TJ Walker Live Workshop

Hello and welcome. I'm TJ Walker. Thanks for joining me. This is the TJ Walker Success Channel. This is the one place online where you can come and ask any question that relates to communication skills live. We're typically here three hours a day trying to be the world's largest resource for people who want to improve their communication skills, whether it's Speaking one on one, to small groups, medium sized groups, large groups, 10,000 people on stage, or to millions of people in the media. Special hello to our good friends on TikTok joining us and apologies we've not figured out how to get you into our main live stream so you can see me from our different camera angles and be a part of our larger community. We are simulcasting this today on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok and a handful of other platforms. So if you are joining us on TikTok, thank you so much for joining us. I won't be able to accept your your live comments today unless you come over to Streamyard. Ms. My colleague Ben, if you can post in the comment section on TikTok how people can join us on Streamyard, if that's possible. Also, if you just come to my YouTube channel, it's TJ Walker Success. That's all you have to do is plug in on YouTube and you'll see our channel there. Then on the community tab we have posted comments or we've posted how you can join me live and you can appear right on screen. So I see Shabazz is trying to join us live. Shabazz, I'd love to speak to you. I. I can't do it on the TikTok platform, but if you go to my channel on and thank you for the heart sign. If you come to our YouTube channel and go to the community tab, you can see the link for Streamyard. We're doing a simulcast with Streamyard on a lot of different platforms, so apologies for the inconvenience. We're trying to work out the kinks. I see the easy content is saying hello, joining us on YouTube today. So thank you so much. If you have any questions, Easy or if you want to come on, please let us know. Otherwise we're gonna dive right in. We got a lot of fun things going on today. We'll be taking your questions live. I will be making short form and long and long form content. So this is kind of my workshop. I take you behind the scenes, behind the curtains. I'm pulling out curtains here for those of you on TikTok, showing you exactly how a Content creator makes content in the modern or at least the way one content creator does. So I am going to dive right in with questions. Some questions are emailed to me from you. Some are posted live right here. One thing I do from time to time is take questions that are pulled from a gazillion sources on the Internet through the power of artificial intelligence. So these are some questions that come from chat GTP with a few prompts. So here's a question I see right now I'm reading these for the first time, sharing these with you. By the way, Lala, I see that you've joined us. I'd love to chat with you live but I can't do it on the TikTok platform. If you want to come over to our YouTube channel, I can talk to you live there. If you just go to the the community tab, you, you'll see a link to streamyard and then you can appear right on camera with me and we can have a conversation together and have dialogue. So the question, the first question that comes up is how can I develop a commanding presence through my vocal delivery? Okay, so I'm going to do a short form video on that. When I say short form, I mean something less than 60 seconds that can be edited with my editing team so that it can go on TikTok and YouTube and a lot of other places. I do want to say hello to all our new friends saying hello on TikTok and I see that. Well, let me just pull up here. We see April has joined us. Chad, David Charles, Michelle AFS Flixo says you look good. Love the suit and tie. Well, thank you. This is a brand new tie. Let's see. This is a Calvin Klein tie. I just got it last week at I believe it was the Macy's in Boca Raton near where I live. This suit is 15 years old, believe it or not. But it but it has been tailored in the last few years to have a good fit. Okay. Ozio says hello. May Jay has joined us as well. So, so good to hear from our folks on TikTok again. If you'd like to join us, talk to me live. I can't do it on the TikTok platform today, but if you come over to my YouTube channel, you will see on our community tab and in the comments the Streamyard link and you can join me right on camera. We can have a conversation. You can ask questions about communication skills, whether it's talking one on one to small group, medium sized group, large group, or speaking to 10,000 people. On stage or to the media, Anything that relates to spoken communication, that's what we do here. All right, so the first question that I'm going to attempt to make a short form video on is how can I develop a commanding presence through my vocal delivery? Okay, so I'm going to go to camera two and I'm going to hit record. How can you create a more commanding presence with your vocal delivery? Well, here's the thing no one really gets when it comes to their voice. It's not about having a deep, strong, booming voice. It's about using the full range. It's about not being afraid to go high, to go low, to occasionally get louder and occasionally whisper. That's what's going to give you a commanding voice. Okay, so those of you joining us for the first time, what I'm doing there is I am recording these. I'm using a mixer. This is kind of the behind the scenes workshop here, how people create content when they're not using a giant team and they're doing things relatively inexpensively. So I have three cameras on me. Well, four cameras now, counting the camera I'm using speaking to you on TikTok on my phone. But I have four cameras on three studio cameras. I'm hitting a button to record this content in 4K. Everything is being recorded now on Streamyard in standard high definition 1080p. But I'm also storing things, recording things in high definition, excuse me, in 4K. And that's why you see me hitting my mixer recording. So that was the first short form video of the day. And I'm just making notes so I know exactly what to do. Next question, what can I do to prevent my voice from shaking or quivering due to nerves? Okay. And you know, I'll do, I'll do some with camera three. That's pretty much like this, where it's straightforward. I'm going to do some like that today. What can you do to keep your voice from shaking and sounding sketchy? When you're giving a presentation and all of a sudden you're nervous, well, the time to focus on that is before you stand up to speak, before you're sitting down talking to everyone. If you rehearse in advance on video again and again and listen to your voice and get to the point where you know exactly how you sound, then when you're doing it in real life in front of people, your voice will sound fine. I'm hitting stop now. I realize that's not the sort of video that's going to go viral because People are looking for a quick fix, a quick gimmick and nobody really wants to rehearse. But that is in fact the way people actually get better at this. I want to say special hello to Raymond. Sue has joined us. Fly away. Jonah, Ray, Ruby, Sarah, Christina. So many friends and folks have joined us on TikTok today. This is only the third day we've been live streaming on TikTok. If this is your first time here, I'm TJ Walker. This channel is all about helping you communicate more effectively. I've been a communications coach for decades. I've trained tens of thousands of people around the globe face to face and I have 2 million almost online students in my communication skills courses. So this is a place, a time for you to ask questions that relates to that relate to communication, public speaking, speaking to the media. It's a chance. If you want to come on camera and speak with me or demonstrate something or get feedback, you can do that right here. If you're joining me on TikTok today, I can't accept you on screen here. I would need you to come over to my YouTube channel. Go to the community tab. You'll see a link for Streamyard. That's how we are able to simulcast on about eight different social media platforms all at the same time. But we are open if you want to come online and ask a question, get feedback, debate me, disagree with me. More than happy to have you do that as well. Okay, so that is the next question. Next question is how do I ensure that everyone in the audience can hear me clearly? And I'm going to do a mix of things that relate to voice, body language, common mistakes, speaking to larger audiences and smaller audiences. Dana says shared the live, encouraging more viewers to share. To share. Well, thank you. I don't really know how that works and apologies, I've not spent a lot of time on Tick Tock Live, but I guess if you do see something you like, you can share the live feed as well. I'm gathering so very much appreciate if you do that. Okay. And if I see some folks are trying to join, I can't do it on Tik Tok today. I would need you to come to my YouTube channel. But we just got a comment. Ambulatory says TJ. You got to figure out your whole hair situation, friend. No, ambulatory. This is the whole hair. That's all there is. I'm a 61 and a half year old man. This is all I've got. This is a good learning moment. One of the things that Discourages people from creating social media content, from putting themselves out there, from giving a speech, is thinking, oh, I'm not perfect looking. People are going to make fun of me. And I won't sugarcoat it. People will. And I don't think ambulatory was making fun of me, just pointing out something. But we all have some level of vanity. We all have some level of insecurity. In a perfect world, sure, I'd much rather ambulatory and others be writing saying, wow, tj, you're so handsome and your hair is beautiful. Yeah. Would that be better? Sure. But the point is we can't control those things. And don't let it hold you back from sharing your expertise because most people, I won't say nobody but 99.999% of the world, I don't care how you look, if you can deliver some information, some insight to people, something that can help them, they don't really care what you look like. They will appreciate you. Because most of the time when people speak, whether it's in person or online, it's boring, it's not interesting, it's not useful to people. So when you actually say something interesting and useful to people, they will appreciate it, they will love you, and they either won't notice how much hair you have or don't have, or they won't care. So one of the reasons it doesn't bother me is ambulatory. I already know I have 2 million online students, the vast majority of whom have given me 4.5 ratings and above on my courses, and and have told me that they've gotten promotions from them, they've gotten jobs, they've gotten new business because of what I have taught them in my online courses in video, where my hair looks just like this. So I know it's not a problem for them. But thank you so much for creating the learning moment there. Okay, I'm going to try to do more short form videos that my editing team can take and use. So here's a question that comes from body language. How to take care of your voice. Not getting acid reflex, that affects the quality of your voice. So body language, that's the name of the person commenting on the TikTok forum. I have to be honest with you, I don't know anything about acid reflux. Now, as I mentioned earlier, I'm 61 and you know, I certainly show some signs of age. Occasionally my feet hurt, but you know, knock on wood, I'm still very lucky that I can eat anything. I can eat the spiciest of Indian food doesn't bother my stomach, so I don't really know how to deal with acid reflux. If anyone does know or body language. If you have tips, please come on live with me right now. I can't do it on the TikTok platform, but if you go to my YouTube channel, TJ Walker Success, you will see that. You can go to my comments, my community tab. You'll see a link to Streamyard. Justin's asking me, did you vote to ban TikTok? No, I didn't vote. I'm not a member of the United States Congress, so I didn't do that. Alex is the one with the body language. So appreciate you doing that and says, I appreciate everything you're doing. Congratulations. Well, thanks a lot. I do appreciate that. So let me give some tips about how to preserve your voice, because that is something that comes up a lot. Let me go to. I'm going to do this one on my camera too. I want to frame myself a little differently. As a speaker, your voice is your instrument. You have to preserve it. You have to protect it. What does that mean? It means don't yell, don't scream. If you go to a football game or a soccer match or a concert, you don't have to scream like anyone else. Have fun. Yes, cheer little, but don't scream. That destroys your vocal cords. Okay, so the reason I'm stopping like that is to make it easier for my editors when they're putting this together for short form. Now that one resonated with me, particularly because my daughter went to her first rock concert pop concert last week, Olivia Rodrigo, and her voice was hoarse. The next day, her best friend she went with could barely speak because they were screaming. And I understand that can be seen as a rite of passage for youth, but I did try to encourage her, please protect your voice. So many people have ruined their voice. There's one extraordinarily famous motivational speaker. I won't mention his name, but he's essentially ruined his vocal cords because of yelling for so long at so many seminars and workshops. So more comments have come in. Liz says, I get acid reflex if I get no sleep. Certainly, if you want to be a great speaker and be at the optimum level, taking sleep seriously is important. Body language says, I've been following you for a long while. Your courses on trainings are extremely helpful. Well, thanks so much. I do appreciate that. And you wouldn't mind telling me which course was most helpful and what part of it was most helpful. I always try to Figure out what does help people so I can do more of it. And other comments have come in. Lizzie says Taylor Swift is amazing. She is obviously a pop culture phenomenon, a great businesswoman and a great entertainer in my household. You had better not say anything negative about Taylor swift because my 11 year old daughter is a huge, huge fan, as is all of her friends and as her, as is her teacher. That's all they seem to talk about. If you're interested in specific things Taylor Swift does when she's speaking because you see her at award shows all the time. I have a very detailed video. I'm not sure if it's on Tick Tock, but it's definitely on my YouTube channel where I analyze in explicit detail what she does well. And a recent awards show. So if you just go to my YouTube channel, go to the search button and you type in Taylor Swift, then you can find that video if that is of interest to you. ASD says, what do you think about Austin Butler's voice transformation through the years? And the name is familiar, but I apologize, I don't remember who Austin Butler is. I think that's a young actor, but I don't know. And Alex writes the complete body language for business is extremely comprehensive on course. Sarah. Well, I'm glad you like that. And Lizzie says, adorable. I don't quite remember what that's referencing. Alex says the importance of recording yourself consistently while speaking. Ah, Austin Butler was the actor who played Elvis. Okay, so there has been a lot of media attention to the fact that Austin Butler did a fantastic job portraying Elvis in a movie that came out a couple of years ago, but that he continued to speak like Elvis even after the movie was finished and going on talk shows. I don't know him well enough and haven't seen enough to do that. But that can happen to people if they get into a mode of trying a particular accent on side it sticks. And sometimes they're doing it because they think it's cool, but sometimes it just becomes a habit. I know Madonna, the pop singer, has been accused of that in the past. I mean, she grew up in Michigan in the United States, had a standard American accent and at some point kind of sounded like mid Atlantic, like a 1950s movie star. The way she articulated. For most people, their accent is determined not by their parents, but by their peers, which can mean brothers and sisters. From ages 3 to 5, wherever you are in the world, ages 3 to 5, you typically develop an accent that is like the people around you when you were 3 to 5 years old. Doesn't mean you can't change. I still have tinges of a southern accent on certain words I pronounce because I grew up in the. Well, I grew up in Pittsburgh till I was five and I'm sorry, I think it's three to seven. I think it's roughly three to seven. So there was a part of that age span where I was in the south moving there at age 5. So that gave a slight southern tinge to some of my words. But you can change it if you want to. How do you make your voice be great to become a singer or actress? Well, Lizzy, that's a fantastic question. One of the things I teach people is when you are giving a speech, a presentation and a talk and you're asked a question, you don't know what the answer is. Don't be afraid to admit I don't know. Don't be afraid to say I don't have the answer for you. I think you might want to go and then give someone a reference point and give someone a referral if you can. If it's someone in your organization who knows, try to connect people. But Lizzy, I'm only focused. My whole area of expertise is helping people communicate when speaking. Singing is a completely different beast. There are some people in the world who like my voice, for example. But when I sing very different matter. My, my mother in law it gets a big chuckle around our household. Says that I sing like a moo cow. She does not mean it as a compliment but my daughter really enjoys hearing that. So I'm afraid I don't have any reference for you. Yeah, let's turn that into a short form video right now. I'm going to go to camera two. I'm going to hit record. What do you do if you're asked a question and you just don't know the answer? You could look embarrassed, you could go like this, you could look up, you could hum and a hum and hum. You could make up something, hoping you sound smart. But now just let people know. I don't know. If you can help them find information elsewhere, do so. Otherwise go on to the next issue. No one will remember. Okay, hitting stop there. Going back to my camera three in general, that's what I recommend. Now if it's something what I couldn't do in that short form is if it's a question where everyone in the world would fairly assume you should know. You know if someone says what's your spouse's name? And you say I don't know, you're obviously going to look like a fool. It doesn't work. If it's something that you should obviously know, but if it's something outside your area of expertise or something that is unrelated to your core area of study, inquiry, professional life, then it's not a problem. I'm happy you found that useful. Lizzy Larkin has joined. It is amazing. I'm happy to be on so many different platforms. We have a lot of folks joining us on YouTube today. LinkedIn, a couple of Facebook pages, Twitter, Stitch, others. TikTok is sort of our most recent platform that we're streaming on and we don't quite have you integrated with everyone else yet, but it is amazing to see the hundreds and hundreds of people who just sort of quickly come on on TikTok. So a special hello to our friends on TikTok. If you want to join me live and have conversation, I would need you to hop over to my YouTube channel and that's where you can click on our community tab into streamyard and I'll have you right on camera. Okay, we've had a few more questions come up. Lizzie says, I'm always afraid to talk around people. Well, Lizzy, you're not alone. A lot of people are afraid and it can happen at different levels. Maybe you're presumably comfortable talking to your best friend one on one, but if it's a larger group, for many people, there's a certain number and you're used to speaking to five people sitting down. But if you have to stand and talk to eight people, all of a sudden you're nervous. If you're comfortable speaking to 50 people, because you do it every Monday, but now you got to speak to 150 people. People and you don't know them, that can make you nervous. My main piece of advice is look for any opportunity you can to speak. Saul writes. Do you own TikTok? Well, my understanding is that TikTok is owned by ByteDance. The United States government is saying if you want to continue doing business in the United States, you're going to have to sell to American owners. That is a debate. It's a legitimate political, economic, geopolitical debate. It's not our focus right here. Our focus here is how to communicate more effectively. And Alex says it's amazing how you can create instant content about communication. Well, thank you so much for mentioning that. It's easy for me to speak to you and think, not because I have any unique talents or strengths or intelligence. It's easy for me to do this because I've done It for thousands of hours over many, many years, I've been making content. I made my first video in 1975 when I was in junior high school. And you don't have to have done it for 50 years. But if you want to get comfortable speaking on camera, the secret is to speak on camera, to do it regularly. And oah says, is denial a river in Egypt? Okay, Aston writes, how do you know what's your best voice to change to if you're trying to change your voice? Okay, there's, there's a lot to unpack in that particular question. Let's. I need a little drink. And this is, this is soda water. By the way, What's the best way to change your voice? I may have to do a long one on that, but I'm going to start off and try to do a short under 60 seconds. And I say salman is trying to join me. Salmon, I would love to speak to you. I can't do it on the TikTok platform today. I would need you to go to my YouTube channel, which is TJ Walker Success. Go to the Community tab. You'll see a link that would allow you to join me on stream. So I apologize for the inconvenience. So let me try to do a short form video about how to change your voice. OWA says, what's your degree yet? My degree has absolutely nothing to do with communication. I majored in philosophy and graduated way back in 1985 from Duke University. Amen. I see you're trying to get in and I would love to speak to you online. Join me on my YouTube channel. Go to the Community tab. You'll see a link to streamyard where you can join me. Okay, I see the questions coming in. I'm going to try to get to all of them. But let me talk about specifically how to change your voice. What do you do if you want to change your voice? You're just unhappy with the quality of your voice. Well, here's what I've noticed. When people try to change their voice, they can start to sound artificial, whether it's with an accent or sounding lower than they really are. My advice, don't worry about changing your voice. Focus on loosening it up and using the full range of your voice. The problem so many of us have with our voice when we're speaking, especially in uncomfortable situations, is our volume goes down because we're scared. We become flat and monotone. So the main thing you can do with your voice to make it great and pleasing to other people is a little More volume, a little more range. Don't be afraid to go high and to go low. Okay, again, those of you joining me for the first time, the reason I'm sort of stopping at the end is I'm making it easier for my editors to cut that out and make that into a short form. Alex says without. How do you stop saying ums and ahs and ers? That's something I've spent a lot of time talking about. I would politely request if you go to my YouTube channel and it may be on TikTok as well and search UMS US. I've got a lot of different videos, techniques, tools that you can make at home to get rid of your ums and ahs. Lizzie also says, sad about all that TikTok stuff is great. Owa says, On a scale of 1 to 10, how big a waste of time is TikTok? So it just depends. With any form of social media, any media in General, you know, YouTube can be a waste of time. If you're trying to feed your family and you're not doing any work and you're spending all of your time watching silly Entertainment. If you're 12 years old and your goal is to be a nuclear physicist or an astrophysicist and all you do is watch lectures from esteemed astrophysicists on YouTube, TikTok, other social media platforms, then it may be the absolute best use of your time when you're not in the classroom. So it all depends on what you are focusing on and what you're watching. I can tell you quite candidly, if someone wants to be a professional speaker, if they want to be a content creator, if they want to make online courses and they watch my videos all day long for hours and hours and hours a day, that can be a waste of time for them. It might surprise you that I would say that, but if all you do is watch content and consume, consume, consume, and stay stuck in research mode, that's a waste of time. What you need to do is have some time gathering information, but sometime actually creating. I've gone out of focus on my main camera here. I'm going to switch cameras a moment, see if we can get back in focus. We have the Sony camera on continuous auto focus. It's supposed to be focusing on my face, but I'm seeing a little bit of a blur. So to the folks on TikTok, that doesn't make sense. You're not seeing that. Okay, so body language is asking me. I'm seeing some questions about credit reporting. So I Don't know anything about credit reporting. Another question from Alex has said, do you consume alcohol or smoke? If yes, what and how often? So yes, I do enjoy an occasional glass of alcohol in moderation. And there is a school of thought that drinking a lot, smoking a lot, can negatively affect your voice. There's another school of thought that says that can make you sound really tough and rough and grizzled and wise. I don't really buy that, but it can. The smoke can affect your vocal cords. I've never had any. I don't had one cigarette at one point, college or something. But I've never been a cigarette smoker, have I? Once in a blue moon, occasionally come in contact with a cigar perhaps. I do not recommend smoking. It's certainly. There's no indication that it's good for you at all. And a lot of research that it's horrible and bad for your voice, which is why I'm even talking about it. I'm not a medical doctor, so I hope that is answering your question. I see Julia's there. Pablo has joined. Hello to so many folks. Now, Bertrand has come by in our streamyard and Bertrand's joining us today from YouTube says hello. How can you see so well so far from your device? I'm 52 and I can't do that, but I'd like to keep. Keep on your good work. So Bertrand, I am. Well, let's just show you a couple of angles and for our folks on Tick Tock, I'll move you to a different angle and you're going to see the mic there. So right here I am about 7ft away from my camera and I'm not looking at the computer screen, so that's harder to see. When I go back here to camera three, I'm now about two and a half feet away from my computer screen. And the only reason I can see is I have contact lenses in. I typically wear glasses. I don't like to wear my glasses when I'm appearing on camera because of the extra glare. Now you can get glare proof glasses, but it still creates shadows and I just find it, it's a little clearer, simpler, cleaner look to not have glasses. So that's why I shifted to wearing contacts again after having not worn any for about 20 years. Now. The weird thing is my contacts are done only to correct distance viewing. So when I first got these contacts a year ago, I had to put on glasses to read text. Now. Now, for whatever reason, because of the contacts spending time on my eyes, I don't have to wear glasses to do that. So that's part of what's interesting. Okay. Bertrand also says you can also see that you are blurry. I don't know what's happened to that. And Barb, I see that you had just joined. If you wanted to come in. I lost you for a second, but if you would like to come in. Happy to chat with you as always. Alex says, thanks for answering honestly. I try to do that. Other comments are coming in. It does bring up the question what is the best way to do a live stream? When you are focusing on a particular topic and questions and all sorts of things come in on unrelated topics, you've got one of two options. One, you can read the questions out loud if it's not too full and let people know this isn't the forum. The second thing you can do is just ignore questions that you feel are off topic. The danger there is people feel ignored and not listened to. But if you spend all your time telling people topics you're not doing, you're not providing enough value to the people who actually came to hear you in the first place. So it's a balancing act. More and more questions are coming in from all of our new friends for joining us on TikTok. Very happy you're here. Lennox says facts. Not quite sure what that means. I I hope you feel that I'm delivering FA Facts. Barb says stream in focus on Facebook. I noticed issues on YouTube. Not quite sure what's going on, but I'm still learning some of the mechanics of doing live streaming, especially live streaming using a mixer with three different cameras. Those of you on TikTok are only seeing me from one camera angle. Those of you watching me on YouTube, Facebook, other platforms. This is what I call camera three. This is my camera two which I'm typically doing to simulate being on a stage giving a presentation to a group. Here's my camera one angle which shows me almost full body from slightly below knee. Allows me to walk around gesture as people do more in a speaking environment. And what I have noticed for some reason on camera three I occasionally see the picture go blurry and it's on continuous auto focus to focus on a face so it shouldn't be doing that. I see Afzal and Maya are trying to join us from TikTok. I would love to speak with you. Unfortunately what I need you to do is come over to my YouTube channel. I posted the link on Streamyard where you can click on it and then join us right on camera. Alex says, what's Your nutrition in order to stay sharp mentally and physically. So I am a big believer in all aspects of personal development. In fact, I have an app designed to help you speak.

