Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Britney Saunders and welcome to Big Business, the
Speaker 1: place where business is far from boring. And today I'm
Speaker 1: recording on gaddigall Land. Now, I somehow managed to build
Speaker 1: an empire from the garage underneath my house and I'm
Speaker 1: here on Big Business to share it all with you,
Speaker 1: from the winds, the mistakes, the challenging times and the
Speaker 1: funny moments in between.
Speaker 2: So, whether you're in business yourself.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you're not in the game at all, maybe you're
Speaker 1: just looking for some inspiration, or you simply just want
Speaker 1: to hear the tea when it comes to business, this
Speaker 1: is the podcast for you. Coming up on today's episode,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking all things my keynote speech.
Speaker 1: If you follow me on Instagram, you will have seen
Speaker 1: that recently over a weekend on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: And Sunday, I was working.
Speaker 1: I worked on the weekend and I did my keynote speech,
Speaker 1: which I've done once before, so this is my second
Speaker 1: time doing the same keynote. And I actually had a
Speaker 1: lot of people who saw it on my story who
Speaker 1: couldn't attend on the day say, is there any way
Speaker 1: that we can like listen to this or watch this
Speaker 1: and whilst I can't run through the entire keynote because
Speaker 1: it's very visual because you kind of got to, you know,
Speaker 1: watch the slides and the screens, and I have a
Speaker 1: lot of images that I share in my keynote, I
Speaker 1: thought I could sit down today with Xander and we
Speaker 1: could run through it, and I could also talk about
Speaker 1: some of the best bits of the talk because I got.
Speaker 2: A lot of feedback after it.
Speaker 1: I did a little imprompt you meet and greet at
Speaker 1: the end of both days, and I had a lot
Speaker 1: of people come up to me and ask me questions
Speaker 1: and say what they liked about the chat, and there
Speaker 1: were some great key takeaways in the talk. So I thought,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to talk all things talking keynotes in
Speaker 1: today's episodes. So let's just get straight down to business.
Speaker 1: So we've got a lot to chat about today about
Speaker 1: my keynote, I want to share, like all my thoughts
Speaker 1: and feelings about actually doing keynot speeches, because I know
Speaker 1: that when it comes to public speaking, it's not everyone's
Speaker 1: cup of tea. In fact, I think the majority of
Speaker 1: people hate the idea.
Speaker 2: Of talking to a large crowd.
Speaker 1: But I thought I would start by talking to you
Speaker 1: about I think the best slide in my keynote, and again,
Speaker 1: if you saw my stories from over the weekend when
Speaker 1: I was doing the keynote, one of the slides in
Speaker 1: big red writing, it said do it scared? Do it scared?
Speaker 1: And this Why are you laughing, Xander? What do you
Speaker 1: think when you hear just do it scared?
Speaker 3: I'm laughing because on the weekend I saw that slide
Speaker 3: on your story and I listened to the advice and
Speaker 3: I did something. Oh yeah, I just remembered that when
Speaker 3: you said that, So I had a little giggle.
Speaker 2: There you go. So you were meant to see it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So do it scared.
Speaker 1: I want all of you to think of this always
Speaker 1: and remember it kind of make it your motto. And
Speaker 1: it was something that I really emphasized to everyone when
Speaker 1: I was doing the keynote is just.
Speaker 2: Remember to do it scared.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I included that in my talk
Speaker 1: is because I was talking about content creation because it
Speaker 1: was like a content kind of event. But in my keynote,
Speaker 1: I tell my whole story from start to finish and
Speaker 1: how my whole career started because I started making those
Speaker 1: YouTube videos, and how I quit my job when I
Speaker 1: was twenty one, and how I signed my first commercial lease,
Speaker 1: you know, when fate started to become something, and then
Speaker 1: how we moved into the building in twenty nineteen. I
Speaker 1: think it was where I made the plunge to open
Speaker 1: our first retail store, and I did all of those
Speaker 1: things scared. I was scared every single time.
Speaker 2: I was scared.
Speaker 1: When I hired my first employee, I was scared that
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to have enough money to pay her.
