Latest / Influencer Confidential / How She Landed a $200,000 Brand Deal + 1.5M Followers FAST [Creator Currency Ep. 13]
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome back to Influencer Confidential. I am so pumped for
- 0:03Speaker 1: today's guest, you guys, not only because she is someone
- 0:06Speaker 1: that I have worked with on one on one and
- 0:08Speaker 1: in my Inner Circle program. She is a creator that
- 0:11Speaker 1: gives it all and goes hard. Sandy and her family
- 0:15Speaker 1: are the creators behind trying something new. In this episode,
- 0:18Speaker 1: we are going to discuss their two hundred thousand dollars
- 0:21Speaker 1: brand deal. Yes you heard that right, They got it
- 0:24Speaker 1: in just one brand partnership, how they grew to over
- 0:27Speaker 1: two million followers in eighteen months, and everything in between.
- 0:31Speaker 1: For the last ten years, Sandy and her family have
- 0:34Speaker 1: been inspiring others to live boldly with their unconventional lifestyle
- 0:38Speaker 1: and proving that you don't have to wait till retirement
- 0:40Speaker 1: to live your dream life. They've partnered with major brands
- 0:43Speaker 1: like Disney, PayPal, Betterhealth, CVS, Nascar, and more, and over
- 0:47Speaker 1: eighty percent of their income is directly linked to brand partnerships.
- 0:51Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to peel back what it
- 0:53Speaker 1: takes to grow that fast and that big, lean into
- 0:57Speaker 1: these type of brand deals, and how to get over
- 0:59Speaker 1: things like a now paralysis so that you guys can
- 1:02Speaker 1: fly in your content. I'm so excited for you guys
- 1:04Speaker 1: to tune in. Sandy, welcome to the podcast. I'm so
- 1:07Speaker 1: happy that you're here with us.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Nina, I am so pumped to
- 1:10Speaker 2: be here.
- 1:11Speaker 1: I know, I know before we got on this interview,
- 1:14Speaker 1: you guys brore just like we need an actual catchup
- 1:16Speaker 1: of life, because that's just how how much I love
- 1:19Speaker 1: Sandy and our friendship has grown throughout the years, and
- 1:21Speaker 1: it's so great to bring her on and pick her
- 1:22Speaker 1: brain and learn from her. One thing, Sandy that really
- 1:25Speaker 1: stands out in your growth journey is that you were
- 1:28Speaker 1: able to grow two million followers across social platforms in
- 1:31Speaker 1: eighteen months. I think when you think about how your
- 1:34Speaker 1: life can change in eighteen months, in the big picture,
- 1:37Speaker 1: it's not that long. So talk to us about this growth,
- 1:41Speaker 1: this boom, because I really kind of want to dig
- 1:44Speaker 1: deep into strategy and tips. You know, our audience or
- 1:47Speaker 1: content creators, their influencers, they're always curious about growth on
- 1:50Speaker 1: social and that's something that you guys have been able
- 1:52Speaker 1: to do really well at So share it with us.
- 1:55Speaker 3: All right, Well, yeah, that was absolutely crazy. We were actual.
- 1:59Speaker 2: We had been posting on you for many.
- 2:00Speaker 3: Years because we had our own film production company, so
- 2:03Speaker 3: it was natural that we were making videos of our lifestyle,
- 2:05Speaker 3: the things that we were doing.
- 2:06Speaker 2: With our kids, and so we've been doing that for years.
- 2:08Speaker 3: And in twenty twenty two we saw shorts were coming
- 2:12Speaker 3: on board. We had friends that were going crazy, growing
- 2:15Speaker 3: like bananas, and it was because of shorts. And so
- 2:17Speaker 3: one of our friends goes, why are you not posting shorts?
- 2:19Speaker 3: And I'm like, ah, we're long form creators, you know,
- 2:22Speaker 3: it's not our thing whatnot.
- 2:23Speaker 2: I don't even know how to make a short.
- 2:24Speaker 3: But I quickly said, we need to test this out,
- 2:26Speaker 3: and we started to make shorts of just our lifestyle,
- 2:28Speaker 3: little blips here and there, living in the RV, and
- 2:31Speaker 3: it started to take off like quickly. The alternative lifestyle
- 2:34Speaker 3: people had questions. They wanted to see tours of the RV.
- 2:38Speaker 2: And I had no idea.
- 2:39Speaker 3: Like, so, for anybody out there that's questioning should I
- 2:42Speaker 3: try this, should I try that? Definitely try it because
- 2:44Speaker 3: if we didn't, we'd still be sitting back to you know,
- 2:47Speaker 3: where we were.
- 2:48Speaker 2: With have no idea what the potential was.
- 2:50Speaker 3: So yeah, as we started to grow, we really started
- 2:53Speaker 3: to check the analytics and see what's working and then
- 2:56Speaker 3: really focus on that and do more of that. And
- 2:58Speaker 3: I think that strategy really helped us continue to grow.
- 3:01Speaker 3: And it's the snowball effect because if we weren't paying
- 3:04Speaker 3: attention to what was working and just still posting whatever.
- 3:07Speaker 2: I don't know if that would happened, but we really
- 3:09Speaker 2: I was. I'm like a stat's nerd.
- 3:11Speaker 3: I love looking at the analytics and seeing what's working.
- 3:14Speaker 3: And so yeah, it happened like it was about eighteen
- 3:17Speaker 3: months or so, and the numbers were insane.
- 3:19Speaker 2: And I could not even believe it. And then yeah,
- 3:21Speaker 2: everything changes.
- 3:22Speaker 1: So I have a question, Really, do you think because
- 3:24Speaker 1: you guys were first to act on the When you
- 3:27Speaker 1: say shorts, you mean YouTube shorts, correct or do you
- 3:29Speaker 1: mean short form video in general, short time in general?
- 3:32Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 3:32Speaker 1: Okay, so you were resisting transitioning to this type of space,
- 3:36Speaker 1: but you were able to act fast.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, so I don't know why.
- 3:40Speaker 3: We just you know, even like reels and TikTok was
- 3:43Speaker 3: already a thing. We had a TikTok channel and never
- 3:45Speaker 3: posted anything on it. And once we started posting, TikTok
- 3:48Speaker 3: grew the fastest. And then and actually YouTube shorts as well,
- 3:50Speaker 3: and I couldn't believe it. I don't I don't even
- 3:53Speaker 3: know what was going on. It was just insane, and
- 3:55Speaker 3: so yeah, we acted fast. I mean, actually we were
- 3:57Speaker 3: late to the game posting shorts because all of our
- 4:00Speaker 3: friends were already like seeing a lot of success in
- 4:02Speaker 3: the RB space especially, and once we started to hop on.
- 4:05Speaker 2: We saw like, Okay, this is a serious thing.
- 4:07Speaker 3: And so I think being able to track your analytics
- 4:10Speaker 3: though and seeing what's working really helps you catapult because
- 4:14Speaker 3: you clearly see the results.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Absolutely. One thing too, that I know that you guys
- 4:19Speaker 1: have done when you said, look at something when it
- 4:22Speaker 1: does well, do it again. Can you talk to us
- 4:24Speaker 1: about that one situation where I believe you know and
- 4:28Speaker 1: share with us how much you made just from that
- 4:29Speaker 1: bunk fed story that you've shared with me offline before,
- 4:32Speaker 1: because I think it's really an exciting one and it
- 4:34Speaker 1: shows you know, how you guys were able to leverage
- 4:36Speaker 1: something that did well to also monetize off of it.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:39Speaker 3: So at the time, we were living in a thirty
- 4:42Speaker 3: five foot RV and we were renovating the back room.
- 4:44Speaker 3: We had three kids sleeping back there, and so we're
- 4:46Speaker 3: like let's change it and put triple bunks.
- 4:48Speaker 2: And so we made triple bunks. We did it in
- 4:51Speaker 2: twenty four hours, made a video about it, and then I.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Was just doing videos about the triple bunks and it
- 4:56Speaker 3: instantly started going viral on all three platforms, and also.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Like what the heck?
- 5:00Speaker 3: So I started making multiple videos, different types of videos
- 5:04Speaker 3: about the triple bunks, and every single one millions and
- 5:06Speaker 3: millions and millions and all three platforms, which is very
- 5:09Speaker 3: rare for one video to hit on all three platforms.
- 5:13Speaker 3: So I just it was a joke for me, like
- 5:15Speaker 3: I just go, let's just make another type of video.
- 5:17Speaker 2: What do they love? What do they hate? How do
- 5:18Speaker 2: we do it? How do you know? All these different
- 5:20Speaker 2: types of videos?
