Camera Confidence - Presentation & Public Speaking on Video

1. Introduction: Hi and welcome to this class. Let's get straight into it. This class is all about feeling confident in front of camera. If you've ever felt awkward, nervous and not like yourself once the camera turns on, I totally get it. And I was there, too. Seven years ago, I started with zero followers, zero experience, and I had no idea what I was doing. Honestly, if you scroll down through all of my videos, you go to see that I look and feel. Like, I'm a 12-year-old, who has no idea what she's talking about. My journey from being super shy in front of the camera to actually standing in front of thousands of people with thousands of followers was not easy. I converted to Islam. It was a new way that I wanted to represent myself, and I didn't know how to make social media work for me and my personality and my values. On top of it, I was super scared about what people might think, especially coworkers, even classmates, even my family. But I knew I had something to share. And if I wanted to get to this huge vision of my seven figure personal brand, then I couldn't get around not making videos. So I just kept showing up. I kept recording and suddenly, to change. I had a lot of mentoring. It was a huge process and it took me seven years to get to this point. I want to make sure that it doesn't take that long for you. Over time, I figured out what works for me, not trying to copy others or trying to be a different person in front of the camera, but just me. And it worked out. I became a keynote speaker. I have hundreds of thousands of followers online. I have my own business. But what makes me most grateful and proud is that I help other women now to build their own personal I can tell you if I can do this, if they can do this, then you can, too. Being confident in front of cameras, speaking to people is one of the most important skills that you can have these days. And especially if you ever had the same dreams as me, to become known and get paid to be who you are. It's how you build an audience, how you attract your dream opportunities to you and even maybe at some point, speak on stages in front of 100 thousands of people. It's how you build a personal brand, attract the right audience, clients, opportunities. And no, there's no such thing as this person is just made for the camera versus this person isn't. It's all about practice and having those few tricks that people who are confident in front of camera know. And in this class, I'm going to break everything down step by step, super simple. Each section will have a task for you to complete, and I want you to actually complete this task because nothing can be done with attached to this class, it's also a Chiechi that you can download for free, where you can get everything you learn in this course, plus more links that I'm referring to, plus more tips and tricks to be confident in front of camera. And I highly recommend you to do the project and share it in the project and resources tab. If at any point you have any questions or need feedback, you can always share those in the discussion tab of this class. And remember, your story matters. So let's get started, and I can't wait to see you on the other side. See inside. 2. Mindset: Welcome to the mindset section. And why do we start with mindset? It's because it's very simple. A lot of confidence starts from within. And one of the things that I need you to remember is that we are not born with insecurities. We are learning to be insecure. And that's what we need to change the tape. So when you wake up in the morning and you step in front of the camera, if all of your past experiences wouldn't be there, if all of the negative experiences, all of the thoughts of people like, Oh, what is this person gonna think? What is this person gonna comment? How do I actually look on camera? Do I look beautiful enough? If all of these things jump in your head, the first thing first time the camera comes on, or if you feel like, Hey, I am one person off camera and I'm a totally different person on camera, and I feel like I don't even recognize myself, then that's probably because your mindset is not in the right place. And we're gonna change that. 3. Imitate: The first mindset shift I need you to have is, you know, when people always tell you to be confident on camera, you need to fake it till you make it. You don't, because people feel if you fake it on camera. They feel if you're not yourself. And you don't feel good about it, either. So here's what we need to do. Instead of fake it till you make it, you imitate until you become. Don't imitate another person, but the future version of yourself. So ask yourself, who's that future version? I always like to start with a vision board of who she is, how she dresses, how she walks, how she talks, how she puts her makeup on whatever it is, it's always easier to first envision someone the future version of yourself. You can literally take a pinta sport and start taking references from your favorite TV icons or your favorite characters from movies or books or a celebrity that you look up to, and you're like, Okay, I would like to dress like her. Like, my future version dresses like her. My future version has a makeup like her. And for me, I always like to go to, like, all of the references in my entire life. So I imagine my future self to be, for example, a mixture of Jessica Pearson from suits or someone royal or someone that I see on social media. You always have to ask yourself, how does your future self look like? It can start with a vision board on Pintos literally from references of idols and people that you see on TV. But then you need to make it more concrete about who are you in the future. How do you look? How do you walk? Do you talk? Do you dress? And I want you to be super specific. You can write down a bunch of adjectives like elegant or premium or even quirky or Bohemian, the way that she speaks, is it confident? Is it calm? Does she have a calm voice? Or does she have a huge presence or does she have a super bubbly way of speaking, and she makes everyone laugh. You want to have a very clear vision of your future self. Start with the vision board and then write down the biggest adjectives that you think she has. And then I want you in everything that we're doing today. And every time the camera comes on, every time you're speaking in front of people on a stage, doesn't matter where you are. Imagine that future version of yourself and then imitate her. The person that I am today is not me right now. It's me envisioning, imitating my future version. The person that I am today, I was imitating her a year ago, okay? And today I'm imitating a different person. The version of myself that is M plus one year. So you always want to think about how would she dress? How would she talk? How would she use her hands? What kind of words would she use? How would she phrase something? W instead of trying to sound smart, she would make it super specific and simple. Okay? So always ask yourself a future version of yourself and then imitate her. That's the first mindset shift. Let's get to the next one. 4. Perfect is Dead: The second message of I want you to think about is no one likes perfect. This is for all of my perfectionists out there that think, I have to just, like, look great. I never stumble over my words. I never say something wrong. Did you hear me say five words wrong in the last video? Yeah, right? And it's fine. I'm not re recording this. Because I am me, and I am imperfect, and that's fine. Perfect worked seven years ago. It doesn't work anymore today. People are bored. They are fatigue from people just looking amazing all the time, speaking amazing all the time, sounding like they're like, they're reading from a book. No. You don't have to sound smarter. You don't have to sound more intellectual. You don't have to say every word perfectly. Of course, we want to get you to a point where you don't say or like or these filler words all the time. But let yourself stumble over words. That's totally fine. It adds personality, and it breaks the pattern. So when you scroll through social media and everyone looks perfect, and then there's a person that embraces themselves, you instantly want to give them attention. You instantly want to connect with them. Think about the most confident people in your life. What do they all have in common? And I can tell you, they embrace their insecurities. They don't try to be perfect all the time. When you see someone speaking on stage, they're probably cracking some jokes. If you talk to someone, probably a mentor of yours, they embrace that they maybe were wrong. They are not afraid to say, I don't know this. Let me figure it out. Don't try to be perfect all the time. It's boring. It doesn't work anymore. So that is the mindset shift that I need you to take. What can you embrace about yourself? That's not necessarily perfect or how do you say this all the time, like scripted or crated. You want to embrace the fun parts that happen. And I'm going to show you also in the ewingRcording section of this course, how that's going to translate on camera. 