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How to Share Your Work with MEDIA+ · The Trauma Therapist

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  All right, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for being here for listening.
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  Oh yeah, very much, appreciate it. When I started this podcast
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  several years ago, my goal was to raise the awareness of trauma. I
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  had been working in a clinic in northern California. I just got out of
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  graduate school. I thought I wanted to become a licensed therapist, and I
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  was on track. They got a great job and a clinic. We were
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  assessing and treating young individuals who were showing early signs of psychosis. Phenomenal job,
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  and you know, not surprisingly, ninety nine point nine percent of those
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  kids individuals had experienced trauma of one type or another. And I just got
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  I just couldn't believe. I couldn't believe it. We would get these calls
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  from parents or teachers or therapists about you know, some some kidding question and
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  most of the time there was a lot of explosive behavior going on. And
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  towards the end of our h questioning, you know, we would do a
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  phone intake. If we get a call, we would ask about trauma.
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  And again, you know, it just became inevitable that that that this was
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  what was going on. And then a week later, you know, this
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  kid would roll into the office and it would be just this kid. You
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  know, you'd have this sheet with all these behaviors going on, all these
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  symptoms, and it would you'd see this kid, this is this normal looking
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  kid coming in with a book under their arm or uh, some gaming device
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  under their arm, or you know, some stuffed animal under their arm,
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  and you look at them and say, my god, that what is going
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  on? Why are these therapists not not catching it? The teachers, you
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  know, the parents, and and and to a certain way you can understand
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  that. But anyway, that was the impetus, and I was like,
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  this something's I gotta do something. And that's when I started. And when
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  I started, my goal really was to interview what I thought to be you
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  know, quote unquote master trauma therapists. Uh you know Janina Fisher or Bessel
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  Vanacock or uh pat Ogden and you know those people. And slowly I started
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  interviewing them. But that also started in people that you never heard of,
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  but who are no less amazing, you know, incredible. And I would
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  be talking to these people and I'd been thinking to myself, you know,
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  this person has dedicated their lives to helping people who've been impacted by trauma,
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  and that is so inspiring to me. And as I've grown, as I've
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  continued on with the podcast, more and more I interview incredible people, and
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  more and more I say to myself, you know, and I say to
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  them, you are amazing, You're so inspiring, And I think to myself,
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  why don't more people know about them? And granted not everyone wants to
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  be well known, but again, you know, I'm my guests. As
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  you're doing this as a profession, your professional therapist or a coach, you
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  want people to to a certain degree know about you. You want to get
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  clients. And I started thinking myself, well, I've got this platform right
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  with the podcast. We're doing pretty well. We've got a certain social media
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  following. We're on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and TikTok and YouTube. What
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  if we started promoting, helping to promote these therapists, helping them to get
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  their work in front of other people, whether it's you know, a therapist
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  and private practice, and they want to get their work in front of more
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  people, their prospective clients. What if they're a podcast of themselves. They
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  want to get more eyes on their podcast? More ears on their podcasts.
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  What about if it's a therapist or a coach, it's got a workshop coming
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  up and they want again, they want to get more exposure. We could
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  do that, and so we created media Plus. And Media Plus is our
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  new platform through which we're helping promote therapists who are doing incredible work get their
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  workout in front of perspective clients. We worked with people who are in private
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  practice, people who are creating workshops and they've got a series coming up,
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  right, they want more people to know about it and they'll work with us,
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  and we're doing this. We're doing this in a variety of ways.
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  So we have different packages with Media Plus. So if you're a therapist,
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  you're a coach, and you were passionate about the work you're doing and you
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  want maybe to get more exposure, right, this is what this is what
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  this is for. So this is for you, and we have different packages.
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  Right, we have a week, we have two weeks, we have
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  a month. We have a monthly subscription where you can sign up for four
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  months, six months, or nine months. And we're also helping people create
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  websites. So if you don't have a website, or maybe you do have
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  a website, but you want to have it redone. You don't have a
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  website and you want to get one. We can help you do that too.