- 5:21Speaker 3: So that to me is when you see something work,
- 5:24Speaker 3: do so many different like milk it, because obviously your
- 5:27Speaker 3: audience loves that type of content. People are intrigued, there's
- 5:30Speaker 3: something about it that it's working well. So we've made
- 5:33Speaker 3: I don't even know, at least six thousand off of
- 5:35Speaker 3: just one short that was probably twenty seconds long, but
- 5:39Speaker 3: it's over one hundred million views. Now we've had so
- 5:41Speaker 3: many of those videos go crazy viral, and so We've
- 5:45Speaker 3: made way more money than that on just those shorts alone.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Yeah, it's can't imagine just posting a twenty second video
- 5:51Speaker 1: going viral and making six thousand for it. I think
- 5:53Speaker 1: that's just really bonkers if you really think about it.
- 5:57Speaker 1: But I love what you're saying is basically like, if
- 5:59Speaker 1: something does well, all find different ways to reuse it,
- 6:02Speaker 1: to redo it, to keep like to kind of leverage
- 6:05Speaker 1: the momentum if a video is performing well. Right, Yep, absolutely,
- 6:10Speaker 1: that's super interesting. Also regarding growth, I think some of
- 6:13Speaker 1: the things me and you have talked about offline is,
- 6:16Speaker 1: you know, this analysis paralysis that so many creators face.
- 6:20Speaker 1: They just don't they overthink over you know, it takes
- 6:24Speaker 1: the joy out of the process. And I think one
- 6:26Speaker 1: thing that me and you have really doven deep in
- 6:29Speaker 1: your content strategy is that you have actual proof that
- 6:33Speaker 1: when you post more, you make more. I remember Jimmy
- 6:36Speaker 1: telling me very quickly, Hey, you don't show up to work,
- 6:38Speaker 1: You're not getting paid. So for you this mindset of
- 6:41Speaker 1: we got to show up. What are some things I
- 6:44Speaker 1: guess around this analysis paralysis to kind of get rid
- 6:47Speaker 1: of it. That's allowed you to just post as much
- 6:50Speaker 1: as you do, because that's one thing that you are
- 6:53Speaker 1: your a like you post. You guys go in and
- 6:56Speaker 1: you don't hold back. You don't say, oh well I
- 6:58Speaker 1: can only post once a day. You're like says who
- 7:01Speaker 1: We're doing what we want. So talk to us about
- 7:03Speaker 1: how that's helped you also from a growth perspective.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Yeah, So as soon as we started creating shorts, I
- 7:09Speaker 3: was instantly on all three platforms on YouTube, shorts, Instagram,
- 7:12Speaker 3: and TikTok. I know a lot of people have different
- 7:14Speaker 3: thoughts about that, like they go all in on one
- 7:16Speaker 3: platform or all on Instagram, And for me, I figured
- 7:19Speaker 3: and the money actually show is the proof of is
- 7:22Speaker 3: why it's so smart to post on all three platforms.
- 7:25Speaker 3: So I know it's very easy to get to overthink everything,
- 7:28Speaker 3: and I am guilty of that. I'm actually in the
- 7:30Speaker 3: little bit of that right now. But I know that
- 7:32Speaker 3: when we do post and don't overthink it and literally, like,
- 7:36Speaker 3: there's a lot of people that are concerned about their
- 7:38Speaker 3: feed looks like and everything has to be aesthetically perfect
- 7:41Speaker 3: and this and that, And I realized that people like
- 7:43Speaker 3: raw real, especially in my audience, they don't want that,
- 7:47Speaker 3: and so that actually works out really good because I
- 7:49Speaker 3: can post something and just talking to my audience about whatever,
- 7:53Speaker 3: and they connect to it. And so that makes it
- 7:56Speaker 3: really easy to post a lot of content.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Because I'm not making these highly crafted, highly edited videos.
- 8:01Speaker 2: I can post a ton. I have a graph literally
- 8:04Speaker 2: that shows.
- 8:05Speaker 3: When we were posting seven to nine a day, especially
- 8:08Speaker 3: for YouTube.
- 8:09Speaker 2: This really was amazing. I could see the graph like
- 8:12Speaker 2: the audience wanted it, and so it was. It was working.
- 8:15Speaker 3: Like we grew one hundred thousand subscribers in one month
- 8:18Speaker 3: because of ramping up how much we were posting, and
- 8:22Speaker 3: so I couldn't believe it.
- 8:23Speaker 2: It blew my mind.
- 8:24Speaker 3: You know a lot of people are like, oh, look
- 8:25Speaker 3: at your audience must be like too much, you know,
- 8:28Speaker 3: like we don't want to see this much, and you know,
- 8:30Speaker 3: first off, then they just don't look.
- 8:31Speaker 2: You know, they're just not watching your channel and.
- 8:33Speaker 3: Really only what ten percent of your audience sees what
- 8:36Speaker 3: you post on the daily anyways, And so for me
- 8:39Speaker 3: it worked.
- 8:39Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it.
- 8:40Speaker 3: And then the posting on all three platforms is huge
- 8:43Speaker 3: because we were posting on all three and we would
- 8:46Speaker 3: get brand deal you know, reach outs for just TikTok
- 8:50Speaker 3: and or just Instagram or now YouTube shorts is coming
- 8:53Speaker 3: on where people actually want to pay for that as.
- 8:55Speaker 2: Well, And so I think about it all the time.
- 8:57Speaker 3: I'm like, if you put all your eggs in one
- 8:59Speaker 3: basket in Instagram, I would have never gotten any of
- 9:01Speaker 3: those TikTok deals, which in that first year was a
- 9:04Speaker 3: huge six figures easily just from that one platform that
- 9:07Speaker 3: I had only started posting nine months to a year prior.
- 9:12Speaker 1: So what I feel like one of your magic touches
- 9:14Speaker 1: is speed. Like you are fast. You guys are fast.
- 9:18Speaker 1: You don't overthink, you don't over edit, you just post.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Like you said you were posting out one point seven
- 9:24Speaker 1: times a day, and you saw the results of the
- 9:29Speaker 1: fruit of that labor and the content. I've always kind
- 9:31Speaker 1: of said sometimes it almost feels like stories, Like it's
- 9:34Speaker 1: not like these seven posts are highly edited posts, like
- 9:37Speaker 1: some of them just feel like you're just talking to
- 9:38Speaker 1: the camera moving. You know, you've always talked about the
- 9:41Speaker 1: importance of the hook being magnetic, right, so talk to
- 9:44Speaker 1: us a little bit about that as well. Like you
- 9:46Speaker 1: from the filming perspective, like you guys are great at storytelling.
- 9:50Speaker 1: You guys are great at also just keeping the viewer engaged,
- 9:53Speaker 1: but you're also fast and you don't overthink, which I
- 9:56Speaker 1: think so many of us do, and then it never
- 9:58Speaker 1: goes up. I always say drafts are is where content
- 10:01Speaker 1: goes to die because people just keep it in the drafts,
- 10:03Speaker 1: but you just get it out.
- 10:05Speaker 2: That is the truth.
- 10:06Speaker 3: Because I look through our drafts, I go, oh, totally
- 10:07Speaker 3: forgot about that, Like I will never go back to that. Yes,
- 10:10Speaker 3: you know, and people have said that before. Our content
- 10:13Speaker 3: could almost be like, oh I would put that up
- 10:14Speaker 3: as a story, and I'm like, why put that up
- 10:16Speaker 3: as a story when people can relate to it? In
- 10:19Speaker 3: twenty four hours it's gone. And when I put up
- 10:21Speaker 3: as a real whatever.
- 10:23Speaker 2: Short, it performs. And so I love that.
- 10:26Speaker 3: It's I think it's just clarity as to what your
- 10:29Speaker 3: audience is into and when you're talking to them. And
- 10:31Speaker 3: we do a lot of funny stuff as well, like
- 10:33Speaker 3: mother daughter dances or some funny you know, memes or whatever,
- 10:37Speaker 3: and so those are super easy. You're just doing a
- 10:39Speaker 3: voice over to whatever the sound. The trending audio is.
- 10:42Speaker 3: My thing is keep it simple, stupid is like yes method, Yes,
- 10:45Speaker 3: I absolutely live by that.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Let's talk about the kiss method and how that's related
- 10:51Speaker 1: to your insane growth. Please talk to us about the
- 10:54Speaker 1: kiss method.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Yes, you know, it's just it's that old fashioned way
- 10:58Speaker 3: of thinking, like don't overthink it, keep it simple. I'm like, Okay,
- 11:01Speaker 3: I got an idea, let's shoot it, and let's shoot
- 11:03Speaker 3: it and post it. And so it goes from literally
- 11:06Speaker 3: filming too. I put it right up on all three platforms.
- 11:09Speaker 3: And so with that way of thinking, I don't I
- 11:12Speaker 3: don't want to take a long time. I don't want
- 11:14Speaker 3: to post once a day or once a week or no.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Everybody's got different channels, right, and so.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Ours is more.
