TJ Walker shows how to dodge uncomfortable questions with deflection, humor, or firm boundaries without looking angry. He also walks through recording voiceover scripts with ChatGPT, takes a live call from someone named Locke about accent-reduction, and demonstrates Amazon Influencer workflows.
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What happens if somebody asks you a question and you kind of feel like it's none of their business or you just don't want to tell them? Now, this can be very awkward in social situations, but also in business relationships and professional relationships. There is an art to handling this delicately. Let's say, for example, you've just met someone in a social situation and they say, oh, how old are you? And you just don't want to tell them you feel like it's none of their business. Well, if you just say none of your business, that can be a bit too abrupt. That can end the conversation and nip in the bud any possibility of a friendship or any other type of connection. So you don't want to be that harsh, but you also might not want to just blurt it out. You feel like that's personal information. There's no one perfect way of doing it. Sometimes it's. If you have a playful tone of voice, you could say something like, hey, at this stage of our relationship, don't you? Don't. Note to editor. We're going to cut that part out. You could say, hey, at this stage of our relationship, don't you feel like we should retain some element of mystery? And you got to do it with a smile on your face. You've got to do it sort of knowingly winking that you're being a little too cheeky. This could work in any situation. Now, someone might not like it. They might insist, keep in mind, we can't control other people. Someone might ask you a question and you just don't want to answer. It's none of their business. That's okay. But they've got to realize you have the right to not answer. So in some cultures, it's considered perfectly normal to say, how much money do you make? What's your net worth? Someone might ask you that and you think, wow, that's really rude. I don't want to tell them that. I can't believe they asked that. But you don't want to get into a confrontation. Sometimes you can say something along the lines of, well, just enough or just enough to have the lifestyle I want with a smile on your face. And ideally, they will let it go. Go. Someone may want to know about what your child's plans are for college, and you're not sure if your child even wants to go to college and you don't want to get into it. That's okay. Again, we don't tell other people what questions they can ask. They don't get to tell us how to answer Keep this in mind. The main thing is you don't want to get visibly angry. Even if you do feel the question was inappropriate. You don't know what's in the mindset of someone else. You don't know what's considered common, what's considered polite in their culture. So it's best not to get upset. It's also fine to answer in an oblique way, something that is sort of open ended and you're not pinning yourself down. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Highly personal questions Are you looking for a spouse right now? You may think that's nobody's business. You could always say, hey, it's always great to make new friends. That is true whether you are looking for a spouse or whether you're not looking for a spouse. The key is don't react with anger. Don't say none of your business. Now, if you feel like someone has really crossed a line, I want you to stand up for yourself. Don't be afraid to say, well, your questions made me uncomfortable. I don't really feel that's appropriate. But if we could redirect our conversation to. And then if it's a business setting in particular, talk about the business topics. I'm not suggesting you have to just take anything someone throws at you, but I also want you to realize it's a big world, a lot of different perceptions out there of what's right and what's wrong and really listen to someone and see if you can figure out what is their intent. If their intent is to put you down or humiliate you, well, you don't have to take that. But if someone is genuinely just curious about you and they're asking a question on good faith, typically you don't want to just shut down the whole conversation and make them feel bad. So don't be afraid to redirect. Don't be afraid to answer in sort of a bland, generic way. Don't be afraid to answer with a question. Oh, I'm curious as to why you're interested in that. Could be a way of taking the conversation in a different path where it's away from the area that you don't want to talk about. The main thing is if you get angry, remember now that's the only thing the person's going to remember. If you act like the question is no big deal, then perhaps it's not remembered. If someone comes up to me and says, well, teacher, how much do you weigh? And I don't want to tell them, I could always say Something like, well, better weight than I was last month, but I'm not quite at my target weight. And then talk about exercise, talk about what I'm doing now. You may think that's such an outrageous question. You want to put someone in their place, that's up to you. You've got to figure out where your boundaries are. But there's two main boundaries. Remember, there's one boundary where if you feel someone has crossed it, they have done something so awful, you really have no interest in having any kind of potential relationship with them. Personal, professional. But there's other boundaries where you feel like, okay, I can understand why they wanted to talk about it, but I just don't really care to talk about it. And I'm going to try to redirect things so that we can still have an amicable conversation, make sure there's two boundaries, not just one. Too many people are too quick to want to pick a fight and ruin chances of any type of professional relationship, personal relationship, just because somebody asked a question they don't like. Again, I go into every conversation with someone, whether it's a reporter, whether it's a business colleague, whether it's someone I've met socially at a gathering under the impression that, hey, you can ask any question you want. I get to answer any question I want and I get to answer questions the way I want. If you go into every conversation with sort of a friendly, upbeat manner where you're feeling good and you know that you're in control, no one can make you look bad, no one can ask you something and force you to say something you don't want to say. It takes off all the pressure. Remember, other people control their questions. You control your own mouth, you control your own answers. When you do that, it makes everything more resist, relaxing. Hi, I'm TJ Walker. Thanks for joining me. We are just getting started here. We are live today and saying hello to my TikTok friends. Thanks so much for joining us on TikTok. Thanks so much to our friends on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, all the other channels. We are happy you're here today. We've got a full, full week planned for you. A lot of great interviews scheduled this week here on the T.J. walker show, the T.J. walker Success Channel. Folger has joined us today. Folger, thanks so much for stopping by and saying wonderful. Appreciate your comments. What have you, what have you found wonderful so far? And Folger, how can we help you? Invitation to all of you again. If you want to ask A question, you can always type them in in the comments. But remember, you can also join me on screen right here. I can share the spotlight. This is a community here. We are a group of people who come together to try to figure out how to be more successful in life by communicating more effectively and by building confidence in communication. That's what we're all about. So happy you're here. It's Monday. We are live. Just started off with a segment on how to answer questions where you don't really want to answer. I hope that gave you some practical tips. What I do here on this show is a couple of things. I answer your questions, your questions, your concerns are always number one. But I also sort of take you behind the scenes and show you how a content creator creates content. You see the rough drafts, I, I think I made two, maybe even three mistakes in that first long form video there. So I make mistakes. And here's a little secret. Every content creator makes mistakes. They just don't show them to you because it's all edited out. Now, my mistakes will be edited out. When you look at my short form and long form edited videos on YouTube and TikTok and all the other social media platforms, sure, I'm like everyone else. I try to make myself look good and be as interesting to you as possible. So it's edited down, it's refined music is put in graphics, B roll. But here on this live show, you see the actual creation. I take you behind the scenes into my workshop and you see what I do. Now, I'm doing this in part because I want to inspire you to speak out, to find more opportunities to share your wisdom, to share your insights, to share your expertise, to help other people and to help yourself in the process. That's really what we're all about. I see some other chats coming in, by the way. You can always send me a private chat and then I'll try to figure out, is that something you wanted to share with others or is it truly just not for me? Okay. You know, I really love our TikTok community because they have such a good sense of humor. Dave says, am I Joe Biden? So for whatever reason, this doesn't happen on Facebook, on YouTube, on Twitter, X, on Instagram, because we broadcast Twitch. We broadcast on about eight different live stream on eight different platforms daily, including Amazon Live. Coming up later today, for some reason on Tick Tock, pretty much every day, one, two, sometimes three people say that, hey, are you Joe Biden? You look like Joe Biden. No, I'm Not Joe Biden. He is 20 years older than I am. He's about 82 and I'm 61. But. But I get what you're talking about. You know, at some point old white men who don't have that much hair kind of all look alike. So I'm not offended in any way. Interesting observation. Those of you on TikTok. So you are watching me from a feed on my cell phone. We've not yet figured out a way of integrating our TikTok community with in our main studio on Streamyard. So the people on all the other social media platforms are seeing me in Studio 3 camera shoot. They're never seeing below the knees. What some of you astute observers noted last week and a couple of you already today, Rob, in particular, it noticed because I can't frame my cell phone that way. So you're seeing again behind the scenes that is not intended to ever be shown on my edited videos, which is, yes, I am wearing a suit, I am wearing a tie, but since I'm standing for three hours and the original intention was nobody saw my footwear, I'm wearing Crocs. So I'm not going to try to hide it from you. I'm fully transparent. And I don't have these in the edited videos because frankly, nothing looks more ridiculous than a grown man wearing a suit and tie wearing Crocs. I would never be caught dead in a million years in real life or out on the street or in a business meeting wearing Crocs with a suit. And I was not aware that it was visible until one of you did that mentioned it last week. So, and you'll just have to forgive me, that's why I'm doing it, because I am standing here for about three hours a day. Now, the reason I stand in these videos is because what bothers people so much, what gives tension, what creates fear, quite often in speaking, I mean, I'll just, I'm going to go to camera one. I'm going to have to switch and you'll. And you will see my shoes again from this angle. What scares people, frankly in real life about speaking is the fact that quite often you do have to stand up. People can see you. People can make judgments about. They can judge your shoes and you're not wrong for doing that. That's human nature. We all make judgments. But that's why those of you on TikTok, I'd love for you to come over and, and get the full experience of what we're trying to do here by coming to YouTube and seeing the show, and it's just the it's TJ Walker success channel on YouTube. Now, it is true those of you on TikTok get to see my ugly shoes, so you would miss out on that. But again, I'm here in a studio. We have three cameras. I can actually walk around. So on TikTok, you're not seeing me anymore. But everyone on YouTube and all the other social media platforms, they can actually see me walk around and I'm able to demonstrate best practices when it comes to speaking and presenting. So that's why we do that. But you did catch me. I do have dress shoes right over here in the corner. And the first few days of doing the live show, I did in fact put them on. But being just brutally candid, it hurt my feet standing in the shoes that long. And I thought, well, no one can see my feet. Or so I thought with the way I framed it. So I'll just switch to Crocs, which is what I wear anyway. But I do appreciate any observation. Now, if you have a question that relates to speaking or presenting, that's my first choice because I want to be helpful to you and I might not get everything perfect. I may have lost some of you saying, I would never take advice from a guy who wears Crocs with a suit. If that's your reaction, I can't blame you entirely. All I can tell you is I'm here to help you communicate more effectively. And who AM I? I'm TJ Walker. And for 40 years, I have traveled the globe teaching executives on how to communicate effectively. I've worked with everyone from presidents of countries, prime ministers, Nobel Peace Prize winners, Ms. Universes, billionaires, professional athletes, owners of professional athletic teams, you name it. And I've worked with someone like that. Chances are I've worked with someone just like you. I have more than 2 million online students who've taken my courses on communication skills and personal development. And on this show, you can get all that for free. You can ask questions. Doesn't cost you anything. You can come right here, share the screen with me with one click. If you come to our channel on YouTube and you click the Streamyard link or on any social media platform Other than TikTok, we just can't connect in that way. So that's really what we're all about. Again, Volga, thanks so much for stopping by. Janice stops in and says hello. Just dropped in for a minute. Thanks for the tips on how to deal with awkward questions. Number one, smile. Dodge. How old am I? I'm 25. How much do I make? $1 a year? Can I hit you for up for a loan? Okay, that's a great response. So I had given the example. What happens if somebody asks you how much money you make for a year? And Janice has a very clever response. I make $1 a year. Can I hit you up for a loan? Obviously a joke and designed to remove some of the tension of the situation. I should have mentioned humor. I think humor is a great way of diffusing tension. So, yes, Janice is absolutely, absolutely on target. And of course, I also should have mentioned smile. A smile goes a long way. If someone asks you a question and you don't like it, and instantly you look mean, angry, tense, it kind of takes the air out of the room. It makes it hard to recover. Maybe the person just blurted out something without thinking, and maybe they're not really that curious about it. They just. Here's an example. I don't get this, but someone could come up, how tall are you? If you're a very tall person. Now, I am taller than the average person, but I'm never. I'm not so tall that people just come up and say, how tall are you? I'm five, eleven and a half, six feet on a good day, as we say. But certainly people who are, you know, six, six, six, seven, that's a question they get often. And my understanding is a lot of people find it highly annoying. Everyone's got to figure out how they want to react to certain situations. But it may be that the person who asked you, how tall are you? Is a wonderful person. You have a lot in common. The person's highly intelligent. It's just. That was the first thing that came to their mind. It may be a little annoying to you, but maybe you answer and maybe with a joke, and then you go on and talk about other things. Or maybe you joke and say, well, how much do you weigh? Or how old are you? So there's a lot of different ways of handling it. There's no one right or wrong way. What I want to do is equip you with the tools you need to help yourself the most. And just getting angry every time someone doesn't ask questions the way you want typically is not the way to help you become the maximum success you can be. And that's really our goal. Janice also writes, responding with anger only if you want to be remembered for anger. Excellent point. Don't let them pressure you into where you don't want to go. Have boundaries. You can't Control questions but you can control answers. Absolutely. Janice, you are right on target. And by the way, Janice would love to have you on camera. Janice, with unconventional advice that works, is a communications consultant and trainer and speaker in her own right. Very successful up in Canada and works with people around the world. So if, if you're not too busy, please join me on camera. We'd love to have you. So we do several different things on this program on a daily basis. The top priority is always answering your questions about communication skills. I also do the rough drafts of short form videos, long form videos right here that are later