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We are live, ladies and gentlemen, and yes, there is cool music, but it's playing elsewhere.
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So, great to see you guys.
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We are going to talk about mastering authentic storytelling today with the one and only Dominic Damasky, founder of Motivation Champs, an amazing publisher, everything positive.
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The guy's got TV shows about bikes and hikes.
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Absolutely incredible.
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Love the energy.
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Dominic, we're going to talk about boosting your brand with sincerity.
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And we're going to talk a little bit about that around authenticity.
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So welcome to the LinkedIn live, Facebook live and all the other lives we're doing here today.
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What is the good word?
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Hey, thank you, Harry Spate.
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Anytime I get to spend time with Harry Spate, I am honored, so I'm just soaking it all in and I can't wait to talk storytelling and authenticity with the guy who is the real deal.
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So let's do it, Harry.
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Great.
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Awesome.
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All right, so tell us a little bit about what it is.
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It's just like a little background of who you are and who you serve and kind of get people.
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Um, thinking about what you do and maybe, uh, see if there's some opportunity there to follow you and learn more from you.
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Oh, very cool.
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I get to pitch right off the bat.
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Thanks Harry.
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Yeah A
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short pitch.
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Yeah, I'm kidding the curve.
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Okay.
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Uh, so I have a company called motivation champs And 24 7 365 days a year We try to share inspiration, positivity, and smiles and help other people do the same.
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I have this, uh, I have this goal.
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I want to live in a world where 20 years from now, people thank each other.
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People look each other in the eye.
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They hold doors for each other and they say, Hey, remember back.
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20 years ago when negativity used to get the ratings, now positivity does now kindness does.
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So I try to help people share their stories.
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We publish books.
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We take people from piece of paper to publish author.
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But we, I have such a belief that not all stories are best told via Although I love the book, right?
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But like Harry's great on this live stream, you know, on his podcast.
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So he should be doing those things too.
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So I just want to put out positive content everywhere.
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I can't hear it.
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So that's me in a nutshell.
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Well, I want you to know, Mr.
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Positivity, I was referred to recently this past very week, someone called me.
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The most positive guy on LinkedIn, something like that.
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And I'm like, you don't know Dominic Damasky.
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Maybe she does.
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And maybe I just passed, I just passed Dominic Damasky as the most.
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Positive person on LinkedIn.
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So,
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and if you did, if you did, I would be proud because my belief is I can't do it all alone.
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I never intended to set out in like, I, I, I try to live it and, you know, share the content.
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And, but I see people like you doing great things and I want to lift them up.
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So.
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To get to this goal of, uh, no negativity and people holding doors for each other and saying, Hey, remember there when, when there was a 24 hour news cycle where everybody tried to poke each other's buttons, uh, well, to, then we got a lot of work to do.
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So I can't get done.
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Yes.
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And this is post debate last night.
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So the world is completely divided.
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And here we are going to talk about peace and love and kindness.
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I am in for this conversation.
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So let's get right down to it.
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We're going to talk about this word authenticity.
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I, I never really knew what authenticity was until recently.
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I mean, it's not a word I ever used in sales.
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It was, I mean, maybe being genuine, maybe being sincere, but over the last several years, I don't know when the authentic word really jumped out if it was in the last 20 years or last 10 or five.
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But this, this is a word that a lot of people are, are using and saying, I want to be my authentic self.
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Well, that can be good, right?
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If we're completely inauthentic, that could be good is that we want to work at being better.
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But if we're too authentic, then that could also push people away, right?
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Is that what you're, was that where we start or what's your thought?
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One, I love authenticity.
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Authenticity as far as I am who I am.
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I'm trying to be the best Dominic Domaschad can be.
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Harry's trying the best, best Harry can be.
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But, There's a time and place for everything.
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So you got to know the room, know the audience, know what people are talking about.
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Let's say vulgarity is your thing and you're as vulgar as can be.
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Okay.
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Well, there's a place for that.
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It's not everywhere.
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It's not church.
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It's not the live stream or that's going on LinkedIn in the middle of the day.