- 11:20Speaker 3: It's very light, it's positive, it's fun, and so we
- 11:23Speaker 3: can do that because that's the vibe of our channel,
- 11:26Speaker 3: you know, and I love that. It's just always been
- 11:28Speaker 3: that because I do have that freedom to be able
- 11:30Speaker 3: to post something just like I don't have to edit it.
- 11:33Speaker 2: I don't have to do anything.
- 11:34Speaker 3: It's just it's just fun, like, hey guys, we're here
- 11:36Speaker 3: and wherever, you know.
- 11:38Speaker 2: And that's what our channel is.
- 11:40Speaker 3: And so it's so easy to post, Like people like
- 11:42Speaker 3: how do you do it? And I'm like, I just
- 11:43Speaker 3: keep it very simple. I don't overthink it. I keep
- 11:46Speaker 3: it simple. I'm talking to the audience showing where we
- 11:48Speaker 3: are whatever and that, and then it's possible.
- 11:50Speaker 1: And that's what people love. And I think again, the
- 11:52Speaker 1: overthinking is something so many of us have dealt with,
- 11:56Speaker 1: and I love that you guys are fast, you know.
- 11:57Speaker 1: I've had creators come on this podcast and be like,
- 11:59Speaker 1: I like to batch, Like I like to film once
- 12:02Speaker 1: a month or whatever. Everyone has a different style, but
- 12:05Speaker 1: I feel like for you guys, it's been always a
- 12:07Speaker 1: game of quantity and speed and having those two like
- 12:10Speaker 1: mixed together, you never know what's gonna take off. Like
- 12:13Speaker 1: the Bunk Bad video that was twenty seconds. Yes, right,
- 12:17Speaker 1: you could overthink or plan, but at the end of
- 12:20Speaker 1: the day, it's just kind of that consistency and that
- 12:23Speaker 1: showing up, you know.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I love the idea of batch shooting as well.
- 12:27Speaker 3: So there's certain things that I do want to bat shoot,
- 12:30Speaker 3: Like we just went on that five week trip to
- 12:32Speaker 3: Southeast Asia. There's a lot of content where I'm like,
- 12:35Speaker 3: top things we learned, top travel hacks, top.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Mistakes, you know, like so all that kind of stuff.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Those I would love to bat shoot.
- 12:41Speaker 3: But in between those, it's so easy to just do
- 12:44Speaker 3: those straight shots, and Jimmy calls me the one take
- 12:47Speaker 3: wonder because we could do a one straight shot boom
- 12:50Speaker 3: and then if that does really well, then I'm like,
- 12:52Speaker 3: that seriously was ten seconds, you know, So I recommend
- 12:55Speaker 3: people trying that. I don't know Whateverbo's he says, but
- 12:59Speaker 3: just try it. You know, it's worth it. It's worth
- 13:01Speaker 3: taking a shot.
- 13:02Speaker 1: One thing you told me too when we were talking
- 13:04Speaker 1: about voiceovers, You're like, no one wants to hear a voiceover.
- 13:07Speaker 1: That's like you're like, guys, ramp it up, you know,
- 13:12Speaker 1: let people feel your energy. And even just doing this
- 13:14Speaker 1: interview with you, I can feel your energy. So talk
- 13:16Speaker 1: to us about how energy through the content. How you
- 13:20Speaker 1: know you can't be sad on your voiceovers or low
- 13:22Speaker 1: like extroverted or introverted. It has nothing to do with that.
- 13:25Speaker 1: This is an energy game. Social media is like a
- 13:27Speaker 1: magnetic space, so talk to us about how that has
- 13:29Speaker 1: also helped support this wave of growth.
- 13:32Speaker 2: So I think, so this is the deal.
- 13:34Speaker 3: If I'm doing a voiceover, I'm standing up, I'm walking around,
- 13:37Speaker 3: I'm hyped up. You know, I never want to listen
- 13:40Speaker 3: to someone if they look like they don't even want
- 13:41Speaker 3: to be talking about whatever they're talking about in their voiceover.
- 13:44Speaker 3: And so I feel like, if someone's going to be
- 13:46Speaker 3: listening to my video, I want to make sure I'm
- 13:48Speaker 3: giving it to them, I'm getting them pumped up or whatever.
- 13:51Speaker 3: And so that's always been my thing. And I'm a
- 13:54Speaker 3: big energy person anyways.
- 13:55Speaker 2: I love energy. I love being around good vibes.
- 13:58Speaker 3: I love spreading good vibes, and so I think that
- 14:00Speaker 3: just comes through in the work we do, and you know,
- 14:03Speaker 3: our videos and stuff. But I highly recommend anybody that's
- 14:06Speaker 3: doing voiceovers you think about it. Do I want to
- 14:08Speaker 3: listen to somebody that sounds like they don't even want
- 14:10Speaker 3: to be there, right, And so aunt bet up a
- 14:13Speaker 3: little bit because you may think that you're overdoing it,
- 14:15Speaker 3: but I guarantee you that it's not going to be
- 14:18Speaker 3: received that way.
- 14:19Speaker 2: People comments all the time. God, I love your energy.
- 14:22Speaker 2: I love that. I love this, and.
- 14:24Speaker 3: To me, that's just so heartwarming because you're like, you
- 14:26Speaker 3: brightened up my day. And so if I can be
- 14:28Speaker 3: a part of doing anything like that out into the world,
- 14:31Speaker 3: I'm like, let's go, let's love it.
- 14:33Speaker 1: I love that. So this is awesome. So this growth
- 14:35Speaker 1: has obviously led to you guys doing this full time.
- 14:39Speaker 1: This is your full bread and butter. And I want
- 14:41Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about monetization because obviously the
- 14:45Speaker 1: creators here listening in are all trying to either work
- 14:48Speaker 1: with brands or do this full time or make, you know,
- 14:52Speaker 1: make their content creation and influence a full time business.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Talk to us about brand deals, Talk to us about
- 14:59Speaker 1: the shift in brand deals. How this has helped you.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Any tips that you have for creators listening in.
- 15:05Speaker 3: Yes, so this has been our full time income for
- 15:08Speaker 3: about two years now.
- 15:09Speaker 2: I absolutely love it.
- 15:10Speaker 3: I think we pinch ourselves all the time that this
- 15:13Speaker 3: is what we get to do. We had our own
- 15:14Speaker 3: film production company for many years, and.
- 15:16Speaker 2: You know, you're always working for somebody, You're always under
- 15:19Speaker 2: somebody else's, you know, whatever they want.
- 15:22Speaker 3: I love that we get to do this and we
- 15:24Speaker 3: put whatever whatever content we want to put out.
- 15:26Speaker 2: That's how we make money. And the brands love it,
- 15:29Speaker 2: you know.
- 15:29Speaker 3: So the thing it happens when you start to grow,
- 15:31Speaker 3: the emails start coming in. It's just a guarantee, right,
- 15:34Speaker 3: And so as the brands start coming in, you know,
- 15:37Speaker 3: the prices just start increasing increasing. The more you grow,
- 15:40Speaker 3: the more money you make, and for us, We've seen
- 15:42Speaker 3: a huge increase just this year alone as to what
- 15:45Speaker 3: brands are paying, brands are willing to pay, and so
- 15:49Speaker 3: it's it's insane.
- 15:50Speaker 2: It's insane.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Yeah, talk to us about that one big partnership that
- 15:54Speaker 1: just rocked your world and showed you what the other
- 15:57Speaker 1: side looked like.
- 15:58Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was actually about a year into our
- 16:01Speaker 3: growth and we got a two hundred thousand dollars brand
- 16:04Speaker 3: deal that we couldn't believe.
- 16:06Speaker 2: It was like, what the heck?
- 16:08Speaker 3: And so that opened my eyes like, Okay, this is
- 16:12Speaker 3: real when people because you know, I honestly I used
- 16:15Speaker 3: to talk to creators and they'd be like, oh, I
- 16:16Speaker 3: made this month.
- 16:17Speaker 2: This much this month or that much last month, and
- 16:19Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know. I'm calling bs like can
- 16:22Speaker 2: you really make that month for a month And I
- 16:24Speaker 2: don't know. I was like I just doubted it. I'm like,
- 16:26Speaker 2: you're just lying.
- 16:27Speaker 3: And then once it starts happening, you're like WHOA, Like
- 16:31Speaker 3: this is a this is no joke.
- 16:32Speaker 2: Like you can make more than doctors.
- 16:34Speaker 3: More than lawyers, you know, And so doing what I
- 16:37Speaker 3: consider just fun.
- 16:38Speaker 2: I would do this anyways. I have still love making videos.
- 16:40Speaker 2: It's fun.
