The Truth About Success Nobody Talks About with Stephanie Garcia

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Oh, there it is. Welcome to the greater journey. I'm your host, Gregory Rutled, author of From
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Waiter to Greater and creator of the greater framework. On this show, we're not going to celebrate highlight reels.
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We're going to dive into the trenches, the doubts, the detours, the lessons, and the breakthroughs that shape who we
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are. Each conversation, as you know, follows the greater framework. And my goal is to uncover those moments that
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made my guest greater, so you can find the courage to step boldly into your own journey. On today's episode, we have
Introducing Stephanie Garcia & Her Expertise
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Stephanie Garcia, the host of Lights, Camera Live, an awardwinning digital
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marketing strategist dedicated to helping brands and business owners like you. Skip the guesswork on how to make
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their presence known online and start creating meaningful relationships with their customers online and tried with
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tried with tried and true. Stop looping. Music's over. I love the music, but
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with triedand-true social media marketing strategies for live streaming and live selling. That is a mouthful.
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I'm just gonna say she teaches you how to communicate with confidence and captivate your audience. And she just
Post-VidSummit: Extrovert vs. Ambivert Energy
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did that live at VidSummit. She was an excellent MC. I had the joy of meeting
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her off camera or off the stage. And she's even more awesome offstage in
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person when you get to experience her. And so we decided today we're just going to go live and we're going to talk about
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that journey of where she was, what happened along the way. What's the messy middle to get to where she is now?
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Stephanie, how you doing, girl? I'm doing good. I got my Celsius. I got all the things.
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So this is me. Like literally when I walked off the stage for VidSummit on the last day, I was like, and now it's a vow of silence. So I literally haven't
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been talking to like anyone. So, this is like my first time coming back into like hello public presence.
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Hey, everyone. How are you doing? That's That's incred. I don't I don't
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understand that. I I wish I I mean, I guess I I do a little bit. Um I'm such an extrovert. Yeah.
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Like that's how my batteries are charged that the more I get around people, the more I get around people.
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Yeah. I'm an ambbervert, so I'm very much like I don't mind shining and strutting into the spotlight and doing
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my thing, but then afterwards I'm like, "Okay, now we need to just recharge a little bit,
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right?" Cuz oftent times, you and I talked about this like we're both like I'm a fire sign. And so for me, I like
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to create like a bonfire and bring people together. And sometimes when your when your fire is just shining so
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bright, sometimes people kind of they smother it. They want too much of it. They ask too many. I'm like, uh, you
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know, like someone's got to come back and like relight my fire, too. That makes sense. And and you, you know,
Transactional vs. Uplifting Networking (VidSummit)
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you mentioned amber version and I do have both batteries. I do sometimes need
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to recharge, but it depends on who I'm around because we were at VidSummit and it's a crowd of like minds doing the
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same things and we're uplifting each other. I couldn't get enough.
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But like, let's say I go to one of these stale LinkedIn like networking events
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with I'm sorry, did I say that? I'm like, aren't you live on LinkedIn?
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One of those stale events where it's just like so awkward because it's a bunch of people being transactional.
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That drains me quicker than anything. I think it's just because people have expectations for different things. Like Vince is very different because it's all
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about celebrating you being unique, having your own perspective, your own story and celebrating like your
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weirdness, right? Like you could be quirky, you know? But I think if you're going to like a business B2B, corporate
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networking, there's this facade. There's this mask that you're putting on, right?
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So yeah, I mean it's it's different. Just a little bit. It's a little bit, but it depends on like who you again who
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you hang out with because I'm usually in the back and I'm like, if you've got nothing nice to say, sit with me. We'll
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sit in the back. So that
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and you know it's true too. We only spent like I don't know what 15 20 minutes and you know that that's so
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true. It's so true. And troublemakers join me in the back. Mhm. So, I'm curious. What's the story
G: Grounding in Your Story (The Lore)
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that of of where you started that most people don't know?
Growing Up as a Military Brat in Japan
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Like the lore? Um, I would say the lore is that I grew
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up in Japan. I'm a military brat. So, I grew up on a military base where everyone spoke
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English, but at home um they spoke to and then outside of the base, everyone
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spoke Japanese. And how this actually contributes to who I am growing up and being so adaptive is
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that eventually I had to move over to San Diego. And so I moved to San Diego. And I don't know if you know this, but
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everything in the US is always like 5 years behind um in Japan. So when I came here like in the '9s,
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Gregory, I was like Side Ponytail, MC Hammer Pants. I was like still listening
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to like New Kids on the Block and everyone was still every well everyone was really interested in like Snoop
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and NWA and all these things and people were telling me I couldn't wear red and I couldn't wear black. I was like, "Oh my gosh, like why can't I just like like
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why can't I just be me?" And I think that was kind of like where it all started. It's like I I always wanted to
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understand why people think and act the way that they do and what is it about different cultures and how do you blend
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in with other people, you know, or like how do you how do you make friends, right?
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Especially when you're bouncing around. I can relate to that. I grew up in
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France and you you're you're telling the truth. They were so far behind. I got
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there with jeans and sneakers and they were like, "What are those?" They were still wearing penny lovers and slacks
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and like Uh, you know, the radio had a lot of EDM. I I had tapes and and VHS to
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to keep up to date with the US and I was never up to date. Yeah. So, like, yeah, when you come back here
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after that, you're kind of like in a time capsule very much so.
Cultural Differences: Community vs. Individualism
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So, growing up in Japan, um, that is really cool. That's one
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place I haven't been yet. What was uh like one of the most interesting?
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Remina said Stephanie's like a fashion queen. She got that drip. The harajuku and everything. Yeah. I
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mean I love Japan especially like the food, the culture. I think if anything that I miss the most is that it was very
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community oriented. Like everyone had respect for their neighborhood, the cleanliness and just manners,
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right? And then you come over. Well, I guess when I came over to the US, it's very
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about you as an individual. Like for me, when I was growing up in Japan, I knew who my neighbors were. I
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knew like my friends parents, their parents knew my parents. That type of stuff. Like everyone knew each other.
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But when I moved over to the US, it's like don't knock on their door. You're soliciting. I was like, "No, I'm just trying to make a friend. I just want to
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know if like if if Sally can come out and play, right?" Right. Man, it's it's so crazy like talking to
Food & The Joy of Family-Style Ordering
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people that have only been in the US and the the difference in the way we see the
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world when we get out of the US. Oh yeah. And see what's possible or what other
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cultures are doing like for example waiting tables. Um different cultures did different things. And one of the things I admired
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about like Japanese people and different it was different cultures but typically the Japanese would come in and they'd do
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family style. They'd order a bunch of plates. Yeah. Or or different dishes of what everyone wanted to try. They'd get a bunch of
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share plates and they'd all eat until they were satisfied and pack the rest up and go home. Right. Yeah.
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Very polite. Like you said, very community oriented. When I try to suggest this to Americans, they're like,
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"No, I want my whole chicken fried steak." And then they eat it, right? And they're miserable and they're looking at your
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plate like, "Man, I wish I would have got that. I gave you the opportunity, fool." Yeah. Right. you know, if you wanted to
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do it right, you should have just did what I told you. No, I I feel like often times if I'm inviting friends out and it
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and it's a restaurant, then I know. I'm like, you guys know I'm a foodie, so can I just order for the table? You
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know, and usually they're they're into that. And I'll just like, you know, what are you craving? Something crunchy,
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something savory, something sweet. Do you want to try something new? And often times when when we do that, everyone
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just feels like happy and like, oh, I've never tried that before. And it's like, yeah, there's nothing wrong with trying
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something new. And if you don't like it, that's okay. I won't be like offended. Just I just want to know like,
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where do your boundaries lie? You got any allergies? Yeah. I mean, as long as you tell me
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what your allergies are ahead of time, right? I'll be like, "Oh, here's some shrimp." Yeah. Yeah. Don't be shellfish.
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[Music] I'm sorry that it's it's the dad. So
R: Reframing Limiting Beliefs (Confidence)
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you you're very confident. I was looking over like doing my research on you and I'm just like, man, she just presents so
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well all over social media and then even when you meet her in person, it's the same. But we all know that that people
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that are stepping into their greatness. Yeah. Right. That wasn't always that way.
The Journey to Confidence & the Future Self
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And if it was, girl, you got to teach me some things. Was there a time where you felt
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overlooked or under underestimated? Overlooked and underestimated. I think
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everyone kind of felt that like in middle school or even in high school, right? Yeah.
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Um but that's that's just like development, right? In that sense, I
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think eventually getting out of that phase and then working you kind of I
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guess like when I started working in the tech startup arena, I worked in HR and so you would know what was expected for
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your particular role like your roles, responsibilities and duties. And so I
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never felt underestimated. If anything, I was just kind of like, what do I need to do to get to that next version of me? And you already know this about me. I'm
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always like, if I want to be that person, if I want to have that role, if I want to do this, what does that look
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like? What does it sound like? What does it feel like? What are the thoughts, the beliefs, and attitudes that I need to
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have in order to embody that? And so, I think that's where I'm always constantly thinking of this is the version of me.
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I'm the sum total of my conscious and my unconscious programming that brought me to here, where I am today. So, if I want
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to go there, right, what do I need to upgrade in my hardware in order to get
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me there? And it doesn't always necessarily have to be me that's doing everything. Are there people that I can
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talk to, leverage, mentors, communities that I could be a part of that can help me get there faster?
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Taking the shortcut. If there is a shortcut, why not? Why not? Yeah. Well, let's go. Let's go. Up, up, down,
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down, left, right, left, right, ba, ba, start. Let's go. Start. Let's go. Right. Like I come from that era. I'm
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like, there's a cheat code and I'm going to find out this cheat code and then I'm going to I'm going to keep
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writing it. Yeah. I mean, if if it's there, right? Why are we doing things the hard way?
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Just because it's always been done that way. So, I digress. So what I'm sure in in
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stepping into that cheat code and applying that future self, right, like
Overcoming the Limiting Belief of "The Good Mom"
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living from that place, were there any limiting beliefs that you had to overcome? Oh, for sure. For sure. Um, I think for
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me a lot of it too is when I had my daughter back in like 2015 and it was this I mean I was like a seale
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executive. I was working in the trenches of agency life and I was working with like Nike, Sephora, Clinique and
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Qualcomm, all these, you know, big brand names and whatnot and then I was pregnant with my daughter and I was
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like, "Oh my gosh, I can't be working like 50, 60 hours a week, you know, but what does it mean to be a good mom?"
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And my internal representation of what it meant to be a good mom was like, I'm always there. I'm taking care of her.
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I'm present. I'm playing with her. I'm doing all this stuff. But then also, what does it mean to be successful at an
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agency, right? It's you're hardworking. you're putting in the extra hours, you're doing this D. And then there's
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that belief at the time was like, can I be both?
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Because my understanding of what it meant to be a good mom was what I knew from what my mom had taught me. And what
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I knew in order to be a fantastic amazing agency powerhouse was from my mentor Indra. And the two, if you really
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think about them, they clashed. And so there's this internal conflict. And for a while, I was kind of like, I can't do
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this. It has to be either or. And I think one day I realized I was like, "Well, why don't I just make it my own?"
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And so I figured, right, Gregory, I was like, if I could do this for Nike Sephora Clinic, I sure as hell can do
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this for myself, right? So then I went off on my own and I made it so that way
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Wednesdays, I called it whatever we want to do Wednesdays. And so I would work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I I would
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shut down. I would close cuz I was figured Mondays you usually have like your all hands meetings. Everyone needs
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to know what it is that they have to do. Tuesdays you do the work. Wednesday you're still pounding away, right?
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So I was like, "Wednesday people are just going to be working. I don't need to be in meetings." And so then I'd come
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back Thursday and then Friday, I live in San Diego, so Friday really ends at like 12:00,
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right? Yeah. And so then once I realized, okay, I get to decide how I want to live my
Who's Rules Do I Have to Live By?
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life, that was the difference that made the difference. It's like whose rules do I have to live by? Because if anything,
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there's there's no rules police as far as I know, right? No one's going to come knocking on my door, Stephanie, you're
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not following the rules of life. And I'm like, I'm sorry, sir. You can take me to jail. Like, that's not going to happen.
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Like, no one's going to do that. And like even now when I like I coach clients, I'm like, just because you decided that, you know, 3 years ago in
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your business doesn't mean that you can't change your mind and do something different. There is no such thing as the change your mind police, right?
