Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] When during the day are you at your clearest and where, geographically speaking, are you at your best?
[00:00:13] Right here and right now is where I am usually at my most clear and my best.
[00:00:19] Walking out with this guy, my office partner here, and hitting record on a video.
[00:00:26] Today I'm gonna walk through my upcoming presentation that I'm giving actually the day after tomorrow in Dutch, by the way.
[00:00:36] In France it's called YouTube for speakers or YouTube for spreakers.
[00:00:44] And I'm gonna walk through it here. The reason I'm doing this and the reason you might want to hang around here is because this is how I work through projects.
[00:00:53] I talk it through. I often talk it through with someone else, which is a. Also an incredible way to do it. Although this way is more of a monologue. And so I get to talk it through and bust through the elements that are stuck.
[00:01:12] Talk it over with this guy, see what he's thinking, see what he's feeling and work through it. I'm also going to give myself a time limit. 10 minutes max. I can see the clock right now, I'm at a minute 30 and I'm just going to flow. I'm not going to present the presentation. I'm not going to do as if it's a 45 minute workshop, interactive workshop. I'm just going to talk it through and go over the main points and see how I'm feeling with it in my head. And I'm doing this again because I'm in the woods with the birds and the dogs and because it's morning and I'm feeling good.
[00:01:47] So here we go.
[00:01:52] Talking with my, my friend yesterday. I'm gonna call her Holly.
[00:01:58] And she, as I said, I want to keep it very interactive. In fact, I want it to be extremely interactive. I'm a little concerned it's on a Friday morning and it's a Dutch audience and there's actually another event going on simultaneously, which is gonna be popular. In fact, I hate to say this, but I would. I really am kind of bummed I'm missing that.
[00:02:23] So I'm gonna have to keep these people alive and well and bouncing.
[00:02:29] So the very. I'm. I'm just gonna go tell you my intro and then I will come back to it here. So the very first thing I want to do, I'm gonna walk, I'm on stage or whatever. It's time, it's, you know, here's Bradley Charbonneau, whatever, some intro thing. And remember, it's in Dutch. I'm going to speak through it In English now, but it's in Dutch. But that's okay, I got my Dutch.
[00:02:49] And the first thing I want to do is I want to say, hey, all right, morning, everybody. Please take out your phones.
[00:02:56] Don't hear that every day from a speaker on stage. Please take out your phone. I don't want you to turn it off. I want you to turn it on if it's not on.
[00:03:04] And then in a few seconds, we're going to hit record and record a 15 second video.
[00:03:10] Don't worry, it's not going on YouTube. It's not going to be live, it's not going to be public. It's just for you. But you're going to record a 15 second video. I am purposely not giving you any sort of teaching or advice or any sort of guidance as to what it is. We're just going to hit record. Everybody got their phone out. Great. Please, maybe don't record your neighbor. You can record the floor, you can record the ceiling, you can record your face, you can record your shoes. It doesn't matter. You'll see what we're doing later. I just want you to hit record for 15 seconds. I do want you to speak and I know we're going to be speaking over each other. That's fine. It's going to be chaos. It's going to be like a zoo. It's going to be like an AV area of birds singing, maybe not so singing. And we're going to go with it. Ready? Here we go.
[00:03:56] All right, everybody hit record. I'm going to do the same here on this phone. I'm going to hit record for 15 seconds. Ready? 3, 2, 2, 1, go.
[00:04:06] I might say something like, because I'm actually going to do it right. I'm going to hit record. So I'm going to say something like, hey, everybody, I'm here in, in Met France, I'm giving a workshop on YouTube for speakers and everybody's recording a 15 second video right this very second.
[00:04:22] So that was it. Bye. Thanks for now. Thanks. Thanks for watching. And that's it.
[00:04:27] All right, Everybody come back to it, right?
[00:04:31] And.
[00:04:42] See him.
[00:04:43] Is that on?
[00:04:45] That's Pepper.
[00:04:52] Hey, hey, hey. Come here.