Speaker 1: I was scared that I wasn't going to have enough
Speaker 1: time for her to do in the day. I remember
Speaker 1: that being one of my fears, like what if I
Speaker 1: wade out of jobs to give her. But every single
Speaker 1: thing that I've done in my career that has scared me,
Speaker 1: I've just done it scared anyway, And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people not even when it comes to content
Speaker 1: creation or business. It can be anything you know. It
Speaker 1: could be applying for a new role. It could be
Speaker 1: speaking up in your team morning meeting because you have
Speaker 1: something that you want to address, or you have a
Speaker 1: creative idea that you want to share with the team.
Speaker 2: It could be anything moving to a new city.
Speaker 1: It could be telling someone that they've upset you it
Speaker 1: could be in your relationships. People don't do things because
Speaker 1: they're scared. But I think it's really important to remember
Speaker 1: you can still do stuff even when you're scared. Just
Speaker 1: do it scared. The cool thing about doing a keynote
Speaker 1: right is because like you're talking for forty minutes straight,
Speaker 1: but you've got all these slides on the screen behind you,
Speaker 1: and I just write all big quotes in big bold writing.
Speaker 1: And I noticed that when the do it Scared slide
Speaker 1: was on the screen, everyone's phone went up.
Speaker 2: It's like people loved that.
Speaker 1: And that's a good indicator for me that everyone likes
Speaker 1: this topic because everyone's phone goes up and then they
Speaker 1: all want to take a photo of that do it Scared?
Speaker 1: And I think honestly, being scared and like a fear
Speaker 1: of failure or a fear of judgment, or a fear
Speaker 1: of what other people might say, you know, I know
Speaker 1: when it especially comes to content creation, people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: like I don't want to post that because I'm like
Speaker 1: what would my family say? Or like what would my
Speaker 1: friends say? What would my colleagues say? Like, you're scared
Speaker 1: of what people will say. But just because you're scared
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it. And I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people, with all things in life, they
Speaker 1: don't do things because they're scared, like, oh no, I'm
Speaker 1: too scared, I won't do it. But my motto of
Speaker 1: this week and forever is just do the thing scared.
Speaker 1: If you're scared of doing something, that's even more of
Speaker 1: a reason to do it, because I think when you're
Speaker 1: feeling scared and oh I don't know, what if I fail?
Speaker 1: What if I fall? What if people judge me? And
Speaker 1: then you do it and then you succeed, I think
Speaker 1: you were meant to do it, even if you were petrified.
Speaker 2: It's how you grow. It is, it is how you grow.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people when they spoke to me
Speaker 1: after the keynote, they said, I loved the do it
Speaker 1: scared thing. So take it from me and just remember
Speaker 1: that quote anytime that you're feeling nervous about something or worried,
Speaker 1: like I even had nerves, because when you do the keynote.
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the front row and so I
Speaker 1: watched Jimmy Reese do his keynote before me. And he's
Speaker 1: a comedian and like you know, he's hilarious, and he
Speaker 1: had everyone cracking up. And on the Saturday, obviously that
Speaker 1: was the first day, and like I was sitting there
Speaker 1: and then I knew that his was wrapping up, and
Speaker 1: then they started to they come back up on stage
Speaker 1: and start talking about me, and as I know I'm
Speaker 1: about to be called up, like you start getting that
Speaker 1: scared feeling and your heart starts racing a bit, and
Speaker 1: then I.
Speaker 2: Like, wasn't breathing properly.
Speaker 1: So like, even when I'm going to do something like
Speaker 1: speaking in front of a thousand people, I'm scared, but
Speaker 1: I just tell myself, like I'm scared, yes, but I'm
Speaker 1: still going to do this thing. You can do the
Speaker 1: things scared. Just because you're scared doesn't mean you should
Speaker 1: go now.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it. I'm too scared. Do
Speaker 2: it while you're scared.
Speaker 1: And I just I freaking love that, And I think
Speaker 1: we can use that in any area of our life.
Speaker 1: It doesn't just have to be business, doesn't just have
Speaker 1: to be content creation.
