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1. Intro to Fearless on Camera Course: Welcome to the course. My name is columns look at the wall. Ceo and I'm obsessed with educating and creating content. And I've been doing this for a couple years now, really passionate about helping people get on camera, get in front of a mic and do the same thing. So this course is going to help you become fearless in front of a camera. And it's not really because you need to build confidence. It just because you need to get used to doing it. And I'm going to show you very tangible tactile strategies to get in front of a camera and Mike, et cetera, as fast as possible and put in the reps so that you get that experience. Some strategies for publishing and dealing with comments and haters and the different things that do come up that usually push people to inaction, right? I want to get you to getting in front of the camera as much, often, as consistently as possible. Because that's how you're gonna become fearless and you're gonna be a better speaker. You're gonna be able to articulate your thoughts and you're gonna be able to crank out content to promote your business, build your audience, or whatever you wanna do. So this course, I'm going to help you do just that. I'm gonna give you tips and strategies and tactics. It's gonna be short, sweet to the point. Let's get you for that camera. Let's get you creating content making difference. And yeah, that's it. Like I was bad at that out, but I'm not who like who cares, right? Again, for the camera. Get comfortable putting the reps and the outcome to be able to get in front of camera anytime you want to talk about anything you want, it will. It's like changing. It really is, it's life-changing. And even if you don't make it turn into a full-time business and you just do it for fun. Like you build your YouTube channel for fun. Kind of like for me, my hobby and my day job as CEO. So I do this or fun in my front yard. It, it really is enjoyable, rewarding and more ways than one. And so we'll talk about that a little bit as the course goes on. Let's, let's wrap this video up because I'm just rambling on at this point. And I will see you in the first lesson.
2. Fearless on camera benefits: Welcome back, or should I say welcome. First lesson. How to be fearless on camera. I'm gonna give you actual tangible strategies to do this is not just going to be a bunch of fluff and nonsense. I'm going to literally give you things to do like Publish and don't look at the comments for a few days, things like that. It's very tactical rules of thumbs that you can use to remove or at least separate the results from your posting or publishing and the publishing processing process itself. Okay, so we tend to obsess on the results, right? How many views likes, comments, whatever. That's human nature, we want to see validation. We want to see people are leaving negative comments and calling us dumber, whatever. But that is literally nothing to do with the publishing side. These are completely separate processes or parts of the process, if you will. So the thing that matters to become fearless on camera to get really good anything is you have to put in the rep. So Arnold talked about this a lot. It's all about the reps. The reps, reps erupts. So if you want to speak well, if you want to do a tag talk, if you wanna be a public speaker, if going to be successful, you've got to be charismatic. If you want to be a social media influencer is going to be famous YouTubers. I rarely hear anybody talking about practicing for these professions. Like you go to LA, for example. And everybody wants to be an actress or singer or whatever. And then you ask them, how much do you practice yesterday? I bet she literally nine out of ten people. Just say my identity or non-urban or like whatever. Like they just kind of almost think that it's innate skill that you just have. And then if one day somebody discovers them, they'll make it OK. So they'll going too far off tangent. The most important thing, sorry, interrupted. I'd forgot to go to airplane mode. So go to airplane mode, quick tip, go into airplane mode when you're recording videos so that it doesn't get interrupted, especially when you're in the flow and you're about to make a point. The most important thing to getting success with anything but especially speaking, recording, Fitness, Health, consistency. Ok, putting in the reps, that means the digital wanted to it. That means days like today, Thanksgiving, when I probably just got a phone call because I should go and help with a turkey or something, but I stole away ten minutes. I record this video. It's going to be another video done for the course that I'm working on. Right? I put in the reps amongst step closer to my goals. But I'm really more focused on the process. Getting in front of a camera daily, putting in the reps, practicing. And then, yes, the next step is, then it is publishing. That is very important, but we'll talk about that later and strategies for dealing with that right now, the most important thing that you have to do, whether you publish it or not. So don't even worry about the publishing part. You have to hit the record button, like that's me hitting the record button. And then this is me talking to the camera. And then