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Welcome to The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show. The three keys to your success is just moments away. Here's your host Brian Kelly.
Brian Kelly:
Hello everyone and welcome, welcome, welcome to The MIND BODY BUSINESS Show! We have an amazing amazing show lined up for you tonight. I can't wait for you to meet our guest expert, Robert Walsh. This young man is amazing. Met him not too long ago and he made a huge impression on me; so I can't wait to dig in and get some deep value out of this young guy because he is full of it and I mean value. I don't know where you're going with that. So the MIND BODY BUSINESS show. What is that all about? For those of you that might be first time viewers, it's very important. There are the three pillars of success. First, there is Mind that stands for mind set without an unstoppable powerful and positive mindset. It's very difficult to succeed in life not just business but in personal life as well. And behind that there are proven tools for success. There's one that is called "The Science of Excellence" and that is neurolinguistics programming or an LP for short that I learned and mastered some time ago and now as a result my life has changed completely forever and we might or might not talk about that tonight. We talk about different topics every show then there's Body. What does that all about? Well the body you want to take care of that that is your temple. That is everything that keeps your mind working is dependent on your body and they're co-dependent there that you really depend on each other and the body you want to stay fit. You want to exercise, you want to keep that blood flowing those joints lubricated, and you want to eat clean nutrition high nutrition food drink a lot of water like. Our guest is doing this very moment you can't see him on camera. He is slugging it down. That's my man and Business-- Business. You want to be able to master the key areas of business like sales, marketing, team building, scaling your business. Now when you are at a point of mastering all three areas then you are operating at what I call a peak level of performance. And you know the mind and body just those two by themselves you know they're a team. More importantly they are your team. And now add business to that. Now you have three parts of a team. It's like a tripod. If you have three legs holding up a camera set for example and one of those legs happens to tumble fall away or already tracked what happens to the whole tripod the camera the brain at the top it comes crashing down doesn't it. So the key is to master or at least continue to strive to master all three areas of your life. Now if you haven't mastered any one of them then one would now be the right time to start and that foundation would start with the mindset for those you watching that's a big big tip. And I've got something really cool in store for you by the way of our special guest. He's coming on very soon I promise. You see a bunch of these things behind you on the shelf. Yeah those are called books. They're meant for reading. You open them and you actually read them. And a cool thing happened many years ago actually a mentor of mine had me in his office flew me out east coast. We had a big deal we were discussing it was it was a big deal. Had me picked up in a limousine and it was a lot of fun. In addition to getting some business taken care of. And during the two days I was in his office where I was sitting on this couch he was standing talking to me. And the topic was he said Brian if people only knew if they just did this one thing if they just did this one thing they would all be super rich and I said "OK what is it?" And at that moment he turned away from me went to the opposite wall where there was this floor to ceiling double door cabinet and he grabbed both handles and open up the doors as he looked back and what I could see there was similar to what you see behind behind me and that is shelf after shelf after shelf of books. Now these weren't science fiction books. These weren't entertainment books these were like self-help business books. You know, transforming mindset books. And he said, "If people would just read that. That's all I need." I thought that can't be it. You've got to be kidding me. That's the secret to success is reading? I mean there's no skin in the game I don't know I could go to a library and actually read all those for free because they'd all be available. So how could that possibly be the key to success. And I made a huge mistake and I discounted that advice. I did not heed his advice at all. In fact I read zero books for years after that thankfully thankfully thankfully I ran into and became very close friends with another mentor of mine, I worked with him for several years and he basically said the same thing. He said you know to become successful you really need to read a lot more. I said, "Yeah that's I've heard this before." And one of the things that put him apart set him apart I guess two things one was he showed by example and the other one was I was finally ready. You know when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. And I noticed that he would walk around with headphones on a lot and I see him. What are you doing? He goes I'm listening to a book. I sit listening to a book. There's there's such a thing like that? Oh yeah yeah. And so he told me about this application this app called Audible. And so I went and started listening to books. I thought. "Oh my gosh. Where has this been all my life? Because I love listening." I don't really care to read a book. My eyes get tired, they get strange, I get tired and I never can go past ten pages before I'm done for that for the evening. And so I started listening voraciously and reading these books through this Audible app and on this app there's a little icon that you can tap. And what happens if you tap that icon is it stores an electronic bookmark right at that moment. So when you see or hear something when you hear something that really is profound all you do is a quick tap and you've already instantly stored that location. I thought this is brilliant. I don't have to reread an entire book. I mean how many of you have read read entire books and you know when you read a book a lot of it is storytelling which is valuable but the really juicy parts are sometimes farm few between. So now I can just go back and replay these bookmarks and the beautiful thing is tonight we're going to do that just for you right about now in a segment appropriately call Bookmarks.
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Brian Kelly:
There it is. ReachYourPeakLibrary.com. And for those of you watching and listening right now whether you're watching live or listening live or the recording just stick with us. In fact, if you are driving, pullover. Take notes, if you're watching take notes. In other words stay here. We're going to give you some resources during the show. Don't go typing in the web address and checking it out. Stay here because the value lies in our are our special guests. I promise you is coming up very very soon. But this is one resource I wanted to share with you and it's reached peak library dot com. It is here. I built this literally for you. The entrepreneur the business owner the person who's looking to get out of the corporate job. This is a compilation of books I personally read and here's the story I just told you and I give you a short version of it if you want to see the whole thing it's right there in both video and reading form. But here is a library of books that I have personally read and it's actually not even complete because I was just telling my man right out right before we got on the show that I'm falling behind. I've probably 10, 15, 20 books behind on putting in here, but every single book in here the point is every single book in here had some kind of profound effect on me personally and the beautiful thing about that is you can leverage that you can say at least I know somebody who has gotten you know benefit from reading these specific books and that way you don't waste your time reading just any book. And so this is a great resource for you to go to you can see there are different versions: Audible, Hardcover, Kindle. You can pick which one you like the most and put these together. There's about 40 in this list. I've read every single one of them, not every book I've ever read is in this list. That's because not every one of them had a profound impact on me. And so what I've done is each one of these books isn't I've listened to an Audible. Me personally and what I've done is stored bookmarks along the way. And so what I would like to do is play one such bookmark for you right now and that is a book called Relentless by Tim S. Grover. And this actually came to me by way of a previous guest to my man who's about to come on. We both know very well Carlos Redlich. He recommended it on the show and I immediately downloaded it and I read it straight through and a couple of two sittings in two days time. And it's an amazing book. Tim S. Grover: he trains high class athletes the top of the top. Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, mostly basketball but he's done others as well and he has helped them develop the mindset they need to excel. And so you now can see the guy behind the mind of these amazing athletes; so I'm going to play this snippet is about a minute in length. So again take notes just listen intently and what he's going to talk about is just do the work. Here we go Tim Grover: Relentless.
