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Overcoming Anxiety Around Vlogging & How To Get Started #221 · Influencer Confidential

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Influencer Confidential by Sidewalker Daily. My name is
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  Speaker 1: Nina Zeta and I will be your host. I love
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  Speaker 1: working with brands and influencers on all things business strategy.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to learn what it takes to work
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  Speaker 1: in this influencer industry and see behind the current, Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's jump in. There's something about vlogging and filming in
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  Speaker 1: public that makes so many creators, myself included, a little anxious.
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  Speaker 1: It just drives up that anxiety to be shooting in public,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately vlogging anxiety is stopping you from vologging because
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  Speaker 1: you see, there's some of us that have anxiety and
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  Speaker 1: that we push through it and we vlogged. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's some of us that the anxiety doesn't even let
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  Speaker 1: us vlog. Right. I want to really talk about how
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  Speaker 1: can we overcome this block? How can we get you
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  Speaker 1: past it so that even if you are nervous and anxious,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm not quite sure that ever goes away maybe
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  Speaker 1: for some For me blog I shoot in public all
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  Speaker 1: the time and I'm still kind of nervous inside, but
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  Speaker 1: I push through it. And I think that's the thing
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  Speaker 1: that I want to help you guys is pushing through
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  Speaker 1: the vlogging anxiety and the overwhelmed so that you can
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  Speaker 1: get started. So you don't have to be a therapist
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  Speaker 1: to understand that just fear of judgment is a thing
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  Speaker 1: right from when we're little to when we're big. We
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  Speaker 1: often fear the judgment of others, especially strangers, because it's
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  Speaker 1: a awkward feeling to feel like you are in public
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  Speaker 1: shooting content, talking to your handheld or having some big,
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  Speaker 1: clunky camera out there. But of course we just feel
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  Speaker 1: like others are looking at us, judging us, and thinking
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  Speaker 1: that we're super self conceited and egotistic golf. At least,
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  Speaker 1: those are the thoughts that I run through my head
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  Speaker 1: when in fact, as someone who has been of vlogging
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  Speaker 1: and shooting in public for a very long time, nine
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  Speaker 1: times out of ten, these people don't even know you exist.
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  Speaker 1: It's all in our heads. And the truth of the
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  Speaker 1: matter is every vlogger when they first got started had
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  Speaker 1: this loud noise, and I'm sure it's quieted down, especially
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  Speaker 1: as people have become professionals. They learn to quiet that
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  Speaker 1: voice down a little bit, but everyone has kind of
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  Speaker 1: gone through this. For me, it's all about kind of
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  Speaker 1: being prepared to get you to vlog. So let's dive
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  Speaker 1: into some tips. So the first thing I always like
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  Speaker 1: to tell people who are just getting started is start
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  Speaker 1: small and get discreete. You don't have to come out
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  Speaker 1: with some big, old, chunky, big vlogging camera that we've
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  Speaker 1: all seen. With a microphone, you don't have to do that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you can get a little bit discreet. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: share with you. I love the DJA Osmo the Pocket three.
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  Speaker 1: I find it to be really discreete and super easy
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  Speaker 1: to vlog with because it's just like really tiny and
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  Speaker 1: as I am walking or shooting obviously have the camera
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  Speaker 1: facing me, I put my little microphone in and I
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like vlog and then I log around
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  Speaker 1: and then if someone's there, like I kind of can
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  Speaker 1: bring it down like it's not clunky. So this has
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  Speaker 1: been very psychologically helpful for me because it's something that
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  Speaker 1: I'm just able to kind of carry and it's small enough,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, it just feels and not scary.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're gonna start logging, I would suggest starting
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  Speaker 1: with like smaller equipment. Obviously, even your phone. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like you're face timing Now, if I was to tell you, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be face timing with people, or you see
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  Speaker 1: someone facetiming someone on the street, you don't think that's weird.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, they're probably just face timing someone. So
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  Speaker 1: what's the difference if you're logging with your phone and
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  Speaker 1: you're just shooting like this, Like it looks like you're
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  Speaker 1: face timing. So again, not vlogging with like a big,
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  Speaker 1: clunky camera, but using smaller, discrete tools at least in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, and starting small will help you get comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and by the time you are a pro and you
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  Speaker 1: want to get like a better v logging camera, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: But again, this little guy does the trick for vlogging,
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  Speaker 1: and so does your phone. Like my Samsung S twenty
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  Speaker 1: two is amazing, the quality is awesome, and I personally
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  Speaker 1: feel just more comfortable vlogging on my camera or my dji. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you are someone who is looking to take this
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  Speaker 1: from a hobby but actually make it a business, you're like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I want to take content quation seriously. I want to
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  Speaker 1: vlog more. I want to make this a business. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to just blog like what I et and
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  Speaker 1: like what I'm doing, but I actually want to build
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  Speaker 1: a personal brand, a personal empire. That's where I can
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  Speaker 1: help you. So I'm going to go ahead and leave
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  Speaker 1: a link to our success manager here at Sidewalker Daily.