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To eat healthy food and to exercise regularly. Let me just use that. I was about to look for my phone. I realized I'm talking to it. Alex. The name of the app is Ultimize U L T A M I Z E. And the most recent edition is ultimize 2. And so, for example, I get. I give myself an audio reminder every single day to drink water all day long and to drink green tea all day long. I do drink typically one coffee in the morning, try to do without cream, absolutely no sugar, artificial or sugar substitutes. So that's important. I try to eat. You know, there's. There's so many diet books around, and I'm not a nutritionist, I'm not a doctor, as I have gone through a thousand or at least hundreds of books on diet, health, exercise. To me, it all comes down to this. The more you eat unprocessed food, the healthier you. You will be. The biggest reason we see an explosion of obesity, poor, poor health, diabetes, stroke, and not only the United States, but the rest of the western world is the processing of food, which is able to add fat, able to add processed carbohydrates, able to add so much sugar, able to add so much salt to create that perfect taste on the tongue. It just promotes overeating. It's, you know, you can drink even something like orange juice is processed food. It's processing an orange. And you can drink a glass of orange juice that has so much sugar and so many calories, it would take you eight oranges to get the same amount. Well, if you just eat one orange, chances are you're full. So I try to eat as much unprocessed food and as many vegetables and fruit as possible. So typically for breakfast, I will have an omelet with lots and lots of vegetables, without cheese and without meat. I'm not a vegan and certainly not a vegetarian, but I do find that. That, for example, is a great first meal for me of the day because I eat it with kale and onions and mushrooms and a lot of other vegetables. So that's what I try to do. As far as how do you stay in shape physically? I try to play pickleball every single day. Today I can't, because after the show today, I'm going. I'm taking my family to the beach. Going to the beach today because it's A beautiful day and spend some time with my daughter and wife and her and friends. So I do that. And then what I do is I lift weights every single day. Now, you may be thinking, well, T.J. why aren't your muscles a lot bigger? It's because I only do five exercises a day. It's not enough to get me into Mr. Universe, but it is enough to keep the decay, to keep things from rotting and shrinking. So I am a big believer in daily weight use. Different exercises and different muscle groups. And I do stretching exercises every single day. And for me, probably the biggest health tip is try to walk as much as possible. I typically aim for 15,000 steps a day. I did, I believe, 17,000 yesterday. This makes me an anomaly in the United States. People act like I'm crazy. They see me walking down the street like, hey, do you want to ride? Like, no, this is what I want to be doing. So that. That's really what I'm trying to do. By the way, I appreciate these questions very much. I do have courses on the UDEMY platform, specifically on how to exercise and. And how to exercise. And I think one's called exercise in 15 minutes a day and how to Eat Healthier. So I have a number of personal development courses specifically designed to not give you advice, but how to program your brain so you actually do it. And I see another colleague has just joined us on TikTok, wanting to join live. I apologize, we can't go live on TikTok today. But if you hop over to the YouTube channel, go to my community tab, you'll see a link today where you can go to Streamyard and you can then join us right on camera. Madhav has joined us. That sounds glad to see you. And Bertrand gives the thumbs up sign. Thanks. What is your best advice when you speak and make a mistake and keep on ruling the camera, but have information in the video that tells you where you made the mistake? Let me think about that for one second. Barb says everyone I've ever known who has embraced walking daily has lived longer. Well, I certainly hope that's the case, Barb. I appreciate you pointing that out. Back to Bertrand's question. What is your best advice when you speak and make a mistake and keep on ruling the camera, but having information in the video that tells you where you made the mistake? Bertrand, I'm not quite sure I'm understanding the question. If you want to come on camera, I'm happy to have you come on camera. We can have an actual conversation. That would be great if you could perhaps, and forgive me for being slow, if you could perhaps restate the question because I want to treat you fairly. I just not sure I'm getting the gist of the question. So if you could take another stab at that. And Alex, again, I appreciate the. No need. Alex is apologizing. No need to apologize for any of these questions. These are all questions I deal with in my personal development courses. I would respectfully ask if you could go to either my main corporate media training site, which is mediatrainingworldwide.com and look at the courses there, or go to Udemy and just type in my name and you will see a lot of courses that all relate to exercise, nutrition being healthier. One last question though, about the health stuff. Do you eat before bed or early in the morning? I, I do eat early in the morning because I wake up early in the morning. How about coffee? I limit my coffee typically to one cup in the morning. There's a lot of debates about coffee. I don't want to start coffee debates here. As I look at research and popular media, I certainly do not see a consensus that coffee, one cup a day, is bad. And I see a lot of information saying it's either neutral or actually helps you. So I do have one cup of coffee typically in the morning. I don't drink any after that because I don't want to do anything that could possibly disrupt sleep. Because whether it's to help me speak more effectively to large groups or to speak to you right here virtually, I want to be fully rested. And certainly as I get older I see with friends and other colleagues the quality of sleep goes down. And it's just a simple fact that if you don't get well rested, your brain isn't going to process as well information as well. You're not going to be as creative, you're not going to be as articulate. And I really enjoy being creative, whether it's creating courses, writing books, creating video content with you, sharing things live here. I can't do that if I haven't had a good night's sleep. And Alex continues. Right. Thanks for the tips and answering. Well, thanks so much. And by the way, please, I'm asking nicely, come on over to the YouTube channel or my Facebook channel. You can go to Facebook TJ Walker success. If you go in that way you can come in and join us on streamyard and we can have an actual conversation. And I see just Increase has joined and hundreds and hundreds of our friends on TikTok have joined today. Thank you so much I'm going to go to the next question. This one comes courtesy of the entire world aggregated through artificial intelligence. And I've done a bunch that relate to voice. I'm going to switch categories here because I do try to cover every aspect of spoken communication, but that includes things like common mistakes, body language, voice, PowerPoint, things like that. Okay, how can I prevent monotony and keep the audience engaged throughout my presentation? That one I'm going to do a short form on. Oh, and I say Barb has posted a couple of things. Barb is our fantastic community manager. We appreciate all that she does. She says, she says, what are your top 10 selling courses on Udemy today? I know that my number one selling best selling course on Udemy is the Complete Communication Skills Course. So if you want something that's kind of everything, soup to nuts about communication, you really can't do better than that Complete Communication Skills course. The next one is Workplace Communication. You Can Speak up at the Office is my second best selling one. Other best sellers include the 2024 Complete Public Speaking course, my Complete Storytelling course, and my Complete Presentation Skills course. So if you really want to boost your communication skills, I would highly recommend you take a look at those courses. And thanks so much for asking, Barb. Okay, I'm going to record one now on how to prevent monotony and keep the audience engaged throughout a presentation. I'm going to hit record for my 4K version. I'm going to go to camera 2. What's the best way to prevent monotony when you're giving a presentation? To keep your audience engaged. Well, sounds obvious, but stop being boring. Stop giving people a data dump. Give an interesting example or story for every point you have before going to the next point. If you do that and they're good stories, your audience will stay engaged. I'm going to hit stop. So I'll end up doing a long form answer to that one as well. Perhaps, perhaps not today. See my pocket squares popping out. That's a tricky one because everyone knows how boring it is to watch other people speak doing a data dump. And yet people get up and they feel like they have no choice but to give a boring data dump. And the reality is, if you're intent on going through a PowerPoint that has a whole bunch of bullet points and just following through, you're going to be boring. So the issue is not at that point, how do you make it engaging. The issue is you got to decide in advance you're not going to read or go through a Whole bunch of data points and bullet points. It's boring. Okay, we've had a number of good comments come in and Tony has joined us. Tony says, I've done television since 98, now the voice for Telemundo, Wisconsin area. Well, Tony, that's fantastic. I would love to have you join us if possible. I can't take lives contact on TikTok today, but if you want to come over to us on YouTube, please do. We've posted the link in our chat and on our community tab how you can join us on streamyard. I'd love to find out how you do voiceover work. I'd love if you could teach me how to roll my Rs. I do not know how to roll my Rs. That's an essential skill if you're going to speak Spanish effectively and maybe you have some techniques for that. And Tony also says, I've already liked the interaction you've had. Thanks so much. Oh, he says, they call me One Take Tony. You're the same. Well, thanks a lot. Now I am going to do some versions of ads. I'm going to actually make ads in front of you today for the Amazon Influencer program. I try to do them all in one take, but I don't always succeed. The important thing is I don't let it bother me. I'll just stop back up to the previous sentence that was completed and start again. What I have found for all of my clients, all of my students around the world and for myself is, is the more you speak, the easier it gets. And when you think about it, isn't everything like that the more you bike, it gets easier than the first time you went biking. When you're one or two years old trying to learn how to walk, it's kind of shaky, but after you've been walking for years, it's easy. Same with driving. You're 15 and a half getting your driver's permit, it's shaky. You've been driving for 10 years, it's easier. So. So that is how it gets better and better. So, Tony, thanks so much for stopping by. Would love to find out more about the voiceover world that you're in. And I didn't realize Telemundo was in Wisconsin. So that in and of itself is very fascinating. Bertrand says. Sorry, any trick to make my video editing faster. So, Bert, you may or may not like this. Bertrand, the biggest suggestion I have for you. Well, let me back up, give you a couple of things. If you know you made a mistake and you're not going to use it. Do something like this or like this so that when you're looking at the footage, you can instantly spot that and pause so you can see there's nothing going on for a few seconds. So that is one trick that will help with editing, the biggest trick of all. There are pros and cons to this, but the biggest trick of all is figure out something you enjoy doing more than editing that you're good at, that is valued in the marketplace where you can make money to pay for editors. That's been my strategy. Now, there are drawbacks to that. If I could do everything soup to nuts and be like, you know, Casey Neustadt or Matt de Vella, you know, some of these YouTube stars are great in part because they have good ideas, but in part because they're great editors. That's not my strength. So I've always relied on others. It is true that you can hire editors. You know, there's varying qualities, varying prices, but beyond that, unfortunately, I don't know how to edit. So I can't help you much. There's. Bertrand says you make a lot of mistakes. I do too. The simplest, I mean, I'll give you one other tip. The simplest edit of all is just hit the delete button, do a take, and if you, especially if you screw up in the first 5, 10, 20 seconds, just hit delete and do it over. For virtually all of my online courses, and some of them are 30 hours long, some have 700 lectures, the only editing I did probably the first 6 years was start and stop and delete. I would hit record, I would speak and I would, with a remote, hit stop. If I felt like I messed up, I would just stop the video and I would do it again from scratch. That saved me most massive amounts of time. I have a lot of competitors who frankly, arguably are better than I am at certain aspects of communication. But in the time that they made two courses, I had, you know, 79 in the first year and a half. And I was able to reach so many more people, help more people, help myself with more sales because of the volume, specifically because of how I edited, meaning really how I didn't edit. I did things in just a continuous video and the only editing I did was delete. So I would ask you to consider just doing delete more often because by the time, if you, if you try to do things in four or five different pieces, by the time you look at this and this and this, and you can spend two weeks editing a 60 second video, if you wanted to. And that can be different. Other comments coming in. Tony says the camera can put down bars. I'm not quite sure which it's called. Oh, it's called in camera editing. So certainly there are a lot of people, I would argue most people in the world today know more about video editing than I do, so apologies for that. Phil Ebbinger is one of my colleagues on the on the Udemy platform who has a lot of great and very inexpensive courses on every aspect of video production, including editing. So you might want to try that out. If you have questions, you can post them on TikTok. You can post them on YouTube, Facebook. I will see them right here aggregated either on Streamyard or on TikTok. I'm going to go to the next question that is posed by Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT. What are the risks of not rehearsing adequately and how can I ensure I'm prepared without sounding overly rehearsed? That's actually two questions. I'm going to try to do a short on both ones. And I'm going to stay on camera three. What are the risks of not adequately rehearsing for your next presentation? Well, let me ask you, what's the risk of sending a cover letter or a resume to a prospective employer and you didn't send spell check or edit it? That's right. You can have typos, misspellings, and you can look like a fool and make a horrible impression. Well, it's exactly the same when it comes to rehearsing your presentation. If you haven't rehearsed your presentation on video and actually looked at it to say, that's exactly how I want to come across. I'm making sense. If you haven't done that, then you're no different than someone who sends you a cover letter and a resume filled with typos and spelling errors. Okay, I'm going to stop for that recording. So that's one I've used before. I got to tell you, I really agree with it. I believe it wholeheartedly. But I have been wildly unsuccessful at getting most of my online students to actually rehearse their speeches on video. Now, when I'm working with a client in person, they've paid me a lot of money and I'm there with my camera. They have no choice. So when someone comes to a training with me, they're going to get on camera 10 times in a day. But even then, I can't force them to rehearse every presentation they have in the future. But they walk away from A day or two of training, really seeing the difference of what happens when you rehearse on camera. Now, the second part of that question, which I'm breaking up into two questions. How do you make sure you're not overly rehearsed? Okay. The camera too. TJ how do I make sure I'm not overly rehearsed for my next speech or presentation? Well, what does that mean? Yes, it's possible to rehearse in a bad way. Meaning you try to memorize a script and now it sounds canned. Well, the problem there isn't that you over rehearse. The problem is you're doing the wrong thing. Someone can't practice too much golf if they're gonna join a golf tournament or a golf. Okay, someone. Tony, you jinxed me. You said I was a one take guy. I just messed up. So I'm gonna do that one over and. No, I'm just kidding. You didn't really jinx me. I do make mistakes from time to time. Everyone does. And the point is, just stop and do it over. I'm gonna hit delete on that one. Okay, I'm gonna hit record again. T.T.J. you say rehearse, but isn't there a danger of over rehearsing? Well, depends on what you're rehearsing. If you're trying to memorize word for word, a speech, yeah. You will look canned, phony. The problem is not that you over rehearse. The problem is you rehearse the wrong thing the wrong way. Meryl Streep doesn't over rehearse for a movie role. She does it a lot to get good. When you're rehearsing, don't try to memorize word for word. Try to make your ideas come alive until you can look at a video of yourself and say, wow, that person's interesting. That's fantastic. If you do that, you will have rehearsed properly. Not over rehearsed. Okay? That is one I really feel passionately about because people are using the potential danger of over rehearsing to get out of rehearsal. I know what you're doing. You're being lazy and I'm lazy in certain aspects of my life. But if you want to be a great presenter, don't give me some BS excuse about, oh, I want to seem natural and you know, let me do a video on this. Okay, I've talked myself into contest. Stop lying to yourself. If you say, oh, I don't want to be overly rehearsed. I want to be fresh and candid when I give my presentation all you're doing is being lazy. What you're really saying is you don't want to take the time to rehearse because your time, an hour of your time, is worth so much more than the collective 50 hours of the 50 people you're going to be speaking to. Stop being lazy. There's always time to rehearse. And no, you don't have to worry about being over rehearsed. If you rehearse the right way, speak one idea at a time, give examples and stories and be interesting. Okay, so what just happened there, I think is a good learning moment. I talked about something, it started in my head and I thought, there's even better topic over here, I could do it. That's why I do want you to be fresh enough, to be flexible and to always be on the lookout for more ideas, rather than just saying, here are the scripts that we agreed on three weeks ago would be the perfect ones. I'm joined now by Alex, who's a body language expert. Alex, how are you today?

