my job to make anyone happy at all. So now that I'm really more confident that it really isn't my job to make anyone happy, it's actually impossible to make anyone happy. People's happiness is their own responsibility. It's it's more comfortable for me to hold a space for people. And just how. Let's let the chips fall where they may. Let me see what else? Our biggest number. I already talked about my number one challenge, so I've answered the question.
Brian Kelly:
And it's so true. I found this kind of by just happenstance that I used to talk one on one with people. And then then I would I would talk one on one with the next person. And then I realized, oh my gosh, what I was just talking to with the person before you could have really benefited from. So I need to do this as a group from now on. And it turned out to be more beneficial than not, even though the appearance might be that they're not paying attention. Maybe it's a Zoom call and you can see them looking around and or not paying attention, but they're getting it and most of them are getting something from it. If it's anything of value, even if you are concentrating on one person at that moment in the group. And so I found that oftentimes, oh my gosh, how many times I've taught in after the seminars over and we do have an advanced class and you're up in front teaching in front of a group and you see one person looking, staring out the window. I'm like, He's not taking notes, He's not nodding. He's not What is going on? It turned out that was his mode of learning. He was like a sponge ingesting everything. And I was like, and we found this out through Q&A. And so like, oh, he was paying attention. I never called him out, didn't say, Hey. Pay attention like the teacher would do. So it's interesting. It's so fun to go to those experiences to learn how people operate so that what you just said was like, right on is perfect because I think there isn't a person that's ever been in a group situation that's leading. The group hasn't thought or felt that same exact experience you just talked about. And so it was powerful that you brought it up and explained it. And, and just for those of you out there, yeah, you can, you can impact more people in a group setting for sure. And just know that you don't have to. You just said it, Maureen. You can't please everybody. You won't. It's not going to happen. It's okay.
Brian Kelly:
You're doing the best you can. And when you're when you're working with each individual, you're providing value. How many times I have listened to that and I'm thinking, Man, I wish someone else would get a turn. And then I go, Hey, that was a good point. And I'd write it down just at that moment. So there's always something to be learned. Have an open mind if you're in a group setting and just let it. You said something about that was something that you brought up about people, how they react to things. Oh, about your mind. It was about your mind being the what you say. You say I have my mind. Oh yeah, I have my mind instead of my mind having me. That was it. That was that was perfect. I had a mentor that used to say, you can either let your circumstances control your attitude or you can let your attitude dictate your circumstances. And that's what I love. It's all about choice. We all, to a person, get to choose how we react to every situation. We're all going to have them, aren't we? Maureen, do you think tomorrow you're going to have it's going to be perfect, clear sailing from the day, the moment you get up to the moment you go to bed. I mean, everything's going to be perfect. It never is, is it?
Maurine Xavier:
No. And one thing I would say about that, though, because I deal with it myself and I really deal with it with other people, is one of the most frustrating things is is to have all the intentions in the world of choosing differently next time, behaving differently next time. I'm not going to do this at the same way again. And try and try and try and try they. It doesn't work for them. So that's one of the reasons why the work I do is really helpful, is because we get to the root of the being on the hamster wheel so that you understand what is what is the belief that's buried inside of you that became the way you are the root of your being, that you can see it, you can look at it, you can understand it, you can transform your relationship with it. So you no longer are living in. The automatic response of that belief is who I am. And that's real, and I'm doing the best I can to defend it because I think it's who I am instead of, Oh, I have a hidden belief I didn't even know about. Well, I don't have I actually, I there's actually space because that's what I help People do have more space, their space to see it as a belief now instead of something to fight against.
Brian Kelly:
Now, for some of you, that was undoubtedly a bomb dropped. Smart bombs. Bombs of wisdom, knowledge bombs. That's what Marine Xavier is all about. We have more comments flying through. I so love this prince. I Oh, I love this. This young man, I met him in person. Gosh, it's been close to ten years ago. Hi, brother Brian. Great to experience your aliveness again. Shine on. But I love this one even more. He says. Thank you, Maureen, for telling my story without knowing me. Best wishes and all that you do. So just by coming on this show, this is a great another great example just by Maureen coming on this show and sharing her brilliance she has having a positive impact on someone she's never met because she showed up. And that's a testimony to you, Maureen, for doing this, for coming on shows like this. It takes time. It takes effort. You had to get ready. As a woman. I know it takes longer usually. I mean, I now put on makeup now and then I do, actually. No kidding. And I'm proud of it. So I appreciate that you came on. And because you're showing up, you're impacting lives in a positive way. And I always look at it as, oh my gosh, do I have to change someone's life completely and wholeheartedly and one in one snap of the finger? Well, no, you can plant little seeds, though. Like if you go up to the counter at Starbucks and you see someone there in that state, they're working hard. My God, they work hard, they're fast, they're moving. And they're in this state of ECC, kind of like you were describing with the boat and the and the dock situation. They're on the dock and trying to break free. But you just look at their nametag and say hi to them and and say, I just whatever comes to mind and say, man, you are working so fantastically fast. I appreciate what you do. And they just they just get radiant. And if that's all it takes to change their state and make their day just a little bit better than I'm in. And that's the beautiful thing that you're doing right now, Maureen. You're not doing that little thing. You're doing a big thing by being here tonight. And so I really, really appreciate that. Let's see, Lauren Hood was talking about so people who pay attention, I had someone in high school who slept through every class and was the only person. With an A in the class. Wow.
Maurine Xavier:
That's a good one. Wow.
Brian Kelly:
If you can figure out how. That works, Lauren, if you can figure out how you can actually sleep and still excel and find a way to do that, I'm in. Let's make a business. We could sell a lot.
Maurine Xavier:
That's great.
Brian Kelly:
It is. All right. So you're in business. We're going to talk about your business here in a moment. And what I wanted to do is actually let's do that first. Let's talk about your business. If you're okay with that. I know that it's a stretch. I don't want to talk about my own business. Totally. Yeah. What I want to find out so that others can know where all of this is coming from and what you do and what you're passionate about. A few things like what is your target market? Who are the kind of people you are looking for to help and serve? And is it is it women? Is it men? Is it both? Is it corporations? Is it individuals? Is it family? You know, those those kind of things. And then explain, if you could, what you do for them in your own words. And then if you have a success story or two, then please also share that as well. If you're okay with that, I'll bring up your website so you can just fire away.
Maurine Xavier:
Sure. Absolutely. So my my target market is women who are mission driven, who are trailblazers, who are passionate and who are purpose driven. And for some reason they may be dealing with self doubt or they may have confidence that comes and goes, or they may be afraid to live in the flow because at some level they're weighed down by worries about money or they're literally just stuck in some pattern that they don't know how to get out of. And what I help them do is I help them feel lighter. Like that is the most common thing women say after a meeting with me is like it literally they they felt like there was more energy, more weighing them down until afterwards. Because we remove blocks, I help them have more clarity and or be comfortable not having clarity, because sometimes this journey is about not having an all figured out, about not having all the answers right away or ahead of time, and about being willing and comfortable to live in the lack of clarity I help them start naturally attracting. They're right, they're perfect match clients, you know, instead of it being about hard work, the playing the numbers game, if you will. I'm not about not playing the numbers, but when I am about is radiating and being so clear in who you are here to serve and open to receiving and open to being in service and open to making more money that they just by showing up and be and being who they are, they naturally start a clock attracting their right client and then also steady cash flow. Or and or being comfortable when it's not steady cash flow. So women, I think, in general, you know, making a little bit of a generalization here, but it's harder for women to receive. We've got a thing about give, give, give, give, give. So I support women to be more comfortable receiving. And then when they open up the receiving channel, then there's a place for the money to come to drop into them and go into their bank account. So long story short, now more confidence, more clarity, more of a steady stream of cash flow and naturally and authentically track their right clients and or partners and or speaking situations. That's what I help women do.
Brian Kelly:
Wonderful. I love it. Thank you so very much.
Maurine Xavier:
Thank you.
Brian Kelly:
Yes, absolutely. And so well, here it is. We just saw it. Let's connect. So we're not done with the show, but this just happened to come up on the screen naturally. So is this would this be a primary way for folks to get in touch with you or do you have another way that you would rather they reach out to you first?
Maurine Xavier:
Well, there's a couple that well, that is a way to reach out to me first. Actually. What that does is that ends up delivering an email to my inbox where we can reach out also on my website. This is me being a little bit like duh you that actually when you goes next, you can actually go in and schedule a 30 minute Zoom connect appointment with me. So from there it takes you to my calendar. You can pick a time in my calendar to meet with me one on one. Okay. Also on there though, is it okay for me to keep going on?
Brian Kelly:
Yes. Yes.
Maurine Xavier:
So under the services box, at the very at the tab at the top, there's there's workshop. So if you scroll back up to the top services, there's workshop and events, gotcha workshops and events and workshops. There's a community that meets monthly that is free, that is called the Love Train, and that is my offer to anyone here that already, you know, we already connect, we already vibing. You know, you'd like to get to know me more and be part of a community. There's one tomorrow at noon that's short notice and anyone is welcome to attend. And then the next one is November 15th at noon as well. You click on that and you sign up and then you come and show up and be part of the community. And we have intentions and we have meditations, we have guidance and we have writing. And again, women come in with their stuff. You know, we all have stuff. We show up to be supported and to be in community and like, okay, I want to take the stuff out of my backpack and put it on the ground and flush it on the off on the stream. They leave feeling that way. They feel like they've gotten the weight off of their back and they can go forward in life being more available to what they would like to be living.
Brian Kelly:
Fantastic. All right. So.
Maurine Xavier:
Oh, here I am all by myself. I don't know where he went. You know what? It is possible. Although I don't know that that's highly probable that Brian Kelly went away because.
