🔴 How to Be Comfortable On Camera (From Someone Who Was Scared for Years!)

- What's up guys?

Pat Flynn here.

Thank you so much for watching this.

If you're watching the replay, by the way,

this is a live stream,

but the replay will be extremely valuable for you,

because we're gonna be talking about

how to get comfortable on camera, something that I was not

I was not okay with the camera.

This would have never happened years ago,

and there were some certain things that I've told myself,

and a lot of great advice that I've gotten from others,

to help myself get comfortable on camera,

and with where a lot of things are headed,

and obviously, if you're watching YouTube right now,

you know how important it is to get on video now.

I still enjoy podcasting.

I'm still writing, writing books and writing on my blog,

but video,

there's a lot of things happening

in the video space right now.

YouTube and maybe Amazon

getting into the video space as well,

live streaming on Facebook,

all these things are really important,

and if you're not comfortable on camera,

it'll definitely show,

so make sure you stick around,

because we're gonna talk a lot about those strategies,

and those mindset things.

Sometimes the limiting beliefs that you might have,

that'll stop you from, hopefully,

delivering a lot of value to people,

and you growing your audience, growing your business,

getting customers, and all of those kinds of things.

What's up, guys?

Let's see who's in the room right now.

We got C.J., Tim, Roz One, Neptune, Dale.

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Good to see you.

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but they will happen more often,

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in an announcement at the end of last week's live stream

that you guys are Team Flynn.

Like Team Flynn used to be known as my team,

Matt, and Mindy, and Jessica,

and a number of other people who support me,

and they're definitely Team Flynn, they're really important,

but similarly, and just as important, are you guys,

those of you, the fans of SPI,

and the fans of Pat Flynn, Team Flynn,

and I like that, because,

and I was actually using this previous week

to test and kind of get a feel for

what you guys thought of that,

a lot of people are using the hashtag #TeamFlynn

just randomly now,

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I'm not this guy on top of a mountain

talking down to you guys.

I don't know everything, but you know what?

I'm in this game with you,

and yes, maybe I'm the team captain.

I have that captain's armband,

like in hockey or soccer,

but we're in this together.

We're shooting passes to each other.

You're kicking the ball in.

I'm kicking the ball in.

We're doing it together, right?

We're figuring this out together,

and that's why we are here.

So what's up, guys?

Good to see you.

Let's see, Brian in the house, Gianna.

"Thank you for all your help," says Cisco.

Hey guys, thank you.

I appreciate you,

and again, make sure you stick around and watch this,

'cause we're gonna talk about how to get comfortable

in front of a camera,

something that I haven't only started to experience

until just very recently

now that I've been doing a lot of video,

and that's actually

one of the pieces of advice I wanted to give you is that

you can only get comfortable with things, sometimes,

the more you do them,

and so one thing that I've been doing recently

is going pretty hard here on YouTube.

As you can see, we have

What do we have now?

98,914 subscribers,

so we are closing in on six figures of subscribers,

which is insane.

Team Flynn for the win.

Thank you guys.

I appreciate you,

but I definitely wouldn't have gotten this comfortable

if I just didn't start.

Now, I will say that I started videos on YouTube

in September of 2009,

so this channel's been around for nearly 10 years,

and only recently have I started to really push hard on it,

because, not just because I was super-focused

on podcasting and stuff at first,

but also because I just was afraid.

I was afraid of what people were gonna say.

YouTube, I had known

as just being a nasty place for nasty comments,

and all these kinds of things.

So I was scared, and I didn't wanna put my face on camera,

and actually, when I started out, I didn't do that at all.

I actually did screen recordings

using tools like ScreenFlow and Camtasia

to get people to understand what I had to teach,

without having to see my face,

because I was recording what was on my computer.

By the way, I do want to talk to you

about where this topic came from.

It actually came as a result of, actually,

if I can head to my computer...

community, and also sharing this,

and one of the calls to actions I have for you,

sometime in this conversation,

let me know what kinds of other videos

you want me to create,

because I'm listening to you guys.