Very good, very good. How are you, tj?

Fantastic. Thanks so much for joining me. Thank you for making that. Thanks for making the trip over from TikTok very much.

That was an, let's say, a natural transition from just texting because I really appreciate you and I've done your complete body language course on Coursera. By the way, guys, this is not a paid collaboration or a paid joint video. I actually appreciate dj.

Thank you. My.

I mean, I'm a bit ashamed that I haven't read your book book yet. Even though I have it. None of them, but it's. It's on my list. I'm broadcasting from Romania. It's 4pm here. That's why my accent might not sound very English.

Well, let me tell you, Alex, your English sounds impeccable to me. Does your accent sound exactly the same as mine? No. Doesn't matter. The main thing is I understand you clearly. Your English is good, your vocabulary is perfect, your grammar is perfect and you're speaking out means a lot. Can I ask you, are you, do you work professionally full time as a body language expert or is this a sideline or what do you do exactly?

Basically, I have two main hobbies in this life, people and education. I try to do that part of my coaching, let's say part time until when the time is right and I'm ready. I will be transitioning into full time. So I do body language courses, workshops, one on one sessions in both Romanian and English for students from Romania and worldwide.

And how do clients find you and what's the typical thing that motivates them to hire you?

I've worked in retail aviation customer service for more than 20 years. I've interacted with more than 150 nationalities. I've been an airplane manager for International company of Aviation. I have an extensive experience with body language. I am passionate about has helped me a lot. I'm an introvert at core. So since the age of 16 till now, I haven't stopped studying body language. And it had helped me massively in my career and my personal life, in my relationships. I try to convey that in my most authentic self on or the most authentic way to my customers, to my friends, to everyone I interact with, be it paid workshop or just a natural conversation. Because I just try to add value to every single person that I and.