Brian Kelly:
Power went off. Oh, my goodness. We're having so much fun here, I tell you. Okay. Yes, we are still broadcasting That is appearing. That's fantastic. Wow. This has. Been a strange. Day. Let's see. Let's try this again. Okay. I'm going to bring that back. So I wanted to kind of recap what you said there for folks that are watching or listening on and we're having gremlins now on. Podcasts only. And what I wanted to do is bring up your website. Let's see if I can get this to work this time. Nope. That is not it. All right, so what you want to first go to is. Maureen Xavier and that is spelled mar. You are i n e. X a v. I. E. R. Dot com. And what you want to do is scroll down to the bottom and there is an area there where you can contact her. It's a contact form and that is what she was describing just a moment ago. For those you listening that aren't watching this on video form. And then secondly, she has a gift to give away to you and that is at Maureen Xavier dot com as spelled earlier forward slash events and events is all lowercase and that those events are valued at $99. So you can go in get experience it for free but know that she could easily charge $99 for that very same thing, probably more. Most of us undervalue our own good, good stuff and getting to know her like we are all getting to know her now. I bet you can agree with that as well. Boy, I hope my system doesn't do anything else tonight. This is not. Oh, this is crazy. Having some fun here. I don't know what happened. That was unbelievable. I found a way to come back. Oh, now I see what's going on with the share. Okay, we're going to come back here just a moment. All right, One moment. Hang with us. Technology today. Isn't it wonderful? There we are. There's the website. I was looking for.
Brian Kelly:
So that is the Marine Xavier dot com that you'll see. And you scroll to the bottom. For those of you watching you now know and you scroll near the bottom there is that form I was discussing just a moment ago and to go to register for that event for free valued at $99. That is what it will look like when you get there. For those of you watching. And that again is Marine Xavier dot com forward slash events and again it's valued at $99. Thank you so much for that. I normally give away those gifts at the end and this is fantastic people get to come away with something before we even finish and don't go anywhere. We have so much more to cover. I know I'm looking at the clock. We just lost a minute there. So we're going to go over a minute now because I messed up something somewhere, somehow, some way. Let's test something real quick and cross our fingers. Yes. All right. Oh, almost worked. Having too much fun here now. So some things are working. Something broke, but we'll take care of it. We'll get it all figured out. So this is. I'm enjoying this very much talking to you, Maureen. Technical issues mean nothing. For those of you that may not know, this is kind of a fun aside. The Internet went out citywide where I live an hour before she and I were to get on with each other on on streaming right here and. I just said. And then I got a notice from the company, said it will be 2 hours. I'm like, No, that's not going to work. So I called Maureen up and said, Just just a heads up. But I'm still going forward as if this is going to be okay. So far, it's been almost okay. We got about. 95% of everything going just perfect, but we made it. The show is going on and that is what we want. So in network marketing, Maureen, one of the things I noticed that is inherently taught, not like in your face most of the time. Some of the time they do train this, but inherently to those kind of businesses, they train it as if you're not going to have to do much and your success will come very quickly.
Brian Kelly:
And that, you know, basically most of them that I was ever involved in, except for the one that I co-owned, I must say, they would all preach, you know, basically as recruit people like yourself, in other words, clone yourself, and then they will go out and do the same thing. And that's impossible to do, number one. But that that led to the mindset of, oh, it's going to be easy, I'll have to do is bring in other people. They'll do all the work and I'll just sit back. Well, if you're thinking that and you're bringing on yourself, they're going to do the same thing and nothing's going to go anywhere, which is often what would happen. So the opposite, though, for entrepreneurs who break out and do their own business and and those who are successful in network marketing that figured out the secret to really achieving long term success, not that short term quick kill recruit somebody get a little check, maybe go on stage and get a t shirt because you were a good recruiter, but you didn't maybe nurture your people well enough for you. Now that you've been through life, through business, you've experienced so much. What has worked for you the best to achieve what I would call long term success for yourself in your business.
Maurine Xavier:
It's what I'm being. I'm literally living my soul's purpose right now. And so my this is another I noticed on your bookmarks you have the why start with why from Simon Sinek. There's another book he has called The Infinite Game. That's more it's corporate focused. It's got a lot of wonderful information and about what I'm playing is an infinite game. Like I've come, you know, again, one of my teachers, Dr. David Camus. Sir, you I am an infinite being, having a human experience. So I am playing the game. I am playing is an infinite game. And the reason why I'm doing this isn't to get anywhere. Like I'm not trying to get anywhere. Sometimes it may feel, you know, I'm. I'm human. I'm learning. I'm looking at how much I used to push and force more than I do now. But it's really about being of service. It's about sharing what I know so I can pay it forward. So I'd say that's the thing. It's the secret for me is that I'm playing an infinite game. I'm not playing to any particular amount of money, to any particular feeling, to any particular number of clients. I'm not playing till I retire. You know, I'm playing because it's what I'm here to do. And in the process of doing it, I become more enlivened and alive.
Brian Kelly:
I love that. I love that. Goodness sakes. We're still going through that fun, So. That's the beautiful thing. It's about living her soul's purpose. So this is something I love bringing up and talking about, especially with people like you who have been down the path, who are not just talking the talk, but you have walked the walk and you continue to do so. And that is there's this topic that is highly debated often and it's all surrounding the word passion. And some will go to the mat and say it doesn't matter if you're passionate about what you do, others will go to the mat and say, yes, it's it is It does matter if you're passionate about what you do in order for you to achieve success is the outcome that you're both looking for in both cases. For you, what is yours? And I think we all know what that is. And more importantly, why.
Maurine Xavier:
My passion is living transformation, being in transformation all the all the living. Transformation is my passion. And the why I am is because I've lived on the other side. I was depressed, you know, I was in therapy for 15 years before I met my transformational teacher. I dealt with anxiety and ADHD and depression and addictions du jour. And so I was looking I can remember at the age of 11, I just wanted to be happy. So. I'm trying to remember what I'm answering here. So I would say my passion is living transformation, because now I am being in a way that I no longer. I am the eternal growing being. I enjoy what I discover. I enjoy expanding and who I am, and then the act of my being that way myself. I naturally exude that out to the world. So back to what I said before, I'm not looking forward to any particular fix in order to keep doing what I'm doing.
Brian Kelly:
I love that. Yeah. And that's what I found to be the case is if I don't truly love what I'm doing and I'm not happy about what I'm doing, then it's going to be much harder to achieve success. I think it's a human nature thing where how much effort are you going to put into something if you don't love it versus something that you truly love? And how much longer are you willing to give it a go? How much thicker skin can you develop if it's something you truly love and you won't give up too soon, which I think is one of the reasons so many people, especially I was the same way in network marketing. It was that shiny object syndrome. While I've been in this company now three months and I haven't gotten anywhere and I see my leader bolting for another company, I'm going to follow them to that one. Maybe it'll work better there. Well, the passion now looking back for me was never there. It was all about making money. And that's not how I'm wired. I'm not wired just to make money for myself. If I'm making money, I want to be doing so by serving someone else and giving them something that can take them to the next level in their life and their business. For me, it's never been about just self fulfillment. I want money so I can go get stuff. It's and I didn't know this going through all this. Right? So some of this takes just takes experience a journey or some of it can take just connecting with someone named Maureen Xavier, who can then get you to that point faster, painlessly so that you can now live your fullest life with full passion and everything that you see that she's talking about. I mean, who would rather live the way Maureen does and be happy about what they're doing, then struggle and have all these blocks and things that are holding them back. Contact Murray. Get in touch with her and be respectful of her time and listen to her. She's been down the path. She knows what she's doing. She says she's successful. I'm not here to pitch her.
Brian Kelly:
It's just coming out naturally, because these are the kind of people I have on this show. Maureen, you're you're just another gem amongst a gosh, I have a pile of them, and you're the next one that I'm putting on the top. And I appreciate you for coming on and doing all this. I'm not saying goodbye yet, but my gosh, I just look at the clock. We have to do that. Pretty soon, I guess I'm going to cry. So we did talk. About we brushed on this topic of of failures, I like to call them setbacks, things like that. But to help others to be okay with having things that don't go perfect. If you could think of one that that you learn from, I mean, there's always that it must be something you learn from. Otherwise it's not worthy of going through these times. If you can think of one of your failures or setbacks and one that what you learn from it, one that really sticks out, that would be impactful for those and helpful, what would that be?
Maurine Xavier:
I would say. My relationship with network marketing. It was a perfect example. I, I did it for and I was I was a mom full time. You know, they talk about is it a hobby or is it a business? I was a little bit of both. You know, I'm acknowledging at some level I was looking for excuses to not pick up the phone and call more. So, you know, and what I learned from it was, you know, I look back as my commitment. The reason why I did network marketing was because I wanted to support people to become physically, financially and emotionally free. So what I've looked at it now, ten years is the threat of what I was there to do is never changed. It's just not the it wasn't the vehicle for me. It was a training ground. It was wonderful. I learned a lot. I, you know, going from accounting, going for mortgages to talking to people about how to do nutritional cleanses was a stretch, you know, So it was like this putting my ego at some level on the side, listening to people who told me, You're crazy, what are you doing? And then they got to be right and I got to learn about all the things they were right about later. But it was it was the thread of. I learned from the journey. I needed to pay my dues. I needed to learn what I needed to learn in that part of the journey. And if my gauge was making money, I failed there. But I succeeded in the big picture.
Brian Kelly:
And that's all you can do, right? I mean, every step. And that's just one of those examples of making many mistakes as fast as you can, not knowing. I mean, your intentions were all good and everyone's usually are. They want to just advance themselves for themselves, for their family. You're a mom and everything that was going on, I mean, come on, it's always about improving oneself or one's family. And it's wonderful that you can look back on that journey and look at that as a learning experience that got you to where you are now. And that's that's why it's actually no pain, No gain is a good thing. It's a good thing. It's to go through these these corrections, these times of corrections to get you, you know, if you're going to fly from an airplane from, say, California to Florida, and when you first start out, you're you're flying over the ocean, going to the west, you're not even going in the right direction. But you have to correct it. You have to turn and correct. And then as you're flying toward Florida, wind and other patterns and things where you're allowed to fly change and you're you're not always heading straight at the target, but you're always making course corrections along the line until ultimately you do arrive at that destination And life. Isn't it just very similar to that Marine?