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So there's, it's not, so there's an understanding.
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And some people would say, well, I'm going to be myself.
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But I saw David Goggins do it.
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David Goggins, he's all in on what he does.
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He's got a very unique circumstance and a very unique portion of the population that love him.
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For instance, let's say, uh, Rush Limbaugh back in the day.
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Rush, Rush did what he did and he had a portion of the population that loved him.
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Somebody, but you need to know if you're going to go down, Any path, like let's say you wanted to lead with vulgarity, there's going to be a portion of the population that don't wanna hear it.
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If you wanna talk politics, there's, I never talk politics.
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I don't know anything about'em.
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I, you know, so it's not, it's not for me.
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I don't know it, but some people they, that's what they're into.
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But they have to know that if this is what you talk about, well, there's a portion of the population.
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Don't want to hear it.
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So for me, it's about authenticity, but understanding who you're talking to and reading the room.
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Yeah.
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I love it.
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Give me an example.
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When you use the word authentic of someone who is.
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Authentic in a good way.
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Okay, so let's say we're looking for some, I, let's say Gary v.
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Gary Van, the truck.
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Mm-Hmm.
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This is a guy who, well, one, he, maybe he swears too much.
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Okay.
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But it seems that he is authentic on brand, on mission with what he talk, I'm gonna.
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Do this, this, this, this on brand on mission.
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I get it.
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I get it.
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You understand what he is putting out.
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Let's say it's a Joel Osteen.
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Joel Osteen.
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He does.
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Well, he does faith.
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He does religion.
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He never is off of this message of God or Joyce Meyer, whoever those people are there.
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They're there.
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They lead with faith and they're When you see them, that's what they're putting out to the world.
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So I would say, no, I don't know in private life and I don't need to know in private life.
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I'm saying for what they've shown me over the last, cause somebody's going to rebut here that, oh, they live in a million dollar house or this, for what I've seen in there, the message they put out is on like Like the rock, let's say the rock is a perfect example, whether he's selling tequila, whether he's acting, whether he's in the WWE, whether he's launching a football brand, this is a, for you and sells, they like you, they trust you.
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They buy from you the rock.
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I know what I'm getting.
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Every time I'm getting positive upbeat, I'm getting his muscles.
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He seems like a good guy.
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Then I see him buying a truck for somebody.
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He sees that it seems nice in every action, you know, but he's still tough.
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Still got his muscles still who he is.
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He's not hiding that, but I would say that this is a person who is.
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Sincere and I, I, I, I got one more for you since this is, since this is the Harry Spade show, Harry Spade is completely authentic.
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So yeah, no matter what Harry's always has a touch of humor.
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He can't turn it off.
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He's never going to turn it off.
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Yeah, he can turn it off.
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He can turn it off a little bit, but so you don't hide that.
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You let people know in your videos.
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That whether it's the hat, whether it's how you come on screen and get closer to the camera, there is, but, but this is who he is in every interaction.
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I, I'm not fooled.
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This is the guy I see.
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So I'm, I, I'm comfortable.
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Now that doesn't mean, like, if I, this is me who I am.
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There are going to be people that say, why is that guy smile so much?
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Why does he talk like he does?
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Why hasn't he let Harry talk for 10 minutes?
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I don't like him.
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So I get it.
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But this is, this is who I am.
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You're funny.
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Thank you for setting me up.
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So, so first of all, when I think about So, like, getting our authentic self, our genuine self out there on video, I think is a huge challenge for many.
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Because they want, and I, you may find this hard to believe folks, but I, Harry Spade, the multimedia genius that I am, used to be horrified that I would make a mistake on my videos and I would do 20 or 30 or 40 or more videos a year.
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of 15 to 30 second videos and just go do over do over and I can show you my screen of all these stupid videos that were not perfect and guess what?
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Who cares?
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I was looking for perfection.
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Was I being authentic?
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What do you think?
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Okay.
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So I'm in that world with you.
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So check, check, check exactly for anybody out there making videos.
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I've done what Harry does and we still do, right?
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We still mess up and we still make them over and we, you know, okay.