- 16:41Speaker 1: It's like you're cause you guys have that film background anyways, right,
- 16:44Speaker 1: and this is something so natural for you guys. I'm
- 16:46Speaker 1: going to talk about your background and how you guys
- 16:48Speaker 1: got here in a bit, but I wanted to keep
- 16:50Speaker 1: talking a little bit more about the brand side stuff.
- 16:53Speaker 1: So when you guys started to really start pitching, you know,
- 16:57Speaker 1: I know, that's how we met. So just for as
- 16:59Speaker 1: a FYI, guys like Sandy and Jimmy, I met them
- 17:01Speaker 1: because they have our pitching program and I got to
- 17:04Speaker 1: mentor them and work with them on one on ones.
- 17:07Speaker 1: And I've seen you guys like evolve, and I remember
- 17:09Speaker 1: this moment that we had. I don't know if you
- 17:11Speaker 1: guys remember it, but it was very much like when
- 17:13Speaker 1: will it be our turn? And I talked about this
- 17:15Speaker 1: with Olga too, and I've talked about this with everyone.
- 17:17Speaker 1: There's always this space right before you kind of like
- 17:20Speaker 1: get that really big partnership that you're just like when,
- 17:22Speaker 1: what were some things you know that helped you that
- 17:25Speaker 1: helped you? You know, I know you've talked to us
- 17:27Speaker 1: a lot about like media kits and proposals and taking
- 17:30Speaker 1: this as a business, But what would you say are
- 17:32Speaker 1: some things that have helped you get to the other side,
- 17:34Speaker 1: especially when you maybe felt like giving up.
- 17:36Speaker 2: You know, the biggest thing is, we know this is
- 17:38Speaker 2: a marathon. It's not a sprint.
- 17:39Speaker 3: And so even with our growth, like we were doing
- 17:41Speaker 3: it for years before it took golf and with the
- 17:44Speaker 3: brand deals, I mean, you just have to stay consistent.
- 17:47Speaker 3: You know, you just have to stay consistent, keep leveling
- 17:50Speaker 3: up your game what you're doing, try to get better
- 17:53Speaker 3: every day, and then it starts to work. It literally
- 17:56Speaker 3: will start to work. And so you have to believe
- 17:58Speaker 3: in yourself.
- 17:58Speaker 2: You have to have that attitude of like I'm gonna
- 18:00Speaker 2: make it, fake it till you make it, whatever you
- 18:02Speaker 2: have to do.
- 18:03Speaker 3: But if you have the vision you're manifesting, I'm all
- 18:06Speaker 3: about that a leve level, love it and sure enough,
- 18:09Speaker 3: like if you just don't stop, it will happen.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll happen.
- 18:13Speaker 1: And also investing in yourselves too, because you guys, you know,
- 18:17Speaker 1: are constantly investing in your growth and your mindset and
- 18:21Speaker 1: and you know obviously our program and in working together,
- 18:25Speaker 1: like you don't have this mentality of wait, but you
- 18:28Speaker 1: guys go. And also you know, invest in yourselves as
- 18:30Speaker 1: business owners. So do I. You know, I also I'm
- 18:33Speaker 1: doing that all the time. So I think that's also
- 18:34Speaker 1: important for listeners to know.
- 18:37Speaker 2: I think you have to it's a business, you know,
- 18:40Speaker 2: like this is not a hobby, it's a business. And
- 18:43Speaker 2: I think in any business, you have to invest in
- 18:45Speaker 2: the business and whether it's education, like we just went.
- 18:49Speaker 2: So a little side note is.
- 18:50Speaker 3: We were primarily like an RV lifestyle channel and now
- 18:55Speaker 3: we're traveling worldwide, and so we invested in ourselves in
- 18:58Speaker 3: these last couple of trips where all of it wasn't
- 19:00Speaker 3: brand deals at all. It was like a couple of
- 19:02Speaker 3: different things here and there, But we invested in doing
- 19:05Speaker 3: this trip.
- 19:05Speaker 2: So we have the content to now put on our
- 19:08Speaker 2: channel as worldwide travel creators. So that's something that we're
- 19:12Speaker 2: doing right now.
- 19:13Speaker 3: And so you have to invest in yourself and education
- 19:16Speaker 3: is probably one of the most important things because if
- 19:18Speaker 3: you have the tools right now, you can utilize them
- 19:22Speaker 3: to get your stuff in order as quickly as possible.
- 19:24Speaker 1: Yeah, and go faster, Like why sit and wait when
- 19:27Speaker 1: you guys can just like zoom.
- 19:28Speaker 3: Collapse the timeline. I'm all about collapsing the timeline. I
- 19:31Speaker 3: don't want to take forever. I mean, I know this
- 19:34Speaker 3: is a marathon. There's also things you can facilitate right
- 19:37Speaker 3: now to help that grow much quicker.
- 19:39Speaker 1: I agree fully. In terms of brand deals, I know
- 19:42Speaker 1: you've mentioned before at least offline, like you guys in
- 19:45Speaker 1: terms of like building your rates, like going up and
- 19:48Speaker 1: up and up and up. But what advice would you
- 19:50Speaker 1: give to creators who are scared to ask for money
- 19:52Speaker 1: or they don't feel big enough yet, they're still kind
- 19:55Speaker 1: of with that imposter syndrome. Why should I charge? I'll
- 19:58Speaker 1: just take this for free. Any advice for those creators
- 20:00Speaker 1: listening in.
- 20:01Speaker 3: Yes, I think we all have to realize our effort
- 20:04Speaker 3: is worth money.
- 20:05Speaker 2: The filming, the scripting, the editing.
- 20:09Speaker 3: There's work involved there, and if these brands were to
- 20:12Speaker 3: actually pay for that content, they would be paying thousands
- 20:15Speaker 3: of dollars, and so we have to realize we are
- 20:18Speaker 3: worth it.
- 20:18Speaker 2: I remember years and ago we had.
- 20:20Speaker 3: Sixteen thousand on Instagram and I was like, I can't
- 20:23Speaker 3: charge anything for sixteen thousand, Like look at all these
- 20:25Speaker 3: big creators.
- 20:25Speaker 2: You know, I can't compare to that.
- 20:27Speaker 3: And I didn't reach out to anything because I thought
- 20:30Speaker 3: sixteen was worth nothing. And you know, fast forward now
- 20:33Speaker 3: where people with a thousand followers are making amazing money,
- 20:37Speaker 3: and so I think we all just have to believe
- 20:39Speaker 3: in ourselves more and we are worth it and you
- 20:43Speaker 3: got to shoot your shot, like you have to go
- 20:45Speaker 3: for it and they know. I think the biggest thing
- 20:47Speaker 3: is if more people asked and let the brands know,
- 20:51Speaker 3: like this is a norm that we deserve to be
- 20:54Speaker 3: paid and not just gifted whatever the product is. I mean,
- 20:57Speaker 3: we get emails, now can I give you my twenty
- 20:59Speaker 3: dollars gift? And you make a reel about it and
- 21:02Speaker 3: I'm like, thanks, but no thanks, You're.
- 21:04Speaker 2: Like, my time has val followers. I'm like, I can't
- 21:08Speaker 2: even It's funny that you.
- 21:10Speaker 1: Know totally that they would even expect that. But then
- 21:12Speaker 1: to think about it, like if you have budget to
- 21:13Speaker 1: run ads, why wouldn't you have budget to reach my people,
- 21:16Speaker 1: you know and in my audience. Right, So, especially when
- 21:19Speaker 1: I see brands that are like actively running ads, you know,
- 21:23Speaker 1: it's a very different story. When do you know when
- 21:27Speaker 1: to walk away? Like when do you know what a
- 21:29Speaker 1: brand deal like when this is just not a good
- 21:31Speaker 1: fit for you.
- 21:32Speaker 3: Well, if obviously if the price is just too low,
- 21:35Speaker 3: if they it almost feels like they're just don't respect
- 21:38Speaker 3: us as creators.
- 21:39Speaker 2: Where how about this?
- 21:40Speaker 3: And actually, can we meet somewhere around here because this
- 21:44Speaker 3: is what our normal rates are And if.
- 21:46Speaker 2: They're not willing to, I just politely thank you.
- 21:49Speaker 3: Maybe sometime in the future, if you know, there's a
- 21:52Speaker 3: different situation with the budgets, we'd love to work with you.
- 21:56Speaker 2: So you have to stick to your guns, is what
- 21:58Speaker 2: I feel.
- 21:58Speaker 3: Is you have like unless it's a product that I
- 22:01Speaker 3: love and I think maybe there's a potential for a
- 22:04Speaker 3: future partnership.
- 22:05Speaker 2: Then maybe if there's wiggle room there. But I think
- 22:08Speaker 2: overall we have to value our work, our time, our effort,
- 22:12Speaker 2: and no, when when is time to walk away? Agreed?