Maurine Xavier:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's. That's the journey of life is. Learning, you know, showing up. Seeing what's here. Seeing the look. Being clearer and clearer and clearer about what resonates. This is my. My path and my passion is being clearer and clearer and clearer about resin. What resonates with your joy? Because that is where I am. That's your sweet spot. You know the experience of ecstasy. Your soul's talking to you. That's why I went from accounting to channeling. I mean, trust me, when I was like, doing accounting, I was doing contract CFO and accounting work, and I was it went to a women's spiritual group, and then I was introduced, invited to learn how to channel. And for people that may not know what channeling is, that's opening my consciousness and having divine guides speak through me sometimes in different voices and different tongues. So when I was doing that and I was invited to channel and I was ecstatic, it was the The OC, your soul is telling you something here. But I did not tell my husband where I was going that weekend because I was sure he was going to check me into the loony bin, you know, But it was my willingness to follow my joy, willingness to take action, where you're where your joy is, where you go, that there's more there than you realize.
Brian Kelly:
And taking action can be one of those things people are just absolutely afraid of. And that's when you have that feeling. That's when you know it's the right thing to do and it's just getting over it and breaking through it. All right. We've gone over a little bit already, but that's okay. I'm not paying for studio time. And we did have a brief outage there. What I wanted to do is let you know that I like to end every show with a very profound question, Maureen. And don't worry, it won't hurt at all. It's pain free. I just found it to be profound after asking it somewhat at random over the course of now over three years of doing this show, I started now asking it every at the end of every show just because it had that kind of impact. It's an amazing question. Before I do that, I did promise everyone that stayed on with us live. I didn't forget that you will get the opportunity to win a five night stay at a five star luxury resort. Once again, compliments of our sponsors, The big Insider Secrets. As Jason asked my good buddy, I'm going to put it up on the screen. Remember, write it down, visit it once the show is over. It were like a couple of minutes out. All right. So here it is. I'll put it up on the screen. Write this down our WIP dot. I am forward slash vacation. You you definitely want to enter this to win because oh my gosh, the destinations are unbelievable. They're worldwide and they are not like where you're going to be taken down, sequestered, down to the basement, strapped into a chair, have water, drip torture, and then have to sit in on a timeshare presentation. That is not what this is. And I know that for a fact, because the very sponsor, the owner of the company are the very sponsor for this show, Jason has utilized this very giveaway himself no less than three times, not just one, but three. And he vouches and says, it's just like you're another guest and you just didn't have to pay for your room and board while you were there at a resort. All inclusive. Unbelievable. So you want to enter our waypoint? I'm forward slash vacation. And then we're going to come back to the amazing Maureen Xavier and ask that unbelievably wonderful question. So here's the thing with this question, Maureen. There is no such thing as a wrong answer. It flat out doesn't exist. In fact, the exact opposite is the case. The only correct answer is yours because it's going to be unique to you. And that includes whether it takes you 30 seconds to come up with an answer or a fraction of a second. It doesn't matter because it's perfect. It's unique to you. It is 100% correct. Does that make sense?
Maurine Xavier:
Yeah.
Brian Kelly:
Any curiosity about it yet?
Maurine Xavier:
Total curiosity. Like I noticed myself, stopped breathing. It's like, okay.
Brian Kelly:
I love it.
Maurine Xavier:
I'm afraid of making the wrong having a wrong answer.
Brian Kelly:
Oh, no. And it truly is. You'll nail it. I think you touched on it earlier, so we'll be all right. All right, Here we go. Are you ready?
Maurine Xavier:
Yeah, I'm ready.
Brian Kelly:
All right. Maureen Xavier. How do you define success?
Maurine Xavier:
I define success by whether you are. Enlivened by what you're doing, whether it resonates deeply with your joy and whether you're willing to keep doing it, whether you're paid or not. And success is lies for me in the realm of what you're being. Because where we are human beings. 24 seven. And when we connect to who we truly are, which is for me, an infinite being, having a human experience, an out breath of God or source or universe, whatever you want to do it when we're so connected to that. We are. We are experiencing peace, joy, possibility. All the time, whether we're doing anything or not. That's my definition of success.
Brian Kelly:
Maureen Xavier, ladies and gentlemen. She is amazing. And we appreciate you for coming on to this show and exuding incredible experience, wisdom and value for our audience, especially me. I get to enjoy it all the most. I just love what I get to do and I just want to say thank you to everyone else who came on here to enjoy Maureen with us alongside her and interact and engage. And again, if if you didn't see this live, if you're watching this or listening to this as a recording, I would highly recommend you head on over to the mind body business show dot com and click on. There's a lot of buttons there. They're all going to the same place and they just go straight to the registration form where you can just simply sign up to receive notifications. That's all we send to let you know in the next live shows that are in complete with a link. All I have to do is click the link and you'll be on it with no issues whatsoever. Maureen Xavier, thank you once again, you've been an absolute pleasure to talk to you tonight. And I just so I'm just so appreciative. Thank you so very, very much.
Maurine Xavier:
And thank you. This whole experience was an utter pleasure and thank you for who you are and the service you provide to us and to your viewers.
Brian Kelly:
Thank you so much. I appreciate that. All right. On behalf of the amazing Maureen Xavier, I am your host, Brian Kelly of the Mind Body Business Show. Until we come back again live very, very soon. Next week, everyone, be blessed. Go out there and crush it and serve others and have an amazing, amazing rest of your evening. Until then, we will see you again. So long for now. Thank you for tuning in. To the Mind Body Business Show podcast at www.TheMindBodyBusinessShow.com My name is Brian Kelly.
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Maurine Xavier
Maurine Xavier is a recovering CPA, who also has 3 decades of training and experience in transformational leadership, spiritual mentorship and channeling Divine Guidance. Maurine is a Breakthrough Mentor and International Best Selling Co-Author who supports trailblazing women to feel lighter, clear, more confident and effortlessly attract their ideal clients and cash flow.
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So, here's the big question. How are entrepreneurs like us, who have been hustling and struggling to make it to success, who seem to make it one step forward, only to fall two steps back. Who are dedicated, determined, and driven. How do we finally break through and win? That is the question, and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Brian Kelly, and this is The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show.
Brian Kelly:
Hello, everyone, and welcome, welcome, welcome to The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. Super excited for tonight's show. We have not just one, not two, not three, but four, four amazing guest experts who are joining me tonight right here on this very stage.
Brian Kelly:
They are waiting in the wings at this moment. So let's get busy. Shall we? The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show, that is a show about what I call the three pillars of success, and that came about as a result of my study of only successful people in the last decade or so. And these patterns kept bubbling to the top and those patterns being mine, which is mindset set. Each and every successful person, to a person, had a very powerful and flexible mindset. So I learned that and said," I need to implement that". Then body: body is about literally taking care of yourself. Through nutrition and through exercise, exercising on a regular basis, and again that was another pattern of very successful people and in business. These successful people had mastered the skill-sets that were necessary to create, maintain, and grow a thriving business. They're wide and varied. It's like marketing, sales, team-building, systematizing. It goes on and on and on, leadership. There's no one person, in my humble opinion, that could master every single one of these. All you have to do is master just one, and I actually mentioned one of those. It was in that list. I don't know if anyone caught that, but if you master just one of those skill sets then you're good to go. That skill set is leadership. When you've mastered the skill set of leadership, you can then delegate those skills off to people who have those skill sets. See where I'm going? Good. That's what successful people do; the ones that I studied, anyway, over the course of about 10 years. That's what this show's about. It's a show for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. I got four guests waiting, and I'm not going to wait any longer. So, I think we should just bring them on. What do you think? Let's do it.
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Brian Kelly:
And there they all are. These amazing, beautiful guests on The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. How are you all doing? Altogether, too. That was phenomenal, I love that. So real quick. All of you, I hope you don't mind for just a moment. I want to do some housekeeping? I wanted to mention to everyone watching here live. If you stay with us till the end, you can win a five night stay at a five star luxury resort. All compliments of our friends at The big insider secrets dotcom. You see them flying by on the bottom of the screen right now. It's an amazing, amazing vacation stay. Stay until the end, and you'll learn how you can enter to win that wonderful prize. We also have this. If you're struggling with putting on a live show, and it's overwhelming and you want a lot of the processes done for you while still enabling you to put on a high-quality show. And connect with great people like the ones we have tonight, and to grow your business all at the same time, then head on over to carpet bomb marketing dotcom. Carpet bomb marketing, saturate the marketplace with your message. One of the key components that is contained in the carpet bomb marketing courses, and this is one that you'll learn how to absolutely master, is the very service we use to stream our live shows right here on The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. Over the course of the past, now it's over nine years, we have tried many of these, "TV studio solutions" for live streaming. I'll tell you right now, Stream Yard is the best of the best. It combines supreme ease of use along with unmatched functionality. So, go ahead. You can start streaming high-quality, professional live shows for free. Yes, I said it. For free, with Stream Yard right now. Visit this website, and do this after the show over. Take notes while the show is going. So write this down R-Y-P dot I-M forward-slash stream live. R-Y-P dot I-M forward-slash stream live. Fantastic. Now let's get to the real fun, and the fun is these amazing people. Dylan, Julie, Tim, Christian. How are you all doing tonight? Thank you for being on this amazing show. Yes. So, what I'd like to do is open it up. Let the folks get to know you just a little bit now. Ok, guys. We're talking sixty seconds or less. All right. Just lay it low here, but we'll just go and order. I usually go ladies first, but let's just go around the circle. It's easier for me who's running the show. So. That's what's important. Right? So, let's start with Dylan Shinholser. Go ahead. Take it away. Give us a little brief background about you, what you do, and your business.
Dylan Shinholser:
Yeah, absolutely. So like I said, my name is Dylan Shinhoser. I own a couple of different businesses. I'm owner of a company called, "Experience Events", which is event management. I'm also a director of business development at a virtual event, event ticketing, and virtual event platform called, "ViewStub". As well as a co-host of another show called, "Event Masters", where I just ramble all day, every day about how to produce better experiences. It's really all I know and love to do is events. That is my less than 60-second pitch about myself.