5. Fear of being Seen: Here's how you get over the fear of being seen. And I know you've probably watched a bunch of YouTube videos about how to get over the fear of being seen and be noticed, whatever. And it was, like, very inspirational. But I want to give you a very practical tip. I give this tip to everyone, and I swear by it. Literally, every single day I tell people to do this. And it's this. Let me tell you the reason why you're scared to post on social media, why you're scared to start that business, why you're scared to, like, just open your mouth, literally, just talk and say your opinions. It's because you are thinking about all the people that are going to see this video. You're thinking about that classmate that you barely remember the last name. You're thinking about the co worker that might have something to say about you going on social media and how cringe this is. And what about your little side hustle, interesting? Or you're thinking about your auntie who might come on social media and look at you and be like, why are you not getting a real job? And you're thinking about every single person except the people that actually matter. We're talking about the people that actually matter Later, but for now, I want to get rid of all those people. And when I say get rid of them, I mean, actually, get rid of them. Throw them out of your house and on social media or if you're on camera. If you're doing anything on the Internet, it means block them. If anyone is holding you back from posting, because you're overthinking how you look in front of them, you have to block them. I know you're gonna say, Oh, but they will notice, no one will notice. Everyone is just focused on themselves, literally. They couldn't care less. You know, that's why when we have a group picture, you're in high school, and you did these group class pictures with everyone on your class on the picture. Guess what happens when everyone sees the picture of the class photo. You could be sneezing. There could be water running down your outfit. You could be on fire. No one would notice because everyone is just looking at themselves on the picture. And it's the same thing online. It's the same thing in your real life. So stop caring about what people think. I know it sounds. So hard to do. It's very easy. Block them. Block them from your social media. You can unblock them later on when you feel like, Oh, I became my confident self, and I'm fine now. I can unblock them. Sure, unblock them. Block them for now. Also, don't worry about hate comments. Why? Because you can block the haters. It's very simple. Please, your block button is your best friend. Think about the mean block, block, ka blocker. It's literally your best friend. I use the block button every day if someone annoys me, if someone is rude in the comments, if someone is rude to my followers in the comments. Blocked. Someone just so like, little hate in the comments blocked. I I don't need negativity in my life. And I don't need to overthink what I post. If I believe in what I say, I shouldn't be thinking about a random person on the Internet that has nothing else to do than hate, okay? So please use the block button as your everyday friend. Um, trust me, it's gonna change your life. 6. Whose Opinion Matters: Now I told you who doesn't matter. Now we need to talk about whose opinion actually matters. And there's only two people whose opinion matters. That is your 9-year-old self and your 90-year-old self. Your 9-year-old self, think about her and all the things that she wanted from life. Are you kind to her, or are you still telling her, you're not good enough? You're not smart enough. You're not pretty enough. How are you speaking to that 9-year-old self? Because she's still inside here. Think about her and who she would look up to, and then you need to step into that person. That 9-year-old self, did she say she's going to be the most confident person in the world? Is she Did she say that she's gonna change people's lives, that she's actually going to do something for the better? Then do that. And don't that insecurity of someone telling you at 14, your hair looks messy, hold you back from posting that video or sharing your message. The next person that's important to think about is your 90-year-old self. When you are lying in your bed with your grandchildren around you, your 90-year-old self, is she gonna say, I'm so glad I listened to everyone's opinion and never tried anything. I'm so glad that I just went with my insecurities and never created any videos because why would I even share my message? It was worth it never to share my opinion. No, obviously not. She's going to say, I'm glad I didn't listen to people who wanted to put me down. I'm glad I didn't listen to that person that told me I'm not good enough. I'm glad I shared my message because even if I help ten people, probably I helped 1,000. But even those ten people would have been worth it. I'm glad I overcame my fears. I'm glad I did something to step out of my comfort zone. Okay? So the only two people that you need to please is your 9-year-old self and you're 90 yearself. And the other thought that I want you to have when you're talking to your 9-year-old self and your 19-year-old self is there are so many people on the Internet that have attention for the wrong reasons. And they use that attention for the wrong reasons. They manipulate people, they lie to people, they scan people. So are you going to just sit back and let them do it because they have the confidence to press record and post the video? Or are you going to be the one that says, I want to be one of the positive voices that actually wants to change something for the better? And in your everyday life, you can literally think of that. If you are feeling uncomfortable getting out of your comfort zone, think about what your 19-year-old self would do, like, say to you right now. Girl, get your butt up, record that video, stop caring about other people's opinions. And what would you say to your 9-year-old self? I can literally do this exercise. You can print out a picture of your 9-year-old self. You can put it on the mirror where you usually do your makeup or your skincare. You can flap it on the mirror and look at her every morning and then talk to her, because the way that you talk to yourself sometimes it's not how you would be talking to a 9-year-old self if she would be standing in the room with you. So be kind to yourself and talk to yourself as if you're your best friend. Those two changes are going to make the huge difference. So always think about those two people they are the ones that actually matter. 7. External vs Internal: There's a difference between external confidence and internal confidence. A lot of times when people say fake it till you make it, they are actually referring to external confidence. How do you imitate? How do you fake this person? How do you look people into the eye and you have specific posture, and you have a smile, you hold eye contact, you move your hands. All of these things are important, and we're going to go into that because external confidence has very practical exercises you can do that will make a huge difference in how you appear and how you feel why you speak. But you also want to have internal confidence. You don't want to just act like you're confident. You actually want to be confident. And all of the things that we're doing is not just to look like you're the most confident person in the room. It's to become the most confident person in the room. So what's the difference? External confidence is basically your presence. How do you show up? How do you look? Do you hold eye contact when you speak to people? Do you smile when you speak? Do you have a underlying smile? Talk about this later a little bit more. How about your posture? How about your hand gestures? How do you walk? What, what does your face reflect while you're speaking? Internal confidence is you're actually being confident, and that's going to take some time. But I'm a very practical person, and if you know me, I'm going to give you exercises. So even internal confidence has very specific things that you can do to get there. Number one, work out. I know this sounds external. Like, this is, like, how I look, how my body looks. No, no, no. This is how you feel. I have never met a person that works out regularly and does not exude in confidence. When you work out, you prove to yourself, you prove to your body that you can get out of your comfort zone. And it's that connection between your mind and your body that is so important. Next, journaling. Journaling is a really great exercise to build internal confidence, reflecting on how was my date? How did I react in this situation? Why did I feel like I was not confident here? Why did I feel like I couldn't speak out in this situation? Journaling is really important because you're reflecting on your actions. You're reflecting on your feelings and reflecting on your reactions. Okay. So joning' gonna be the next one. Next, trusting your own opinion, how can you actively trust your own opinion? By not asking other people for their opinion all of the time. If you want to build real confidence, don't constantly