Tim S. Grover:
Do the work. Do the work. Every day you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable. Push pass the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise the next day you're going to have two things you don't want to do. Then three and four and five and pretty soon you can't even get back to the first thing and then all you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you've created and now you've got a mental barrier to go along with the physical barriers for my guys I'm the thing they don't want to do for you. Maybe it's something at the office or at home or at the gym. Either way you have to do those things or you can't improve. You can't be the best. And you sure as hell can't call yourself, Relentless.
Brian Kelly:
Relentless. What a great a great tip there. I mean how many times have you embarked on something in business or not embarked on it because you don't want to do that. That's gonna be effort and it's not fun. Oh here's here's a hint there's a reason that sometimes it's called work. So get over it. Do the work. Like Tim S. Grover talks about and I thought this was appropriate because of the gentleman we're about to bring on because he's all about doing the work. He just gets it done. And I could tell from the moment I met him that he was one of those people. He was driven and he's not gonna let anything get in his way. And I'm really excited to bring him on. So given that why don't we just go ahead and do just that. Let's bring on our special guest.
Announcer:
It's time for the Guest Expert Spotlight: Savvy, Skillful, Professional Adept, Trained, Big League, Qualified.
Brian Kelly:
And there he is ladies and gentlemen, it is Robert Walsh. Robert how are you doing my buddy?
Robert Walsh:
Good man, good man. The intro is legit. Like I'm excited to hear what I have to say now.
Brian Kelly:
Hey real quick I'm gonna give you a quick shout out intro and then we'll get rolling. So Robert's goal is to help as many people as possible. I already love this guy in the first five words or six words, however many that is. Help as many people as possible to harness their true identity to relate to their target audience in hopes of removing the facade that we're so tempted to mimic in the current online industry.
Brian Kelly:
Well that's true transparency and honesty are the biggest factors for creating a loyal following as well as scaling your network. Turning fans to brand advocates and strangers into friends and before we jump headlong into it I wanna make a quick announcement. if that's OK, Robert. And that is to stay on to the end if you're watching this live. Stay until the end. You do not want to miss this because we are going to give away a five night to get my hand in the camera five night vacation stay at a another five five star resort in Mexico and that is provided by our wonderful sponsors of PowerTexting.com. My good friends, Jason and Rhonda, who had that up. So stick around for that. Now finally we're going to get to the man, the myth, and the legend, by the name of Robert Walsh. So hey man is a cool bio it gives us a little bit of a taste about you but if it will be all right with you. To dig a little deeper kind of to find out what makes you tick. Very similar to what Tim Grover does in his book is he he pulls he pulls back the curtain and by the end of it we know what makes every one of those elite athletes tick what made them so unbelievably successful. And there are many facets. So what I want to ask you is you know what. What is something that just drives you? What gets you up in the morning? You know you wake up and you bounce on a bed full of vigor, full of excitement in life and then to that end go ahead and let us all know what are you working on right now. What's a project that you're really proud of and you wonder that you know about?
Robert Walsh:
Amen again. Thanks. That's that's awesome. Well it gets me out of bed. I guess I'll get to that first and just going to when I'm working on it just just to put it out there real quick. I get bored easily so every day is a new opportunity for me to do something different. And I think that it's take it for granted a lot. Like we have we have you know each day is a new opportunity and as cheesy as it sounds it's true. And a lot of us get wrapped up in this like mundane like tedious lifestyle. You know we have nine to fives or or even if we're like an at home parent you always have the same routines every day. And and it's really up to us to kind of incorporate new things in order to keep the excitement there. So in that I'm actually blessed to have the opportunity to. I was approached by my buddy, Robert Nava, about helping them with content and and really helped with the community of the million dollar masterminding. Actually, where I met you was an event that involved all of us get together and now we're getting stuff. So it's just it's really great. It's really what I like doing. You know working on that and make content just really reaching out to people on background with me I started doing content marketing aka marketing actually for local businesses. I'm in that kind of area like 2009. So just stuff from the point of stepping out of the blue collar lifestyle is never corporate was never my thing.
Robert Walsh:
So it's always looks like creative stuff like welding or or construction from the time I was a teenager. So it really kind of got an interest in like being able to reach out to to people these businesses and like really see where they're doing what they have going on and and just you know learning about it and from there it just kind of moved into kind of an interest in you know what does everybody doing every day. What do they do with their lives you know. How did how's your business where how's your mind work. You know what are they doing to tell people about their business and that's kind of where I got to worry them now just in interest you know kind of intrigued with what other people are doing you know growing up I had a pretty kind of boring life I guess you could say it was eventful you know not always the best events but overall it's pretty boring. I was home schooled. We moved around a lot because of my dad's job. I'm kind of going where the work was. So I was kind of forced to entertain myself. So just over the years I've kind of developed ways of doing that with like like learning different things or or just really get my hands dirty or helping other people with what they have going on because I didn't have much going on.
Robert Walsh:
So that's pretty much where I'm at now just helping people do what they got to do to get their message across.
Brian Kelly:
You see, and that's one of the most enduring parts about you and every other entrepreneur. I've thus interviewed on this show is the the will not just the willingness but the desire to serve and help.
Brian Kelly:
You said it several times and you want to help people even when it wasn't even going so great for your self I mean that that tells me about you to your core your character your integrity. And that says a lot. And I love a couple of things you said in that opening right there was is one of curiosity that drives you you're very curious about how other people do what they do and how they get to where they got. And it's interesting because that is one of the key traits of many successful people. Quick story my mentor, Mel Cutler, tells a story of meeting Richard Branson, a very very successful, very wealthy, has Virgin Atlantic Airlines. He's he's putting ships into space. I mean the guy is incredible and he met him and they were talking face to face and Richard came up to me, he goes, "Hey man how you doing? What are you up to?"
Brian Kelly:
They're like "What are you talking about? You're Richard Branson. I want to ask you questions. I don't-- I want to know about you."
Brian Kelly:
You know he didn't say that of course but that's what he's thinking. So it's a trait of highly highly successful people is to always be curious and you know that's also a trait of anti-ego isn't it when you're interested in other people you're not that self-absorbed all the time and you're curious about not just people but things and how things work.
Brian Kelly:
And that's one of those things that just helps you create. And so I love this. I love this already. We're already hitting it out of the park. For those of you watching listening be absolutely certain to start writing notes. I'm the host of this show and I'm already starting to write notes. So if you're not doing that what is your excuse.