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I didn't realize that behind me was a exit sign when I made that video or something weird.
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So you, or car horns are honking and weird things happen.
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So you can do them over, but I'll tell you.
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So you mentioned the show bikes and exit one day I was, I'm out.
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Like I did like Harry, I always redo, redo, stop, stop, stop.
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So one day my, my partner, Dave used to be in an improv group, uh, that I do the biking and hiking with.
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So he was in a traveling improv group.
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And then another guest we had on, she had traveled across, um, She was with a national Broadway tour whenever you when you tour across country, but I don't know what that's called.
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Anyway, so we're doing Yeah, okay.
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Yeah, I guess that's how it is.
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So we're doing it Off Broadway.
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Okay, so we are doing an opening and I'm with the two of them much more experienced and Something went wrong Let's say but barely went wrong and I stopped I froze and then I saw the two pros They just kept going and I learned that day they played it and they it was they were great And I saw one I wasn't good enough and two here's two people that have been trained been schooled They just went with it.
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And so the harry's point just go with it I I have a go with it warts and all to you know, as long as long as it's not Bad sound, bad quality, bad quality and things like that stink.
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So I, one time I went to Times Square, I thought I was going to make the best video.
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I'm like, this is going to be so cool.
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I'm going to go to the, I consider the center of the universe.
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I'm going to go to the Times Square and make the best video.
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So I'm there.
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I took my cameras up in Times Square.
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I'm doing my thing that I, you know, really I'm into it when I play it back.
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It's.
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Be buses, people talking, nothing I said was audio at all audible at all.
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So it was terrible video, but so sometimes you just can't use it.
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So
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go on, Harry.
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All right.
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So what am I doing?
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I got a little feedback here.
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I think I'm good.
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All right.
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So.
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This idea of like, so me starting out and doing the videos, looking for perfection, that wasn't me.
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I had to learn to be me on video.
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I remember a person saying to me, a young lady, uh, she said, you're not that guy, right?
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I know you better.
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And you're not that guy that's coming out on video.
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She says, you need to relax and be yourself.
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It's like all these people throughout my life say these brilliant things.
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It's like, oh, okay.
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So she says, just relax and have fun.
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And you know, now I'm that guy now I'm me right before I was trying to be someone else.
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I was trying to be smarter.
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I was trying to be perfect.
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It just wasn't who I was.
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That does not connect with people.
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But to your point, the idea of looking for perfection and settling for what's less than perfection does not mean.
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Let's talk about, let's talk about
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that, Harry.
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Let's dig into that if
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we can.
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I think you have to do the best with what you have at that given point in time in your life.
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And so let's say I start with the camera.
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I love, I love the phone, turning that phone around and doing 30 second video.
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Right now, at this point in my life, I got a third, I have this thousand, you know, Apple iPhone or whatever phones, a thousand other cameras.
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Use that to start.
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And then as you build, you can add a light.
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You can add a new headset.
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Look, I got the headset like this.
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I haven't added a microphone.
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Harry's got a fancy mic.
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I don't have a fancy mic.
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So you, you can add, you can build, be the best you can at that point with what you have.
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And that's authenticity.
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So sure.
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Somebody else has a whole production team.
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I don't.
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So Bill, do the best 30 seconds you can, the best minute you can, write the best book you can, chapter, sentence, post, that's all you can do.
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You can't worry about that other stuff.
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Yeah, and then, so, where that is in this whole thing is the balancing factor.
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Eventually, you can do better, and then we could be lazy and just say, well I don't care, I'm just, I'm gonna do it.
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Crappy mood today or whatever.
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I'm just gonna put something out and let everyone know who I am.
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To me, I mean, that's fine if that's the way you, you want your brand, but that could also push people away.
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Yeah.
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If they're coming to you for inspiration and motivation and positivity, and you come on video and you say, well, today is just a crappy day, folks, and I'm just gonna tell you all the bad things that are going on in my life right now.
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You know, that's authentic, but is that really what you want to be doing?
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And I think that's the question that we have to ask ourselves.