edited by my team and pushed out on social media. We typically push out and publish three videos a day. In addition to these live segments, we also do interviews here. We're going to have some couple of exciting interviews coming up tomorrow. One with a co founder of Delphi AI artificial intelligence company that helps people take all of their YouTube videos on podcasts and online courses. It ingests it and then it turns it into a clone where it answers questions just as you would, it uses your voice to answer questions. And I believe coming soon we'll actually have video of you answer. So it's extremely exciting that mark your calendars. That's going to be for 11am Eastern Time tomorrow. That's coming up. So that's one of the things we do in this show. We also teach people and give guidance on how to be an influencer. I don't just talk about being an Amazon influencer. I actually make videos here, show you what I'm doing, show you how to upload it and put it on pages in Amazon and how to make some affiliate commission. We don't teach you how to get rich quick, but we do teach you some fundamentals of how to be an influencer. So that's a part of what we do. We also do live on Amazon where we sell various products, typically books right on Amazon while simulcasting it here with you. The other thing we try to do here is show you again our actual workflow, what we're doing every step of the way. So for example, today I'm going to make some audio recordings because we're trying to create a new intro for this show. You know, if you watch any kind of TV show on Netflix or traditional broadcast tv, typically they either start right away with an identifier or they start off with some bit, some element, a bit of drama. If it's a show like succession, they finish one big conversation and then it goes to the little opening montage, whether it's Friends or young Sheldon. There's a bit of a theme music, something to let you know what the show's about. So we've been talking about that last week. I have put together a bunch of scripts today, and I need your help. I'm going to actually record voiceovers today and I want you to weigh in on which ones you like, which ones you don't like. So here's what I did. I came up with a description of what I was looking for. I and I used Chat GPT. So I typed in to Chat GPT saying, look, I want a script with voiceover, full script ideas for an opening for a show on communication skills. And I want to stress that this is about helping people learn communication skills, be more effective with communication skills and be more confident, and that it involves speaking one on one, sitting down, small groups, medium groups, large groups, standing in front of a lot of people, standing in front of 5,000 people, maybe speaking to millions of people on television or on online videos. So that's the instruction I gave it. And I said that I want it in. In 15 to 19 seconds. Could it be a little shorter? Could it be a longer maybe, but that those were the parameters I gave it and I asked for three scripts. I just briefly looked at it. I saw a word I didn't like, and I said, can you give me three more scripts? And don't use that word. So I have not looked at these scripts yet. So again, I want you to see my thought process, learn from it. Ideally, get inspired, make your own show, create your own intro. I love that you're here with me and listening and participating with me. But I want to empower millions of people around the globe to also speak out, to share their wisdom. There are more people creating content, sharing their ideas than ever before in the history of the world. But for every one person who does that, I think there's at least 99 or sometimes 999 who just stay silent, who think, well, I'm not really good enough, or I don't have a face for video, or I don't have a voice for audio. All these excuses. And yet the very same people give great advice to clients, colleagues, friends, associates. They work with family members, they have expertise. They're asked to share expertise on a regular basis. And they hold themselves back. And I think that's the same. Oh, Archie writes, how big is that coffee mug? You know, part of it is because of the depth perception. If I'm holding it in front, it seems big. This is what I would say Is by these, by current standards in America, an average coffee cup. Now, if you go back 30, 40 years ago, this would be considered sort of an extra large. But my guess is it has by measurement, two cups. But it's. It's not. It just looks giant because of the depth perception. But again, if you put it here right next to me, you can see it's not a particularly large cup. But, Archie, no question is out of bounds. If I really feel like something's out of bounds, then I'll. I'll tell you. Ideally, with a smile on my face. It does remind me, famously, Bill Clinton, a former United States president, was asked on, I believe, mtv, do you wear boxers or briefs? He did answer, and a lot of people said that was wildly inappropriate. If you were to ask me, do I wear boxers or briefs, I would probably just laugh and I would probably say, I can't imagine anything that could be less interesting or helpful to any of you than that. So I'll just take a pass. Now, is that a perfect answer? No. But it is one I'm comfortable with. And I'm pretty sure no one out there really wants to know or cares either. So you've got to make that decision for yourself. Okay, so I am going to hop right in. We're going to. I'm going to record these now, and I want your feedback. And so you're going to see the rough thing. You're going to see me make a stumble. You're going to hear me give notes to editors. I don't think I like that. So I'm going to adjust my microphone so it's. We get slightly better quality. And I'm going to talk into it. Maybe. Yeah, maybe we'll go ahead and do this angle. It's probably makes. It's probably a little more visually relevant to people on YouTube and other social media. For my friends on TikTok, we only have one camera angle because I'm connecting with you by phone. So here's what I'm going to do. And note to my producer, Ben, we're not using the video of me for this, but I'm going to go ahead and record the. On the master, the 4K, even though all of our audio is coming from the streamyard feed. But, Ben, if you could make a note that I'm going to start these at 2844. So when we give this to the production team. Okay, so this is a script for the opening credit, the opening montage for the show. This is script one, take one. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, where we empower you to master the art of communication. Join us as we guide you through every facet of effective communication, from personal conversations to commanding stages. We've got you covered. Whether it's three people, 30 people, or 300, or even millions on national TV, we will equip you to shine in every spotlight. Okay, so that was version one of script one. Now, what Chat GPT gave me was they used the phrase intimate. That we help you. That we help you. Where's the exact phrase here? Oh, from intimate conversations. That sounds like I'm giving people love advice. And that's not in the purview of what we're doing here. So that's why I made a note in real time to edit that out. I'm going to do a second version of this in case we want to use it, and that way my editing team will have that. If you're just joining us Today, I am T.J. walker. We're actually doing the scripts. You're going to see me the creation process. These are scripts that are going to be used to the for audio and then married together with images. B roll graphics to be used for an opening montage when we start our show to sort of give people a sense of what we're about, make the thing seem a little more like a slick show and not just a live zoom meeting. So that's what we're doing. So let me do version two of script one. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, where we empower you to master the art of communication. Join us as we guide you through every facet of effective communication, from personal conversations to commanding stages. We've got you covered. Whether it's to three people or 300 or even millions on national TV will equip you to shine in every spotlight. Okay, so that is script one. Again, I would love any feedback. I would especially. Let me literally stress this. I would especially appreciate it if you tell me anything you hate about these, because the last thing I want is to have sort of an opening segment that we play every day, and half of you, or even 10% of you, hate it or something sounds awkward or irritating. So I do want something that gives people a sense of what this show is all about. But I also want something that isn't irritating and annoying. I want something that's going to make you feel good, upbeat. And we can do that in part with the graphics and upbeat music. But I do want the voiceover to get it right as well. So we're going to go to the Next one is a script, too. And again, I'm going to get closer to my main microphone, so I'm. I'm going to be uncharacteristically out of screen or not centered the way I normally would be for our YouTube audience. Script two, take one. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your daily guide to mastering the language of success. Here, we don't just teach communication skills. We empower you to own every conversation, every presentation, every interaction. Join us as we journey from personal dialogues to commanding stages, helping you speak with clarity, conviction, and charisma. Transform your life one word at a time. Tune into the TJ Walker Success Channel and unlock your true potential. I don't really know how I feel about that one. There's some of that. And again, for those of you just tuning in, I'm seeing these words for the first time. These words come courtesy of artificial intelligence Chat GPT. Now, I'm basing this on instruction. I gave it a prompt, telling them what I wanted. Conceptually, I'm not just saying, you know, tell me what to say for a show. That's not what I'm doing. I've given it very explicit instructions. And then for the second one, I, Drake, has just written cookie dough or dildo? Thanks so much for stopping by. So let me do another version of this script, too, and we see what we have. Okay. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your daily guide to mastering the language of success. Here, we don't just teach communication skills. We empower you to own every conversation, every presentation, every interaction. Join us as we journey from intimate dialogues to. To commanding stages. Now, that's the part I didn't like. I'm going to edit out the word intimate. Join us as we journey from personal dialogues to commanding stages, helping you speak with clarity, conviction, and charisma. Transform your life one word at a time. Tune into the TJ Walker Success Channel and unlock your true potential. Okay, so that was version two. Oh, you know what? I think I actually. I know what happened. My printer printed out an extra page, and I actually missed the final line for script one. So let me go back. Note to editor that the two versions of script one I did were not complete. So here is the final line for script one, and we could cobble together elements of all these scripts. We're not locked into anything. I mean, that's the beauty of when you're doing your own creations. You're not just hired talent for some producer or some scriptwriter or movie director. You get to do what you want. And that's what we're about here. So here I am going to redo parts of script one. The final line. Get ready to amplify your voice. Boost your confidence and unleash your potential. Tune in and transform your communication skills today. Let me do a couple diversions of that. Get ready to amplify. I didn't like the way I did that. Get ready to amplify your voice, boost your confidence and unleash your potential. Tune in and transform your communication skills today. I think that was a little better. There was a three part list and typically the most effective way to deliver a three part list is up, up, down on the third. It shows finality. So that's what I'm doing. Foreign we're having all sorts of odd, odd comments coming in from TikTok. But you know what, I'm happy you're here and I'm happy you're participating. So thanks so much for stopping by Peppa and others again. If you have questions about communication, I'm here for you. That's my area of expertise. Communication skills and personal development skills is what I teach to 2 million students just on Udemy platform. And if you add up everything, every student I have on every platform, every subscriber, every follower, I've got about 3 million students, subscribers and followers across the Internet from learning platforms and social media platforms. So that's why I'm here and trying to help people out and give them advice. Okay, so we have now finished script one. We finished script two. Again, I would love feedback. Janice, Archie, Vulgar. I want to know what you think of these scripts. If you're just joining me. These are scripts we're trying to do for an opening sort of montage identifier for the show that will be edited together with B roll graphics and music that would typically play not the first second of the show but within the first five minutes to sort of give the whole thing a little bit of polish and let people know where they are. So this is the first version of script three. And again I'd point out I've never seen this. This is my first draft seeing it, so there'll be some stumbles. I may do an edit. I'm getting a little closer to my main shotgun mic. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your passport to communication mastery here. We don't just teach communication, we instill the confidence to captivate any audience anywhere. Join us as we navigate the spectrum of communication from personal exchanges to global platforms. I'm going to read. What I did is I Edited. It says intimate exchanges. I don't like the way that sounds, so let me redo that. Join us as we navigate the spectrum of communication from personal chats to global platforms. That doesn't really work either. The chat challenger says. I liked you in the TV show Dallas. Dallas was one of my favorite shows way back in 1980. I know when I had my pocket square sticking way out, I looked like Cliff Barnes, at least in my own mind. I don't know if you think I look like J.R. ewing, but I do appreciate the reference. Let's do that line again. Join us as we navigate the spectrum of communication from personal conversations to global platforms. Elevate your voice, elevate your life. Tune in to the TJ Walker Success Channel and start on your journey to communication greatness. I almost laughed here because they had the word embark. And just recently I was. I saw someone saying, you know, something was written by chat GPT if you see the word embark, because real people don't use that word. So I. I had to suppress a chuckle. So let me do Script 3. Again. I would say off the bat, I'm not crazy about script three, but we'll do another one and we'll have it in the can. Those of you who have not produced a lot of audio or video, the more you produce, it just makes it easier for editors to have more things to choose from. Now, it's not my normal way of production. My. My normal way is try to get things out quickly, make them conversational, do it in one take. But this is different because this is something that is going to be used again and again and again, ideally for years, on a daily basis. So it's worth building it in a way that is not irritating. And, you know, even one word is can be jarring if you're hearing it every day. And I see, I. I see child. Child says, who killed Junior? Though now. Now some of you are dating yourselves. I remember that. But way back in about 1980, it was a different media landscape. No case very well unless you were really rich or ahead of time, you. No one had cable TV that I knew of. No Internet. You had three channels in the United States, in most cities, plus public tv. There was a show called Dallas, and the lead character, Larry Hagman, was shot. And that was the big cliffhanger for the season who shot JR So apparently it's someone in that I'm resembling. And Chad. It's Chad. I don't think Chad was a character on Dallas. But be that as it may, again, I'm Glad you're here and participating. Those of you tuning in for the very first time live on TikTok, I'm TJ Walker. This is a show about communication skills. If you have any questions about how to communicate more effectively, I'm here for you. And we'll do my best to answer and demonstrate. What I'm doing right now is recording voice, voiceover content for the pro, the opening promo, the opening stinger. It has different names, the opening credits for the show that we would be using on a daily basis. Okay, so now let's. Let's do script three again. I believe I'm getting closer to my main microphone. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your passport to communication mastery. Here, we don't just teach communication. We instill the confidence to captivate any audience anywhere. Join us as we navigate the spectrum of communication from personal conversations to speaking on global platforms. Elevate your voice, elevate your life. Tune in to the TJ Walker Success Channel and start your journey to communication greatness. Okay, note to the editors, if we use anything from that one, that was the best one because I made more edits on the fly to make that one make more sense, at least to me. But I want to know what you think if you like. And by the way, if you're watching this on demand, please leave comments. I on what you don't like would be actually more helpful. Not as helpful if you want to talk about what character I look like from a 1980s TV soap opera, but we're happy to have those two. But if you have any thoughts on the wording of this voiceover to be used in sort of the opening segment credits of the show, let me know. Okay, we're going to move on to script four. These came out after I gave some additional instruction to chat GPTs, and we'll see if we notice. My camera seems to be just. Okay. It had moved just a little bit. Lackey, let me hit stop of record one second. Lock writes in, sir, it's very hard to get rid of my native accent. I'm frustrated because of this. Please give me some needful advice. So, Mark, let me ask you, when you're speaking to people, do you feel that they can't understand you because it is possible for an accent to impede someone's ability to understand you? In that case, it is a problem worth trying to solve if they understand you. And just stylistically you'd prefer to have another accent, that's a different issue. I will stress to you, everybody in the world has an accent of some sort. I have a sort of a standard American accent with a few Southern tinges because I did grow up in the South. But it's not a particularly strong Southern accent. Everybody has an accent. Deepak Chopra is an extraordinarily well known health and wellness guru known around the world. And he has an Indian accent, sounds a little different to Americans than mine. Guess what hasn't hurt him a bit. He's wildly successful, has had about 100 books on the bestseller list. He's wildly rich, wildly successful, wildly influential. Didn't try to change his accent to sound like a Midwestern newscaster somewhere. Instead, he focused his time creating good ideas and creating books, going on TV shows, and speaking to people on his YouTube channel. So, Locke, that's my, my biggest question for you. You say sometimes they do miss it. I could help you a lot more. Like if you came right on camera, talk to us, that I could hear it. Because so often I have clients from all over the world where I'm working with them face to face or online. They're telling me they have a problem with their accent. But when I listen to them give a speech, I have no problem understanding them. The biggest problem they have from my perspective is they're not telling me anything interesting. They're using the speech to bore people doing a boring data dump. So the problem is not the accent. The problem is their message and how they're trying to illustrate their messages and specifically not bringing in enough stories. So I can't diagnose you unless you want to come on. I'm happy to do that. There's no charge. You might as well take me up on it. Now you're saying sometimes they miss it. The other challenge people have quite often when they have an accent that they perceive as not a dominant accent or the most popular accent is they intentionally soften their voice and they speak faster than normal. So when you combine those three things, a slightly different accent, slightly lower volume, slightly higher speed. Now you've gotten into the point where people can't understand you, and yet the individual still thinks, oh, it's because of my accent, why that now? It's not because of the accent. It's now because you've combined that one thing that isn't a problem by itself with the speed problem and the volume problem, and now people can't understand you. And with many of my clients, I find if I just help them slow down, get back to normal conversational speed, and boost their volume, it solves all the problems. And people have no Problem understanding them. That's. That's what I have found. And Locke says, sir, I've joined through YouTube, so I'm not sure if I can turn on video. So. Oh, you also mentioned specific sounds, sh and ph. So I will try to post it again. If you go to the top of the comments, I have a streamyard link and I've just posted it again. I realize that's too hard to sort of write down, but if you go to the comments section and my friends on TikTok, if you want to join us, come on over to YouTube. I just posted the link. With one click, you can come right on screen and ask questions about communication skills, give a picture, make fun of me if you want to talk about what sitcom character I remind you of, if you want to. So I've just posted that link again, if you want to click on that, and then we can. Then we can take a look. So, you know what, what you just said was so important, and I feel like I described it in a way that's a little different from how I normally do. So I want to do a longer form video reiterating some of the points I just mentioned to you. Okay, so I'm going to hit record. I'm going to go to camera one. Whoops. I'm just stripped over my mat. And our TikTok friends can see that these are mats I stand on. It absorbs the pressure, and your feet don't hurt as much and you don't get as tired. It's what you see in kitchens and restaurants for people who have to stand a lot. So I'm going to take this. Hide that comment. Okay. And I'm going to remove these papers because they're a little bit distracting on the screen there. So you think you have a problem with a foreign accent? It makes it harder for people to understand you, right? That's your perception. Well, maybe, maybe not. Here's the problem with so many of my clients around the world who come to me and say, tj, I've got a problem with my foreign accent. My English is not coming across as clearly as I want, and I know it's because of my accent. Maybe, maybe not. First of all, it's important to realize everybody in the world has an accent. I have an accent. You have an accent. There's no such thing as a perfect accent. Now, it is true that some people have an accent that is so strong that the majority of people in their audience, whether it's one person at work or 20 people in a conference room, can't understand them because their first language is different from the speakers. So it is possible. But here's the far more common scenario. I see someone has an accent. They're perfectly understandable when they're just talking. And they're relaxed and comfortable in speaking with their normal energy, their normal speed, their normal volume. But now they have to stand up to give a business presentation. What? Or a pitch. Or it's a high stress situation like a job interview, and they're already feeling a little insecure about their foreign accent. So what happens? They try to protect themselves by tightening up and they lower their volume so they're speaking at a softer tone than usual, and they're uncomfortable and nervous. They figure the sooner I finish this, the sooner, sooner I can get out of here. The sooner I finish this, the harder it will be for someone to pick me apart and point out mistakes. And so what do they do? They speak faster than normal. So now you have three things that could all have an impact on the audience. You have a foreign accent combined with lowering the volume to make it harder for people to hear you, combined with speeding up, which flattens out what you say, makes you more monotone and makes it harder to understand. So now when you combine those three elements, yes, it is harder for your audience to understand you. But don't just make the assumption, well, and it's all because of my accent. No, it's not because of your accent. It's because you married it with speaking faster than usual and speaking in a lower hum than usual. So if you simply go back to your normal speech patterns the way you are, when you're talking with one or two of your best friends at a restaurant about something you care about, chances are you will be perfectly understandable. I have what many people would consider a standard American accent. Occasionally, you'll hear a hint of a southern lilt to it because I did grow up in the South. Deepak Chopra was born in India. He has an Indian accent. Now. My accent is closer to what the average American is used to hearing on TV, on YouTube, on other places, from their local news broadcaster. My voice is more what they're used to than Deepak Chopra's voice. And yet Deepak Chopra is a thousand times more successful than I am. He's got a hundred books, most of them bestsellers, millions of fans, vast wealth. His accent has not hurt him at all. So don't worry about your accent until you first isolate whether that's the problem or if it's just that you are telling yourself, I'm no good at this. And that lack of confidence is bringing down your volume and reducing your natural speed by making you race. That's the problem. So focus on that. The other big thing you've really got to address is what's the real problem here? I've had countless clients around the globe tell me to CJ I think my foreign accent is a problem. Maybe I should go to accent reduction school and spend two hours a day for the next 10 years. Well, you could. That's a lot of work. Then I have them stand up and speak. We video record it, play it back. And here's what I noticed. I could understand them perfectly, and yet it still wasn't a good speech. What was the problem? It wasn't the accent. It's that they weren't interesting. The biggest problem most speakers have is not an accent problem. It's why should anyone in the audience pay attention problem. Focus on making sure you have genuinely interesting ideas every time you speak to people. Focus on having interesting examples, compelling stories. If you do that, people are not going to care about your accent. If you don't do that, if you're just delivering facts, just delivering information, you can sound like the most successful newscaster in the world who has the dominant accent of your area. No one's going to remember what you say. So really think about this carefully before you just conclude, oh, I've got a problem with my accent. Okay, so what I just did there, Locke, I hope you don't mind, is I took your question and it's a great question. It's one I've dealt with before. But it occurred to me that in the process of answering you, I said things a little bit differently than I think I've said in the past. And I said it in a way where I thought, you know, I think other people than Locke could benefit from this. So that's when I decided, okay, I'm going to hit my master control, record this, and then alert my editing team to see if they can put this together and make it meaningful and useful to someone. So you've helped me Lock. If you have a way, if you want to join us, and you might not want to, you might be on a bus or in a workplace or a library and it's not convenient. But if you want to come on and join me, then I could detect, because I am going to give you the honest truth. If you speak in a way where I'm really having trouble understanding you, I'll let you know. Sometimes it's just self consciousness. People have and you mentioned you have a problem with the sh sound and the ph. It may be a problem. So I don't want to say nobody ever has problems with accents or certain vowel or consonant sounds or blends. It can in fact happen. But I can't really help until I can hear you. Okay, so I want to continue with your help of doing these sample voiceovers in just a minute. But first, we're going to take a brief commercial break. Now, these commercials are a little bit different. The commercials I'm going to play for you are commercials of that I have done as Amazon, as an Amazon influencer. So you're going to see me talking about products that are for sale on Amazon. These are products that I bought with my own money that I use, like and recommend. So I'm going to play these ads my friends on. My friends on Tick Tock. You're not going to see that. You'll hear it, but if you want to see it, come on over to the YouTube channel. It's just TJ Walker success on YouTube. And I do see other comments. And Chad loves Junior and I was. He was a villain that I like to pull for way back in 1980 as well. Chad says I have a standard American accent mixed with a game show host. Okay. I don't know if that means you or that that's how you think I come across. So not offended by that. Who is your favorite game show host? Drew Carey is. I don't really watch game shows, although I did as a kid. But Drew Carey was one of the most wildly successful comedians in America. Got his own primetime comedy show, the Drew Carey Show. It went the full seven years in syndication. He must have made hundreds of millions of dollars. And then he took over the Price is Right. So he is a full time game show host now for I think 10 years. So I love that comparison. And I think I even have hair as good as Drew Carey. So I appreciate you mentioning that. So I'm going to play these ads for a minute and I will be back live. I will take questions from Tick tock and from YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and every other platform. Be back in just a few minutes. I use it every day. I carry it with me to the pickleball court. Every Logitech wireless mouse is flexible. It's very light, as you can see, and it stores mountain of it for the day. These straps are why I can play pickleball in the hot Florida sun and not worry about my glasses falling off. 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This 3M transport tape really does the job. I can put it on my skin, even sensitive areas around here. Okay, we're back and we are live. I'm taking your questions. It is Monday and we have a nice open, open territory today, which is some of my favorite types of shows to do. We do have a lot of great guests lined up for this week. Everyone from other communications experts, authors, and coming tomorrow, the co founder of Delphi AI. This is a company that is cutting edge and artificial intelligence creating video clones, speaking video clones of personal development experts like Brendan Bouchard. And I'm going to be interviewing that co founder tomorrow and learning all about the world of creating video and audio avatars. Locke has joined us and Locke, thanks so much for hitting the streamyard link. For those of you coming in after the break, Locke was pointing out that he feels like his accent is sometimes holding him back from really being as effective as possible in communicating. Locke, if you can hit the button, you don't even have to come on with camera if you don't want to. But I would need you to hit the button for your. Okay, your microphone is on and. Hi, how are you?
Yeah, I'm good, thank you. Thank you for letting me in. Thank you so much.
Oh, you're welcome. So tell me and do you. Would you like to put your camera on? You don't have to, but it does make it easier to understand people when you can see.
Okay.
The facial expressions.
Okay. I hope it is okay. For you?
Yes. Okay, so tell us what you do professionally and where you are in your life and how that relates to how you communicate.
Okay. So as of now, I'm working as a sales consultant. So I do require to interact with the people in my office and also the customers. So I need to be very good at communication. And I'm doing. I'm doing practice since the last couple of years, but it is still very hard for me to get rid of my native accent, which is hard, very hard for me. I don't know why. And especially this sh and ed sound. And some applied the word which starts with the P. So I do make mistakes, and even I want to. I have all so many YouTube videos. I know that there are. What are the mistakes I'm. I'm committing, and I try to rectify it, but still, you know, it's not in my habit. So.
So.
And from last couple of days, I have been watching your videos on communication, how you can be. How you can speak so confidently, how you can be a good speaker. So that's how I came to know you. And I'm here now.
And, well, like, I really appreciate you coming watching, number one, asking questions, Number two, number three, being brave enough to just show up on camera. I really appreciate that. So what I'm about to say, I'm saying it from love. You're completely wrong. You're completely off base. Because I think you speak in a way that is completely clear, easy to understand. Your volume is fine, your energy's fine, your speed is fine. I'm understanding every word. And I'm not even looking at you now because I'm looking at a camera and I'm hearing you through a little speaker. So it's less than an ideal situation. And I think you're coming across really well. So here's the ultimate test. Anytime you speak or present, let's say you're at work and you're talking to three colleagues, just giving them an update on. On what you've been doing the last few weeks. Afterwards, just pull one of them aside who's friendly and say, hey, I need a little feedback. What do you remember me saying in our meeting? If they say, well, you know, lock, you were great. Everything was fantastic. You're really professional. That's no good. That's not what you want to hear. You want to hear them telling you the specific messages, the examples, the case studies, the stories you were talking about. If they remember that, then you know you really communicated. Now, perhaps you're speaking to a client on another side of the world, and. But you've been working with the same client for six months, and you've been presenting to six clients in the Chicago office or something. Talk to one of them an hour later and just say, hey, how about a little feedback? What do you remember me saying? Because if they're actually remembering your ideas, that's the ultimate test. But to my ear, where are you based, Locke? If you don't mind me asking, where do you live?