Brian Kelly:
I mean you might be you might be driving so please, don't take notes if your driving.
Brian Kelly:
Please do take notes because tons of gold I've done lots of these shows and every single time I know this will be no different. There is a ton of value and there might just be one thing that you hear on this show there might be five that can change your life forever. And I'm not kidding I kid you not. I've done this long enough to where I know that the nuggets that come out of people like Robert are gold. So Robert, we talking or I was talking very at length about reading a little moment ago and all these books behind me.
Brian Kelly:
And that's another trait I've found of successful people. Would you consider yourself to be an avid reader and if so what would you say would be one of your favorites or maybe what you're reading right now?
Robert Walsh:
Yes actually recently it was actually one of my goals this past year.
Robert Walsh:
I read quite a bit like Goose Bumps and and stuff like that growing up you know like little kids books. I read books stuff and I kind of fell off my editor's been like pretty intense and that's actually you commented on my guitar playing earlier with the guitar behind me obviously. And that's actually one of the things that really helped me kind of get my HDD under control. I realized that when I was playing guitar it's kind of like all my focus was on that. So that's kind of what led me into just focusing on things that I enjoy you know. And so when it came to books I tried lots of different books and and like the fiction didn't really sit well with me. Nowadays I realize and I tried to my others what I used to read I want to get back into reading let's try this. So aside from like a ready player one of the a couple of cool fiction books this it's basically like you know business and mindset stuff. So one of my favorite books actually was recommended to me by my good friend, Xander, and it's Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance. It's one of my favorite books I've read it a few times this year already which I shouldn't do. I just got back into reading so I'm trying to like read like things like as much as I can. You know Tim my goal for the end of the year but it's just a great book and it really goes from him starting out like South Africa and moving in with his his family in Canada when he was a teenager and getting emancipated and then come the states and just everything from him starting off through PayPal and up until the first stuff I can launch it. It's a great book. It's I think the lessons. It's obviously not like like full of tips and things like that unless you know what to look for.
Robert Walsh:
But just reading just what he did and how he handles situations and a lot of times you know Elon Musk uses one of my my biggest inspirations when it comes to you know determination and perseverance and stuff and with what he did but a lot of the time he handles shit like handle situations not the best way you know. So it's kind of a glimpse in to you know makes it look good herself to see like these big people that we look up to you know not handling things the best way and the fact that you know everybody needs to learn you know learning is is how you grow and go from you know getting fired from PayPal to you know put solar on them on Mars. You know I mean?
Brian Kelly:
That's on me. So the book title is Elon Musk.
Robert Walsh:
Yeah, Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance. Ashley with to E's and a delight the recent book that I've read though is content incorporated by Joe palooza. It's about content marketing a lot of it is older content marketing stuff like. Like when I talk about content marketing I do I don't really like to so much call it content marketing because it's always associated with just blogs and that's you. That's pretty much content marketing is to two people when you say it to them. So nowadays I think that people should probably call the content creators because you know a lot of social media involved in my friend Jim Doyle actually likes to say that everything is content you know. And really when you think about it depending on how creative you are and what you're trying to do with your business or or your your life I guess like everything is content. You know you can be you see how many pictures of food on Instagram you know getting how many likes and how many people commenting like really everything is constantly comes down to it. So it kind of gave me a perspective reading this book on how different people do things because I told you earlier as well just for everybody that's watching we did talk for a while before we got on here. You missed some cool stuff. I'll try to recap some of it.
Robert Walsh:
But like I told you like my mind is everywhere. And that's basically what I try to help you do is kind of hone in on the things that they enjoy and and the things that their audience will like as opposed to what they think their audience is like. So you know reading what other people are doing it allows me to kind of get out of my my bubble of of my head and like what I think is working and what I want to do and and focus more on like, "Oh you know their audience like that, maybe I should focus a little more try that made my audience like that."
Brian Kelly:
Isn't that so true that so many people including myself. I'm guilty of it. I think everybody is that we want to give people what we think they want what they want to read what they want to hear what we want them to experience. And it could be exactly one eating 180 degrees opposite of what they truly want and that's one of the things we were talking about right before.
Brian Kelly:
So this is what happens ladies and gentlemen behind the curtain like we got on together about a half hour before the show.
Brian Kelly:
And I do that for several reasons. One is to test all the technology to make sure it's running smoothly. Another is if I don't know the person that well I can get to know them a little bit more. But thirdly we always every time without fail go into talking about topics around business and entrepreneurship. And that was one of them where you know so many people fall in that trap of I think this is awesome so I know the rest of the planet will think so too. And the key is as Robert is expert at is listen to the market and only do what they ask you only do what they tell you. So you just hit the nail on the heads like well it looks like they like that so I'll do more of that instead of going Oh this is what I like I'm doing more of that.
Robert Walsh:
A caveat to that too though is it's definitely a double edged sword though because you know with that comes a lot of testing. And I guess I don't want to say what I'm known for but I guess when it comes to the content it kind of is what is expected from me is very unconventional stuff. You know I like to rustle feathers. I like to kind of poke the bear you know see what I can get away with. And I've actually been in trouble with some platforms out here like over the years too and they don't like you know you can't do that and I'm like, "All right well that's all I needed you know." I want to do it. You tell me not to because it's working or am I going to do until it doesn't work. You know I haven't been so. Oh man yeah.
Brian Kelly:
There's another another saying controversy sells right. And you know the. How far you take that. You know you going to be careful with the whole reputation thing in mind. But yeah. Oh yeah. Controversy can sell sometimes it can't be a good thing especially if you're say going into being transparent about yourself and something you you messed up in your life. People love those stories because they can relate you know and that can be controversial it could be I know of a young lady who tells a story about going to jail. You know when you're looking at her going, "You? Of all people?"
Robert Walsh:
Martha Stewart went to prison.
Brian Kelly:
Well that when I think everyone knew. But yeah.
Robert Walsh:
I don't know if you saw earlier but I actually posted on my own time on Facebook; it was something someone said on Twitter and I said if you want to increase your e-mail marketing open rates make the subject line.
Robert Walsh:
We have your children. So that's was a perfect example you know maybe don't go to that extreme. I probably would at some point.