- 22:15Speaker 1: Because you can't be saying yes to everything? And would
- 22:18Speaker 1: you say that brand Deals is like the majority of
- 22:20Speaker 1: your guys' income at the moment, like from a percentage standpoint.
- 22:24Speaker 2: Yep, yes, it's about about eighty percent.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Wow, that's crazy because that's just to think that this
- 22:31Speaker 1: world didn't exist, Like I don't know, I know, like
- 22:33Speaker 1: you said, and a few years ago, right, it's just crazy,
- 22:36Speaker 1: like two.
- 22:36Speaker 3: Two and a half years ago, this was not at
- 22:38Speaker 3: all like a dollar of our income, you know, Yeah,
- 22:41Speaker 3: it shows you how quickly things can change.
- 22:43Speaker 1: Absolutely. So let's talk about one other element of success
- 22:47Speaker 1: that I think is really important is not really having
- 22:50Speaker 1: a plan B. It's kind of going all in. You
- 22:53Speaker 1: hear about people who are successful and they just really
- 22:56Speaker 1: have this all in mentality. So let's start from kind
- 22:59Speaker 1: of how you guys got into this world, because I'll
- 23:02Speaker 1: never forget Jimmy telling me, you know, he had this job,
- 23:05Speaker 1: you had this job, and he tatted his knuckles basically,
- 23:08Speaker 1: so he was like, I never want a desk job again.
- 23:10Speaker 1: You know you too, you know, and you're like, we're
- 23:13Speaker 1: not going back. And this not going back, I think
- 23:16Speaker 1: is this driver of success. Absolutely So talk to us
- 23:20Speaker 1: about like the early stages when you guys kind of
- 23:23Speaker 1: got into this industry. A lot of people listening in
- 23:27Speaker 1: may not even know about your origin story about you guys,
- 23:29Speaker 1: you know, your background in film, or how you just
- 23:32Speaker 1: took your kids out of school and moved into an RV. Like,
- 23:34Speaker 1: so walk us through this, like, do what it takes.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Mentality as a big driver of success absolutely so.
- 23:40Speaker 3: Yeah, So about ten years ago, Jimmy and I sold
- 23:42Speaker 3: it all, moved into an RV full time, and at
- 23:45Speaker 3: the time, we had a film production company based out
- 23:47Speaker 3: of Vegas and that's primarily where we lived. We would
- 23:49Speaker 3: travel around doing film jobs, but that was our home
- 23:52Speaker 3: base and then we did that for many years. And
- 23:55Speaker 3: so with that we would post, we would go on
- 23:57Speaker 3: travels and do stuff, and we'd put it on YouTube,
- 23:59Speaker 3: just YouTube, and we put some pictures on Instagram, and
- 24:02Speaker 3: that was basically the extent of our social media. Fast
- 24:05Speaker 3: forward to covid, our film business pretty much got shut down,
- 24:09Speaker 3: just like everything in the world, and we pivoted and
- 24:11Speaker 3: started to create a course teaching people how to make videos,
- 24:14Speaker 3: and people were asking us questions all the time, so
- 24:16Speaker 3: we're like, air, let's make a course and then we
- 24:18Speaker 3: did that for about a year and a half or so,
- 24:19Speaker 3: and that's when we started to post on social media,
- 24:22Speaker 3: and then the social media really started to pick up,
- 24:25Speaker 3: and then we just kind of put the course on
- 24:27Speaker 3: the back burner. Film business we never really even did
- 24:30Speaker 3: anything else with just because show to shut it down
- 24:32Speaker 3: and just focused one hundred percent on social media, and
- 24:35Speaker 3: it was just an easy transformation into one.
- 24:39Speaker 2: To the other.
- 24:39Speaker 3: But it's funny because we had a film business and
- 24:42Speaker 3: so we knew a lot about making videos, but we
- 24:44Speaker 3: had to almost like unlearn all of our professional filmmaking
- 24:48Speaker 3: to make these shorts and whatnot.
- 24:50Speaker 2: Because as soon as you feel.
- 24:52Speaker 3: Like you're being given a professional video, you're like you
- 24:56Speaker 3: can relate more to the raw and the real. So
- 24:58Speaker 3: I know, Jimmy had a heart I'm with editing because
- 25:01Speaker 3: he's so used to that making it flashy in this
- 25:04Speaker 3: and that, and it doesn't it doesn't resonate with people anymore.
- 25:08Speaker 2: You know. There was like the Sam Colders who made these.
- 25:10Speaker 3: Amazing cinematic videos and they were just gorgeous eye candy.
- 25:14Speaker 3: And now it's not even a thing, you know, it's
- 25:16Speaker 3: more like we're running around and we're doing this, and
- 25:19Speaker 3: it's more like in the moment, people want to feel
- 25:22Speaker 3: the energy and just super raw and which is which
- 25:25Speaker 3: is great for everybody because you don't have to have
- 25:28Speaker 3: any film background, you don't have to have any sperience.
- 25:30Speaker 2: You have a phone, you're good to go.
- 25:32Speaker 3: You have you know, some sort of energy personality like
- 25:36Speaker 3: message whatever it is, pick up that camera and you
- 25:38Speaker 3: can now have a social media channel, which is I
- 25:40Speaker 3: think amazing because now everybody could be in the game
- 25:42Speaker 3: and everybody could have a shot at doing this, you know,
- 25:45Speaker 3: which I think is so cool.
- 25:47Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love what you're saying too about like
- 25:49Speaker 1: this idea that there's not the right time to go
- 25:51Speaker 1: all in, Like it's a decision, right, And I think
- 25:54Speaker 1: there's people that are waiting for permission, you know. Oh
- 25:59Speaker 1: if I hit the subscriber thing, I can do that.
- 26:02Speaker 1: I think you guys mentioned me like you could. You're like,
- 26:04Speaker 1: we could always go back to our life, Like we
- 26:06Speaker 1: could always just go back get just jobs, like go sit,
- 26:09Speaker 1: go back to our home. But let's just try it.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Like you guys were like, let's just try this new
- 26:14Speaker 1: life alternative.
- 26:15Speaker 3: Right.
- 26:16Speaker 1: You took your kids out of conventional school, you did
- 26:19Speaker 1: the homeschool route, Like these are big life changes that
- 26:22Speaker 1: a lot of us are scared to do, even if
- 26:24Speaker 1: we dream about doing it, you know.
- 26:26Speaker 3: I know so honestly, we get messages all the time
- 26:29Speaker 3: for years now where.
- 26:31Speaker 2: People tell us because of you guys.
- 26:33Speaker 3: We even meet them, like we run into people and
- 26:35Speaker 3: they go because of you guys. We sold it all
- 26:38Speaker 3: and we now either travel the world full time or
- 26:40Speaker 3: live in an RV full time. And I'm like, that's
- 26:42Speaker 3: crazy to think you could have that sort of impact
- 26:44Speaker 3: on somebody on their entire life, you know. And that's
- 26:47Speaker 3: another thing that I think is amazing with social media
- 26:49Speaker 3: is you never know the ripple effect of what your
- 26:53Speaker 3: videos can do for somebody else.
- 26:55Speaker 2: And to me, that is just mind blowing, like wow.
- 26:58Speaker 2: But yeah, we did.
- 26:59Speaker 3: Make some rehear it changes, pulling our kids out of school,
- 27:02Speaker 3: you know, selling everything we owned, have a five x
- 27:04Speaker 3: ten storage unit in Vegas still with stuff obviously we
- 27:07Speaker 3: don't need because we haven't seen it in years.
- 27:08Speaker 2: And then yeah, went all in. So this is a
- 27:11Speaker 2: this is a huge way that we live by is
- 27:14Speaker 2: burn the boats, burn the ships, and so there is
- 27:17Speaker 2: no plan be We.
- 27:17Speaker 3: Don't have any backup anything. We are all in. And
- 27:21Speaker 3: that happened that that mindset shift actually happened in twenty
- 27:24Speaker 3: twenty two when we got our first retainer offer and
- 27:27Speaker 3: we were like, wait a minute, like some and we're
- 27:30Speaker 3: our channels were not not big at all. This is
- 27:32Speaker 3: before we this is in the very beginning where we
- 27:34Speaker 3: just started posting a few shorts and with this retainer
- 27:37Speaker 3: came in and I go, Jimmy, someone's offering us a
- 27:39Speaker 3: retainer for I think it was like three or six
- 27:41Speaker 3: months one thousand dollars a month. It was, you know,
- 27:44Speaker 3: and I just went, that's pretty cool. Like I don't
- 27:48Speaker 3: know why it was so dump to all of it.
- 27:49Speaker 3: You know, it's like, oh, they want to use us,
- 27:52Speaker 3: and we did the retainer and I go hold on.
