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Today, I challenge you to audit your thoughts. What is that voice in your head saying to you all day long? Is that voice positive or negative?

This episode is based off a quote my mom says all the time: "Positive Thoughts Make Positive Things Happen." It's a very simple concept that states:  what we focus on in life, grows. Does it mean you have to have a perfect life? No, but you do have to focus on the positivity in order to create more of it. 

Auditing this inner voice is a practice. It is an area that requires active maintenance.

Let's reflect on those thoughts we have about ourselves. What do you think about yourself? Your business, your relationships? What do you think about your habits? Do you think you have a high self-esteem? Are you a hard-worker? The first step in this process is to spot any negative thoughts that aren't serving you any longer.

Then we have to re-write those thoughts. Not just in public and on our social media, but even when you're talking to a close friend, or just thinking to yourself. Ever caught yourself down-playing your business as a "little business"? Ya, let's banish that thought right here and now.

As you're re-framing these thoughts, speak to yourself with the kindness and grace you would use to speak to someone you admire and respect. We often say things to ourselves and about ourselves that we wouldn't dare say about someone we loved.

Keep this in mind: you can't hold space for both. You cannot hold space to grow your business and constantly doubt yourself. You have to pick one. I picked creating a podcast over hating the sound of my own voice. With consistency and practice, I now do not mind the sound of my own voice. Heck, sometimes I think it sounds pretty nice.

Positive thoughts make positive thigs happen. Let's turn your mind into a blossom of openness and positivity!


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💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

Are you allowing the need to be perfect stop you? What would happen if you let that idea go, and realized you had every component you need to create that next big thing, today?  Let me just remind you, B+ work is ok. Release yourself from the pressure that it has to be perfect. That it has to be A+ before it's launched. This episode is your permission to do that next thing, without getting it perfect.

Why does it terrify us over-achievers to release B+ work into the world? That's a problem I've worked on heavily since becoming an entrepreneur. The honest-to-goodness truth is, as long as you're adding value to every single thing you create, then you are wasting no one's time. You can always refine and finesse as you go.

When you keep waiting for permission, or validation, or someone else's approval, you are wasting your time. No one can come along and make these decisions for you in your business. A good coach can help you, but only on the things you tell them. What about those deep-rooted feelings of shame and fear that we don't vocalize?

Is there an action or a decision that you are actively avoiding? I caught myself doing this for over a month. I knew I was avoiding something, I knew I had all the tools I needed, but I let myself push it off because "I was too busy." The truth is, what I was doing required a push. It forced me to dig deep. And in doing that I had to confront the fact that behind my excuse was a heaping pile of fear of failure.

The truth is, I had every single component that I needed to create a B+ version and launch it out into the world. I was stalling and waiting for that A+ magic to fall in my lap. Let go of the idea of how it should look. Make it a reality using all the tools you have within arms reach. Use your network, phone a friend for help.

Every minute you delay is time you are wasting. This is your permission, permission to be imperfect.

🎙💚Take the first step in creating your podcast by joining me on Buzzsprout! Use this link for a $20 Amazon gift card bonus if you decide to sign up for a paid plan: 💚🎙 https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1770644 

💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

From  a Telly-Award winning show host, to beginning my journey as an entrepreneur, THIS is my story. I have a decade-long relationship with production and presenting on-camera. This is how my storytelling journey began, and how it's shaped me into the Podcast Host and Entrepreneur I am today.

What you may not know about me is that the deep drive behind my love of video, is really a passion for storytelling. Empowering others to tell their own unique story is one of my fundamental missions at Camera Brave. I believe confidence is the first step in owning your story. And while it can be difficult to embrace that it's our turn to tell it (hello, how has it taken me 44 episodes to tell my own story?!), the truth is that it isn't about you. It's about the impact your story will have on someone else. 

In this episode, I dive into how I first became an impactful storyteller. My first major project was creating a short film on American Sign Language (ASL) Poetry, which went on to air on a local PBS Station. Later in college, I had the opportunity to discover and tell the inspiring history of how my family journeyed from Cuba to America. Telling these stories lit a fire in me.

I love all things video because it allows to to connect deeper. Stories have the impact to encourage, inspire and change lives. That's why I HAD to start my own Podcast. Not because I thought I was so amazing that people had to listen to my voice, but because I knew it would create a platform and opportunities to tell meaningful stories.

So, friend, it's time to get comfortable with telling your own story. Don't let it take you 44 weeks to tell your story! It isn't about you, it's about the people you have the power to effect. Your strength, resilience, and achievements can inspire more people than you can imagine.

Your. Story. Matters!


🎙💚Take the first step in creating your podcast by joining me on Buzzsprout! Use this link for a $20 Amazon gift card bonus if you decide to sign up for a paid plan: 💚🎙 https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1770644 

💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

The biggest thing that I see holding people back from creating video is this idea of "waiting". Waiting until you have the right equipment, a larger audience, more time in your schedule, the list goes on.

Friend, do not allow this lie to stop you. You have every single thing that you need to begin taking videos that have the power to create massive amounts of growth and success within your business.