Yeah, I come from Delhi.
From Delhi. Okay. So I've spent a fair amount of time in Delhi, and a lot of people in the United States don't realize this, but there's so many different types of accents in India. Different? Well, first of all, there's hundreds of languages, but there's so many different types of. Of English accents in India. Some people sound like they are, you know, members of the royal family from Great Britain. Some have, like, German accents. Some of the people I've met from Delhi are speaking so quickly, I can't understand a word they say. There's a lot of different types of accents to my ear. Yours is very easy to understand. I wouldn't worry about it at all. Is it possible to change an accent? Sure. You mentioned, you know, for some reason you have a hard time changing your accent. Well, I can tell you the reason. It's really hard. It's hard for everyone to do it. If I tried to just do this show tomorrow with a British accent, I'd be horrible. People would just leave comments, laughing, and never come back. So it's extraordinarily difficult to change your accent. There are accent coaches in the world. They do involve a lot of practice where you're recording yourself. My wife is using an accent reduction app right now, and I forgot the name of it. You could do some research if you really want to do it. Spend time on apps where it. It. You say a word or a phrase, it records, plays it back, and then it plays it back what you. What it says you should sound like. So there are apps now, so you don't have to spend a fortune on hiring a private accent coach.
Okay.
But my bigger recommendation for you, frankly, is focus on doing great work with what you do and having great stories and examples. So every time you speak, people think, wow, okay, is really doing fascinating things. I want to learn more about what he's doing rather than you trying to sound like me or some generic American. That would be my advice. But certainly it can't hurt to learn another skill and learn speaking with a different accent is another Skill. I'd rather you figure out how to talk in a more interesting way about what it is you do.
What.
What do you do? What line of work are you in?
Okay, so it's a kind of a. I'm working in a company where we need to sell the product. So there are different. The customers or the client from the different part of India. So we call them, we get the call from them sometime and we try to explain them about the product.
And what sort of a product is it you sell? Is it an information technology product, a consumer? No, no, no, no.
Actually, it's about hearing aid. Maybe you. Yeah, you have heard about it.
Well, I'm certainly familiar with. With hearing aids, and I have family members who use them. And, you know, at some point I'll probably need them. I am going to be 62 this year, so at some point I'm sure I will need them. I mean, I use hearing aids and sorts every day. And when, typically when I'm interviewing someone, I will. I will use an earpiece to create less distortion.
Okay, understood.
So is your audience primarily based in India that you're speaking to?
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
And are you telling me people in India are not understanding your accent? No.
Sometime. What happened? That, like the word which is start with sh, like just example, see, or sayer. So sometime I just.
This, I make it like this is a shirt. Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, that's right.
How do you pronounce shirt?
Yeah, I will pronounce it like cert. So I'm trying to make it correct now.
Okay, so you're talking about consonant blends, and that is difficult. I mean, linguists would say every baby makes every kind of consonant blend sound. So we're all sort of genetically born knowing how to speak every kind of blend, and then we lose the ability. I, for example, cannot roll my Rs. Anyone who speaks Spanish fluently and grew up speaking Spanish fluently can make the sound of rolling their Rs. I can't do it. I didn't try to learn Spanish. I say I can't. Perhaps with enough instruction I could the. Again, it's. That sounds awful. So if there are few particular words like that, then I would suggest you try an app that helps with pronunciation and can help you with that.
Okay.
Because it wouldn't hurt to say shirt.
Yeah, definitely, I will try that. And as I got the opportunity. So I would like to ask you one more question because I watched your one of the video and you were like, how you can Become a better public speaker. Where you mentioned every day you need to record your video. You start recording your video and whatever you are doing, just try to record it and then watch it. So is it the kind of a we can do it in every base every day, day to day, or as you mentioned, just few minutes back, like.
More you do it, the better you'll get. People who play cricket once a year usually aren't as good as people who play twice a week. Right, yeah.
Yeah, you mentioned that sometimes, like you can ask feedback from your friends or maybe your colleague.
Yes. So, and I don't know your role in your company, but if you're helping sell hearing aids, maybe you put out a video a day just giving other sales reps or people in stores tips on how to sell it and say, look, you may have customer come in saying the hearing aids are no good, they want a refund. And what we have found is the most common problem is people never learned how to adjust it to their needs. So before you take it back, really do a quick test with them to make sure they have the adjustment. That's just an example. I know nothing about your business, but I'm just saying there may be times where if you're communicating with people in your supply chain or vendors or customers or distributors and you're already talking to them by phone regularly or a quarterly meeting, it may be there's little bits of communication you could do on, if not daily, at least weekly, where you make a little video and send it to, you know, five colleagues in different cities. They may find it beneficial and it will benefit you because you'll be speaking more. You make a little video, you'll watch it, and it builds your comfort and it just creates a positive feedback loop. But realize no one's a hundred percent. I appreciate you joining me today and giving good feedback, but one of, one of our friends on TikTok thinks that I look like a game show host. And I think what they mean is it's something. Why is a guy wearing a suit, it looks a little bony, maybe like a game show host. And so there's always a danger with how you speak or what you wear that it doesn't resonate with anyone. I happen to. I mean, for many, many years, I just wore sort of a casual shirt, sometimes a, you know, just a polo shirt when making videos. And what I found over year, over the last year is when I'm in a suit and tie demonstrating and standing, talking about public speaking, it somehow resonated with audiences around the world. So videos like that, when I'm wearing a suit and tie might get 10, sometimes 100 times more views than when I just had a shirt on without a jacket or a tie. So that's why I decided that, okay, if that's what the audience wants, I'll wear a suit and tie. But every so often, someone will say, you look like a game show host. Or someone last week said, why are you wearing a suit and tie? Are you going to a funeral? You can't please everyone. Just keep that in mind, Locke. But it sounds like you're on the right track. And by all means, if you want to try to learn how to pronounce certain consonant blends where you feel like you're just not communicating, that's a good, specific goal that is worthwhile. And there are a number of apps that can help you with that. That does remind me one of my own goals for this show is to do a whole series reviewing apps that help people with accent reduction and for issues like that. So that is going to be coming up here, I hope, in the next couple of months. So stay tuned for that. Locke, thank you so much. We wish you success.
Definitely.
And feel free to come.
Thank you, tj.
You're welcome.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for stopping by. We do appreciate it and we appreciate the. At this point, way more than a thousand people have stopped by to say hello on Tick Tock and Shallow says, you're funny like a game show. Okay, well, I like that everyone likes to feel like they have a sense of humor, so I. I do appreciate that. We've got a slight technical problem now where I've gone blurry on camera one, so I'm going to step over here on camera three. I'm going to step over to camera one. A minute. Sometimes it needs a second. And I've stepped out of frame for TikTok. I realized that and sometimes if I just go tight and that solves the problem because we have it on auto focus to latch onto the face. Okay, we're going to continue sort of our look behind the scenes of what goes on at a content creator's studio, and I am going to record more rough draft audios for the opening credits for this show.
We.
As I told you earlier Today, I use ChatGPT to help me with a script. Now, I didn't just say write me a script for a show. I gave it all sorts of instructions of what I was trying to accomplish, my message points. I let it come up with a draft. I've now edited those and Gotten rid of words I don't like, like intimate. And then I asked it to do even more versions of it. So I have about six different drafts. I'm going to record these again on audio and height in 4k so that my editing team has different footage to pull from. And this will be used really just the audio. So I'm going to record this again and I'm going to make it. This is a note to Ben, my producer. We're going to be doing more audio now from today's show, so to be used for our. Our opening montage, the opening credits for the show. Okay, so this will be script four. Now. It does. It does give me suggestions for the graphics. This says opening shot of a bustling city street followed by quick cuts of people engaged in various forms of communication. That part I'm not going to say, but I will send that along to the editors and I'm going to get closer again to my main shotgun mic. So that's why it looks weird to you on YouTube and other social media platforms. Looking from looking at us from streamyard. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your daily destination for communication excellence. Here we're not just about the big stage will also equip you for those crucial one on one interactions, helping you connect deeply and authentically. Join us as we explore every facet of communication, from private conversations to public platforms. Unlock the power of your voice one conversation at a time. Tune into the TJ Walker Success Channel and transform the way you communicate. Okay, so that is. It occurs to me now that's the take one of the fourth script. And it occurs to me now that I did leave out One instruction for ChatGPT, which is that the show is ultimately about how to make you more successful, hence the name TJ Walker Success Channel. We want to make you more successful by communicating more effectively and by communicating more confidently. So it occurs to me I need to give it that additional parameter to really get what I want. But there's still some good stuff here. Let me do this one again. This will be. This will be version two or take two of script four. Okay. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your daily destination for communication excellence. Here we're not just about the big stage. We'll also equip you with. We'll also equip you for those crucial one on one interactions, helping you connect deeply and authentically. Join us as we explore every facet of communication, from private conversations to public platforms. Unlock the power of your voice one conversation at a time. Tune in to the TJ Walker Success Channel and transform the way you communicate. Okay, so you know what I'm thinking now is that I really do need to add that additional parameter of success to give me a script. So I think what I'm going to do is take a little commercial break. I'm going to do it right now with, you know, I say that. Why don't I just show it to you so you can see exactly what I'm thinking of. Okay, Chad, several of you are being a bit silly and one of you is mentioning Bruce Almighty, which is a fantastic movie by Jim Carrey. If you're saying I look like Jim Carrey, is that the one with Jim. No, that's the one with Steve Carell. I was going to say if you think I look like Jim Carrey, that's fantastic because he's a very good looking Hollywood leading man. If you're saying I look like Steve Carroll, not so much. But I'm happy about the comparison. And Jed, I do appreciate you spending time with us today. If I can help you in any way, even if it's just to be amusing, that's fine too. So let's do this right now because I sort of have to fight my instincts too. I'm still thinking about I have to give you this polished show and the premise here, frankly, is not to be a polished show. So I'm going to bring my chatgpt back. I'm going to bring it up, I will share on the screen with you what I'm doing in just a moment. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna type in chat, pull that up, I'm gonna go back to my Word document. And I'm going to share with you what it is. Not that this particular script would be in any way helpful to you, but I am fascinated and I know a lot of you are, are keenly interested in this idea of how do you use artificial intelligence to help you with other communication. I'm not suggesting that you just find farm out your entire brain to artificial intelligence. Not suggesting that at all. What I do want you to think about is how to use artificial intelligence to help you do the things you already do better and to save you time and to help you become more authentic. So I'm not going to just put and read off a script that I don't believe in. Right. Feel is inaccurate. But what AI does is write different versions of script much faster, polish things out, smooth things out, and help you really come across more in a way that can be effective for you. And what you're trying to do. Okay, so I'm just going to show you right now. I'm going to share my screen and forgive me, my friends on TikTok, you can't see this. If you're willing to come over to our YouTube channel, you'll see different screens. You'll see exactly what I'm working on. I'm going to show my working screen. I'm going to show you my word document of what I'm looking at right now. So this is my screen and when you're dealing with Chat GPT, I don't worry about niceties like spelling. There's all sorts of spelling errors here and some of them are a little bit odd. Maybe I will change this to speak, but if I can figure it out, so can Chat GPT. This is again all sorts of typos, but I'm asking it to write the script for the opening of a daily online YouTube show. And I didn't even spell that right. The show is about helping people improve their communication skills. Specifically spoken comm. Here's where I need to make a change. I need to say the show is about. Helping people become more successful in all aspects of life. We help people become more successful by making them more effective at communication and more confident in their communication abilities. Okay. It occurs to me that I should have. Had that in originally. I'm also going to give it additional instructions. Please mention that the show helps them with personal conversations. I'll say personal one on one conversations and then I'll say, but don't use the word intimate. I think that sends a different message to people. Okay. All right, so this is the prompt. What I'm now going to do is copy this and, and I appreciate those of you joining joining me today for this because this is not Mr. Beast. I did watch the most recent Mr. Beast where everything was done live for 10 minutes. This is not Mr. Beast style drama and intense excitement. This is about real work. Well, not to say Mr. Beast doesn't work hard, he's a hard worker. This is about the actual production of communication videos. What an online creator does, showing you the behind the scenes stuff and I hope enabling you and empowering you to, to speak out more, to be more successful in all of your communications and to use the tools. So I'm showing you, you know how I think creators are using tools like Chat GPT these days. So here I'm signed into Chat GPT. I'm going to type this in right now, hit enter and if you haven't Used Chat GPT. Give it a try. It really is a fabulous thing. It doesn't mean it gets it perfect. It doesn't mean you should just blindly say whatever it says. Now this is into. These are much shorter and I didn't change anything. I'm going to write in make these longer. Okay. So I just typed in, as you may or may not be able to see, make these longer. It should be about 20 seconds long because I don't know why there's so much. It appears to be much shorter to me anyway, so I'm going to copy these. We'll. We'll now go ahead and record these as well. So I copy it. I'm just going to go to another Word document and I like to make it easier on my. Oh, I'm on a different screen here. Excuse me one second. I just have to pull it up. What I like to do when I'm doing voiceover is make the font really large. It's just easier to see when you're doing voiceover work as I'm doing for you. And so I typically bold it and enlarge in it. So hit bold. I'm making it a little bigger and I'm just going to hit print. And for some reason, again, this is one of the interesting things about Chat GPT is it can give you different things, very different. Even though you give some of the same instructions, it does give variety. So I'm going to walk her off screen one second and get my copy right here. I'll be right back. Just have to walk around the corner But I've not abandoned you no one's coming Come to take me away and then we're going to do versions of these voiceovers, right? Oh, you know what? I've recorded all of that. I meant to hit stop in the high def. Okay, so we're going to record these now. I will take that off again. I've not read these yet, so this is just going to be an experiment. The beauty of it, of course, is if we hate it, we don't have to actually use it in real life. We don't have to produce it, or certainly we don't have to air it every single day. So let's see what it came up with, if these are any better. So now I am going to hit record. I'm going to get a little closer to my shotgun mic and try to speak right into it, which is why I'm off center here. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your daily dose of communication mastery. Here we're dedicated to unlocking your full potential through effective communication in every scenario. From mastering personal one on one conversations to commanding a room of hundreds and even captivating millions on major networks. It's saying major networks like CNN or BBC, but I don't want to be that specific, so I will just stop that on. Oh, you know what I'll do? I'll just say major TV networks. So let me redo that sentence. From mastering personal one on one conversations to commanding a room of hundreds and even captivating millions on major TV networks, join us every weekday and become the communicator you've always, always wanted to be. Okay, so I do think that was an improvement because it really is hitting that we're trying to help you become successful because that's the ultimate result, not just being a better communicator. Alma Gate stops by and says, good job, tj as always. Well, thanks. What was good? Which job are you talking about? So if you don't mind, give me a little clarity. Also, if you have any questions that relate to communication today, let me know. So let me do version two of this script. And again, I'm going to get closer to my shotgun microphone. Welcome to the T.J. walker Success Channel. Your daily dose of communication mastery. Here. We're dedicated to unlocking your full potential through effective communication in every scenario. From mastering personal one on one conversations to commanding a room of hundreds and even captivating millions on major TV networks. Join us every weekday and become the communicator you've always wanted to be. Okay, that's script one. These do still seem to be truncated and shorter than the earlier ones, but we'll continue. Overall, I thought that was an improvement. Script 2, Draft 1. Get ready to supercharge your communication skills with the TJ Walker Success Channel. Here where your partners and let me do that over here. Were your partners in success dedicated to helping you become a communication powerhouse. Whether it's acing a one on one chat over coffee or. Or addressing millions on tv, we will provide you with the tools and techniques to shine in every situation. Don't miss out on your chance to become a master communicator. Tune in and transform your communication game. Okay, you know, I feel like it shortened it a little too much. I kind of feel like I want to go back to the original scripts and just add in an element of this personal success. But anyway, let's go to script three. And all of a sudden it's getting a little bit warm. One of the things. So I'm doing things a Little differently here. Now, normally, I'm here talking to you, and I'm about 20 inches away from my shotgun mic. It's just out of range, regardless of what angle. So again, it's just out of. It's. My mic is right here. You don't see it. And if I'm on camera one, my mic is just here. It's just out of camera range. And having one powerful mic sort of serves the needs for the whole studio. But my audio quality isn't quite as good as if I'm this close to it. Now, I'm only about 10 inches away, so you may notice it right now if you're listening to it. Sounds a little different. So that's why I'm going to do this again. I also have a little more energy in my voice because this is going to be, you know, and a recording. People are going to know it's recording. They're going to hear the same thing, everybody, every day. And excuse me for just a moment. I am going to get a little more comfortable. There's something about projecting a little more with a little more energy today that has gotten things a little bit hotter. Now, normally I would stop and reapply more makeup because I don't want to be seen as someone telling you how to come across confident and authoritative and be sweaty. But today is kind of a voiceover production day, so I'm going to make an exception for that. I'm going to hit stop again, and we'll. We'll capture more of this. We'll redo this one, and then I'm going to actually rewrite the script and see if we can come up together with something even better. Now, I've been procrastinating this for a couple of weeks, thinking, oh, yeah, I'll get around to it. But my best time to be creative, frankly, is nine to noon when I'm with you. And the whole premise of this show is taking you, answering your questions about communication, but also taking you behind the scenes of how a content creator actually creates. So shame on me for not just doing this with you together as a team. Weeks ago, I should have done that. So let's do the script three, but then we're going to try to change the scripts and make them a little better. Okay, it's time to level up your. Oh, I didn't hit record on the 4K version. This is script 3, take 1. It's time to level up your communication game with the TJ Walker Success Check channel, your daily destination for communication excellence. Join us as we empower you to unleash your true potential. From mastering personal conversations to commanding the stage and even dominating the airwaves on social media platforms, we've got the strategies and expertise to guide you every step of the way. Join us on this journey and unlock your true communication potential. The world is waiting to hear your voice. Okay, I gotta tell you, I'm not as crazy about that. And again, I want to suggest, I want to remind you we're not here to just blindly say whatever an artificial intelligence tells us. I want you to think. I want you to use your reasoning skills. I want you to feel authentic. AI is simply helping me reorganize my thoughts and polishing them in slightly different ways. But it's still about my thoughts. And I want you, when you're speaking, to have your thoughts. I'm not a fan of someone who says, oh, I got to give a speech today on the history of PowerPoint. I don't want to prepare at all. I don't know anything about it. Let me just go to ChatGPT and ask it to write a speech for me on the history of power, PowerPoint, and then stand up and read it. I don't think that's going to work very well for you. Most of the time, maybe it gets you by, but it's not going to personalize it. It's not going to be as authentic. So here's what I want to do now. I'm going to go back to my scripts and because I have several different versions, I want to put it back into ChatGPT and see if I can work from the original scripts and then see if I could just tweak it slightly so that it adds that element of success. Because I like some of the earlier scripts. I had better, frankly, let me pull up this version. So I'm going to go back to an earlier version again. I'll show you what I'm doing. I don't know why I'm trying to be sneaky here. So I'm going to share the screen. So this is an early and again, my friends on TikTok, if you want to see what I'm talking about, just come on over to the YouTube channel. It is TJ Walker success channel on YouTube and you'll see what I'm talking about. Today's show is a little bit different in that we are working on voiceovers that we're going to use for the opening credits of the show. And I do see we do always try to give precedence to anyone who's willing to show up and ask questions and stop by. So let me go ahead and. And see if Fatma Fatmata wants to say hello because I see this person has joined us and did you want to speak or say hello or did you want to just come in and watch from the green room? Fatmata, are you there with us? If you do want to chat, just unmute your microphone. You don't have to turn on your camera if you don't want to. But if you're here just stopping by to. To watch from the green room, that's okay as well. All right, if you do want to say anything, just send me a chat and I'm happy to come back to you. Sometimes people sign in, they're busy doing a few other things or they're finishing a phone call or email and then they want to come in. So either way is fine. Okay, so I'm going to take this script. Going to copy it. Or is this the most. This was not the second to the last one. This was the. This was in fact the last one, I believe. Let me see if I can find the other one. Yeah, I might not have saved it if that's the case. Shame on me because I did like that script. Let's see if this. Okay, I think this. Okay, now we go. Here we go. This is the script I was looking for. So I'm going to ask it to rewrite all of these scripts, but to add in the element that we are trying to do all this to help people become more successful. Successful in life. Thankfully, I don't think I'd save this, but I had not deleted it yet and it was still up on my computer or perhaps there was an autosave function. Okay, so I'm going to copy this and now I'm going to go back to chat GPT and I'm going to give it instructions. We'll see how this works. Okay, so I'm going to say rewrite the following six scripts. Please revise in a way to suggest that the show is all about helping people become more successful in all aspects of life by becoming better communicators. Well, that's, you know, there's spelling errors and then they're spelling errors that was perhaps a little too egregious. Let me try to go back and clean that up. Okay, so the emphasis is not just on improving communication skills and confidence, but on improving communication skills to become more successful. Please keep most of the elements in the following scripts, but add the elements needed to stress success. Okay. All right, so that's what I'm going to add now. Confession here. I've tip when I've used Chat GPT to help with scripting. I haven't typically given it the this many instructions and then pasted something this long. I don't know if I'm gonna on their free version hit a limit of how much content you can put in but we will find out and we'll see what comes up. Again we'll record it. We don't like it, don't have to use it if it seems weird or cheesy or unnatural or just doesn't work, we don't have to use it at all. And Fatma, Fatma is back if you do have any question. Oh, you posted something in the, in the chat. Let me, let me see what you said there. Okay. All right. Fatmada says hi and says I really enjoy using Chat GTP especially for assignment purposes. If you have a question Fatmada, happy to have you a part of it then I appreciate you sharing. And we have another comment that's come in from several comments that have come in from our friends on TikTok. Leonard says happy Monday. Well Leonard, Happy Monday to you. Thanks for stopping by. How to sweet says how do I something a dwelling may 1st knowing I'll become homeless. What do I explain to the judge? Well now you're asking legal matters and I apologize but I am not an attorney so I am in no way qualified to give you legal advice. I, I would extend sympathies to you with your legal plight and would hope that you're in a community that does provide low cost or no cost legal services to people in need. So we do, we do wish you well there. All right, let's take a look at the what Chat GPT has come up with. So I am going to copy this now I'm going to go to, I'm going to get a fresh page from my Word document and I have a couple, I have three screens open. So what's happened is that just pushed me to a completely different screen. I'm going to go to a blank document and I am going to paste it. This has become lengthier. I don't want these. I certainly don't want the opening credits to be like 60 seconds or even 45 seconds. That's too much. Unless you really have something of amazing high quality like a succession TV show opening, I don't think you want that much. So I was really hoping for more like 15 seconds, 1520 max. But we're going to share. I'm Going to share this with you and we're just going to see. We're going to see exactly. And listen to it together. And you can help me decide whether you think this is worthwhile or not. Whether it is in fact high quality content that my editing team should build in. So excuse me for a second. I just gotta walk around and go to the printer. But I am not leaving you. I have not fainted. I'm just gonna pull up the script. And again, I do want to stress. So I'm doing this in real time for you. I'm really showing you behind the scenes of how people create, create content. Different versions, different drafts. It's a little different than most people do it because most people do not do it in front of people. Most people keep their rough drafts quiet. I'm doing it here in part because I want you to see it's rough. Sometimes it's literally rough. It's rough draft and it's rough for a name and there are mistakes and there's trial and error and you saw me come up with a whole bunch of scripts and I realized, ah, I really forgot one of the major message points, which is I need to stress that we're here not just to help you become good communicators, to check a box, but it's about ultimately for higher level purposes of how to become more successful in life through stronger communication. So let's just dive in with these scripts and see what we can see if we like any of them. So I'm going to hit record on our, our master 4K. Although we're not using the video for this, so arguably I don't even need that. Okay, this is the new version of Script one. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel where we empower you to master the art of communication for success. Join us as we guide you through every facet of communication. I missed a word. Join us as we guide you through every facet of effective communication, helping you succeed in all aspects of life. From personal conversations to commanding stages. We've got you covered. Whether it's 3 people, 30 people, or 300, or even millions on national TV will equip you to shine and achieve your goals in any spotlight. Get ready to amplify your voice, boost your confidence and unleash your potential for success. Tune in and transform your communication skills today. Okay, I have to say I do like this. I think this is much, much closer to what we're trying to do and to. Again, what I'm trying to do is create an identifier for the show. So if someone comes in, they'll know exactly what we're talking about and they'll know why we're here. They will know the benefit to them. Fatima said, Is it possible to use ChatGPTP for online classes or are there courses that Chat GTP offers to people who are interested? Well, yes, there are. I have a couple of courses that touch on Chat gtp, but if you, if you just type in online courses for Chat GTP online or Google, you'll find millions. You can go to Udemy and look at courses there. And I partner with my colleague Just Toddfeld on everything from how to write a book using chat GTP and how to use ChatGTP for public relations. So there's a lot of different things out there, I hope. Let me know if you have something even more specific. There are increasingly a lot of people saying, like YouTube saying if you're using artificial intelligence for creating your images and stuff, you've really got to let people know they, they want there to be disclosure. I will occasionally say this was, this was enhanced with, with spell check and Chat GTP because I don't let it just control things, but I do, I do in fact let it help me and edit in my way, in the same way a spell check does. But other people are using it to completely create things and that's, there's a number of ethical issues and other trickier issues involved with that. I'm going to switch to camera too for our folks on YouTube because we're having, you can sort of see what I'm doing here and gives you more of a sense of how this is a voiceover session. So we're going to go to script number two and we are still recording. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your daily guide to mastering the language of success through effective communication. Here we don't just teach communication skills. We empower you to own every conversation, every presentation, every interaction and ultimately achieve success. Join us as we journey from prayer, personal dialogues to commanding stages, helping you speak with clarity, conviction and charisma to reach your goals, transform your life one word at a time. Tune in to the TJ Walker Success Channel and unlock your true potential for success. Okay, I don't think I like this one as much because, oh, I don't want you to own every conversation that sounds like we want you to do dominate and be domineering and be an egomaniac. So I don't think that one quite works. So I don't think we'll be using that one. Let's go to script three. Welcome to the T.J. walker Success Channel. Your passport to communication mastery for success in every aspect of life. Here we don't just teach communication, we instill the confidence to captivate any audience anywhere and achieve your aspirations. Join us as we navigate the spectrum of communication from personal exchanges to global platforms, empowering you to succeed, Elevate your voice, elevate your life. Tune in to the TJ Walker Success Channel and start on your journey to communication, greatness and success. I like that one a little better, but there's still some things that are a little bit clunky there. I did change some words around from intimate to just personal communication. There's something about personal exchanges to global platforms that sounds almost like it was written by chat GPT, which is not what we want. We want it to really sound natural to the ear. So let's keep going and see which one really resonates the most. This is Script 4. Welcome to the T.J. walker Success Channel. Your daily destination for communication excellence and success. Here we're not just about the big stage. We also equip you for those crucial one on one talks, helping you connect deeply and authentically to achieve your goals. Join us as we explore every aspect of communication from private conversations to public platforms, empowering you to succeed in all aspects of life. Unlock the power of your voice one conversation at a time. Tune in to the TJ Walker Success Channel and transform the way you communicate for success. There's some things I like there. I just don't know that it's completely right. Let's. Let's keep on going here a minute. We're going to go into script five. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel where communication meets confidence on the road to success. Here we're not just about commanding stages. We're also your go to resource for mastering communication. We're also your go to resource for mastering personal connections and one on one dialogue to help you achieve success. I like the word dialogue there. Here we're not just about commanding stages. We're also your go to resource for mastering personal connections and one on one conversations to help you achieve achieve success. Join us as we dive into the art of communication. From personal exchanges to public platforms, empowering you to succeed in every aspect of your life. Still a little clunky. Let me redo that sentence. Join us as we dive into the art of communication. From private conversations to speaking on public platforms, empowering you to succeed in every aspect of your life. Empower your voice, elevate your impact. Tune into the TJ Walker Success Channel and start your journey to communication, greatness and success. I think that could work with some of the edits I made. Now I'm again, I'm looking at this literally for the first time in front of you. This is the rough dream. This is the. This is even rougher than what you see as a table read. When you see in Hollywood actors sitting around and just reading the lines in front of people, typically they do that after they've already read the script and looked at it and maybe even rehearsed themselves. And I do want to thank so many people. We've had close to 2,000 people who stopped by, even if briefly on TikTok today. So thanks so much for stopping by and having, having fun with us and I appreciate silly comments and serious questions and everything else. So thanks so much for doing that. We're going to go to the sixth and final script now. I appreciate those watching if you have any that you really like, if you want to point out one you think, well, that one's better, let me know. Also when you hear things that just strike you as off, sort of a tin eared thing, let me know. I don't want to use that. Okay, this is the sixth one, really the twelfth one. Because we had six earlier versions, we rewrote them using chat, GTP, GPT. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel. Your daily dose of communication inspir preparation for success. Here we're not just about the grand stage. We also equip you for those meaningful one on one exchanges, helping you connect authentically and effectively to achieve your goals. Join us as we navigate the landscape of communication from private conversations to public platforms, empowering you to succeed in all areas of your life. Amplify your voice, expand your reach, tune into the TJ Walker Success Channel and transform your communication skills for success. Okay, that had some good elements. I don't know that I'm completely in love with every, with any one of those. I would love to get your feedback and let me hit stop for a minute so that I want to get the exact timing. Okay. We're at. Because I'm going to give my editing team because I don't want them to have to sift through all the earlier versions that we now know we don't want. So it looks like it a little after two hours, two hours and, and one minute. Let me do this last one over again and see if we can polish this up a little and maybe that will save time.