when I'm done, I'll hit that record button and that video's done. And the f, we want to do some adding whatever, no big deal. But the most important part is my setup. Cameras on ISIL tripod, hit the record button. I got one idea for, for the way we're doing it now, one idea is usually the best is one idea. Four to seven minutes. Perfect length that the current internet and 20-20 seems to resonate with and that rewards by the algorithm that peoples tend to watch. And then you hit stop eating that every single day, regardless of whether you're going to publish it or not. And so I would even encourage you, if you feel like a video's going bad, Lee, and you're not communicating what you wanna communicate and you're saying like and on and on, you're kind of getting flustered and finish the video anyways, that's going to be a just practice Rep. Okay. You're going to finish the video. You're going to get into the habit of getting fostered and then returning to a comb, ready to communicate demeanor. And they're going to face a video. And you will be that much better. And the more you do that, the more you get to the point where you can do videos like this, like I've done where I mess up a couple of times was interrupted, whatever. Bees flying around the winds probably you could probably pick it up because these are not good headphones for recording outside. And I mean, fearless like I don't really care about this. And honestly you washing probably don't care either. You probably get benefit out of it. You feel some more real enrol. It's more engaging. There's a time and the place for perfectly edited scripts and whatever. But online video is not really that place. All you have to do is be authentic real rock. And that's what people want in their use to, if they want professionally edited stuff that go to Netflix or the movies or whatever, get in front of a camera every single day, five minute video. And if you never plan to publish those forever, you at least have a video diary, right? This is for you, do it for you first. And I hope that the wind doesn't go and start from in here. Okay, so that's gonna be it for this video. We got a few more to help you with. The publishing process, IS got a little bit more on the mindset. We're going to talk about how to get you feels on camera. But today's lesson is the wraps. Daily recording. Daily recording, if you will not if you don't record dealing, you're not serious. So anything that you tell yourself about, anything that you want to be that somehow connected to being in front of camera or speaking or communicating. You wanna do something in your life with that. And you're not right now today, recording daily, then your diluting yourself and your dreams and your goals are just delusions of grandeur. They're just it's just a pipe dream.
3. REPS REPS REPS: Okay, welcome back to another video. This is about reps. Ok, it's all about reps, reps, as Arnold said. It's all about reps. Life has reps, reps, reps, reps. What that means is it's about consistency. You can't build anything if you don't keep going and not stop. Alright, so there's analogy that I like to think of often. Anytime I'm doing too many things, too many projects, I always visualize myself as being in front of a hill, having a boulder at the base of that hill that I have to push up to get that top of that hill. At which point I've done a bunch of work. And I can then let the marketplace and momentum and exponential efforts do its thing. And that boater will then go down the other side on its own. But if I keep pushing that boulder up and then stopping and push up for a couple of days. And then I basically want to something else and the boulders comes right back down. This is what most people do. They have lots and lots of false starts. They don't keep pushing that boulder up that hill until that project or those efforts can then take on a life of their own. And that's where really you get the results. Most people do not stick with it. They don't stick with it for the long run. They can't think long-run. And they think, oh, I have this idea and I spent a couple afternoons or even a couple of weeks or even a couple of months on this thing. And I should have results as time go to something else. That's not the mindset. That's going to have you be successful with anything you're doing in life, but especially with content, OK, content and audience creation is consistency, consistency, consistency. We're talking years. Okay? Now, if you posted one video a day and you kept doing that for years versus a daily video that you did for a few months. What do you think something get better results? What's going to give you more opportunity for the market and other people to discover you and to share your work, et cetera. One video a week that is consistent. Even though it might be the same amount of videos that you did in a short period of time and then you burned out, right? That one video that's more sustainable for you and you keep going, you will eventually get results. It's all about reps, reps, reps, reps, reps. So you gotta figure out how you can put those reps in on ideally daily basis or a weekly basis or whatever it is. And then build from there. Once you have the habit of doing that baseline number of reps, then you can build on top of that and do more.