[00:04:59] Find off.
[00:05:08] So this is interesting. There was that dog, right?
[00:05:12] I could, let's say something happens in unexpectedly.
[00:05:17] I could make reference to that and how if we were hitting record and we didn't want to edit, you could incorporate that into your talk somehow. I don't want to get too much into improv and improv comedy and all that, but that could happen.
[00:05:33] Okay, then they're done.
[00:05:35] And then thanks again to Holly. I want to ask them, how did that make them feel to hit record?
[00:05:42] Why did it, what did they feel?
[00:05:45] And this is one of those things where you don't want to give out too many example, you know, adjectives of emotions or something, because if I start saying them like fear and worry and concern and judgment and all that, then they're going to feel those things that I say. So I'm just going to say, how did it make you feel? If you have a pen and paper, write it down.
[00:06:06] Now this is where it could get interesting. I could say, we could go further and say, take a second and you know what? Let's do this. Take a second and share it with your neighbor. What did, what did you feel? What did that make you feel to hit record on a video?
[00:06:21] Maybe you're joyous, maybe you do it every day like me. No big deal. Great.
[00:06:27] Okay, then the structure of this talk.
[00:06:35] I'm not saying this now. I'm saying this to me here, my meta self here. The structure of this talk is really based on One feature of YouTube, which is the three different modes of a video, the three different statuses of a video, which is private, unlisted, and public.
[00:06:55] And that's going to be the crux or the foundation of the organization or the structure of the talk of the workshop.
[00:07:07] So then, after all, right, back to the talk, they all did that. It's probably chaotic. Calm them down a little bit. Get them in there. I want to see how they feel. I'd like to ask them if anybody's volunteer, how did it make you feel? And if I don't get any volunteers, I can then offer up typical examples, you know, fear and procrastination, all that stuff.
[00:07:30] So then we could get into what would you like to feel, how would you prefer to feel? Or if you felt good, how would it feel better, what would that feel like?
[00:07:45] And then if you were to overcome that negative emotion that you felt, what could you then do? In other words, if I felt less fear, anxiety, judgment, then I could X, what would you do? Right. Then I would start a podcast. Then I could present to my team members. Then I could finally apply for that TED talk.
[00:08:13] Right?
[00:08:15] So these fears holding us back, what are they holding us back from?
[00:08:22] And if we were to overcome them, what would that look like?
[00:08:29] And that, my friends, is what I'm looking to do in the next 35 minutes.
[00:08:39] There you have it. There's my intro. Really? That's what I Want to get them towards. I want to get them towards what's holding them back.
[00:08:46] Share that, feel it, write it down, share it with a neighbor and then talk a little bit about what they would like to feel or do.
[00:08:54] And then what they could do if they overcome that negative emotion or overcame that negative feeling. What would they get to?
[00:09:02] I am at nine minutes. You know what? I'm just going to keep going.
[00:09:06] I did have a slight detour with the giant dog back there, but not making excuses, I just, I'm. I'm rolling here a little bit and I feel like I need this and I want to walk through it. By the way, another meta note.
[00:09:20] I can highly recommend doing this because this is, it's getting me clarity on my presentation. It's forcing me to speak it out loud.
[00:09:31] Remember, I'm not like rehearsing the actual thing, right? But for me, I think I, I'm okay. I'm good enough on improv to go with it. I just need a basic structure and then I need those core elements, right?
[00:09:45] What's holding them back? What are they striving towards? Like, what's the goal? What's the dream? What do they wish to accomplish if we succeed today?
[00:09:56] What does that look like?
[00:09:58] What are they? What would they like to do?
[00:10:01] Okay, then I want to get into a brief. So now that they know their fears and now that they know what they, they would like to accomplish and what that might feel like and what it might even look like, what they might be able to do. I don't know. Could I have them write that down?
[00:10:20] Maybe I could have them write down what.
[00:10:25] Maybe that's good, right? What if I had them write down what is.