I'm creating a lot of my video content

as a result of which you guys absolutely need help with.

So I'm stoked about that.

Let's see, and we're back, volume out.

Oh, we lost the audio when I did that.

Hmm, that wasn't good.

Okay, so anyway, did you see the screen, though?

Did you see the screen

where I showed the image of the question that came in?

I just wanna make sure,

and you can let me know as I continue here.

Thanks for letting me know.

Okay, you saw the image, which is great.

You probably assumed that I might have said,

"Hey, thanks for the questions,"

this was a question actually coming from the community,

and also make sure that you continue to ask questions,

and tell me which videos I need to create for you,

'cause that's why I'm here as your team captain.

So we're gonna talk about

we're gonna talk about being comfortable on camera, which,

we'll bring that up right now.

So one of the things that I wanna mention is that

not only just going live and doing more YouTube videos

has gotten me comfortable,

but there was a lot of mindset issues that I was having,

related to what I thought other people would say to me,

and as I was saying earlier,

YouTube was this nasty place, in my head,

where I felt like I was just only opening up myself

for comments like that,

and I have gotten comments like that,

and you know what?

Those aren't the people that I wanna serve

or hang out with anyway,

so I had to grow a little bit of a thick skin

in order to understand that, you know what?

There are people out there who really do need my help,

and in order for me to reach them,

I kinda have to get through a lot of that nasty stuff

that might be out there.

This is actually something that I'm teaching my kids now.

My son has a YouTube channel,

and he hasn't had any, like, haters yet,

but I'm getting him ready and prepared for that, which is,

there's a lot of debate between,

you know, is a person too young to start on YouTube,

and I definitely think there's a line.

A person has to be ready for YouTube,

but I think there's a lot of great things

that can happen having a young person on YouTube,

not just the work ethic of getting videos up,

and learning how to edit videos,

and being a creator,

and being comfortable with putting yourself out there,

shipping something that's not necessarily perfect.

Those are all really important lessons that YouTubers,

and anybody creating anything, really, is learning,

but also the interaction that you have with your community,

not just the good parts of it,

but also the bad parts of it too.

I remember, when I started my business back in 2008,

I had a hater do some really nasty things, actually,

just to make a long story short.

This person posted a really hateful comment

about me on one of my blog posts.

It was like 2,000 words long,

just all this nasty stuff,

and I, of course, deleted it,

'cause that was my home,

my website's my home,

I can remove that,

but then I got all my friends,

wherever I was mentioned on another website,

wherever I was featured in a podcast episode

on another person's website,

that same comment was copied and pasted

in each of those different places,

so I got, like, 50 emails from all my friends

within a 10-minute time period,

saying, "Who's this guy?

"What happened here?

"Why is this happening?"

And I shut down.

I didn't even work for like two or three weeks,

because all I could think about was just

this hateful person who was saying these nasty things,

and I started to, like,

a little believe what this person was saying,

because we kinda get into our own heads in that way,

and oftentimes it starts with what other people,

these external factors, are saying.

So what I eventually did was,

I said, "Hey, can I get on a call with you,

"'cause I just need to learn why you're doing this."

I had to like fact it.

I wouldn't normally recommend doing that.

This was something that I picked up from GaryVee.

Sometimes the best way to handle this

is to actually go to that person

and figure out what's going on,

and I eventually found out that this person was doing it

because I was an easy target,

and because he thought he could get traffic from it,

which was just like...

I can't believe that a person would do that, for one,

but it just made me realize

that there are some really hateful, nasty people out there,

and what eventually got me over the edge

coming back to reality

was actually my buddy Derek Halpern,

who has a YouTube channel called Planet Derek

at Social Triggers.