There's No "Change Your Mind Police"
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What are they going to do? the judge is going to like bang the gavvel like you've been you found guilty on three
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charges of changing your mind like no that's not going to happen. Oh my god. Would you put it like that? Like there's
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a revival happening right now inside of me and there's someone watching that is
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like having a revel. She's right. I'm right. Yeah. And you know what? And the funny thing is that now that we live
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in this AI era, I'm just going to make like a Sora video of me as a judge with a gabble. I'm like, "You changed your
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mind. You're going to change your mind." Jail. It's like that doesn't happen. That doesn't happen. You know, that's
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literally what led to this. There was a conversation with my wife about what do I do? Like who am I? I'm trying to do
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all these things. My brand looks a mess all over all these platforms. I'm trying to rebrand like my YouTubes to fit the
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algorithm and be what all these people say I have to be in all these 30 second
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reels knowing they're using psychology to get me to watch them. I know what
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they're doing. And I'm over here like pulled in 3,000 directions. And she's like, "Babe, you could just do what you
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want." And then you confirm it when we get on. I'm like, "I'm gonna record. I'm gonna pre-record." And you're like, "Dude, go live." Like,
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who's gonna stop you? Yeah. Who's going to judge you? Like, oh my god, you went live. And like, yeah, I
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did. and you did something that most people have
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been thinking about in their head for like 3 months, 3 years, you know, and
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you're just like, "Well, today's the day. Today's the day. Not one day I'm
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going to start live streaming. Day one. Day one starts now."
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Listen, and you just got a client in less than 15 minutes. Edward Coffee said
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I could use her help. How do I get in touch with her? Stick around till the end. I will tell you exactly how to get
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in touch with her because because this conversation is just going to keep getting better. Uh so there's a story
The Biggest Belief to Let Go: Listening to Everyone Else
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you had to stop telling yourself and that's that there what is what is that story that you had
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to stop telling yourself in order to get to that place? Um I don't think it was necessarily a
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story. It was more of a belief, right? Like what beliefs are going to serve me to get me to where it is that I need to be and which ones I need to let go. And
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it was the belief that I had to listen to everyone else like don't [ __ ] on me.
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You should do this, you should do that, you should don't [ __ ] on me. I'm going to do what it is that I want.
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And I think the biggest thing is really understanding what's most important to you, right? What are your values? What
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do you what's most important to you? And the thing is that I feel like most people don't know what is important to
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them because they're subscribing to everyone else's values, beliefs, and attitudes that they completely lose touch with. like what do I want? What do
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I want? What would that do for me? Right? For what purpose?
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Like for what purpose would you live stream so you could have a fun conversation so it doesn't feel like it's like pre-recorded and just like oh
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I have to say the perfect thing like I'mma just be me and we're going to vibe and if people like it then cool,
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awesome, great. And it's gonna be a really great lead magnet because if you do decide to to edit it, you can say,
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"And if you want like the director's cut, go over here. Go into the vault."
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It's true. Man, you are so good at waking people up.
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Yeah. And like in a in a simple and fun way.
The Rule: If You're Not Having Fun, You Ain't Doing It Right
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That's one of my values. One of my values is whether it's like life,
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education, personal development, making money, or whatever, in all areas of my life, it needs to be fun.
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Cuz my my belief is if you're not having fun, baby, you ain't doing it right.
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You ain't doing it right. Like, who said that things had to be hard? Like, unsubscribe.
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Right. It's like, I'm not a runner. I don't like running, but that doesn't mean that I can't skip across the finish line. I'll still get across the finish
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line. I'll strut across the finish line however which way I want to. I'll still finish across that finish line. But am I
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gonna be sweaty and presspiring and huffing and puffing and looking like a hot mess? No. I'll do it my own way.
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She said Stephanie got that drip. I am not trying to be over here sweating off my makeup with y'all.
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Yeah. Yeah, man. and and like you're gaining fans by the second. Nick's like I really like
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her. U he is the on the board of the fatherhood leadership initiative.
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Uh what happens when you be yourself too is you tend to attract more like people
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like people like you. And so if you have to pretend to get your audience, you'll have to pretend to keep it, right?
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Yeah. I ain't got time for that. No. No time. So we've already gone over
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No, no, not at all. and and you're you're healing me right now. And I didn't even realize I needed this.
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I knew it was going to be good. Yeah. I just didn't know how good it was going to be. So, we've gone over grounding like
E: Embracing Continuous Learning
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what's the unique story. We've gone over reframing. Now, we're about So, this is following the greater framework. You're
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learning it as as we go, too. Now, we're going to go to embracing like embracing the continuous learning. Like,
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how did you turn your struggles into lessons that that helped you to to move forward? So, I'm gonna ask who or what
Book Lessons: Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office & 7 Habits
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taught you your biggest lesson on your journey? Um,
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forgive me if I say her name wrong, but it was um this one book called Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office by Lois P. Frankle.
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Fascinating book. She was kind of like um I I'm a leaders are readers. I read a ton of
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books. A ton of books. And that was one of my first favorite books cuz she talked about like, you know, if you want
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to be successful in business, especially in a corporate environment, don't be don't be the person that puts like a jar
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of candy on your desk. You're not mom, right? You're there for a purpose. You're a leader. Act like a leader. You
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don't see other seale executives putting a candy dish on their desk, right?
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So, again, tying back to what you and I said before, what does a leader look like? What does it sound like? And so
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that was one of the books that really helped me out. Another one I think even just growing up was I was in ASB which
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is the associated student body and my first interaction with Steven Cvy was seven um highly effective habits of
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teenagers and in that concept that book was the relationship bank account and it's kind
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of like before you can ask someone for something it's like how are you depositing into that relationship right?
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Are you always just withdrawing like hey can you give me a ride to the airport? Hey, can you can you spot me a five? Right? Or are you doing things for other
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people? So that way when it is time for you to cash in and you say like, hey, can you do me a favor, they're more than
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happy to to give you that line of credit. So I thought that was very helpful. So I
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would say in my formative years, Stefan CVY entering into the workforce, um,
The Power of NLP: Turning Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones
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nice girls don't get the corner office. And then the difference that made the difference was learning NLP. That was the part where I was just like, why
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didn't they teach this in school? Why didn't they teach this in school? because this would have solved so many
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problems and eventually it was just kind of like this is how I'm going to turn my
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stumbling blocks and turn them into stepping stones for someone else cuz once I understood what was going on my
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mind as far as like my strategies, how I think, how I act, how I react as well
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and if I could give that power to someone else, right? Knowing how to
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regulate their own emotions. right? Instead of escaping into social
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media, escaping and distracting themselves from reality. To me, that those were like pretty much like the
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pivotal moments for me. Man, that is so good. Why don't they teach NLP in in school? Same reason they
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don't teach finance and budgeting. How to fill out a tax form. Yeah.
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Oh, come on. And I if if a system is built, it's typically built to
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protect the system. To protect the system. And I don't mind saying that, too. Yeah. Because like now
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you hear a lot of like chatter about like, oh, you don't have to go to college, you know, you know, just be a college dropout and all that stuff, but
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then you still see them putting their kids through college and school and education and certifications and all the
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things and all the things. But you Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead and quit. be a dropout because they they need people to
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work for them. So, I mean, just you got to look beyond the matrix. You get what
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I'm saying? Like, you got to wake up, figure it out.
NLP: The System is Built to Protect the System
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That's that some people are some people are just on autopilot and it's like, you know, let
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me unplug you for a hot second. And it runs so deep. Mhm.
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And this I mean NLP is being used on us if we're being real.
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Yeah. So why not get on the side of using it for good? Yeah. And that's what you're doing. That's
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exactly what you're doing. I love that. So I typically ask, what failure be became
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your best classroom? But now I'm curious. Uh oh. Oh, hold on. There's a story.
Biggest Failure: The Millie Vanilli Mime Speech
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Plenty of those. Yeah, I got plenty of those. Let's go. Let's go. What was my my biggest failure that became my best classroom?
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Yeah. So, I told you I was in the associated student body and this I think it was my junior year I
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ran for like vice president and I was so consumed by the idea that I needed to be
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perfect and so I went to the library and if you recall if you remember if I'm in the
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right room the Dewey decimal system. So, I went to the computer and I said like, "Who are the best aators, the best
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speakers, and all of that stuff?" And I went down the aisles of the library and I pulled out the different best speeches. And then I started to read the
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transcripts and I was like, "Okay, I'm going to have to memorize everything, right?" And so then I wrote it down and it was
24:14
like the night before the day that I had to do this speech and I couldn't memorize it. I was like, "Well, I got a
24:20
boom box. Gregory, I have a boom box." Do you know what I did? Why do you I recorded my voice like Millie Vanilli.
24:29
Next day my turn to speak at the podium. I look at the AV and I go DJ push play. And he
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pushes play. And I mime the whole thing. This is before Tik Tok, right? Tik Tok where it's really cool to just like do
24:43
dubs. And I mimed the whole thing in front of my entire class. It was the most embarrassing
24:49
moment ever. It was so bad that like no one even talked to me afterwards to tell
24:55
me how bad it was. And I remember even like this is a true story. Like you're you're looking at me like, "Oh my god,
25:01
no." Yeah, it was the worst feeling ever. And I remember my ASB adviser like
25:07
no one said anything to me that whole day. That's how bad I knew it was. And it was like 5:00 at night. Like why are
25:12
you at school at 5:00 at night? I had no reason to go home. But I remember she was like walking out and she's like,
The Lesson: It's Not About Perfection, It's About Connection
25:18
"What happened?" M and I think that was the moment I realized like I tried to be someone
25:23
else. I tried to be perfect. And then I realized it's not about perfection. It's
25:28
about connection. And ever since that day, I was like, how do I become a better speaker? How do I become like
25:34
it's so natural, so ingrained in me. And that's when I had to embrace me. And if
25:40
you've been listening this this long, like my brand is I am adorable. I am
25:45
adorable and dorkable. I can explain things to you in such a way that's going to make you laugh. That's going to make
25:51
you giggle. I'm going to give you visuals. I'm going to make you feel something because that's just who I am. But that
25:56
was really a defining moment for me. And not that many people realize that. They think like, oh, you know, you're
26:02
Filipino. You probably born out of the womb with a mic in your hand like singing karaoke. It's like, no. No.
26:09
However, I did have a moment and I learned from it. And it's one of those things when
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you realize that there is no such thing as failure. There's only feedback. So, just fail already because fail is just
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an acronym for first attempt in learning. And I learned, baby. I learned. I learned what not to do.
26:25
Right. So, good. Yes, you did.
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I know there's someone that just got healed from hearing that right now because I can't tell you how I'm the
26:36
introvert whisperer. Like, I can't tell you how many introverts rely on me to be their voice when I'm at a networking
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event. like they just kind of hang around waiting for me to introduce them to people, right?
26:47
And and there's so many people that would what what is that statistic? 85%
The Fear of Public Speaking vs. The Power of Your Voice
26:52
of people are deathly afraid of public speaking. The other 15% are lying because everyone would
26:59
rather die or do something anything other than get in front of a crowd and speak.
27:04
So much so, but crazy. It drives me crazy because like your
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voice is your power. M how can you rely on someone else to communicate what it is that you want?
27:16
Only you know what it is that you want and how you want it, right? We're not mind readers. At least I'm not. If you
27:23
are, please let me know. It kind of reminds like even my daughter, she's 10. I was telling you this and you know, we
27:29
watch like the Little Mermaid and I was like, so she lost her voice. You see what happened when you don't use your voice? Oo,
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that's what I'm like that's the lesson of the story. Not that you need to find some prince to save you,
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but you need to take ownership of your voice. As many times as I watched that growing
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up, I didn't even catch that.
27:53
Wow. Flip the script. Different perspective. Yeah.
27:58
Hey Karen, welcome Karen. Um, I was just watching her channel. We
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were like me and my wife kind of go over other people's channels and see like cuz I meet so many creators like what are
28:10
they doing that works for them? We look at the most popular video and like their oldest and we see where
28:15
they started. We see where the shift happened and it's just it's it's so interesting to watch like what works and
The Human Rhythm: Live Streaming's Happy Brain Chemicals
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what doesn't. Like there's a part in my heart that wants to be like okay so you did this and it worked really well but
28:27
then you started doing these things. Why why didn't you just keep doing this? It worked. Right. Yeah. Uh, she said she just ditched out
28:35
another video she was watching when she saw we were live. See, let's go. See? Okay, because here's the thing.
28:43
Live streaming it hits different because the thing is that like it taps into your happy brain chemicals like that
28:48
dopamine, the oxytocin, that serotonin, those endorphins, cuz then especially when you call out somebody's name. Now you're creating like these neurological
28:55
anchors where it's like, "Oh my god, he remembered him. He remembered my name, Karen. Yeah, love to see you." And every
29:00
time you stack those anchors, you stack those wins, that's how you build community. That's how, right? That's
29:07
what you got to do. I saw the let's go. I was like, let's go. Let's go. Yes. Yes. And you said you you
29:16
said a thing remembering names. I can't tell you how important it is because you
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you know being an NLP coach. Yeah. how important it is to get into
29:28
the field of perception of someone by calling them by their name. I can scream out, "Hey, you" or any kind of like cat
29:35
call and it won't register. But as soon as I say Stephanie, yeah, h someone talking to me, right?
29:43
And if I if I take that that step, that extra step to remember it and remember something about you and use your name,
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that's a whole like you talked about it. It's not about perfection. It's about connection.