Speaker 2: It can be bloody anything.
Speaker 1: So that was my favorite I guess moment from my
Speaker 1: keynote slides that I thought it was worth sharing here
Speaker 1: on the pod.
Speaker 3: When I saw you post about that on the weekend.
Speaker 3: I was figuring out because a lot of the time
Speaker 3: I personally, I like sit on my bed in my
Speaker 3: rooment I ruminate over things, and I'm going, oh, like
Speaker 3: I want to do this, but like I just don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think I can, or like I it's a
Speaker 3: fear about it. And I thought I had was like, well,
Speaker 3: if I'm always sitting in this spot in my house
Speaker 3: worrying about things or questioning whether I should do something,
Speaker 3: I should have those words somewhere on my wall in
Speaker 3: right mirror. So when I'm there and I'm worried and
Speaker 3: I'm scared, I have that kind of reference.
Speaker 4: Do it scared.
Speaker 3: So just a little bit of advice from me, and
Speaker 3: it is, it is silly, but have these things. I
Speaker 3: have a posted note with do it Scared somewhere, have
Speaker 3: something written on your wall.
Speaker 2: Put it as your wallpaper, on your phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, literally anywhere where it's in sight, so it gets
Speaker 3: ingrained in your mind.
Speaker 4: It actually does work. Yeah, And I'm actually going to
Speaker 4: be doing that, going to do it Scared.
Speaker 2: Love that you can take something away from that.
Speaker 4: It wasn't even there exactly right.
Speaker 1: But I think that's the number one thing that stops
Speaker 1: anyone from doing anything really, Like, I think it's your
Speaker 1: self doubt, Like that's what stops anyone from doing anything.
Speaker 1: If like, most of the time you can do it,
Speaker 1: but it's your own fears and worries. And so that's
Speaker 1: why I love that so much, and I just thought
Speaker 1: I got to share it. Everyone, do it scared, even
Speaker 1: if you're absolutely shitting yourself, you can still do it
Speaker 1: when you're scared. On the same sort of theme, another
Speaker 1: huge chunk of my keynote on the weekend was how
Speaker 1: comparison is the thief of joy? We all know that saying,
Speaker 1: And again it was very visual in my keynote, I've
Speaker 1: got my slides up in front of me here so
Speaker 1: I can see them. But I showed some screenshots of
Speaker 1: my very first YouTube videos back in the day, and
Speaker 1: I also shared some screenshots, like photos of some businesses
Speaker 1: that I had attempted before I started Fate and I think,
Speaker 1: like did I think maybe? In the very first episode
Speaker 1: of Big Business Pod, I spoke a little bit about
Speaker 1: like other things that i'd done before Fate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've talked about the short lived beauty business and
Speaker 3: the even shorter lives phone case Debarcle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but just to give you a quick recap, like
Speaker 1: if you haven't listened to episode one A Big Business,
Speaker 1: which if you haven't, like go back and have a
Speaker 1: listen before I and not just for me, but you know,
Speaker 1: for a lot of business owners out there, Like you'll
Speaker 1: see business owners in twenty twenty five and everything they're doing,
Speaker 1: and you can often be like, oh wow, like you know,
Speaker 1: look at everything that this girl is doing, Look at
Speaker 1: everything that this person is doing. But what people don't
Speaker 1: see is like all the stuff that you had attempted
Speaker 1: earlier on. And so I took everyone in the audience
Speaker 1: along on the journey of all the things that I did,
Speaker 1: like years and years and years ago, like back in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, like Xander mentioned, and I'll just I won't
Speaker 1: bore you with the details. But in twenty thirteen, I
Speaker 1: attempted to start a few businesses. One of them was
Speaker 1: a spray tanning business where I was doing mobile spraytnds
Speaker 1: I had. I was living in a house where like
Speaker 1: the backsteps go because it's kind of on a slow
Speaker 1: peep block, and then you know how those houses have
Speaker 1: like a little brick room underneath the back of the stairs,
Speaker 1: like I set up a spray tanning business in there,
Speaker 1: and that one actually worked, like I got kind of
Speaker 1: busy Thursday nights, had all the girlies coming over for
Speaker 1: a fifteen dollars spray tan and then another one that
Speaker 1: I attempted in twenty thirteen, like this is.