ask people for things you already know. If you know, okay, these two pictures, I really like them, why would you show them to someone else? Do you like this one or this one more? Do I look nice here? Do I like Why? Give yourself reassurance. You know you like yourself here. You know, you look good. Why would you ask someone else, should I post this video? Should I post this image? If internally, you actually know? A lot of times we ask people for advice that we already know the answer. We already know what we want to do, but we just need reassurance from someone else. Trust yourself to make decisions on your own. Next, affirmations. I've always thought, like, affirmations is this woo woo thing that people do. And it doesn't really work. I also felt really stupid talking to myself into the mirror. But the way that I do affirmations is actually listen to affirmations. And I remember, actually, the way that I used to learn a lot was to listen. I like audiobooks way more than reading. I like listening to speeches way more than watching them. And so whenever I feel like I need some confidence, I just put affirmations on YouTube and I just listen to them. I also like to fall asleep with them, whether that's anything that I want to work on, whether that's confidence or feeling lucky or gratitude, whatever affirmations you feel like you need in that moment right now, I always recommend put it on YouTube and just lay down in bed and sleep. It's literally going to be ingrained in your mind, and it's subconsciously speaking to you. So it's not really about your conscience, not you, but you actually having to repeat the words. That's the next level. I don't actually do this. Like I said, I feel stupid doing it. That's also something I need to work on. But I like to listen to them, so my subconscious keeps listening to those words and imagining that those are real. And if you want some information, I'm going to send you a list of my favorite that you can just play like a playlist or listen to whether that's before you record or just at night when you go to sleep. 8. Reps: The most important mindset shift is probably that it's gonna take time, and you have to put the reps in. So there's two parts of this. Number one, you have to put the reps and you have to just do it more. I'm my first ever YouTube video below, and you can see how much of a baby I was, how I was speaking, how I was talking, how I was presenting myself. It was very, very different to the person I am today. And that's the whole point. I never delete videos because I feel like they're cringe. I only delete videos if I feel like I don't I don't actually believe in what I said anymore, or I feel like it was wrong, it was proven wrong or whatever. But I never delete videos because I think it's cringe. So you can actually scroll through my social media. You can scroll through my YouTube and watch me talk like a baby. Seven years ago. Because when I started, I didn't have the confidence. I didn't know how to use my hands. I didn't know how to speak. I didn't even know who I was. And the more I put the wraps in, the more I developed my personal style. The more I developed confidence because confidence is not something that you just decide to have, and then you have it. It's something that you need to train. Okay. So how do you train? Now, you can put the reps in in terms of time. Like, I create one video a week for the next five years, and in five years, you're going to be a confidence speaker. Or you can shorten the time and increase the quantity, the actual repetition, the rep right? If you repeat something over and over, if you record five videos every day for the next three months, you're going to be probably more confident than if you record one video a week for the next year. So just trust yourself to put the repetition, the reps in, and it could be in a short amount of time or long. It really depends on you. If you have a goal to be the most confident person, in the next quarter, then I recommend you to record at least three videos every single day. You don't even have to post them. You just record them because the more that you put yourself in front of camera, the more that you speak, the more that you express yourself, the more that you will feel like yourself, and the more confident you will get to actually do that in the long term. 9. Task: Now let's talk about the checklist of tasks that I need you to do to really nail that mindset. Number one, I want you to write down three qualities that your future self has. You can also link your future self vision board below, but I want you to write down at least three qualities that she has so you know how to imitate her because imitating your future self not fake it until we make it, we imitate until we become. That's going to be the biggest mindset shift and the biggest attitude that we need to have throughout this entire journey. Number two, I wanted to create a list of five personal affirmations to read before recording. Again, if it sounds cringe, don't even wear. You don't have to read it out loud. You can just read it. Okay? You can also record it in your own voice and then listen to it, but I want you to write down at least five. And then I want you to record for 2 minutes. Every single day for one week. You don't need to edit it, you don't need to post it anywhere. I just want you to record a two minute video every single day for the next week, just so you talking. Now, here's an extra tip. You can either sit down in a cozy environment, grab a cup of coffee or tea and just, like, sit down if you're speaking to your friend, or you can go for a walk and record yourself while you're walking because anytime we're doing something while we're speaking, we're much more ourselves and we forget to fix it. So those are the tasks that you need to do before you jump to the next session. 10. Before Recording: Now let's talk about what you do before you record. This is going to be a very clear checklist of what you should be doing before you even hit record before the day of recording and where we're going through your plan, your setup, scripting, anything that you should be finishing before you even start talking to the camera. So let's get into it. 11. Plan Ahead: First of all, you want to plan ahead. And this is what I mean by planning ahead. You need to organize your calendar. If you have a nine to five and you are posting on social media, you're creating videos on the side, you need to choose a day where you feel like, or, you know, you have time and you have mind space. If you do this, if you hire an entrepreneur and you just have time, still, please organize a time block on your calendar. I'm not a huge time blocking person unless it pertains to recording and actually shooting content. You need to organize. So your calendar should be blocked. Very, very important. It will always take more time than you think. Even though I'm going to give you all of the ways to set up and prep and, like, be more specific and effective before we're talking about before recording right now, it's always gonna take more time. So I want you to manage your kids. I want you to manage distractions if anyone is, you know, coming over to clean or do groceries or I don't know if something needs to be fixed in your house and there's gonna be drilling in the background. Huh Please plan that ahead because we're gonna hear it on your recording. So it's always gonna take more time. That is the biggest rule. It's always gonna take more time than you think. So you want to minimize distractions and block your time. Tell everyone in the house that you're gonna be busy at this time to record. 12. Clothes: Okay, first of all, prep your outfit, okay? You want to prep what you're wearing on camera before the day even begins, okay? So you want to get something that makes you feel confident that looks premium. The rule is always if it looks premium in real life, it will look normal on camera. You know, when people always say, like, we will add four kibos to the camera once you hit record, I don't know. But you definitely need to figure out your clothes because some clothes look very beautiful in real life, and then they look cheap on camera. Okay? So you want to prep your outfits, you can also just like, do some test recordings the day before. Where you look how the outfit actually looks on camera. You want to pick an outfit that you feel confident in, and then you want to prep it. What I mean with prep is no stains, make sure it's clean. And make sure it's iron. A lot of times you look bad on camera, not because you look bad, but your clothes are unirn or they look sloppy. Okay? So please prepare that the day before. And once you have that day, you can just get a rack and hang the clothes, hang it in your closet, have a place for your clothes. I always like to have recording outfits that I know look good on camera that I know I will feel confident in while recording. So prep that outfit the day before. 