Exciting News - Podcast Launch w/ Season 1 was a SUCCESS!

Welcome, welcome, welcome! Look at there, we are getting this all figured out. And when I say I'm excited, I am truly excited. I may not have like that woo, like happy, uh, go-lucky thing going on, but when I tell you, family, I'm really excited, I promise you, uh, the excitement is pouring in ways and places that you can't quite see right now. So without any further ado, I'm just going to hop on here, uh, relatively quickly, namely because there are a few things that I'm excited about that I wanted to share across all these platforms. Full transparency, I'm just honestly figuring out which platform is going to work the best right now. I'm using StreamYard. I've also got Riverside.. And I'm looking to spend more time speaking to people as often as I can to share as much as I can for as long as I can. And with that, there's no book on how to do this that I've read yet. Let me put it like that, because of course someone has got on here and talked about how to go live, how to captivate audiences and all that good stuff. And quite frankly, I've not read it, so I'm doing this and learning along the way. So I'm inviting my friends, family, colleagues, cohorts, etc., along the way with me, uh, whether it be through the Facebook page, LinkedIn, YouTube. It looks like on X I have to have a premium account, which I've not yet invested in, so we'll see about that if it's going to be worth the investment. And of course Instagram. I thought that I was on TikTok also, but it looks like StreamYard does not go to TikTok, which might be another reason that I end up with Riverside, as there are, I believe, more places you can actually stream to. So I don't know if anybody else out there in the world of, um, you know, the internet is looking to start a business, grow a business, expand their own personal brand, and and/or has done so amazingly successfully. Listen, I'm doing this for the first time without a quote-unquote guide or mentor in this process. So if you are that person, or if you know that person, uh, please tag them in whatever platform you're looking at or listening to. Again, I can't tell because I'm actually streaming to— it looks like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 platforms right now. Uh, so if you're on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and you know somebody that's really, really good at growing and engaging audiences, utilizing technology tools, tips, tricks, etc., to put things out there for the masses. I have a lot of things that I really want to bring to the masses, and this is the time to do it. For all of you who know me personally, you know that I work in the health insurance space. My company, Superior Insurance Advisors, and my nonprofit, Life, Health, and Legal Education Partners, have been around for a while, and I'm just now really taking the time to go more public, quite frankly. With that, I'm utilizing a podcast as a platform. You can see above my shoulder here the Pulp Replace podcast show. You can actually scan this QR code here depending on how you're looking at the— depending on how you're looking at this broadcast, you can reach out to me and connect with me that way. So it's my wife calling. Let's say hello. Hi. Hey, did I leave yet? No, I'm gonna head out in a hot second. I am streaming, testing out this StreamYard and seeing what the difference is between this and Riverside, just to figure out what the best tool is going to be for podcasting and going live and streaming and all that good stuff. Oh, spot on, spot on. Look, I might be wine and flowers. Okay, thank you so much, LT. I see you on there saying congratulations, fam. Thank you, thank you. I am— I look like that was on YouTube, so I know that YouTube has some viewers. Sorry, I'm streaming across all these platforms and just figuring this out and learning along the way. So yes, I will take a peek there along the way. Thanks for letting me know. Gotcha. All right, bye. Gotta love the beautiful part about being live is that you are live. So there are things that you can do or not do when you're on a live. One of them is answer the phone. And you know what? I figure why not? Uh, thank you so much again, Elsie. Uh, long time friend it has been. I actually, we were just with each other, uh, what, a month or so ago for a good buddy B's birthday, and that was quite the jam, right? Quite the time. So again, everybody who is looking at the, uh, listening to or looking at the sound of my voice and seeing the sight of my face, thank you so much for taking the time to pop in. I'm again just hopping on here so that I can learn what I don't know through experience. I've heard that perfect is the enemy of progress, and clearly I'm not on here to be perfect today. I'm wearing a breathable t-shirt and not my usual button-up shirts, though I do have one literally on the chair behind me. And I don't have a set amount of topics to talk about. I don't have guests that I'm interviewing today. For those of you who are aware of my podcast, I am here, uh, simply connecting and sharing with people that I'm, I'm here, right? I've been relatively quiet for a while, kind of hiding inside of that proverbial shell. And with so much that this world needs that I can actually be a contributor to, I said, let me stop that. Okay, so little lesson. I like to give lessons and share insights, and these are things that I share that are basically from my own life. So if it's like, um, hey Pretty Lifter, nice to see you. I see you over there. Okay. Uh, if, if I'm sharing lessons, it's typically that I'm taking things that I'm going through in my real life and I'm sharing that insight as a lesson to someone else. I do believe we are all connected. Miss Jazz, it's so good to see you. The— I do believe we're all connected, and in that vein, I think it makes sense to put the positive things out