Speaker 2: Over ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Was I thought I can sell iPhone cases, but instead
Speaker 1: of like making them, you know, actually my own iPhone cases.
Speaker 1: Like I went onto eBay because that's where you bought
Speaker 1: cheap stuff back then, and I bought plane iPhone cases.
Speaker 2: Then I went to Spotlight.
Speaker 1: I purchased all of these decorations like lace, pearls, gems,
Speaker 1: anything that I thought was beautiful, and I spent my
Speaker 1: own money on this. And then I sat there one
Speaker 1: night at my dining room table decorating these like with
Speaker 1: a hot glue gun, like putting all these decorations on
Speaker 1: iPhone cases. And then I tried to sell them on
Speaker 1: Facebook because like the Internet was so different back then,
Speaker 1: like I don't I don't know if shopify existed back then,
Speaker 1: who knows, but you know I had three or four
Speaker 1: hundred friends on Facebook, so I was like I could
Speaker 1: sell to these people, and so I posted this photo
Speaker 1: beautifully hand decorated iPhone cases for sale fifteen dollars each,
Speaker 1: and I didn't sell a single one. And there were
Speaker 1: so many other things that I did before I wound
Speaker 1: up where I am now, like with Fate and the
Speaker 1: cafe and everything. And I think it's really important to
Speaker 1: not compare yourself to other people. And I think in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, it's extremely easy to compare yourself to
Speaker 1: other people because of the way social media is now
Speaker 1: and how there's so many businesses out there, and everyone's
Speaker 1: on Instagram and TikTok, and there's hunt thousands of businesses
Speaker 1: out there. It's easy to look at what everyone else
Speaker 1: is doing and compare yourself to them and where they
Speaker 1: are on their journey. But I mean, for me, I
Speaker 1: started my entrepreneurial journey a very very long time ago,
Speaker 1: and it took me a lot of attempts to land
Speaker 1: on something which was fate that was the one that worked.
Speaker 1: That was the one that worked for me. And I
Speaker 1: spoke a lot about this in my talk, and I
Speaker 1: think it's just a good reminder don't look at other people,
Speaker 1: look at other people for inspiration. Absolutely follow people, admire
Speaker 1: what they do take notes and you know, learn from others,
Speaker 1: but again, don't compare yourself to them, because you're at
Speaker 1: a different point to them that they are in their journey,
Speaker 1: the same way that I would be at a different
Speaker 1: point in my journey compared to where you're at. And
Speaker 1: we've all been at different levels of our journey over
Speaker 1: the years, and it's just important to remember that you're
Speaker 1: on your own journey the same way that everyone else
Speaker 1: is on their own journey, and we're all at different
Speaker 1: at different points. Because if you get too caught up
Speaker 1: in comparing again, like you're just gonna delay, you're going
Speaker 1: to doubt yourself. And that was just another really important
Speaker 1: part of my talk is not everything starts out being
Speaker 1: amazing like you might see it is on social media today.
Speaker 1: Another big part of my talk was talking about risk taking,
Speaker 1: which I kind of already touched on in this episode already. Again,
Speaker 1: I think it all comes down to the belief in yourself.
Speaker 1: And like I mentioned earlier on every single thing that
Speaker 1: has happened in my career that has pushed me forward
Speaker 1: or pushed fate forward, is in a moment where I
Speaker 1: have recognized that I can say yes to something that
Speaker 1: scares the crap out of me, and I take a risk,
Speaker 1: and I think it's just really important to know that,
Speaker 1: you know, the classic saying without risk, there is no reward,
Speaker 1: Like we can't expect, especially in business, to grow or
Speaker 1: get more customers, or grow our following, or get new
Speaker 1: clients or whatever it may be. We can't just expect
Speaker 1: to sit.
Speaker 2: In the easy lane.