13. Setup: Next, you want to prep your gear. What I mean is camera phone, tripod, lights, mic, make sure everything is charged. Okay, very, very important. So that it doesn't die in between. Make sure all your camera and phone storage is empty. So you don't get a storage full sign in between recording. That is so annoying, and it's something that's really going to distract you from shooting. Make sure all of your recording equipment is prepped. You can also already set it up. What I like to do is actually set it up in a way that I feel like in the next day I just have to click Record. I can set up the mic. I can set up the camera. I can set up the lights. And if I have kids in the house, and they run around. And since I have kids, I can't you know, I can't do that anymore that much. I will put notes on the floor. So you can literally put a tape on the floor for it. This is where the camera is. This is where the tripod is. This is where the lighting is, and have that already on the floor. So the next day, you don't need to go back and forth the whole time. Am I in frame, am I in frame? No. You have the chair where you're sitting on. You have the tape on the floor where the camera goes, and you just have to set it up, okay? So gear is the most important number one. You have no excuses not to record. Because like, Oh, my my batteries, no. You have no excuses because you prepped everything. You feel less stressed on the day because you can actually focus on talking, speaking, performing instead of gear and camera and equipment, especially if you're not a tech person like me. And you feel like you're comfortable. You're not sweaty, right? I used to do everything the day. I was very unorganized, and I felt like I looked stressed and sweaty in the video because I kept running back and forth to see if I'm in frame. Okay? So, make sure it's all prepped the day before. I'll give you so much more confidence. 14. Script: Something else to think about is obviously your script or what you're going to say in the video. So you have two options, and we're going to talk about this on the day of recording or while you're recording. But you have the option of having an actual scripted script where you just saying everything word sentence by sentence or having notes. So you need to This is something that you need to learn by yourself. I tried with teleprompter before. Don't like it doesn't look good. I like scripting everything before. I do like that in short form videos. But if I do long form videos, I just do notes. So you have to feel, again, put the reps in. You have to feel what feels good to you. Important here is, I want you to remember with your script to be as specific as possible. If you feel sometimes we don't feel good on camera because the way that we speak is not actually the way that we speak in real life. So the way that we speak on camera is like, it sounds written, it sounds smart. It sounds, you know, intellectual, but it's actually not how we speak. And the way that we change that really easily is to be specific. What do I mean by that? Names, locations, days, times of days, tell us stories. I always think about it, like in comedy. If you would tell me the joke, I slipped and fell. That would not be a fun. That would not be a joke. Just sounds like a sad story. But if you tell me, I came back from work and I was so tired and I just wanted to take a shower. So I put the microwave on. I took a shower, and I was just, like, full of soap and the phone ring. And I knew I had to take the phone call because I'm waiting for a call from the school for the kids. So I went out, and the next thing I see is the ceiling. Why? I slipped on a banana peel that my 2-year-old threw on the floor in the morning chaos. And I literally slipped and fell and broke a leg. Now, I'm not a comedian, but that was much more interesting than I fell. I slipped and fell, okay? And it's gonna stick in your mind, okay? When you hear jokes, what makes a joke good is the details. So when you script or when you put notes or whatever you want to talk about, think about stories in your life that happened. Think about specific days. So not that one day I just felt like I needed to change something and I needed to work on my motivation, get out of my comfort zone. No, tell us, it was a Tuesday afternoon. It was winter. You were so depressed from 14 days of no sun, gray sky, and you felt like you were just eating takeout food for the last three months and blah, blah blah blah blah. You want to give us specifics, time, the day, exactly how you felt. Describe how you felt, maybe even what you wore, the names of the people that were with you, be specific. The more specific you are, the less you can be as the less you can sound smart. It's just gonna make you feel like you're more like yourself. Okay? So when you script, this is going to be important before you record, be as specific as you can. 15. Sleep: The next is beauty sleep. I know it sounds so basic, but you need to sleep properly the day before you record. I have this so many times where I just have ideas and things just float around in my head. It's okay. At least be in bed when you write those ideas down. Do not prolong the night. Do not watch Netflix until two in the morning. We're going to see your ibags and you're going to feel so miserable on the day that you record. So on the day that you record, obviously, you want to minimize stress, so don't have too many meetings. Don't have too many situations if you can, where you need to, like, give you energy to other people because you want to give all that energy to the camera. And you want to have enough sleep the night before. So you feel energized and you feel good. And for better sleep, please avoid your phone 15 minutes before you go to sleep. I always ask people always ask me, How do you wake up early? How do you You set an alarm, not for waking up, you set an alarm for going to bed. Okay? So actually ask yourself, what time would I need to go to bed to have my best beauty sleep in the entire world. If it's 9:00 P.M. Put an alarm for 9:00 P.M. And be in bed by then. 16. Tasks: So let's now talk about the task you should be doing on the day of recording. Number one, I want you to have a pre created playlist that is energizing, like an energizing playlist that you have ready to record. Number two, I want you to practice your makeup routine, so already buy all the stuff that you have for that day of recording, and then practice the makeup already and start recording a short Instagram story, for example, to see how you feel and look. Number three, I want you to set up a calming filming environment. So this is about romanticizing your environment. Either get some flowers. You can even pick them from the field. I don't care. You can set up your candle. You can have your warm tea ready, whatever you feel like is romanticizing the entire process because that's going to help you really enjoy the day. 17. Day of Recording: Let's talk about what you should be doing on the day of recording. Okay? So here we're going to walk through the most important things to prep before you hit record on the exact day. No, we've talked about how to prepare the day before. Now, it's about how do we make this day enjoyable? How do we make ourselves confident while we record? So we have the space set up. We have ourselves set up to be the most confident version of ourselves. Let's get into it. 18. Romanticize: First of all, you want to man to size it. What do you mean by this? A lot of times we procrastinate on things, not because we are lazy. It's because they do feel like a chore. Like, if we record and if we feel like the process of recording feels particularly difficult, then we don't like it or we don't have the right attitude, and on camera, you will see it and you feel like you're not confident. But it's actually just how you set up the space. So you want to set the space to be as beautiful as possible, especially as women, we like things to be beautiful in order to enjoy it. So buy yourself flowers, set up a candle. Light some like, make the light beautiful. Get yourself a nice cozy drink. Like, try not to starve yourself before recording. Get yourself a nice maybe, like, oatmeal cookie and a warm hot chocolate or a warm tea. So you feel like the space is set up, it's clean. It's beautiful. I always like to have the space where, of course, please make sure it's clean. There's no clutter in the background and make sure that there's something beautiful there. It could be candles, it could be flowers. It could be moving a plant from one room to your room where you're recording. Just make sure that you feel nice and beautiful in the space. The more romantic it feels, the better you can perform and the more you actually feel like doing it. And we will see your energy on camera. 19. Health: Okay, I hope I don't need to say this too loud, but please make sure you have proper breakfast, lunch. Whatever time of day you're recording, you are well fed and you drank enough. Now, don't over drink, don't over eat. This is something that you will feel yourself, but I always feel like if I feel a little bit hungry when I record, I perform better because then I'm a I'm just more there, and I feel like, Okay, after that, I'm going to have a really nice meal. But I have snacks in between, so please prepare some fruits or some, like, high protein snacks on the side, drink enough, make sure if you have a proper breakfast before, okay? Don't start recording first thing in the morning without breakfast. Okay? You're gonna feel faint tea, and you're gonna feel like you don't have energy to actually perform. Like I said, I personally like to be like to not be full when I record, but do make sure you have enough food in you once you record. 