Brian Kelly:
That's a good one, too. I'll tell everybody I've spoken with you in person. We had a call some time ago, and this gentleman, Dylan, is made of integrity and great character. So, reach out to him if you need any assistance in any of the areas he talked about, or if you just want to say hi to a really great guy. Then get in contact with him, and at the end of the show, we'll go through that. Please. Somebody remind me if I forget how to contact each of you. Because that's very important to me. This is the reason I bring this show to the forefront. (It) is to bring people like you into the lives of those who may not know who you are yet, and even those that do, to experience even more of your brilliance, your experience, your knowledge, and your value. It's not about me. This is about you. Always, always. Every time. I have one guest, usually. I just feel like I'm in this big family right now. But let's keep moving. Julie Riley, amazing young woman. Take it away.
Julie Riley:
Yes. So, I am Julie Riley. I am the social media manager at StreamYard. The platform we're using right now. Prior to my time with StreamYard, I owned my own marketing agency. I've been in digital marketing since two thousand and seven. So the very, very early days of the start of it is when I jumped in(to) digital marketing, and I love just being able to help others succeed in their business.
Brian Kelly:
Fantastic, and I will also say that I have spoken with Julie in the past. Both through a typewritten chat form and verbally. I think it was Clubhouse first time, which was phenomenal. Yet another phenomenal person, incredible integrity, and character. And yes, you're going to notice there's a pattern about this with the remaining two. It's the same thing. Hopefully, we can get the last one to talk a little bit. That will be nice. I'm just having fun because we were having fun before the show started. The one smiling. The biggest down there with the green hood; not pointing anyone out or anything. Thank you, Julie, for coming on. Yes. These people, Julie and Christian specifically, I know Christians coming up here in second. They're non-stop. They don't stop working. It's evident because of the very software research we're using right now. It's of grand quality for a reason. It's because of people like Julian Christian who keep everything rolling smoothly on the back end. Dylan's there nodding his head emphatically because he gets it. It's a lot of work, and they're doing it masterfully and we appreciate you. All right. Enough of the favoritism here that felt like favoritism. Julie's our favorite. Timothy McNeely! My buddy, my friend from just a little north of where I reside. I believe. If I remember.
Timothy McNeely:
Central California, baby. Bakersfield. Yeah, my name is Tim McNeely. Today, so many dentists and driven entrepreneurs are just not sure if they're getting advice that really makes a difference for them. They may have a financial adviser who is giving them some advice on their investment portfolio, but they're not really sure that they're on the right track to really maximize their net worth outside of their business. That's what I help them do. Maximize your net worth so that you can keep taking care of the people you love, support the causes you care about, really make that difference in the world, and build an amazing life of significance. I love doing streaming because I get to talk to some of the best of the best out there and share the knowledge with the beautiful entrepreneurial community.
Brian Kelly:
I'll tell you something on a personal note as well. Literally, we talked earlier today, Tim and I, on a Zoom call. He just reached out to me and said, "let's catch up." I had him on the show some time ago as a single, solo guest, and he was phenomenal. We've just kind of maintained a relationship, a friendship ever since. He just wanted to reach out and say, "Hi" and "What's up? What do you want to talk about?" We just started talking about business and things. He gave me resources that will help me in my business, and hopefully, I reciprocated it somehow. I don't know if I did, but it is the people like Tim, like Julie, like Dylan, like Christian. That is the cloth that they are all cut from. They are here to help people. That's why I love entrepreneurs. I love all of you. I mean it. I do. I love you. You guys are amazing. I didn't even get a crack at a Christian on that one. Jeez, I mean... there we go. That's a little better, but I'm telling you, he's working on StreamYard our stuff right now as we're on the show. I mean, I'm.
Christian Karasiewicz:
I'm really trying not to, seriously.
Brian Kelly:
The founder Geige Vandentop. If you ever watch this, there's a message to you. Ease up on your people. Alright? Just having fun. Alright, Timothy, you're an amazing guy. Thank you for spending your valuable time and coming on here. As well as Dylan, Julie, and the ever so talkative one, Christian. I'm not going to attempt to say your last name. I'll let you take care of that one. Welcome to the show, Christian. Let's hear all about your brilliance.
Christian Karasiewicz:
Sure. Thanks a lot for having me. My name is Christian Kerasiewicz. I'm the content marketing manager at StreamYard. So, pretty much anything you see on our blog that we're going to soon be launching. I'm the mastermind behind that. So, I do that. In addition to that, I also host live stream reviews, a YouTube show. We also do on the StreamYard YouTube channel where we invite people on to talk about their live streams and help them work through some of their problems, some of their challenges that they might be having with getting community or building a show. Thanks a lot for having me. I appreciate it.
Brian Kelly:
Oh, my gosh. Thank you again, Christian, for your time and being here. I mean, he's literally building a blog while on a live show. I mean, that's a great thing. I'm not even kidding with this one. That is phenomenal. That is showing such dedication. So, it's more than that. It's passion. It's love. You know? What time is that where you are, Christian?
Christian Karasiewicz:
About 9 o'clock, or yeah... about 9 o'clock.
Brian Kelly:
(Nine o'clock) PM. Ladies and gentlemen, in case you're watching this recording. Yes. By the way, I'm going to be on twenty-five different platforms after this is over. So no pressure, but don't mess up. I'm just kidding. So, this is a phenomenal group of people, and I can't wait to dig in. Christian, just what you just said, what you do is right down the alley of what I was hoping to talk about tonight. It'll go organically, but I wanted to talk about... I mean, look at Julie, and look at Christian, and look at their images. Look at their video. It is gorgeous. Here, we'll start with a really gorgeous one first. Look at that. I mean. If there were nose hairs that weren't in place, we'd see them. That's phenomenal, and there is Julie. Wow. Very beautiful. Even more beautiful. I should just have her up like this all the time, and we can just talk in the background. Because, you know, maybe more people would come on. So, you guys have phenomenal camera setups, and here's one thing I always like to preach to those who are getting into the live streaming game. Does it take money? Yes, it does. It takes resources. It takes cameras, microphones, (a) computer, internet, good internet, fast internet, lighting, doesn't have to be fancy. What I always say though, is, do the best you can with the resources you currently have. OK, I wanted to start it off that way because what we're about to talk about with Julie and Christian is their cameras. They are top of the line. We're not talking a one-hundred or two-hundred-dollar webcam here. I like to let ladies go first. So, Julie, do you have a story when you first turned on your new camera versus when you had the webcam and what that looked like and felt like.
Julie Riley:
Oh, my gosh, I turned that camera on, and it was immediately noticeable (the difference). I actually did a live on my personal Facebook page where I logged myself in as a second user into StreamYard. I had my Logitech camera that I had been using up as a camera and then had my new one. So, I could do back and forth and show everybody the difference between the two. What an upgrade that was. The Logitech served me great for years. It didn't stop me from going live, but that upgrade was immediately like, "oh, I can never go back down now".
Brian Kelly:
So, that so that is one thing. Let's say you're on the road, and I can imagine at some point both you and Christian, maybe, you'll be sent on the road to maybe support conventions and things that are on the road. Now, you want to stream live, what are you going to do then?
Julie Riley:
Well, you know, the great thing about the Sony is (that) it's a small camera. Tripods, portable ones, are small. I can take it with me. If all else fails, and I'm either on my phone or I'm on my little webcam or even my built in webcam, it's not going to stop me from going live. Is it going to be exactly what I want? No, but more than likely I'll have the Sony with me.
Brian Kelly:
Thank you for saying that. I mean, that spoke such volumes. I hope people are taking notes that are watching. Definitely take notes on this. Because, look, the show must go on. That's what I say, and this show tonight is the result of a guest who unfortunately was ill and could not make it on. So, I scrambled and found these four wonderful people to say, "I'll come on and do a panel with you." And that's it. The show must go on, and I'm going to either do it with people or I'll do it solo. It doesn't matter. Consistency is key, and we can talk more about that, too. I love how you're just talking about, Julie. Where, look, I don't care where I'm at. If I've got something and it's my time to go live, and I don't have my gear. I'm doing it.
Julie Riley:
Right.
Brian Kelly:
I love that commitment. So, thank you for that. For everyone listening, that's important. Yes, quality is important. Like I said, do the best you can with what resources you currently have. That includes, wherever you are. You may have a DSL camera that Julie paid five-hundred thousand dollars for. Oh, sorry, it wasnt that much.
Julie Riley:
Thank God it wasnt that much!
Brian Kelly:
What was the model of that again?
Julie Riley:
A6000.
Brian Kelly:
What does it run about?
Julie Riley:
It was about seven hundred.
Brian Kelly:
OK, not too bad. A little bit less than five-hundred thousand. Not much but yeah.
Julie Riley:
Yeah.
It's a phenomenal thing, and I love that that's your attitude toward commitment. I'll tell you. You have a similar attitude...anytime I go and ask for support through the back side of StreamYard community. I mean, like through messaging. When I say the backside, that's sounded weird. When I ask for support, you're always there. I mean, you don't sleep, and I appreciate that. So, keep not sleeping for everybody's sake. Christian, you do the same. So, Christian, what about you? When you made that initial change from whatever camera you had before to this unbelievably clear one year look you're working with right now. What did that feel like the moment you saw a difference?
Christian Karasiewicz:
So, it's very interesting actually. So, this is actually what I was using before. I've been using this for quite a number of years. This is a Logitech Brio. It does do 4K. I invested in this one and eventually came out, and the quality was fantastic. The only thing was, though. I wanted to scale. So this was great for traveling, for example. This is what I took around with me. Super portable. It's got the ability to put it on a tripod. Fantastic, but it did not allow me to scale, so I had to always take up another USB port and all that sort of thing. When I moved to the Sony, the Sony looked very good. I will say the one thing you have to do, though, is you need to go through the settings. There are a few adjustments you want to change. That's what's going to actually enhance your picture quality of it. It's a fantastic camera. It's a Sony 6400. Then, really, the other side to it is also the lens. So I'm using a Sigma lens. So, that I think is the real big difference. I mean you have the kit lenses it comes with. I did make the investment in the the additional lens, which I think that's actually what's contributing to why it looks so good. I will say from a quality standpoint, again, start with what you have. You know, the key things for live streaming. Audio is going to be your most important part. Then also, if you, for example, are using one of these webcams, make sure you have enough light. These things look great with a lot of light. When you don't have a lot of light, you're going to see pixelation. You're going to see distortion and things like that. So, turn it back to you.
