Jay Shaw, a professional hypnotist, shares his 2022 strategy for growing online: daily YouTube streams, simulcasting to multiple platforms, and watch-parties of his videos. He does about five sessions daily at $400 per hour, ranging from stage to therapeutic hypnosis, and emphasizes moving toward respectful consent-based practice.
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Hypnotist. I'm here. I'm about to start streaming on another platform. I just wanted to hop on here real quick and see what was going on. I want to start streaming on YouTube more, man, so I'm gonna start doing little short drop-ins. As I get my schedule more situated, we'll come up with a— with an exact time, maybe weekly, where we get on here and do some things. But for now, they just gonna be random, man. The people who lucky enough to catch them, we gonna vibe. I'll take some suggestions. I never go live on here, so I don't know if I could bring other people up. So I'm not sure if I can hypnotize people on here, but, um, I'm open to it. Let me see what options I got. I don't think I can just bring people up. Oh, we got filters. They can make me handsome. I like that. I like how— I like help. In the being handsome department, I'll take it. We got some bubbles, we got some lights and things. I think we're gonna go with the, the no filter on this one. Got the comments down here. Okay, okay, I'm gonna learn how to work it. What's going on? I see we got somebody watching, man. Y'all say something in the comments. But yeah, we gotta get used to— it's a lot of different platforms that I'll be posting on and I haven't Been streaming on. So getting my streaming plans for 2022 laid out, so we testing out some different stuff. But what's good, what's good, what's good, man? We in here, we working. Got a brand new video up today. It's doing, it's doing phenomenal. Thank you guys for checking out the content. You know I appreciate it. No, I appreciate it, but I think when I do stream on YouTube, it's gonna be through like a third party because I can't invite people up on here and I want to be able to hypnotize people. I want to be able to do that. You know what, probably do a watch party for that new video. I gotta see when we get the most people live. Well, I could just leave it up in the replay. I want to do a watch party. I'm probably gonna go to sleep. That yawn said a lot. Probably finna go to bed. Probably about to go to sleep. Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. It was an early morning. Very early morning. We're gonna get us another two minutes or so before I end it. Um, I'm on the stream tonight. I'm tired. I could give it an hour or so. We'll probably, um, wherever I go live from, we'll probably share it to Facebook so y'all can tap in with us. So y'all can tap in with us, man. Why y'all let me get so tired? Yo yo yo yo! What's good? What's good, QT? Haitian Cutie, what's going on? Trying to get used to streaming on YouTube and learning how stuff work on here. What you got going though? I'm doing amazing. I'm doing real good. A little sleepy, but I told myself I was gonna jump on and test out YouTube today, so I'm doing it even if it's just for a few minutes. We gonna start getting on here. I want to start doing, um, a live show on here. I'm gonna do 3 live shows a week. I'm just trying to figure out what 3 platforms I'm gonna put them on, but it looked like YouTube gonna be one of them. Just gotta make sure we got enough people to hypnotize for 3 shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's looking like YouTube, Facebook, and, um Beagle might be our walls. For sure, for sure. Appreciate you, appreciate you. You're gonna have to hop up here and get hypnotized one of these days. Come up here and kick it with us. And we putting together a podcast that's gonna be coming out on YouTube too. We got a pilot recorded. But we got some stuff, we got some stuff cooking, some stuff brewing. Let's see, let's see. I think I need to shut this one down in a little bit. Who all we got watching? It says 3 people here. I can't see no names, anything. But y'all say something so I can speak to you and know who here. Brand new video we put out today. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Appreciate the support. If there's any way I can support back, let me know. Let me know. I do not have my charger for my laptop. I guess I could do it from my desktop. I don't want to though, for sure, for sure, for sure. I can't even spell. You say this— what do I say to somebody who been— who scared of being in the top? I usually just leave them alone. If they don't want to be hypnotized, I'm not going to push it too hard. Like, the most I do is ask them, ask them what they're afraid of, and they want to talk about it, we can. But I don't really pressure people into getting hypnotized. I used to, like when I was first starting and I wanted to practice and I was like really anxious and I needed people to hypnotize. But, um, These days, people don't want to. I just leave them alone. I just leave them alone. That would