I. I can tell you're an expert just by looking how natural you move, your head is moving, your face is moving, all of these things. Excuse me one second. Tick Tock is about to toss me off. I have to verify I'm a real person. So I've got to take one second. Otherwise our. Our friend. Oh, I think there's a time limit. So I think we are about to get kicked off of Tick Tock. So I want to thank everyone who joined us on Tick Tock today. And please take a look at the videos that I post there daily. I'm off all next week for Lies, but one week from Monday, we'll be back with our regular schedule and going nine to noon on Tick Tock and every other platform. So, Larry, ABC and Hambone, I see you've just joined. Thanks so much. If we do lose you shortly, come on and join us on our YouTube channel. It's TJ Walker Success on YouTube. And you can actually join us live just as Alex has done. So, Alex, here's where I'm curious. What is the one thing people want the most when they come to you? Because I teach people body language. But it's never because somebody says, hey tj, I want you to teach me body language. People come to me saying, I've got a big presentation that's coming up or I have to do a major TV interview or hold a press conference. And in the process of training them and rehearsing them for their speech or media interview or videotaping it and looking at it, that's when we analyze their body language. So if they're doing something, you know, they're doing something like this, I can remind them, hey, you look like you have to Go to the bathrooms. Don't do that. If they're putting their hands back here, I can say, hey, it looks like you've been handcuffed. Yeah, don't do that. But I'm just curious as to what motivates someone to specifically say, I want to hire you or come to a workshop on body language.

That's an excellent question. Well, I. We have similar missions here, tj. I'm trying to make people feel their most comfortable, confident version of themselves when they communicate. Be it in a professional setting, personal, romantic, if you wish, digital even. I had to go to my dressing, put a shirt and a blazer on because your communication starts with your appearance, with the way you look. Even though I'm wearing shorts. But nobody has to know that. You have to contain that message and you have to convey it in a way that it will add value and it will help that person when they will communicate in front of an audience or in front of a business partner, their boss, their manager, or during a romantic date. I'm trying to give them the shortcut, the implementation, because the information is for free on the web, but people don't normally spend that time to search for it implemented. We are here to be facilitators. We are trying to make their lives easier by giving them the shortcut, the steps they need to follow. And when I tell them what you normally tell everyone, record yourself, watch yourself over and over again until you are confident with whatever you see on that camera. And that confidence will translate into real life confidence in front of an audience or in front of any person that you are trying to have a communication process with. The hard work has to be done with someone's guidance. In my case, it was you. During the lockdown, when I've discovered your course on Coursera, and then I've rewatched that, the whole package, and it has helped me immensely and it has inspired me. I try to be that. T.J. walker for Romania for audience.

And what is the one body language tip you give to clients that you find really resonates the most that they are then able to quickly use and see a tangible benefit from?

That's a good question. That's a good question. One tip. It's more of a combination because your communication starts with the first impression. First impression is how you dress, how you smell, how you groom yourself, and then the way you talk, the way you shake their hands, or the way you interact with them physically. The distance that you have with the audience or with the other person, the way your jacket looks like Your handkerchief, your tie. Just start with the basics and then we go one by one to the next level. The way you move your hands, the way you move your head, the way you walk, the way you put your weight evenly on both legs. And as you say many times, keep one leg in front of the other. Don't move left and right. So it's a combination of factors, but if I could summarize one.

Yeah. This is what people do when they're nervous. You're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you just film dizzy because you see them swimming, swinging. Sorry. And right.

By the way, quick, we've gotten some comments on you already. Barb says you have a beautiful smile and other people are commenting on that. Dr. Sunny says smile or eye contact. I'm not sure if that's a question. Barb also wants to know if you're a member of our Facebook community for all of the students of my courses. And Barb, he mentioned you may have missed that he's a student from Coursera, so I don't know on the Coursera courses we don't have an official invitation to them to join our Facebook group for online students.

I did though, so.

Okay, great, great. Well, we're glad you're here. And forgive me, I am. I was being a little bit rude to you because you were talking a moment ago and out of the corner of my eye I saw that Gabe had written a comment says, Matt Lauer, you've aged. And that brought a smile to my face. Matt Lauer was a very, very good looking host for the Today show of 30 years ago. As he got older, he lost his hair aged. But people have often said I look like him. So Gabe, you're not actually wrong and you're not wrong that I look like a little bit like Matt Lauer and you're not wrong that I've aged. I definitely have aged as we all do. And it used to be sort of fun when people say, oh, he's kind of like Matt Lauer. Well, Matt Lauer, for those of you in other parts of the world, was disgraced that his entire career was ruined by all sorts of credible allegations of sexual harassment and violations of the rights of employees he worked with and basically went into exile. Last I heard he was in New Zealand somewhere. So I obviously don't enjoy people reminding me that I look disgraced sexual harasser anymore. But you're absolutely right. I Matt, people have said not that I look exactly like him, but kind of a similar shape face and similar hairline that was once Very nice. And now not so much. So Matt, you're, you're not off base right there. Sorry about that Alex, for that.

No, no worries. Well, the reason you those diet and let's say nutrition related questions, it's because your body language starts with the way you look. With the risk of repeating myself. Your hygiene, your grooming and then.

The.

Exercise, your mindset, the way you sleep, the way you consume or don't consume other substances like alcohol, nicotine and so on. Because everything shows on the way you interact with others.

I mean the smoke can definitely wrinkle you. Now, I don't really look younger than I am because of my hair, but my skin is not nearly as wrinkled as people who smoke a lot. So going for me, I'm going to pick your brain. I want to get some free advice from you, if you don't mind me. You've watched my online courses where in most of them I was not wearing a suit and tie or an awful lot of them. I wore casually dressed, just a business shirt. I have recently, only recently switched back to a suit and tie. The reason I did that is I started aggressively promoting and producing and posting short form videos about six, seven months ago. Combination of new ones where I was just in a casual shirt, no tie, no jacket. And then we had one series from a speech I gave 17 years ago. I was giving a speech at a huge medical conference where I was wearing a suit and tie. These were chopped up, sliced and diced into short form form videos. And what happened was after we had a database of maybe 150 of these short form videos is we noticed that the ones where I was wearing a suit and tie, they were all getting 3, 4, 5,000 views. They were getting sometimes 10, sometimes 20 times as many views as when I was casually dressed. So we live in an environment now where certainly tech CEOs but so many people, whether it's Anthony Robbins or others, are casually dressed. There was a part of me that didn't want to seem like a stiff, overly formal wearing a suit and tie. But I looked at the data and it just seemed like for whatever reason people liked me in a suit and tie. So that's why I'm wearing not just a jacket, but you know, I'm wearing full suit pants now. I'm not wearing dress shoes, I am wearing Crocs. But I'm wondering if you have an opinion on that. Because what I don't know is were those videos, did they do so much better because I was 17 years younger and looked younger or is there just something about, you know, a middle age or older man where people just feel more comfortable, he seems more authoritative in a suit and tie. So I'm wanting, wanting your feedback. Have I made a mistake or an erroneous assumption going back to a suit and ties or perhaps something else that was a factor there. And should I, should I be more casual now? Is really the question.

Well, I will divide my answer in three points. Firstly, I paid for that course. I liked the information. That was the most valuable thing. It was not something that I was just scrolling on on my phone and I just stopped and it was like a hook. No, I checked the reviews, I checked the information, the, the previews as well. Then I paid for it. And information was more valuable than the fact that you were wearing a T shirt or a sweatshirt instead of a suit. So that's, for me, it wouldn't have made a difference. Maybe the presentation, picture or video could have been on the suit, in a suit. Because we might think that we know what the audience wants until we look at the engagement rates, as you said, and then we adapt. But look at Steve Jobs. He was impactful without wearing a suit. Second point.

But he did, but he did have a uniform. I mean, he was very rigid. He wore the black mock turtleneck.

That's another technique.

And that became very much a part of his branding, his iconic image.

You can do the same. You can always wear a green tie if you wish. So that's your personal branding. Everyone knows that this is DJ because he's wearing a green tie always. Well, in terms of personal branding, I'll move to the second point. I work as a retail manager for a Romanian brand. We have eight locations so far. We mainly employ teenagers that we grow. We like to think about ourselves as a school, a nursery for professionals in customer service and leadership management. I always tell to the new managers, young managers, 23, 24, 25 years old, use this trick. Wear a tie, wear a jacket. It will make you feel more comfortable. Yes, it takes more time to iron your shirt and take your blazer to the dry cleaner, but it will make you feel different. This is a body language trick. Secondly, it will change the first impression when you interact with the customer. With an angry customer, if you wish, with a potential business partner, with a different range of stakeholders, use this trick. Your team will respect you more, you will respect yourself more. And the, the other parties, like the customer and the suppliers, everyone will treat you differently if you wear a suit because it takes more effort and more time. That's why?

It's.

It's kind of hardwired in the collective subconscious, the fact that wearing a suit or a shirt signals higher status.

Hey Alex, we may have a client for you. Be Kind2023 on TikTok says I promise to hire you as my fashion coach if you marry my daughter to get her out of my house. I'm assuming that comment was directed to you and not to me.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

We can ask. We can ask. Be kind to clarify on that. And you just held up your wedding ring. I'm not, I'm not sure my wife would be happy about that arrangement, but maybe she would. Anyway. We do appreciate all of our, all of our friends. So many have come by from TikTok and Facebook and YouTube. I. I see three FNPV is trying to join us live on TikTok. I appreciate you trying. We'd love to talk to you. You could do exactly what Alex did, which is hop over to our YouTube channel and go to the community tab. You will see a link to Streamyard where I can bring you up and we can talk. I just, I don't have the capacity to do it on TikTok now because we're on various streams and that's the only one that isn't connected with the other. So happy to talk to you if you want to come on. And because that's where Alex came from. It's one click away if you're online. And same with Haknowez who's trying to join us. I do see you. I'm happy to take questions, happy to have you participate, share your expertise on anything communications related. But I can't do it on TikTok today. I would need you to join us on YouTube. Go to YouTube and just type in TJ Walker. Success. You will see the live stream. You will see a link to Streamyard. You can also go to my community tab and click on there and you will see a post to Streamyard and that way you can join us right on camera today. It doesn't have to be just listening to me. Alex, thanks so much for stopping by. I do appreciate. One question for you is if you're in retail, Amazon does different things in different parts of the world at different times. I don't think they have an influencer program available in Romania yet. But do you. I mean, you're a good speaker, you look good on camera. Are you doing any influencing for retail products, clothes, things like that where you are talking about it on camera and giving people a link Whether it's to some other online retailer or your own retailer where you can direct traffic there, someone can look at you demonstrating something, decide to buy it, and you get an affiliate commission. Is that taking off at all in your world? Yeah.

Well, Amazon is not in Romania. Sadly, it hasn't reached here, or maybe it hasn't reached an agreement with a current provider of the this kind of services. Secondly, I don't do any affiliate marketing. I just put my face on my personal brand, which is my body language and communication workshops through my website, social media pages and so on. And yes, I am kind of the image of the company that I work with, but just because we're not that Many, it's only 50 of us and we have stores in three different cities of Romania. So, yes, people know me because I interact with them and I interact with the customers and we franchise.

Great. Well, I've not been to your country before. I would love to come to Romania at some point. I've done a lot of work in neighboring countries, whether it's Serbia, Austria, Slovenia. Done a lot of trainings there, but have not been to your country yet. Alex, stay with us. We've got another guest who's one of our regular student, also a student, Tick, has joined us, and I don't know if he's posted a new video or not. Let me switch. Let me hop over to our second chat and see if he is, in fact posted. Tick, if you're with us, if you want to come on, I've. I've added you. Okay. He did post a video. All right. So I would ask if Alex could be a sort of our guest analyst Today. We've got a video that's being posted by one of our regulars here and a student of one of my courses. So I'm going to play this video and ask for you to give him your analysis from not only a body language perspective, but an overall communications perspective. So let me share the video. I'm going to share my screen using. Using streamyard. I got to make sure to remember to share the audio, and I have to do a couple of clicks on that. Okay.

I want to say a few words.

Did you. Are you seeing my YouTube screen, Alex?

Yes. Yes.

Okay. Are you able to hear the audio properly?

Yeah, maybe full screen it before hitting.

Okay, I'm gonna go back to the beginning. The audio, I believe, is as loud as I can do it. And Tick is with us in the green room, so he'll be able to hear your comments. I'm gonna play 30 seconds or so, and then I want you to give him some feedback.

Yep. I want to say a few words about the word planning. Planning is very important in anything you are doing. For example, you are YouTuber and you have to record YouTube videos. So although you can record videos at any time, you take up the camera, you switch on the camera and you start talking and you start recording, recording the video. But if you plan your videos, if you plan how many videos you are going to share in this week or in this month, how many videos you have to record every single day, then.

Okay, and I apologize to our Tick Tock friends, is I realize there's no way you can hear that because I'm hearing it through an earpiece. It's not connected to them, which also makes me realize, Alex, they've not been able to hear you. So I apologize for that. What I did yesterday is I took my earpiece out and used the speaker, which I guess in retrospect I should have done in this case. Let me stop the share. And I want to get your feedback on what you think of, become a.

Lot more productive and easier for you.

To become of how Tick did and what you think he could do better. All right, Alex, Tick is with us. Give us your first of all, your body language critique and then anything else you think he could have done better. And to be polite, to be polite to our TikTok friends, let me. Let me turn off my earpiece, turn on the speaker, and then our friends on TikTok, Tik Tok can hear. And Riverman says hello from Massachusetts. That's good to hear from you. Let me just change my audio settings a moment so that it's going to come through my main speaker. And that one didn't work. Let me use. Okay. All right, Alex, can you say something so I can hear you? There we go. Great. All right, Alex. And now our TikTok friends can join us. We're speaking to Alex, who was on TikTok and came over to YouTube and joined us live on Streamyard. He's giving a critique of another one of our students who posted a video we just watched. I'm afraid you can't see it from there, so apologies for that. And Jim says you have to be smarter than the phone. It's a good point, Jim. What we're trying to do is figure out how we can stream onto TikTok using a platform called Streamyard, because it lets us simultaneously stream to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitch. We're still trying to figure out how to integrate it with TikTok. We haven't figured that out yet, so if you know, let me know. All right, Alex, let's go to you and your analysis of Tick.