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  Speaker 1: You can talk to her. She can share with you
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  Speaker 1: what programs that we have depending on your level and
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  Speaker 1: where you're at in your creator journey, so that we
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  Speaker 1: can get you the help that you need to actually execute,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're looking for accountability or you're looking for skills
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  Speaker 1: and strategy, where you are here to help you in
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  Speaker 1: your creator journey. Now, my second tip that I think
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  Speaker 1: is great for you vloggers is to choose somewhere familiar,
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  Speaker 1: like don't go vlog somewhere that you're like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know this place right. Some are familiar, maybe like
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  Speaker 1: acquired space where it's not like super super busy. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you're just trying to get yourself comfortable. You're just trying
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  Speaker 1: to build that capacity to film in public. So you're
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  Speaker 1: starting off with small equipment and you're starting off small,
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  Speaker 1: but you're also choosing a quieter place with less foot
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  Speaker 1: traffic or some aere super familiar to you that you
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  Speaker 1: know inside and out. You're just gonna feel safer again.
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  Speaker 1: This is like a psychological hack to get you prepared
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  Speaker 1: to shoot in public. Now, this is like a random
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  Speaker 1: little tip, but it's helpful. If you are vlogging in
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  Speaker 1: public and someone is like walking past you and you
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  Speaker 1: have something like the DJI, you can literally just like
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  Speaker 1: put the camera down while that person walks past, and
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  Speaker 1: then like bring it back up when they walk and
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  Speaker 1: then you can trim out all the weird stuff in editing.
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  Speaker 1: So one thing I always tell like new vloggers is
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  Speaker 1: just like keep the camera rolling because all those like
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  Speaker 1: dead spaces and weird things can be taken out in
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  Speaker 1: the editing process. You don't have to start and stop,
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  Speaker 1: start and stop. Like let's just say you're walking on
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  Speaker 1: a crosswalk and you're vlogging and someone comes near you
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  Speaker 1: and you feel a little uncomfortable, just put it down
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  Speaker 1: then pick it back up right, So all the little
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  Speaker 1: fears that you have, you can remove them in the
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  Speaker 1: editing process. Now, this has been a little mindset thing
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  Speaker 1: that I think helps. If you are vlogged something you
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  Speaker 1: are really really passionate about, naturally you'll get lost in
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  Speaker 1: the story and then block other people out, like something
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  Speaker 1: happens right. So if I am recommending vlogging, I would
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  Speaker 1: start by start blogging something that excites you and lights
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  Speaker 1: your soul on fire. Because what has happened to me
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  Speaker 1: is if I am vlogging and I'm talking about something
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  Speaker 1: I really really love, something happens where I just like
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  Speaker 1: shut everyone else out and I'm like in the zone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, and like, especially if I'm
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  Speaker 1: storytelling and I'm in the zone, it helps quiet out
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  Speaker 1: the fear of other But if I don't even really
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  Speaker 1: like what I'm talking about, or I'm just blogging to
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  Speaker 1: vlog and I don't feel passionate, I'd become more aware.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, they're there, that person's there, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: they're watching. So the whole point of logging, right is
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  Speaker 1: to make the person on the other side feel this
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  Speaker 1: deep connection to you, like you guys are facetiming the
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  Speaker 1: best vlogs feel like the person is talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: So that's obviously more of like a howt OFVLG sort
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  Speaker 1: of tip. But again, this idea of like being super
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  Speaker 1: passionate of what you're talking about just drowns the other
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  Speaker 1: people around because you just want to talk about it
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  Speaker 1: and you're excited and something to just help you get
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  Speaker 1: over this anxiety is something that I just tell myself
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  Speaker 1: and this is something I practice constantly. It's just like
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  Speaker 1: self compassion, and I tell myself, at least I'm freaking trying,
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  Speaker 1: like at least I'm out there. At least I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the arena. You know, there's that beautiful quote by Theodore
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  Speaker 1: Roosevelt that talks about it's not the critic who counts,
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  Speaker 1: it's the person in the arena, basically saying like if
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  Speaker 1: you're in the bleachers, you can't judge, like you're not
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  Speaker 1: even in the game. So I constantly tell myself that
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  Speaker 1: if I'm a little nervous to like film in public,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, at least I'm frickin' out here. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what tapp into me, y'all. When I do film
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  Speaker 1: in public, people have come up to me and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do? Like what type of job do
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  Speaker 1: you have? And they're like do you have a business card?