usually happen if they keep watching the content long enough. They'll reach out. And on average, just through seeing my clients, I hypnotize about five people a day. And each of those sessions probably anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half. So usually at that point, I don't really— I'm hypnotized and already got me 5 or 6 hours in, sometimes more than that. So at that point, I'm like, if you want to, we can, but, but if you don't want to, it's okay. I got another 5 or 6 hours of hypnosis to do tomorrow. But yeah, before I had my clientele built up, I used to really pressure— I used to like beg people to get hypnotized. It's like, come on, try it, please try it. But these days, not so much. Yeah, mainly these days, my— and the reason I do so much live stream is just to educate people, because what people don't realize is you being hypnotized all day long. If you hear a song and the song makes you sad, if you could watch a movie and laugh, if someone makes you upset, they hypnotize you. They entered in through one of your 5 senses and changed your state of consciousness. That's hypnosis. I'm better at it than most people, but that's what hypnosis is. That's what it is. Most people just hypnotize on accident. A hypnotist takes time to learn how to hypnotize on purpose. But that's it. That's it. Let's see. I want to see how this looks on the computer. Let me turn this down so it won't echo on me. If I hit the right button, it might work, huh? I'm glad I did. I got my volume all the way up. That would have been loud. Loud and bad. For good, mostly. You know, we play with the ether sometimes. That's the dope thing about hypnosis. You can use it in, in all lanes. But yeah, I like doing all of it, man. I like doing therapy. I like helping people with stuff like that. I love doing the adult hypnosis shows. And the erotic hypnosis. I like doing the stage hypnosis and the street hypnosis, gluing people's feet to the ground, making people forget their name. I don't care who I'm— who I'm hypnotizing, what I hypnotize them for. At some point, I'm going to motivate them. I refuse to put somebody in a trance and not motivate them before I bring them out. I think it's a waste of a trance to not help that person in some way. If you watch the videos, even when I'm doing orgasms, Before I wake them up. I'm like, yo, if we can enhance anything about you, if you wanted to be like less anxious, you want to be better at public speaking, you wanna, um, do you bite your nails? Do you smoke? Do you do anything that you would like some help with? And most of the time people say yeah and they take me up on that. They don't got anything, we just give some general suggestions. For positivity and energy, immunity, and your immune system working at its optimum level, stuff like that. But yep, yep, yep. Oh, Haitian, don't get mad at me, but I just— now I really know who you are. I had an idea of who you were and Now I really know who you are. I remember working with you now. I remember working with you now. I know exactly who I'm talking to. I'm glad you trust me. I'm glad you did, you did a session with me. I appreciate it. I appreciate it because I was trying to make the picture big on here and it wouldn't let me. So I kind of knew. I was like, I think that— but yeah, when you say that, I know exactly Who I'm talking to now? And I don't like asking questions, especially on live streams, because you know confidentiality. You don't. So yeah, I ain't want to be sprouting people business, especially just the wrong business. But yeah, I know who I'm talking to now. I'm glad to hear that though. I'm really glad to hear that. Glad to hear. You still on Bigo? I just started back posting in December. I took like 7 months off from Bigo, and then I saw my kids' Christmas list. I was like, you know what, I could do— I could do— I could do some shows on Bigo real quick. Yeah, I want some stuff, huh? Let me— let me get out here and pull this old stopwatch. Let me pull this old pocket watch out. I might be on Bego later tonight if I don't go get in my bed. I'm a little tired, but I don't think I got an early day tomorrow, so I could sleep in until about 9 or 10 if I want to. I don't think I got to see nobody until around 11:30. So even if I sleep in— I say sleep in until 10, my body not gonna let me sleep in until 10. All right. Okay, I got you, I got you. I went, um, I did like a month on Tag. Tag was cool. No audition, no nothing. You just start hosting and doing your thing. But Tag is more of a dating website. I didn't— although people was enjoying the content, it's more appreciated in other places. People trying to fuck. I'm like, y'all chill out. Come enjoy the content. Come enjoy the content. And you have Discord? What you doing on your Discord channel? I'm learning how to work Discord. We got Discord. We using it for one of my book clubs. And Discord, it does a lot. It do a whole lot. Yeah, Tagged was, um, I mean, I'm single, but Tagged was, it was a bit much. They was, uh, it was coming on strong. Bego was depressing. I