Are you waiting, or are you stalling? Waiting is a momentum crusher, do not allow it to keep you stuck for one more minute.

Find the encouragement you need to take the next step forward in this episode!


🎙💚Take the first step in creating your podcast by joining me on Buzzsprout! Use this link for a $20 Amazon gift card bonus if you decide to sign up for a paid plan: 💚🎙 https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1770644 

💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

Video Trends are a HUGE opportunity to get your business seen across platforms like Instagram and Tik Tok by an audience outside of your current followers. This is how you can approach trends authentically and use them to spread value.

I occasionally hear a push-back regarding trends from my audience. And I think it all has to do with the way we define the word. When you think of "trend," what comes to mind? Is it a Tik Tok Dance trend, or an audio soundbite from The Office? If it's something that feels cringey or invaluable, of course you don't want to create it.

When I think of "trend", I think of trending audio. This is audio that Instagram Reels are heavily promoting, due to a high number of users already creating content to that audio. And the amazing thing about trending audio: it comes in all shapes and sizes. It can be music that is soft and instrumental, upbeat and jazzy, or 80's pop. Music of all sorts of genre's will trend. Some of them will even not have vocals, making it perfect for you to voice over.

Once you can see the potential in the concept of using trends and remove any negative thoughts you may have had initially, trends are nothing but potential to spread your video to a wider audience. 

Here are a few ideas for how you can begin to create trending videos without sacrificing an ounce of authenticity:

• Use Instrumental music and share your products or services.
• Structure your videos with a proper hook, CTA, and cover photo.
• Layer in alternative types of content, like a time-lapse of you during a coaching call.
• Add text on the screen with "5 tips for (fill in the blank).

These are all ways to present value to your audience without having to hop on any trends that you don't love. I challenge you to give it a try by creating a reel to trending audio this week!

🎙💚Take the first step in creating your podcast by joining me on Buzzsprout! Use this link for a $20 Amazon gift card bonus if you decide to sign up for a paid plan: 💚🎙 https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1770644 

💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

Welcome to Part 2 of Creating a Podcast! This episode will tell you ALL the things you need to Launch your Podcast out into the world. Make sure you grab my Free Podcast Launching Guide by clicking here: www.launch.camerabrave.com

This episode breaks down the 7 steps you need to take when launching your own podcast. Grab the guide and follow along in the episode to hear all the pieces you need to get started.

Feeling overwhelmed by the launching process? I hear you. I created this Podcast on my own, with no idea what I was doing or where to get started. I didn't do it perfect. But I am so glad I started before I had it all 'together.'

Please do not let the overwhelm of getting started keep you from sharing your message. There are people out there who need to hear what you have to say. Send me a DM at Camera Brave on Facebook or Instagram and I'd love to help walk you through the process.
 
🎙💚Take the first step in creating your podcast by joining me on Buzzsprout! Use this link for a $20 Amazon gift card bonus if you decide to sign up for a paid plan: 💚🎙 https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1770644 

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

If you're thinking about starting your own podcast, this 2 part-series will help you flush out your content and collect all of your assets. This episode is the reflective work that will give you a clear direction for your show, starting with building your pillars.

This is a valuable exercise for any entrepreneur, even if you don't move forward in creating a Podcast.

Here are the 4 questions to ask yourself to build your show pillars.

#1. What is your Mission Statement?
#2. What are the problems your audience has? What are their pain points?
#3. How do you solve these problems for your audience with your products and services?
#4. Who is your ideal audience?

Use those answers to determine your expertise and create a list of pillars for your show. These don't have to be perfect. The goal is to create an outline for the direction you want your show to head. This exercise will also generate a list of content topics to get you started.

Now, the most important question to ask yourself is question #5...

#5. What are your current goals for your business?

A podcast will help you build authority, solidify your voice and speaking capabilities and establish a know/like/trust factor with your audience. It is an excellent top-of-funnel marketing tool that can lead to relationships and lucrative opportunities. That being said, a podcast is not going to make you money. Maybe long-term, once you've established an audience and can bring on ads, but up front, there is no direct revenue from a podcast.

There is still so much VALUE in getting started, as long as it aligns with the rest of the goals for your business.

Stay tuned for next week's episode where I dive into the assets you'll need to collect when you start your podcast.

💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

There are two key components that make up a good coach: the ability to encourage and the ability to push. I'm a natural 'cheerleader', I've always been good at encouraging others and emphasizing positivity. The skill I've had to acquire as a coach is the ability to push my clients. We'll call it 'Tough Love'.

In Episode 39, I dive deeper into this concept of getting out of my comfort zone to push clients, not just encourage them.

This episode was encouraged by a recent coaching call I had inside of my Coaching Group, The Camera Brave Club. It was on our monthly Q&A Call that I realized one of my clients on the call was stalling. She had created something truly amazing, but wasn't putting it out into the world.

She had the courage to create the thing, but needed the push to publish it. I realized that I was the one who needed to guide her and push her. I couldn't just encourage what she'd created (which of course I did), but I needed to push her to that next step of publishing it.