Speaker 1: I guess and expect that just because we own a business,
Speaker 1: things are going to come our way. It's when you
Speaker 1: take those risks that stuff will happen. And again, I
Speaker 1: think this goes back to you know, doing it scared
Speaker 1: and your fears. Everything that I've achieved has happened as
Speaker 1: a result of me taking a massive risk, and some
Speaker 1: of the moments that I speak about in my talk was,
Speaker 1: for example, when I moved out of my garage where
Speaker 1: I had my one employee and I signed my first
Speaker 1: ever commercial lease. It was then that we moved into
Speaker 1: a bigger space. That it opened the opportunity for our
Speaker 1: business to grow even bigger, because if you're limiting yourself
Speaker 1: in your space, we couldn't have grown any bigger in
Speaker 1: the garage. And it scared the crap out of me.
Speaker 1: That I was going to sign a commercial lease. I
Speaker 1: was terrified. It was twelve months long, and that scared
Speaker 1: me so much. You know, it was like a little lease.
Speaker 1: You know, mostual leases of five years, but the first
Speaker 1: one that I saw it was just a twelve month
Speaker 1: lease because it was like a little shed kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, like, I don't think I'm going
Speaker 1: to make it that twelve months, or like I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm going to be able to pay the rent
Speaker 1: for twelve months because I've also got to pay rent
Speaker 1: at home, and then I've got to pay like my
Speaker 1: one employee. But then we moved into that commercial space,
Speaker 1: I started paying rent there. I hired my second and
Speaker 1: third employee there, and all of a sudden, this snowball
Speaker 1: started happening, which couldn't have happened if I'd stayed in
Speaker 1: the safe like in the safety net of working in
Speaker 1: my garage. So you've got to do those scary things
Speaker 1: to then see the growth. That's when it happens. The
Speaker 1: growth doesn't happen if you're just staying in your comfort
Speaker 1: zone and not taking any risks. And I spoke a
Speaker 1: lot about that in my chat. Another thing that I
Speaker 1: spoke about is how long of a journey entrepreneurship can be?
Speaker 1: And someone actually asked me after the talk, would you
Speaker 1: say that it's a marathon or a sprint? And I said,
Speaker 1: it's a marathon, and sometimes you're sprinting in the marathon,
Speaker 1: like it's both. And I loved that question. He said, yeah,
Speaker 1: is business a marathon or a sprint? It's a marathon
Speaker 1: that never ends, I would say, and you have to
Speaker 1: be patient.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know nothing about marathons.
Speaker 1: I've never run. When have you ever been in a marathons? Andrew,
Speaker 1: I feel like you are the kind of person that
Speaker 1: would have been I haven't.
Speaker 4: I've only done bodybuilding.
Speaker 1: Wait what you haven't but you've done bodybuilding? Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: so rare.
Speaker 4: I just want to flex, no pun intended.
Speaker 1: Anything that you want to do, whether it's content creation,
Speaker 1: starting a business, starting anything. I think we've got to
Speaker 1: remind ourselves the importance of it. It's going to take
Speaker 1: a very long time. And where we live in this
Speaker 1: world now where we love instant gratification. You know, we
Speaker 1: buy something online, boom, it can be at your door
Speaker 1: the next day, Like you can do something on social
Speaker 1: media and put it out into the world so quickly,
Speaker 1: you know, like online shopping, like TikTok, everything so fast.
Speaker 1: I think we have become such impatient creatures with how
Speaker 1: much we can get whatever we want at the click
Speaker 1: of a button. When you're wanting to do something like
Speaker 1: start a business, you want the success to happen overnight,
Speaker 1: which I get because I'm an extremely impatient person. Business
Speaker 1: has taught me to become way more patient. And I
Speaker 1: have learned over the years that all Gond beings tag time.
Speaker 1: I know, that's like such a cliche fucking saying, but
Speaker 1: since like doing everything that I've done, all these cliche sayings,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, they're really true. And in
Speaker 1: my talk I spoke about how when I was twenty one,
Speaker 1: I quit my full time job.
Speaker 2: There was the risk that I took.