took a nice long break. I, I never stopped liking Bego. I had just got busy and the world had opened up, and real world money is, is, is easier than the show money. Well, I guess they both got the ups and downs. You don't got to travel for Virtual money. Like I can end this live right now and be in my bed within five minutes. Not even five minutes. I could be in my bed within thirty seconds if that's the goal. Show money. You got to travel, get on planes, and with everything going on in the world right now, it's it's not worth it. It's not worth it. Every once in a while, I go do a small something. Like I did a Thanksgiving show. I like a little, um, small club. A personal friend had opened up a club over in Seattle and he asked, so I did that show. Had a good time, man. It felt good to be back on the live stage, but I don't know, we'll see. A friend of mine was trying to get me to go, um, up to New York for the ball drop. I don't do cold, and you talking about some real cold right there. You talking about some super cold. He wanted to go do hypnosis up there. I don't even know if he ended up going. He on YouTube too, man. Y'all need to check out Emerge McVay, man. That's one of my hypnosis OGs, man. I learned so much from this man. He, he clutch, clutch with it. Never selfish with the information. He likes seeing other hypnotists do their thing. But yeah, y'all check out Emerge McVay, the Brain Bully. My book club, I got a community of thinkers. We talk about religion, politics, conspiracy, all of it. Okay, I might have to get that link from you. I might have to get that link from you. Come kick it with y'all. But yeah, Emerge, y'all, really one of the dudes who gave me the confidence to run my business the way I run my business, because, um, a lot of people Who do this work. They, they'll lead you to think that you gotta wear a suit and tie every day and you gotta, you know, present yourself as the clinical hypnotherapist. Marge gave me the confidence to call myself Big Abundant and let the cards fall where they may. And, uh, let's just say they fell okay. So yeah, I always got love for that man. You never hear me say one bad thing about that man. I'm a— let's see, let's see who else we got in here watching. I see it's a 5 up top, so it's telling me it's 4 other people in here who just watching. Y'all say something. How y'all doing? What y'all— I'mma hypnotize y'all. Y'all, every time I ring this bell, you gonna send a comment. I'm fucking with you. But now, what y'all up to, man? Yeah, we was on, um, BGO playing around the other day. One of the trolls came in the room, and I love trolling trolls. It's one of my favorite things to do. I enjoy trolling trolls. I told him, I was like, say something else, I'm gonna make you shit on yourself. I'm gonna hypnotize you and make you shit on yourself, and I'm gonna make you play it. But he got— but he got the fuck up out of there. Ain't want no pause. He didn't want no pause. It's like, hell nah. I could create polls and shit on here. Let me see something. Okay. Hey, can I— you know if I could bring other people up on YouTube? Like, if I do decide to hypnotize people on here? Okay, so I can start a poll. Let's see what else we could do on here. When I be on Bigo pretty much every day, if you had a StreamYard— okay, yeah, that's what I usually do. I usually do the StreamYard, the StreamYard post. I love StreamYard. Then I can kick that shit to Facebook, Instagram, and Bigo at the same time. I don't really be kicking it to Bigo that much. Sometimes I will. Yeah, StreamYard lit, lit, lit, lit. I got all my— like when I do it on hypnosis orgasms on StreamYard, we change the color of the sheets and everything. OBS StreamYard is even better. Oh, you use them together? How you use them together? Like, I got OBS and I got StreamYard. I never use them together. So keep doing what you do. Hey, thanks, Mark. Thank you. Appreciate you, man. And I love chopping it up with other hypnotists, man. So if you ever want to talk, hit me up. Reach out to me. I'm responsive over Instagram. Or through my website. Instagram probably the best place to hit me up though. I love talking with other, other people who love this craft, man. Love it, love it, love it. Can't get enough of it. About to shut this computer down because I left my charger at the office. Just do this from my iPad. Shut that down. We'll just do this from here. Show for show. What I think I'm gonna start doing— I usually upload a YouTube video a day, if not every day, every other day for sure. I think we're gonna start doing, um, watch parties with the videos. I'm gonna go live, let people who want to come up We watch the video together. We could talk about it. People can ask questions. I don't care who the people are. It can be people who think it's fake, people who think it's real. We can have those discussions because I'm with all of it. I like all of it, man. Yeah, man. This stuff is. I mean, you can use it for entertainment. You can use it to help people with. Like everything, man. I hypnotize my children before