29:57
Yeah. So for the for the person that's watching that is like, "Yeah, Stephanie,
30:02
that's easy for you to do. You've always been like this, right? You were born in the Philippines with a microphone."
First Small Step: The "F Yeah, Garcia" Moment in the ROTC
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Sorry, that was what was the smallest, like the first
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small action that created that momentum to take you out of dubbing your voice
30:19
like Millie Vanilla. Yeah. to like who you are on stage at
30:25
VidSummit presenting all of these amazing people but in a in such a way
30:30
that it wasn't just a I don't know if you saw that one guy and I I hate to throw shade I'm not throwing shade it
30:36
just there was a one guy that came out there and bless his soul he got on stage but he literally was reading and you
30:43
could feel zero emotion while he was reading what he was reading
30:49
from something like that to someone that's like come on Guys, I need you to put your hands together. Let's go. Like
30:55
your whole body's in it. Yeah. What was that first small step? The first small step for that? Ah,
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okay. Now I remember. So, in high school, I was in what's called the Navy
31:09
Junior Reserve Officer Training Corpse. And we were the Navy. And so, I was uh I was a platoon leader,
31:16
age 17, managing 30 cadets. I went to leadership boot camp. I here in
31:23
Coronado, which is basically where the Navy Seals train. And I remember um
31:29
gosh, just getting grilled by drill sergeants. And I was in charge of like the unarmed drill team. Like I've had
31:35
people in my face and whatnot, but I think the moment like if we have time for this, the the moment for me
31:42
was when I'm going to share the story, so bear with me. So, I'm standing in the
31:47
front of my platoon and we've been like preparing for this moment. Like, we knew these drill sergeants were hungry. We
31:54
knew that they wanted to go up and down the ranks and try, you know, try to make high schoolers cry, right? So, I
32:00
prepared for this and I have shined my uniform, my belt, and everything. I was like, I was drip. I was clean. I was
32:06
like, let's go. Right? And I remember this drill sergeant just boom running up to my face and he just starts yelling.
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And it's this thing that you feel where it's like you just look straight ahead and you just answer the questions,
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right? Who's the president? Who's this? Who's that? D. And so I I knocked every single one of
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them down, right? But I remember one of my squad leaders,
32:30
tiny, teeny, small, and she's smart, and she's a total freaking badass. But I remember like three of them ganged up on
32:36
her, and they all just started yelling her because they wanted to break her. They wanted to break her. They wanted to break her. M.
32:41
And then my drill sergeant was yelling in my face and I remember I just like he said to me, "Garcia, Garcia, why are
32:50
your glasses dirty?" Right? I was like, "Sir, because you spat on my glasses,
32:55
sir." And I did the whole thing. I boom. You know, like the whole neck and the whole shoulder. And I yelled it so loud
33:02
that my master chief across area 11 yelled out. He goes like, "Fuck you, Garcia." And like as soon as he said, I
33:09
swear to God, it was like this battle cry. And everyone in my platoon just like felt this energy of like fire sign,
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right? And then all of a sudden I heard her voice and it just boom, she lit up to my whole freaking squad. All all four squad
33:22
leaders, whole entire platoon of 30 cadets just lit up on fire. And that was
33:27
the moment for me where I was just like, use your voice because your voice is powerful and your voice can build people
33:35
up. And there's so many people out there that want to build like tear people down. Yeah. But if you could teach people how
33:41
to use their voice, say what it is that you want, mean what it is that you say, right? Walk that walk, talk that talk,
33:49
that for me, I was just like that carried me into everything else. And when I tell that story to to people on
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stage and in workshops and especially like when I'm teaching like teenage girls, they're like,
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"Yeah, I need to find my voice." Like we call it the [ __ ] yeah, Garcia moment. When was your [ __ ] yeah Garcia moment?
The Voice of Power & The Importance of Speaking Up
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Let's go. That is and it's it's so crazy. Energy
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doesn't die. It only transfers. And so when you tell that story, I'm there with
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you. The sergeant's in my face. My glasses are dirty. And I'm whipping my neck with you.
34:27
And when I heard you say, "F yeah, Garcia," it's like, "Yes." And then
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everyone lights up. Yes. That's what you want. Yeah. You want that energy transfer. But as
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you were talking about in that conversation we had in the Weston, you have to step in and embody that self.
34:45
You had to embody that in that moment. Yeah. And when you step up and do it. Did you
34:51
know that? I found this out when I was in Toastmasters. Professional. Professional means Yes. Very powerful
34:58
story. Publicly acknowledged for how
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Jadia said, "I'm sitting here wiping. Let me go. Let's go real quick. Yeah.
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Publicly acknowledged for professional speaker. How do you get publicly acknowledged for speaking?
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What do you mean? I'm talking every day. I talk to myself every day. I acknowledge my damn self.
35:22
I don't need external validation, Gregory, for someone to say, "You're a public speaker. I've been talking to myself every damn day. The moment I wake
35:29
up, I'm talking to myself. What do I say to myself? I believe in myself. I could do this. Why not me?
35:37
Why not me? And and the next question I usually ask, we're into the action now.
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You you've got that tiny habit and it's it's embodying that self and seeing it
A: Taking Action (Habits & Systems)
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spread like not waiting for someone to hand you a permission slip, but you giving yourself permission. Are there
35:54
any habits or systems that help keep you moving now? because I know you mentioned some of them when we were talking, but I
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need someone to hear that it's it's practice.
Tiny Habit: Stacking Your Wins (The Anchor)
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Yeah. I stack my wins. Every single little win that I have, I stack them
36:13
because as entrepreneurs, and you heard me talk about this over at the Western is that as entrepreneurs, we get so
36:18
busy. We go from, oh, I I I did this goal. Great. I launched my website. Oh, I launched my podcast. And then you move
36:23
on to the next thing. But you don't realize there are some people that are still thinking about their website, their funnels, they're this, they're
36:29
that, they haven't made that jump yet. And so when you realize like, damn, I
36:34
did my first talk at Toast Masters. Wow, somebody came up to me and said that I made a difference. I got my business
36:40
license. I did this. There are so many wins that you have had. And it's for me, my tiny habit, well, I call it a big
36:46
habit is I stack them right here. So, like it's like I light it up. Every single
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win, every single thing, it goes right here. And so, before I walk on stage, if
36:58
you ever see me backstage, I hit my anchor, light it up, boom, and I'm out on stage. And it's the same thing that
37:04
athletes do, right? LeBron, Kobe, or even like the best orators. Tony Robbins
37:10
does his own thing. He has his own ritual for how he gets into that mindset, into that state. And so, a part of it is always anchoring. Anchoring
37:16
your wins. M so you know what it is and you know like I'm not out there when I go I don't need
37:22
to prove anything to anybody cuz I know who I am. I know what it what
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I stand for. I know what my beliefs are. I know what my end goal is when I walk off that stage.
37:36
I'm hearing it always comes back to you. Like you have to make a decision
37:42
to be do have not have do be.
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Yeah. Or have a doobie. How do I want my day to look like, sound like, feel like? I get to choose. I get
37:55
to decide. Do you ever like I I know when when that
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was who I was embodying, I got accused of being um cocky, arrogant. Yeah.
Accusations of Being Cocky/Arrogant
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No, that has nothing to do with you. Everything to do with them. How we view our world. People are just a
38:14
mirror of what's going on inside of our internal world. And so when you're out there and you're
38:20
shining and someone says, "Oh, you're too much this." That's a conversation that they're having with themselves. Has nothing to do with you.
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Nothing to do with you. I wasn't put on this world to make other people comfortable.
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Come on, girl. Say that again for the people in the back. I wasn't put on this world to make other
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people comfortable. I'm here to live my life. That part.
I Wasn't Put on This World to Make Other People Comfortable
38:42
And that part. I do it with ethics, too. I'm not out here to like ruin anyone else. Like, I'm just I'm here to have fun.
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I'm here to have fun. And if you want to have fun, let's hang out. That part.
38:54
It's so simple it hurts. If you're not having fun, you ain't doing it right. What are you doing?
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What are you doing? I I honestly don't know. Like
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why would you if you have the choice to tell yourself a story Yeah. and create the world you want to live
39:17
in. Why in the world would you create something you don't want?
39:22
Exactly. So the next letter, so we're we're on the T. And if people want to be great,
T: Transitioning with Purpose
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they could stop here, but transitioning with purpose. M we we talked a little about, you know,
39:35
what was that pivotal moment for you? And that was an excellent story, by the way. Like that's going to be clipped.
39:42
That that's a real that's a short right there. Uh
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how did you know that it was time to leave the old behind and move on to that
39:52
new? Like we know you you made that decision, but what was that turning point where
40:01
you just said, you know what, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm going to do this
40:06
instead. I think it's when you realize,
The Real Turning Point: You Get to Decide
40:12
yes, you know, when you're growing up as a child, that's your home, that's your neighborhood, right? But when you do
40:19
have the means, you get to choose which college you want to go to. if if you can, right? You get to choose what job,
40:25
what you choose. I I think at that point when in I think my mom sat down with me. She's like, you're 18 now. You get to
40:31
decide. She's like, I don't I don't have any control over you anymore. And even though she said that to me at
40:37
18, honestly, she could have said that to me. I say that to my daughter now who's 10. I'm like, you get to decide
40:42
how you want your day to be. So if you want to stay up all night tonight,
40:47
just know tomorrow you're going to feel groggy. So if that's how you want to feel like, right, that's your choice.
40:55
And so I think that's for me when I started to realize like I get to choose. I get to choose which path I want to
41:01
take. And if I chose like I mean I went to college and I wanted to be um I went for psychology.
41:08
No surprise there. But I honestly thought that I was going to be like a organizational development type of type
41:14
of role. But eventually I fell in love with marketing. And then I said, "Okay, well, I know I chose this, but that doesn't mean I can't change my mind."
Changing Careers 10 Times is Normal
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So, I changed my mind and I did something different. I think there was another stat that I realized is that the average adult changes careers 10 times
41:27
in their life. And I think most kids, especially when they're like 16, 17, 18, trying to figure out what am I going to
41:33
do for the rest of my life? It's like, trust me, like, you're probably going to switch careers 10 times. And that's okay
41:40
because your interests are going to change. And that's okay. your interests, your
41:48
experiences, your values, like everything changes. I think that's one of the most detrimental questions you
41:54
can ask a kid. What do you want to be when you grow up? Because it makes it feel like you have to lock in with one thing
42:01
and [Laughter] are you AI?
42:08
Often imitated, never duplicated. They wish they wish that they could AI me. They wish. Just prove it. Listen, that's
42:16
how you know you're good. When someone has the question, if I'm sitting here having a conversation with AI, right?
42:21
Yeah. Wow. The compliments you're getting on here, that's incredible. Um, wow. So, I I just lost my train of
42:29
thought there on that one. Wow. So,
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you get to decide. unlic
42:43
Yes, absolutely. Yeah. And I'm so grateful to be one of the
42:48
many that get to interview you. So,
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you're one of one limited edition and you get to decide, right? I love
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that you you do that with your daughter. You can stay up all night. Just understand that there's going to be
43:10
consequences from doing that. And as long as you're willing to accept those con consequences, do whatever you want.
43:17
Yeah. Let's see. That's one of the flaws of the employee model. People are
Employee Model Flaw: Crowbarred into One Thing
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crowdbarred, crowbarred into doing one thing for life. Humans are are wired
43:27
that way. Yeah. It's it's that psychological safety. That's it's that security and that stability.
43:33
Um, and again, once you're once once you're plugged into the matrix, you you tie your values, not you necessarily,
43:41
but some people will tie their whole entire identity by their jobs. And eventually, you're going to realize if
43:46
you're not following like the news on LinkedIn and the tech jobs, and how quickly people realize, oh, I was just an expense. I was just a line item.
Working Hard and Still Being an Expense
43:53
Doesn't matter how many years, how many sleepless nights I had, how many holidays I pushed aside, how many
43:58
birthdays I missed? Like you either you hear it now and you're
44:04
like this matters to me or you're the type of person where you have to learn through pain. And if that's your strategy, that's your strategy. You get
44:10
to decide. I like to learn the hard way. I don't like to learn the hard way. I like to learn from other people's
44:15
mistakes. I will leaprog over other people's mistakes.
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If there's a shortcut, I'm taking Are we going the long way? Right. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left,
44:27
right. Ba ba. Start. Unlimited lives. Unlimited lives.
44:34
G code for life. Yeah. So, knowing when it's time to move on is
44:41
when it's painful or when you see that everyone else has gone this route and it
44:46
hasn't worked for them. So, why am I going to follow them off the cliff when I can decide to go my own route? That's
44:53
what I'm gathering. Beautiful. Now, if you want to be great, you could stop there with the framework.
44:59
But if you want to be greater, you have to empower a network and you have to have resilience in the face of setbacks.