He said, "Pat, dude, every second you wasted

thinking about this guy,

the three weeks that you just wasted away

thinking about this guy,

you were also taking away from those who really needed you,

who have obviously supported you,"

and we have this weird entrepreneur math,

where one negative comment

is greater than 1,000 positive comments.

So moving forward, I started to realize that, you know what?

It's not important what the haters say.

It's important how well you're helping those

who actually are opening up to listen to you,

if that makes sense.

So yeah, Bad Kitty says, "A horrible hater for sure.

"What's his channel name?

"Aren't you supposed to be 18 years and above

"to start a channel?"

You are, to start a channel.

So with parental consent,

you can have kids kind of be the character in that channel

that is the main person,

and that's what my son's is.

So I'm not here to grow his channel,

but I'm just here to talk about it,

but anyway, that was one thing

that got me over the edge of being uncomfortable,

was just knowing that,

yes, I'm gonna set those expectations.

There will be haters.

There will be trolls, and that's okay.

There are people out there who do need you,

who do understand that you are there to help,

and who want, and are open for that help to you.

So that's one thing.

Another thing that I learned recently,

and you may have seen a video of me

walking around Disney World.

I was holding a gimbal.

It was actually the DJI gimbal, Osmo, which is really cool

because it allows you to film on the go,

but in a very, very cool,

floaty kind of Steadicam kind of way,

and I got a lot of comments from people

saying, "How were you able to do that?"

There's people looking at me,

and there's people in the background,

like saying "hello" and stuff,

and for many people that's very distracting.

I wouldn't have ever done that before,

because I was always too embarrassed

about what other people were thinking of me while filming,

and essentially talking to myself,

and yes, I was talking to you,

those of you who were watching me on YouTube,

but obviously, I mean, that wasn't even live.

That was recorded video,

recorded in Main Street in Disneyland,

or Disney World in Florida, but you know what?

I eventually learned,

and actually I learned this from Sean Cannell,

who was recently featured in a YouTube video on my channel,

where we took a drive in a Tesla,

and I got to understand his origin story.

You might know him from Video Influencers and Think Media.

Actually, there's a card up there

that you can actually click on right now,

that'll take you to the video later on.

I recommend going there after this

so you can see my Tesla YouTube studio.

So we set up GoPros and everything, and we interviewed Sean,

and what's really interesting about that video,

just metrics-wise,

I know a lot of you are interested in this stuff.

That video's like 30 minutes long,

which is quite long for YouTube,

and I've had a lot of comments from people saying,

"Pat, I didn't think I'd watch the whole thing, but I did,"

and the watch time for that video's like 10 to 12 minutes,

average, which is very, very long here on YouTube.

On average, most people are, I hear,

are getting between three and five minutes.

I mean, that's more than twice that.

So thank you to those of you who watched that video.

Another one is coming out on Monday

with a different influencer, actually Amy Landino,

AKA, or formerly known as Amy Schmittauer,

is gonna be coming on YouTube studio in the Tesla.

We drive around San Diego.

We talk about her origin story,

and her tips for building a personal brand,

and doing that through video,

so that's gonna be a lot of fun.

Jimmy Lee says, "That was a awesome video.

"Save me some Top Gear vibes,

"except you were talking about YouTube instead of cars."

Yes, "Robert, I would love to talk with you," says Sean.

I guess there's some conversation going on, which is great.

"Amen, I so relate to that."

"Hello from South Korea," says Luke.

Awesome.

"I love that Pat is letting his own son do that."

Awesome, great, thanks, guys.

Teleprompters, so we'll get to Q&A afterwards,

but I'll try to remember that teleprompter question

for you at the end,

because that is something that a lot of people wonder about:

"How do I even know what to say?"

Guys, this isn't teleprompted, obviously,

but it's a little bit more of a conversation

that we're having together.

It's a topic that I'm very involved in right now,

being comfortable on camera, and also we're doing Q&A.

You don't need a teleprompter for Q&A,

but we'll get to that question later,

'cause I have used a teleprompter, and it's quite difficult.

