This is a short solo YouTube spoken piece by Jesse Ewell giving practical advice on building on-camera confidence through daily practice. The speaker recounts a mentor’s challenge to go live for 5–10 minutes, responded by doing 130 consecutive days of 5–10 minute Facebook lives, and reports clear improvements (fewer filler words, more clarity). The core recommendation: record or go live regularly (daily reels/lives) to build habit, track progress, and be able to look back and see improvement.
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People are always super uncomfortable to speak on camera. I'm going to give you a little idea of something I did back in 2015. One of my old mentors and coaches, he kind of challenged us to go live for five or 10 minutes, talk about any subject. And I remember doing that for the first time, and he actually told me I sounded like a drunk Canadian. And I remember getting kind of frustrated by that and thinking, man, I went live for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and the best thing you can tell me is I sound like a drunk Canadian? I actually took that as a challenge. I then recorded a hundred, one hundred and thirty days straight of a five to ten minute live that I did on Facebook. And I remember at the end of that 130 days how much better that I spoke on camera. I wasn't using filler words and how much more clear I was. So if you're someone who may be struggling with content, make it a challenge to go live or speak now. You have reels you didn't back then, but you could literally do these every single day. Remember, it's not about other people. It's just about a repetition and you getting better. At some point, you can begin to look back and say, wow, look how much better my content is than it was, you know, 10 years ago. I don't even talk the same way that I used to. So it's really cool to actually be able to look back and see your progress. But if you don't record, you'll never actually have an opportunity to see that.