4. The importance of pauses: So part of the not editing process is getting used to using pauses. Now this is something that when I first started doing videos, I always felt the need to talk fast. Move to the next point. Just not leave the viewer waiting. And even when I would rewatch my videos, I would put on to speed and I kind of warps my, my brain. And then I sort of thinking about how do people actually listen to you in conversation. And a sort of paying attention to how people speak, how they make pauses, how they use filler words. Even myself and I was doing that. And I've got to the point now where I've been doing this a lot. And I don't say like an almond, all those filler words anymore. I'm pausing more. I'm enunciating more. And overall I'm a better speaker. I think a shortcut to getting there. Because even now as I'm recording this and as I'm still trying to get my tempo down and I'm trying to really refine my speaking style. The more than I make a point in my mind to use pauses and to be patient and to speak slower. The better my delivery and the better my, my thoughts and the distilling of information in a more direct. So the better for you, the viewer, and for your audience. So for practice, you can do the same thing. You record a video like this. You don't have to post it. You don't have to even talk about anything. There's a line from waste practices. You could pretend you're talking to a friend. You can pretend you're doing a monologue or your I don't know, just just turn the camera around and practice speaking. The more you do that, the better you'll get. And don't be afraid of pauses. In fact, use them, use them strategically. And then practice videos where you purposefully or using pauses. Like I did right there. In fact, the most powerful speakers, if you really studied them. Politicians, famous people, talking people, I don't know. They they use pauses, they use silence.
5. Should you edit your videos?: You edit your videos? I don't think so. No. Because once you go down that editing rabbit hole, it's a deep, deep, long path that to get out of, to get out of the editing habit, to get to that point where you're making short bits of easy to produce content like this. It's a major mental shift. Like for example, this is overexposed. It's a little washed out. My colors aren't perfect. I'm sure my auto could be better. I can put filters and I can do adjustments, and I can do all these things in Premier Pro that can. This simple video could take me four to five X as long to edit it as it took to record it. And generally, that's gonna create resistance. Now if you're trying to do highly produced videos that are very visually appealing, electric bang, okay, that's a completely different contents style. Personally, especially if you aren't making videos right now. You need get in front of a camera. You need to hit record. You need to publish anything, comments and feedback. You need to get in the habit of putting yourself out there for the world. That's how you're gonna put the repetition that tell you you're going to be able to learn from the marketplace. That's how your gonna build to refine your ideas. And editing is a, is the biggest bottleneck and the entire process. So I highly recommend not editing. And maybe like if you sometimes want to do edited videos or do like vlogs or like do some stuff like that. That's fine. But you can treat those as a just like as a bonus or as I like a word, as kind of a rarity. Whereas make the bulk foundation of your content consistently publishing, recording videos.
6. Uploading to YouTube and thumbnails: Okay, we're gonna go to the YouTube backend and I'm gonna make a thumbnail for you and show you just how easy this can be. It doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, I recommend to not make a complicated. So here's my second channel, escaping fragility. And this is where I do a lot of off the cuff quick, easy videos in the car, outside, whatever. And I've made a point to do the thumbnails and for whiles, like, I don't want to do them. And then I was like, Well, it's actually really easy. And so I sort of standardizing them quite a bit and I've even mixing it up, right, literally do a simple graphic like this. So my favorite thing is Adobe Spark. Obviously you can use something like Canva or other apps where this is just super simple because I can take previous thumbnails I've done like for example, this one. I will take this and duplicate this. And I can use the same format every time is very simple. So let's do one for a video that's pending. Here we go. So let's see. I'll I'll get in here, I'll figure out my title. And again, I'm not really doing any SEO research on these. I you know, you can if you want to. For me, this is my second channel. So this is this is just for me purely about consistency, about cranking it out. I mean, to the point where sometimes I post two videos a day. And if I was spending too much time on SEO and research and keywords and everything which is a completely on its own strategy. And I will try to, if a good keyword comes in minor, Good idea comes to mind to try to optimize my Peters for that. But this channel is just a different strategy than need more curated resource planned out YouTube strategy, okay, they both can work. I mean, definitely the keyword-based strategy works, we know that for sure. And the consistent posting, I think, and work as well just because you build an audience over time and so on my main channel, that's what I'm doing. Whereas in this channel I'm doing it like I said, as easy and as simple as possible. I duplicated this thumbnail here. I'm gonna go in here and let's see, when you avoid failure. Failure, you fail. Now normally I would have the video and I would take a screenshot of the video in high def, but I don't have the video in front of me. So let's see how everything about this. I mean, you can look at graphics, you do different texts, but usually I'll just adjust the texts so this could be much better, much more thought out. I don't have a picture say so let's just get rid of this. Let's see. Let's just do a simple, very bold centered. There we go, and stuff like that. So I'll put this right here in the middle and a center. I'm going to then go to download as JPEG. Start download. And we're back over here to fund some of the option right here. I'll put them down. Find a right there, add it to my playlist, go to more options and come up with some keywords. None of these are researched and just put in something and therefore, for lack of better option, okay. Yeah, it's fine. And you could always decide if we want to capitalize. These are not there's lot of ways to do it, but my thumbnails done, I've got my title done. I have a description that already had in there. I have my my standards under the settings populates, the description. That's my playlist upload thumbnail. Go to next. I don't need to do any of this right now because again, this is super-simple channel and I'm going to make a public right now. And there you go. Super-simple. You can keep it uniform like this. Or you could have a couple of templates and you mix them up. You could do more like graphics like this. So in fact, if you look at some of the other posts I've done, like from our main channel, I usually do something like this where I get a good screenshot. I get some pictures on the side. The texts relates to the video. Sometimes I do it where I'm not even at all like this. Like this. This one was meat Heels, just that. Yeah. So typically experiment find what you like. It doesn't take much to do this. Like if I wanted to replicate this IS format. I could find a free photo through the app. I added different picture here and I change the text and middle and Lincoln a couple seconds kind of bringing thumbnail, it looks good.