Robert Walsh:
I think it's similar. You know if you can make the if you make the message keep the subject line without that make people think you actually kidnap the children go for it. More power to just samples like that. You know you've really got to start especially now. MAN Yeah stand out. It's so hard to do through Mike. There are so many people like everyone in the world has Facebook now. I don't know how many people did like billions of people probably right in my office but they all have Facebook and everybody wants attention. So it really comes down to kind of stepping back and what I like to say when it comes to getting people's attention. It's kind of you know the same content you know quality over quantity essentially when it comes to getting a hold of your audience or your demographic when it comes to the content that you're doing. It's actually quality over con man. I can't think right now. Quality over Quantity, but also with quantity you know I mean if that makes sense but you break that down if it doesn't. Essentially you're going to do a lot like just like tommy gun just like just spray the whole room and see who you hit. At first you know when it comes to contact putting out.
Robert Walsh:
Then we find some that works. You want to separately replicate that into many different pieces of content. You know many different things. Instead of like trying to replicate what works you want to take what works and break that up. And milk it for all it's worth. Also the quality the quantity comes after you find the quality and the quality you've got to really be able to step out of your bubble and be willing to piss people off to to see who likes who you are you know as a person instead of trying to fit this model with most so many people focused on being the person. Same with pride and like we're talking about giving people what they want. Now would you think they want somebody to try to put themselves in this bubble and be this person that they think everybody wants everybody wants to be to everybody wants to be in that car down there's a good majority of people that are watching us call right now they probably wouldn't watch great cardio. You know what I mean? And people really need to be more willing to be comfortable with who they are as tacky as it sounds. The reason to shrug set off and the reason said often is because it's true.
Robert Walsh:
So you really gotta gotta be willing to piss people off in order to find the people who who appreciate you and accept you for you are. And that's really what I what I kind of preach like throughout life not just business.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah it's called being genuine and Carlos Redlich. Thank you for all the likes and loves man who was like you were talking about that tommy gun he was doing it right there with life and love.
Brian Kelly:
Appreciate that and everyone that's watching. Thank you. You talked about duplicating your content and I think that was the term I'm not sure but to use it in other platforms and just to give people a quick tip it's not difficult. What you can do is re-purpose your content and I will once again pull back the curtain. This show is live. It's being recorded. This video will be re-purposed into a video of course. And I take out the audio have it taken out and it gets uploaded into my podcast re-purposed. I didn't have to do the show twice.
Brian Kelly:
I had to do it once I got to do it once and then I have an apprentice an incredible apprentice takes this one hour show and shrinks it down to a one minute sizzle real and then puts a thumbnail on it. I can show you how to get these apprentices for as little as a dollar seven an hour where they are amazing and they're talented and they're hungry and you know just re-purpose it. And the book or the book is give it away. This show. I then also upload into a transcription service and it's automated. It's not perfect. So I have another apprentice go in and correct all the words and ums and ahs and this and that. Then I export that and create E-books from it, more re-purposing. Take all the shows together and make a compilation collaborative book a real book not an e-book so you can see that was at four or five a last count that I re-purpose and I'm doing this continually every single show.
Brian Kelly:
And so you can do something one time and you can have four or five six ten products out of it very easily and with very little effort to boot. So I'm glad you have brought that up.
Robert Walsh:
No problem. I'm glad you got more into re-purposing as well because a lot of people like one thing that I also preach just to add to the re-purposing and things that you're doing is is using the proper format for the proper platforms. My priest is alive. I had a friend of mine in the fitness niche asking how essential they get more content out there without killing themselves and other than just going in and herbicides going into just re-purposing it. How to do it properly as far as like so for instance you know YouTube you have videos up to like upwards of like 20 minutes half hour. You know the sweet spots usually between like four to 10 minutes you know for for a lot of stuff on YouTube but nobody on YouTube or nobody on Facebook wants to watch a 20 minute YouTube video. You know people on Facebook the attention spans different the audience is different you know that the the it's all just different media complete different audiences just like on Instagram you know people are really big on images or one minute videos. And the reason they're one minute videos is because it was it's what works with that demographic. So it's really important when you re-purpose your content to use the proper kind of content and format for the proper platform as well.
Brian Kelly:
That's a huge huge tip. I learned that very recently. Basically Instagram so I've been branching out and having apprentices change or really increase my visibility on all the platforms so Instagram was the next one I hit really hard because everywhere I go I read here and experience that Instagram is really fast becoming one of the go to social media platforms for businesses. And I said well I got to tap into that. And that's the same thing like Instagram one minute is it. So that's when I had it. I said it squished down to a minute. Now I can use that not only on Instagram but also on Facebook also on LinkedIn. In that case, that one works go in the other extreme. I agree with you wholeheartedly YouTube they expect longer they might have the wherewithal or the desire to sit through longer content Facebook more in and out Twitter even quicker in and out. My guess I don't use Twitter myself. It's not a very I haven't seen anyone really maximize that for business yet. LinkedIn just fairly new is doing video and so tapping into all these previously untapped markets. And that's the other thing re-purposing. I'm really re-purposing myself by bringing on people to help and scaling the business that way. And it just takes a minimal amount of my time to train. And anyway that's a whole different topic for a different day. This is what happens when people like you come on the show. It's just it's just it's organic. There's no script here. This is unscripted and raw just like Robert Washington likes it.
Robert Walsh:
You know that I can actually add to that too. I think it earlier because like you said me document you're very professional. Like if you're going out to to look like it talked me out of it, slide it; you get an opportunity to be on the show a bride to do it.
Robert Walsh:
It's awesome. It's super prepared like that the whole week is just like set me up to get me ready but naturally when it comes to the you know just the notes and everything that that I took you know and the information you've sent me like I didn't I glance set up I didn't really go over it and the reason I did that is because I feel like for me personally and this probably isn't for everybody that's just the creative side of me when I prepare for something too much like it's not genuine. And you said like the transparency and the genuine-ness if that's a word. Of these interactions these talks like if I spent too much time really think about what I'm going to say I'm not going to say what I really wanted to say in the moment you know it's like you know trying to prepare the same thing going back and trying to say what people think you want to say.
Robert Walsh:
You know if you're talking to a girl or a guy at a bar you know try to pick them up and you're thinking too hard about like what to say to them you know you don't know what the response is going to be so be a little more I'll be like you know walk up to bulimia and take the chance like you know what I was trying to think of what to say to you I wasn't sure you know because that even that transparency right there might even you know open open a discussion. You know that's actually worth having instead of like, "Hey. This weather outside today right?"