I had to tell someone that is relatively new to my coaching group to get out of their own way, put that date on the calendar, and start talking about it with their audience.

To my clients that I've coached for some time, this isn't difficult for me to do. I can lay on the tough love when I see it's needed, because I know their goals and want to see them succeed. But for a newer client, I hesitated. This was our first Zoom call together, after all.

One thing I realized, is that by staying quiet and simply encouraging her, I was doing a disservice to this woman. I wasn't honoring the time and money she'd invested in being in my group by just giving her a thumbs up. So while I was a little uncomfortable and nervous to be so direct, I had to push past it.

And what happened? She responded incredibly to it. Why? Because she was seeking a coach! She wasn't seeking a cheerleader. She knew she needed a hand in getting to that next step and was ready to receive the advice I put her way.

To my coaches, know that tough love is not only a part of the process, it's essential to the process! Own your expertise. Own that your advice is valuable. And do not allow yourself and your clients to stay small by coaching from a place of fear. Instead, coach from a place of leadership.


💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

Where is your Focus when you're taking video? How should you structure your mindset to deliver the most optimal content possible? The concept I teach is called a Message Mindset, and if you're not familiar with it, it will change your LIFE! Or, at least it will change the way you approach creating content.

When you cultivate a Message Mindset, you focus 100% of your mental capacity on your content. You leave 0% capacity to worry how many times you said um. You have 0% capacity to worry about how many views your video will get or who's going to watch it. You are focused entirely and completely on the content you're delivering.

The key to this process is by preparing content that is FULL of value. All good video starts with value. When you're just starting out, I recommend creating physical content outlines, with all the notes and pieces of value you are going to load inside your video.

If this is an entirely new concept to you, then it's time to get back in touch with the value that you can offer. What are the processes and systems that you're an expert on? And yes, you are an expert. Sometimes we take for granted how much we know. Sometimes we are so immersed in our field that we forget we are speaking at a level 7 of jargon instead of at a level 3 (where your average audience is). It's time to reconnect with that value.

One thing that can help you develop a message mindset is to remove yourself from the equation. If you are focused on feeling ill-equipped or not ready, then you are simply focused on the wrong things. What if you removed those feelings, and decided not to listen to them?

Going one step deeper, think of it from the perspective of your audience. What value do you have that could change their life? What problems are they struggling with that you could easily solve for them? In what ways could you completely change their future if only you had the courage to speak up?

Your content deserves to be heard through video. Your audience wants to hear you say the words and teach them the things. And through developing this message mindset, you can focus on fulfilling their needs with all the wonderful value inside of your wonderful mind.

If you want to hear more about this concept, check out Episode 13 '5 Steps to a Message Mindset'.

💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.

Batching content simply means taking a bunch of photos and videos in one setting. When done right, it will MAXIMIZE your social media efforts and always keep your content bank full! Listen in for how to develop the best batch-creating system for your content.

First, let me review some of the benefits of batch creating content....
1. You only have to get camera-ready once! This is huge for me because if I'm not on-camera, I do not wear makeup. So I assign my content to days when I'm already camera-ready.
2. You only have to set up for your video once. Hopefully your set up is just a few quick steps, but still. Once you have it out you can run down the line of creating content then put it all away.
3. You get mentally in the zone of creating content. You become the content creator and get those bursts of inspiration. Your mind is already firing on all cylinders.

So, how do you create the best batch-content creating process for your business? The first thing to do is build it as you go. Ignore the processes everyone else has, and begin building yours based off your actual content assets. For example, my assets are: the Podcast, monthly training videos inside of my private group, photos for social media, and recently- Instagram Reels. This list started with only the Podcast. That was the only piece of content I expected myself to deliver every single week. Then over time, it continued to build.

When you build your content asset list as you go, you're able to learn your capacity. Some people create Reels for the month in one setting. Some hosts record 5 podcasts in a day. You have to decide where you are on that spectrum and allow yourself to add to your plate as you continue to create content.

The next step for success is having your shot list ready so you know exactly what you're supposed to create. Do the preparation the day before, so that you're spending all the time you've set aside to create.

So, where do you start? Start with picking one day of the week, and setting aside one hour to create your content.

Mine is Thursday's at 10am, when's yours?


💥Get Started with your Video Checklist💥

A quick and easy guide to elevating your video content! Print out this checklist before your next video to make sure your Framing, Lighting & Confidence are on point: www.checklist.camerabrave.com

🌟The Camera Brave Club

My monthly coaching group that teaches you how to take videos that grow your social media! Join us for monthly trainings, coaching calls and community that builds your confidence on-camera: www.camerabraveclub.com 

✏️The Academy

The Camera Brave Academy is an entrepreneur’s guide to building confidence on-camera and nailing down your content messaging. This 6-week course is launched once a year in the fall, grab your spot on the waitlist here: www.camerabraveacademy.com 

💛Get Connected

Thank you for listening to the show, let's get connected! You can find me over at Camera Brave on Facebook and Instagram and now Tik Tok! For Podcast inquiries email me at [email protected]. Until next time.