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To the TJ Walker Success Channel your daily dose of communication inspiration for success. I don't think I like the word inspiration there. Communication insights for success. Yeah, let's change that. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your daily dose of communication. I never got what I'm saying. That's part of the problem when you are doing editing live time in front of people is sometimes you can. Insights. That's the word. So let me go ahead and make a note. It's always going to be easier rather than trying to remember when you're doing voiceover production work. Insights. It's a better word. Okay, so now we're starting at 202. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel, your daily dose of communication insights for success. Here we're not just about the grand stage. We'll also equip you for those meaningful one on one talks helping you connect authentically and effectively to achieve your goals. Join us as we navigate the landscape of communication from private conversations to public platforms, giving you the power to succeed in all areas of your life. Amplify your voice, expand your reach, tune in to the TJ Walker Success Channel and transform your communication skills for success. Okay, that's one I can live with. With. I don't know how you feel about it, but that's one I can live with. Let me do another version of that and let me make a note of the timing. We're at 203. See? Whoops. Writing on my pad on my computer, which is not a good thing. So I'm just going to make a note for my production team at basically 204 foreign. Welcome to the TJ Walker Success Channel. Your daily dose of communication insight for success. Here we're not just about the grand stage. We'll also equip you for those meaningful one on one talks helping you connect authentically and effectively to achieve your goals. I'm going to change one word on that one. Here we're not just about the grand stage. We'll also equip you for those meaningful one on one conversations, helping you connect authentically and effectively to achieve your goals. Join us as we navigate the landscape of communication from private conversations to public platforms, giving you the power to succeed in all areas of your life. Amplify your voice, expand your reach, tune into the TJ Walker Success channel and transform your communication skills for success. Okay, I think that's going to be the one we're going to use. And that one started at. At 204. So I'm going to make a note for my production team. So that was Kind of a lot of work. And believe me, I am doing things like this much fa. I'm not going to say better, but much faster than most people who do voiceover work. Part of it is I'm not that patient. Part of it is I've been speaking for so long, for 40 years. I'm able to make edits on, on the fly. I'm able to think about where do I go louder, softer, faster, slower, sort of in my head, so it's a little bit easier. We don't have a director telling me to redo every version a million ways, which may or may not make it better, but that's, that's kind of what we're about. Okay, So I think we've, I think we've done that. Now I do see why I've kind of been procrastinating doing this because that was in fact a lot of work and it took. We devoted a good hour and a half to this, almost two hours. And again, the premise behind this show is not that we're going to have Mr. Beast style 100 million views for every video. It's that we're really going to take you behind the scenes of what it's like to be a content creator and a communicator and different versions of things you have to do to refine communication, to help and to try to make things better. And to figuratively, and in this case today, literally, we can say roll up your sleeves. I can't usually roll up my sleeves because I've got the jacket on. But today we've been doing some hard work and I'm rolling up my sleeves to share with you what it is, because I do want you to have a sense of all the different steps it takes to be a content creator. Now you could just do things live all the time, not have produced elements. This isn't a, this is a chance to make things a little fancier. There are schools of thought that say for a YouTube show, you shouldn't have anything more than like three or four seconds. My hunch is we'll probably show, shorten this even more. It may be too long. But this, this is what I'm thinking of is not that we would use this necessarily. Certainly we wouldn't use this for any short form videos. If it's a three minute edited long video, we wouldn't use that. But if we're here for a live show, I, I think if you're here for three hours and you've already given someone a good five, seven minutes to then play a 15 or even a 30 second identifier. I don't think we're going to lose that many people. So that is the theory behind this. I do want to thank so many folks joining us today on YouTube, on my own business Facebook page, on my Udemy student Facebook page, on Twitch, on LinkedIn, on Twitter, on Instagram and on TikTok. TikTok thriving community TikTok. Look, there's plenty of things to criticize about TikTok. I'll leave that to others. I will just spotlight. It is fascinating to me how they just send out a message to so many people saying hey, this is live, check it out. And I know on Friday for example he had 1.9000 people join us on our live feed just on TikTok and welcoming back. Looks like we've had almost that many today as well. So very happy our tick tock friends have joined us coming up later this hour and we are on our final hour today. I'm going to be going live on Amazon. I am an Amazon influencer and I don't officially work for Amazon. It's not enough legal joint venture. I'm not an employee employee of Amazon. I want to make that very clear. But I am an Amazon affiliate and then there's sort of one notch up where they make can make you an Amazon influencer. What that means is they let you make videos talking about products and if they like it, they can put it right on the product page on Amazon. And if someone watches your video and then buys the product, they give you a commission like, like any other affiliate. But what's different is they're essentially delivering the audience to you. That is what is unique about the Amazon influencer program apart from a gazillion other influencer programs. So we're going to switch over to that in just a minute. I'm also, we still have time for questions and also feedback. You know, people do this occasionally but not often enough is you don't have to come here just to ask me a question. You could say tj, I'm going on Shark Tank in a month. Or I'm putting together my demo video for Shark Tank or some other show like that. Or I'm pitching to a bunch of investors at a tech conference next week. I'd like to practice in front of you and your community and your audience more than happy to do that. So you can come on, I can even get off the stage, give you the full stage and let you pitch and then we'll give you feedback. So There's a lot of different ways we can learn from each other right here and benefit from each other ultimately. I'm trying to button this again. I was trying to be cute, saying, talking about how I'm rolling up my sleeves, but now it's annoying me that my button was undone. So we got that back for you. So there's a lot of different ways as a community, we can help each other out here. I want to help you any way I can to become more successful. The main way I can do that is by helping you with highly specific, practical communication skills, equipping you with more communication skills skills, and also helping build confidence in your own communication skills. You really need both. You need the actual technical skills and then you need the confidence in your technical skills. That's ultimately what I find helps lead people to more success. And that's what we're all about here. Okay, as I mentioned later on this hour, we're going to be doing Amazon Influencer ads and I'll be demonstrating that. We'll be going live talking about it. You'll be able to buy the actual products that I mentioned. We've got books here I'll be talking about. You can see it in the carousel now. If you're interested in seeing what this looks like on Amazon, you can go to my Amazon storefront in a few minutes. When we do that, and when you're on Amazon, you will then see the products below. You can click it. If you happen to be in their prime program, you can click it. One click, you can buy it and get free shipping in some parts of the world. Doesn't work everywhere. And so I apologize if you're watching from a place that doesn't allow that. I would also point out the Amazon Influencer program is not available to people everywhere in the world. My understanding is it's been rolled out in the United States, Canada, South Africa, and I believe just a couple of other places. I would assume it's going to be rolled out around the world. What I don't know is if you are in Slovenia and eventually they roll it out there, would they then put your video just on the page that people see in Slovenia? Because it would be a bit Tower of Bablish if they had videos for every product with in a hundred different videos with people, all in different languages, unless it told you what language it was. So it is Amazon. I'm pretty sure they'll figure out a way of doing it that helps Amazon helps and helps their, their suppliers, whether it's authors, whether it's people who are selling paper pens or, or the hearing aids that, that some of our colleagues earlier today were talking about. Okay, now I see a few comments have come in. Health coast has been following you for three days now. How to find the courage to start a conversation with a stranger. So that is a tricky issue for a lot of people. If you feel at all uncomfortable comfortable about starting a conversation with a stranger, you're not alone. I don't think there's a single human alive at some point who hasn't said, should I talk to this person? Or they seem like they don't want to talk. Or they might think I'm bothering them or they may think I'm doing something inappropriate. So you're not alone if you find yourself second guessing yourself at all Health company, I do appreciate your question. I want to give you a few tips and ways of thinking about this. By the way, if you want to come on camera and talk to us, I'm more than happy. You don't have to. But if you want to actually share the screen with me and we have more of a conversation, you're more than welcome to do that. All you have to do is come on over to my YouTube channel. Just go to YouTube and type in TJ Walker. Success. You'll see my channel in the comments. You'll see a link to Streamyard. You click that and you'll come right on camera, as Fatmada did earlier today. So I'm always happy to share the screen. I think it is important to pay attention to clues. I mean, just this morning, as I was walking from my apartment complex to the office, I saw what appeared to be a new neighbor. There was. There had been a vacancy three doors down from me and I saw a woman sitting on stairs with a dog. I didn't slow down. I didn't want to scare her or alert her or make her feel uncomfortable. But I did want to be pleasant because it might be a new neighbor. So I continued my normal pace and I just looked in her way, said, good morning. She did not look up. I continued go. I didn't stop and say, oh, why didn't you respond back? I just kept on going. So didn't lose anything. Wasn't embarrassing to anyone. Did it start some great conversation? No. There's always a chance when you talk to a stranger that they simply don't respond. Now, these days someone may have an earpiece in and be totally oblivious. So you think they're being rude. They're not. They simply didn't hear you. So Keep, keep that in mind that if you want to start talking to a stranger, don't go into it thinking they're not mean to me. I'm going to get my feelings hurt. Don't even think about that. I think the best way to approach talking to a stranger is to just have as a default that you go through life being friendly with people and open. You're not just going to talk to people you think can help you. If you're young and saying goal. You're not just trying to talk to the good looking people you're interested in romantically, you're friendly with everyone, you've got a smile on your face and you say hello to people. Quite often it really is as simple as looking at someone hi or making a small talk comment like, wow, beautiful day. I mean, that is one that I use quite often here in South Florida because it is so often a beautiful day. No one ever gets offended by that. And I don't think I ever make anyone feel uncomfortable with that. Now let's say you're in an academic environment and there's someone you have your eye on and they're in the library and you can tell they're just, you know, they've got earplugs in or earbuds and they're studying. It may be that that's just not the time to talk to them. Maybe you wait until they're at the school cafeteria or someplace else they're in line, you bump into them and hey, aren't we in the same chemistry class? And what did you think of that class yesterday? Could be a way of starting a conversation. One of the best ways to get good at this is to talk to people where you feel absolutely no pressure whatsoever. So again, let's say hypothetically, you're in high school and you're really attracted to someone you want to date. That's not the person you go practice on. You maybe go with with grandma to the old folks home and you're just, you're talking to people who are 80 years old and they're just happy that anyone will talk to them. And you get used to talking to strangers. That can be a great way of doing it. Or you're at an athletic event and you're just talking to people. Wow, did you see that call? Wasn't that a great play? You're talking to people where there's already some aspect of commonality and that can be easier. So HealthCo, if you have any other thoughts on this or you want to follow up, you say that's true. I often second guess myself. Thank you for these tips. I will say it certainly happened to me. It's happened to everyone. At some point you think you're being friendly and you say hello to someone and they look at you like, why the heck are you bothering me? How dare you. You just have to write that off and say, I feel sorry for them because they didn't get up on the right side of the bed today or something must have happened to them. Maybe they just found out about the death of a loved one or something and they don't want to talk to anyone. That's okay. We can't go into the minds of every single person at some point. Maybe the computer technology gets to the point where we really can read minds. We're not there yet. If you're friendly with people and you either say something that is positive and upbeat, or you ask a simple question that no fair minded person would say is inappropriate or overly personal and someone doesn't respond exactly the way you want, that's okay. The more you do it, the more better you get at it. The more you do it, the more you get a tough skin. If someone doesn't react favorably, if you say Good morning to 10 people a day and smile and look at them and one person kind of looks the other way and says, you know, nothing good about it, it's not going to stand out. If you do that every day for, you know, a week and only one person is was grumpy and everyone else said, hey, yes, good morning. You, you get that positive reinforcement. You start to build confidence in yourself. Yes, I can talk to people. I can talk to people anytime, anywhere. I'm not afraid of any. I don't have to talk