Brian Kelly:
And so what Rob is talking about the peel a curtain back even farther is prior to the show. He got to choose which questions that we might cover on the show. We've covered one. I kid you not. And I'm fine with it it's never about covering the question so I sent him a list of about 40 questions I said check the box next to 10 of them that you would like. And the reason for the whole reason for my doing that is so there's no total surprise on something that I don't bring up a topic that could bring up embarrassment. You know just for that reason. And Robert is like many of my other guests. They're professionals and they've done this before. And their first rodeo. And he gets it the authenticity part of it. I'm the same way as like it's cool to see him once maybe glance over make sure they're. You chose them originally. Right so after you've chosen them he can feel comfortable. We're done. That's good. I'm good to go. Yeah. So I also appreciate that about you because it isn't. Obviously we're going authentic because we've covered one question out of a 10 I think that we had there will be one more minimum that we're gonna cover because it's gonna rock everyone's world it's gonna be awesome.
Brian Kelly:
So yeah this is how it works, ladies and gentlemen; when you get entrepreneurs together in any setting whether it's when I remember meeting you in the driveway that's where I met you. Yeah. Driveway of this castle is mansion. That was a.. You know you were you were preoccupied I if I recall correctly had a phone and you were on it and you know I'm I'm just the guy that comes up and says hi you know scientists came up and respectfully say Hey man you don't. And you looked up and you just shifted. Yes. You gave your attention and I said I like this guy immediately, instantly. And so we just started talking for a very brief period that I respected that you had stuff to do and walked away. And we talked more later but this is what happens when you just get involved with other entrepreneurs. Go to your mastermind. It's called. Say it again.
Robert Walsh:
Million Dollar Masterminding.
Brian Kelly:
Million Dollar Masterminding.
Robert Walsh:
Yeah. Come check us out man. Like a lot of good stuff. Man I'd love to meet everybody. Same same same interaction with you man. You know lifelong relationships of friendships just from that you know two minutes of talking you know because there's those kind of people like you and myself and I just people that are actually willing to learn more and meet people. It's really comes down to learning you know because you're learning about the person talking in person you're interested you want to learn about the person. And the majority of people you know do it and that turns other people off as they don't listen to learn they listen just to wait to reply And that's that's a big difference between what the caliber of people that that successful people in and not so successful people not just not just monetary but like you know throughout life. That's a big difference between the mentality of that and it's you know be willing to you know keep your mouth closed and and learn about the person because if you don't then you won't know if you want to meet that person you won't know if you want to interact that person more.
Brian Kelly:
You just nailed what I just read recently Seven Secrets Habits.
Brian Kelly:
Now I've got it of highly effective people talking about wanting to talk you know we're listening only is formulating a response not really listening it has a great metaphor in there about Stephen Covey you about his son and it is a cool story read that it it's not on reach your peak library dot com so just go find it google it and read that. But I want to get back to Robert because one of things that I always preach and I preaches from stage I speak on stage is and I guess it's just three words is just show up and just do it over and over and over and so go to the Million Dollar Masterminding. Go to it.
Brian Kelly:
There's a link. We'll shout it out when we get to the end of the show where you can go and register for one night and go meet with how you had over a how many people showed up. I mean with very little notice.
Robert Walsh:
So we are. So the event you came to your cap and I'm I like you know 50 people. I think the one before that was even 30. You know just you know feeling for it and learn how to scale in the event properly to where you know everybody's happy and we're not like running low on food or drinks you know it's a process as it is with anything. So but this last one we got a mansion on Camelback Mountain in Arizona. Now this last month and man it was like a dance club. Like I said we had to step away some of us you know from from talking to people for a while and man the front door you know Carlos his girlfriend Tiffany was there and she was right in the front door like a bouncer. Carlos and I were Carlos and I were playing bounce from it. It was crazy. People were just lined up it was like people trying to get in the damn hard rock casino or something. I'm not a kid was playing or something man. It was it was great though. It was great. A great turn out awesome people like a secret very like minded great conversation and it's great networking really.
Brian Kelly:
And the cool thing is I went and here's a tip for everyone is when you go to these. I used to be a seminar and a seminar and workshop junkie. I kid you not I would go to anything and everything that had business entrepreneurship anybody I knew that was there on their own no advance. I invested my money invested my time I would be staying in hotels et cetera. And my one of my mentors, my favorite one. I should say favorite mentor. No I can't say his name but I don't want to alienate the otherss.
Robert Walsh:
They could make friends, not enemies, Brian.
Brian Kelly:
That's right. He said, "You know I was at one" and he asks-- we were texting back and forth. I was at another seminar and he says, "Where are you?" And I told him where I was I said he goes. He said one thing I only had to say one word and my whole world shifted. He said, "Why?"
Brian Kelly:
I mean he wasn't questioning why I was there you know like he wasn't saying you shouldn't be there. He was just like, "What is your purpose? What is your outcome for being there?" And I sat back and thought, "My gosh he is right." He didn't even.
Brian Kelly:
He said one word and he knew what he was saying and he knew the reaction he would get. And he said "You know instead of being there, you should come over to my place." And it turned out he was just half hour away at that moment and you know meet with my family we're gonna we're gonna break some bread and have some dinner together. So that I would so much rather spend time with him.
Brian Kelly:
So at the next break, I respectfully exited and went. And so when you go to these events, have an outcome in mind when you go to the Millionaire Mastermind though that one or a million is a million dollar master trying to get this.
Robert Walsh:
Yeah. A Million Dollar Mastermind.
Brian Kelly:
Million Dollar Mastermind. I got millionaire on the mind because of the latest book I'm reading. Million Dollar Masterminding.
Brian Kelly:
I went with one intention and that was to meet in person. Jeff Fagan, who you can see on the site. On my Website. He was one of my past guests and I had not met him in person yet. He made such a profound impact on me on this show. I said man he told me about the next one coming up. He's part of the team by the way. I said I got to be there. So I went for one night
Brian Kelly:
I just went there for actually four hours. That was it. And I drew I kid you know I drove three hours to go there three hours one way because it was so far away. I got a hotel and stayed the night spent more money and because I went and showed up I met someone else who is now heading up all of my ad campaigns and he's brilliant just because I showed up.
Brian Kelly:
So that's just another tip I did get to talk to and meet Jeff and got to know much better. I like him even more. Love that guy. And Carlos Redlich was there. I saw him for the second time. We shared the stage one time before at a fitness event. Just-- It was amazing.
Brian Kelly:
And so I highly recommend this is one of those that I would highly highly recommend if you have not been to it: the Million Dollar Mastermind. Definitely go out; so reach out to to my man, Robert, here. Robert Walsh, Carlos Redlich, or Jeff Fagan, any of those guys that you see in the past shows and say, "Hey man I want a ticket. How do I get in? Show me the way." Because it's amazing you meet some fantastic people. Jeff Fagan is an incredible trainer, incredible. Oh yeah. And I know you have people like Robert there who will come out and give you a big old bear hug and welcome you there and then take you inside and show you around.
