In this 45‑minute vlog, Evan Carmichael chronicles his second day at a Paris entrepreneurship conference. He opens with a candid recount of his jet‑lagged morning, a brief sleep, and the excitement of discovering that billionaire investor Ray Dalio followed him on Twitter, hinting at a possible collaboration. Evan outlines his signature networking tactic—positioning himself in a high‑traffic area, wearing a distinctive shirt, and leveraging a live social‑media wall that displays his posts to attract conversation. He documents the conference flow: checking in, the room filling up, and his preparation for a 5 pm speaking slot at the Club Talents event, where he delivers an energetic talk that includes a crowd‑participation exercise (“high‑five the person next to you, you’re a leader, baby!”). After the session, he shares post‑event activities—networking with fans, meals with friends Xavier and Nina, calorie‑counting concerns, and a humorous note about his trainer’s disapproval. The vlog concludes with his return to the hotel, a fire alarm incident, travel logistics, and a final mission to pick up a Paris‑themed Starbucks mug for a friend, while hoping to reconnect with his pet Luna. Throughout, Evan mixes personal anecdotes, brand promotion (his book Find Your One Word and goal to help 1 million entrepreneurs), and a consistently upbeat, grateful tone.
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in one of the sessions. I'm like, oh, you thought that was controversial? Wait till you see what's coming, man. Wait till my session. Good morning, everybody.
Welcome to day 2, I guess.
Had a rough night last night. Slept just under 4 hours. The jet lag still seeping in, but grateful to get some sleep because got a busy day ahead today. So I woke up around 4:30 in the morning Paris time, managed to, uh, say good night to Nina, which was great, get some work done, have a shower, do some YouTube. Uh, Ray Dalio started following me on Twitter Might be doing a collab. Ray Dalio is a multi-billionaire investor. He's worth like $16, $17 billion, something like that. Then I got some good work done, checked in on some YouTube videos that we have coming up, and so I'm excited for that. It's now 7:30. I'm gonna go grab a coffee and head to the convention center. It kicks off at 8. I'm gonna get my badge and get ready to be there for the opening intro. Hopefully grab maybe an hour or two of sleep after lunch, and then 5 o'clock, or maybe it's 5:30, I take the stage. So pumped about that. Let's do it, day 2. Got my coffee. Forgot how bitter Starbucks coffee was. Miss my Tim Hortons, but I'm grateful to have some kind of coffee here. This stuff should be good. Got a little bit of time to kill before the event starts, so I'm gonna get on social media, answer your questions. I made the wall! I made the wall with my video, guys.
Look at that.
So I'm applying my usual networking strategy: sit in a really busy busy area, people walking by. Let me show you. Sit in a really busy area with people walking by, wear this shirt, and do my thing. Get on social media, start posting, and people come up and talk to me. It's my networking strategy. Works every time.
I love this wall too.
They can see me on the wall. Every time I post, it ends up going there.
So it's working.
This is the room.
Super pumped. Gonna be here speaking, I don't know, 8 hours? I don't know what time. It's gonna be fun though. Check it out. Check out the size of this room. It's legit. And I get to sit right here.
The room is starting to fill up.
Check it out.
It's starting to fill up.
We're gonna go soon. Almost showtime. I'm just sitting on stage chilling as people come in.
The entrance is over there.
People come in, say hi again. Network Strategy you one-on-one, without that, sit in the public area, have the t-shirt on, and people come and say hi.
Works every time.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Paris!
First part of the day is done. It's a fun event, fun crowd. I'm so pumped to get on. I'm going to— they're going for a coffee break and lunch and some product sessions that I'm not going to be in on. So I'm gonna go back to the hotel, try to catch a couple extra snoozes, hour or two, refresh, wake up, go over my presentation one or two more times, then come back. So I gotta be back here for 4:30. I'm excited. One of the guys was talking about how somebody made a kind of controversial remark in one of the sessions. I'm like, oh, you thought that was controversial? Wait till you see what's coming, man. Wait till my session. We're gonna bring it. Anyway, back to the hotel.
So it's 4 o'clock. I have to be at the stage at 4:30 to practice, to get set up, mic'd up, all that. And then at 5:30 I go live. I'm super pumped about that. Did not sleep very well at all. I think a combination of the coffee being in my system— oh, they're calling me. Wake-up call.
Hello!
A combination of the coffee, that large Starbucks coffee, plus being worried about the alarms not going off. So that one actually just worked. You heard it. I set one on my phone and I set one for the for the phone that was here. I'm always worried that the alarm is not gonna go off, and so it prevents me from sleeping. And also just thinking about the presentation, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself to do a great job because I'm spending time, you know, away. It's 4 days away, pretty much. 3 days away? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 3 days away. Still a lot of time away, and so this has to work. You know, not just because I'm getting paid, but I'm missing out on other opportunities to help people, so this has to be great. And so that, those combination of things made it not conducive to sleeping, but it's okay. And I'm really trying to think of, you know, anytime I complain, to see the positive side. We talked about that earlier on in this vlog. So I'm really grateful that I have a hotel room that's right across the street from the conference center that I could easily come back to. I'm grateful that I had a nice soft bed to sleep in, at least relax in, and not be forced to be out and about losing more energy. I heard a little baby cry for a little bit, and so I'm really grateful for that baby not freaking out because I've been in hotel rooms where the baby cries all night and that sucks. And it's pretty clean air. There's a lot of smoking in general in, in Paris, and I get allergic to smoking, so it's great that it's so clean. So that's the positive. I had a shower, I changed, new shirt, look at that, huh? Special new shirt, this is the performance shirt. And I'm pumped! I'm excited and ready to go speak, and I'm gonna take you guys with me.