they go to school, especially with everything going on. My children get hypnotized most nights and pretty much every morning. Just suggestions that you got a strong immune system. We watched the movie Osmosis Jones, and, you know, I can let them visualize it's this little blue man in their body fighting off diseases, and all of that is hypnosis, man. People go, you hypnotize your children? I charge other people $400 an hour to hypnotize them. Why would I not hypnotize my children for free? Yes, I hypnotize my children. You hypnotize yours too. You just, you just don't know that you are. Yep, you regain your memory. We could give it a go, like, if you want to. You can give me more detail, but, um, Memory is trickier with hypnosis because it's very easy to create false memory, and that's the last thing we want to do. Oh, just like your memory in general. What you eating like? First off, are you getting— how much protein are you putting in your body a day? I very much believe in a holistic approach. Like, hypnosis is not a panacea, man. Merge is, is, is a dog, man. I love him. I was with him last time I was with Merge. I was in— I went to Arizona in October. I met him at First Friday out there, and we was out there putting in some work. You know, I might go to First Friday soon because Arizona one of the few warm places in the country right now. Yeah, Merge is a beast, man. I first ran across Merge on Facebook. I just reached out to him. He's so cool. He was like, yeah, man, come out whenever you want. Blaming on the weed. I know it's the blood pressure. Yeah, it'd be like this sometimes. Yeah, we could, we could play with it. We can see what we can make happen. But, um, definitely, man, hydration and protein plays a big part in memory. Emerge is dope. Emerge is one of the GOATs, man. Emerge. I don't know if y'all ever heard of Dr. P. He another GOAT. I said, um, guy named Lenny Moore, the Detroit Street Hypnotist, man. This is so— there's some dope hypnotists out there. I don't know if y'all heard about this dude named Big Abundant. He dope. He cold with it. Oh, it's a guy to be in my life sometimes. So vibrant. He good. He cold with it. Because the Georgia, we could get it popping for sure, for sure. You got on some stuff going on YouTube, Mark? I'm from— I'll be in the South. I ain't been to Georgia in a minute, but yeah, I definitely have to hop down that way. Merge is dope. Yeah, I told myself when I got over here, I said I was gonna do 5 minutes. What's up? What's up? Sound off. We accidentally did almost 30. That's what's up. That's what's up. Just chilling up on YouTube, man. Gotta get used to going live on here. I'll be live everywhere else. It's like I gotta start getting live on YouTube. The channel growing. Like the channel picking up anywhere between three and six followers a day. So we keep that up for a full year. So I'm at the store just getting on YouTube, kicking it at least once a week, probably more, but at least once a week just so I can chop it up with the people who enjoy the content and get suggestions. I want all the suggestions. I want to talk to the disrespectful people. I want to talk to the respectful people. I want to talk to everybody. We ain't shying away from nothing. This is a white guy, he coming under all the videos. He a true hater, but hey, it all helped the algorithm. Just keep coming, man. Getting things set up now for sure, for sure, for sure. Sound off if I can help in any way, let me know. For sure, Asian, let's do it. Yeah, look, I keep the office set up interview ready. I can be on StreamYard in 30 seconds if you want to. And Mark, man, just get them reps in. Hypnotize. Anybody who will sit still enough. I started studying this stuff when I was 14. My mom used to say, boy, you'll hypnotize Jesus if he stands still. I'm like, and will? And will? I love this stuff, man. But it get— every time you do it, man, it get a little bit easier and then eventually get to the point where you don't even You remember like when you first started driving, how you have to consciously drive? You could really put it back to the 4 stages of learning. It eventually gets to a point where people are like, what induction do you use? I'm like, man, I don't even know. I don't use a set induction. I just start talking to the people and my instincts tell me what to do. Next thing I know, they in a trance. I don't say like, I'm gonna use an element, or I'm gonna use an arm drop, or I'm gonna use a progressive. I mean, I just, I don't know, I instinctively know what I need to do with that person. I could tell by the language they use and how you, how you talk, which is what would work for you. And if I'm wrong, I just recalibrate, like, oh shit, and think that didn't work like I thought it would. Well, if that didn't work, maybe this would work. But it's just like, I don't know, like a basketball player. Like, you don't, you don't know what you're gonna do when they pass you the ball. Like, you gotta play in the back of your mind. But the coverage that they got up ain't gonna let you run