Speaker 1: You know, I think back then, because that was ten
Speaker 1: years ago or just over ten years ago. Now, my
Speaker 1: full time job was paying me five hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars a week after tax, and my dream back then
Speaker 1: was to earn a thousand dollars a week. My dream
Speaker 1: was to get a job that was fifty two grand
Speaker 1: a year, right, But I threw in the full time
Speaker 1: job there was the risk that I took. I had
Speaker 1: eighty thousand YouTube subscribers.
Speaker 2: I was earning just enough.
Speaker 1: Off that YouTube channel to get by, And by that,
Speaker 1: I mean I knew I was going to have zero
Speaker 1: dollars in my bank account at all times, like I
Speaker 1: was just going to have enough to pay rent in
Speaker 1: my sharehouse. I was going to have just enough to
Speaker 1: buy a couple of groceries. But I took that risk
Speaker 1: and I made it work. But it took me three
Speaker 1: years after that to get to a good point. It
Speaker 1: took me so long, And it's very different now because
Speaker 1: social media is I would say easier to grow on now,
Speaker 1: especially with TikTok, Like this is back in the YouTube days.
Speaker 1: But I quit my full time job when I was
Speaker 1: twenty one, and then for the next three years, I
Speaker 1: worked so hard on that YouTube channel. I was pumping
Speaker 1: out so much content every single week. And it's only
Speaker 1: me that had the power to do that. No one
Speaker 1: else was going to make that happen for me. And
Speaker 1: when I was twenty four, I hit a million subscribers,
Speaker 1: and it took me three years to get there. And
Speaker 1: same with Fate, Like Fate is turning eight this year
Speaker 1: and I still feel like we're just getting started, which
Speaker 1: I know we're not.
Speaker 2: Like I know we're you know, doing.
Speaker 1: Amazingly by this point, but especially for you know, I
Speaker 1: always talk about I've mentioned it on here as well.
Speaker 1: The first three years of Fate was a practice.
Speaker 2: Run for me.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until about three years in that I feel
Speaker 1: like Fate really started. Like for the first three years,
Speaker 1: I was just figuring shit out, doing everything wrong, and
Speaker 1: we didn't start to see like any real major success
Speaker 1: until three plus years in. And I think it's just
Speaker 1: important to give yourself grace and time when it comes
Speaker 1: to anything that you want to do. I know we're
Speaker 1: all so impatient. We want something tomorrow. If we order
Speaker 1: it online, we want it tomorrow. Thanks to Amazon, we've
Speaker 1: become so like.
Speaker 2: I don't know, needy, like I want it now.
Speaker 1: But if you want something bad enough, whether it's a
Speaker 1: career or a business or social media success or anything,
Speaker 1: you've got to remember you've got to be in it
Speaker 1: for the long haul, because nothing good will happen overnight.
Speaker 1: I mean it can if you're really fucking lucky and
Speaker 1: something goes viral, I don't know, but then it's probably
Speaker 1: not going to be sustainable.
Speaker 2: But just remember, all good things take time.
Speaker 1: I obviously can't run through my entire keynote speech in
Speaker 1: a podcast because you need the visuals, you need the slides.
Speaker 1: If you do, go back and listen to episode one
Speaker 1: of Big Business that's kind of the same theme. But
Speaker 1: to put the keynote speech in a nutshell, it's me
Speaker 1: telling my story from the very beginning. I even go
Speaker 1: back and talk about all the jobs that I had
Speaker 1: back in the day, which I think is in episode
Speaker 1: one of Big Business from memory, it was like a
Speaker 1: while ago.
Speaker 2: Have we been doing big Business for a year?
Speaker 4: Yet it will be a year next month, I believe. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Oh we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Have to get a cake. Yeah, we have to get
Speaker 2: a cake and do a fun little.
Speaker 4: Post happy first birthday ass.