Brian Kelly:
Especially with light, if you turn on the green screen feature, you really need to have good lighting then. That's the biggest time. I'm so glad to be liberated from that. Even though I loved it. This is actually a natural well behind me. I painted the entire studio. I actually occupy my daughter's former bedroom. I've been here for four or five years now, and I finally got rid of the cartoon drawings and the yellow paint. I'm a real boy now. I have a real studio. This is awesome.
Christian Karasiewicz:
That looks really good by the way. I was very surprised (by) your background because that looks like one of the standard backgrounds people would normally bring up during a live stream. One that has, you know, the gradient going around the outside. So, whoever did the painting on that fantastic job.
Brian Kelly:
Why, thank you very much. My wife did most of the work to be honest, but I feel like that helps with that. Yeah.
Timothy McNeely:
If you want that comparison between cameras. Right. Christine was just talking about the Logitech Brio. That's what I'm on, and you can see the massive quality difference between Kristen and Julie versus the webcam. So. Right. (A) huge step up.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, we'll point that out in glowing detail right now.
Christian Karasiewicz:
You're using a green screen. Right?
Timothy McNeely:
Yeah.
Brian Kelly:
Your sound, Christian, is smooth. I mean, you have a great radio voice. Having that microphone, I think will pivot to that too. Dylan, what are your thoughts on cameras? Yours looks actually really decent right now? You're on (a) green screen, correct?
Dylan Shinholser:
Correct. Yeah.
Brian Kelly:
It looks really clean. You've done a good job with all the lighting. It's almost like you've done this before, and you know what you're doing.
Dylan Shinholser:
I try. Yeah. So, I actually when I first started doing it, I started listening back on my phone. When this whole pandemic hit, I was using the one inside your laptop and realized very quickly (that) I'm on calls all day, live streaming shows and stuff. I was like, "I got to set my game up." So, I haven't made that leap yet to the DSLR, but I will. I'm on a Logitech, one of the models. I won't even lie because I'm not that tech-savvy. It was expensive for Logitech, so I bought it. I was like, "it's got to work." So, yeah. So, that's where I'm at. I agree heavily. I think it comes down to, because we get asked it and I know you guys get asked, it comes down to what you can afford at the moment. Then always trying to push the limits of production value. Right? My background was a wall. It was just like random yellow wall, and now I have a giant green screen wallpaper now. So, now, I can be wherever I want which is a concert. That's where I want to be, and that's where I'm going to be.
Brian Kelly:
You're the one on the stage, brother. Not the audience.
Dylan Shinholser:
No, I'm actually the guy behind the stage. I never want to be this. It's actually weird for me to be in front of people. I'm the guy behind the stage telling people to get on the stage.
Brian Kelly:
Pushing them forward. Well, you do a good job, Dylan. I wouldn't know any different. Maybe your calling is to step out from behind and be on front more often.
Dylan Shinholser:
We will see. Twenty twenty-one has a lot of stuff, and I've got a long way to go. I got super bored in twenty-twenty so I might as well talk.
Brian Kelly:
I've gotten to know you a little bit over time, and you've got a great personality. I think you need to shine in front of more people. That's my humble opinion.
Dylan Shinholser:
I appreciate that.
In the front, not behind the scenes. It's okay to be behind the scenes on occasion, but someone like you with your personality and your integrity, your character...get out there, buddy. It's a disservice if we don't get to see you. Let me put it that way.
That's what a mentor of mine said. He was like, "dude, you're actually being selfish by not talking more and getting it out." Because like I said at the beginning, I only want to help more people create better experiences and events. Make them flow better and make them more money as humanly possible. At the end of the day, I just want to travel the world with cool people and do cool things. I've learned a lot, and a lot of people need some of that experience. So, I got a stern talking to by one of my mentors. He was like, "dude..." I was like, "alright, it's alright. I promise." I started live streaming then had to get better cameras, better lights going on. It's crazy up here in my little command center of all these different lights, webcams, and monitors. Everything you need to do to pull these shows off.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, I love it. Christian, go ahead.
Christian Karasiewicz:
So, I want to throw something in there real quick. We talked about various types of cameras. If you're just getting started, use that built-in laptop, the webcam. So then you can take it up a notch. You can go to the Logitech. The C922. That's about, I think, a 60 to 70 dollar webcam. So, don't overpay by the way. It's about 60 to 70 dollars. Get it from Logitec, probably. If you find an astronomical price on Amazon, move up to like the Brio, for example. If your budget allows it, that's about one hundred fifty dollar camera. Then move up to a DSLR. For example, Julie's got that, the Sony 6000. I would also say if you happen to have a smartphone, this can be used as a webcam. Essentially, if you think about it, this is a thousand dollar camera. Because you paid a thousand dollars for this device of sorts, and this will give you some phenomenal picture quality. If you already have a smartphone and you don't have to have the latest iPhone, it could be pretty much any iPhone and Android phone. You just need an app such as one called,"Camo." There's one called,"Erion." So, there are lots of apps out there. Don't think like, "hey, I have to now go drop a bunch of money." Look at the phones you have lying around. Those are going to be great ways to fix your picture quality.
Julie Riley:
I've been going live since 2015, and I only had this camera last year.
Brian Kelly:
That's it. You keep reinvesting. I had a good friend of mine who were business partners. He said, I'll never forget it,"sales drive service". When you're making money, you're able to invest. You're able to up your game, and I love that. So many great points. You can just set a phone on a tripod and your camera will look better than many people's webcams. For sure. One of the things that I would recommend, this isn't just a plug StreamYard, is to get at least get the free plan. Do they need any more than the free plan to be part of the community, Julie?
Julie Riley:
No. They can come to join the community even if they're just getting started into streaming. We do like everybody to have the free plan so they have an understanding, but we'll still let you in. Agree to the rules. That's the big thing. Yeah, come join the StreamYard community. It's really a "stream yard" community.
Brian Kelly:
It's a very valuable place because questions like what Christian just addressed are often asked (What do I need?). I'm just starting. I'm a newbie. I see that so much in there. What can you do to help with a camera or microphone or computer? You can go there if you have those questions and ask, and the community will fill in the blanks wonderfully well because they're a great bunch of people. Just like Tim down there who's gotten pushed to the side for a while. So, Tim, is this your first camera that you've been using for live streaming so far? Did you have one before it?
Timothy McNeely:
Yeah, right. I started with just an HD one. Right. Logitech and then jumped up to the Brio. Been happy with that so far. But, you know, it's interesting how the game keeps growing again. That's the thing, right? Just get started! Just do this. I started with just using zoom and recording those for my interviews, and then I realized (that) I need a better platform. I need a way to kind of do that live production. Now I'm doing Stream Yard and got intros. Just get started with whatever you've got and kind of build that proof of concept. You know, I recently just upgraded my lights because I bought the cheapest lights I could at first. I just wanted to do something, and done is better than not done a lot of times.
Brian Kelly:
I totally agree with everything you just said and like what Christian was saying. If you're going to put money into anything, make it the audio side of things first when you upgrade. I was fortunate. I started over nine years ago streaming live. This is a DSLR. Not a DSLR. Good grief, XLR microphone. It's old school. It's not even USB. So I plug it into a mixer board, and from there into my computer. I've used it for years. It's been just amazing. I've never had to do anything with my sound as a result. For you, there are great USB alternatives now. Oh my gosh, there are so many out there. Someone like Christian could probably point you in the right way. Someone like the StreamYard community could push you in the right way and tell you,"these are the ones". I have a connection with the guy who is a sound expert. I've never heard of this before. He has a studio that does 4D sound. I don't even know what that means. Four dementional?
Christian Karasiewicz:
Sweet.
I don't know what that means, audibly. He was telling me about speakers in the ceiling. I'm like, holy moly,. You don't need that obviously for a talk show like this, but think about the possibilities and have fun with it. The bottom line is, when you go on and go live. Enjoy yourself. I'm trying to do that a little bit with these fine people tonight. Thankfully, they're still here with me. I haven't upset them too great, especially Christian. I keep picking on him. Poor guy. I appreciate you all, and it's okay to have fun on your show. Would you guys agree with that? Is it okay to have a little bit of fun?
Julie Riley:
One hundred percent. If you're having fun, your audience is going to be having fun with you.
If you're not having fun... I don't believe in doing anything that I don't find fun. It's a life motto of mine. If I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it. Yeah. Like you said, Julie. If you're not having fun with it, then how in the world do you expect the viewers to want to have fun or engage or interact? It starts with you.
Brian Kelly:
Absolutely, absolutely. One of the things I wanted to pivot to is something I'm deeply interested in because the product that came up earlier when I did the quick ads spot. I like to solve the pain points that people are having in their live streaming experiences. I'm curious. I'll bet, Julie and Christian, you guys have seen and heard a lot about that. I actually had a team member of mine from my company put a poll up in the form of a meme, a graphic. What's the right word? I am having trouble with words these days. It's an infograph. That's it. Simple. I was a little bit shocked by the result, but I was just curious what you guys think. What are the biggest pain points you're seeing? (Either) that you're having individually. Tim, if you have that as well. Dylan as well. Dylan, you probably hear about a bunch of it as well. What are the pain points you are seeing come back over and over and over again? I'm having a horrible time trying to find another guest on my show if they're interview style, or the tech is just blowing my mind. Even though StreamYard is so simple. I'm having trouble with x, y, z. Let's just go around the horn. Dylan, if you don't mind, I put you on the spot. Can you think of any of those pain points that keep coming up over and over again?