7. The Infinite Game: So how's it going to benefit the rest your life? Your ability to get in front of a camera, to speak, and just really talking about a message and have clarity and feel like you're providing value is one of the most empowering things that I've, I mean, I've ever done in my life. I really can't be more excited about it and more wanting to get people to do it. I want you to think about when you're doing this as an infinite game. I want it to be something that you're going to do forever in an infinite game is one in which you play for the sake of plain. So you record videos. For the sake of recording videos. You don't worry about who's watching, are not watching it or what your metrics are. Gaining subscribers, losing them. You don't obsess about stuff. You just focus on recording because you're playing the game you want to play. And it's a game that is meant to be played, not to be stopped. The benefits you're going to get are too many to count. Maybe it's in your relationships. You want more confidence and asserting yourself. You want to be able to better clarify the things that are bouncing around in your head to your partner or to a prospective partner. Business negotiations, speaking up for yourself, to your parents or your friends or your family. The like I said, the benefits that this conveys playing this infinite game, medical bays are unbelievably diverse and really not even quantifiable. So when you're getting in front of a camera and you're speaking, and maybe you're messing up on your words here and there. And the finally, find that flow state, we're just flowing. And you enjoy it hands. You already think about all the people who are going to watch it in comments or whatever. Remember that you are already winning the game because you're playing it, you're doing it. So the benefits you'll get, like I said, are too many to count, might be to find specific things in your life right now to which you can benefit, may be trying to do a YouTube channel to promote your business. And so you can use those videos as commercials for your brand. Maybe you just want to grow a small audience on YouTube and you wanted to get good at speaking. So you put these videos up and a few people come and they watched and whatever. And that's very rewarding. I will say, maybe you want sort of podcasts. And so you're going to use this to practice your speaking and your questioning, your interviewing skills. Maybe you want to be a news anchor someday. Maybe you want to be, I hope not, but a politician one day. This is an infinite game that I hope you'll start playing today. And that to play forever.
8. End of Fearless on camera course: That's going to be for this course. I want to thank you for getting to this point. Most people would start bookstore courses, start anything, don't finish. So congratulate you on doing that and take that same work ethic and that completion ethic and apply it to what you learned in this course, start on a daily basis, implementing these ideas, even if it's one or two things into it over and over and over again until it becomes a habit. And then you can build on top of that. And that's where you get compound results by focusing on daily incremental improvements. Kaizen, japanese concept I would recommend looking into. And the most important thing is don't stop, keep going. Even if it's a little bit a little bit every single day. So if you need anything for me, can always reach me. Find the links below. Wherever you're watching this, I'm happy to help any way Kant or answer any questions again. And then of course, the pharma newsletter, that better human newsletter, highly recommend hopping on that. You can also find links to that, likely below or in the course area. So thanks again. Most important. So make sure you take action more than anything, and I'll see you hopefully in another one. So make sure you take action. None. So make sure you take action because nothing that you just learned is going to have any effect on your life whatsoever if you don't connect it to real life, tangible action.
Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Podcaster, Writer