Robert Walsh:
So I get a little handsy. Just let me know. (Robert & Brian laughing)
Brian Kelly:
Little handsy. So you know here you come off and always did you know when I first met you. And since then when we've talked in Facebook back and forth. Right. And so even in your typewritten words you're very upbeat positive individual at all times. I get it we're human and we have those times where it's things aren't so great. That's that's normal. That's everyone's got to way through that. But the thing is is those that are successful seem to have a way of maintaining that positivity. So in that light when it comes to maintaining that you know the positive productive and successful mindset like you have. Is there something you do on a regular basis that helps you sustain that?
Robert Walsh:
Yeah, routine. And I'll get a little more than that but I will say that you know I had my moments like you said we all have our moments, you know. Just recently you know I had a day where I just wasn't feeling it. You know and it happens it happens to all of us. And I'm really good. It's really bad. I'm really good at keeping my feelings like in but I do that for a reason because like there's so much negativity online man and there's really no reason for it. Like why why why are you gonna post something negative for everybody to see. Like for either for pity or attention. And I don't want bad attention. You know all the tension isn't good attention you know and I don't want pity because I'm in a situation if it's a bad situation I created for myself. And it's really just coming to terms with you know understand take responsibility for everything in the kind of forces do to have a good a good outlook because you know if it's completely up to you to make the situation better if you just sit there sulking and you know damn well no one else is going to fix it for you like there's no.
There's no good outcome from that. You like it over here. You know love developing you know a better mindset and reading in and working out and just really an accumulation of all the things that I found kind of lift my mood and and direct my attention to more positive things. So I've been a little bit behind on my reading and my I just moved on with this weekend like I told you so this week I've been a little off of my routine but I generally wake up and I actually start making my bed. My dad gave me a book I'm sure everybody can remember the name of the military. I believe was a general or a Marine that basically wrote an entire book book about why they made the bed first thing when they wake up and why they do the things that make it routine. So I started doing that I wake up before I do anything I make the bed and it really just helps you kind of program your mind just from the start of the day to be productive. From there I make a cup of coffee and I'll read for a little while and then I'll go straight to the gym and I like to kind of do all of this and all of these kind of productive and and you know I guess self development things before I do anything else in the day.
Robert Walsh:
So a lot of the times I won't even start working until like you know 10 a.m. sometimes noon depending on how long I take at the gym how long I read the stuff like that and it just worked throughout the evening. So this a lot easier when you've already been doing so much to progress like early on the day that when you jump in your work and you start working on your business or are just really any hobby or anything that's important you that really need to get done school work whatever; just to have all of that kind of track record from the start of the day up to that point you're like oh shut up party down so much and it will should I enjoy it. So you know it might as well knock this out. So it's really just development. Healthy Habits man. And I've noticed like every everywhere from your diet makes a huge impact like it really does man. And like the mind body business like you've got to figure it out man it really is the tripod. I mean I noticed like when I'm working out that meat like shit like I suffer I noticed when I'm not working out and eating healthy I suffer.
Robert Walsh:
You know I notice when I eat healthy and I work out and I don't feel like I've completed what I wanted for the day, I suffer. So it's really like a pyramid of of of what you need to do to maintain that positive mindset and it really is. It really does come with having a routine every day and really staying on top yourself to to keep that going to where it becomes natural because any routine you start from that point. Anything you add to to a healthy routine is just a bonus. So and that's how you kind of keep growing and growing and growing. I believe you actually said it earlier in the call that when you talk about a tripod or something you wrote recently if you let things build up you have one bad thing to do today and you don't do it then tomorrow you have two things and then the next day you have three things. Next year four things. Now if you're if you take care of that immediately you know you have so much more time to devote to positive things. And if I'm doing you know five awesome things one day and I had one awesome thing that I'm doing six and no extra efforts I enjoy doing it helps me.
Brian Kelly:
Yeah and to give credit that was Tim Grover, who said that last part.
Robert Walsh:
Oh!
Brian Kelly:
I like that how I've kind of like you know people think I've projected that. That was me. You said some great things there one that came to mind when you talked about routine you said that word over and over and over again and there's another similar word that has more of a negative connotation. I like routine better, but it's a very common trait of successful people.
Brian Kelly:
And that word is discipline and a lot of folks especially those who have corporate job background such as myself I've had that the last thing we want is to become free. So then we then instill more discipline on our hopes because that was constraining that there's a huge difference. So I want to make this very clear for anyone that's still in a corporate position looking to get out. There's such a distinction because the routine we'll call it routine discipline. The routine that you devise is Guess who guess who's routine it is who. Who created it? It's yours. It's yours. No one told you how to do it, where to do it, when to do it. You did.
Brian Kelly:
And so it's like practice, isn't it, Robert? It's like practice that is you know that's what the elite athletes do they do the same thing over and over and over. And so it gets the point where they really have to think about it it's automatic.
Brian Kelly:
I mean just like Robert just said it becomes automatic. So it's not rigorous it it's not work it's not it's not horrible effort. It's finding a routine that works for you that does that serves you mo Abbas who was on the show some time ago said one of the things he does. He's very disciplined individual very routine oriented. He eats the same exact salad every day for lunch
Brian Kelly:
Every day. Wow. I don't know too many people that do that. And he said the reason why you're one the reason why is it made him feel good. And other things that he tried didn't make him feel as good that for him feeling good was more important than something that tasted better because it helped him to perform at a higher level. That is the mindset. That's it. That's it. That kind of encompasses the book called Relentless all in one right there. It's an amazing book. You should read that. I highly recommend it.
Robert Walsh:
I've also I mean I know I know we don't have much time but I just want to add to that I think it was Bruce Lee they actually said as well that I don't fear the man that practices a thousand kicks. I fear the man that perhaps is one kick a thousand times. And that's just that just encompasses the whole routine thing right there. Could you do something enough it becomes second nature and you're amazing at this one thing that's so difficult for everybody else.
Brian Kelly:
So I'm glad we kind of segway into that with Bruce Lee's, who's a very physical guy. Talk about fit. Holy smokes. And you've already alluded to that you do this as part of your routine is go to the gym if I recall it was you make your bed. You get some coffee, you read, and then you go to the gym on a regular basis, and then maybe start work by noon.
Brian Kelly:
I mean that's a that's a dream lifestyle right there. It's a good dream not a nightmare. It's a good dream that lifestyle, just to be clear. So when it comes to that part the body physical fitness by itself to you and your business. Exactly how important is that?