Anyway, going back to being comfortable,

I learned from Sean Cannell,

and Benji over at Video Influencers,

that nobody cares about you,

and don't take that out of context.

Don't make that a meme: Nobody cares about you.

What I mean is, you're not that important

walking around in a public space filming yourself,

that a person's gonna think about you

for ever and ever and ever after that point.

Yes, they might see you, and they might acknowledge you,

or they might kind of be like,

well, that's kinda interesting, but then, guess what?

After you pass them, they're gone, and they're done,

and you're not that important

that they're gonna continually think about you,

and that was a big moment for me,

when I watched that video that Sean did,

because that was in my head.

I was like,

and it sound kind of ridiculous, right?

Yeah, you're right.

Why would people continue to think about me

after they saw me?

Most of the time,

those people will never, ever see you again,

and actually, something that they might be thinking is,

"Wow, that's really cool,"

or, "I wonder what that person's doing."

That's pretty special.

So I kinda got over that part of going live

and doing it in public,

and what's really cool about that is that allows,

and that opens up the opportunities

for some really interesting videos that you can create,

because you can be in a setting

other than a studio or a webcam,

which you might be used to seeing.

You can be somewhere, film just on your phone,

because the microphone on your phone is just fine, normally,

and you get some really good images,

especially on some of the higher-level smartphones,

and you can transport your viewers to where you are

without worrying about the other people around you.

It actually adds to the scenery, too, which is really fun.

So I got over that part.

Let's go into the teleprompter stuff, actually,

'cause that relates to, well, how do I know what to say?

So I think it's really important that when you go live,

or especially when you're recording a YouTube video,

that you have some sort of idea

of what it is that you wanna talk about,

some of the talking points that you wanna have.

When I used to record my podcast episodes,

and actually, when I used to do videos,

I used to script everything.

Sounds kind of ridiculous on a podcast

to write down every single word you're gonna say,

but that's what I used to do,

because I had zero confidence whatsoever,

and when it came to video, I was like,

okay, well, people do this because of teleprompters.

They script it, and that's okay.

So it was, essentially,

giving myself an excuse to not trust myself

to say the right things,

but to write everything down,

which A, took a lot of time,

but B, when I read it off in video, it was very much like a

there's a skill involved with reading off a teleprompter.

For one, I sort of noticed

that my eyes were moving back and forth,

and it was just, maybe only I would have noticed,

'cause I was the one reading it off,

but I noticed that my eyes were moving back and forth,

because apparently you're supposed to look

kinda almost in the center of the teleprompter,

and just kind of use peripheral vision nearby to read off,

so it doesn't look like you're going like this

when you're reading off the teleprompter.

Number two, and most importantly,

it just kinda sounded robotic,

and kind of monotone, almost like a lecture,

'cause I was just reading it off,

and I have done videos in that past,

for courses and things like that,

where I do wanna make sure I cover everything,

but even still, I love to now just realize,

okay, I'm an expert on this topic,

or I have experience with it,

so therefore I can talk about it,

and if I were to sit down in a cafe with somebody,

and they were to ask me a question about, for example,

how to be comfortable on camera,

I wouldn't script out my answers and then let them know.

I would just have a real conversation,

just like how you and I are having a conversation right now,

and just trust myself to talk about it.

Now, if you're recording videos,

you have a little bit of extra wiggle room

because you're able to edit.

So the way that I edit videos now, actually,

let's go from start to finish really quick.

I pick a topic,

sometimes it's driven through keyword research,

other times it's driven through questions,

just like in this video,

and then I work backwards, and I think about,

okay, what are the points I need to make?

What are the stories I need to tell?

What are the quotes that I need to share

that support that transformation

to go from where they're at now,

when they start watching this video,

to where they're going to be,

or where I want them to be after they watch that video?