Hello, everyone from TikTok. First of all, Tick. Tick. It's the name of the guest who actually recorded and submitted that video. Tik. Thank you very much for that, and congrats for the. The courage and the initiative. The message was good, as far as I've seen from the actual video. The light was good. Your rhythm and the way you were talking was authentic and normal. I could understand the words, even. I mean, you used your natural native accent in English. I assume it was Indian, but I might be wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong. I would have kept the phone on a tripod or I would have stabilized it with. On a table or somewhere at eye level beforehand. Maybe I would have changed the background just to put a bit of a contrast between you and what's behind you. Stabilizing the phone on a tripod would have given you a bit more freedom in terms of using your hands, moving your head without the shakiness of a handheld phone or camera, whatever you used. But all in all, it was good. I would have loved to have watched it until the end, just to focus a bit on the. On the message. And maybe I would have oriented the phone on a portrait mode, maybe cut some bits of that pic of that video and share it on social media platforms just to get a bit more engagement on a portrait mode. Nine by 16. But that's. That's technical. That has nothing to do with body language or communication. So good job, Dick.

All right, Alex, thanks so much for the analysis. Very, very strong analysis. I hope that Tic takes that to heart and appreciates. I can't think of anything you said that I really disagree with, and I'm not sure if you mentioned it, but to me, the wires connecting here to, I guess, your headphone, I just found that distracting. It reminded me of. Of an old 1960s TV show, my favorite Martian, where Ray Walston was a Martian. And every so often you would see, you know, antenna sprout out of his head. And that was kind of the gimmick. It just. I also wondered, is it. Is it a neck brace? Is it a mouth brace? And then I realized, oh, I guess it's an earpiece connection. I just think you're better off not having other things, other technology. That's not necessary. Were you going to say Alex?

Yeah, I think it's from his glasses. The. The. The wire that was holding the glasses, if you.

Okay. I thought it was connecting the earpiece. So. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, one of the things I do see people from time to time is they have their glasses on top of their head, their reading glasses. They put them up here and they're speaking or they're doing a zoom call. To me, it's wildly distracting. It looks like horns or something. If you're not literally using your glasses when you're speaking, take them off, put them away. The fewer distractions, the better, I find. I want people focus on your message, what you're saying. If they're trying to figure out is this for your. For your microphone or for your glasses or this or that, or what are these horns doing up here? Because certain shading, certain things can be. Look very different in a video versus in person. So that's what I'm in favor of. I agree with you completely. Better to put the phone on a remote because anytime you're holding a phone, you've now destroyed half of your body language because your hand can't move, your arm can't move. That side of your body that you're holding the phone with can't move as well. And I'm not saying I never do it. I've occasionally done that. But all things being equal, it's going to come across a lot better if both of your hands are completely free. Tic, I know you're with us. Did you want to come on a moment and ask any questions of Alex or of me? And I think we. I think we lost Alex and Mansoor. I see you're trying to join us on TikTok. We'd love to have you on. I can't do it on the TikTok platform. You wouldn't mind coming over to our YouTube channel and you'll see the tab for Streamyard in the community tab and then you can join us live.

Your analysis was good and I understood a lot of things from your analysis. And I will try to take out my earphones whenever I'm recording a video or presentation and try to use both of my hands in the camera so that I can appear to be more confident and more clear with the message.

Okay, great, Dick. I'm glad you got some value out of that also. Keep.

And thank you, Alex.

You know, I like to give general guidelines. Alex gives guidelines. They're exceptions. I. I, for example, advise people not to have big headphones on when they are interviewing people and talking with people because to me, it's so noticeable. It's Like a World cup soccer analyst or a Super bowl analyst. That's why I prefer I use these little earbuds that sort of indiscreetly or discreetly go into my ear. I've actually taken the time they came black. I've taken the time to paint them more skin colored because I don't want to cause distractions. So I think in a perfect world, that's the best way of doing it. But let's be honest now there are people like Joe Rogan, who has, you know, 10 billion followers and audience every day on his YouTube channel. And he's wearing big headphones. So it's more important to be interesting and you can break any of these rules if you're doing other things really well. And we've lost tick. But I think he appreciated the feedback. And Alex, we want to thank. Thank you for your time and please stop by anytime. How can someone, if. If someone's watching in Romania or if they're in your town, how do they hire you? Is it through your website? Other social media platforms? LinkedIn? I like to give people an opportunity to plug their business. And you can, you can even put. If you have a URL, you can post it in the private chat and then I can share it with people. The way our Streamyard works is only the host can post a URL. But I'm more than happy to help promote you because this whole channel is about how to promote yourself, how to promote yourself through speaking. But if it's directing people to a product or service, that's great too.

Thank you very much for that, tj. I really appreciate that. And thank you very much. Thank you. If you can still hear us, for submitting that video and replying afterwards. That takes a lot of courage. So kudos to you. Well, I live in Bucharest, which is the capital of Romania. I really hope to see you here one day, maybe have a talk, help people. We need somebody like you. I have been inspired by you a lot. That's why I started sharing this information. This information is not new. I'm just a channel that. That transmits this information to us because I try to help people. You can find me on the website, but thebodylanguage.net as well on social media. Body language coaching. TikTok, the body language, if you don't.

Mind, if you could post in the private chat. Chat function now one URL that you'd like to direct people to. And then I will, I will copy that and put it in the public chat and that way it'll Be there permanently on social media and anyone who wants to get a hold of you can do so now. Do you see the button for private chat where you are?

Yes, I will try to do it.

Now, if you can type the URL there, I can copy it from there and then post it in the public comments.

Okay.

Okay, there it goes. Because it's not a URL. All right, so find you on Instagram at Body Language Coaching.

Otherwise you could. I mean, from there you can find the website and I share in the same time on Instagram and TikTok. But Instagram is more popular in Romania, so we found out that this works better as well. Word of mouth. People who I've helped, they are ambassadors of my services.

Okay, well, if you could do me one favor, because I'm on Instagram, it's not a. It's not a social media platform I've ever spent much time on, to my knowledge. At this very moment we are streaming live on Instagram. If you don't mind just doing a quick check, check and let me know if you can even see it. Because we had very little response from people on Instagram. People are not really watching this sort of video on Instagram. I know traditionally it was more about images and pictures, but I understand video is pretty popular on Instagram too. So if you have any other thoughts on that, but otherwise really appreciate you stopping by and sharing your expertise. So please stay, go ahead.

Yeah, sorry. Regarding Instagram, I've checked your profile and respectfully, may I offer you a piece of advice?

Sure.

Well, firstly, I was. I like the quality of your content. It's amazing. And the fact that you've switched from widescreen to portrait mode to get more engagement on Instagram and to cover more of those small screens, screens of the phones, that was a big plus. I was there initially on the live stream, but we were two or three viewers. Your content is amazing, I can tell you. Recently use. Started using Instagram, but use more hashtags. That is the currency on Instagram. Use more hashtags in order to get more exposure on as well. Post, post more often. Stories, five stories a day and one post. Standalone post on your profile has a lot of exposures. Exposure, sorry. A lot of users are on Instagram, mainly youngsters who actually need those tips and tricks and they need coaching or on communication and body language and speaking in front of camera and audience. Just read their lives. At the end of the day, I really like your Instagram feed. I will repost it on. On my personal account. Maybe that would Help. That will help because my personal account has around 90,000 followers. Hopefully that could at least pay you back in a way. The fact that we've had this one to one conversation.

Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that. Right. And thanks for the tips. I'll pass that on to the team. I, I will be can with you. I'm not following all the best practices. I mean, if you listen to a social media guru like Gary Vaynerchuk, they will say every single platform is different and they are. You need unique content for everyone. That's ideal. You know, some of them you need to post 12 times, 20 times a day like TikTok. I understand that. I have found that would fry my brain and I would just burn out after two months and that would produce nothing for six years. So that's just not what I do. So my team is doing all the posting, I'm doing the creating, but I don't do hashtags or any of that. And that's filtered out through, through my team. And, and I realized it's not necessarily the best way. But if I'm going to be doing this for another 35 years, which I hope to do, I can't work 22 hours a day, which is what some people seem to do if they're really everywhere doing all the best practices.

Outsource as Gary. Gary Vaynerchuk. Yes.

Well, that's what I'm doing. But we're not doing, I mean we're doing two short videos a day, one long form video a day, but I'm not going to start doing five or six a day. Although on Instagram I guess you could repost ones that you used three months.

Ago and cut your video into bite size content for Instagram and TikTok and post them simultaneously into those two platforms as well. Post them as stories, five stories a day. This will keep your audience engaged throughout the day, not just whenever you post. That's also from master Gary Vaynerchuk in this book.