Dylan Shinholser:
Yeah, absolutely. The biggest thing I see is they underestimate what it does take. I totally agree. Why I promote StreamYard to our clients and everyone I possibly can is because of the ease of use. People go into it and think shows are just like setting up the webcam, and they can be. Setting up the webcam and just talking. Right? There's a lot of back end stuff to this. These shows and I'm learning that as doing my own now. I'm like, holy cow, I'm about to hire fifteen people because this is absurd. But, yeah. I think that's the biggest thing that I see is underestimating it, but also at the same time, they overcomplicate it. They have to think (that) they have to have all these bells and whistles and seventeen thousand cameras and two million dollar microphones. It goes back to our first point of "just do it". It doesn't need to be overcomplicated, but understand going into it, there is some work that takes and understand that you do have to respect what it takes to put these on. At the same time, don't overcomplicate it. It's funny how people work. They overestimate or underestimate it, but then heavily overcomplicate it at the same time. I think that's the biggest one I see.
Brian Kelly:
I'm so glad you brought that up. I've said this so many times, people don't realize what goes on behind the scenes before the show even comes on live for that episode. The amount of time and effort. If you want to do a live show that's of quality and represent yourself and your brand in a way that you want it to be represented professionally. It takes a good amount of work for every single show. That's why I automated nearly every process (that) I use now. It took time to get there, but you can use a team. You can get a team. Like you said, Dylan, to also help out. For me, it's all about quality, and more time is spent before the show by far than the show itself. After the show is over, another good deal of time is spent. That is in the minor edits, the repurposing, the marketing, and everything else that goes beyond. The live show is this tiny window of time, and it's the fun is part of it by the way. When you have everything automated, the rest is not "not fun" because you're not doing it. It's all automated, but definitely great. Thank you for that. Julie, what has been some of the big p.. sorry to wake you up there. What have been some of the big pain points? You are wide awake. I just starttled you. You've seen over and over, I bet you've seen a bunch of them.
Julie Riley:
Oh, my gosh. So many, you know, especially because I'm approving all of the comments that are coming into the group. I think one of the huge ones is that the hesitation of people who believe that they have to have everything perfect. That they have to have all of the backdrops, the overlays, the banners, the super expensive microphone, and the super expensive camera. That they have it. The room behind them is messy. They haven't thought about turning to just a blank wall because they're like, "well, then I don't have a fancy studio set up." They get to this point where they're trying to create perfection, and perfection is a fairy tale. It doesn't exist. There is no such thing as perfection. There is, again, where Dylan said the overcomplicating it. They've got to really just slow down and go, "what do I need to get this process going?" What is the minimum to make it happen? From there, then I can then build on it, and build on it each week. Go, "okay, I got live. I got the first one out. I got the jitters out. I hate the way I sound." When I had my agency, I would tell my clients. They'd be like, "I can't stand the way I sound." I'm like, nobody likes the way (that) they sound. There's actually, and I say this all the time, there's a term for it that is a term for not liking the sound of your own voice. I tell people, you have to get over that fear. They're like,"I don't look good on camera, I don't know how to be on camera." The other thing I tell people is to set up a fake Facebook group with nobody else in it but you. Go live in there a bunch of times and just get those jitters out. Get that feeling of pressing the button and going live. Then invite your husband in, your sister, your mother, or whoever. Somebody so that you're talking to somebody. From there, build up each time. As we said with the cameras, again, you can you can slowly build. You can slowly add in the overlays. You can slowly add in the backgrounds.
Brian Kelly:
My goodness! I absolutely love it. I have my own Facebook group that I use just for that. Nothing more. I go in there, and I test things for StreamYard and other things in there. I go live in there because there's no substitute for going live. We've got more buttons to click, and things kind of change their arrangement just a little bit in the window. If you practiced it 20 times without going live, then you go live you're going to go, "what the heck just happened?" I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. That was perfect. Perfect advice. I love that. We've got a comment coming in or two or three. Yeah. Kelly, crucial. Kruschel. Sorry if I got that wrong.
Dylan Shinholser:
Kelly Kruschel. It's Kruschel. She said she's on my team. She's a friend. Hey, we've got a supporter.
Brian Kelly:
Love it. Love it. Then Fran Jesse, I know her. I'm getting ready to make my first video essentially input. Yeah. Reach out, Fran. We're friends. I will give you assistance in any way you want because this is the greatest this is the greatest avenue for media on the planet, in my humble opinion, for so many reasons. One is people get to see you. I love clubhouse. It's also phenomenal in different ways, but people get to see you. They get to interact with you. They can engage with you, and they get to see your essence. It doesn't cost you, the studio owner, studio time. If you do this in the old days when you have to go to a television studio and you want to do a show, it would cost you thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars just to use the studio. Let alone get the media time to put it up on a television station. We're living in wonderful times. It's the greatest time to be alive, in my humble opinion. I'm a tech geek. I'm not young anymore. I'm fifty six, but I can't wait for the rest of what my life has to hold. Yes. You're welcome, Fran. Any time. Wonderful. Wonderful. Alright. Where were we? I got all messed up and loving myself there. We're going to have fun. I'm being real. This is like... I don't know. I'm the most relaxed (that) I've been in a long time with everything that went on today. It was one of those weird, everything-going crazy days. I feel like I'm at home with you guys. That's why.
Dylan Shinholser:
It's been one of those years.
Brian Kelly:
Thank God that last one is over.
Dylan Shinholser:
Yeah, yeah. Sure.
Brian Kelly:
So, okay. Pain point. Let's go back around one more. Tim, what do you have?
Timothy McNeely:
Yeah. When I first started doing this, my whole goal was to get out there and to talk to the different experts in the different areas of the challenges that my my clients face. I started off as an interview show and just using Zoom to record the video. Then all of a sudden I had the video. Now I had to put an intro in. I had to put an exit in. I had to extract the audio so I could do the podcast. My team members and myself were spinning our wheels. Just trying to really kind of create a workflow around the creation of this content so we could get the message out and help people with their challenges. For me, all of a sudden, the revelation was (that) I can do this live. I can have people type in (and) ask comments as I'm doing the show. Not only that, from start to finish, I can produce the whole thing going live. Right? You go live. You can play an intro now. You can throw in little commercial breaks. You can throw in the outro, and then it's done. Download the audio. You throw it up, and now you've got your podcast. You don't have to upload video to YouTube and Facebook and LinkedIn. It's done for you now, automatically. So really my biggest pain point was just the production side of things and putting everything together so that I could keep talking to people and doing the fun part. Right? I don't want to get caught up in all the details of making this. I want to talk to people, learn, and share that knowledge. Really, a lot of the pain point, just using StreamYard has really been absolved because it's a turn-key easy to use platform.
Brian Kelly:
Amen to all of that brother. Here's the key for everyone that's ever going to do a live show or has done one. The most important part is that you show up and you be the talent. That means you need to be dedicated mentally toward what the task is at hand. If I have too many things going on, like production-wise, which I used to when I didn't automate things. That's in the back of my mind. Did I dot every "i"? Did I cross every "t"? What's going to screw up on this show? Versus showing up fully for my guest. Being there for them. Getting out of myself and my own business and being present for the other person, that's what I'm about. Lifting up the other people, that's what my show's about. It's important to me.
Timothy McNeely:
Actually, if I can touch on that talent piece, Brian? I think he brought something up so important for everyone listening to this. If you're doing any kind of a show where you're interviewing people, chances are (that) the person you're talking to (is) a little bit uncomfortable. Your job, as the talent, is to spend some time before the show really crafting what it's going to look like. What direction are you going to go in? You want to make that person you're talking to look like a star. The more you can rehearse with them and put them at ease, you're going to end up with a much, much better show. Because you've taken a little bit of time to make sure that (the) other person is going to shine just as bright as you do. So, take that time to work with your guests beforehand through interview guides, through little questionnaires. So that you can help prep them, to keep them on a thread, and you can really help them deliver their message. Most people are not trained professional speakers. They just aren't. I've hired some of the best speaking coaches to help me develop messages, stay on topic, and learn how to tell stories. People don't invest time, energy, and effort to do that. You can help them do that through a briefing before you start your live with them.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah. That's why I was saying before, I do a thirty-minute preshow. All of us were on here for 30 minutes getting to know each other, making sure all the tech was good, doing some checkout. You were talking about people being nervous and stuff. That's why I'm riding Christian so hard with all these jokes and stuff because it broke his nervousness. You can see his sweating. I am so kidding. This guy's raw. He's a rock. He's awesome. He's a pro. I love this guy, man. I always pick on the quiet ones. I don't know why that is. Christian, man, you're bringing massive value. All kidding aside, you're very experienced. You're matched for what you do. You've said already so many amazing things. What about you, brother?
Christian Karasiewicz:
I'd say this. I think a couple of the pain points. I think one is people want to ask, "how do I get better at my live stream?" I think (that) the first thing is practice. To Julie's point, I think you mentioned having overlays, backgrounds, and all this other stuff. Look at it like this. You want to show your audience as well while you're helping them. You're doing this with them. You have everything at the same time, and you're trying to make everything perfect. Your audience is going to be like, "I'm not going to stick around this person because they've done such a good job already. I won't ever get to that point". They start having that self-doubt. The key thing is going to be practice. You don't have to have every single one of the overlays. Maybe start with the the intro or the thumbnail, and maybe you have an outro for example. (Those are) the first two things you do. As you build the show, then you can add segment graphics. You can add videos. So, you can scale it, but you don't have to have so much at one time because then it's just too overwhelming. That's point number one. Pain point number two is that people, for some reason, think that they're going to immediately be able to monetize their live stream. I say pain point because everybody's like, "oh, I bought all that equipment." Now, you've got to figure out how to pay for all that equipment, you know? If you're struggling already with your business and growing it, then you're not going to immediately monetize live stream. You have to have an audience. You know, you have to build that community. When you go live, they're tuning in because (of) the social platforms. They want to see that you're bringing viewers, they want to see engagement. So, point number two is monetizing your live stream. There are ways to do that, but don't always set out with monetization being number one. It could take a couple of years to monetize. So, get started. Build on it, then make those investments as your business is growing. Yes, mic drop. Yes.