45:05
It's the first thing that comes when you try to level up is not a
45:11
red carpet roll out to your purpose and your dreams. It's going to be an
45:16
obstacle. It's going to be a setback. It's going to be a tragedy first.
45:22
I don't know if I agree with that. Oh, I love this. Let's get to that in a second because that
45:27
Yeah, that's it's you have to be resilient.
You Don't Have to Wait for a Tragedy to Change
45:34
And I don't think it needs to be a tragedy. I think that's where most people fail. They wait
45:39
they think that they have to wait so so bad for things to get so so so bad for them to change their mind.
45:46
You don't have to wake up homeless, bills skyrocketing, file for bankruptcy to finally do something different. You
45:53
don't have to. You could see the signs. Oh my gosh. And I don't think that it always has to
45:59
be an obstacle and hard. You just have to realize who you are surrounding yourself with because
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I have friends that are always cheering for me. I am always cheering for my friends. Yeah. You got to know who's
46:12
really there for you in your corner and those that are just trying to like pull you down with them,
46:18
right? Because when you start to when you start to change your values, your beliefs, your attitudes, when you finally decided when you finally decide
46:26
I deserve more, why not me? People are going to look at you and they're going to be like, "What makes you think you're
46:33
so special?" and blah blah blah blah blah. Those are the people you need to leave behind
46:38
because in reality, if I succeed, rising tide lifts all boats. I'm going to take you with me. But if you're there in the
46:43
in the dark, in the shadows, and you're trying to pull me down, then I don't need you in my life. M
People Will Get Jealous: Leave the Chickens/Pigeons Behind
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there are some people when they start to see you evolve and get better and do things and shine they get jealous
46:58
because they're like you're not they they'll say something like you're not the same Gregory I knew you're different
47:03
now you know what I say you think [ __ ] yeah I'm different cuz the old version of me isn't going to take me to
47:10
where it is that I need to be so I need these new values beliefs attitudes community dedication habits all those
47:16
things that discipline plan. Thank God I'm no longer that version. Thank you for taking me to where I I am today, but
47:23
where I need to be. That's going to require something freaking different from me. So, thank you for saying that. I am
Thank You for Saying I'm Different (Leveling Up)
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different. Like, I like I did all this work to stay the same.
47:36
Stop it. We're like in the Pokemon era. We're about leveling up. That part, Sierra, level up. Level up.
47:44
Level up. Level up. Did you know that song is seven years old? I just discovered the video yesterday.
47:49
Someone said to me, too. They're like, "Did you know that people that are that are graduating from high school or were
47:55
born in 2008?" And I was like, "What' you say? Take it back." I said, "Don't say that. That was mean.
48:02
Watch your mouth. Watch your mouth." But you know what? Asian don't raisin and black crack, so I don't care.
48:08
Asian don't raise. I've never heard that. Never. Wow. Never heard that one.
48:17
Why do you why do you think they put me on the main stage? Asian dough raising. They don't know.
48:23
Oh my gosh, that is so good. Okay, so you know what? We just went out of order
48:28
and I love that because there are no rules. I order it.
48:33
You know, nobody knocked on the door and said, "You skipped a step. Come with us." So
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you've shown that resilience in order to be resilient,
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you have to surround yourself with those people that are supporting you, that are for
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you, that are, you know, going to cheer you on and separate yourself from the
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people who aren't meant to go to the altitude that you're climbing to, right? They're not meant for that. They're
49:04
they're chickens. They're pigeons, but they're not eagles, right? They're not eagles. Oh, I love that one.
E: Empowering a Network
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Yeah, I remember that. Um, you know, people come into your life either for a season or for a reason.
49:15
And that clicked for me. Some people like staying at like this level, like this level in their
49:22
business. I want to be this in my business. Mhm. And so if if I'm gosh, I have so
49:27
many friends that are like in the world of AI and every time I'm around them, I feel so
49:34
I'm like out of my out of my comfort zone. But I love it because I don't
49:40
always want to be the smartest person in the room. Like push me to my limits. Take me somewhere else. Like broaden my horizons. I didn't think
49:47
of it that way. Tell me more. I didn't consider that.
49:54
Curiosity. They say it killed the cat, but that's why the cat had nine lives,
50:01
right? That's true. I The cat knew the cheat code.
50:07
He just gave up at nine. He could have gone 10 or infinity. He was just like, uh, I figured it out. It's boring now.
50:14
Yeah. So empowering your network, obviously
50:20
you're surrounding yourself with the right people because they're helping you grow. They're they're the right kind of
The Relief of Not Being the Smartest Person in the Room
50:26
people. You're not the smartest one in the room, which God, that's such a brush breath of fresh air. Like
50:32
to not have to carry all the weight and to be able to be that sponge that can
50:38
soak everything in around you. Like I'm I'm selfishly soaking everything up for me right now.
50:44
And I love it. Like you are so empowering, inspirational,
50:51
transformational, and and I mean, you're seeing it like we're we're live. So
50:58
say, "Bro, I don't even know what else." It's one of It's one of those things where I'm just kind of like, I don't want to know everything.
51:04
No. Because if I knew everything, then I wouldn't be interested in anything. I wouldn't want to I wouldn't have that curiosity. I wouldn't want to have that
51:11
learning of want to do more or be more. I would just know everything. And how boring is that? But everything is always
51:16
evolving and changing if you really pay attention, right?
51:22
Absolutely. That reminds me of the show on Netflix is uh The Good Place. Have you seen it?
51:28
I have not, but I've heard great things about it. Okay, then I won't spoil it for you, but
51:34
they Yeah. How to How to say what I'm trying
51:40
to say without giving it away. Romina says yes or yeah. So she's on her other channel now. Roina says yes.
51:48
It's it's just watch it. So on on the topic of
51:55
like I don't want to know it all because it would be boring. Like people people
Perfectionism and the Trap of Destination Junkies
52:03
put this concept of heaven out there and what it's going to be like and you're going to have everything and everything is going to be perfect and
52:10
have you ever really thought of the concept of perfection and how like what
52:15
we're destination junkies, right? We
52:21
we look to get to that place and like you said earlier, we don't stack the winds. We don't enjoy the journey. And
52:27
so once we get to that place, it's like that's it. That's what I was chasing for.
52:33
Yeah. And sometimes you get to that destination by yourself. And damn, that could be lonely.
52:39
Oh, that that is the worst. Like, you know what I want? Like if if I'm if I'm driving in the car, I want windows down, top down. I want like
52:46
Missy Elliot blasting. That's what I want. I want like hands in the air. I want I want like I want to like get like
52:53
that car paint and put it on there. It's like, where are you going? you know, like honk if honk if you love life. That that's that to me that's where I see
53:00
like that's my journey. And and and I think we we went in the
53:08
perfect order now that I'm thinking about it because what you do best is empower network. Like when you get on a
53:13
stage, you move a crowd. When you get on a camera, obviously we're seeing it. You're moving the comments. This is the
53:19
most engagement and the most watchers I've had on a live stream that happened
53:24
last minute, right? That says something. So, who empowered you when you couldn't see
Stephanie's Core Belief: Why Not Me?
53:30
it in yourself? And how do you empower others now? Who empowered me when I didn't see it in
53:36
myself? Um,
53:43
I don't think I ever not saw it in myself. Dang. Let's go. What is that life like?
53:51
That life is like why not me? If they could do it, I can do it. In NLP, we
53:56
have this belief. It's like NLP is just really modeling excellence. So,
54:02
it's not just like what's your blueprint, your strategy, your framework. But again, it's like what do you say to yourself when you wake up?
54:07
What are your values or your beliefs, your attitudes? And my belief is why not me? My belief is money comes to me
54:14
easily, effortlessly, consistently, and without any drama. That's what I'm that's my belief about money, right?
54:19
Like if you if you said, "How do I get the essence of Stephanie?" You would have to ask like, "What are her values, beliefs, and attitudes?" And so
54:27
your earlier question of who who embraced your to whatever that question,
54:34
my brain doesn't even process it because it was said in a negative that my brain was like, I don't even believe that, so I deleted it. Why hold on to beliefs
Why Would I Hold On To Beliefs That Don't Serve Me?
54:40
that I don't even believe? Does that make sense? Yeah. Why would I let that buffer in my
54:46
like why would I doubt myself? In what world does that give me an advantage to
54:51
doubt myself? That's something I would do to an enemy. That would be inception. So why would I
54:58
doubt myself? That just sound that just sounds dumb to me.
55:03
You are so powerful. Like it's it's the simple things, right? It's
55:11
we don't think about these things. We just kind of go on autopilot. But you just saying that like why would I why
55:18
for what purpose would I doubt myself? How how does that help me? It doesn't. So
55:23
then don't doubt yourself. Stop that. It does nothing for you. It doesn't move
55:29
you forward at all. It doesn't make you feel good. Why would you choose to doubt yourself? It just sounds so stupid to me.
Complaining vs. Asking: "What Do You Want Instead?"
55:36
And complaining is like it does nothing in in reverse like
55:44
I mean complaining it's a good thing to know what it is that you don't want. Good. You don't now you know what it is
55:49
that you don't want. So flip it. So what do you want instead? Tell me what you do want.
55:56
I think a lot of people you've probably heard this saying where your attention goes energy flows. A lot of people focus on what it is that they
56:02
don't want. And so they're reacting to all the things that they don't want. And so I'll ask clients, so what do you want
56:08
instead? And they'll stumble cuz they don't have the clarity. They've been [ __ ] on their whole entire life.
56:15
And so when you say, okay, what? Okay. So what do you want instead? What does that look like? What does it sound like? What does it feel like? Tell
56:20
me. Give them a moment. Because they've never invited themsel or gave themselves
56:26
permission to think about what it is that they want. All they've been focusing on most of the time is what
56:31
they don't want, what they don't like, and they know it so well.
56:36
They've they've been rehearsing it forever. For sure. One of the things I run up against with
56:42
everyone I've ever coached is, "What do you want?" Oh, I don't know. I just know that I don't want this. I don't want That's not
56:48
what you want. You're still telling me what you don't want. So, that's the only thing my brain can't hear. Don't.
56:53
Yeah. It just hears the thing coming after it. Exactly. So, you're right. If you're
56:59
trying to avoid something, you're still focused on that something. It's like Mother Teresa said, "Don't call me when
57:05
we're marching against violence. Call me when we're marching for peace."
57:10
Yeah, that is so good. So, I I want to get into some Q&A with these
Defining "Greater": 1% Better Than Yesterday
57:17
people on here because I'm sure they questions for you and like some live coaching, some some real
57:24
stuff. Let's go. Let's real life coaching. Let's go. Um, so if y'all have any
57:31
questions, please feel free to jo drop them in the chat. Um, we would love to
57:37
to get into this today. Um, but while they drop their questions, because it takes a minute for them to
57:43
type, I want to know what's your definition of greater. What's my definition of greater? I'm
57:49
just 1% better than who I was yesterday. That's all. So simple. I love it. it. Yeah. Why Why
57:57
would I make like a whole thesis around it? The only person that I'm really
58:02
competing against is myself.
58:10
Say that one more time. I got distracted because I was reading a comment.
58:15
Yeah. Same. Same. So, I'm ready with my question. Stephanie, can I hire you to
58:20
be my drill sergeant? Oh, for sure. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's it's one of those things too where
58:25
people are motivated by different things, right? Sometimes people are motivated by pain. And if that's your
58:31
motivation strategy, cool. I'll motivate you in that way. But if you were to if someone were to try to motivate me,
58:37
you're motivating me towards greatness. I'm that type of person. And so,
Motivation: Towards Greatness vs. Away From Pain
58:42
typically the type of clients that I attract are the ones that can think in positives.
58:48
Now, that's not saying that if you think of the things that you don't want that I wouldn't want to work with you. I would work with you, but there's a lot of
58:53
things that we need to work on. Right. Right. It's like when did you decide that the only thing that you could focus on is
58:59
what it is that you don't want. And when you figure out the date of when you decided that, let's go a week before that and then make a new decision.
Mindset Hack: Go Back to the Decision's Origin
59:06
Cuz at some point that decision never existed.
59:12
So make a new one. It's like going back to the future. Yeah,
59:19
Marty. We got to go back. You got to change the past.
59:25
I love that. All right. I love that. When was the decision and just go a
59:31
moment before that and ch Oh my god. Cuz there was a moment in time where it wasn't a problem and then you decided it
59:37
was a problem. So what makes it not a problem? I just solved your whole freaking
59:43
just shattered the entire It's simple, isn't it? Think about it.
59:49
At some point it wasn't a problem and then you decided it was a problem. So what makes it not a problem?
59:56
And then you married it.
1:00:02
You want to talk about having commitment issues? That's the thing you need to be having issues committing with.
1:00:08
Yeah. So, Elijah Side Hustle Society said,
Most Defining Moment as a Creator: Starting Live Streaming
1:00:13
"Um, Stephanie, you may have already shared it, but what would you say is your most defining moment as a creator?"