20. Hype: Next, listen to a motivational speech before you record. I always like to hype myself a little bit up, so I turn on a YouTube video that is super motivational or just a motivational speech. Whether that's a 1 minute or 5 minutes, it doesn't really matter just to get myself into the energy of performing. This could be music. This could be speeches. I don't listen to music. So for me, it's literally like, one of the biggest cringy motivational speeches out there, but it kind of gets me in the mode of just recording and being there and sharing my knowledge. So do that, get your favorite ones there. You can even create a playlist for yourself, but get yourself a little bit hyped up in that energy of recording. 21. Makeup: Next is makeup. I know it's going to be controversial, but if you look bad on camera, sometimes it's because you put too much makeup. I used to do this. I used to have a whole base of makeup with literally, like, the base and then contour and everything. More is more, right? No, sometimes I looked dirty on camera, literally. And the way that we women, especially feel good, if we look good on camera. A lot of times when we put the right makeup, we actually look edited. I used to over edit my videos to a point where I looked like a doll because I wanted my skin to look nicer, smoother, more beautiful. Actually, if you have the right makeup, you will look good on camera no matter what. The two things that make you look good on camera is proper lighting and proper makeup. And unless you skincare, person, and, like, you have the most beautiful glass skin, and you don't want to wear any makeup in the video, kudos to you. Beautiful. But if you are using makeup, you need to have the right routine. I like instead of having a full base, I like to have a tinted moisturizer that's more skin care. So sometimes more important than actual makeup is the skin care before the makeup. I'm going to list you below what I use and what I always tell my mentees to use. We have a full makeup tutor on the garden mentoring program. But for you, I'm going to give you the list of items that I always like to use, and I would recommend you to use. Then the most important is to have a proper base, which I like to use as tinted moisturizer. Eyebrows, eyebrows, give your video and your face frame. I do have some videos that I still have up where my eyebrows look horrible, and I look super tired and horrible just because of the eyebrows. So look a little bit into that, and then you can literally just maybe have a little bit of mascara and a little bit of lip gloss, and that's it. Doesn't have to be too much. I'm going to give you the list of items that I recommend below. 22. Voice: Now we're coming to voice. Your voice is one of the most important things when you record. A lot of people look out for how they look or how their face looks or how the quality of the image looks. But a lot of times confidence comes from your voice. Charisma comes from your voice. The most charismatic people usually have a deeper, calmer voice. Now, if you're a person that has, like, a really shrill voice and a super Bb, don't worry. We want to embrace your personality. We'll get into this a little bit later. But for you to be more confident, usually you want to calm your voice. And what do I mean by this? The slower you speak, the more charisma you have, because you have confidence in how you choose your words. You give yourself the grace to actually think about what you want to say and what words you want to use instead of just babbling along and talking super fast. So here are some of the things that you can do to calm your voice and make your voice more impactful and gain confidence through your voice. Number one, you need to breathe out before you speak. So instead of holding your breath, and this is what we do when we're nervous, we'll hold a breath, and then our voice goes really up, and then we try to talk really fast because we actually need to breathe, but we don't know when to breathe because we feel like then the pause to gonna be too long. You breathe out before you speak. And suddenly, your voice feels so much smoother. You feel so much more confident and you actually have air. Sounds weird, but when you breathe out before you speak, you have more air than if you breathe in before you speak, try it. Number two, you never want to end a sentence on a high note. It makes you sound insecure. You know, when you speak and then you say, Yes, and then last weekend I was there and they told me I was not the right person. Last weekend I was there and they told me I was not the right person. Now, what sounded more confident? Obviously, the second. So you always want to end the sentence on a calm lower note. Three, what I like to use is meditation and prayer. You can use meditation and prayer before you start recording. I always like to say a specific prayer. This is something that we do in Islam. It's actually the prayer that Moses said before he went to speak to Pharaoh, and it's basically, like, a very short prayer that I say every time before I record. Also, as a Muslim, we always say in the name of God. So we say Bismla before I record. That's just something that I do. Now, it could be different for you. Maybe it's meditation, maybe it's a word that you say before you hit record, but it's going to make a huge difference to have that ritual that's a little bit, you know, that calms you down a little bit. Next, I want you to learn about nervous system regulation. So you want to have a calm nervous system when you speak because if you're stressed out from the day, especially, I stated my social media. I stated my business during a night to five, and it was really stressful, honestly. A lot of days, I had, like, meetings. I was driving back and forth from work for 2 hours, and I still had to perform in front of camera. And so there were some things that I needed to do. And I still do these exercises, even if I speak on the world's biggest stages, and I'm like, in front of thousands of people on a stage, talking, I do this exercise before. And that is a tapping exercise that I actually learned from higong, but you also learn it in EFT tapping. So what you do is you find your collarbne and you tap a little bit below it. You can also tap on the sides of your face, but I like to tap here because those are the points that calm you down the most. The next thing you can do just a simple breathing exercise. Two fast inhales, one long exhale. And you do this over and over. Maybe for half a minute. Doesn't have to be long. But all of this will calm your nervous system, calm you down, and we'll calm your voice down before you start recording. And now that we have you in the calmst situation ever, let's get into what we're actually doing during recording. 23. Tasks: So let's now talk about the task you should be doing on the day of recording. Number one, I want you to have a pre created playlist that is energizing, like an energizing playlist that you have ready to record. Number two, I want you to practice your makeup routine, so already buy all the stuff that you have for that day of recording, and then practice the makeup already and start recording a short Instagram story, for example, to see how you feel and look. Number three, I want you to set up a calming filming environment. So this is about romanticizing your environment. Either get some flowers. You can even pick them from the field. I don't care. You can set up your candle. You can have your warm tea ready, whatever you feel like is romanticizing the entire process because that's going to help you really enjoy the day. 24. During Recording: This is what you're going to do during the recording. So we're going to talk about in this section, what are you going to do while you're recording? How do you make yourself more comfortable? How do you look more comfortable on camera? What do you actually do while you're speaking? Because it's not enough to just speak like a robot into the camera. Trust me, I've tried it before. So let's get into all of the practical steps that you can take to be your most confident self on camera. 