- 27:55Speaker 2: And for me, literally it was a light switch. It
- 27:57Speaker 2: lit a fire under me like I can't even describe.
- 28:02Speaker 3: And I'm so glad it did because that was that
- 28:04Speaker 3: was the pivot right there.
- 28:06Speaker 2: That was the pivot where.
- 28:07Speaker 3: I said let's go all in because we were still
- 28:09Speaker 3: doing our core stuff and this and that, it's a
- 28:11Speaker 3: lot of work. Once once I made that switch, I
- 28:14Speaker 3: just was like, let's go. So we started just what
- 28:17Speaker 3: brands were want to work with. So we just started
- 28:18Speaker 3: doing a ton of research the people that are in
- 28:20Speaker 3: our NICHE RV life, Who are the I started just
- 28:23Speaker 3: going through a bridge channel, what brands are they working with.
- 28:25Speaker 2: I just went all in.
- 28:26Speaker 3: And I'm so glad that I had that that way
- 28:29Speaker 3: of thinking about it because that's what brought us to
- 28:31Speaker 3: where we are today.
- 28:32Speaker 2: It's absolutely like I went all in. I did the research.
- 28:35Speaker 2: I started reverse engineering other people's channels, all the brands.
- 28:40Speaker 3: Reaching out to all the brands. I got tons of no's,
- 28:42Speaker 3: but then I got a couple of yes's. I got
- 28:43Speaker 3: another retainer, and the art numbers were way smaller than
- 28:46Speaker 3: they are now. I think I had sixteen thousand on
- 28:48Speaker 3: Instagram and TikTok was like, I don't know, a couple thousand, so,
- 28:52Speaker 3: and YouTube was we just had long form, but the
- 28:55Speaker 3: shorts weren't, you know, it was it was everything was
- 28:57Speaker 3: very small compared to where we are now. But I
- 28:59Speaker 3: went and so that was a huge eye opener where
- 29:04Speaker 3: I didn't stop, like tons of nose, tons of nose,
- 29:07Speaker 3: and I go all right, onto the next, onto the next,
- 29:08Speaker 3: onto the next. And I think that for me was
- 29:12Speaker 3: like that that fire where I.
- 29:14Speaker 2: Just I didn't stop. And then now look at where
- 29:16Speaker 2: we are.
- 29:16Speaker 3: And so now even where we are now, we have
- 29:18Speaker 3: goals of where we want to go. And I know,
- 29:20Speaker 3: you just stay at it, stay at it, you stay consistent,
- 29:23Speaker 3: don't give up, don't slack, and then things miraculously work out,
- 29:27Speaker 3: you know.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's also because like you said, those are expected,
- 29:32Speaker 1: those aren't normal, right, It's part of the game. And
- 29:35Speaker 1: the more creators just accept that as a process, like
- 29:38Speaker 1: every no leads you to a yes, absolutely, So just
- 29:42Speaker 1: kind of having that mindset of like, you know, closed
- 29:45Speaker 1: mouths don't get fed, they don't you don't pitch, If
- 29:47Speaker 1: you don't reach out, you're not going to get a no.
- 29:49Speaker 1: But you're also not going to get a yes. Right,
- 29:51Speaker 1: So this idea of I love to hear that you
- 29:53Speaker 1: guys were just so persistent in that because I think
- 29:56Speaker 1: it shows that you need to advocate for yourself, because
- 30:00Speaker 1: if you don't advocate for yourself, like, who's going to
- 30:02Speaker 1: advocate for you?
- 30:03Speaker 2: Nobody? You know.
- 30:05Speaker 3: I watched Olga's episode and I love that she's like
- 30:08Speaker 3: one hundred pitches a month, and it's a game.
- 30:10Speaker 2: Of numbers, right.
- 30:11Speaker 3: The more you do, the more you're gonna get, or
- 30:13Speaker 3: at least you're gonna learn along the way.
- 30:16Speaker 2: There's so there's so much that comes out of it.
- 30:18Speaker 3: And so for me, this is our full time job,
- 30:20Speaker 3: this is our full time income. And so I know
- 30:22Speaker 3: Jimmy has said before, right, you don't post, it's like
- 30:24Speaker 3: you're not going to work. So if we're not doing
- 30:27Speaker 3: those things, then we're not going to grow. The brands
- 30:30Speaker 3: are looking at your channels, right, and if they see
- 30:32Speaker 3: you're not active, then it's like, eh, you know, and
- 30:35Speaker 3: so I look at it as a full on business
- 30:38Speaker 3: where this and I love it, like.
- 30:40Speaker 2: This is what we do. I don't want to plan
- 30:43Speaker 2: b I don't want to think about any other way
- 30:44Speaker 2: to make money or to do, you know.
- 30:46Speaker 3: Or I don't want to sit at a desk job.
- 30:48Speaker 3: I don't want to do any of that stuff.
- 30:50Speaker 2: You know. I love traveling the world, you know, being
- 30:52Speaker 2: with the family, The kids love doing these videos, and
- 30:55Speaker 2: so you know, it just it works.
- 30:57Speaker 1: It works for you guys now in terms of building
- 31:00Speaker 1: like as a family, right you guys, I'm sure you
- 31:03Speaker 1: and your husband, you guys probably divvy up work in
- 31:07Speaker 1: terms of who does what, And I'm sure that's something
- 31:10Speaker 1: that just in general that a lot of people may
- 31:12Speaker 1: be listening in, like, oh, I want to do this
- 31:13Speaker 1: with my partner, me and my husband and our family
- 31:15Speaker 1: would love to kind of get into this world together,
- 31:18Speaker 1: working with family. It's the oldest thing in the book.
- 31:21Speaker 1: Has its joys and benefits, it's also hard. So how
- 31:24Speaker 1: do you guys kind of balance this idea of like
- 31:27Speaker 1: private time as a couple or public time or workload
- 31:32Speaker 1: time off as everything content or are you guys able
- 31:36Speaker 1: to kind of like, Hey, he focuses on editing in this,
- 31:38Speaker 1: you focus on this. Do you guys have a routine.
- 31:41Speaker 1: You've been doing this for so long and you guys
- 31:43Speaker 1: are really good at it and you're really like you're
- 31:45Speaker 1: high functioning. So you must have something you know or
- 31:48Speaker 1: you must have a system.
- 31:49Speaker 3: It is very clear who does what I do the
- 31:52Speaker 3: entire business side of everything. We both film and then
- 31:55Speaker 3: if it's highly edited, he'll do it, and if it's
- 31:58Speaker 3: just an easy edit sh shot, and I post everything.
- 32:01Speaker 2: So it is very clear.
- 32:03Speaker 3: We know what our strengths are and what our weaknesses are,
- 32:05Speaker 3: So I handle all business, posting all of that, and
- 32:08Speaker 3: then he'll he films basically everything unless I'm doing like
- 32:11Speaker 3: a straight shot sofia or whatever.
- 32:13Speaker 2: Yeah, and that definitely works. It works.
- 32:15Speaker 1: It's very clear guidelines like this is your energy or
- 32:18Speaker 1: this is my thing. I think what I love about
- 32:20Speaker 1: both of you that you guys both also like you
- 32:24Speaker 1: have the same Well, I don't want to know if it.
- 32:26Speaker 1: I don't know if the word is work ethic, but
- 32:28Speaker 1: like you don't balance each other, like.
- 32:30Speaker 2: You're both you're both crazy.
- 32:32Speaker 1: Yes, I wanted to say so, Like my husband and
- 32:35Speaker 1: I we get into stalemates because like I anchor him
- 32:37Speaker 1: and then he anchors me and we don't move, but
- 32:39Speaker 1: you both will be like, boom, we're selling the house. Boom,
- 32:42Speaker 1: we're going to Asia like and you're able to move
- 32:44Speaker 1: fast because you guys have similar values, you know.
- 32:46Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know there's pros and cons to that.
- 32:49Speaker 3: Of course, there's pros that we could be like all in,
- 32:52Speaker 3: and then there's cons that we can also get lost
- 32:55Speaker 3: because the ADHD brain is like, let's do this, this, this, this,
- 32:59Speaker 3: so we're like, oh fuckus. Yes, so yeah, there's definitely
- 33:02Speaker 3: pros and cons to that, but overall it's more positive
- 33:05Speaker 3: than negative.
- 33:06Speaker 1: So yes, I was talking to one of my friends recently.
- 33:08Speaker 1: She's like, I'm so happy I get to do this
- 33:10Speaker 1: with my partner because you know, we both get to
- 33:13Speaker 1: live this life together and we support each other, and
- 33:15Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of goodness that comes with working.
- 33:18Speaker 1: It's also probably hard. It's probably not for everyone too,
- 33:21Speaker 1: you know, but it's Yeah.