1:00:23
I think my most defining moment as a creator is when I first started live streaming. I think this is back in 2016.
1:00:30
I told already told you my daughter was born in 2015. And when I was deciding to make my exit from the agency life, I
1:00:35
decided everyone was calling themselves a social media strategist at the time. That's what I used to do. And I was
1:00:41
like, well, how do I separate myself from the sea of sameness? And I realized
1:00:46
that people really like working with me because I could explain things and I'm very visual. And so I started live streaming. I would show them this is how
1:00:53
I would do a social media audit. This is how I do a strategy. This is how my brain works. And I think people started
1:00:59
to realize like, oh wow, she could answer questions in real time and she metaphors and different
1:01:05
analogies and different case studies like she knows her stuff, right? That
1:01:10
was the difference that made the difference and people really wanted to work with me because they're like, "Wow, someone already asked that question and
1:01:16
then someone asked the same question but in a different way because we all we speak differently. We learn differently.
1:01:21
Some people are visual so I'm going to show you. Some people want a hands-on exercise. Try this template. here's a
1:01:28
worksheet for you or something. I cater to all of those different learning styles. And I think that was really the defining moment for me as a creator was
1:01:36
I'm a live streamer and I will dedicate time towards showing you who I am, how I
1:01:42
figure stuff out. I'll take you along that journey with me for I mean even if you looked at my
1:01:47
channel, I was live streaming for gosh such a long long long time and I never did any like edited videos
1:01:56
and stuff like that. It was just too much time. Did you notice that your like what was
1:02:04
excuse me the what was the difference between live streaming and and putting up those polish videos with the zooms
1:02:10
and the cuts and the B-roll. I like the live streams because like I said before it it hacks into your happy
1:02:15
brain chemicals. Like the fact that I could look in there like oh Elijah's here. Oh, you know Karen's here. Like that to me gives me that community and
1:02:22
it it's that transference of energy when I get excited. You excited? You and I talked about this, right? It's not about
1:02:27
the algorithm, it's the human rhythm. So when I move, you move. Just like that.
1:02:32
Just like that. That you get with live streaming. And in a polished video, it's
1:02:38
different. It hits different. And every now and then I'll put out a polished edited video and and with the zooms and
1:02:44
the pans and it just hits different. But again, people have different convincer strategies. Some people are
1:02:50
convinced when they see me live and they're like, "Oh, cool. I love her personality. I love her energy. And some
1:02:55
people just go because they want like a quick answer to something and they'll prefer the pre-recorded videos that are
1:03:01
like this long versus a live stream, right? That's Yeah. No, that's that's so
1:03:07
good. Elijah, does that answer your question? Um I think it it's exceeded it, but I
1:03:15
may be a little biased. This is my friend. Uh can I call you friend? Friend
1:03:20
signs unite. Um, see, are you doing it all on your own? Oh, so
1:03:27
Elijah's reviews. Um, so he has a live stream coming up. You should join.
1:03:32
Um, we're going to do a live VidSummit review like we did last year and have a panel popping in. Yeah, Elijah, drop the
1:03:39
time in there. I can't remember. Um, and if you have any questions about like even the exhibition hall because that's where I was hanging out.
1:03:45
I mean, I' I've been doing recaps of all of my favorite talks and just like blogging them. I realized actually I
Repurposing Strategy: Beyond Video (Blogging)
1:03:50
love blogging too. Yeah, I saw so you had a Roberto Blake blog like after VidSummit last year I
1:03:57
believe and you just like put it all out there for those that missed it and I was like
1:04:02
when I get done with this episode I want to go read that cuz that is dope. And like I love writing. I love blogging
1:04:09
too. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Probably because I'm over here being influenced by by what everyone
1:04:15
else is saying. I should I'm letting people should Yeah. And again, people learn by
1:04:21
different people learn differently. Sometimes I'm a skimmer. I don't want to watch a video.
1:04:26
Right. Right. Sometimes things make better sense to me when I see it in a graph, in
1:04:31
a flowchart, when I see it written in words. Yeah.
1:04:37
Yeah. Like why do I got to drink this whole bottle of milk when I can just pour out a little glass and get what?
1:04:42
Yeah. I got you. Exactly. So, I love that. How do we work with you? This is what the third or fourth
1:04:48
time someone's asked to work with you on here. I love it. So definitely live streaming
1:04:54
is all the good feels. Absolutely, Karen. Like I love this. I'm such a people person. I just love the
1:05:01
Yeah. And you said that you said that before the call. You're like, "Oh, you know, I'm such a You should
1:05:06
If you don't you [ __ ] on me." Exactly. I was like, "I'm not going to [ __ ] on him." But this is good. Should
1:05:12
um let me let me rephrase that. When would now be a good time for you to start live streaming?
1:05:19
Uh, an hour ago. Yeah, I made the decision today. Yeah, because look how you feel. Like
1:05:26
look how you're just lighting up and like I know you had talking points and questions and all that stuff, but sometimes it's just the flow of the
1:05:31
conversation is the flow of the conversation and it's so much better that way and like the the framework is in me.
1:05:38
It's it's how I've leveled up in every arena I've been in. Like these seven things that we've gone through, the
1:05:44
grounding in your story, reframing limiting beliefs, embracing everything that comes as a learning opportunity,
1:05:49
taking action, like what's the action you're going to take? Not the goal you make, but the action you take. Fall in
1:05:55
love with the process and the journey. Transition with purpose. Like if that's not working for you because someone shu
1:06:02
it on you, then when is it time to move on? And then who are you empowering? If you get to the top and you're by yourself making
1:06:09
money and no one's with you and everyone else, you know, is still struggling or or people are coming to you asking for help and you're not helping them, are
1:06:15
you really successful or are you an [ __ ] So, who are you empowering? Who
1:06:22
empowered you? like keep giving back and then resilience because there's going to be things that come along the way and
1:06:30
you have the ability to decide whether that's going
1:06:35
to be a setback or a stepping stone. I love how you said that setbacks and stepping stones. Let's get into some more of these
1:06:41
questions. Let's go. Okay, definitely live streaming is all the good feels. Will Smith and not the one. Have you met
1:06:47
Will Smith? Okay, so I have another Will Smith on my Facebook and I was like trying to squint at my screen to see if
1:06:52
that's my same Will Smith, but I don't know. Possibly. He started as a game streamer and now he has this lifestyle coaching
1:06:59
academy. Amazing story. I think that's him. Yeah, he said, "Let's go. Stephanie and
1:07:06
Gregory teaming up." It seems like he knows you. Yeah, I think I saw him pop up on my Instagram, too. Yeah.
1:07:11
Yeah. Will is amazing, man. We've had some really cool conversations, too. and he's been chopping reels from it and
1:07:17
Oh, I love that. I love his story. Um, thank you. Thank you for the energy, Will. Uh, it did.
1:07:24
Thanks. So, he got his question answered, man. I love this. Uh, sure.
1:07:29
It's at 5:00 PM Central Standard Time on Sunday. If you want to, he can drop the link. Please drop the link.
1:07:35
Sunday. And Will says, "I watch everything at 2x." Me, too.
1:07:41
Yeah. Yeah. I I'm I'm the same way. And again, I think even as a content creator, so I
1:07:48
view myself as a live streamer, but also an educator. So I'm always very mindful that if I do live stream, I also turn it
1:07:54
into a blog post. And I then I do cater to the short form videos. So my repurposing strategy is really
1:08:00
catering again to how people learn, how they share. Because if I only dedicate like the content I create to like let's
1:08:06
say an hourong live stream, not everyone is going to see that. So why would I limit myself?
1:08:18
Repurpose strategy is
1:08:23
if people aren't getting it from this, why would you limit yourself by just
1:08:28
relying on this and not put it in different forms all over the place? Is that what I got?
1:08:33
Yeah, exactly. It's so genius.
Why Everything Had to Be Complicated
1:08:38
But okay, so help me here. Cuz every solution you have seems to be so simple
1:08:45
and so fun and so real. Yeah. Why did they train us that everything
1:08:50
had to be complicated and layered? I don't even know. I just been saying I
1:08:58
don't even know who they are. If they did, why can't you just change your mind?
1:09:07
Listen, I'm supposed to be Mr. Question Everything, and you ask better questions than I've ever thought of asking. Why
1:09:14
can't you just change your mind? What's stopping you? That's cool. Turning a live into a blog
1:09:20
than a short. Who is they? Fire. Who is they? So, I I just realized I skipped over
1:09:27
Reina. She said, "I'm ready with my question." And I think her question is, Stephanie, can I hire you to be my drill
1:09:32
sergeant? Of course. Absolutely. So simple. So simple. And you can find
1:09:40
her uh at lightscamelive.com
1:09:47
and Facebook. Hey Stephstephanyl. She's got a group SMS strategist or SM
1:09:53
strategist, social media strategist. She's all over the place. I'm everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Instagram. Hey Stephanie Live.
1:10:00
LinkedIn Stephanie Lou. Liu. Uh, Tik Toks, hey Stephanie live,
1:10:06
Twitter, Hey Stephanie, you always got to like Twitter always has something to You got to love the Hey Stephanie. Can I
1:10:12
give you a quick background on that please? I So when I when I was working in the tech startup, people would always ask me
1:10:18
about social media and marketing and all these things and it always started with hey Stephanie.
1:10:23
Hey Stephanie. And I was like y'all be asking me these questions all the time. I don't have time to like repeat myself.
1:10:28
So I I bought the domain at the time heyststephanie.com. And so anytime they had a question, I
1:10:35
would reference them to a blog post. And that's why like blogging was one of my things. And so that carried on with me.
1:10:41
It helped me out, especially from an SEO perspective. And I still repurpose all of my content
1:10:48
because if you think about it, most creators will will just stay in one lane.
1:10:53
They're like, I only do YouTube videos, which that's cool. I love that for you. But I'm also thinking
1:11:00
about the people who are like they can't stand watching YouTube. You know, maybe they want to read, maybe they want to skim, maybe. And I think when you
1:11:07
diversify your content that way, those results are going to compound in the sense of like SEO. And
1:11:14
I've written three books. And my first book,
1:11:20
ultimate guide to social media marketing, stemmed a lot from my blog post of what I had put out there. So I
1:11:26
never had to start from scratch because it was speaking from experience. So this is how I do this and this is how I
1:11:31
repurpose my content. This is how I use these platforms and these tools and all this other stuff.
1:11:37
Who says that you can't take your podcast, how many ever podcasts you've done or your YouTube channel and turn it
1:11:43
into a book? What's stopping you from like self-publishing and putting it out there? I mean, you saw our good friend
1:11:49
Roberto Blake. Like he's he's always creating content. He's not waiting for someone else to say like, "Oh, so and so
1:11:56
book publisher wants to sign you." He's like, "I know what it is that I know and
1:12:01
I have the chops to back it up. I'm going to print my damn self. Print your own damn money."
1:12:07
Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's like another genius idea. And I've seen a couple other
1:12:14
people that my my friend and client Francine, she took all of the live
1:12:20
streams and podcast she done and compiled it into a book calling over
1:12:26
comfort and it was like a compilation of all because why would you just let all that content sit out there and it's good
1:12:33
content and just because it's not getting views or likes or vanity metrics now maybe it just needs to be resurfaced and
1:12:40
repurposed, right? That's a bar. So that is
1:12:47
you can Okay. The the question that got us here is like what was your most
1:12:52
pivotal moment as a creator and then we went into the creator space and I feel
1:12:57
like we're all at some level in some fashion creative in different ways.
1:13:04
Right. Of course. And and we can fall into this trap of social media of well, if I'm not
1:13:11
creating like Alex or Mosy or Myron Golden or Stephanie Garcia, right, then I'm not a real creator and I just got to
1:13:17
watch more of their content. I got to buy more of their programs and I got to do more of what they say to do in order
1:13:23
for me to be enough. What do you feel about that? Like what
The Danger of Shelf Development: Just Do It!
1:13:29
is your word of encouragement for someone that's addicted to consuming content, reading books, getting
1:13:35
certifications, getting degrees, and waiting to be great? Yeah. Um
1:13:44
to me it's I I call it shelf development.
1:13:49
I just need another book, another podcast, another conference, another this, another another. It's just like
1:13:56
you just need to do just fail already because first attempt in learning is
1:14:01
going to get you much far farther in life than you thinking of like I should I did I need to just do it and learn
1:14:08
from it cuz the I mean there are times where I'll put out a video I'm like I could have done a better hook. All right.
1:14:13
Well, let me try it again. Cuz if no one saw it then no one saw it, right? And it's not like I can't go back and just
1:14:18
unlist a video. No one like Gregory's not going to be like, "Oh, Stephanie, I saw you publish a video and then you unlisted it." He
1:14:25
does not have time for that. The internet is not keeping receipts on
1:14:30
when I unpublish a video or if I edit a blog post or if I test out a different hook and have different variants of a
1:14:37
short form video. Like, no one is keeping those receipts except me.