Speaker 1: But the keynote is the story of how I did
Speaker 1: absolutely everything, and I'd love to, Like it's got me thinking,
Speaker 1: like I'd love to just take this keynote and like
Speaker 1: turn it into an event of my own and like
Speaker 1: travel around and kind of turn it into some sort
Speaker 1: of event where it's not just like me telling my story,
Speaker 1: but like do my own kind of inspirational slash business
Speaker 1: slash content slash Women Slash Powerful event. I feel like
Speaker 1: that'd be a dream of mine. But it's just me
Speaker 1: sharing my story, and I think the overall consensus of
Speaker 1: it is that it's inspiring and you can do anything
Speaker 1: if you just start and just do that first thing
Speaker 1: that you're scared of doing. That was a whole theme
Speaker 1: of my chat, and the feedback that I got was
Speaker 1: just everyone saying that they were feeling so inspired. And
Speaker 1: I had this one woman come up to me afterwards.
Speaker 1: She said that she was nearly fifty and that she
Speaker 1: like she was quite stylish, and she said, I've been
Speaker 1: wanting to, you know, create like fashion content for someone
Speaker 1: you know, my age and my size, because I just
Speaker 1: don't feel like there's enough representation on social media. And
Speaker 1: she said that she's been you know, creating videos but
Speaker 1: then like not posting them and just hanging on to
Speaker 1: them because she's just worried that you know, they'll flop
Speaker 1: or she's worried what people will say, and she's like,
Speaker 1: but after like hearing your talk today, like I'm going
Speaker 1: to start, I'm just going to start posting. And when
Speaker 1: it comes to content creation, especially if you're starting out,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people's fears are around the numbers.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to post because I'm scared
Speaker 1: it or flop. And I say in my talk, who
Speaker 1: cares if it flops? No one saw it anyway? Who
Speaker 1: cares if it flops? No one saw it anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: And no one's fixating on the number of views more
Speaker 1: than you.
Speaker 2: And if someone is, like, if someone that you know
Speaker 2: is looking at.
Speaker 1: Your account, be like that only got one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty views, then what the fuck are they doing with
Speaker 1: their life?
Speaker 2: Like, what are they doing? How much spare time are they? God,
Speaker 2: if they're.
Speaker 1: Worrying about that, But trust me, you're the one that's
Speaker 1: worrying the most.
Speaker 2: And again, we all started there.
Speaker 1: I started making those YouTube videos in high school and
Speaker 1: my videos were getting one hundred views and it was
Speaker 1: just the kids in my school making fun of me.
Speaker 1: But I didn't worry about that. Yeah, I was a
Speaker 1: little bit scared, but I just did it anyway. And
Speaker 1: look at all the shit that I've done because I
Speaker 1: just started posting those videos even though they were crap,
Speaker 1: they were embarrassing, they were cringe. Another thing that I
Speaker 1: said in the talk, it's cringe until it's not cringe anymore.
Speaker 1: It's cringe until it starts working. We all started out cringe.
Speaker 1: I'm still cringe today actually, like And another thing that
Speaker 1: I loved was Jimmy Reese also did a talk before me,
Speaker 1: and if you don't know who he is, you've probably
Speaker 1: seen his viral videos on TikTok and Instagram, but also
Speaker 1: for ten years he was the host on Giggle and
Speaker 1: Hoot on ABC, which is a kid's show where he
Speaker 1: talked to.
Speaker 2: The puppet on the set kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And his talk was really fun and engaging, and he's
Speaker 1: a comedian as well, so it was making me go, fuck,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get up there and be funny
Speaker 1: because he was before me and had everyone cracking up.
Speaker 1: But he just said, you know, don't be afraid to
Speaker 1: be an idiot, and I completely agre with that. I've
Speaker 1: always been an idiot on the internet. And again, you
Speaker 1: could be worried, like, oh, if you're being silly on
Speaker 1: the internet, who's gonna judge me?
Speaker 2: What are they going to say?
Speaker 1: But just be an idiot, have fun, and even if
Speaker 1: you're scared, post the thing anyway or do the thing.
Speaker 1: This doesn't just apply to content creation. That was the
Speaker 1: whole theme of the talk. I absolutely loved it. And
Speaker 1: in the lead up, you know, I was experiencing a
Speaker 1: little bit of nerves, like you know when you kind
Speaker 1: of commit to something and then you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: why did I do this? And then you start, you know,
Speaker 1: questioning whether you are capable of doing it. But I
Speaker 1: just did it, even if I was a little bit scared.