Alright, I'm here, it's almost showtime. We're getting set up. There it is, Club Talents Off in the back. Here's the room again, gonna be filled with people. I'm pumped.
Let's call our last speaker today, last but not least. He is a successful entrepreneur on a mission to help 1 million entrepreneurs just that, right? He is the author of this absolutely great book, "Find Your One Word," and is a rock star on YouTube with more than 700,000 subscribers. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to Evan Carmichael.
I love being in a room full of leaders. I love being in a room full of people who want to be inspired, who come to learn, who want to improve themselves, who want to take the knowledge that they took here and apply it to their business. And most importantly, I love being with people who want to take action, because that's what we do as leaders.
Everybody stand up, just quickly. Quick exercise. Everybody stand up. Get the house lights up a little bit. I need to prep these guys more. Everybody stand up. I want you to put your hands up like this.
Everybody put your hands up like this.
Here we go.
All right.
When I count to 3, what we're gonna do is we're gonna turn to the person next to us, we're gonna give them a high 10, and we're gonna say, "You're a leader, baby!" No lie, I'm serious, okay?
You're a leader, baby!
1, 2, 3!
You're a leader, baby! Other side, other side! You're a leader, baby! You're a leader, baby!
Crushed the speech. We're now celebrating with a giant ball, 10-year anniversary.
Filipino is wrapping up.
Lots of fun. Got to meet some new fans, which has been great. Take a lot of selfies, answer some questions. People are just kind of chilling now. Networking, grabbing some food, some champagne. The cheese, the mozzarella cheese is nuts. I had to have a little bit. Sean's gonna kill me, my trainer. But otherwise everything has been going really, really well. Just gonna hang out a little bit longer and then I think there's some other activities planned. I just go where my handler tells me to go. And then I connected with Nina, so super happy about that. She's doing well. She wants me to bring her back something special from Paris, so I gotta, I gotta, I gotta find something to bring home to Nina. Should be food related because Nina loves her food, so I gotta find something that is not too caloric but tasty. So that's going to be the challenge. If you guys have Well, I can't ask you for advice because, uh, by the time you watch this, I'll be home. So anyway, having fun!
My trainer's gonna kill me for this.
Alright, had a great dinner with Xavier and heading back to the hotel. So that restaurant that we went to was run by a friend of his and we got some custom stuff there at the end. So filling but so amazing. Blew past my calorie restriction for the day, so Sean is not going to be happy with me, but the rest of the day was actually pretty solid, so I think we'll be okay. Gonna head back to the hotel, hopefully catch a hold of Nina. It's 10:30 Paris time, which means it's 4:30 back home. So hopefully I'll be able to get a hold of her, connect, see how she's doing, pack up, and get ready to head back home tomorrow. If I have some time, maybe do a little bit on the town. And 11 AM on the flight, come back home, see my wife. I'm excited. Good morning, good morning, good morning. There's a fire alarm going off in my building and just this morning they had this crazy fire happen in London where it spread super fast and hit 125 families. So I'm watching on CNN and the fire alarm goes off in my building. I was like, okay, I gotta get out of here ASAP. So hopefully everything's okay here. It's a little scary. I woke up, uh, I had 10 hours sleep, which is fantastic. In the first 2 nights, I actually had like 3.5 to 4 hours sleep. So it feels good to have a solid 10. I didn't get a chance to do anything this morning. I'm waiting for my ride to the airport. It's gonna come in about 20 minutes or so. And right now I just want to get out of this building with the alarm going off. And I think I made it.
Woo!
So I'm out. Let's see where— what's going on. Get back to the lobby. I gotta get home. I gotta see my wife. Alright, everything's okay. Time to breathe, relax, and be okay. Waiting on my ride to the airport and get to fly home.
Evan Carmichael.
One of Nina's friends and former co-workers collects Starbucks mugs in every city, but not just cities he goes to, cities other people go to. And so He reminded Nina that on my trip to Paris I need to pick him up a Starbucks Paris mug. And so usually they can find them at the airport. So I'm looking for Starbucks. For you, Tony. I should be sitting in the Air France lounge right now, relaxing, doing some work. But I'm hustling trying to find a Starbucks. For you, Tony. You better appreciate it, man. So the options at the Air France lounge are a lot healthier than the options at the Air Canada lounge in Toronto. Check out what I got. Got some salad and tomatoes and cheese, shrimp, mushrooms, chicken, turkey, banana. Gonna eat, do some work, and then board the plane. They've got power here on the plane, which means I can get some work done. So I'm either going to be doing videos if there's Wi-Fi on the flight, or I'm gonna be working on my new blog. Just got off. Gotta get through customs and then hopefully see Luna. She's just leaving work too, so we'll see if we can sync up our schedules. Otherwise, gotta take an Uber.
Really hoping to see Luna.
Look who I found! Look who I found! It's—
it's T-Rex Luna! Kisses to the whiteboard.
Hey, hello, hello, mister. I miss this one. We talked a lot about Ina. Yeah, yeah, she missed me too. Okay, well, thank you for joining me. Hope you're having a great weekend. Continue to—