25. Laugh: The first thing you want to do is you want to laugh before you even hit record. So let me rephrase this. You go to hit record, you're going to laugh because if you're recording yourself and editing yourself, you're going to laugh, hit record, and then you're going to speak. Even if the actual topic is not funny in itself, it will make you feel more relaxed and it will make you look more confident. I'm going to give you an example, okay? Without laughing, okay? So Today, let's talk about how you can get your baby to sleep in your bed without waking you up. Second. Okay. We just laugh. Now, let's talk about how you're gonna get your baby to sleep in your bed before, without waking you up. Okay, so just ignore the mistake. We're gonna talk about this later. You will appear much more relaxed. You will feel much more relaxed. The whole entire video is going to feel much calmer instead of just you being like a professor in school, a robot, trying to talk to me and trying to push knowledge into me, you will feel much more calm. A second thing you can do and this will come naturally if you laugh before you hit records, so you can laugh, ha ha ha. You can literally just smile and, like, put a bright smile on your face, you will laugh. Anyways, it's going to look really horrible. It's going to make you laugh. And the entire video is going to feel more warm. There's personality. There's character. I like this person. The second thing you do is you can laugh before, but you can also smile through your words. So instead of just talking normally, you try to talk through a smile. Do you see the difference? Do you see the difference when I talk through a smile instead of just talking normally? Okay. Now, of course, if you're talking about something dramatic, something that happened to you where you were sad, do not talk through a smile. But most of the time, when you're speaking, try to have a little bit of a smile on you. It's gonna make you much more calm. It's gonna look much more comfortable, and it's gonna give that warmth and character into your video that you need to be confident. 26. Volume Up: Keep telling you, just be yourself. Don't. You are not yourself on camera. Remember, you are your future self. You are, and this is always what I like to think about. You are you with the volume turned up. What do I mean by this? You know how I said if clothes look premium in real life, they will look normal on camera. And if clothes look normal in real life, they will look cheap on camera. And it's kind of the same with your personality because you are not confident on camera, you need to put the volume a little bit higher. So you speak a little bit more confident instead of just me talking to someone that's just sitting next to me. Let's say the camera is a real person. Instead of just talking to her, Hey, um, you want to grab lunch later? Like, how is it going? You say, Hey, do you want to grab lunch later? Should we do it? Like, what are we having? Obviously, the second sounds much more energetic. The first is probably how I would speak normally to a person that is the camera, but that will make the person who is the camera and fall asleep. Oh ho. So speak as if you are yourself with the volume turned up. How do you actually do this? You need to actually tab into who you really are. I'm going to be linking a personality test below. This is the first step to just figure out who you are as a person. If you are more the leader, if you are more the campaigner, if you're more, whatever, a cheerleader, that will help you a little bit more. I also like to look at it and think about it in a more fun way where I you know, what we said in the first module where we talked about mindset and who are the TV personalities that you want to become or that you feel most alike. You could be the calm collected person, like Jessica Pearson from Suits. Or you could be the charismatic, tough a talkative, bubbly person like Lurla Gilmore from GilmaGirls. Okay? You need to ask yourself, like, what is that what makes that TV personality so impactful? Because there's a part of that personality that is exaggerated, and you need to exaggerate parts of your personality that are most fun, charismatic, interesting for the camera. And the fun part about this is, again, we're not faking it. We're imitating our future version. We're trying to be more than we are now, more us. And the fun part about this is, over time, you will actually become more person in real life. Like, over time, you're not just going to be the laid back. Yeah, you know, what should we have for lunch? But you're actually going to be more excited in real life, too. You're going to be impressing people and you're going to be impacting people in your daily life. Suddenly, people are going to say, Oh, I need to write this quote down. Oh, this was really inspiring because you did it so much on camera. You exaggerated your personality for the camera that it rubbed off on the real person that you are now. And suddenly, you're more charismatic in real life, too. So Always ask yourself before you hit record. Ask yourself, how can I be a little bit more of myself? How can I turn the volume up? And to do that, you can also practice a little. So let's talk about how I love to do that. 27. It s not a camera: You know what I said in the last video? This is not a camera. This is a person. This is not a camera. This is a person. Imagine not talking to a lens or to a phone. Imagine talking to your cousin. Imagine talking to yourself five years ago. Imagine talking on a big stage without all of the stress of a big stage. You always want to imagine talking to a real human, ideally one person because it's much more, it's much easier if I just imagine a specific person behind the camera instead of imagining me talking to a wide array of, like, my audience. No, no one cares about, I am part of your audience. It's not Hey guys. It's hey you. So always think of one person. You can literally think about like, think about one person in your life. A lot of times it's our cousins or grand cousins or ourselves five years ago, or like a student that we had that we babysitted whatever, someone usually younger than us or someone that likes to learn from us. Where you feel like you can be yourself, but you can also give value. So again, you're not a lecturer. You're not at university. You're not trying to sound smart. You're just trying to talk to that person and help them in a specific area of their life because they ask you a question and you're just answering it. Now, how can you practice this? You can actually send video messages to your family instead of just writing. I always like to start slow, so I never really send written texts to my family. I always send voice messages, same to my friends, a lot of times to my team as well. If you want to go this step further and actually practice being on camera, you can send short video messages. So again, instead of sending a normal Whatsapp, just like walk to a coffee shop and send your cousin a video message. This is going to help you so much, practice how you're speaking. But on the day of recording, what I like to do, number one, I imagine one person I'm speaking to. And number two, I tell that person what I want to say before I hit records. So if I have something that I want to teach them, I try to teach it to them literally in five sentences, even if the video is going to be ten sentences. I try to teach it to them really quick before the camera starts, so I can practice speaking to a person and I literally say their name, say, Hey, Sarah, you know, you asked me this question. Here's my answer. And then once you hit record, suddenly, you're not speaking to the camera or to a target audience, you're speaking to Sarah, and it's going to be so much more impactful. So, pick one person that you want to speak to and start creating a video, talking to this person, toy. 28. Outtakes: Mix, no one likes perfect. I know we already talked about this. But the more imperfect it is, the better. And here's why for the actual video you're creating, unless it's about a super serious topic that's going to make people cry. You need outtakes anyways. Like, 99% of videos on social media on even on your course, anything that you're doing where a camera is involved, we want to see imperfection. We want to see laughters, we want to see funny faces. We want to see funny jokes. I'm going to give you a quick reason, a quick rundown into how algorithms work on social media because this is why people usually create content. I'm going to dive deep into this in my garden mentoring program, but let's give you why we're doing this. A video will perform if people watch the video until the end, and ideally watch it again. And if you look at the most viral videos out there or the videos that you like to rewatch over and over, there's usually something that happens in the middle or in the end that is funny that you want to I'm just going to watch the entire video again to just watch this ending. It could be an outtake, it could be a joke. It could be something funny that happened. It could be a funny face they made. We need outtakes for the video anyway. So try not to be a victim to mistakes. If something happens if your cat walks through the video or if someone shouts something in the background, or if your baby throws toys at you, then just embrace it. You were supposed to Okay, so my team was supposed to throw this way earlier, but it's okay. Embrace it. Okay? So if people throw things literally, I have videos where my baby comes in and then just suddenly says, Baa baa baa, boom. Doing the video. I leave it in 'cause it's fun. If my baby throws things at me, I leave them in because it adds personality, it adds character. And you will have more fun. Instead of being annoyed about anything that happens, that's, like, going wrong, just have fun. That's going to add so much more confidence to yourself, and it's gonna add so much more personality to the video. And if something like this happens, I will go back. I will go back to the part where it happens, and I will be excited to watch it and rewatch it over and over again. 