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  Okay, you can learn more about this but going to the podcast,
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  my website, the Trauma Therapist project dot com or the Trauma Therapist Podcast dot
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  com and just clicking on media Plus. But so, how we're working with
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  people is in a variety of ways. Okay, the first way we're doing
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  this is we're creating graphics. Well, we'll work with you. Let's say
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  you sign up. You've got a workshop coming up in a month or two,
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  right, we'll work with you. Let's say you want to do one
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  week or two weeks promotion. We'll work with you to create a great graphic
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  about your workshop and text. You'll give us some text and we'll post that
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  up. We'll link to your workshop. Okay. We'll also create video clips.
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  And how we're doing this is I'll do a mini interview with you and
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  I'll ask about you. I'll ask you about you know, how the heck
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  you got into this field, you know, find out about you and also
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  find out about your project. If it's a workshop you have coming up,
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  maybe you have a book coming up. Let's go with the workshop example.
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  You've got a workshop coming up. We'll talk about that, how you got
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  interested in this, what's someone who's who's who's the workshop for, what they're
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  gonna learn, what kind of experience they're gonna get out of it? Get
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  people excited about it? Right? My guess is you're excited about it,
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  so we want your perspective clients to get excited about it too. So we'll
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  do this mini interview about fifteen minutes, and then we'll create video clips from
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  that and we'll post those up. Okay, and you can take those as
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  well and post them up onto your own platform, but we'll post it up
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  across Facebook and Twitter, we'll post it up across TikTok and Instagram and to
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  get exposure and to get people excited about it. Now, those are the
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  one week and two week options. With the one month option, we also
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  throw in an actual podcast interview. So in addition to the graphics with text
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  about let's say your workshop, we'll also do the mini interview, but we'll
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  also do actually do a full podcast interview, and from that we'll do the
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  video clips. I'm not going to do an extra interview. I'm not going
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  to make any sense. We'll just do a full on interview. And we'll
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  also have an option of creating your own sponsor spot, and this is something
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  that we offer our regular sponsors, where we'll create a sixty second sponsor spot.
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  You'll come up with some text maybe you want me to help with that,
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  and I can certainly do that. But you'll come up with some texts,
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  maybe it's about your workshop or your book, and we'll put that in
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  a mid role midway through our podcast, and we'll publish that out across the
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  entirety of our over seven hundred episode interviews. Okay, so a lot of
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  ways we'll work with you to help get you noticed. And look, a
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  lot of therapists don't love promoting their stuff, and I get it. It's
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  it's it can be not for everyone, but for a lot of people,
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  it can be this kind of weird balance. You know, you feel like
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  you're doing this cherished work, and you are, but it feels it can
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  feel weird for a lot of people to then step up and promote right because
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  it feels like maybe you're tooting your own horn, You're drawing attention to yourself,
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  and somehow that's going to be maybe degrading the work you're doing, but
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  we'll tick that off of your shoulders and we'll do that for you. And
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  I love doing this. I mean, this is what I do. I
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  love talking to people. I love getting in there and finding out, you
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  know, and what I do in my interviews, right, I get in
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  there, find out how the heck did you get into this field that you're
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  doing this? What is? It? Not just about the work or the
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  book or the workshop, but it's about the passion you bring to what you're
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  doing. It's about the excitement you bring to what you're doing, and that's
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  going to draw people to your work. Right, It's those finding out those
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  those little details, those little unique characteristics about you that will that different first
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  distinguish you from everyone else and that make you you, but also that will
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  attract your clients, your perspective, clients to you. That's one of the
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  things I want to do through media plus to look if you're therapist, maybe
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  you're in private practice, maybe you're a coach. You've got a workshop coming
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  up, maybe you've got a book coming out, maybe you're putting on a
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  summit or a conference. We can help you get in front of more people
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  and get more exposure. So if this is something you're interested in again,
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  you can go to Trauma Mediaplus dot com or go to my website at the
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  Trauma Therapist podcast dot com. At the Trauma Therapist podcast dot com, just
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  click on the media Plus link and reach out. We'll hook you up.
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  Have an awesome day,