there that we can learn and grow from. Oftentimes, most often than not, we're so quick to talk stuff, right? And by stuff, I mean shit. Okay, yes, I'm gonna say it out loud. I said the S-word. Okay, sue me. Um, but we are so quick to talk stuff as opposed to encouraging another person, as opposed to working to bring out the best in another human being. And with that, I don't like to complain about things that I'm not willing to change. So again, if you're seeing the sight of my face or hearing the sound of my voice, you are an amazing human being. I don't even have to know who it is. I just see a little eye at the top of my screen that lets me know that somebody's watching this. You're an amazing human being, and I'm grateful for you. I'm thankful for you being here in and around this space and place today so that, again, you can hear the sound of my voice and that we can connect. Oh, Sauce No Pasta, my boy GW dropped in. Looks like we're on Instagram on that screen. Again, I'm getting this all figured out, so if you've got expertise and experience in multiple streaming platforms, please drop a line, drop a text, uh, send me a DM, something. As I'm looking to actually grow the reach and more so put more positivity out into the space, uh, from a professional standpoint, I will be promoting, uh, the book that I have coming out. Uh, Kindle is reviewing it right now to make sure that it can be launched, and then the official launch of the paperback is going to be on the 25th of this month. So shameless plug for myself, but I'm not here to just plug business and books. Again, I'm on here honestly, full transparency, to learn these platforms, learn how to stream across multiple platforms, connect with friends and family, and just be of service, right? Excuse me. So as it pertains to, again, my professional life, I would actually request that if there are things in and around the insurance field that you have questions about, uh, that's going to be where I'm going to be able to add the most value in that sense. Of course, there's uh, you know, philosophical things, right? Life lessons, business lessons, things like that. Uh, got a patent back there, so if you want to know what that process is like, it's something, uh, in order to do that. Uh, you see, it's a device that I believe multi-streams everything for you. I feel you, GW. I believe I'm multi-streaming right now. I'm streaming, I think, on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram at the same time. So I think you're seeing me on Instagram because Instagram, you got to do it some funky way from the desktop. Uh, if you're open to it, if you can hop over to Facebook and see if my live stream is there also, hop over to YouTube. Well, I know it's on YouTube because of Tanya Jackson, who hit me with the first, uh, congratulations. She is— was saw it on YouTube. So that's where we're at, people. Again, Paul Howard Flowers Jr., Paul H. Flowers Jr., please start search and look for my podcast. I'll put a link to that in the chat. And again, the reason why I'm on all these platforms today is in order to see just how well streaming to multiple platforms works, as well as— let's go ahead and put that in there— I'm streaming to multiple platforms. I'm getting the hang of this, and I'm also learning and going to differentiate between StreamYard and Riverside and see what the best Uh, let me see. Yep. There we go. I want to see what the best platform is going to be to stream live to multiple audiences. I'll be doing interviews and I may be doing those interviews live. So that might necessarily push me towards Riverside. But again, if you all are out there and you stream to multiple platforms, please, by all means, I like to learn recommendations, especially if you've used more than one platform so that I can get some insight. And make this next move the best move. So thank everybody for joining. I know I've got a few folks popping in and out. They're like, whoa, Paul's actually live. Like, yes, I'm alive and well. Thank you so much. I'm breathing, I'm living, and things are going relatively well. Books coming out, podcast has hit 500 downloads in less than 3 weeks, uh, 6 continents, 25 countries, and over 130 cities. So if you've not yet listened to the podcast, I think our Facebook is also good. Thank you so much, LT. Um, I did drop a— I did drop a link to the podcast in the comments, and I think— let me see, it says I can't post comments to some destinations. So I can post it to some but not all. Interesting. Okay, StreamYard on-air Facebook pages and YouTube can see the, the link but not Instagram Live, which is odd. In and of itself. Let me see, but I can go over to Instagram and pop it in there that way. Okay, all right, all right, all right. Listen, we are learning together. Uh, if anybody else wants to figure out how to write a book relatively quickly and/or launch a podcast, these are things that I've done recently and I'm really, really proud of. Podcast is on about 15+ platforms. So I'll be continuing to interview entrepreneurs all across the globe. I've had several from Australia, uh, couple from the western part of the States, Colorado, California, and looking to expand, making sure that I have somebody represented from my podcast interviews in every state and as many countries as I can possibly connect and create with. I like to get several of the countries in Africa. I'm excited to have had several downloads from the continent of Africa. At this point. And if you know somebody in Africa, that's really where I want to also make some impact. I'll be dropping a course soon, and that course is on the skills that a person can use throughout their lifetime. So yes, some of the stuff that I'll talk about will be in the insurance space, and that's mostly a United States thing. And for the courses that are— that doesn't look like napping, Timmy. You caught me, you busted