Speaker 1: And then you step off the stage and you're like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, I did it, and I actually loved that.
Speaker 1: So stay tuned. Honestly, I'd love to do more of
Speaker 1: this public speaking thing and kind of turn it into
Speaker 1: a big event. I mean, this is just an idea
Speaker 1: that's in my head right now. So don't get too excited.
Speaker 1: Shout out to FUJIFILM. Don't think they'd be listening. But
Speaker 1: it was a great event and it was very inspiring,
Speaker 1: and it was so fun that it was at Luna Park,
Speaker 1: of all places.
Speaker 2: Have you been lately, Xander?
Speaker 4: I have a fun fact.
Speaker 3: So when I was twenty eight years old, Yeah, so
Speaker 3: Lunar Park used to be shut down. Yeah, so for
Speaker 3: a few years it was shut down for I don't
Speaker 3: remember why, but we knew the guy that operated it
Speaker 3: or owned it or something like that. Anyway, they opened
Speaker 3: up Luna Park for me and five friends on my
Speaker 3: eighth birthday and we had the whole park wow for.
Speaker 4: My eighth birthday. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nut. What a good memory.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I feel like they need to do more. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they do, but like it's a really cool place.
Speaker 1: And so the talk that I did was in like
Speaker 1: the big top tent kind of thing and apparently they've
Speaker 1: recently done that up in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Like it was amazing the venue. We might have to
Speaker 1: do an event there.
Speaker 4: Big business at Luna Park. Yeah, yeah, live recording.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, thank you so much to any of you listening
Speaker 1: that did come along on the day. There was a
Speaker 1: thousand seats and it was full both days, so that
Speaker 1: was super cool. And and he instead of being scared
Speaker 1: and doing things anyway, And as always, I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Leave you with a Tip of the week.
Speaker 1: I feel like we honestly need to change this stand
Speaker 1: up because I give that many tips the whole episode,
Speaker 1: Like what's the point of having a tip at the end?
Speaker 3: I love Tip of the week so much.
Speaker 1: Let me think, let me think, Okay, I've got a
Speaker 1: tip of the week for you, which has got nothing
Speaker 1: to do with anything I've been talking about. But if
Speaker 1: you make content, you're gonna love this. Because I only
Speaker 1: just learned about it. The editing app cap cut, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you use. I love inshot better,
Speaker 1: but cap cut does have a lot more features. Cap
Speaker 1: cut has this feature called transcribe or transcript.
Speaker 2: I don't know what one it is. It's one of those.
Speaker 1: And essentially, just say you make a video of yourself
Speaker 1: and you're sitting there talking for ten minutes, or maybe
Speaker 1: you're like doing a try on hole or whatever for
Speaker 1: ten minutes, and there's like, you've got ten minutes a
Speaker 1: footage that you need to cut down into three minutes.
Speaker 1: You can put that whole video into cap cut, the
Speaker 1: ten minute thing, and then you hit the transcribe button.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's transcribe, and then it will edit
Speaker 1: it for you. It will then take that ten minute video.
Speaker 1: It will cut out all the like the moments where
Speaker 1: you're not saying anything.
Speaker 2: It will cut out you saying. It will cut out
Speaker 2: you saying.
Speaker 1: Like if you like say hey everyone welcome, Oh wait,
Speaker 1: hey everyone, welcome. It will take out the first one
Speaker 1: because it knows that you repeated yourself to sound better
Speaker 1: the second time. So then it will take like a
Speaker 1: ten minute video and chop it down way shorter, and
Speaker 1: you will save so much time editing.
Speaker 4: Oh cut should sponsor the parodophy.
Speaker 2: Should So that's my tip of the week.
Speaker 1: If you do content creation where you need to edit
Speaker 1: your footage, use that transcribe feature.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's.
Speaker 1: What it's called. I don't think it's transcript anyway. That's
Speaker 1: my tip of the week, and a very useful one
Speaker 1: at that. Oh and remember to chase after your dreams
Speaker 1: as if they are you money.