Dylan Shinholser:
Do you have that mic? Just a mic drop? Because I might need to get one.
Brian Kelly:
It's actually super.
Dylan Shinholser:
Yeah, super real.
Christian Karasiewicz:
That's pretty cool, actually.
Julie Riley:
I like that.
Brian Kelly:
It's actually part of a magic trick that you put in a paper bag. It's a long story, but I found one more affordable that would not break my keyboard because that's what it landed on. You didn't hear it. Oh, my gosh. Golden nuggets there, as usual, from Christian who I give a lot of hard time to. I'm going to stop because you're amazing dude, and I don't want to get mad at me. I want you to be my friend. So many great things. So, you said two years. I was like, wow. I was watching an interview. How many of you have heard of Lewis Howes? Former professional football player and turned incredible entrepreneur. He's all over the place. He was being interviewed, and the guy interviewing him asked him a question. He said, "so, Lewis, if someone came to you, and they were talking about the fact they wanted to start a podcast. Now, we're talking just the audio version. That's what a podcast really is for everyone that may not know it's audio-only. Not video, even though they're going that way." He said, "well, here's what I'd tell them. First, you got to actually be consistent. Whenever you decide to do it, do it at that same day and that same time every week or multiple times a week. Whatever that happens to be. Number two, more importantly. You must commit yourself to doing that for at least, the magic number, two years. If they are not willing to do that, I would tell them, don't even get started." We didn't talk about monetization. None of that was discussed during this Q&A. That was telling. Who was I talking about this earlier with earlier today? It's not necessarily about monetizing. It's about building your platform, and I wanted to add to that. It took me in two years. I was just hitting that moment in time of my live show. That's when the momentum started. He was spot on, and so are you, Christian, about the two years. Then using a certain strategy (that) I use, I continually ask for referrals in a certain way. I eventually landed the one and only Les Brown. Some of you know who that is. Some of you don't. I've noticed some don't and Im like,"what rock are you living under?" He's amazing, and he's been on my show. Because of that, the two-year commitment is my point. Not talking about monetization. Then what I found after doing this for two years and striving for excellence all the time in every facet, I'm talking about the preshow communication with upcoming guests and the setup and the prep that they all go through and my system makes sure they do. The show itself and then after the show, all the post-production, everything that goes into it. Once you have that, people notice and my show, without my intending it to be, became an incredible, powerful lead magnet for my business. Focus, just as Christian was stating so properly, does definitely, positively impact your business. If you do it right. You do it high quality, and again, within reason within the resources you have. Go ahead, Christian.
Christian Karasiewicz:
I was going to say. That's another point that people look at, and they want to generate revenue off of it. That revenue may not be actual money upfront. It may end up being (help) (to) drive more leads to my website. It's not necessarily driving more people to my social channels. You're following is... It's OK. That's not going to necessarily grow your business because you had five more followers on Instagram or something like that. It's potentially getting them back to your website, which can be an opportunity for them to schedule a coaching call with you, maybe buy a product from you, learn from you for example. You're not going to get every single person to become a customer, but you're going to be able to use it to generate more leads.
Brian Kelly:
Totally, totally true.
Dylan Shinholser:
That's why I do it.
Brian Kelly:
You see on the top of this screen "streaming live on" and then five. We're doing it to eight right now or seven right now. "Listen-on" down below. On the bottom, there's actually twenty five of those like us could fit them all. Roku now was on Fire TV. Look, you're not making money from those, but here's what happened. How many of you have heard of Kevin Harrington? Shark Tank? Original Shark Tank? He has a partner named, "Seth Green", and they do a podcast together. They've been doing it for years now. They have five-hundred plus episodes. We got introduced, Seth and I. I met Kevin. We shared the stage once. I'm not name-dropping, but yes, I am. It was awesome, and it was fun. Seth reached out. We were connected by someone else. We were introduced, and Seth did his own homework. He came back, we literally talked on Zoom, and he says, "wow, I did some research. I looked you up and, my God, you're everywhere." I just wanted to say, "yeah, that's right." So, you want to get out there. That's why, shameless plug, I call it, "carpet bomb marketing". You saturate with everything you've got within reason. Right? If you can automate it, it can be near or completely free. So just do it. Why not add it to your arsenal? So, it works. Just be consistent to a minimum of two years. Get in touch with people like Julie, Christian, Tim, and Dylan. You might make that even quicker than two years. I'll direct you to the shortcuts that many of us did by trial and error.
Timothy McNeely:
Touching on the monetization piece, a good friend of mine runs one of the top coaching consultancies out there. Right. Very, very successful. Runs a great podcast, great show. I ask him one day. I said, "have you need any money doing your podcast?" He thought for a second. He says, "naw, I've actually lost money doing it. The relationships that I've made...I've made millions off (of) that." If you approach it from that standpoint... There's different goals, but I always approach, you know, what's the end result? What are you looking for out of your show? Why are you doing it? That's how you can measure the success of it. Is it helping you achieve whatever goals you set for yourself?
Brian Kelly:
Totally agree. It's very similar. Isn't it? To writing a book? I'm holding up another namedrop. Yes, it's very similar to writing your own book. Because a lot of people want to write a book and make a living off of the sales of the book. I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, most of the time it just doesn't happen that way. If anyone comes up to you and you're talking to them... During the course of conversation, maybe you ask them what they've been up to? Or, hey, I've authored a book. The moment they say that, in your eyes, do they not lift up in an influence in your mind? Right then and there? Instantly. It builds authority. That's exactly what this live show, and live shows like it, are doing. When you're giving evidence of it by spitting it out to all of these platforms, there's no way people can't find you and know that you're serious. You know, it's showing that you have a commitment level. It's showing that you have a quality level of professionalism. It's not about the show itself. It's like, well, if I do business with that person, or will I... Will I want to do business that person? If they're professional. Yes. If they put on a shoddy show, they might give me shoddy service. If I do business with them. Does that make sense? People want to (be) representing yourself in the best. Do it the best you can, but do it. Please, don't delay. Don't try to be perfect. You heard everybody talk. Go ahead, Dylan. You had something?
Dylan Shinholser:
Well, yeah. There's indirect ways to make money with shows, live streams, and of course direct (ways). Right. Direct is selling sponsorships, ad-space, all that good stuff. The indirect monetization is so much more powerful. When I do shows or when I hop on shows or anything, it's literally just to build a top-down awareness of myself. I just want people to know what Dylan Shinholser is. Then that way, because I do multiple things, I'm never trying to sell one product at any given time. I'm trying to sell myself, and what it does is it gives me that outlet to do it. Then if you're hosting a show. Right? This maybe goes into some other topics around how to market and things like that. It's a powerful relationship tool because when you can open your platform to other people that you're looking to connect with. I'm in the business of working with influencers and throwing their events. Well, the best way to connect was get them on my show. It gave me a reason to reach out that wasn't pitchy or sales. It was more or less. Hey, man, I just want to give you an outlet, because I think what you talk about is cool. Tell my people about it. After the show, I was like, "hey, man, what are you doing next Tuesday? I need a speaker." Or "hey, man. I have some ideas (that) I want to pitch you or (some) things. They're more receptive. So, I always do shows and things not about the direct money I get, but the indirect thing. It's the indirect impact that I get from relationships, or people sharing my stuff out and people go, oh man, he sounds semi-intelligent unless they're watching this. Then then they'll go, okay, great. Let me go over to this platform that he runs with this business that he does or whatever because he sounded halfway intelligent on that show. Right? So, I think the indirect monetization is what most people don't... They don't get that the instant gratification of like that five thousand dollars sponsorship check. When I forgo that and go on to bring on much more money on the backend with the people I connect with, in the top influence that I get.
Brian Kelly:
The magic word there was "relationship".
Dylan Shinholser:
Relationships all day, every day. That's all I do- is build relationships, and how can I do it? Do more shows like this. Can I get it out? You're on like forty-two different podcast or outlets here, right? Every one of those. Every time you put a show on it, you're building a relationship with someone on that platform. Even if it's just you talking, and they're listening. You're building that relationship. Everything (that) I do, is built on: how can I develop relationships? Live streams is just an amazing way to do so.
Brian Kelly:
Posting them is one thing. Right? That's a great thing. What I learned through a podcasting expert friend of mine is the maybe not as equally important, but possibly greater importance, is getting on other people's shows. That includes audio podcasts only. He explained how his business skyrocketed when he did what he called, "podcast guest marathons". He would have someone get him booked in his team. He would carve out three days and just say get as many as you can for me. He'd do that. Then when they ask him about how to get in contact with him... This is the gold right here... It's not go to my Facebook page and look up my name and message me. He would tell them to go to his podcast website and from there to subscribe. Now he's building a following. It's genius. It's so genius. I just want to impart that. The cool thing, though, is when you're hosting a high-quality live show that opens the door for you to be a guest on many more.
Dylan Shinholser:
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Being a guest is what goes back to the authority building. Right? If I can build my authority, I build my influence. If I do have something to sell... If I'm trying to build my brand or whatever it is or I'm just trying to get to as many people as possible to talk about events with them... That authority I call it, "authority hacking", being able to get them on your show. That'll get your show in front of their audience, and then going on to other shows helps you develop your authority. It's like writing a book. I was I'm a guest on this show, this show, this show. It's like writing a book. Your authority starts to become a little bit more when you're leveraging their influence. Right? When you're a guest on the show, if that show has a following, you becoming a guest on that show gives you authority because now you have the validation of the host that everyone is following and love. So, I can authority hack by getting on other people's shows.