29. Hands: Next, I want you to use your hands when you speak. Using your hands will make you more confident. It will make you more appear more confident and it will make you more charismatic. Anytime you see a very good speaker, whether it's like, Barack Obama or whoever you're looking up to as, like, the biggest speaker and the best speaker, they usually use their hands. Now, I don't want you to be like Angela Mecha where she's just Okay. We're not actually a politician. We actually want to use our hands to express ourselves. Now, if you're Italian and you do this all the time. Beautiful. Don't overdo it, so don't do it at a point where your hands will distract us from what you're saying. But again, we want to exaggerate your personality. So if that's you, that's you, keep it. You always want to use your hands. And I always like to have the rule, use your hands elegantly. Think about how would royalty use their hands to express themselves? So if the queen literally sits in front of you and talks to you, would she just be like this the whole time, or would she express something with her hands like this? And usually elegance comes from the wrists. So instead of working with your elbows, it's usually something to do with your wrists. It's relatively close to your body. It's not going to be pointing left and right because, again, it's distracting. But if you use your hands, try to use them elegantly around your wrist. And it's gonna be so much more fun to speak because you don't feel like a robot. Again, it's not gonna be Hi, I'm going to tell you about the story. Hey, let me tell you about the story. Okay, so use your hands, and now I'm going to show you how to use them apart from just wiggling them around. So let's get into it. 30. Do something: I want you to do something while you're filming. The reason why you feel like you're not yourself on camera, the reason why you feel like it's boring or you don't look confident or you're not confident, it's because you put yourself into a situation you're usually not in everyday life. You're usually not sitting on a chair in an empty room. Talking to a person without anything. Usually you meet them for coffee or you're speaking during lunch, or maybe you're packing and you're having a phone call. And that is what makes it more comfortable. That's what makes it more natural, more you. So to get that stick out of your butt and to get you to look a little bit less like a robot, wehuld start doing something. You can take literally an empty. It doesn't even have to have anything in there. You can take empty cup, tea cup and just start like, just hold it. Literally, at the beginning of the video, you take that cup in your hand and you hold it and you speak while you're holding it. You can also connect what you're saying in the video to what you're doing in the video. So, for example, if I talk about traveling the world, I can pack my suitcase. If I talk about how to pick out your clothes, I can go to my rack and just, like, pick up a piece of clothes and just look at it. Whatever it is, honestly, you can do your makeup while you're speaking. You can make yourself a cup of tea while you're speaking. It doesn't actually matter. Just try to do something while you're speaking. It's going to be a visual hook. What is a visual hook? Hook is the first 3 seconds of the video, and it's it's 99% the reason why people watch that actual video. And a visual hook is something that people see that makes them want to stay in the video. Now, your verbal hook, your text hook is your verbal hook is what you say. Text hook is what people see on camera, but your visual hook is what happens. It could be who you are and how you look, maybe you have a really fun outfit on, or it could be what you do. Okay? So instead of just sitting, and talking with your hands, you can actually do something with your hands. It could be crafting, it could be a makeup, it could be holding a cup of tea. It doesn't actually matter. Try to always find something to do, especially at the beginning of the video. It's going to make you more comfortable and it's going to be a visual hook that draws people in and makes them want to watch the entire video. 31. Posture: The next way to be confident on camera is your posture. So always try to sit straight. Now, I know we have learned in school that sitting straight means this, like, push your chest forward and your shoulders back, and you're gonna look confident. Uh, n uh. This is not how you sit elegantly, and this is not the posture you should actually hold because it's not natural. It doesn't look natural, okay? Now, what you want to do is you want to imagine that you have a string above your head. That pulls your head up. So instead of slouching on the couch, again, try to sit up. Imagine there's a string pulling you up. So it's not this, it's straight up. And that is how you should sit, stand in your video. Your posture is important to look confident. It's also to look good. Okay? We all look better with better posture, and it's also to feel more confident. You can also get a prop if you feel like you don't have a good posture. I have a prop here as two of these little things behind me. So take a pillow, and because I have a arched back, this helps me to sit straight. Okay? So this helps me to sit straight instead without feeling like I have to force it. This posture is also going to help you breathe better, and breathing is so, so important when you want to be confident on cama. So let's talk about a little bit more about breathing. 32. Breathe: We talked about the power of breathing to prepare for talking because you're going to calm your nervous system. You're going to calm your voice. You're going to sound more charismatic. Your actual words are going to sound more confident. But breathing is also important in what you're actually going to say. A lot of times we ramble on camera. Please pause. You have the ability to pause in your videos. Why? Because you have such thing as editing. You have such a thing that's called editing. If you feel like, Hey, I cannot say this entire thing that I want to say on camera in one whole thing. It's okay. You can pause in between. Pause, breathe. Think about what you actually going to say, and then say it because it's much more difficult to edit out your rambling than to edit out pauses. Okay, you will see that in editing. If you see your breathing break, you know exactly where to cut. But if you keep rabbling along for 20 minutes, you don't actually know where to cut, okay? So give yourself the grace and pause. 33. Tasks: So let's talk about the tasks you need to do for during the recording. I want you to practice your hand gestures while speaking. This could literally be creating a two minute video of you speaking and then practicing what kind of hand gestures you like, how you like to move your hands, okay? So this is going to make you comfortable in the way that you speak. Number two, I want you to record the same content twice. I want you to just try it. One without smiling through your teeth. And one with smiling to your teeth, so you can see the difference it makes on camera. Like one like laughing and then try to smell three words and one without. And number three, I want you to film yourself doing a simple activity you're doing. So pick three activities. Either that's like making myself some tea or lighting a candle or unpacking whatever it is, and then use one of those activities and already start recording a video doing that activity. It's going to make such a huge difference of how you look and feel on camera. 34. Presenting: Let's talk about your storytelling style. So how are you actually going to say what you want to say in front of the camera? There are few ways that you can pick from that might fit to your personality or your way of presenting that, so let's get into them. 35. How to talk : First, how are you actually going to say what you want to say? So we talked about scripting before. I said, I tried it before with actually scripting everything. I like this for short videos. But on some videos, I like to just put notes and then just talk. Now, I always want you to prepare the hook. The hook is the first few sentences of your video. On social media, it's the first 3 seconds on YouTube or Long Form. It's going to be the first minute. I want you to write that down word for word because then you actually know what you're going to say and you don't ramble. And you say it in a way that it's most impactful. But you have two ways of approaching the exact video that you want to create. There's either I mean, teleprompter, which I don't recommend because you're gonna sound like a robot. So that is the third version that I don't recommend, but try to see that I'm right. There's two versions that I always recommend to be most confident and most yourself on camera. Number one, you say sentence by sentence. So you have, for example, your entire script, and you say each sentence. So you read the sentence, you say it into the camera. Pause. You read the next sentence, you say that until the camera because this way, you can give personality and so much character into each sentence, but it doesn't sound scripted. Okay, you're going to say the exact sent. You're going to read the exact sent and say it into the camera, and it still feels natural. And all you need to do is cut out the breaks, the pauses. The second way to do it is to have notes. So to have your notes ready, I do want you to go back to what I said before, try to be as specific as you can include examples. Examples are going to make vague ideas into very specific, impactful messages. And this is how you actually tell a story, not just by scripting it out word for word, but by actually including examples, feelings, your own personality, maybe even small breaks while you're thinking. And that's what's going to make the story much more impactful. So you can choose now. I want you to try both styles, but choose one now and try to record a video. Either that is sentence, say it into the camera, or that is actually having notes and then just talking into the camera. 