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  Speaker 1: Like people are curious, they're not actually hating, they're like
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  Speaker 1: very intrigued, And a lot of times people are like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, like I wish I could do that
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  Speaker 1: or I'd love to do that too, You'll be surprised.
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  Speaker 1: So practicing self compassion is so very important now if
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  Speaker 1: you're looking to get started and vlogging, just like anything
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  Speaker 1: the creator world, always bring it back to your why.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you want to vlog in the first place? Truly,
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  Speaker 1: like what do you want to blog about? What you know?
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  Speaker 1: What impact are you looking to make? Once you know
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  Speaker 1: your why, you can always tie it back to your why.
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  Speaker 1: It helps take away the nerves, like I know what
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  Speaker 1: my why is, right, I want to empower creators and
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  Speaker 1: help them term their dreams into a business reality. I
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  Speaker 1: want to help creators make money off their creativity and
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  Speaker 1: turn it into a business. And that is truly what
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  Speaker 1: fuels me. So if you're able to really dig into
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  Speaker 1: what it is and the why and the impact that
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  Speaker 1: you're looking to do, this helps make your vlog successful
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  Speaker 1: because you know the reason that you're doing it. One
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest tips for any upcoming blogger is you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to vlog your whole day. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to do even you know, a couple of hours. What
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  Speaker 1: I want you to just start with is simple. The
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  Speaker 1: first blog should be simple. Start with the topic, Start
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  Speaker 1: with you know, one thing that you want to flog.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a twenty four hour or
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  Speaker 1: a whole way. Why start off so big? Starting off
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  Speaker 1: with like just one event, right, We're gonna go to
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  Speaker 1: this event, like I wanta vlog going to this event,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like the getting ready the actual event, and
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  Speaker 1: like how it was and that ten fifteen minutes, you'll
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  Speaker 1: get footage like this, Right, it's just vlogging one event.
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  Speaker 1: You also don't want to block yourself with all these
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  Speaker 1: editing tools and making it super difficult. You need a transition,
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  Speaker 1: you need sponts, you need texts that will stop you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I have over seven hundred videos, and I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. Our transitions have changed, our intests have changed,
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  Speaker 1: our fonts have changed. Change will happen. Just go, just
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  Speaker 1: get started is really truly it, And don't make it
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  Speaker 1: complicated by things like editing tools, because again, you want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get this video up and going fast.
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  Speaker 1: So whether you're doing it on an Adobe or you're
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  Speaker 1: doing it on your phone or you're using capcut desktop,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I just want it to be simple.
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  Speaker 1: I want it to be simple so that you can
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  Speaker 1: actually get it done. And I know you guys know this,
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  Speaker 1: but the more you've blogged, the better you get at it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like anything in this world. Consistency that horrible
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  Speaker 1: sword that drives us all mad as creators. But the
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  Speaker 1: more you do something, the more you pour effort into it,
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  Speaker 1: the more you will be able to see the fruits
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  Speaker 1: of that effort. You can't just log once and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I did, I'm done. It's like every single time you
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  Speaker 1: try and you put yourself out there, you will build
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  Speaker 1: muscle and resilience and your vlogs will only get better.
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