[00:10:30] What are some things that the fear of being more visible, of getting out there, because remember, my audience is toastmasters, so I could, I'm happily will probably repeat this phrase over and over. Julie Sein Spreikers, you are speakers.
[00:10:51] This is not the crochet club.
[00:10:55] This is not the knitting circle.
[00:10:58] We are a conference of speakers here.
[00:11:02] You want to be more visible, even if it's to yourself.
[00:11:07] So that's also part of the power I have there on stage. Because I know these people are speakers. They want to be better speakers. That's why they're here and that's why they came to this little workshop today.
[00:11:20] Okay. To how am I going to get them there? I'm going to give a little bit about me and just talk about where I came from. And then thanks again to Hollywood, who I often use different names for people on YouTube because not everybody likes to be shouted out. Like one guy who is probably watching this, he's so shy.
[00:11:43] I definitely don't shout him out. I need a better nickname for him though.
[00:11:48] I'm gonna go with M.
[00:11:50] But he's super shy but he gives me a lot of feedback and he's very helpful. So shout out to M there for that, for that help.
[00:12:00] Okay.
[00:12:01] A little bit about me and also a bit of my story and how for example, I could, I could talk about the writer thing and how I wanted to be a writer and talked about being a writer. And I was not writing like at all until finally somebody came along and invited me to write for 30 days.
[00:12:24] I'm glad I brought this up because this I could, this could be my call to action for the end. In fact, now that I'm mentioning, I think it should be another thing I'm going to do. By the way, I know this is very meta and I'm talking to myself and I'm talking to the video and I'm talking to you and I'm talking to sort of to my chat GPT Charlie because I want a summary of this video later because he's going to help me with the call to action at the end. And I think the call to action should be to record 15 second videos for 30 days.
[00:12:53] Because when I ever I open that up, people like it. And last year in Vegas I got really good response from people who, who did it. They did it and they even shared with me, here's my 30. You know, hey, I'm cruising along, I'm on day four and people really like it. So they like doing things together like that.
[00:13:11] Okay, a little bit about me. I struggled not doing it. I finally got an invitation to, in that case it was write for 30 days, which I then did. And I ended up writing for 2,808 days in a row. Seven plus years of writing every day. And in the meantime I wrote 40 books on the speaking front. I also joined a 30 day, one short everyday challenge and that turned into I have now published over 5,000 videos publicly and have over 10 million views and 250,000 subscribers. And it all started really from a 30 day challenge. So there's power in these 30 day challenges.
[00:13:58] And that would be my, my challenge at the end. I don't want to get into it right now in the talk and let's move on. That's me. Okay. And so shout out to Holly again here.
[00:14:13] Why do I do this, Bradley? Why are you even Here today. Why are you giving this talk? What is the purpose? Do you. Do you just want to tell us about YouTube features? Is that it? Is that why you're here today?
[00:14:25] No.
[00:14:27] Here you go. Ready? Ready for the good stuff. Ready for, like, the meat. The meat and potatoes of this talk.
[00:14:33] It's because we are creators.
[00:14:36] And humans were born to create, and yet we don't always do it.
[00:14:44] And this creation, creating, which is not the same as creativity, we can talk about that later.
[00:14:54] Creating is what makes us human.
[00:15:01] That guy over there, my buddy Pepper, does he create stuff other than his poop?
[00:15:09] No.
[00:15:10] We humans were born to create.
[00:15:13] And in my humble opinion, I think creating, producing, making, drawing, writing, singing, creating something where there was previously nothing is what gives us our energy, is what gives us our power, is what gives us our life force.
[00:15:36] It warms our heart, it tickles our mind.
[00:15:41] And here it comes.
[00:15:43] It rumbles our gut.
[00:15:46] It's what keeps us alive. It's what makes us alive. It's what makes us thrive.
[00:15:52] And yet, if we don't create, if we keep it bottled up inside of us, we won't necessarily explode, like, physically, but we will in some shape or form, because we're not letting out. We were meant to express. Humans were meant to express themselves.