Okay. All right, well, thanks so much for the tips. It's really good to hear from you. I gotta hop on. I've got to make some more short form videos and what I'm trying to do, and I love your opinion on whether you think it's a good idea, but you know, everyone talks about make more content, make more content. I'm trying to make more content. I figured I, I might as well do it live in front of you on TikTok, in front of you on Instagram and Facebook and YouTube because I'm going to be in front of a camera anyway. Why not do both of those things at the same time? So I'm going to make more short form videos right now, but you're welcome to stay in the green room. I'm going to, I'm going to pull off. But thanks again.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it. And we've had a few more comments come in. User7130 says, Good communication, you guys. This is good stuff. Well, thanks. I appreciate it. That's nicer than people talking about how I'm aging. That's nice. And user 713 says he knows what he's talking about. You should take his information and roll with it. Well, I definitely know that you know more about Instagram than I do because I, I know virtually nothing about it. So I am going to follow up on that and more comments coming. And keep up the good work, gentlemen. Appreciate that. And by the way, we're open to ladies too. We are not discriminating here. We give priority to anyone who wants to come on screen. I mean, we do try to share comments as comments come in, but if you want to come on screen, we let you come in and all you have to do is click the button on streamyard. If you want to find that button, go to the Community tab on my YouTube page. And you can find the YouTube page if you're not there by just typing in. TJ Walker. Success. So we've had a few more comments come in. Barb says, awesome, Alex, please let me look into the group. I'd love to bring attention to your talents. Love, love that smile. She loves your smile. You've got a new fan, Alex. She also says, having actually met Steve Jobs in his earlier years, he, had he been in a suit and tie, selling to my audience of people, PhDs, top scientists and technologists at a national laboratory, he would have not been taken seriously. However, had he been dressed like Alex is today, he would have not lost any audience. So certainly it is good to keep in mind the norms of your industry. If you are working on Wall street, certain Wall street firms, it looks odd if you're not wearing a suit and tie. In many cases. Even still today, if you are in the technology arena and you're working in San Francisco, you're going to instantly be seen with suspicion if you're dressed like I am. That's just not how successful people Silicon Valley dress. And the wealthier they are, the more likely you are to be a billionaire, the less likely you are to dress up. In many cases, so fantastic points, Barb. And want to say hello to Michael and Wraith. And so, Jim, so many people who've joined us today on the Tick Tock live stream, so appreciate that. I'm going to switch gears a minute and go to more questions. These come courtesy of chat GPT using artificial intelligence. How do I avoid making gestures or movements that may distract from my message or appear unprofessional? Okay, this is one a little different than how I've normally heard it phrased, but let me try to take. Let me try to tackle this. How do I avoid distractions with my hands when making a speech so that I don't look unprofessional? Well, for starters, don't do this. But chances are you're not doing this. So many people worry about, oh, my hands will float around like Will Ferrell. The biggest thing you can do that will look distracting when you're giving a presentation is to hold your hands down or hold a pen to try to freeze your hands to look professional. Stop doing that. You want to move naturally. That's what's going to make you look comfortable, confident and relaxed. So stop trying to freeze yourself or doing things like this. That just looks weird. Okay, so little short form on that. And Alex, I posit, happy to have you stay, but I'm going to hit the mute button just so we don't get any extra feed in. And let's see, some more chats have come in too. I do try to be responsive occasionally. I'll get. I'll get going on a roll and I'm trying to make a long form so I might not get to them quickly. Oh, and Alex just points out that he's on TikTok as well. If you search the body language on TikTok, you can find Alex, so we'll be sure to do that later. Next question. I'm reading these live for the first time, so you're hearing them as I'm hearing them. What are the consequences of not being aware of my body language or facial expressions during a presentation? Okay, that's a. That's a provocative. I won't say provocative. It's a slightly interesting question to me in the sense that it's not one I've heard, heard, articulated that directly. And I see that now we have another individual on TikTok trying. I can't make out the name. Trying to join us live. We'd love to have you live, but I need. I need you to go over to our YouTube channel where we have a click to join us through streamyard. If you just go into our community tab there, you can join us live. And user 71 says you're out of you. We can't see. Oh, that's because I was doing a different angle there. I apologize. So if you can join us on the YouTube channel, you'll see three different camera angles. I only have you right here on my phone. So when I'm recording these short form videos, I going to a different camera angle. So that's why apologies. Oh, and user71 says yes, you are live. I can verify. I'm assuming that means we're live on Instagram as well as TikTok. So thanks so much for that. And sham again, I see you're trying to join us. Happy to talk to you live. I need you to come to our YouTube channel where you can click on through Streamyard to join us. Okay, so what are the question is, what are the questions? Questions of not being aware of my body language for facial expressions during a presentation. Okay, let me hop. I'm going to do a camera three one for this. What are the consequences of not being aware of your body language or facial expressions when you're giving a presentation? Well, it's this. Chances are if you're not aware of it, your face is blank. People worry about looking weird or crazy. That's not the danger most people have. The biggest danger is you're so caught up with what you're going to say and not making mistake, your face goes blank. You look bored and boring, which means everyone else is going to tune out and check their cell phone. That's why you need to rehearse on video so you know that you look comfortable, confident and relaxed. Okay, I'm going to hit stop. I. I would, in retrospect, I would have liked to have made that a little bit shorter because what I have found with my own YouTube shorts, TikTok shorts, is the 12 to 19 seconds tends to be most popular. That one I think was clearly more than 20 seconds. But that is the sort of content that people love in social media. Now I'm not, I don't want to seem like I just pander and only do what I think is going to play well. I try to give good advice on what I think will really help people the most. You know, I'm just noticing my lights have turned turned off. So what we do try to do here is typically take a commercial break. But I'm having so much fun today and this is the last day I'm going to be live with you for about nine days. I'll be on vacation all next week with family, a little ski vacation. But I'm going to take a second and actually turn on my lights. And if you are wondering if this is a green screen, I think you can realize by now it's not. This is a real set and these are lights on here, but they appear to have a timer. And just so you can see, these are magnetized. So it's a little magnet light that I turn on. But it appears to have a time limit of two hours, so that's why it went off. So I just wanted to take a second to turn it on so we can be back at full power. And what I'm doing now is I'm toggling back and forth between the private chat and then the public comments that everyone can see, because I don't want to miss anything. And occasionally I do. Okay, next question. How can I prevent technical glitches or mishaps with equipment during my presentation? And I guess I'll do this one from camera three as well. So again, it's how do you prevent technical glitches or mishaps with equipment during your presentation? So how can you prevent technical glitches or mishaps with your equipment during a presentation? The short answer is you can't. But you can dramatically reduce the chances of a mishap. The way to do that is you need to rehearse. I don't mean looking at your laptop the night before and just going through the slides. I mean, you need to get to the venue. If it's an in person presentation, use the actual computer, the actual projector that you'll be doing in real life, and do a full fledged rehearsal. Let's work out the kinks now, because every computer can be a little bit different. The other thing you need to do is to get ready to present. Even if you have no technology, if your slides disappear, if the computer goes down, you need to just speak to people in an interesting, compelling way. Okay, that is an issue that comes up all the time for people and they clearly haven't prepared. You are never ready to deliver a PowerPoint presentation unless you are prepared to give that entire presentation without any PowerPoint. What do I mean by that? I mean you need to. You know what, let me make a short form on that. Okay. You are never prepared to deliver a PowerPoint presentation unless you can give that presentation without any PowerPoint. What do I mean by that? The projector might break, the bulb might go out, the computer could freeze. Everyone's still There, ready to hear from you. You need to have on a single sheet of paper a simple outline with your key points so that if none of the slides work, you couldn't care less. You're going to present your ideas in a way that's interesting, understandable and memorable. That's how you Prepare for any PowerPoint presentation. Okay. That's an incredibly important point, I gotta tell you. And I have been wildly unsuccessful at convincing people of that. So if you have any, if any of you have any tips on how I can actually drive that point home, because I've seen countless times people get up, their screen doesn't work, the projector doesn't work, they have a video clip where there's audio and the speakers don't work. And so they spend all their time apologizing. They wasted their opportunity. They communicated nothing. So I'm not anti PowerPoint, but you have to get to the point where you just couldn't care less whether it's going to work or not. You've got a great presentation ready, you've got great ideas, and you can make those ideas come alive. And Alex says, thanks so much, Barbara, very kind of you. I'm glad we're, we're connecting people more. Alex does, right? Do I ever use teleprompter? I do use teleprompters. I've got one, you know, let me just show it to you. This will just take a moment. And the technology for teleprompters is so much better than it to used. Used to be. So this is for a through the lens teleprompter. So this is a stand. I put it on the tripod. The camera attaches here and is sort of covered up to not let light in. This slides out. I put my iPad here and I load. I upload the script in Google Drive, I connect it to the iPad, I pull it up, and then I use a teleprompter software called I think it's Smart Prompt. The beauty of it is it's voice activated. So I plug one microphone into my iPad. The script comes up, it's reversed with a mirror image so it to me, I can read it like I normally would, like left to right. If I pause, it stops moving. If I go a little faster, it moves faster. It tracks my voice so I don't have to follow the tripe. The teleprompter, it follows me. Now, in the old days, it was a big giant machine. You had a conveyor belt. You had to have another person there manually with a. And I Used to have one of these with a, a wheel shifting things. That was time intensive, expensive and personnel expensive. Today it's so much easier and it could be done. You should, I should say you can do these on your cell phone. Do I do use a teleprompter, Alex, from time to time, if I'm doing a very scripted did webinar, if I'm doing advertising copy for someone else. Having said that, I beg people do not use a teleprompter. Most of the time people use a teleprompter because they think, great, this is easy. It's going to save me so much time. I don't have to remember what to say. If you're not using a teleprompter three hours a day, it's actually much harder to use a teleprompter because when you use a teleprompter and you are not a full time news anchor, this is how you will come across horrible. You'll come across like a robot, like a machine. So it takes a lot of practice, rehearsal and time to get the natural cadence back into your voice. Because if you're going to use a teleprompter, you have to figure out how do you go faster, slower, louder, softer, pause. And the natural thing to do if you're reading a piece of glass five feet away from you is to read one word at a time like this and sound awful. So I do not recommend most people use teleprompters for that very reason. I do have an entire course on how to use a teleprompter, how to learn from it. So you may want to check out that course on either the UDEMY platform or my media trainingworldwide.com platform. So I apologize, you did mention I'm out of the frame. I am. You know, this is a workshop here. This is not a slick production. This is not Mr. Beast. And I don't have a staff of 20 assistants and production assistants and some gaffers running around. I have, I think, a fairly nice studio, but I'm the only one here. So someone asked me a question about a teleprompter. I just walked away and to get the teleprompter and to show it to you. So that's what I'm trying to do, is demystify this process and to be as helpful to you as possible and to be responsive to your questions about anything that relates to communication skills. Talmage says I have a teleprompter. Same one. Do I sound like that? I don't Know Talmadge, if you want to send a video of you using it, you may be great at it. Certainly there are people who practice or use teleprompters often enough and can't even tell that they're using it. Now, the key, just a quick tutorial on teleprompters. The key is you got to sometimes speak faster, sometimes speak slower, sometimes speak louder, sometimes speak softer, sometimes pause. And you got to move your head and body because most people freeze their head because it's easier to read if you're thinking, let me just look at it intently. So it really comes down to those five, six principles. If you do that, people won't even know you're using a teleprompter. But the big problem is it levels everything out. It makes your speed the same volume, same pitch, same pausing, same. And the body language becomes frozen. So tell me to let me know if you're happy with how it comes across and if you like the response that you're getting from that. And I have a feeling I may have hit a hot button button with Alex. I see he popped back. So, Alex, did you want to add to that at all? I do see that you are. You popped back on the screen.

Sorry, sorry, I was a bit distracted. I was on, I was on.

Oh, okay. I, I thought you had popped back in and wanted to add. Do you, do you work with people on teleprompter skills? Because I do find that when someone starts using a teleprompter, it not only destroys their voice by flattening it, it typically destroys their body language. Because all of a sudden they're doing this and their body's not moving and their head is not moving and their eyes get bug eyed and they think, wow, this is great. I don't have to remember anything. I'm getting all the words perfectly. If your body language is so out of whack and you look like a hostage, no one's going to pay attention to anything you said. That's the problem.

Yeah, you're right. You're right. Well, rarely I work with people with using teleprompter teleprompters, but I encourage them to do their homework beforehand. If they do want to use their teleprompter, I advise them to go on YouTube, check everything there is on how to use a teleprompter, how to use it effectively so you don't look like a hostage, as you said. If that fails, I strongly encourage them to rehearse their speech.

Hey, Alex, I apologize if I Could take advantage of you a minute. I want you to give like a two minute tutorial now on advice you give on that. Because I just realized I didn't get my products lined up to do my own demonstration on Amazon influencers. I got to step away from the camera a minute. So if you could give people a two minute tutorial on how to do that, that would be.

Well, thank you very much. I guess the stage is mine. Hi everyone. Well, I'm Alex. Once again for whoever hasn't joined since the beginning or since I joined. I live in Romania. I've been in the UAE for 10 years. That means in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, working in aviation, communication training and so on. I recently moved back to Romania for almost two years. I'm a body language and communication coach in both English, but mainly in Romanian language, based in Bucharest. So if I understood correctly, TJ wanted to me to give a two minute tutorial on how to use a teleprompter. I'm not a big fan, the same as he is not a big fan of using teleprompter prompters because it takes a lot of practice beforehand. So you need to practice using a teleprompter. Do a course on using a teleprompter before you are ready to speak with. With that support, that tech support. Normally I encourage people to rehearse their script in front of a camera. TJ says that thousands and thousands of times in his courses on Udemy because it's so important. It's the most unexpensive and efficient tool that you have at your disposal in your pocket, the phone. Rehearse in front of the phone, in front of an audience, if you have the courage at the beginning and then get their feedback. Watch your recording over and over again until you're confident, comfortable with whatever you see there so that you are ready to deliver that speech. Even though let's say you have a power crash and you don't have any teleprompter. Then what? As DJ said, don't rely on technology. A paper and a pen will never fail you. But technology and battery and electricity, it's very unlikely. But if that happens, you will be embarrassed. And I'll tell you a short story. I was delivering a body language training digitally on on my laptop along with a PowerPoint presentation because that was the norm back in the days during a pandemic for a company in Abu Dhabi. So at that point I just couldn't share my presentation. I couldn't share the screen of my PowerPoint presentation for my talk or my training. But that was not a problem because the PowerPoint presentation was just the norm for, for that company. But it's not my choice of communicating my message because I, I kind of joke with that when using PowerPoint is just death by PowerPoint. I think TJ used that joke as well during his Udemy course. But yeah, I'm not a big fan unless I put some pictures or some bullet points, very small text. Focus on three or maximum five important points and try to develop those points by using stories. I've inspired my way of delivering talks and coaching people by TJ's technique. Three maximum five points backed up by stories and that's it. Don't use anything else, PowerPoint or Teleprompter unless it's extremely necessary or is mandatory for that talk. Use a cheat sheet with five bullet points. Your ideas, rehearse your speech in front of a camera, in front of an audience, send that, email it to your peers, get some feedback, optimize your speech and then when you have the final product, be ready, have the courage to be in front of people and deliver it.

Great insights. Alex, thanks so much for sharing and perhaps we have a follow up question from Barb. Barb, thanks for joining us today. Barb, did you. Okay, I guess Barb had to step away, but Barb was very much a fan of how you were coming across and your insights.

Thank you. Thank you very much, Barb. And thank you, tj. I hope I can organize a trip for you in Romania maybe to help us out with your insights. There are many events, business events, but not only communication and spiritual communication and so on. So you, you, you would really fit in in the Romanian market.

Everyone, I would love to come over there. I'm gonna, I've had fabulous responses with a lot of different groups, business groups, speeches, trainings in Serbia and Slovenia and other Balkan nations not that far away from you in Austria. But I haven't been to your country for. Sometimes people ask me, how can we bring you to a country? The main thing frankly is finding some anchor client, typically a business or a government that wants to pay for in person training. Either one on one training or group training or they have a budget for a keynote address. If it's a major organization, major event, do that. Because the hard part is getting, you know, a substantial fee to get things going and the transportation costs. Once I'm there, quite often I do, I do other events, public workshops, joint venture. We could do a joint venture body language workshop for a day. There can be media Events. There can be half day events if I'm already there. I like to. I generally like to go places for a week rather than going all the way to another continent, back for a day. So I like to stretch things out, learn more about the culture and that sort of thing. Barb has joined us in the green room. Barb, if you have any questions or comments for Alex, more than happy to have you on screen if you want to add yourself, but I don't want to add you on if you weren't planning on doing that. Meanwhile, I see some questions have come in that says user498. Is this a makeup tutorial? No, it's not a makeup tutorial, but anytime you're in front of people, especially in front of a camera, especially in front of bright lights, as I am, makeup is an issue. And am I telling you you have to wear makeup? Am I saying everyone in the world should be so superficial that you should, you should be ashamed to be seen without makeup? No, I'm not saying that at all. What I can tell you is most people in the world, all things being equal, would either like to be perceived as looking the best they can or would like to minimize what distractions I have makeup on right now. And it's not because I want you to think I'm a beautiful George Clooney or some movie star, but I want to avoid distractions, create a professional appearance. So what I'm seeing right now, already, frankly, is I'm having some shine come out because I've been doing this for now several hours. So what I'm going to do is, in fact give you a little bit of a makeup tutorial right now and show you what I do, what I do and what I recommend for most business people, men and women, it's not just for women, is to get some sort of mosaic powder, meaning it's different colors. You want something that when you put it on your skin, doesn't make your skin darker or, or lighter than it is because you don't want to have it dark here and then totally light here or really light here and dark there. What I try to do is eliminate the shine because I can see now I'm getting shine on my cheeks and my forehead. So what I do is I take powder, I swirl it around, I try to get rid of the excess, and then I just very lightly do this. And I don't put a lot on. I don't want to look any. I don't want it to look heavy. It's a subtle change. You might not even notice with the version of the streaming that we're doing now. I try to get under my eye. I don't want to get it in my eyes because then I'll start blinking excessively, but I want to get it underneath my eyes and on my forehead. So ideally, you see a little less shine now. And, Alex, from where you are, do you even notice a difference? I don't want to look like I'm all heavily made up. And I'll do this for our friends on TikTok. Get a little closer there. It's not that I somehow look beautiful or handsome now, but by reducing the shine, I eliminate distractions and just look a little more professional. Because here's the thing.