- 33:22Speaker 3: We hear a lot of people say I wish I
- 33:23Speaker 3: could do that with my wife or husband, but they
- 33:26Speaker 3: want nothing to do with it, and I'm like, ah,
- 33:29Speaker 3: that sucks, because it is fun. It is fun to
- 33:31Speaker 3: do this all together. Like if he had a remote
- 33:34Speaker 3: job where he was on the computer, you know, eight
- 33:37Speaker 3: hours a day and I was doing all this, I
- 33:39Speaker 3: would be like it would be disjointed a little, but
- 33:42Speaker 3: you know, you gotta do what you gotta do it.
- 33:43Speaker 3: But exactly, I'm very fortunate and lucky that we're both
- 33:47Speaker 3: in and that's how we ran our film business as well.
- 33:49Speaker 2: I handled the business side. We both shot, he edited everything.
- 33:52Speaker 3: So it kind of just easily pivoted into the social media.
- 33:56Speaker 1: What would you say is like a career highlight so far?
- 33:59Speaker 1: Obviously two ndred thousand dollars brand deal is a big
- 34:01Speaker 1: one because that's pretty monumental. Yeah.
- 34:06Speaker 3: Man, we've had so many we work with NASCAR and
- 34:09Speaker 3: a lot we've worked with them for many years now
- 34:11Speaker 3: and those are all They're very experiential, and so when
- 34:14Speaker 3: we get to do like six days at a NASCAR
- 34:17Speaker 3: track camping on the infield, the kids love it. I
- 34:20Speaker 3: love that we do work with our family because the
- 34:22Speaker 3: kids are a part of all of this and so
- 34:24Speaker 3: they get to reap the benefits of all the cool
- 34:27Speaker 3: things that we get to experience. So I would say
- 34:30Speaker 3: NASCAR is a really fun one, because we do it
- 34:32Speaker 3: sometimes multiple times a year.
- 34:33Speaker 2: That's really fun. We did a.
- 34:35Speaker 3: Komodo island boat tour in Indonesia just recently.
- 34:38Speaker 2: That was amazing. I think anything that we.
- 34:41Speaker 3: Can create that inspires our audience is also huge for us,
- 34:45Speaker 3: because that's really the passion behind us creating all these
- 34:49Speaker 3: videos is sharing it with our audience and the feedback
- 34:52Speaker 3: from them and showing them a different way to live.
- 34:54Speaker 2: And things that they could do with their kids. I
- 34:56Speaker 2: think that's always a huge perk as well.
- 34:58Speaker 1: Yeah, honest, and you guys would you're following across like
- 35:01Speaker 1: all your platforms right now.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Think we're over two point three million.
- 35:04Speaker 1: Now, that's crazy.
- 35:06Speaker 2: That is just crazy. I can't believe it.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Do you feel do you feel like with engagement or
- 35:11Speaker 1: people messaging you? Sometimes creators they'll say, once you get
- 35:15Speaker 1: to a certain level, it's hard to respond to all
- 35:17Speaker 1: the comments, or it's hard to keep in touch. Is
- 35:20Speaker 1: that something that you do in the business, or how
- 35:22Speaker 1: do you kind of nurture community?
- 35:24Speaker 3: I do, and I it's so hard because I want
- 35:27Speaker 3: to answer every single comment and it's basically impossible.
- 35:31Speaker 2: If unless I would have put like two to three
- 35:33Speaker 2: hours a day.
- 35:34Speaker 3: Aside almost every single day to respond because we have
- 35:36Speaker 3: the three platforms, there's comments on all three, and especially
- 35:40Speaker 3: when a video goes viral, then there's you know, it
- 35:42Speaker 3: could be a thousand comments, and so I try my
- 35:45Speaker 3: best to answer as many. I need to put more
- 35:47Speaker 3: time aside because the community is everything, and I absolutely
- 35:50Speaker 3: love the connection that we have with so many people,
- 35:52Speaker 3: and especially when we meet them in person, like they'll
- 35:55Speaker 3: spot us on the street somewhere and they feel like
- 35:57Speaker 3: they know us, and that to me is just so
- 36:00Speaker 3: heartwarming because it's like this like spider web of friends
- 36:04Speaker 3: around the world. You know, people noticed us wherever we
- 36:06Speaker 3: were in Southeast Asia and over in Paris, and it
- 36:09Speaker 3: blows my mind.
- 36:10Speaker 2: The community is everything.
- 36:11Speaker 1: So Sandy, speaking about brand deals and pitching, do you
- 36:14Speaker 1: have any examples of like a pitching strategy that really
- 36:18Speaker 1: helped you secure more brand partnerships.
- 36:20Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely so.
- 36:22Speaker 3: Actually, something that I learned from your course, Nina was
- 36:24Speaker 3: having a killer media kit and a pitch deck. So
- 36:28Speaker 3: we're doing this twenty five Buckeless Adventures in twenty twenty five,
- 36:31Speaker 3: and we made this beautiful pitch deck that modeled after
- 36:35Speaker 3: one of the ones that you have in your course,
- 36:36Speaker 3: and the feedback has been amazing, like absolutely insane, even Disney.
- 36:42Speaker 3: We sent it to Disney we've worked on prior and
- 36:44Speaker 3: wanted to pitch this idea and she wrote back in capitals,
- 36:48Speaker 3: Oh my god, your pitch deck is amazing. I wish
- 36:51Speaker 3: you would teach other creators how to pitch like this.
- 36:54Speaker 2: And I was like, are you so, I was like,
- 36:57Speaker 2: I have.
- 36:58Speaker 3: To tell you because it's direk because of you, so
- 37:00Speaker 3: thank you. We have learned so much amazing, amazing nuggets
- 37:05Speaker 3: of how to stand out. And that's the goal. That's
- 37:08Speaker 3: the name of the game really with pitching is so
- 37:10Speaker 3: many people are pitching all these brands. How do you
- 37:12Speaker 3: make yourself stand out? And with that is doing your research?
- 37:16Speaker 1: No, and I know that you for us, like if
- 37:18Speaker 1: you can get them on a call, you're going to
- 37:20Speaker 1: win them over. So it's like this idea, especially you,
- 37:23Speaker 1: you're so magnetic. It's like, get them on a call, right, Like,
- 37:26Speaker 1: how do we just get them to talk to us?
- 37:28Speaker 1: Because once you do, it's just helps the pitch solidify us.
- 37:31Speaker 2: Because if you can't give, you can't feel energy through email.
- 37:34Speaker 3: It doesn't matter how cute you are with your words,
- 37:37Speaker 3: you just can't get that energy and they won't know
- 37:39Speaker 3: how magnetic you are, how you might be the perfect fit,
- 37:43Speaker 3: because an email is just blah.
- 37:45Speaker 2: So that's where I think.
- 37:46Speaker 3: The media kits and the pitch decks can come in
- 37:48Speaker 3: really handy because you could show your.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Flair, your vibe.
- 37:52Speaker 3: You know, you can feel a lot of energy through
- 37:53Speaker 3: those kind of pieces. So highly recommend doing that kind
- 37:57Speaker 3: of stuff because you could have a regular email, which
- 38:00Speaker 3: may be amazing, but when you add those attachments where
- 38:04Speaker 3: they go whoa, you know, it blows them away. And
- 38:06Speaker 3: I know firsthand because we've heard it not just from Disney,
- 38:08Speaker 3: but many people where it stands out. And so I
- 38:12Speaker 3: know that that's been a huge helper for us in
- 38:14Speaker 3: landing a lot of deals.
- 38:16Speaker 1: Love that guy. So listening in your pitch materials matter,
- 38:19Speaker 1: Your marketing materials matter, your media cate, your portfolio. That
- 38:23Speaker 1: matters because it's about getting their attention. And I think
- 38:27Speaker 1: that's something that so many creators, especially in this competitive economy.
- 38:31Speaker 1: You know, like you said, a lot of people are pitching,
- 38:33Speaker 1: but I always say a lot of people are pitching,
- 38:35Speaker 1: but if you're pitching the sidewalker way, you're ahead of
- 38:37Speaker 1: the curve because you are entering the conversations you know,
- 38:41Speaker 1: as a true professional. So Sandy, before we wrap up
- 38:44Speaker 1: a little bit of a quick lightning round, just to
- 38:47Speaker 1: have some fun here. So Dream Brand collab Oooo.
- 38:51Speaker 2: My gosh, Oh that's a good one. Oh Tahiti Tourism board.
- 38:55Speaker 1: Yes, let's go Tahiti. Where are you guys at you?
- 39:00Speaker 1: I could recommend one piece of equipment for a new
- 39:02Speaker 1: creator starting out besides the phone, what would it be?
- 39:06Speaker 2: Microphone, the DJ, the road, little microphones, because if you
- 39:10Speaker 2: don't have good audio, that's like sixty percent of video.