me, Tim. Where are you? Where Tim is? Like, it doesn't look like napping. I know my buddy Tim is texting me. Tim, if you're out there, Uh, let me know what platform you're seeing me on, how it looks and sounds, as I started testing out these different softwares and ended up talking for another 15 minutes, having another in-depth conversation on TikTok, getting some stars and bars and all that stuff. So wherever you see me, uh, send me a text and let me know where you see me, as clearly doing this has taken up my catnap time. So, uh, no, I'll not be catnapping. I'll be coming to enjoy the evening and still figuring out some more of this stuff, right? Um, because it's important. It actually is important. A few things that I'll shout out to— shout out to SHRM, the Society of Human Resource Management. If you know anybody in SHRM, uh, by all means, they're going to silently sponsor a nice amount of my content that goes up on social media and TikTok because they have these really cool cards So you guys are getting a sneak peek right now. Anybody that's out there watching, you're getting a sneak peek into some of the content that will be on my podcast. And the cards are conversation starters. They're catalyst conversation catalysts. So conversation obviously being us talking together, a catalyst meaning something that prompts the thing, right? A catalyst is something that gets things started. So this one in particular, I'm going to read off a couple of them again just so you guys can get a sneak peek. Sneak peek, a civil icebreaker. This is the 3 of Clubs. How do you stay organized and how does it help with stress? How do you stay organized and how does it help with stress? There's a question I'll put out there. So if you are out there in the world, again, shout out to Sherm for providing this deck. I'm just going to practice a few of these. A civil icebreaker. The 3 of Clubs says, how do you stay organized and how does it help with stress? Right. These are things that I'd like to help people with to and through Inside the World. And we need more places to talk about these things. There are some things that I'll do specifically for men so that us men can have spaces to actually talk, connect, comment, converse, etc. But for anybody listening, if you can use your thumbs again, just so I can see how those comments work. How do you stay organized and how does it help with stress? That's one of the questions that, again, we're sneak peeking right now into my deck of cards. How do you stay organized and how does it help with stress? All right, so I'll start that off. How do I stay organized and how does it help with stress? When I have that calendar up in front of me and I know what's going on, and that's something that I'm adamant about at this point, is putting things on the calendar. As when you realize that, yes, time is, is made up, right? It's the Gregorian calendar that was created well before any of us that are watching or listening to this was born. And it's something that we all essentially have an agreement on right now. And because we have that agreement to use said time, we put things in calendars. And when we put things in calendars and complete them, that gives us a sense of achievement, accomplishment. It's something that we can pat ourselves on the proverbial back about because we actually did the thing, right? And it's in doing the thing that more things come to us. In other words, you want to— you have a goal that you put out there in front of you, you've got to take X number of steps. Well, you can't do the 18th step until you do 1 through 17. So putting those in your calendar and calendaring them are— excuse me— amazingly helpful when it comes to getting ish done. It's along the lines of project management. Shout out to the Project Management Institute. Who have still yet to take my certification exam. But yes, project management professionals, PMP is a designation that for those who are into project management and organizing their lives, it may be very helpful to, to note. All right, Timmy's on Facebook. Thank you so much, Tim, for letting me know. So Facebook looks good. Okay, LT told me also Facebook looks good and looks like my baby's hair is beautiful and amazing. Nana braided it, put some new styles in there. Man, being a girl dad is different, right? Check it out. She's so cute. She's so cute. That little lady is adorable, adorable, adorable. Okay, I think I have effectively done all of the testing for this particular platform. Thank you all for listening. Thanks for chiming in. Thanks for letting me know where you're listening in from.. And as I continue to learn these platforms, it is going to get a little easier. This is an example of a banner. Click on a banner to show it on screen. Right. Clearly didn't want to have that there unless I'm actually going to say something in it. But I can do that. Claim rewards. Claim rewards for what? Random. Okay. Random stuff. So I'm going to say Thank you, thank you all for joining. All right, we're going to scroll across the bottom here as a little ticker, so let me know how that looks. Show. Thank you all for joining. Oh, look at that! Okay, nice. All right, banners to display the talking points. The potpourri P-O-T-P-O-U-R-I-I-P-L-A-C-E dot com. Tune in. All right, so we want you to tune in and listen to thepulpereplace.com. Pop that in your browser. Let me know if it works for you. Thepulpereplace.com. There we go. Now, I don't know how to turn that into a link, but for those of you who are getting maybe a little bit more tech savvy and you know how to do it, by all means, please let me know. I am figuring this out along the way. All right. Summarize YouTube videos. Good stuff. Good stuff. Uh, thank you guys for listening in. I'm going to wrap up with this StreamYard multi-stream experience for today, and you'll see me tuning in soon. So love and happiness. Bye for now.