to people. I don't have to be compulsively talking to every stranger on the bus or the subway. But if I want to start a conversation, I can. If someone wants to talk back, they can. If someone wants to say, excuse me, you're bothering me, they can do that as well. It's not going to bother my day. That's really the main thing. And Healthco, if I helped you in any way, let me know. I see a few other comments may have come in and I apologize if I missed anyone else who coming. I'm just going to do a a quick scan to make sure I didn't lose any important questions coming in today. I do see a number of people who wanted to talk about silly things today and that's okay. I don't mind that at all. I Appreciate people just coming by, being playful and oh, I did miss some accent. Someone asking if I could do an Australian, Australian accent. Not very well. You get Batman. I don't really know what that relates to. And oh, Batman says I can relate. Sometimes I have to switch back to my Bruce Wayne voice. Oh, number 42 says my idol is Geld. Jordan Belfort from Wolf of Wall Street. So if you ever watch the movie Wolf of of Wall street, it was based on a real person who actually did all those things and committed all sorts of financial fraud and I believe did sir end up serving time. Is in now, is out now and writing best selling books and involved with, I believe it's various, you know, cryptocurrency things. He's not that far away from where I am here in South Florida and is by all accounts a compelling, charismatic individual and speaker. And the whole item from the movie of, you know, here's a pen, sell me. This pen is something quite memorable from the movie that apparently came from real life. So a fascinating character. It is a good reminder that speaking skills are a tool. They could be used for good or evil. They can be used to mobilize public opinion, to clean water and build bridges that enhance a community or a country. They can be used to incite violence, hatred and defraud people of their life savings. It's a tool in the same way a pen is a tool. This can be used. Now I'm sounding like Jordan Belfort. This pen can be used to write a best selling novel, bring happiness to people, or it could be used to jab someone in the neck and kill them. It is a tool. It all depends on how you use it. And that is really how we have to think about communication skills. I want you to use it as a tool to help you become more successful in life, but successful because you're helping people, not because you're committing financial fraud or gaining power through a populism that involves scapegoating people. Those are not the ways I want you to use those tools. Okay, in a moment we're going to go to Amazon unless we have a technical problem. So I'm waiting for my colleague Ben to show up, our producer because he has to push a few buttons for us to go on live with Amazon. So me see if I can get him. I'm going to run a few Amazon ads for you right now. And when we be, when we're back we'll go to Amazon and it stays stuck as long as I want it, but I can peel it off. It doesn't tear my skin the way other medical tapes have done in the past. So it's just the right amount of stickiness. I use it every single day. Regardless of how often you need to use medical tape. This is a very high quality product. This Talani kids backpack is versatile. It works well. Taking any book you need to school. What do you like about this book bag? There's a lot of different, like pockets. So I could place a lot of my folders, pencils in here and there's a lot of like, there's a lot of space in here. So there you have it. Kids like it and their parents like it. I love these floating shelves because they look modern, they look contemporary, they look elegant, they don't take up too much space. It's the perfect thing for my TV set. I've used the shure microphone for years for my podcast, for my live streams. It is high quality audio. You won't regret it. Your fans, your followers, your tribe will enjoy listening to you with it. This Samsung 85 inch TV will turn any room in your home into a movie theater. It is gigantic and it creates a movie experience right in your home. I love them so much. I have not one, but two. One for here in my home, one for the office. This Dell laptop top is very powerful. I use it every day to simulcast my show on public speaking skills all over the world. I've had to almost overwhelm it, putting in cameras and mics and so many mixers and yet it handles everything perfectly. I'm so pleased that I've not had any technical problems. It hasn't been overwhelmed. Thanks, Ben. Yes, I muted because I was calling you looking for you and I muted my microphone. So thanks for pointing that out. So what I'm doing now is I'm putting in the receiver to my cell phone. This is the same cell phone that I was using to broadcast live on TikTok. So I had to say goodbye to our TikTok friends. I brought in again, I want to be transparent with people and have, you know, what goes through the head, what goes through the workflow of a content creator. So I brought in a second phone, but I don't yet have my. I have a second tripod. I don't have the connector for the phone. So that's why I'm still using one phone and why we're signing off from our TikTok community even though we love our TikTok friends. So I've plugged in the receiver, I'm now turning on the microphone. Well, okay, now we've got the green light. So that works. I'm going to go ahead and put this back in the tripod and we'll worry about that after the live segment. So we're going to go on Amazon live and today I'm going to, as I've done a lot lately, I'm going to review books. I am maybe as soon as tomorrow do something different from books. Because I have recently purchased a whole lot of products all related to making me feel cooler outside. I'm here in South Florida. Typically I go away the entire summer because it's so hot here. And this summer I'm not sure if I'm going to be gone as much. And I want to continue to exercise and be healthy. And it's just very, very hot and muggy here. So I have just recently bought and have been experimenting with several things. I have an ice vest. It's a vest and inside you Velcro in these, these packages of frozen ice cubes. It sounds ridiculous, but it really works. I've worn it a couple of times in the pickleball court and it gets some strange looks. One of my friends says, what are you, you worried about violence here? Is that a bulletproof vest? What is that? So that's one product I'll be demonstrating and I really like it because it genuinely keeps you cool. Another product is a hat. It's a like a baseball cap, but it has a hole in it and a drawstring and another layer. So they, they say you can put ice in it. Well, I did that. One day I was playing pickleball with my against my wife and she had a partner. I had a partner. And I'm running around and the ice cubes are falling out of the top and my wife's partner said, oh my God, his brain, his brains are falling out of his head. So I'm not putting ice in it anymore. I am using as an ice paddle. There's an ice pad that's got a material. Kids put it in their lunch boxes. It's not water and that way it's not falling out and no one's worried about my brain. I also have a portable air conditioner that sits around your neck. People think I'm listening to a music on it. It looks like a headphones that are down. It chills your neck and it has fan. It's sh. Shooting breeze on you and that's fantastic. So I'm going to be doing a segment at some one day this week where we just talk about all of these devices to help keep you cool in the summer. So that's coming up. All right, let's just dive right in. Ben, you're going to give me a countdown for the Amazon Live. We'll do that and then we'll, we'll do a second part of that where I do short form ads for these products as well. All right, so Ben, I'm going to take you, I'm going to get a full screen on me and we'll go ahead and do our Amazon, we're going to add to Amazon Live and you'll, you'll give me the countdown. All right. Three, two, one. Hello and welcome. I'm T.J. wall. Thanks for joining me on Amazon Live. We've got a number of great products for you today I want to talk about. These are books that I've personally read, paid for with my own money, underlined reference in other work that I do. And I often recommend them to friends, colleagues, others to buy the book. So I'm giving you books that, not the books that were just mailed to me and someone looking for a promotion, but books that have been valuable to me. So let's take a look at the first one. This is called zucked by Roger McNamee. And this guy was really instrumental in Facebook. He has an insiders account and the sub, the subtitle is Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Now I use Facebook. We're on Facebook right now. I'm not someone who says you have to delete your Facebook account. There's so many horrible things happening. I'm not one of those. This book is now five years old. This was ranked one of the top business books of 2019 by Financial Times. But it does talk about a lot of damage happening to society. So I do think it's important to get a lot of different perspectives because there's a danger when you listen to me and others, sometimes we get swept up in the moment sometimes of talking about all the, you use this social media, this way, that way. And it seems so positive. It seems like we're just propagandist sometimes for these big social media companies, companies, on balance. I think that it helps a lot of people a lot of times, but it, there are problems, there are destruction, there are societies torn apart, there are individuals who have had their lives destroyed. And I think this book does a very fair analysis of some of the strengths of Facebook. Yes. But also some of the, the weaknesses. So I really think that it's worth your time even though it's five years old. And this came out before Francis Naughton, the big whistleblower at Facebook, came out with so many things that this kind of sets the groundwork. So if you want to have a little more of historical perspective of what a lot of thoughtful observers we're thinking about with respect to the problems of Facebook, check this book out. That's a clever title, obviously a play on Mark Zuckerberg's name and. And another particular word. The book is available right now. You can see it in the carousel. So if you have any concerns about Facebook or want to get a better understanding of the history and evolution, I could recommend this book. Okay, the next book. I'd like to draw your attention to Hitmakers by Derek Thompson. The science of popularity in an age of distraction. Now, in a sense, we all want to be popular. I want to be popular. I want to have 10 million people watch every video and watch this. Everyone wants to be popular. And it seems easy because we hear overnight about this overnight success. Oh, this kid's five years old and he's in Korea and he makes $10 billion a year for his family. It seems like it's easier and easier to get famous and make money. Well, more competition and more and more people trying to do it and figure it out. Some of it is luck, but a lot of it actually is a science. And this author analyzes a lot of these specific tips. He's a senior editor at the Atlantic magazine, one of my favorite magazines. I've subscribed. I do recommend the Atlantic. And it's. It's a time. Even though it's not a brand new book, let me just check when it in fact came out. The book came out in 2017. A lot has changed in social media since then, but a lot hasn't. And I do think if you're interested in how to attract popularity, how to attract audiences, how to attract community, there are a number of principles in here worth studying. So check that out. Hitmakers. Again, it's in the carousel below. You can take a look. Okay, so this next book is from one of my favorite thinkers, Adam Grant. He is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, top Ivy League school in America. And the book is Think Again. The power of knowing what you don't know. And he has fabulous recommendations. Everyone from Bill Gates to Brene Brown to Daniel Kahneman. M. Night Shyamalan. Now, that's a blurb you don't see on a typical professor's book. But he, he's great at getting people to look at things from different perspectives, showing how you can't just trust your gut. So often people say, oh, trust your gut. Trust your gut. He talked about how, you know, he told his wife, well, we definitely should not in invest in this glasses company. They're not going to go anywhere. And the glasses company became the the eyewear company became wildly popular, successful, went public and all the investors made plenty of money. So he's what I like about him is he's not afraid to talk about his own failures, his own places where he got it wrong, where he had to step back, think again, and really figure out what is the best solution. He's been a columnist for the New York Times. He is a wildly successful podcaster, public speaker, public intellectual professor. I've not taken his class at the University of Penn, but I do have friends who, who have who say he's a great teacher in the classroom as well. So an important public intellectual. I would recommend pretty much every one of his books and I've enjoyed I don't know if I've read everyone, but all of his that I have read I have enjoyed. Again, it's Think Again by Adam Grant, one of the premier public intellectuals, especially young. I mean he's still a young guy. He's a lot younger than I am. We'll be seeing a lot of him these days. So that book also available in the carousel right now. If you're watching on Amazon and you can see what I have posted in the comments section, section is a link to the Amazon store. This next book is effortless by Greg McAllen. Make it easier to do what matters most. He's also the author of Essentialism, a book I reviewed recently as well. Great thinker. Really talks about how people get so sidetracked on so much complexity trying to do many things. We all think we can multitask in a million different areas and the people who are most successful do not do that. So so often if you find yourself struggling and struggling and struggling, it can be because you're trying to do too many things. You're trying to do something that has a simple, elegant solution and you've over complicated it. And if you could figure out a way of accomplishing what you want to do with less effort, it's also going to be much more valuable to other people whether they are consuming this in an invention of yours, a thought product, a procedure, a solution, a device. So effortless by Greg McCowan. It's a great book. I suggest you check it out. It is available for sale right now in Amazon. Not surprisingly, as pretty much every book in the World is so available in the carousel right below. Okay, this next book is also from one of my favorite public intellectuals these days, Scott Galloway, Post Corona From Crisis to Opportunity. So he wrote this very early on in the Corona virus situation. It was published in 2020. So this had really just hit a few months in when he wrote this book and he talked about so many opportunities coming out of it and Corona was awful for a lot of people. There's no doubt about it. Obviously millions of people around the globe died, horrible for them, horrible for their families and friends, and yet did create a lot of opportunities for a lot of people. Certainly the world got so much more digital in a quick period of time. It's been said that Amazon and pretty much any online retailer saw 10 years of growth in about six weeks. And I can tell you I personally experienced that with the sale