Thing.

Every news anchor, every celebrity you see on tv, every reporter you see on TV has makeup on. So if you are on video, I say TV, it could be on YouTube, could be on TikTok. Everyone, for the most part, has makeup on. So if you don't wear makeup on, especially if you're under any kind of bright lights, it can magnify every little spot, bump, imperfection. It just intensifies it. So that's one reason why I put on makeup.

Yeah, it looks very nice. It looks very nice. Looks very natural. I don't have any brush at my disposal, but I need some because I can see some shine here. It's not very hot, but I'm a bit nervous, obviously.

Anyway, thank you very much for taking over when I stepped away way. What. What you just did is something would make most people terrified, and if you were terrified, you didn't show it at all. It's okay to be nervous or to be a little uncomfortable, but we don't have to show it to people. We don't have to tell people that we're somehow really uncomfortable or nervous. So I like the way that you didn't say, hi. I wasn't prepared for that. Tj, don't leave me here. I just sort of abandoned you. You on screen in front of people, and that is a terrifying thing for a lot of people. So I do want you to know, A, I appreciate it. B, you demonstrated your craft quite nicely because there was nothing in your body language that said to people, oh, God, now I'm really scared and uncomfortable. Why do you do that? So thank you for demonstrating best practices as we got to say goodbye to you. Thanks again for staying. Stopping by. I'm going to remove you from the. From the screen, but you're more than welcome to stay off in the green room. We've had a number of. We've had so many new friends from TikTok joining us today. We apologize for not integrating you into our stream yard where you can ask questions easily on camera. But we're hoping to get that fixed by the next time we go live, which will be one week from, from Monday. All next week is a vacation week here at Media Training Worldwide and TJ Walker Success Show. But we will be back sort of our regular time 9 to noon Eastern time, one week from Monday if you want to make a note of that. Okay, so I want to go over a few more questions because I need to create more short form video that can be edited and pushed out on all these social media platforms, platforms while I'm away on vacation. What should I do to avoid going over the allotted time for my presentation? So let's, I'm going to do that in a camera two angle and I apologize for. Well, I'll just angle it a little more this way. Okay, now you can see it. Okay, so how can you keep from going over your allotted time when you're giving a presentation? Two main ways. Number one, have some kind of a timepiece, either an old fashioned clock or watch in front of you so you can actually see what the time is. But more important, you need to rehearse out loud, record yourself and time it because that's going to be very different than if you're just reading silently your script or PowerPoint. Practice in advance, know how long it's going to take. Okay, that's the short form. And that was camera, that was camera three. I'll move my TikTok camera back. Okay, I did a short form for that. I'm making notes right here because I, I don't want to duplicate a video on the very same topic within a relatively short period of time. I see a number of private chats have come in. Sometimes people put things there because they want it to be just private with me so I won't blurt it out loud. Sometimes people put it there but they really do want me to share it with others. So I have to take just a second for that to happen. Okay. And so those chats are coming in. I don't think, think any of those need nothing scandalous but I don't think it's of interest to share with everyone. Okay. And Alex says that's how it's done. Great job. I'm not sure if I presented that, but Alex, thank you for stopping by today and showing up on camera and also sort of taking over for Me and covering for me while I was off doing administrative things. So thanks so much. You never know what's going to happen when you stop buying the live show. So this is a collaborative community. It's about people who care about communication. Some of you, like Alex, may work full time in communication as a trainer. Others could be students. You could be a business person. And a communication is simply a means to an end to help you market your business, communicate with employees, vendors, other stakeholders. We're happy that you are here. Okay. How can I ensure that I address questions or objections effectively without being sidetracked? I have to think about that. There's a lot of different nuances. I could define that, like during a live stream in that situation, or others as well. That one I'm going to think about. What are the dangers of not knowing my audience or failing to tailor my presentation to their needs and interests? Okay. And I see a few more folks have tried to join from TikTok. I'm happy to talk to you and share the screen with you, but I would need you to come to our YouTube YouTube channel today to click in through Streamyard if you go to the Community tab. And Carrie, I see you're doing that. We'd love to chat with you if you come over to the YouTube channel. TJ Walker success. Go to the Community tab. You'll see the Streamyard link. I can click there and accept you and have you come in and join us live. And I apologize, I can't do it on TikTok today. So apologies for. For that. So the question again that I'm going to answer is, what are the dangers of not knowing your audience when you're tailoring your presentation? I'm going to go to camera two again. So what are the dangers of not knowing your audience when you're creating your presentation? Well, I know that firsthand. Once I was in a foreign country and I was giving as an example someone I thought was a great speaker and a great political leader put his image up and all of a sudden all these gasps. It turns out the person I used that I thought was great was seen as a war criminal in this country. I had failed to know my audience. Don't let that be you. Okay, I'm hitting off. So that actually happened. Okay. We're not. This. This channel is not really about politics. And I try to stay clear of that because once people hear politics, it starts flame wars and people get engrossed. You know what? I'm not even going to tell you where it was because I'm afraid it could open up a whole can of worms. And I don't really want us to get into political debates. But that really did happen. I had made a blunder and it still went okay. But that moment was something that rubbed people the wrong way. So better off not to do that. How do I avoid relying too heavily on scripted or memorized content, which can sound robotic or insincere? Well, that is something I know a lot about and teach about, but that question is put out in a slightly different way. So I'm going to give an example of that. And I've got a little prop. So how do I avoid. And I'm making note that I'm doing it as a short. How do I avoid relying too heavily on scripted or memorized content? Go to camera two. So how do you avoid relying too much on heavily scripted or memorized content? I mean, you don't want to sound like a robot or too canned, right? Here's the thing. Don't memorize. It's really, really hard to memorize stuff and have it come out of your mouth and make it sound natural. Unless you are a trained professional actor. Don't even try. Don't try to memorize these scripts. Instead, cheat. Do what I do. Use a simple outline that just has two, three words for a point. Glance occasionally at your outline and Then talk for another 2, 3 minutes. You can say a little differently each time. It won't matter as long as you have interesting points and interesting examples for your audience. Okay, that really does save. That really does solve the problem. It really does. So we're at the time now. We're at the end of the week. We're also going to be. This is the last live session we're going to do for about nine days. It'll be a week from Monday before I'll be able to come back to you. I'm now going to not talk about the Amazon Influencer program. I'm actually going to make Amazon Influencer videos Soup to nuts. Create them, edit them, post them, tag them, label them, the whole bit so you can see how it's done. And I just realized I made a. A technological blunder today. I was going to give the folks watching on TikTok High quality audio by putting a separate microphone into my cell phone. And I just now realized after two and a half hours I forgot to do that. So apologies to our friends on TikTok. So I'm going to take the phone. I'm going to have to sign off now on TikTok. I believe that just closed it. And that way I can use my phone to make Amazon influencer videos. Now I think what I was supposed to have done is to have brought my microphone and receiver here. I was charging them this morning and I think I forgot to do that too. So again, this is not a completely poly polished show. Obviously I'm just bringing you into my world and sort of documenting my workflow, my process with the idea that some of you will get some benefit of seeing. How does a content creator create, how does a communication skills expert create content about communication skills? So you're going to see the workflow, you're going to see the mistakes. I've made several mistakes today. Today you're going to see the mess ups. You're going to see the thought process because I'm sharing it out loud with you. So now I've got to walk behind to the back of the studio just to get my receiver and my microphone for my cell phone which I'll be using for the production of these Amazon influencer videos. So excuse me just one moment. And I have the microphone. Now reason I sound so far away is the microphone is staying in one spot. It's a shotgun microphone that's only about 12 inches away from my mouth. But I'm looking for my receiver. It's a little thing that just plugs right into my cell phone. This is all the production studio you really need to have. You can be a lot of YouTubers a lot more successful than I am. They do everything on a cell phone. I've got a little fancier setup for, you know, the production things we do here. But when it comes to making Amazon videos, I really don't. I do it right on my cell phone because it saves so much time. And now I cannot find my receiver. So I've got to again go back. I'm gonna turn my overhead light on. Might actually help because ah, I see it now. Okay, so I have found my receiver. I'm turning my overhead light off, which tends to distort the lighting quality, quality and make sound. So I've got a little receiver. I just plug this into the hole in my phone. I've got a microphone, I am turning it on to the point where I see a green light come on. I'm now going to, first of all let me move my screen scripts away. I am plugging my microphone on. I want it to be really as close to my mouth as possible without being, you know, on my collar and really jumping out. So I'm going to get my tripod. We'll try camera one for now for this, this. And I seem to to have loosened my tripod. I'm gonna try to tighten it, making it tight. I'm shooting these in a up and down vertical format because what I have found for me anyway is that when I am making Amazon influencer videos, I get a much better response when I am doing things in a vertical format rather than the horizontal. Am I saying that's the only way of doing it or necessarily the best way, even for you? No, I'm not just letting you know, that's what I have noticed generates a lot of views. 95% of my views are, are coming from vertical videos rather than from the horizontal ones. Now today I'm going to do something a little bit different in that I'm going to do, I'm going to do a bunch of books. Most Amazon influencers would say books are so inexpensive, margins are so low and there's already so many, so many qualitative reviews on books. You're not going to make much money making Amazon influencer video reviews of books. I tend to agree with that even when I have had good timing. So when Ali Abdaal, the productivity guru, came out with a new book in December, I was the first person to do an Amazon influencer video for him. I did several of them and I was the only one who had videos up for the first few weeks. And I did make a number of sales. But you know, the amount of money you make from a book sale is, is really very small. I'm doing this in part to build my muscle. I don't mean literally my muscles, I mean my self promotional muscles and my promotion. I wouldn't say self my promotional muscles because I'm trying to build a habit where just as a part of what I do on a regular basis is speak to audiences in different places, promote do things of value to them that can also provide some value to me too. Because if you don't make any promotional videos, if you don't make any Amazon influencer videos, it's very easy to just say, you know, I'll do it next week. And you know the thing about next week week, it's always next week away, it's never this week. So I'm trying to give myself a discipline of every single day I'm in the studio, I'm going to make some video. And I just didn't have time to grab products from home today. And I want to give a little more thought to some of my higher end technology products like this Sony camera I'm using now. So because of that, I'm going to do sort of a simple standby of promoting some books. So I'm going to do these right now. And now I'm looking for my remote control and I know I did. Here it is. It's right here. So I'm going to do a promotion for I will teach you to be rich. And I'm going to turn my remote control on. I'm using a remote control because I don't want people to see me sort of reaching into the camera, touching it and then going to turn it off. I also don't want to spend time editing. Doesn't mean you shouldn't edit. It's simply a decision I have made as I'm in an introductory test phase testing out various strategies and tactics with the Amazon Influencer program. My plan is get a thousand ads up, look at signals, look at trends. Then I can double down and figure out is something worth spending the time, effort, energy to refine it, edit it, put in production value. So that just happens to be my strategy. So I'm going to do these relatively quickly and so you can see what I'm doing. I'm attempting to do these in 15 seconds or less time periods because that for my content on Amazon has generated far and away the most views. You may have different results, but that's why I'm trying to do it. I will teach you to be rich. Maybe it's a tacky title, but this guy does know his stuff. He's become a personal finance guru to many and with good reason. Check it out. Now, I don't know if that is necessarily going to pass the test. The screens at Amazon, because they don't want you disparaging product. I think I still gave a positive review. It's not the single best book I've ever read on personal finance, but this guy is huge. And he's got Netflix specials. He's huge on Amazon. I think for someone really interested in this genre, it is a book you should check out. But I tried to have some balanced nuance to the review. It's an oldie but a goodie. Brian Tracy. He was good 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago. He's still good today. Check out one of his classics. Okay, I just realized I made one mistake that I did earlier this week and I want to do it again, which is to check my audio to make sure I am in fact recording the audio and I do hear it. So we're in good shape. There earlier this week, I made a mistake of I made five videos and went and listened and the receiver had not been properly charged, so I had to do them all over again. I don't want to have that happen to you. Okay, now this one is. This one has a, shall we say, a saucy title and a couple of things going on here. If I actually say that out loud, my understanding is the way the standards are. You know, we're streaming live on YouTube right now in India and other countries. If I say this word out loud, I could have my channel banned or it could have some sort of special rate. So I don't want to do that. I do want to be sensitive of varying standards. Yet I am trying to get a. I am trying to get appeal around the world. So I've had a few more comments come in and. And recognized. Okay, so let's hop in. I'm going to do this one. Mark Manson is in a class by himself. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a. Well, you know, it's gotten a lot of attention. It's a best seller for good reason. He takes old ideas and breathes new life into them. Check it out there. I was a little bit rushed at the end because I. I'm really conscious of trying to get things to 15 seconds and I was right at the edge. But I think I got it because I'm looking at the counter on my cell phone. So that's. That is how I know. So I don't think I did anything there that would offend anyone. And the title itself is. You can say they don't spell out the whole word in the normal way. So it's technically not any kind of obscenity. Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill. If you're building a personal development library, this is essential reading. Think and Grow Rich. It has been wildly influential for decades and will continue to do so in the future. Should be a part of your library. So this one is a little bit tricky. Napoleon Hill had an extraordinarily checkered past, which most people in the personal development world don't know. He can make the case he was a con man, a criminal, all sorts of very sketchy things in his background I didn't have the time to get into. I do think there's still a lot of good advice here. And, you know, if you care about Personal Development World and the history of Personal Development World, it makes sense to read it. So I'm not. People have asked me this question, T.J. do you recommend things that you don't really like? Or don't believe in. No, it's not that. Every single book or every single product I think is the absolute best product ever. But if it's something I like, I've used, and I have recommended other people, then I'm comfortable doing a video on it because I think it might help other people. If it's a product that fell apart on me, I'm not going to do it. There's a book over here from someone I've met before at the National Speakers Association. She's written numerous New York Times bestselling books. Her podcast is wildly popular. She's a great key keynote speaker. But the book is one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. It really was, you know, a tweet that she expanded into a book. But she has so many rabid followers that had like, you know, 10,000 positive reviews of 4.5. I thought, oh, well, I can't lose. I got that book and I thought it was the worst book I'd ever read in my life. I'm not going to do an Amazon review of that, nor am I going to do a critical review, because that's not what they're looking for with Amazon Influencer. That's for the regular reviews. So to give you an idea on it. Okay, so here's a course called High A Book on High Ticket Courses. This is a. This is another nuanced one. This is not a rave review. Well, you'll hear what I have to say. If you really want to make it in the online course world, you need to know everything. You need to know what every single expert is saying. That's why I believe high ticket courses should be a part of your resource library. So that's kind of a nuanced review where it's not the best book I've ever read on online courses. But the fact is there simply aren't that many books on online courses. It's still a relatively new industry, nuanced thing. So that's why, you know, I didn't sound, I think, completely effusive. I'm just moving that tripod out of the way. Okay. Yeah. We haven't spent much time on camera one today, so let me not let this angle feel neglected. I'm going to take out my receiver, I'm going to take off my microphone, power it down. Now the light is off. So it's gone. So now what I'm going to do is show you, show you again, soup to nuts, how this process actually works. What I'm hoping to do is demystify this process. Because if you're like a lot of people, you may be thinking, well, tj, I, I'd like to speak, I like to present, I'd like to speak in front of more people. I'd like to figure out a way of making money from it. But there are these gatekeepers, these people at conventions that don't want me to speak, speak even though I asked, or there's TV networks or I've asked to be on shows they don't let me on. Or maybe I've written to this product saying, hire me as your ambassador. I don't hear from them. The beauty of the Amazon Influencer program is it gets rid of both gatekeepers. Once you're in, it's not that hard to get in. You need about a thousand followers or so on a major social media platform. Once you're in, if your followers never buy anything of it, you can still make money. So it solves that part of the equation of Amazon will get you in front of real people because they'll put your videos, if they're accepted, on the actual product page. So for example, this shirt I have right on here right now, I just bought it a week ago, I did a video on it saying, I like the shirt.