1:14:42
The only thing keeping the receipts is the Wayback Machine. And they're not sending out emails and tickets,
The Internet Isn't Keeping Receipts on Your Unlisted Videos
1:14:52
you know. And it's so crazy that we tell ourselves these stories. Like I know I'm not the only one that thinks this. There's so many people that are like,
1:14:59
"It's got to be perfect before I put it out. I've got to do it, you know? It's got I got to get it right the first
1:15:05
time." Just put your first rep in already, man. Rodrik Brenson. So Rod the brand
1:15:11
strategist. This is my guy. He said, "Everyone wants to Everyone wants a brand new maid,
1:15:18
but nobody wants to be made brand new. He's like you. I think look, if you
1:15:25
could hop on and ju Yeah. And just like I'll drop the StreamYard link for you right now. I feel like that would
1:15:31
elevate the Oh my gosh. We can turn this into a panel. Um let me know if you're
1:15:37
available to come up on stage cuz I think the two of y'all the synergy like y'all are both branding. Oh my gosh. So
1:15:44
he he has those quips too, right? Yeah. Everyone wants a a how? Everyone
1:15:51
wants a new brand made. Like they want a new brand. They want a rebrand. They want a new logo. They want a new all
1:15:58
this stuff. But nobody wants to be made brand new. There's a process. He said, "I'm not ready." That's okay. It's all good.
1:16:04
Um they want to they want to process or they they want
1:16:09
they keep reiterating. And you know why? It's because oh I want to I want to do a new podcast.
1:16:15
Well, I I I already know how to create a new logo, a new digit, but they don't
1:16:20
know the new new because they haven't crossed that. So, they keep repeating
1:16:26
what they've done in the past because they haven't gotten to the new. Would you say that that's a that's a
1:16:33
manifestation of fear like procrastination, busy work, um building, consuming? I feel like it's all
1:16:39
different. It's fear or anxiety really wrapped up in different disguises.
1:16:46
It could be. I mean, sometimes it's just like a fear of being successful because what's the best that could happen?
1:16:53
My girl. My girl. Come on. Fire signs unite. Baby energy in full force right
Final Word of Encouragement: What's the Best That Could Happen?
1:17:00
now. What is the best that can happen? What's the best that can happen? What do
1:17:06
you want instead? What would that do for you? How would that make you feel? For what purpose? He said, "This is the most This probably
1:17:13
the most quotable stream I've ever seen. They just keep getting dropped because you two are cooking."
1:17:19
We're going back to that original hat from last year with uh VidSummit. Let him cook.
1:17:24
Let her cook. Stephanie, are there any other words of encouragement or anything
1:17:31
that you want to tell this audience that wants to level up and be greater? If they're listening, they feel stuck right
1:17:37
now. What's one step they can take today?
1:17:44
Write this down. Put it on a post-it note or even just change the the the wallpaper on your phone.
1:17:52
And just put the question, what's the best that could happen?
1:17:58
And I think that instantly will shift your mindset because then you'll start to think of what it is that you want versus what it is that you don't want.
1:18:09
saw three comments coming immediately after that just
1:18:16
what's the best that can happen because a lot of people tend to think like what's the worst that can happen and it's they don't even realize they're
1:18:22
saying it like we got all these quotables on here but they're they're lifting people up. They're getting
1:18:28
people to think about what they want and how to get there. We're asking better questions. But those little quotables
1:18:34
and quips we get from the people growing up and society, they're not really engineered to help us. What's the worst
1:18:42
that can happen is probably the worst question you can ask yourself. Yeah. Just like why am I like this? Well, now
1:18:49
you're going to get a Google list of results of all the reasons you are the way you are now instead of asking how
1:18:55
can I be different? How can I level up? How can I be better? Yeah. I mean, yeah, we teach this in in
1:19:02
all of our NLP trainings, and it's asking better questions, you know, and if I were to give you the shortcut, it
1:19:08
would be what's the best that can happen? What do I want? What would that do for
1:19:13
me? How would that make me feel? For what purpose do I want this? And once you have an idea of what that looks like, sounds like, feel like, then I'm
1:19:19
going to ask you, have you done this before? If you've done it before, great. You could do it again. If you don't know how to do it, do you know someone who
1:19:25
does know how to do it? If you don't know someone who knows how to do it, find someone else that can introduce you
1:19:31
to someone that knows how to do it. Yeah, there are resources in relationships. We are in the era of AI
1:19:38
and Google search and communities and conferences. You are not alone
1:19:43
at all. You are not alone. Come on, Michael. Right? Okay. So then it's Have you done
1:19:50
this before? Do you know someone who has? If you do know someone who has, ask them what was their strategy for s for
1:19:58
success. What was their strategy for success? So, what values, beliefs, and attitudes did you do you have that got
1:20:03
you to where it is that you needed to be? Because if it was so easy to get from point A to point B, everyone would
1:20:09
be doing it. Everyone would have a YouTube channel. But there's all that messy middle that
1:20:14
happens. Talk about it, right?
1:20:19
And then once you figure out, okay, what is that mindset? what is that model of excellence
1:20:24
and then install it on you and that's the version of you that you need to be to get to where it is that you need to
1:20:29
be. Wait that was like what 5 minutes that was like two minutes.
1:20:36
Okay. It now everyone is asked how can they work
1:20:42
with you. Yeah. And let's go.
The "Let's Go" Counter Idea
1:20:49
How many times has that been said? This is incredible. This is good. You know what you should have or something for you to consider?
1:20:56
What would happen if you had a let's go counter on your show? So that way every
1:21:01
time someone said let's go, you would be like ding ding ding ding ding, let's go.
1:21:07
That would be fun. Oh my gosh, I didn't even think about that.
1:21:14
I need a moderator cuz I could do this. Let's go counter. Let's go.
1:21:20
Six. And then we're going to scroll them across. Are you going to do a banner? Yeah. Ding
1:21:27
ding ding ding ding. And then I just like add a number every
1:21:32
time someone says it. Yeah. Here's another one. And another one. Right. And another one.
1:21:43
I have these. This is a writer down. You said write it down earlier. I just forgot.
1:21:48
Yeah, bro. LFG. I think that means let's [ __ ]
1:21:54
go. Okay. Okay. Update number seven. Yeah.
1:21:59
Yeah. I need to find out how to like I got to get a stream deck or something. Uh stream deck is is legit. Yeah.
1:22:05
Yeah. So I can have like live changes. Um Okay. How do you save that? Save. All
1:22:11
right. That's way too much work. Or even sound effects. I don't know if Can I Can I test mine out?
1:22:17
Try it. Let's see if Let's see if it works. [Music] Did you get that one,
1:22:22
bro? Is that a Stream Deck? It's my Roadcaster Pro.
1:22:28
Let me see. Can I test this one out, too? I wonder what Oh,
1:22:35
what's the best that could happen? Oh my god. Like, everyone would fall in love with me. Everyone would want to
1:22:41
work with me. like, "Oh my god, I I think I could do this." Yeah.
1:22:48
Yeah. I'm gonna do this. Yeah. [Laughter]
1:22:55
So, like when I'm on client calls, oh my god. And they're like thinking, I'll just play that like
1:23:04
it's hilarious. I'm loving the comments. I just dope just said this is
1:23:13
I'm like are we formally done with the interview now? Can we just geek out and just be live streamers? Let's do it. Man, I love this so much. I
1:23:21
could literally do this all day. Can I Can I It's been a while since I've tested. Can I try this other one?
1:23:26
Please. What is this one? [Applause] Yeah, it's a good one. Did you hear that
1:23:32
one? I did. Y'all can hear that, too, right? I know I'm not the only one. I hope I hope they could hear it. Yeah,
1:23:38
cuz sometimes like I'll hear it in my headset and then Yeah. Yeah.
1:23:44
I hear that music in all the Dragons Z parody videos I watch. That's awesome.
1:23:50
Yep. They hear it. Oh, I love it. Okay, good. Yeah, I need to update it. I was going to drop some K-pop demon hunters in mine.
1:24:02
I got to I got to add sounds. I got Yeah, we'll have like a we'll have a live stream where we all just kind of update our our stream decks and all the
1:24:10
things. I need to add some bad money.
1:24:15
Send me Send me all your files you upload so I can send you all my files. Yeah, I'll send I'll send you all mine.
1:24:24
I should have been using that for everything you said. The clap. What is this? And then when when you when you what is
1:24:31
this? [Music]
1:24:36
And I'm like, let's let's get it. And they're like, it's like Avengers.
1:24:45
Yeah.
Live Stream vs. Pre-Recorded Content Vibes
1:24:51
I'm going to see this and I would be like, did I really do that? It's like, yeah, that's when the Celsius kicked. It's like boop. Yeah,
1:24:57
Elijah and the rest of the crew is like and then they then they got
1:25:02
then they got real.
1:25:09
All right, let's get back to these comments. What's uh it's fire. I love it. Um so I got to say this. So Will is
1:25:19
in my school community. It's called the Greater University and he said, "Bro, I can't wait for the
1:25:24
greater university call tonight. If you are not in the community, I will drop the link. I'm sure it's somewhere on my
1:25:31
Facebook, but get in the community. I'm I'm doing this at an unconventional
1:25:36
price, and I've decided to extend it to the end of the year. It's $9 a month and $67 a year. It is a no-brainer for you
1:25:43
to hop on with me Wednesdays at 7 central and let's apply the greater framework to where you are in life,
1:25:50
reframe those limiting beliefs, and get you stepping into your greatness. I I found my value proposition at VidSummit,
1:25:56
girl. I was like, people kept asking me what you do and I I've always recycled it because it just
1:26:02
didn't feel like me until it did. And then I kept using it and it was I
1:26:07
get people out of their heads and into their hearts so they can step into their greatness.
1:26:12
And everyone leaned in. Everyone was trying to scan my QR code. Everyone wanted to connect. I was like, that's it
1:26:17
because that's what I do. They're laughing. You got to go out there and like test your taglines and
1:26:23
see how people react to it because it's not it's not about like how quickly chat GPT can spit something out for you,
1:26:30
right? No, but it's like when I say something, does it make your heart skip a beat?
1:26:38
No, hold on, hold on. They said I I think you should add sounds to your stream. That would be good. You said,
1:26:44
"Does it make my heart skip a beat?" I was kind of hoping for like the the
1:26:50
brea in, breathe out some grumping.
1:26:56
Am I in the right room? Do people know you're you're in the right room? I'm just like,
1:27:01
you're playing with your sound effects now. That was a miss. So, I'm gonna have to
1:27:06
get some really cool sounds. Um, y'all drop some suggestions in the chat. Like, I I need some sounds for my soundboard.
1:27:13
What do I need? What am I missing? What are they called? That's the thing that I I think I struggle with is like what is that sound called? Um so what Elijah
1:27:20
said, uh it's an amazing community and we hit gold every effing week. Yes, we
1:27:25
do. Uh thank you Will. Thank you, Coach Will. Look, everyone's logging in on both their their YouTube as you should.
1:27:32
Yeah, because I mean, let's let's talk about it, right? Like I feel like we have a good message and a
1:27:38
a good community to share and sometimes people don't know what it is that they don't know and you give them an opportunity just to share it. It's just
1:27:45
a hit of a button, you know. Yeah. Spread the love.
1:27:50
Yes, please. See, and okay, so black eyed peas, you need the the where is the love
1:27:57
and just be like, where are my likes? Where are my shares? Where is the love? Where is the love? The love. All right.
1:28:03
Yes. Yes. Yes. And then like music unites people and I I believe like music
1:28:09
is therapy and it's it's a way past time to heal. Yeah.
1:28:14
Like you got to have different sound for each letter of the greater frame. Oh my gosh, that is genius.
1:28:19
That is good. Oh, see, and you don't get this on a pre-recorded, right? No one's going to
1:28:24
comment later because No. Yeah, you guys. I was I was talking to him earlier and he was just like, "And then I'm going to do this." I'm
1:28:30
like, "Why don't you just go live? I mean, you're on Streamyard. You might as well go live." He's like, "But they I" I was like, "Who are they?"
1:28:38
And then he made the leap and then he did it. Yeah. They don't exist. We made the leap. We
1:28:44
made a decision today that if editing is my bottleneck and I
1:28:49
have hours of content that probably will never see the light of day and they've gone stale and I'm paying for live stream, you
1:28:55
know, I pay $431.88 a year to be able to use this.
1:29:01
How about this? How about you you do the live streams and then you tell your community
1:29:08
clip my live stream. Whoever reaches a thousand views, I will give you I don't know two months free to the community.
1:29:16
Something simple like that. I mean, but that encourages people to take your content, repurpose it, and put it out there. So that way you don't have to do
1:29:22
the clipping. They do it for you. Why not? What she What she said Oh, you're over
1:29:27
there. What? What she said? Please, I will give you a
1:29:34
year free to the community if you do all the clipping for me and like repurpose
1:29:39
this. Make shirts and merch. Like there's so many shirts that can be made from this
1:29:44
one stream. I will bless you with the workbook so you can level up your life. Come on.