[00:16:12] We're here at a speakers conference, for goodness sake.
[00:16:18] We are not at the inverts. Inverts. What are they called? The introverts. We're not at the introverts workshop.
[00:16:29] We're not at even the writers. I deal with a lot of writers. There are a lot of introverts. And even if you are a speaker and an introvert.
[00:16:37] Speaking, Creating, Talking. Presenting. Workshop. Leading.
[00:16:42] Creating. Making, Doing, Trying.
[00:16:45] Making an effort. Hitting record.
[00:16:50] That's what we were meant to do. What does it give me?
[00:16:53] Where shall I start with the list? Happiness. It gives me joy. It gives me pleasure.
[00:16:59] It gives me fulfillment.
[00:17:02] It gives me progress.
[00:17:04] It gives me clarity, gives me courage. It gives me confidence.
[00:17:10] Clarity, Courage and confidence. Those are the three biggies that it gives me.
[00:17:15] How are we doing so far? Feeling good? You ready to create something?
[00:17:18] Let's get into it a little more then. Okay, let's get back to YouTube because that is so what this presentation is not about, as I'm sure you are understanding at this point.
[00:17:31] What is it about then? It's about creating. And how am I going to help you do it? I'm going to give you some tools to help you do it.
[00:17:43] And.
[00:17:45] Hold on.
[00:17:58] Hi.
[00:18:03] Okay, let's get into it. Here we go.
[00:18:07] I want to Talk now about these three different modes of YouTube, which is private, unlisted, and public.
[00:18:17] Now, let's get a raise of hands briefly. Which one sounds the scariest to you at this point?
[00:18:26] Let's get hands up for private, which means nobody can see it. Nobody ever. Nobody. Just. It's just you. Private. Anyone Fear scared? Yeah. Okay, unlisted. Unlisted means you can share the link, and then people can see it with the people with whom you shared the link can see it. Right. Although that link could be shared further. You never know.
[00:18:47] And then finally. Okay, hands. Right. And then public. Who's scared of that one?
[00:18:52] Yeah, that's what I figured. A lot of people. Great. Got it. Here we go. Private.
[00:18:58] You want to know what I think is the scariest of all these three?
[00:19:02] Private.
[00:19:03] Why?
[00:19:04] Because private is sort of step one.
[00:19:08] Step zero is nothing. Zero stands for nothing.
[00:19:14] Zero is you did not do anything.
[00:19:17] You didn't record. You didn't do anything. You're thinking about it, dreaming about it, talking about it, but not doing it. Right? That is zero.
[00:19:29] So zero is where we all are. Zero is where we all start. The big difference comes between 0 and 1.
[00:19:38] So when we get from 0 to 1, that's the biggest leap.
[00:19:45] And then, honestly, like, 1 to 2 and 2 to 3, those are minor compared to the big jump from 0 to 1. So here we go. Private. What does that mean? That means nobody can see it. However you hit record, you hit record.
[00:19:58] It's up on YouTube, but the only people who can see it are no one. Unless you share the.
[00:20:06] You have to even, like, invite them by email. It's actually kind of a pain.
[00:20:11] So that's private.
[00:20:12] I'd like to give you two little toast mastery tips here for. For how to better evaluate a video of yours on Private. Because does anybody have an idea who our harshest critic is?
[00:20:29] Yeah, it's not the evaluators. Nope, it's not the Toastmaster Judge. It is.
[00:20:35] Sorry. Felt like a pterodactyl climbing on my legs. It is you.
[00:20:40] You, my dear friend, are your own harshest critic.
[00:20:45] I am my own harshest critic. We are each our own harshest critic. And it's not fun, but it's the truth.
[00:20:54] So even if your Aunt Zelda is a harsh critic, she's not as bad as you are. Yes, there's that.