Robert Walsh:
Very. And you know I lose track of that a lot as well. I go. I do really well in extreme conditions. You're know I mean whether it be you know extreme workouts whether it be you know meet me panicking because I only have a little bit of time to do something and I either procrastinate it or I just wasn't able to figure it out in time. So I mean it's kind of like I mean my family's like that you know I grew up in a situation where it was kind of like always by the skin of our teeth. So now it's just been developing you know kind of finding the the uncomfortable medium that you're comfortable with. We're like OK this this legitimately needs to happen now or else. And then you just kick its ass. So I've noticed when I when I slack. Like with the move and stuff I got a little behind like that on my diet my my workouts moving everything this past week we can laugh at it you know it's a huge difference and like with any situation like you you don't really appreciate it till it's gone. That old saying. But that's true as well. Like you don't really realize how how much of an impact on what you eat actually has on you or like just sitting around a computer all day like it's it's terrible if I don't make it the. Like I just don't feel complete. And also my body doesn't feel as good when I come home from the gym. You know I mean I got a nice pumps like a look at myself like you know who looks nice and that makes me feel confidence boost, you know. On top of that, you're endorphins are going. You know you're awake; you've already completed something else productive, if your mind's already in a good place and top that off would like listen I better listen. I listen to music at the gym.
Robert Walsh:
Yeah right. It just keeps me going. I'm a huge music nerd. Obviously I have a whole sleeve full of music melts but I'll listen to Joe Rogan podcast recently I was talking to a lemonade emanate trainer and he said basically you know he was a runner. It was what he was my mistake. He said basically listening to music when you're working out is cheating. And basically he applied that everything in life. It's like because you know if you're in a dark alley you know and you have to and in his words you know run away someone's chasing you. Music is not going to be there, you know. And that really kind of set in with me. I mean he said he listens to E-books and podcast stuff at the gym. Now you kind of learn while he's doing it because you know the extra motivation he gets the actual base you get like look at it look at it as if like taking a drug or stop it's a temporary you know boost. You know listening to music as much I love it. I stopped listening to it when I worked out because like the music's not always there when it's time to you know to grind you know the extra help a little boost that you're so used to having that you've come accustomed to is not always gonna be there. So you have to be able to work with what you have available at the time. So I kind of sat with me.
Brian Kelly:
I love that that the tip about listening to music is cheating when you're working out and I went through that stage myself or phase. Here's the thing and it's a great thing to do. One of the things I teach my clients, in the fitness realm, is when they're working out is to concentrate on the muscle group that they're working on. I mean focus on it, like if it's your bicep you're looking at it and you're you're focusing all your energy on that bicep they get the most out of your time there. And what I found personally is that it was difficult to do if I was listening to a book that had content that I really needed to pay attention to. So I just started doing that. If I were to go say on a treadmill or something that didn't require that kind of concentration and the cool thing about a treadmill is you're usually there for a longer period of time. The other thing I also listened to and this is a this could be valuable for everyone listening is I recorded through this microphone that's right in front of me that many of you can't see my own affirmations and my affirmations are 20 minutes in length. Not looping. It's all different ones new ones and I basically read it from my screen recorded it and I'll play that back while I'm doing those that I need to constrain the muscle because I've already you know it's something you say every morning out loud so it's all really kind of subconscious and so it's always just going and I don't have to listen to the words. Does that make sense? And then constrain the muscle group.
Brian Kelly:
So I do a combination of music and affirmations and the music has less and less place anymore I'm listening to Audible book audio books in the car and then on occasion I'll put on some music and then I don't know what it is like two three minutes and then I'm like I'm not getting enough I've got to switch back to audio or get a book. It's not gonna lie with me.
Robert Walsh:
When I'm working like usually when I listen to stuff it's the opposite for me and it's weird and it's crazy you know that like we both have like the success mindset but that works the different areas you're not I mean like like I listen to the e-books and the podcast at the gym and then I like the work I do it's very creative so I have to kinda you know be inside my own head when I'm like either typing copier you're helping a client create like a a concept you know campaigner or like a script or whatever it is that I'm doing right. So I usually have like these headsets right here I'm like this all day with music playing like typing it and you know creating stuff. So. Yeah I mean I just it's me zone out and I realized that I shouldn't be zoned out at the gym you know. So yeah yeah.
Brian Kelly:
Music is great. I mean I used to use it to cram for finals in high school and I would crank it up loud and it helped Yeah when I was studying I didn't have I didn't really listen to the words you know just listen. It helped me cause it drowned out the the white noise, the noise that was uncontrollable and it just gave me stuff I knew that I was aware of and comfortable with. You know we're where we're getting down to the near end of the show which I can't oh we could go another hour if everyone who's watching still and singing with us will just keep going. I know it's late where you are in Illinois. But I do have one more burning question that I love to ask each of my guests and it's a big one and I invite you to take all the time you need to think of the answer. And for you it'll probably come like that because you have that creative mind and you're so authentic things come quickly. It's really interesting what the other guests have said in response to that. So and before we get to that real quick now, I want to let everybody in on how they can win that five night vacation stay at a five star. Thank you very much five star resort in Mexico compliments of PowerTexting.com. I'm going to put it up on the screen right now and I will say it audibly in case you're listening live. There's two ways to enter. One is go to the website ReachYourPeakLLC.com/vacation and just make sure vacation is all lowercase. One more time, it's ReachYourPeak.com/vacation or if it's easier for you, just take out your phone and text the word peak. That's P-E-A-K to the number 661-535-1624 as they like to say. Operators are standing by now. Well they're not really but I'll I'll see them as they come in. So again text P-E-A-K to 661-535-1624. And by the way, all of this technology that you're about to embark on to win this is actually technology provided by PowerTexting.com I kid you not. So I highly recommend you check them out because text messages are opened up at a much higher rate than the e-mails. So another free tip, no extra charge right there. So. Back to. The man, the myth, the legend: Robert Walsh.
Robert Walsh:
I can't wait to hear that statements true.
Brian Kelly:
And you can tell look at him he looks very stressed tense. He's like What the heck is this question and I'm kidding. For those of you that can't see him. He's very relaxed. Drinking another slug of water is chill because you know he's a pro. And here it is. Are you ready? Are you ready for this, Mr. Walsh?
Robert Walsh:
Lay it on me.
Brian Kelly:
All right. This is all you all and I want to kind of let you off the hook here. I just want to take away any maybe hidden stress or anxiety that might be going on and that is there is no such thing as a wrong answer to this question. In fact quite the opposite. The only correct answer is your answer.
Robert Walsh:
That's now before you ask a question, Brian. I have delusion. No. I've heard that same exact spiel from each one of my ex-girlfriends. So I'm more nervous now.