Brian Kelly:
It leverges. You have a whole new tribe watching and interacting with you as well. I mean, this is one of the most powerful things people can use. If they just get out of that rut of trying to find a way to make money with it directly, that's when they'll see the real value come through. It's about building relationships. It's long-term. Not short, quick kill. I got to make a commission and run. It's build a relationship. Establish it. If you go into this with the mindset of it not being for directly making money, I personally think you have greater success. The long-term plays always work better than the short-term. Short-term works can work, but they're temporary. The long-term is a lot more permanent and lasting. Just think of all the wonderful bread crumbs you're leaving throughout the world. Through all the venues and platforms we've been talking about. In speaking terms, if you're on stage, that's what we call a "stage swap". Where you would be a guest on someone else's stage in return for them saying, "okay, but I'm going to do the opposite." We'll have you on our as well. The same thing with podcasts and live video. It works really great. Just make sure they're a fit.
Dylan Shinholser:
They've got to fit. (It's) got to makes sense.
Brian Kelly:
Both ways. Yeah.
Christian Karasiewicz:
I want to add something real quick to that. If you are consistently going live, so it's great to be consistent, go live on a regular basis, but also think about the long game. It's a couple of years, for example. Also, don't be afraid to be making changes and adjustments as things are moving along. It's not about substituting equipment. It's about looking at your process. For example, you mentioned Brian, that you have automation on some of the things. Think of smarter ways to take bigger jumps ahead. If I have to send someone an email, and I'm like, "hey, do you want to be on my show?" Then I have to deal with the whole back and forth. Well, okay. Yeah. What time? Then I have to send everything back. There are tools out there like Calendly, Harmonizely. You can send a calendar link to somebody and they can only book a certain slot for example and vice versa. This takes out the guesswork out of having to do all that back and forth. That's a way to work smarter because now you want to book people for your show. You send them one link. The person then doesn't have to send you a message back, and you can even use it to collect feedback for your show questions. There's not a lot of back-and-forth and downtime.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah, absolutely. I do that as well, and it's a godsend. I could not do what I'm doing. I would not do what I'm doing without the automation part of it. I have an onboarding form. You guys all... Most, not all of you went through it, but that was a mini version. Julie, you went through the big version. I then changed it right after I saw that. Like you said, make adjustments. That's what I did. I'm constantly doing that. Improving. I have a document automatically generated in Google Docs with your bio. The answer you had to why you think you would bring value to the show. Also, all the questions you chose to be asked for the show. Some of you didn't see that. So everything's done. The Q&A part used to take hours and hours doing manually. Now I just give them thirty-eight questions. Choose ten, and we're good. You tick the box. You choose what I'm going to ask you. (I) just made it a system, and it has worked beautifully. I don't even use the ten questions hardly. I use maybe the first three. Then we go organically like we've been doing tonight. My God, it's six twenty-nine! Are you kidding me? I'm having too much fun. Real quick. I know everyone that came on in the beginning. You heard this thing about a prize. We're going to do that real quick, and we'll come back and wrap it up. For those of you watching, remember in the beginning I said, "take notes and don't go clicking away and stuff like that"? Now I think Dylan, Julie, Tim, and Christian will also give you permission to do what I'm saying, and that is take out your phone. Take your gaze away from us for just a moment, but you'll still have to look back. Yes, yes. You can do this too. Please, do. What I want you to do....
Dylan Shinholser:
I need a vacation.
This is how you can enter to win a five-night stay at a five-star luxury resort of your choosing. Here's what you do. Take out your message app on your phone. Fire that up- your text message app. Where you would type in the name of the person normally that you're going to text. Instead, put in this number: three, one, four, six, six five-they're all doing it behind the scenes- one, seven, six, seven. I love this. Three, one, four, six, six, five, one, seven, six, seven. If you're watching this and you're not a guest, go ahead and write this down because I gonna take the screen down. I want you to get it. This will be open until the end of the evening. Where you actually put in the message... Where you might put emojis, those kinds of things, not emojis, just two words separated by a dash or a hyphen. Those words are peak (P-E-A-K) dash Vacation (V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N). All together. No spaces. Peak vacation. Send it off, then monitor your phone. You're going to get an automated response back asking you for your email address, and that will then officially enter you into the contest. Compliments of The Big Insider Secrets. Our buddies, Jason Nash, the owner. Dear friend of mine who lets us give this away every single week. Every show, actually. We do more than one a week now on average. So go ahead, get that entered. I can't wait to see who's going to win that. You're going to be asked later, you don't have to if you're the winner, to provide your Facebook information. Just your profile so we can say congrats and give you a high-five online and get others to come watch the show. To be honest, that's another strategy. We're just rolling back the curtain. That's why we do it this way. You can offer incentives like that. My friend has offered that to anyone who is my friend. If you're not my friend, you don't get it. If you're on as part of the panel here, they're all my friends. Christian may differ on that opinion, but I think he's my friend.
Christian Karasiewicz:
I'm your friend. Yes.
Brian Kelly:
Ok, good. I picked on you so hard. I apologize, but you're just you're a fun guy. I appreciate you for putting up with it. I definitely do stuff like that. Implement it and announce it in the beginning. That helps retention. I'm just pulling back the curtain for everybody. You can do different things like that. Having multiple people, I noticed, is also a little better than just one every single time. So, mix it up now and then. Alright. I know we're a little bit over, but I want to give you each another chance for a final parting tip. Anything you want on live streaming. It could be hardware, software, how you smile, what bling you wear, don't wear, your makeup. I'm wearing some, by the way, just so the guys know. Yeah, I don't know what they call it. It's not like guy up.. guy-liner, but it's like makeup. I know. That was bad.
Dylan Shinholser:
I haven't heard of that one.
Brian Kelly:
I just did that. I'm not a young fart anymore. Anyway. So, Dylan, we'll do the same thing. Go around the horn. What would be one final quick tip, or parting words of advice, you can give our wonderful viewing and listening audience?
Dylan Shinholser:
Keep it simple stupid. Don't overcomplicate it. There's things that you need to do and standards you need to meet. At the end of the day, keep it simple stupid will allow you to not overcomplicated it (and) get overwhelmed. Once you get overwhelmed, it's a wash. I would just say as a life advice, event advice, live stream advice, just keep it simple stupid and keep it moving.
Brian Kelly:
Real quick, I got to interject on that. Just so people know that that comes from an acronym K.I.S.S. So we're not calling everybody stupid, for one.
Dylan Shinholser:
Well...
Brian Kelly:
That was great. I have a friend who is Sicilian in nature, and he did this from the stage. He talked about it, and he brought up the whole thing. We're talking about doing it without complicating it. He goes, "It's like K.I.S.S. Who knows what K.I.S.S means?" Someone raised their hands. They said, "keep it simple, stupid". He goes,"Oh, no, no. It's keep it simple Sicilian." He lighten the load of the stupid part. I thought that was cool. Sorry, Julie, what is your parting tip?
Julie Riley:
You know, you're going to have to get started at some point. In order to do that, you're going to have to get over your fear. Go practice. Get those done, but also go watch and find other people that you resonate with their live shows. Start to take pieces from each of those. Now, obviously, you cannot go copy their live show and recreate it. You can pull little things from multiple different people's live shows that you like and that resonate with you. If you're comfortable and things are resonating with you, you're going to exude that comfort and that confidence out to the rest of the world.
Brian Kelly:
I love it. I love it. Alright. The man, the myth, the legend, Timothy J. McNeely. What is your final parting word of advice?
Timothy McNeely:
I'm going to close with a story. The purpose of this story is to illustrate the power of doing a show. July 20th, 1969, the first man walked on the moon. He left his footprints up there. On the moon, there's no wind. There's no rain. There's no weather, and those footprints today in twenty twenty-one look exactly like they did in nineteen sixty-nine. They're going to be exactly the same a million years from now. You too. You leave footprints on the hearts and the minds of everyone that you come in contact with. In streaming and having a platform, that's your opportunity to leave your footprints and to have an impact on people. Get clear about what your message is. What's the impact you want to have? If you do that, all of the other puzzle pieces are going to fall in place for you.
Brian Kelly:
Oh, baby. Okay, I've got to do it. I've got to do it. That was amazing.
Dylan Shinholser:
You have to get one of the little lower third animation gifts that are possible here on StreamYard. It's just a mic drop every time someone does one.
Brian Kelly:
Not nearly as much fun though, bro.
Christian Karasiewicz:
That's true. Fair. Very fair. I'll give it to you. I've got to get me one of those little squishy microphones.
Brian Kelly:
A little sound effect like I just broke my desk or something. That would be good. Alright, Christian, you've had a long time to think about it now. No pressure, but this better be a good one. I'm kidding. What do you have?
Christian Karasiewicz:
Let's see. The best piece of advice, I think, would be don't have gas or gear acquisition syndrome. You're going to watch people doing their live streams, and they're going to go and be like, "hey, I got to get that mic because this person upgraded." Oh, they got a new webcam. Remember? If you develop a plan, the whole thing is work the plan.. work the system. It's great (that) somebody else got some equipment, but it doesn't mean that you need to go out and get that yourself as well. Remember, work your plan. When you get to the certain points, maybe set that as a milestone. If I get to a certain number of viewers, for example, or a certain number of subscribers on a channel, then I might need to upgrade something. Don't be buying stuff just because someone else is doing so.
Brian Kelly:
Sales drive service. I love it. You guys are amazing. Thank you so much for coming on. Everyone who watched live. Thank you for coming on. Those of you that watched on the recording. Thank you for spending your valuable time with us, and those listening on the podcast. The same goes for you. Definitely. I hope you took a lot of notes because these are experts in the field. They are giving their value, their heart, their experience. They only charged me two-hundred thousand dollars for it. It's really been a deal. I'm kidding. They charged me nothing. You got incredible value from these amazing, amazing professionals. I can't thank you all enough. I appreciate you Dylan, Julie, Tim, Christian. Thank you from the bottom of my heart with all seriousness. I know we had some fun tonight. Thank you, Christian, so much for letting me pick on you so hard. You've been a great guy. I look forward to getting to know each and every one of you at a deeper level. If you're open to that after tonight. Appreciate you all. On behalf of these amazing people, that's it. We're out. My name is Brian Kelly. I'm the host of The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. Until next time we will see you. Be blessed. So long for now.
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