36. The Performer: Now, there's two modes of storytelling that you can take on. The one is what I call the performance mode. That would be like the keynote speaker mode where you are on stage and you have to perform. This is where the volume turns up comes in. So this is literally you with the volume turned up. This is a little bit more out there. It's a little bit more straightforward. And I want you to try not to be stiff or formal. Again, as a keynote speaker, the most impact keynote speakers are not just robot lecturers, but they actually make their audience feel comfortable being with them because they have a certain personality and they are out there. So here's where you would use your hands a little bit more. You would increase the volume of your voice a little bit more, and you would try to exaggerate parts of your personality that you feel are more impactful. I wanted to always remember to be present. This is not a huge crowd you're speaking to. It's one person, but imagine the person stands 5 meters away from you. So you always have to be speak a little bit louder. You have to be a little bit more straightforward. You have to be a little bit more out there. Instead of just having someone sit next to you, where you would speak a little lower, you have them over there and you're speaking to them. Okay? Again, you're not speaking at them, you're speaking to them. It's a conversation. It's one person. That's the performance mode. Let's get into the other mode. 37. The Cozy Cafe: The next way is not the keynote speaker performance mode, but the cozy chat mode. So imagine you're at a coffee shop with a friend and the friend sits directly next to you and you're just having a conversation. This is usually for content where you are a little bit more informal, where you're giving a life update or you're talking about something that was really difficult. So if you're talking about a story from your life, for example, that you had to go through, and I imagine, you know, seven years ago, I had to start from scratch. I had zero online presence. Google didn't know my name. And I remember I was in my honeymoon with my husband, and I was working on my laptop. And instead of relaxing, I was just working 247. And I was like, This can't be happening. I have to change something. With this kind of story, right? When I tell this part of my life, I don't usually in my key on speaker performance mode, unless I tell a story on a stage. But even there, I might change my energy a little bit more into the cozy chat mode where someone feels like they're just sharing their life story with you. Imagine. This is also where you literally you can literally take a coffee mug in your hand, sit down on the floor and chat. It's not where you are sitting straight, posture is perfect, and move there, but it's more cozy. Okay? So this is more for the content that might be a little bit more emotional, maybe a little bit sad, reflective, where you just want to have a conversation, and you think about talking to one person. I want you to keep it casual, natural. Again, imagine you have a mentee, like a young cousin that you're speaking to, and you just kind of being honest with them about things. So those are the two modes. It's the keynote speaker, performance mode, and it's the cozy chat. Let's just talk mode. Now, I would like you to try both. It's not like every video should be only one style. I'd like you to try both because it fits to different stories, storytelling formats. So try the cozy coffee chat and see how it feels. I would love to see what style you're choosing. 38. Tasks: Now here come your story telling tasks. First of all, I want you to write a personal story. As we said before, be specific, include examples. Try to use dates, names, whatever it is. I want you to write a small story of one thing that happened in your life. It should not be your entire life story, okay? This is not this time to do your entire life story. Choose one story. It could be literally last Sunday, I had my pancake Sunday with my daughter, and we went to this beautiful balcony. With our friends and neighbors. And I felt like the first time I had community. And that was such a huge difference between we just moved to the city, and I never felt like I really felt home. And these are the moments where I feel home. What is what feels home for you? And you can literally like say they age of your daughter. You can say you can describe the balcony. You can describe the type of pancakes or what you ate with the pancakes. Like, we had marmalade and peanut butter next to it. Be as specific as possible and try to tell me your story. It doesn't have to be a ten minute video. It can literally be a six sentence story. But try to push yourself to tell me that story. Number two, I want you to practice telling that same story in two styles in the performance keynote speaker style and in the cozy coffee chat style. And you can take a mug for the second one. Where you just literally tell a friend about it. And the other one is the keynote speaker style, where you tell a bit more like, Hey, I'm in front of you and I'm telling you this, and, like, this is what it changed in my life, and this is how it can help you, too. Okay, same story, two different styles. And then I want you to record your two minute video of that story, and I want you to share it to social media. I want you to share the link with me, tag me if you want to use I really want to I really want you to see the difference you made in this entire journey from insecurity to confidence. And I'm personally really excited to see your video. 39. Congratulations!: Congratulations. You made it to the end of the camera. Confidence class. I'm so proud of you. This is all about showing up for yourself and your goals. And even if you look at your video and you think like, Oh, my God, this is so cringe. Dore, the whole point of this is to get you started to get you into the habit of creating videos and start being yourself in front of camera. And you will see this will not only increase your confidence when you create social media videos, but also when you talk to people, when you stand in front of people and have to make presentations or even when people ask you to speak at an event. Suddenly, you're not going to say, Oh, I don't think I'm ready for this. Suddenly, you're going to be like, Hey, you know what? I already did all of this camera thing, I think I can translate the same confidence in front of people live as well. And remember, please share your progress in the project tab. I would love to give you some feedback if you haven't yet download the cheat sheet inside the resource section and share your questions in the discussion section. Most importantly, I would love to hear your feedback about this class, how it helped you. So please make sure that you go into the review section of this class and give me some feedback. Really also helps for other people to find this class, other people whose story matters and they deserve to be heard, but they don't have the confidence to tell it. So I would love for you to give us a review and leave it here so other people can find the same class as well. And learn. For those who are ready to become known and get paid to be who you are, feel free to book a call for my mentoring program. All of this can be found in the resource section of this if you like this class, please make sure that you follow me here on Skillshare. I'm always happy to hear more feedback about what other classes you would like, and I always listen to it. So maybe after a few weeks, you will actually see the program, the new class inside my class boom. Thank you so much for joining and I can't wait to see it. And if you want to connect on social media, I am found at Senior Port official on Instagram TikTok, YouTube, everywhere, and I'm also happy to connect on Link and I can't wait to see you there. I can't wait to see you in new classes, and congratulations again for finishing this camera confidence class. Remember, your story matters, and I can't wait to hear it. See you soon.