Brian Kelly:
All right. Well let's the string this out about 10 more minutes. Let you sweat it. Now this will be much less painful, I hope. When you say ex-- So are you ready? Well kind of get centered here. All right. Robert Walsh. How do you define success?
Robert Walsh:
It's actually an easy question man. Like I'm like just a weight just came off of my show to answer that question to add to just the simple answer of just saying I guess being content because of me being content is being happy. But I guess that's also kind of different for me because a lot of people are content with mediocrity and with me being content is that you know growing again and that I'm actually making an impact. And it's basically like content being content is different for everybody else. So I guess that's what I wanted to kind of go into that a little more. You know growing up I had a very rough lifestyle man. You know I was I was very secluded you know being home-schooled from you know. Fourth grade you know all the way up to high school. You know I was really awkward around people and just not really good at talking to people and it was it was like in my 20s and and I was actually kind of you know forced myself to get out there that happened. And that's actually I guess why I'm so open now is because I actually forced myself to like learn how to interact with people and and be comfortable in uncomfortable situations. So I guess just being a happy man I must say we all come from really rough backgrounds we've all have our own struggles and our own battles that we that we encounter and have to make it through.
Robert Walsh:
And it just comes down to getting that place to where you're happy and what you're doing you're happy with the people that you're around and that the people you're around actually you know make an effort to to return the favor and you know make sure you're happy and and that you're just doing what you can for each other and that's business friendships relationships everything. It's just really an accumulation of the scenario that you find yourself in the effort that you put into keeping yourself there.
Brian Kelly:
Absolutely perfect, because again the only correct answer was yours. And I'll tell you another little secret. It's not really secret cause I mentioned at every show. To date I imagine at some point this is going to become untrue. But to date no two answers have been the same. And still with yours the same is true in that there. But there are there is one common trait amongst all of them and I'll talk about that in just a second because we're a we're just over our time but I just want to point out what you said being content and then you you chunk that down you analyze that and what that meant was you were growing and then you talked it down fathers said well what does that really what makes me happy about that. And that's when you said making an impact. And so it's all about once again ladies and gentlemen it's about serving others. This is what drives people this is what people like Robert define as their success. He forced himself to interact with others he says and because of that because he went out of his comfort zone he can now impact others in positive ways. And here's the thing that not a single person has said yes not a single person has of my guests that have come on. Not one has said that their primary reason or their primary definition of success had anything
Brian Kelly:
Anything to do with money. Isn't that interesting. You know you find the scarcity mindset the non entrepreneur sectors. You know they're outliers to this. Of course, but a lot of those those that are in line with the lotto tickets money is the first and foremost thing on their mind at all times and if they were asked the same question many of them would say well the second I make my first million that's when I'll be successful. The thing is is successful people don't think that way. That's the that's the key is but is money important. Robert. Should money be a priority in your life?
Robert Walsh:
I mean it has to be. Let's be honest you know it absolutely has to be but I have to say every single like the most. I'll just chalk it up to the most successful people I know. Right from you know multimillionaires to billionaires to== You know-- just people that are you know happy and they're in their life you know even without you know all the money like just success in there and their livelihood you know their family and stuff. Every single one of them that I know personally has suffered immensely. Helping other people in order to get there. You know the people that are making you know all the money you know like might my friends who are doing very well financially. They all just slept on couches and and their focus was you know giving value and helping people on that that path to making that money it wasn't you know screwing people over and and you know pulling a fast one on people to try to get that money you know because even if that does work if that does work for a short time and people see through that shit that's not going to last; a very short time.
Brian Kelly:
That's the point right there. You just set it. It's not long. It's not a long term recipe for success. You might get a quick kill. I like to call that some of those the network marketing industry has what I call quick kill artists that just want to recruit recruit recruit and then they don't support the people they recruit and they keep moving on to the next person. And that's on that's built on a house of cards it's just can all come tumbling down and it does every single time. And then they move on to another company and do the same thing and they don't realize the wake they've left behind of devastation of lack of support. And so please don't give me any hate mail about network marketing. I used to go on a network marketing company I believe in the philosophy the strategy wholeheartedly. I'm just making one example here. So I just want to get that out of there. You know maybe I could maybe send out an email make some controversy like Robert. Maybe I'll ask you how to do that. I mean it really took off all the MLM is out there. I don't want to do that. Really love MLM but yeah it's it's it's just a short term strategy that doesn't last and why you know you're not serving anybody but yourself. It's so self-serving. I think we were all put on this planet to help each other you know. And I for one love helping people I know you do Robert. That's why the people that come into my show are all like minded in that way. So I appreciate you brother. Thank you so much for coming on. I want to make sure before we say goodbye to everybody though this is very important. How can people best get in touch with you? What is their best way to locate you?
Robert Walsh:
All right, I'll just keep this one short. I could go to reasoning but I guess just add me on Facebook, just Robert Walsh. I'll show up. You'll see me. I think I'm actually sitting on top of a mountain in my profile picture right now and you can also join my Facebook group if it's just free and it's just value and basically we just shoot the shit like we do now and learn off each other. That's method marketing. So just Facebook group method marketing and just add me on Facebook follow me man Robert Walsh. Let's be friends.
Brian Kelly:
Let me pull it up real quick. I want to make sure people get the visual. There you are. There we are live. Down below. Robert Walsh it's his picture and Millionaire Mastermind
Robert Walsh:
Nearly a Million Dollar Mastermind. Oh good man may not match money dot.com masterminding.
Brian Kelly:
Yes. Thank you. So when you see that you're going to see. I think that might be Jeff back there. It's blurry right there man. It could be. So you have upcoming locations see they go to Arizona California Florida they're all over the place there. Jeff. My buddy Jeff who was on a path show Robert Nava, incredible at Shopify and e-commerce. Incredible team. They've got a lot more besides just those two gentlemen. Highly recommend you connect and go to one of those upcoming events. Just reach out to Robert here on his Facebook and his facebook username is MethodRob2; the number digit too. So not the word too but MethodRob2. In case you have any trouble finding him because Robert and Walsh are very common like Brian and Kelly I know how it goes. Fantastic. Well once again Robert. I so appreciate your time your energy for being on. You just moved into a new place and I know that kind of stir things up a bit and I appreciate you still coming through the show must go on and for all these that I've watched that I've been watching throughout the show appreciate you that came on those who watching recording. Thank you for all the likes and loves. We appreciate you too. We'll be back next week with another phenomenal guest. And that's it for this show. So until next time on behalf of Mr. Walsh, the man, the myth, the legend. This is Brian Kelly. Be blessed now. Have a great great evening
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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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