Shirt.

Amazon put it on the product page for this shirt. And I've sold several of them and gotten little commissions. Is it always instant? No. Is it guaranteed placement? No. But I have no relationship with this brand, this manufacturer of this shirt. But through the power of Amazon Influencer, it marries you up. And you don't have to spend time knocking on doors or trying to get meetings with major manufacturers and major brands. So that's the basic principle. So what I'm going to do now, so I'm going to open up my safari. I'm going to go to Amazon, the TJ Walker store, and that what that is for everyone. It's Amazon.comshop/the name of the person, what they call their store. Mine is TJ Walker's success. So I'm now going to create content. I push a button, I hit a button that says post. I go to photo library. I see the most recent one. It's the high ticket courses. I hit done. Amazon is now uploading the video and processing it. It takes a few seconds. I would definitely, definitely recommend you do this on, you know, good Wi Fi rather than just your cellular service because this sometimes, at least for me, can be the slowest part of the process. Jacket has gotten a little crooked. So now I'M going to go to your order history. High ticket courses. It turned high into hi, so I may have to spell that out. Now. It popped up so I tagged the product and it did get a four and a half star rating. So I would be a little bit reluctant to recommend a book or any product that has less than a four star rating if you want to be an expert on selling online courses. Now that's not really good grammar, but for a title, I think it works now. So that one has been submitted. So it's uploaded, it's processed, it's submitted. If I go to my storefront right now, it'll say under review and typically whether it's five hours later the next day, I don't really worry about it. I see that it's been approved and it's available. That doesn't mean it's necessarily on that product page. Any one brand can decide. We don't want any Amazon Influencer videos on our part. That's their right. They get to do that. I don't worry about that, frankly. Okay, I hit create. I do post. I go to Photo Library. I do the next book, Think and Grow Rich. Now you're done. It's now processing it, uploading it. People who are really good at this will do a lot of research to go after the hottest products. They want something, they want at least one Amazon influencer video on it typically. Otherwise they may think the brand doesn't let you do it. But fewer than six because they will typically put the first six up after that. If there's a whole lot, well then there's competition as far as what people like and retention and all of that. I go to your orders, I hit the search. I hit the dictation button because I can talk faster than I can type, especially on a phone. Think and Grow Rich. I hit that. And there is the book. It does have thousands of reviews. It does have four and half star rating. I hit done title, still relevant comma after all these decades, exclamation point. I hit submit and it's done. I go to the next one, go to storefront, hit create content. By the way, I can already tell we're probably going to have a few extra minutes. We're going to finish a little sooner than I thought. So if you do have any questions, I will have time to answer another question or two. You have a comment if you want to come on screen through streamyard. I think we will have time for another few comments and still get out by noon Eastern time, which is in 15 minutes I hit post photo library. Now the books are much easier because I know I bought the books through Amazon, so I go through this a lot faster. This is the subtle art of not giving. You know, it's uploading, is processing the video and sometimes it's a little faster than others. The longer the video is, the longer it takes. All of these were in the 15 second or shorter range, so it typically doesn't take very long at all for this to be uploaded. I get your orders. The subtle art of. There the book pops up. Wow. 144,000 reviews. It's hard to even fathom. I know one thing he doesn't care about much is money because he's got so much of it he'll never have to work again. By the way, Mark Manson, he has gotten very aggressive at his YouTube channel and is doing some high quality content that's getting massive views. He had a major documentary, I can't remember if it was Netflix that came out last year. Didn't really do that well. I watched it, but nothing like the blockbuster success of his book. But a fascinating character and a skilled communicator. This book is unique and delivers powerhouse insights. I want to make sure I have no typos. I want to make sure I have no apostrophes because that messes up in the title and I want to make sure my dictation doesn't turn it into a different word than what the meaning was. Go to storefront. Create content Post video photo library. Now I'm going to go to the Brian Tracy book. Now this is a one of the older books in the Brian Tracy catalog. I honestly can't imagine this selling a lot, but part of what I'm trying to do is help sort of my own brand and positioning as someone who knows about, cares about and is a part of the personal development world. So when people see this is in my storefront, it's not that they'll necessarily buy it. I do think it is further helping my own positioning of what I'm trying to do. Okay, now I got a problem where my iPhone. This happened earlier this week and I meant to do something about it where I've got a storage problem. So I think I can do that one. But I may have to delete a few things before I do it. So I'm going to go to your orders. Brian. Maximum achievement. Brian Tracy Pull it up. Tag. Wow, he's got five star reviews. With more than a thousand reviews. That's very hard to have a five star review. Very, very impressive. Brian Tracy is still a personal development superstar. Exclamation. And that one, the dictation did weird things. It put a comma after his first name. It spelled his last name differently. So I do try to look at that carefully. I hope that didn't seem too negative. I say he's still a superstar. He's been sort of big in the business for almost half a century. He's been around a long time. I believe he's roughly 20 years older than I am. So he's around 80 and again, still to my knowledge, alive. And you know his YouTube channel, still putting out content. So I hit create content post video photo library. And now I'm doing the last book, I will teach you to be rich. Done. It's uploading the book. And I gotta say, I mean, I'd referenced it in my review. The title, to me it's very direct. It's simple. I guess that's a part of its appeal. It does sound like get rich quick a little cheesy. I do think he goes deeper than that and has shown that he's a master promoter and communicator. His YouTube channel is wildly successful and he has his own show. I believe it's on Netflix or hbo. So he's. He's doing a lot of things pretty well. Oh, now I forgot what I was doing there. I hit that, I uploaded it and it sent me back to the upload. This may be because I have too much data on my phone and it is rebelling. So I think I just uploaded it twice, which is not really a problem for Amazon, but what I may have to do. Okay, there we go. All right, so that is the problem, I believe. So I'm going to exit out Amazon. I now have to do a bit of housekeeping. So this is the sort of unglamorous thing. This is not going to make me Mr. Beast TV, but I do show this because I want to show my process and want you to see what actually goes on. I'm hoping you see that this is actually not that time consuming, but it does take some time. I'm not going to delete today's because I don't accidentally want to delete the one I just did, but I am going to delete a whole lot of other videos that I have done for this Amazon influencer program to create more data. Oh, I think the other problem is doing the TikTok live today. I think all of that footage somehow got on my phone and I don't know if that's a setting or What? But I believe. I believe that's what happened to me the other day. And it said my whole phone is completely full and can't save anything or can't do anything else. So I think that's in part what happened. So I'm going through looking for other obvious things to get rid of and I just selected 50 videos because video typically is what takes up the most space on a phone. So I've deleted it. I've made more space. I'm now going to go to Safari again. I'm going to let me back out of my page. I'm only just going to try to get out of that completely. I'm going to try to start from scratch to get into Amazon, my page. I'm going to hit Create Content. I'm going to hit Post Video Photo Library. I'm now going to click on that last video of that book once again. I'm going to hit Done. It's processing it. It's uploading it now. What happened earlier and earlier in the week is, I think because my phone was so full, it sent me back to the previous page where I had to upload again. I'm hoping it doesn't do that this time. And it did. So there's. What I'm going to have to do, unfortunately, is delete my TikTok, which I don't like to do because I had the whole. I had. I had to sign in the whole thing again today. But I believe that's the only way I can do that. So I'm going to go to. Well, I won't bore you with those tedious details. I'm going to have to do that offline because it is a bit tricky to be doing technical things while continuing to have a conversation with people. Because I see some of you are with me on YouTube right now. Some of you have joined me from Twitter, From X, from LinkedIn, some of you are with me through Facebook. So it is a bit of a cognitive stress level when you're thinking about, I'm doing something on my phone, I'm trying to do something technical. I'm trying to have a conversation with people, trying to have a conversation with people around the world. I'm trying to have a conversation and figuring out, do I want to be on this camera, this camera or that camera, Do I want to shift on my mixer? Do I have I. Am I up to date on comments? Did I miss a comment from the private chat? So there's a lot of things going on that are taxing. There's A mental load. I say that not because I want to dissuade you from attempting to do live streams. I do think live streaming is a fantastic way of communicating, connecting with people, having interactions. Like, Alex is still with me here. I really appreciate Alex joining us today. I could post videos, edit them on demand all day long for the next three years on Instagram. I don't think Alex and I would have the same connection as we did today just because I went live and Alex was nice enough to join me first from TikTok and then from YouTube and Streamyard so we could actually meet, actually talk, have a conversation and find out about each other. So I do think there's trouble, tremendous value in going live and I want to urge you to try it. The other thing I love about live is I have to be honest with you, I'm lazy. I always love figuring out a way of competing where there's a lot less competition. And 99% of the world, 99 point probably 99% of the world, is never going to stream live because people are afraid of it. Oh my gosh. What if I make a mistake? Well, I made plenty of mistakes today. Guess what? If you're watching this, you're still here. So I would not worry about making mistakes as much as. Well, there's one mistake I do want you to worry about, and that is the mistake of lost opportunity. Every single day you don't go live, it's a lost opportunity to connect with people around the world every day you don't make a video. It is a lost opportunity of connecting with people all over the world every second of the day, forever or as long as the Internet exists. So those are the opportunities I worry about missing. And I want you to at least give some thought to it. No, not everybody has to live stream three hours a day. Yes, you could make a case it's too much. But when it comes down to live streaming too much or too little, I am convinced most people do it too little because most people don't do it at all. Most people post too little content because most people don't post content at all. Most people just consume content. And I'm going to say something, I hope it doesn't offend anybody. But I do think we are increasingly moving into a world of not just haves and have nots, not just rich and poor, there's certainly plenty of that, but a world that's divided between content creators and content consumers. And those who just consume are going to be left behind and are going to fall further behind those who are creators. Now, not everybody has to be a video creator. Some people's creation is they create the absolute best experience for sick people and their families because they are a fantastic manager of a community hospital and they give every second of their energy to creating a wonderful, nurturing experience 8, 10, 12 hours a day in that hospital. So I'm not saying everybody has to be just like me, but I do think we live in a world that is consistently rewarding creators of all stripes. And when you're creating something that's in a digital format, it can be working for you. When you're not, it can be working for you, marketing you, spreading your word, spreading your expertise, selling you all over the world 247 while you do other things and while you're spending your time learning more things, creating more things and going on to the next project. So I do hope that by seeing me go live, by seeing my mistakes, by seeing me realize, oh, I forgot to put my mic in, oh, I forgot to charge my receiver, you realize you don't have to be perfect at this. I'm not perfect, but I do try to help a lot of people and I do reach a lot of people. Not just my 2 million online students, but any given month, even though it's not as big as I want, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people are exposed to and consume at least some of my video content on social media platforms. Some people read my books, you know, people learn in different ways. And something I'm very excited about in the coming months is doing even more content in long form interview format which will be shared on podcast platform. Now currently even a show like this today is listed as a YouTube podcast, which means Google Music. I forget if it's Google Music or YouTube Music has this content. And if you listen to your other podcast through that podcasting platform, you can consider assume this show is audio only. But pretty soon in the next month I'll be doing long form interviews with communications experts, best selling authors, and we'll be doing it in a video format like this, but we'll also be stripping out the audio and the audio will be put on Spotify and itunes and Google Podcast, all these other 30 platforms or so to reach more of an audience. So that's some of the plan that we're working on now and a lot of exciting things going on. So thank you so much for joining me today. I'm T.J. walker. 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