[00:21:01] Okay, Private, here's two tips. Ready? Tip number one. You record your video, right? And when I say video, we haven't even talked about video much, right? What are we actually recording here, Bradley? And this Is up to you. It's up to you. Is it a. Is it a personal story? It is. Is it your practice for a TED Talk? Is it a workshop? Is it a talk to your team? Is it. I don't. It doesn't matter. Is it a Toastmaster speech? Whatever it is, doesn't matter.
[00:21:26] Ideally shorter, because we're going to do some editing. Tiny bit. Here you go. Ready? Number one, hit play on your recorded talk, and then put the phone down and don't watch it. You're only going to listen.
[00:21:43] So listen to your talk. Kind of weird, right? So you don't see your body language or anything. All you do is you're listening to your words.
[00:21:51] And this. So it removes one of your senses, right? The viewing, the eyes, the seeing. And now we're only focused on all we have is hearing.
[00:22:00] So we're going to focus on how it sounds. How's your speed and your tempo and your voice and your vocal variety and all those good toastmastery things, Right? Okay, that's number one. Number two, you can probably guess where I'm going here. You're going to turn off the volume, and you're going to watch your talk, your speech, your workshop. You're going to watch your body language and see how do you move around stage? What's your eye contact? How's your. Your arm movements? Are you picking your ear? What are you doing?
[00:22:30] Are you.
[00:22:32] Is your talk, like, thoroughly exciting? And you are standing as still as a stone.
[00:22:37] Okay.
[00:22:38] Because that. You could bring this into step number three, which is then to watch it and listen to it at the same time. And then what we're really doing is sort of matching it up. Does the sound align with the view? Right. Does what you see align with what you hear? Does it make sense? Does it match it up?
[00:22:58] Okay, there you have it. That is Private. So that is a little pro tip there on how to you better evaluate your own talks. Because remember, Private, nobody else is seeing it. It's just you.
[00:23:11] And for those of you out here out there thinking, ah, that's easy, Private. Nobody's gonna see it. I challenge you. I challenge you here and now to record a video in the next week.
[00:23:24] I'll give you the weekend off next week to record a video and watch it and listen to it, and then don't watch it and. But listen to it.
[00:23:35] And let's see where you go, I'm not hard to find. Send me a note. I'd love to hear that you made some progress. Okay. All right, let's move through these. Because now we're getting to the easy part. And you're going to say the easy part. We're getting to the scary part. Unlisted.
[00:23:49] Unlisted. This is a perfect example for the Toastmasters world because here unlisted is just that it is not public. It's not listed on the, on your public channel or anything. And you have a nice little link that you can share with a group. This is pro tip for any of you Toastmasters on the board or on the team of your, of your club.
[00:24:14] You can very easily use these to share your speeches with your club. I do this every meeting. I will make a playlist of the different recordings of the evening and then share it as unlisted. There is the danger that someone shares the link outside of your group. You hopefully just trust your group enough to not do that.
[00:24:37] But there is that. Just as somebody could forward your video that you sent to them. Right.
[00:24:43] You know, one little note on that because I get a lot of feedback that says, bradley, why don't I just put it on my phone? What's the difference? What's all this? YouTube, Hubbaloo, Hullaboo, Hullabaloo, Hullabaloo. Wow, this YouTube stuff.
[00:24:58] And here you go. I'm gonna give you a quick example from the writer world and I might meta editor's note here. Maybe I don't go into such detail, but in the writer's world, you could write your book in Word or Google Docs or whatever, and I just don't recommend it. There is writing software, for example, Vellum or Atticus. And when you use that software, you're writing your book. When you turn that software on, you know, you're writing your book. So similarly, when you have your camera out on your phone or whatever, it might be that you're, I, that you, you're taking pictures of your kids, you're, you're taking a video of your dog. Like who would do that? Who would do videos of their dog?
[00:25:43] And so it makes it different, it ups the game, so to speak, in that. Now this YouTube channel of yours is your quote unquote, professional speaker channel, if that's what it it, if that's what you want it to be. Right? So that's where I think YouTube is different from then just your camera, for example.
[00:26:10] You more say it.