that play. You're not gonna stop and say, hey, that play ain't gonna work, let's just call it. Like, no, you're gonna just trust your instincts and you gonna play. And that's what this hypnosis thing is like. You just gotta keep playing. Sometimes you're gonna miss. I've been doing this for 15 years. I still miss sometimes. Not nearly as much as I used to. But sometimes you still gonna miss, especially if you're working with somebody who don't want to be hypnotized, especially virtually. Because in live— I mean, in person, you know, you can use a shock induction, you can get damn near anybody under. But on this— over this virtual stuff, you can't make nobody go into hypnosis. Tools like the old-fashioned— oh yeah, I use the pocket watch sometimes just because people expect it. Sometimes I might, um, might use like a crystal or something. Do you need it? No, but sometimes it's easier just to buy into what people already expect. Like, I just asked a dumb question. Well, I almost said it ain't no such thing as a dumb question, but that's a lie. But that wasn't one of them. But now I love pulling out the pocket watch, like when I'm at nightclubs. I love pulling out a pocket watch. Hell yeah. And there's a few of us out here. It ain't a lot of us, but this is— it's a few of us out here. And from what I've seen, most of the— most of the brothers who do hypnosis, they approachable, man. They cool. They cool. They just love hypnosis. They don't be competing. They're not competitive. Uh, Use a paperclip. That's the thing about it, you can use anything for an induction. They say Dave Elman used to, um, Dave El— was it Dave or Milton Erickson? One of them used to be smoking a cigarette. He said, I'm gonna puff on this cigarette 3 times, you gonna stare at me as I do it. The 3rd time I pull on the cigarette, your eyes gonna close and you're gonna go into a trance. And it would work. It would work. It's, um, one of the videos. I don't think I edited it yet, but it's gonna be going up on the channel if not this week, definitely probably next week. She got up. I just could tell by the way she was talking. She was in a trance. She was ready to go, and she wanted to do the orgasm. I say close your eyes and think about orgasm you had before. And just by telling her to do that, she bit her lip and I seen the shoulders soften. I was like, shit, ain't no need for an induction. She, she ready to go. She, she there already. And like most people, if you ask them how they ever been hypnotized, they'll say no. But if you've ever had sex, you've been hypnotized. Nothing's getting hard, nothing's getting wet until Somebody get hypnotized. Yeah, man, that's what it's about, just enjoying the flow. And like, people, people don't realize you, you help your business when you make friends with other people who do what you do. Like, people think it's competition. Competition isn't real. Competition is a distraction. Like, it's, it's 7 billion people in the world. I can't hypnotize 7 billion people. You know how many keynotes I would be doing if I was the only Black hypnotist? I wouldn't be. I need, I need other Black hypnotists out here. I don't want to do all this. I don't want to do this all by myself. What if I want to get hypnotized? I want to do a session. I need other people who do what I do that I trust, that I trust to do that. And before COVID I admit I wasn't doing a lot of networking, but I didn't have nothing to do but sit at home and Couldn't go on the road, couldn't do shows. I started putting my head together with other hypnotists and finding out, hey, what y'all— what you doing to sustain, man? Like, we're not— you're not doing shows, you— what you doing? We had to close down our in-person office, and then we started putting our heads together, learning how to do work over Zoom. Like, some people were doing work over Zoom, but we weren't doing— I was, and I can't say what other people was doing. But I wasn't doing— I wasn't doing like past life regression and stuff over Zoom, not before the pandemic I wasn't. But when the game changed it, we put our heads together. Hey man, I'm gonna get ready to do a virtual session with somebody in your, in your area. If things go awry, can you, can you pull up? Like, but just networking. And now I don't even know if I have another in-person office. I think I'm doing virtual clients until I'm done. I'm just— I love working virtually. I don't got to pay for an office. I can— I ain't got to go out. I can go a week at a time without leaving my house if I want to because I work right. But hey, thank y'all for coming to chop it up with me, man. Y'all know I appreciate it. Like I say, if y'all want to talk off the app, hit me up on Instagram. I'm easy to reach on there. It might take me a bit of time to reply, especially if I'm seeing clients, but once I see it, I'll definitely reply. And man, I love y'all and ain't nothing y'all can do about it because my love unconditional. I'm gonna see y'all next time, but definitely be looking out. We're about to be doing a lot of streaming on YouTube.