- 39:13Speaker 2: So you have to have good audio.
- 39:15Speaker 1: Love that is there something new that you guys are
- 39:18Speaker 1: trying right now in your business or something new that
- 39:20Speaker 1: you guys want to push yourself to do. I know
- 39:22Speaker 1: your big bucket List challenge was something big for you
- 39:25Speaker 1: guys this year?
- 39:26Speaker 3: Yes, well that is probably the biggest thing that we're
- 39:29Speaker 3: working on right now. Is we're doing pitches to everybody where.
- 39:32Speaker 3: It's like gear, clothes, tourism boards. So this is new
- 39:37Speaker 3: for us because you know, we're pivoting into travel worldwide,
- 39:41Speaker 3: not just RV anymore. And so I am in the
- 39:43Speaker 3: game of imposter syndrome like are we real travelers?
- 39:47Speaker 2: You know that kind of stuff, And it's funny. I'm
- 39:50Speaker 2: just I hate that feeling, right, But it's the same thing.
- 39:54Speaker 2: Fake it so you'll make it.
- 39:55Speaker 3: And then once you start landing these deals, then you're like, oh, okay.
- 39:59Speaker 2: You know, you see all these big travel creators that are.
- 40:01Speaker 3: Doing amazing things and amazing content and you go, am
- 40:05Speaker 3: I okay, like can can we match that?
- 40:07Speaker 2: Can we?
- 40:08Speaker 3: And absolutely you can, absolutely, And so that's that's a
- 40:11Speaker 3: huge thing that we're working on right now.
- 40:13Speaker 1: I think a lot of the imposter syndrome, especially what
- 40:15Speaker 1: I keep hearing on this podcast, is that it doesn't
- 40:18Speaker 1: go away no matter when you have two million followers
- 40:20Speaker 1: you would think like you would think, oh, I hit
- 40:22Speaker 1: that number, like I'm it and you're telling us no,
- 40:25Speaker 1: you still feel it no, and you know.
- 40:28Speaker 2: And it's okay. I think it just keeps you on
- 40:30Speaker 2: your toes.
- 40:31Speaker 3: So I think it's almost a healthy thing in a
- 40:32Speaker 3: sense because if you feel like I have arrived and
- 40:35Speaker 3: I'm here, well, then guess what your edge kind of
- 40:38Speaker 3: I think goes down a little bit. And so because
- 40:41Speaker 3: your attitude, the drive's not there, the hustle, the fire,
- 40:43Speaker 3: the passion you sort.
- 40:45Speaker 2: Of get like, yeah, I'm here, and I don't ever
- 40:47Speaker 2: want to feel that.
- 40:48Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I love this idea of keeping
- 40:51Speaker 1: you on your toes. I think that's super important. And
- 40:54Speaker 1: I think that at the end of the day, those nerves,
- 40:58Speaker 1: that excitement, it just kind of creates on only better content.
- 41:02Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to ever get comfortable. You
- 41:03Speaker 1: always want to kind of be uncomfortable in your bus too, right, absolutely,
- 41:07Speaker 1: because once you get comfortable, y'all. And I can speak
- 41:10Speaker 1: from this, once it becomes rinse and repeat. Oh, there
- 41:13Speaker 1: is nothing more deadly to a business when you kind
- 41:15Speaker 1: of take your hand off Cagacon yep, and you're just
- 41:18Speaker 1: kind of like.
- 41:18Speaker 2: Lose that edge. Yeah, to lose that edge.
- 41:20Speaker 1: Now, I know. Do you ever find because you're such
- 41:24Speaker 1: a high quantity and quality but you know, really churning
- 41:27Speaker 1: out content. Do you ever suffer with burnout or do
- 41:29Speaker 1: you ever just kind of get tired of it or
- 41:32Speaker 1: did you just kind of figure out a system that
- 41:34Speaker 1: works for you so you can keep writing it out.
- 41:36Speaker 2: That's a good question.
- 41:38Speaker 3: So, yeah, we definitely have times where I'm just like, okay,
- 41:41Speaker 3: but that's lack of planning. That mainly comes from lack
- 41:45Speaker 3: of planning and having a strategy.
- 41:47Speaker 2: So now that we're back from our trip, that's the main.
- 41:49Speaker 3: Goal right now is you know, we're all over the place,
- 41:52Speaker 3: and so that can be beneficial in some ways because
- 41:55Speaker 3: we're easy to move and pivot and all that.
- 41:57Speaker 2: But if you don't have a plan, your plans a fail.
- 42:00Speaker 3: And so that's where I think for us the burnout
- 42:02Speaker 3: starts to creep in, is we feel like we're chasing
- 42:05Speaker 3: something and I don't ever want to feel that way.
- 42:07Speaker 3: And so right now is focus on like a bigger
- 42:11Speaker 3: ninety day six month plan to where we know what
- 42:15Speaker 3: we're kind of content, we want to put out how
- 42:17Speaker 3: much and then get that under wraps.
- 42:19Speaker 2: And so with that I think that will lessen the burnout. Absolutely. Yeah,
- 42:24Speaker 2: it's inevitable.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Right, It's inevitable with our business to just because especially
- 42:28Speaker 1: when we're always posting, I mean it's part.
- 42:30Speaker 2: Of it, and things are always changing and you start
- 42:33Speaker 2: to try new things and then so yeah, can it
- 42:36Speaker 2: can get overwhelming, But I think if you have, if
- 42:38Speaker 2: you're smart about it, and you get yourself.
- 42:41Speaker 3: We are not strategy people. We are not like the
- 42:43Speaker 3: system people, and so it's hard for us. I think
- 42:46Speaker 3: that's where maybe the burnout.
- 42:47Speaker 2: Could come in, is like trying to get that dialed in.
- 42:49Speaker 3: And so if you are systems people, I praise you
- 42:54Speaker 3: because I don't have that.
- 42:56Speaker 1: Yeah, but they may not have your speed. They may
- 42:58Speaker 1: have systems, but they may Yeah, So you never know,
- 43:02Speaker 1: you never really know. Well, thank you guys, well you
- 43:04Speaker 1: Sandy so much and Jimmy for London Us. This has
- 43:08Speaker 1: been so awesome to hear firsthand. We're so happy we
- 43:11Speaker 1: met you and we've been Yes, it got to be
- 43:15Speaker 1: part of your journey and see you flourish. I get
- 43:18Speaker 1: to have such cool people on this podcast, so many
- 43:20Speaker 1: of them students that have become friends that will become family.
- 43:24Speaker 1: So I just I get to I love what I do.
- 43:26Speaker 1: I have such a cool job too. I get to
- 43:28Speaker 1: be kind of a part of all your guys' successes
- 43:31Speaker 1: and wins and just cheer from you from the side,
- 43:33Speaker 1: like I love that.
- 43:34Speaker 3: You know, well, Nina, I have to say a huge
- 43:37Speaker 3: thank you to you because you are a huge part
- 43:39Speaker 3: of our success and collapsing that timeline with your course
- 43:44Speaker 3: and your coaching and all of that. So honestly like that,
- 43:47Speaker 3: I believe is an integral part to how we have
- 43:50Speaker 3: become so successful so quickly is we learned from you
- 43:53Speaker 3: and actually put it into action, you know, Like I
- 43:56Speaker 3: don't want to watch your course or anything that I'm
- 43:59Speaker 3: investing in and not use it. And so I watched,
- 44:03Speaker 3: I learned, I used it, and then I started to
- 44:06Speaker 3: see the results.
- 44:06Speaker 2: And so I thank you. I love that. I love
- 44:09Speaker 2: this part of this.
- 44:10Speaker 1: It's awesome. I like I always say, you got your
- 44:12Speaker 1: wins are my wins too, So I'm excited for all
- 44:15Speaker 1: you guys, and like I said, this is the best
- 44:17Speaker 1: part of what I do. So thank you guys and Sandy.
- 44:20Speaker 1: Where can everyone connect with you? Follow you? I'll put
- 44:23Speaker 1: it in the show notes, but if you just want
- 44:25Speaker 1: to shout it out really quickly, so that way.
- 44:26Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube on Facebook too,
- 44:30Speaker 3: but we really don't post there, and it's trying something new,
- 44:33Speaker 3: try the letter in something new, and yeah, that's will
- 44:36Speaker 3: be there every day.
- 44:37Speaker 1: I love it. They really will be guys. They post
- 44:39Speaker 1: every day, multiple times of days, and they'll get you
- 44:43Speaker 1: hooked with their content. So go ahead and give them
- 44:45Speaker 1: a follow and check them out. They're living with purpose.
- 44:47Speaker 1: They're living authentically and they're living their dreams and it's
- 44:50Speaker 1: fun to watch. We're trying to reaping new all right, well,
- 44:53Speaker 1: thanks Sandy,