[00:26:13] Hey.
[00:26:19] Okay, that's unlisted. All right. Ready for the big scary one.
[00:26:26] So in my humble opinion, I want to make this part less scary than you probably currently think it is.
[00:26:35] And I need to, I need to put myself back years back where I definitely, definitely was scared to put it on public.
[00:26:43] But this is a bit of what I'm talking about right here, right now. This is why I'd love for you to do a 30 day challenge of doing a short, a 15 second short every day for a month, every day for 30 days.
[00:26:55] Because as you practice, you will get more creative.
[00:27:02] And then you're going to wonder, did I get more creative because I'm practicing, because I'm publishing, or was I already creative and that allowed me to publish?
[00:27:14] Or am I now more creative than I was 30 days ago?
[00:27:19] These are the kinds of questions I am.
[00:27:21] My dreamland scenario of 30 days from now is that you are more confident in your publishing.
[00:27:32] Cool, right? Public.
[00:27:33] Yep. Big and scary out into the world YouTube cesspool of degenerate video filmmakers.
[00:27:44] And that's it. I'm actually not going to talk about public so much unless you want to talk about it. I want to open up for questions in a minute here, but I think public, if you've already gotten past private and unlisted, that's the hard part.
[00:28:01] Public is kind of a breeze, dare I say, and I know it probably doesn't feel like that right now, but compared to going from 0 to 1. Compared, from going from.
[00:28:15] Compared with going from I never have recorded a video of myself before ever, to I have a YouTube channel and it's on private, by the way, YouTube channel. In case it wasn't clear, it's. It's free if you have a Gmail account. You don't even need a Gmail account, but I think you might actually. And then you don't have to share with anyone. No one will see it. No one will accidentally discover your private video.
[00:28:39] It's like technically impossible.
[00:28:42] So public.
[00:28:44] I have gone majorly public because, dare I say, in my humble and my humble self, I'm scared of nothing anymore.
[00:28:55] Nothing scares me. I walk around the woods and film my dog.
[00:28:59] Nothing scares me.
[00:29:02] And I will publish this.
[00:29:04] Am I going to get feedback saying I'm a wacko? I don't know. Maybe.
[00:29:09] One note about feedback.
[00:29:11] One of my favorite moments as I've narrated audiobooks. I've narrated my own audiobooks and I got a review on Amazon. It said, this guy's voice is so annoying, I.
[00:29:30] I couldn't stand another minute.
[00:29:33] It's like he's gonna cause damage.
[00:29:39] This guy was the worst one star.
[00:29:42] And then very, just around the same time, somebody said I could listen to this guy's voice all day.
[00:29:50] I Don't even care what the book's about. I just want to listen to him sing his lullaby of his non fiction book.
[00:29:57] Five stars.
[00:29:59] Same me, same voice, two different people.
[00:30:04] So that's my short take on reviews and judgment from the public because you will get it. And there are the haters, and there are the trollers.
[00:30:15] Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate but lovers gonna love, love, love, love, love.
[00:30:21] Right, who's out there? Who's out there? There's our public note.
[00:30:25] Who might this be for my video right here, right now, it's mostly for me.
[00:30:32] However, it's possibly for you. If you and I right now are just in the same sort of wavelength or time in our lives or you're working on something, you don't know how to edit it and you think, I'm gonna go walk around the woods with my dog and record my, my notes on my upcoming presentation like that wacko Bradley did?
[00:30:54] I'd love it.
[00:30:56] That's what I want. Because what do we want again?
[00:30:59] Why does this give me clarity, courage, confidence, happiness, purpose? Meaning, you know, those aren't little tiny things, those are huge.
[00:31:12] Bradley, how do you publish every day?
[00:31:15] I think the question is really, how do I not publish every day?
[00:31:19] It's like, Bradley, why are you so happy? Bradley, why are you so fulfilled? Bradley, why are you so just full of energy all the time?
[00:31:28] Because I think I'm creating a machine that is a finely tuned factory in a way.