1:29:49
From waiter to greater the workbook. There's even a bonus chapter about overcoming imposttor syndrome in here
1:29:54
which by the way there is no imposttor. There's no imposttor. Spoiler alert, right? No. Yeah. I don't see it on the
1:30:01
the calendar invite. No. Don't exist.
1:30:06
It doesn't exist. What's the sound for that? It doesn't ex
1:30:13
[Laughter] like what's on a kid's tri tricycle.
1:30:21
Ring ring. Send me the stream and I got you. You see what I clipped from our call? I do
1:30:27
actually. Did you use I'm curious. Did you use Opus Eclipse? Did you know like Opus Clips is on a wait list now? I'm on
1:30:35
but I didn't know they had a wait. Oh. So like I'm like one of the ones.
1:30:41
You're on the wait list? No, I've been using it. I Yeah. He said, "Yep." I didn't know that. We get to
1:30:47
VidSummit and people were signing up to be on the wait and I'm like, "Wait, there's a wait?" Was it for a wait list
1:30:52
for their new feature like the that search functionality that they
1:30:57
have? Oh, I think regular clipping is is open there. There's no reason for them to
1:31:03
gateep the regular clipping that they currently do. But if it's the
1:31:08
if it's the the enterprise version, which if I recall correctly, where it takes like your whole entire
1:31:15
channel and does all it like Yeah. So
1:31:20
I I didn't see I didn't get to stop by their booth to see what it was. So I gota I got to scan that little QR code
1:31:25
and see what they're doing. But like when I got in it was like when Opus first dropped I was like wait but I can
1:31:31
just drop my whole video in there and it'll clip. But then they did that feature where you do clip anything and like you can type
1:31:36
in find all the best moments where we said let's go, right? You can compile a list of all the let's goes or find all the questions and
1:31:43
the answers and like it is it is powerful. And then there's like a thing where you can say it's like a podcast
1:31:49
informational gaming and it just knows what to do. Yeah. And like sometimes you have to make a
1:31:54
few like edits to it. But I I gave them a recommendation. I said if you can just
Stephanie's Full Live Stream Content System (94 Pieces)
1:32:02
add a way for me to change the sound in case the sound is either too low or too
1:32:08
high. That would be the only thing Opus is missing right now because sometimes I have to export, fix
1:32:14
the sound, then put it back in. Got it. So, what's your process like? Like when you're creating your live streams, like
1:32:21
what what do you go into your live stream thinking about? How do you market it? Like how Teach me how to be a live
1:32:27
streamer, Stephanie. Teach me how to live. Um, teach me how to live stream. Teach me
1:32:32
how to live. Yeah. I mean, okay. So, whenever I go live, I don't go live. I tend to go live
1:32:39
pre-planned. So, I I typically do things where because I have a large Facebook
1:32:44
community. So, I'll do like a Facebook event and then I'll invite my amplifiers. My amplifiers are the ones
1:32:49
like, "Oh my gosh, I can't wait for this." And D. And usually when I do a Facebook event, I'm like, "What questions do you want me to ask Gregory on the show?"
1:32:55
Because when they tell me what question they want to ask, then I'll comment back. I'm like, "Okay, great. I can't wait to ask him or hear what his answer
1:33:00
is going to be because from a psychology perspective, it creates a micro commitment. So, I'm
1:33:06
going to ask this question for you. So, you better be there when I when I ask the question, right?" So, it creates
1:33:12
this micro commitment. Then I schedule the live stream in advance and I do it across the different platforms. I use
1:33:18
ecam but I also use reream to get it across the different platforms.
1:33:23
And then um typically I'll go live. I'll have I already have like a live stream
1:33:30
structure that I typically do. So I'll have like the opening hook. I'll have this and that. Um but I usually I like
1:33:37
to stick to like what I call the format which is why, what, how, and what if. which is
1:33:43
why is this important? What am I going to teach you? How is this going to impact your life? And if you want to learn more, where do you
1:33:49
find Gregory? Where do you d and if you want to learn more, subscribe or do
1:33:54
this. It's typically the format that happens. As soon as the live stream is done, then I put it into Dcript. So,
1:34:00
Dcript is my main like that's where all the magic happens because in Dcript I could edit it like it's a word
1:34:07
processing doc and it has AI built into it where I could find the different highlights and all that other stuff. So, I'll generally
1:34:13
I'll clip it and then usually I'll send it over to my team. So, I have a team of editors in
1:34:19
Indonesia. We have a video production agency and so I'll send it over to them. They know my branding guidelines and
1:34:24
they'll they'll do all the things and then I'll put it in notion. And so notion is pretty much my content
1:34:30
database. So in it, I'll have like which channels, variations of the social media copy, who
1:34:36
I want to tag, and all of that other stuff. And then I'll schedule it out. I'll have it go out. But typically, if I
1:34:42
see that a clip or a video is doing well, I'll tag it in notion as like my greatest hits, right? My greatest hits
1:34:49
album. So that way I could keep repurposing it. So I'm known for taking a single live stream and turning it into
1:34:55
94 pieces of content. So like let's say for example today's what? Wednesday.
1:35:01
Yeah. So today's Wednesday. That means I could repurpose the content and not just clips but like the blog post and this and all
1:35:07
that other stuff. So I'll repurpose it and I'll have 94 pieces of content but I don't drop it all on the same day. It'll
1:35:13
be for the next 94 Thursdays about this. And then I'll do another live stream on Thursday and that will be clipped into
1:35:19
94 pieces of content. And the next 94 Fridays is about that. So I never have to worry about what I'm posting on
1:35:24
social media. People like, "Oh my god, where am I going to post it?" I don't care about that because when you're top of mind, you're tip of tongue.
1:35:33
That was a gunshot. And there you have it.
1:35:39
Stephanie, you're everywhere. Like you're I'm like I'm not everywhere. I just know how to
1:35:44
keep the perception of me being everywhere. And I think also sometimes when you're clipping, so I know a lot of
1:35:49
people will take like their live streams and they'll have AI do it for them and like what are the
1:35:54
best highlight moments, but I know because I live streamed of like when people are like, "Oh my gosh, when the
1:36:00
comments popped up, those are the things that I'll add in there." And I think even as a content
1:36:05
creator, I don't think I mentioned this before, is that when when someone loves what it is that you're saying and they're like, "Oh, that's a gem. That's a bar." I'll screenshot it and I put it
1:36:12
in this little folder on my desktop called the awesomeness folder just to remind myself this is how awesome you
1:36:17
are. Remember stacking your wins.
1:36:24
Let's go. That is just like you have everything
1:36:31
literally set up for you to win in every area of your life. Like you're stacking
1:36:38
your wins. You're You've got a whole system, guys. You just got I just I've had this this is a writer downer down
1:36:45
for like the last five minutes. You just got a $10,000 master class in how to
1:36:51
repurpose one live stream into 94 pieces of content. That is 94 days,
1:36:56
94 Thursdays to be exact. What's today? Wednesday.
1:37:01
94 Wednesdays worth of content from this one live stream because you tuned in.
1:37:09
Where's the Where's the bomb? I got to drop a bomb.
1:37:17
I love it. I love it. Guys, y'all got any other Oh, hold on. There's questions. I love I saw some questions pop up after that
1:37:22
and I was like, Gregory, let's link this week and I'll show you the ways of Opus. Oh, that that
1:37:29
needs a gong. I I swear. Yes, Master Will Smith.
1:37:38
I love it. So the format starts with why this is important
1:37:43
and what am I going to teach you? How is it going to help you? Then if you want to learn more,
1:37:49
go there. Join this, go there. And I've heard Myron say it like teach them what they
1:37:55
need to know, why they need to know it, what their life's going to look like on the other side of it, and then make them
1:38:00
an offer to come join you. And so that's sell the hell. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. That's it. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So, here's the thing, like
1:38:06
even that format of why, what, how, and what if, that's that's your that's your
1:38:12
Tik Tok video. That's your Instagram real. It's like, hey, guess what? Greg and I are going to do a live stream today, and we're going to talk about
1:38:17
what? We're going to talk about how to captivate on command. And the reason why it's so important is that if you are
1:38:23
struggling with your word, she's going to show you how to turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones. She's going
1:38:29
to show you how to do that with this formula. Da da da. And if you want to join us, we go live. Boom. Right now,
1:38:36
I'm going to throw something else at you. You take that same format. Now, let's say you want to do a presentation,
1:38:42
a webinar, a speech, or whatever. You spend five minutes on the what, five minutes on the why, five minutes on the
1:38:47
how, five minutes on the what if. That's a 20-minute presentation.
1:38:52
So, basically, you already have your TEDex talk. You already have like your signature keynote at that point
1:38:57
because you open up with who I am, what I stand for, da da. You're going to basically collectively get them on like
1:39:03
rapport and go through your format and then you close it out with Q&A. I mean,
1:39:09
I basically have your live stream structure right then and there. And I'm over here. I love frameworks. I
1:39:15
have so many of them like situation, task, action, result. The five whats, what, so what, wait what, say what,
1:39:23
now what? What? All the whats. Question everything literally. So, um, Karen says, and she
1:39:32
has an excellent channel, too, YouTube over 40. She was doing this thing in the mall, and like they try to tell her to
1:39:37
get out, and she's like, I'm I'm not saying anything bad. And they wouldn't let her record. And so, she was trying to help you get over not being accepted
1:39:44
or being rejected. Anyway, sorry, sidebar. Amazing. Oh, interesting. Check out YouTube over 40 if you are in
The "Awesomeness Folder" (Stacking Testimonials)
1:39:51
YouTube or on the YouTube fear after 40. She's your girl. Uh, she said, "Say again about the awesomeness folder. also
1:39:59
this f folder is that's stacking your anchors. So I do a lot of like virtual keynote presentations. I do a lot of
1:40:05
live streaming and if someone's found something insightful, I will screenshot it and I'll put it in that folder.
1:40:12
And I love it because then even if I'm going to do a sales page in the future, these are real life testimonials from real people that said like, "Damn, that
1:40:18
was a bar or this completely changed my life." Like I'm not going out there having to like begging people for testimonials
1:40:24
because I get them every damn day, right? I just go into my awesomeness folder and boom, there it is.
1:40:30
I guess I should have been screenshotting all these texts I've been getting over the last seven years.
1:40:36
What would happen if you did, right? What's the best that can happen? What would happen? That's a bomb. And you don't necessarily have to do it
1:40:42
because you have a life and you have a business and you have a wife and whatnot and a family. So just hire a VA
1:40:49
to go through my content. Wait, can you give them access? I know there's LastPass. Can you give them
1:40:55
access to your like socials without them having access? You don't need to do that because like this is like publicly live, so they just
1:41:02
have to publicly go to your YouTube channel and just like boop screenshot. Oh, I I meant for like Messenger to go
1:41:08
through the messages, but Oh, I see. I see. Because a lot of people DM me the the
1:41:13
But if they Yeah. Hey, can you go post that on social media? Are you comfortable with that? So that my VA can
1:41:18
grab it. Yeah. Got you, girl. And then absolutely old sales thing. Teach what to do and
1:41:24
why to do it and then have them pay for the how to do it. Yeah, I guess that is a classic sales thing.
1:41:30
So what, why, how, what if. You got any more bars for us? Like I'm I'm soaking
1:41:36
them all up. I know they are too. I'm like, you know what? I should just go live again. I should I should go back to live streaming. I used I used to go
1:41:42
live um every Thursday on my channel and then life was lifing. But now that I'm
1:41:47
done with conferences, I don't mind doing it again. I love it. Yeah, you've inspired me cuz like just
1:41:53
that little framework. I've been trying to think of how to structure my lives and overthinking happens. Life happens, right? But
1:42:00
just the value that it provides for everyone involved and
1:42:06
a will. See, I knew it is my will. I was like, is that my will or is that your will? Oh, it is my will. It's our will now.
1:42:12
We can share them. There's enough of him to go around. Don't pull Will's arms off. You're gonna
1:42:18
break him. Cut him in half.
1:42:26
Oh, man. We could probably co-host a live together like you. You could take me out of, you know,
1:42:32
retirement or whatever. Let's go. Yeah. I mean, in all honesty, I I love
1:42:38
live streaming. I love hopping on. Um I love have obviously you know me as a fire sign. I love having conversations
1:42:43
with people. And the thing is that like if you're stuck, I'm like, "Give me like five minutes." Like literally just give
1:42:50
me five minutes. I'll I'll like judge way into that.
1:42:55
You said if you're stuck. Yeah. Someone just feels stuck. You know, I'm the type of person where I'm just kind of like you unstuck.