of my online courses. Just massive, massive growth. Scott Galloway is an extraordinarily well known professor at the, at NYU New York University, but he's not your typical professor. He's been involved with a gazillion startups. He's had numerous successful exits from companies started. He was a huge big shot in the marketing advertising agency, had his own agency, and now is really seen as a huge thought leader on not just marketing and branding, but business, business culture, business ethics. He's been a very, very strong critic of a lot of major, major media companies, social media companies from Facebook on down. He doesn't hold back. He's got a wildly successful podcast, he's on several different podcasts and you see him on cnn. He's been, he's a regular contributor on cnn cnn. So I do find him consistently interesting, insightful, not afraid to call people out on areas where you think they're, they're doing bad business or harming society in some way. And so he's much more outspoken than a lot of people. But he's not someone from my perspective who is seen as just attacking to be attacking and just to get attention. He's not doing the typical ideological left right battles that guarantee getting attention. He's very strategic in who he calls out. I specifically love, not related to this book, but I specifically love the way he was so forceful in calling out We Work the Adam Newman real estate bubble scam. And Scott Galloway was one there all along saying this is, this is ridiculous valuation, this is an absurdity. And he chronicled the rise and fall of WeWork in a masterful way. So I do recommend, I have, I think every one of Scott Galloway's books he's not a friend of mine. He does live I think a few blocks from me down here in South Florida, Delray beach. Or at least used to. But not saying this because he's a friend. I've never actually met him. But check it out. Post Corona. He's had other books come out since then. He's very, very prolific, high energy guy. So these are the books I'm recommending to you today. I've really appreciated spending time with you and the entire Amazon community here. We have some questions coming. I'm not sure they are about the. Let's see if it's about the book. Any advice for someone who needs to share a story that they have a personal connection to without getting distracted by all the details, like how to understand and focus on what other people are going to want to know about your situation? Rick, I will address that. But first we have to say goodbye to all of our friends on Amazon. I appreciate you spending time. We try to spend a few minutes with you every single day. Amazon Live. We'll see you again tomorrow. Thanks. Okay, so I just signed off of Amazon Live. We're here for everyone else right now. And Rick, I can go to your question and then I am going to, with our remaining time going to try to do a quick Amazon influencer video for all of those. So again, Rick's question is any advice for someone who needs to share a story that they have a personal, personal connection to without getting distracted by all the detail? Well, here's the issue, Rick. The details are what make people remember what you're talking about. If it's a detail that says where you were or what the room looked like or whether it was hot or cold or sweaty or freezing, it could actually be the difference of anyone remembering your story and therefore your message versus first forgetting it. The big problem most people have when they're telling stories is they leave all the details out and they just try to explain it conceptually too quickly. Because hey, I want to cover more territory. I had to get those, go through all the facts. They are covering so much so quickly that they make it unmemorable. So try first to bring in as many details. Now, is it possible, impossible to go into too many details? You're spending 35 minutes and people are like why is he going on and on about his childhood dog and they don't know what you're talking about? Yeah, that can be a problem. It's great to test, tell your story, record it, you look at it, ask yourself, does this make sense? If you're giving a presentation on Thursday and you want to use a story and it's today's Tuesday. Practice it in front of a colleague, call someone up on Zoom, practice it and then ask them what they remember. If they say, I have no idea what the heck you're talking about, then yeah, you need some work done on your story. But if they're telling you the story elements and they're telling you the story and they actually remember the main point of your story, well, now you know it works. That's how you can test it. Rick, thanks so much for stopping by. If you have more questions, let me know. What I want to do right now is very quickly continue our series on the Amazon Influencer program, where I'm going to not just talk about it, but demonstrate. I demonstrated a moment ago how to be on Amazon Live by being on Amazon Live and actually doing sales pitches on Amazon Live. I'm now going to show you the next thing, which is how to make. I'm just checking my microphone. How to make an Amazon Influencer video. So that's what I'm going to do. Right now I've got my mic on. It's a different mic from what you're listening to. This is the mic just for my camera. And you know, it was very warm earlier and I was getting shiny, but I was doing all this voiceover work for different sets segments for the show. So I'm going to take just a second reapply. That's why also, I'm not wearing a jacket now. I'm going to reapply some powder. Not because I'm trying to make myself look tan or beautiful. I just don't want it to be as shiny. Because if I'm shiny and I'm trying to convey confidence, it looks like I'm sweaty and nervous. And so it's mixed messages. So I'm just taking some mosaic powder. You can get this pretty much any drugstore. And I'm just going to try to reduce the shine. I'm noticing it seems like I have more shine under my eyes, so I'm going to just try to get rid of some of the shine. And this is the show where we show you behind the scenes, warts and all, although I don't think I have any warts on my face, but the actual process of how to create content. What is at least one workflow for one content creator? There's a lot of different ways of doing it. I put out typically 100 videos a month. Mr. Beast puts out one or two videos a month. Is my way better? No. Well, he reaches a lot more people. I'm not saying mine is better, it's just one way of doing it. That's what I wanted to share with you. Wow, I forgot. I'm still recording in 4K. I didn't want to be doing that. Okay, so what I'm going to do now is make sure my remote control is working for my cell phone because I'm going to be. I'm going to be using this when I start recording the videos. Yeah, all I'm trying to do, these are short form vertical videos. What I have found is videos that are less than 15 seconds get almost all the views for the videos of mine in the Amazon Influencer. So I'm not going to go into a lot of detail the way I did when I was Live a moment ago. If people want more, they can go to the live. Okay, Post Corona by Scott Galloway. He's one of the premier public intellectuals as it relates to the business world today. I like all of his books. He had the guts to write this book, really just a month or so into Corona and his predictions stand up to the test of time. Check it out. That was longer than I wanted. That was not 15 seconds. But that's what we're going to get, so I'm going to stick with that. Effortless by Greg McCown. He's also the author of Essentialism. This guy knows how to cut through the clutter and help you focus on what really matters to make life, well, more effortless. Think again by Adam Grant. Adam Grant is one of my favorite public intellectuals in the world today. He's always writing. There's always another book or op ed or podcast or speech from this guy. He's always interesting. Who doesn't want to be more popular? I know I want to be more popular. Hitmakers by Derek Thompson breaks down systematically the science of attracting popularity relevant to almost everyone these days. Zucked by Roger McNamee. Facebook is a lot of things to a lot of people. It's not perfect. Roger really goes into the details of exactly what went wrong. According to some, what went right with Facebook? Okay, so five simple short videos that I will now upload directly into Amazon and that way they can be considered for the Amazon Influencer program. Typically, unless there's some problem, they're approved within five hours. It then goes on the product page and that's where people can see them. What I like about the Amazon Influencer Program program is they're not dependent on me pitching you all the Time for these sales, because you'd get tired of it. What Amazon does is they put your video right in front of prospects. That's what's different about them, in some ways, makes it easier. I'm not saying it's easy to make a lot of money. Not saying it's easy to make six or seven figures from this program, but at least you can get in front of Prof. Prospects, and at least you can make some sales. So, you know what I forgot to do is check to see if the. The audio works that I. That I had the microphone on. Let's certainly hope that I did. We're gonna go. Back to me. Yes, it did work. That's great. All right, so first thing I'm going to do is go to my Amazon storefront and I'm going to walk you through this step by step. If you've seen it before, it's not the most exciting, riveting TV designed to get 10 billion views in the next two minutes. I understand that. What it's designed to do is to demystify this process because you hear about influencers all the time. You see Kim Kardashian and Martha Stewart. It just seems so impossible. Where do you start? I'm showing you where to start. I'm showing you step by step, the process of how someone actually can make an ad, Make a connection with a platform, make a connection with a brand, structure it in a way where if you can make a sale, you can make some money. Again, I'm not making some fortune here, but it opens doors, it opens more opportunities, it creates more connection. So create. I'm on my storefront. I hit Create content. I hit post video photo library. I hit the first video. It's uploading the video into Amazon. It is processing the video into Amazon in a moment. It's going to allow me the opportunity of tagging it with the product so I don't have to call up the accounting department at Amazon and say, hey, I did an app for this book and my name is this, and give me a commission. And here's. It's all done automatically, electronically, digitally, with a few pushes of the button. So typically I dictate the name, but the name of that book was zucked. I didn't think that was going to show up as a. As a. If I dictated it. So that's why I took the time to, to just type it. Plus, it's a short name. Facebook does not want you to read this book. Exclamation point. Done. Submit. Go to storefront. I hit Create content. I hit post. I go to photo library. I go to the next book. Hit Makers. So it doesn't. Any one step doesn't take that long. But it could. I. I mean you could spend two weeks writing an ad, editing it, B roll special effects, music. You could do all of that. I'm still in an exploratory phase. My goal when I started this beginning of the year was let's get a thousand ads up there, kind of see what works. Then I can recalibrate, see if this is a good use of my time. See what lessons I have to share with you and others who are trying to figure out how to become an influencer. Hit Makers by Derek Thompson. There it is. Connected it Done. Title There is a science to becoming popular. Exclamation point. I like using exclamation points for titles. Do I have any strong evidence that it's really the best practice? No. I don't spend much time with the title. You could use Chat GPT for this. I want to get things up and out faster. My operating theory is that the titles don't matter as much because the video is right there on the product page. If someone is unsure about whether to buy the product product and they see videos and they're willing to watch one, I'm not sure the titles matters. It could. I don't have all the answers, but I'm sharing with you my thought process and how one creator is doing it. So. Create content. Post Photo Library Think Again. Done. It's uploading the video for Adam Grant's book. Think Again. It's processing the video. By the way, we are probably not going to have any time for more questions. I want to thank so many of you for stopping by today. The questions, the comments, even some of the silliness from our friends on TikTok is very much appreciated. Browse History Think Again by Adam Grant. Select Add product. Done. Title Adam Grant will get you to think again. Exclamation point. Done. Wow. 15,000 reviews. That's sold a lot. Lot of copies of that book. He is a. He's someone very successful and I have to say I think he's. He's deserved it. He's really puts in a lot of consistent good work with his books, his op ed pieces, his podcast. He's really prolific in a lot of different ways. A great communicator. Photo Photo Library Next Book Effortless. Uploading the video Processing the video is about to let me label it or connect it with the actual product. So when we're done here we will have done an Amazon Live where we've promoted five products. That particular video will live on my page indefinitely or until they kick me off. And then five separate standalone short form vertical videos. Browse effortless by Greg McCowan. That one I had to the McAllen spelled it differently so I just backed out of that. I. I hit add product. I hit done. Maybe working harder isn't always the answer. Can't use contractions. So two things happened there. A comma got slipped in, which didn't mean I didn't want it, but it was because I paused and a contraction came in. And Amazon, for whatever reason in their titles, they do not let you use contractions or any symbol other than a letter. Great content Photo. Photo library. I select the last book which is Post Corona. I hit done. It is uploading that video to Amazon servers. It is pro so I don't have to pay for any of that stuff. You know, there's a lot of different ways of making money these days. Many of them require an upfront expenditure of capital. Storage, hosting, taking inventory, all shipping. This doesn't have any of that. Again, not telling you you're going to get rich quick, but it really can be streamlined to the point where it's your. Your intellectual time is what is your biggest investment. Not a lot of hard money and complexity of warehouses and things like that. Browse history. Post Corona by Scott Galloway. There's the book Add product done. Scott Galloway is a modern prophet. Exclamation point. Well, it's spelled profit. Not the way I want it. The rare guru worth following. Exclamation point. Yeah, I think that's even better. Go to Storefront and there it's done. So it's a little bit tedious. Was that the most exciting thing ever on TV? On YouTube? No. Was that the most exciting thing I ever did? No, but it gave me an opportunity to practice giving presentations. Number one, it gets me in front of people seeing my presentation. Number two, it gives me at least the possibility of making some money from my presentations. Number three. And we did the whole thing in less than a half an hour. So that's what I like about it. That's why I'm sharing it with you. If you take anything away from that, I hope it was valuable to you. I'm TJ Walker. Thanks so much for joining me and spending time today. Happy that some so many of you are still with us. 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