[00:31:39] I consume a lot of content, I watch a lot of videos and I listen to a lot of podcasts and read a lot of books, but it's got to come out, and that's in the form of creating. And whether it's private, unlisted or public, I need to let that out of my system. I need to express my thoughts and beliefs and knowledge and share my knowledge and teach others.
[00:32:03] What else are we humans here to do other than express ourselves and to create?
[00:32:11] Okay, a little meta note.
[00:32:15] I, as you can maybe tell, I got into it there and I've got into the flow and I'm storytelling a bit and. Right. And loving it here, having fun.
[00:32:24] And yet I would rather have broken off somewhere and had them record another 15 second video midway through.
[00:32:32] I see I'm at 32 minutes here. This is like as long as my entire real thing, right? So I am not gonna have a problem fill in 45 minutes, especially when I make it more interactive. So I would ideally like to have three 15 second shorts for everybody and I want them to get up. I Want them to feel a little better about each one. So somewhere midway, maybe I would say something about unlisted. Like that first one was private. Maybe the second one's unlisted and say, hey, let's do something that would be unlisted. Something you think, like, I might share this with someone, right? And then finally at the end, I want them. All right. Hey, you guys ready? Let's wrap it up here. What are we going to do? We're going to hit record again for 15 seconds. Ready? Here we go.
[00:33:14] Hey, everybody, it's Bradley Sharpen. I'm here, in here with Pepper. We just walked through a transformation, getting more clarity, courage and confidence about our public space speaking skills through some wacky little modes on YouTube. Hope you enjoyed it. Bye for now.
[00:33:30] There you go. I don't even know if that's 15 seconds, but I'm calling it 15 seconds.
[00:33:37] All right, that's it. I'm feeling pretty good and I have just walked through the woods for 30 minutes.
[00:33:43] Here's another pro tip.
[00:33:46] If you're anything like me and you think work must be at the computer, Bradley, you need to get to work now. You to go sit behind the computer and type and do stuff.
[00:33:57] Yeah, I used to think that.
[00:33:59] But this 30 minutes that I've been out here with, with my office mate there, this has given me much more, dare I say, clarity, courage and confidence to work on my talk for Friday.
[00:34:17] Because I feel like I could do it right now. Not I feel like I could. I could do it right now and be good with it.
[00:34:26] Here's what I need because as you just followed through there, you know, I'm pretty good on the structure. I'm private, unlisted in public. That's sort of what's keeping my act together here. But I would like a few slides. I'd like. I'd like a screenshot just for. Here's my sort of meta notes here.
[00:34:46] I'd like a screenshot of that actual YouTube option of private, unlisted public, just so people can see that it's really the actual thing I'm talking about here.
[00:34:58] I'll do a couple little Bradley is amazing screenshots of numbers of my YouTube stuff, the 10 million views and all that.
[00:35:09] Then I just want to have some really basic slides with private, unlisted and public, and then maybe one slide for each.
[00:35:21] And what's on that? And maybe, maybe that's where we do the video. Like why we would do a video in that mode.
[00:35:29] Like, what's private mode? What's the Goal of private mode? What's the goal of unlisted mode? What's the goal of public mode? Right. And I think in my previous talk last Friday I had a few notes on that. I can look back at that. So I'm talking like, you know, six slides, right? I don't need a whole bunch of slides. I just want some basic stuff up there. You know what I didn't even talk about. And though as I'm going through it, I realized maybe I don't need it, but maybe I'll get some feedback here and you'll let me know if you think I need it.
[00:36:00] It's the whole. I didn't even go through it. Let me just, let me talk it through real quick because I'm also at the end of the woods here. Let me talk it through real quick and see if it's worth trying to insert in there. But I think it might be too complicated and get away from my main message. So yesterday as I'm walking in the woods recording, surprise, surprise, I came across this little stuffed animal. Little stuffed animal. I could. It reminded me of watching this Apple TV series over the weekend with my son who was visiting.