1:43:03
Yeah. I was just tell before we started the stream, I was like, man, if someone could just follow me around with a
1:43:09
camera and watch how I do people, like how I get them literally out of their head, stop overthinking, drop down into
1:43:15
their heart, realize that they already have what they need and who they become after that interaction.
1:43:20
Yeah. Like it's so cool to to be so
1:43:26
I don't even know what the word is. I don't even such a fire sign. Such such a
1:43:31
person. What is it? I think um I I think in this world there's a lot of people that are
1:43:36
putting out a lot of information. What people really need is transformation. Come on.
1:43:42
And so if you could film that on camera, that's amazing. And there's nothing that's stopping you from doing that because in all honesty, the way I've
1:43:48
done it at VidSummit is I buy an extra ticket and I just have someone come with me because I'm like, you don't need to
1:43:53
be around me the entire time, right? Because I'm usually MCing on the stage. So go to the sessions, dig, I'll text
1:43:59
you when I got like so and so on stage and I need you to to do something with me. You could do that, especially at at
1:44:05
VidSummit where creators love supporting other creators. Wow,
Pro Tip: Hiring Someone to Film Interactions
1:44:12
I never thought of that. You're full of new thoughts. Like, oh,
1:44:19
you are breaking my brain and any limitation that I had left over cuz I'
1:44:24
I've broken a lot of them. Yeah. But any limitation that was left, any residue is gone.
1:44:29
That's good. Like I have no excuses. I have nothing but opportunities and the only thing
1:44:35
left for me to do is make a decision pretty much. Like what would happen if what would
1:44:41
happen if you said like, "Hey you guys, Vid VidSummit next year, September 29th to October 1st. I know I'm going. If
1:44:49
you're interested in supporting me and the channel, I'm looking for someone that would be open to just filming me as
1:44:55
I do a couple of interactions. If that's you, let me know. We'll work something out."
1:45:01
You got to make offers. Closed mouths don't get fed. Like you don't got to do this alone.
1:45:09
Tell me why Myron's whole thing the my I keep mentioning him because he was my make more offers. He was my mentor
1:45:16
and like he's already told me what to do and I paid really good money to learn that information. But like information
1:45:22
without application is masturbation.
1:45:28
Is mental masturbation. Oh my goodness.
1:45:35
I can't get to these fast enough. I got to get my wife on here to to like moderate. Yeah. I need Okay, so whoever in the
1:45:41
community, if you want to be a moderator, we have an opening. Oh, even better,
1:45:48
man. You just keep wanting to do things by yourself. Like it's just I'm just going to keep picking at you
1:45:54
and just be like bump bump. Break me. Break me. What do you guys Okay, so first Phil
1:46:00
said, "I have a camera. I can follow you around and record." Yes, please. See? Yes, please. Okay, so here we go.
Mastermind Idea: Unstuck Yourself Over a Weekend
1:46:08
Retreat cabin in the woods or beach house and we will do a mastermind. me
1:46:14
and Stephanie, if she's available, if she's open to this, we will do a mastermind and do this kind of breaking
1:46:20
for you to what do we call this? Communicate with confidence and captivate your
1:46:26
audience. Yeah, if you're in, drop a message and we will plan everything around that. Let us know.
1:46:32
I take people from unknown to unfucking forgettable. So, I'm going to teach you brain hacks on how to captivate an
1:46:37
audience from beginning, middle, and end. So, if you want to get that done over a weekend, game on.
1:46:45
Let's go. Let me update the counter.
1:46:51
Update the counter. Number nine.
1:46:58
And then you know And then you know what you're going to do at the end of the year? You're going to have the let's
1:47:03
[ __ ] go kind of like the Spotify playlist roundup, but it's going to be your roundup of like which episode got
1:47:10
the most LFGs. Wow. These are all like engagement
1:47:17
hacks, like things to build a community and like the little Easter.
1:47:22
This is what I would do. I would do a wrap-up of top 10 episodes that got the most let's [ __ ] go. And then I would
1:47:28
do a thread and be like, "And here's episode 10. Boom. Here's episode 9." And then you go down the list.
1:47:34
Oh, people will want to know why did it get so many fire signs. So you could announce this is how many fire signs.
1:47:39
I'm I'm even throw you another one. I would make like some type of award or a badge and I would say, "Gregory,
1:47:47
congratulations." Let's say I had like a fire, but I have this camera. I'm like, "You received this award." Like, I probably like print
1:47:53
something out and they're like, "Oh my gosh, I am so honored to be like the LFG
1:47:59
award winner for 2025. You guys are amazing." Yeah, I didn't really clip
1:48:04
that. Open it up. Dropping bombs. Stephanie Garcia, let's
1:48:11
go. I'm gonna actually have that recorded so that I can just hit that every time.
1:48:17
Do I have a fire sign around me? I should. Dude, that's awesome. So, uh, Karen
1:48:24
asked, "What are you guys going to do different after This is an excellent question. What are you guys going to do
1:48:29
different after VidSummit? And what were your key takeaways?" Excellent question. I'll let you go first. After VidSummit,
1:48:36
I'm going to go back to doing my live streams because I love I just love community and I'm going to start putting
1:48:42
my content out there. I started a new channel which is specifically about Captivate on Command. Lights came alive
1:48:47
is really more about the live streaming and the live shopping and live selling. So, it was one of those things where I
1:48:54
forget who I who it was I was listening to, but it was like do what makes it fun for you. I think it was Mary Mary
1:49:01
Allison that had said that. Yeah. Yeah. So, I was just like, "Yeah, that's what I'm going to do." So, that's
1:49:08
what I'm going to do differently. And I've always I've always had like different communities that I collaborate
1:49:13
with was usually like my live streamers from the ecam fam. But now I'm like, I need to go into the Hoova app and start reaching out to to
1:49:20
the creators there cuz I've been I've been MCing VidSummit for like the last what, four or five years. Yeah.
1:49:28
I thought I saw you last year. Yeah. That's so cool.
1:49:34
I want Okay, so I was talking to this lady, her name is Lolo, Miss Lolo, no on
1:49:41
Instagram, and she's like typ personality like get things done. She knows how to make it happen.
1:49:47
But we both had declared that we would be on stage next year teaching something or giving some kind of speech about the
1:49:54
success we've had in the last year. So next year VidSummit I want to be on that stage doing something whether I am MCing
1:50:03
for someone or I am speaking about this sudden success doing something that no one's ever done before.
1:50:08
Yeah. Then do something for the community. Do something for VidSummit because a lot of the volunteer Well, yeah. You were volunteering too. So
1:50:16
yeah, I was a volunteer this year and it was much different experience. Yeah. You get up close and personal for
1:50:22
sure. Yeah. And then you get to see like a different side of it. As an attendee,
1:50:28
it was different than volunteering. Like you see how much goes into it and you respect it in a different way. Like last
1:50:33
year, everyone was complaining because things aren't working. But when you see what it takes, it's like, okay.
1:50:40
Yeah. So, Sean says, "Loving the stream, but my lunch break is only so long. Looking forward to catch up with the video on
1:50:47
demand later." Catch you on the replay. All right. LFG awards are amazing. LFG
1:50:54
update the counter. Uh I need like a little uh snail song. That needs to be your sound effect.
1:51:01
That do the Mario do the Mario thing. That's going to be my sound effect while I'm updating it.
1:51:07
See, now it's not so awkward while I'm getting it ready. It's It's the perfect sound effect cuz you're like, "Hold on, you guys. Let me
1:51:13
do this." And then because it's such a like a mental memory for everyone. It's
1:51:18
like you can't help but smile. Like [Music]
1:51:24
it's like let me let me personalize my Wii character. No, I don't like that nose. Different nose. Wait. Oh, I like
1:51:32
that outfit. Okay. Okay. Next. But like where's my body though?
1:51:41
So, sorry. No, this is good. So, Coach Will keeps
1:51:47
asking me, "Did I apply to speak at Social Media Week Lima yet?" Oh, fun. Not yet. But here's why. It's It's next
1:51:55
year, right? I think it's next year. Yeah. Um because when I see a form,
1:52:01
it just makes me think, "Wow, that's opportunity.
1:52:07
I love you. This is You think, wow, that's not going to stop me. Wow. Average people would be like, oh my
1:52:14
god, that's so much." But wow. Oh, you know what would be really cool? Me hiring that VA and that VA just takes my
1:52:19
bio and my keynotes and they plug it in for me. Done. Listen guys, get you a friend like
1:52:26
Stephanie or get in Stephanie's community wherever it is cuz she will not allow you to live with your limitations.
1:52:32
I will not like you literally cannot be my friend. And and just if you have a
1:52:38
death grip on like your [ __ ] I'll WD40. out of your hand. Let it go.
1:52:48
Let it go. I Okay, Elsa, let it go. I have not because I have not.
1:52:55
So, I will when this stream is over, I will do it. Um, how did you There's literally no one getting in
1:53:01
your way. Seriously? No, it's just me. I'm the only things like I'm saying this for everyone here.
VidSummit Volunteer/Attendee Takeaways
1:53:08
The only thing in our way is us. Mhm. How did you get to volunteer at Vitz at
1:53:14
VidSummit? This is cool. Would you say so fill out the form? So, fill out the form. I have it pulled
1:53:20
up. Like the the thing has been open on this computer forever. Um, so I'm going
1:53:26
to do that after this. How did I get to volunteer vids summit? And my key takeaway is again,
1:53:32
your network is your net worth. You you can always re-watch the replays, maybe attend 10 20% of the the
1:53:40
sessions. Yeah, but the majority of what's going to like
1:53:47
make the most impact is connecting with the other creators, connecting like we wouldn't be here if I was just sitting
1:53:53
in the sessions, right? I had to meet you outside the session. I can't connect
1:53:59
with you on stage like that. Um, so being in the hallways, connecting with people, asking their stories, turn
1:54:04
on your camera. This time I turned on my camera, but I didn't do it till the third day. So that was that was an upgrade. Um, how did I get to volunteer?
1:54:12
I literally Elijah reached out and he's like, "Hey, man. I know your money's been funny lately." Uh, where's the
1:54:17
little sound effect for that? I know your money been funny.
1:54:22
That's funny. So, maybe you can volunteer. And I reached out to them on LinkedIn. I sent
1:54:28
them a message. I was like, "Hey, I I attended last year. I really loved it. I would love to be of service if it if
1:54:33
it's possible." And it was almost like immediately, "Sure, we'd love to have you. Here's a form. Fill it out." Absolutely. and it drastically change
1:54:39
changes your ticket price. I'll let you find the surprise when you apply to volunteer because volunteers are much needed and
1:54:46
it is better to give than it is to receive. I'll just leave that there. Let's keep on uh talking to the sponsors.
1:54:54
Like if you're not talking to the sponsors, what are you even doing? Especially if you want to have brand deals. They're literally there looking
1:55:00
for creators. Listen, Joe's phenomenal. got a sponsorship deal cuz he reviews like
1:55:07
appliances and stuff. We got a deal uh what was it? Day three got a deal with the the um the air fryer
1:55:15
oven thing. Oh, fun. Tavala, I think it is. Yeah, that was cool. It all starts with one
1:55:21
stage. Damn, bro. Stephanie. Okay, explosion. Let's go. Let's go.
1:55:28
She whipped you. Yes, she did. She will continue whipping me because
1:55:34
I just Is that a punch? That sounds like a slap. It sounds like a smack. I mean,
1:55:39
honestly, it's just dubdub SD. What would Stephanie do?
1:55:45
Like, if you're thinking like you're like, "What would Stephanie Stephanie do?" Stephanie would say, "Find someone else to do it for you or do do or do
1:55:52
this." Yeah. You can't be Bob and be Stephanie's friend. You got to go. Huh? I do. I do.
1:55:58
Okay. I I appreciate you. You've given me like what we had slotted 30 minutes and we're at two hours. Um
1:56:05
plenty of content. That's like 94 plus 94. Someone do the math.
1:56:10
We was you know it's also nice too is like when you clip it and then you give it to your guest.
1:56:16
Then they're like, "Oh, he gave me all this digital confetti. Now I'm going to sprinkle it all over across the internet." Because you may do your 94s
1:56:21
every Wednesday and then your guest will do like their 94 whenever they want to. M.
1:56:29
So, let me get you. I think that's where most people get it wrong is that they only post it to their channels. They don't give it to their
1:56:34
guests, and their guests will be the ones that then includes it into their social media marketing, too.
1:56:40
Well, you're definitely getting clips from this. Me and uh Will are going to work on our 94 after this.
1:56:46
Clips on clips on clips. Clips on clips on clips. Go take care of
1:56:51
that that sick baby. I appreciate you being here and
1:56:58
round of applause. Let's go. You know, I forgot this was a podcast cuz we turned it into a live stream. So, uh, thank you
Outro & Conclusion
1:57:05
for tuning in to this Greater Journey podcast.
1:57:17
You only see that on the live stream. Yeah, right. You can't get that on the audio. [Music]
1:57:23
We will see you greater. All right.