Clip taken from Happy Talks #5 w/Ryan Grady: https://anchor.fm/ichiro-takahashi/episodes/Happy-Talks-5---How-to-Win-Friends-and-Influence-People-Social-Media-Edition---with-Ryan-Grady-ef2q6v

Welcome to IMPRVMNT The Podcast Show. My name is Ichiro Takahashi, and each week we bring you the person or the message that will help you improve your life.

Let’s begin your journey.

In this week’s episode I take a break from self-improvement so to say, and I dive into the waters of social media... but, before I introduce this week’s guest, I want to say a few things, and the first is that I’m aware I didn’t upload an episode last week, and although this should not be an excuse, I’m working on an ebook and most of my time it’s being invested between research and writing; that’s number one, and number two, I apologize in advance if my voice doesn’t sound as warm as always during this conversation, but I was freezing, it was a cold day.

Anyways, with all that said, who’s Lucas O’Keefe: well, he’s a 27-year-old social media strategist who focuses on marketing and brand development on TikTok. He’s the founder of On The Clock Media and a former school teacher.

We talked about:

- How being in front of a class of 30 students helped him develop his confidence and communication skills; and how being a teacher helped him understand the trends around young people.

- How his first TikTok video—a 7-second clip sent by his girlfriend of a seal jumping around and a hip-hop track—gave him 2 million views on just 24 hours.

- Why we have just 1 second—yes, just one second—to grab people’s attention on social media.

- The three Rs of a good piece of content.

- What does his average day as a content creator looks like, and why starting with a big piece of content is the best approach.

- Why giving your first ebook for free could end up being a better idea instead of selling it right away, and so much more; so, without further to say, please enjoy.

Today we have... just me. But it's still full of gold. I see so many people going on social media and trying to grow by grinding and spamming. They end up having a bunch of followers, but nobody truly supports them. There are so many amazing people online. You just have to know how to meet them. So that's exactly what I'm going to teach you today.

Todays episode is more of an inspirational story than just advice. I brought Naudia on because she has a deep understanding of the practice of gratitude. However, she ended up sharing her story and it really showed me how powerful gratitude can be. Even with all the things Naudia has gone through, you can still hear the peace and love in her heart when she talks. There is no end to the amount of things we can be grateful for.

Welcome to IMPRVMNT The Podcast Show. My name is Ichiro Takahashi, and each week we bring you the person or the message that will help you improve your life.

This week, Amber Farooqui joins me to talk about influencer marketing, the good and the bad side of social media, fitness, networking, and self-development.

Amber is a successful 20-year old online fitness coach, business coach,marketing student and content creator from Chicago.

Today we have a topic that I did not know much about: Spirituality. As you will hear in the episode, spirituality is not necessarily a religion. As I understand, it is simply the belief that we are all connected through forces beyond our own bodies. While not everybody is going to be a spiritual person, I think we can all take the lessons that Lawrence shares with us and apply them to our life in the way that is right for us.

This week, the CEO of Zero Negativity Clothing and former police officer Dan Gaunt joins me to talk about mental health issues, the fashion industry, how he basically networked his way through, the importance of an engaged audience when working with influencers, and so much more.

With his business, and through the supply of organic cotton clothing, Dan has saved an estimated of 3 million liters of water, or, enough water to sustain 4.281 people for a full year, 8.903 kg of CO2 (equivalent to a car journey of 94.717 km), and enough energy to keep a 60 watts bulb lit for almost 5 years —all this in just one year!

When he started his brand he had 0 experience in the fashion industry before, he never ran an online business before, in his words “he didn’t have a clue about graphic design”, and even yet he didn’t give up, he knew he wanted to make an impact on the world, he just needed to figure out how, and he did so. Now he’s running a eco-friendly clothing business that probably will close 2020 with £100.000 in sales.

My man Casper from Holland. This guy has every possible 'communication trick' out there. This episode was super fun for me because I learned everything about life through the art of communication.

One of the main criticisms I hear about dating coaches is that they are teaching manipulation. While that may be true sometimes, I think a lot of these techniques can be analyzed to understand why some people are able to connect more easily through conversation. And as Casper said, over time you won't even need to think about it anymore, you will just be a natural conversationalist.

This week’s guest is my friend Kate Keel, who’s a successful core energy coach. She helps introverts to build their confidence, set boundaries and understand and respect their own needs, so they can live an authentic, fulfilling, and burnout-free life.

We talked about her self-improvement journey, self-awareness, self-love, human consciousness, introversion, shyness, social anxiety, what a core energy coach is, her background, automatic and dysfunctional thoughts, and so much more. So, without further to say, please enjoy.

Hey guys, I’m Ryan Grady and in this episode Alerie (@girlmeetswealth on Instagram) joins me to talk about personal finances, her relationships with money, the mindset behind, the role social media and confidence plays on our financial life, and so much more!