[00:36:35] And I thought, oh, that reminds me of the Apple TV series with. That I watch with my son. That's nice. So if I hadn't taken a picture or video or anything, that would have been. It would have been fine. That would have been at level zero. Right. Because I didn't actually create anything with that particular moment, with that experience.
[00:36:53] Then I thought, oh, you know what, I would like to take a photo of it because I want to see if he remembers what I'm talking about. So I took a picture of it then. So that could be private. I took a picture, but then I decided, no, I'm going to share it with him and see if he remembers the movie we're talking about. Right? So that could be unlisted.
[00:37:13] And then I got into a whole. Then I literally hit record yesterday and talked about how.
[00:37:21] How do I as a creator come up with new ideas?
[00:37:25] And this was my example how I came up with new ideas. I came up with new ideas because I had an experience. My son and I watched the movie and then I had a follow up experience. I saw a stuffed animal that reminded me of the movie. And then I connected those two by sending the photo to my son to see if he remembered about the movie.
[00:37:49] And it turns out he didn't, by the way. I sent him the stuffed animal with no commentary at all.
[00:37:55] And I said, hey, what Is what does this make you think of? And he gave me some snarky comment.
[00:38:00] And then I said.
[00:38:02] And I gave him a tiny hint. He's like, oh, yeah. And then he made another joke about another bad movie we watched.
[00:38:08] So that's an example. That's a storytelling example from my poetry personal story factory warehouse, if you will, that I could use to say, how does this work in real life?
[00:38:25] You know what? Now that I'm talking through it, I think that's a good example. So I think I. I think I will do that. I got to fit it in.
[00:38:34] I'm literally at 38 minutes here, and this just talking about the workshop, right? So I'm gonna need a little structure. I'm gonna go home right now and yes, I will sit behind the computer and I will get this done.
[00:38:46] And I will then put together a very brief outline of the, you know, five to seven points and I'll be done with it. And it is, you know, Wednesday morning at 10:00am I've got this and I'm ready to roll. I like that. Okay. I'm glad I brought that up. I'm kind of surprised I forgot about it.
[00:39:09] But I am going to use it because that'll bring a story like, Bradley, how does this work in real life? This could be a very real life example because then in the end, I even made a public video about it explaining something about storytelling and how I create stories and how they formulate, how they're created from nothing.
[00:39:30] And that was a perfect example and how I even made a public YouTube video about it. Right. I could even share that link if I wanted.
[00:39:38] All right.
[00:39:40] Okay.
[00:39:41] If you, my dear viewer or listener, are still watching this, first of all, I love you because that means you care about your thing. Okay, we are gonna move away from Pepper here because you don't need to see this. It gets a little graphic.
[00:40:03] If you have a dog, you probably know this, but I think cats do it too. But he eats grass and then he throws it up. I guess it's his own little, I don't know, post hangover mechanism.
[00:40:18] Okay.
[00:40:19] Got people walking in my screen.
[00:40:22] I think they aren't. They know I'm recording a highly important video here.
[00:40:27] Now, Bradley, it's time to call it a morning.
[00:40:33] Thank you for watching. I. I would like you to. Thank you for watching. If this has helped you with how you work through your projects, how you work through structure, how you work through rehearsals, I'd love to hear about it. Let me know in the comments if you. This is something that you do already or would like to do or are going to do or have done and let me know. And I. I'd love to hear how you do it, if you have any other tips, because I'm. I'm obviously not taking notes or anything. I'm just hitting record. Oh, God. All right, Sorry.
[00:41:05] Graphic moment above.
[00:41:07] Have to up the rating on my video to gory G for gopper. Oh, yuck.
[00:41:16] Okay. All right. Hey, thanks.
[00:41:19] It's been fun. It's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn't been real fun.
[00:41:25] No, it has. I swear.
[00:41:27] All right, Video France leaving tomorrow. Thanks for watching. I'm at the end of the woods and the end of my rope here. The end of my recording session. Thanks for watching. See you soon. Bye for now.