So essentially I'm reverse-engineering

exactly what the content's gonna be,

and a lotta times I use Post-it notes

because I love to move things around and reorder things,

but that helps a lot,

and then I just take one of those Post-it notes, and I go,

okay, this is the topic I'm talking about right now,

which will be part one of this video,

and then, after I'm done with that,

throw that on the floor here.

Part two, and I'm just mind-focused on that part,

and I just trust myself to go,

because I already know that story,

because I already understood that case study,

and I can talk about it,

just like I'm talking about right now.

I knew that I wanted to tell that story about that hater.

I didn't know how I was gonna tell it.

I was just gonna tell it like I would tell a friend,

'cause you guys are my friends.

So hopefully that gives you a little bit of wiggle room,

in terms of how you might approach content

in a way that's still helpful, that's still valuable,

but not word-for-word prewritten,

which will sometimes, in addition to sounding monotone,

it might remove the possibility

of having some cool moments happen.

I actually took some coaching

I got some coaching for speaking,

and I used to write down what I was gonna say

when I was on stage, too, word-for-word,

and my coach was like, "You're crazy,"

and he said that you're crazy

not just because you might sound robotic,

you maybe can read it off and sound natural, maybe,

but more importantly,

you're not allowing for just random creativity,

and by random creativity,

I mean like sometimes you just go off on a place

that makes sense to go off at that moment,

because that's just where your brain goes,

and where your energy is,

and so a lot of times I do that,

and you'll see me in my YouTube videos just

I mean, you won't know,

because the YouTube videos are the way that you see them,

but the way that I plan them,

and the way they come out,

are often sometimes very different

for some of the stories that I tell.

Sometimes a story pops into my head

that wasn't gonna be there,

but then I end up kinda doing an audible

while I'm recording.

I just go, okay, you know what,

I'm gonna put that part in instead.

So allowing myself to trust myself, more importantly,

is the thing, and it takes practice.

It takes time, and then the last thing I wanna mention

before we finish up here is,

and again, make sure you stick around.

I have some goodies to give away,

and then I'm gonna do Q&A here in a moment.

The last thing is you just gotta ship.

That's the other important aspect

of having my son start to do some YouTube videos

is that they're not perfect, not even close,

but he's still putting them out there.

He's still seeing that people are commenting on them,

that they're getting views.

A lot of his friends from school

are commenting and viewing his stuff.

He does like gaming, and also like Nerf Gun-type stuff.

He's kinda all over the place right now.

It's another thing I'm trying to teach him is

how to niche down and really focus,

but anyway, that's another topic,

but what I love about what I'm teaching him

is the fact that he is publishing,

and it's not perfect, but it still works.

You don't have to be perfect in order to help,

in order to create something fun,

in order to create something useful,

and that's something I had to learn

when building online courses, or building my business.

I grew up in a

See, this is a story that I didn't know I was gonna tell,

but I'm telling it

because I'm just having a conversation here.

So I used to come home from school

with a 96% on my math test, which is really good,

and then I'd work the next two and a half hours with my dad

on the problems that I got wrong, and it would drain me.

I would cry, and it would make me feel

like I was not doing as well as I should,

even though I did 96% perfect, and 4% wrong,

we worked on the 4% that was wrong.

I was never really acknowledged

for the 96% that I got right, and that's not okay.

So I'm trying to teach my kids,

I love my parents.

My dad and my mom are awesome.

They taught me a lot of the values that I have today.

I wish that they'd just made me feel

a little bit more proud of the 96% right,

you know what I mean?

So if you're having kids,

making them feel great about the things

that they are accomplishing

is just as important as helping them with the things

that they aren't doing well, that they can improve on.

It's very similar to

Do you know Neil deGrasse Tyson, the people's astronomer?

I saw him speak on stage once,

just on a YouTube video, actually,

and he was telling this story about a spelling bee.

So a person comes up,

and so there's three contestants,

and the word they need to spell is cat,

so the first contestant goes up to the spelling bee,

and they go, "Okay, cat, C-A-T, cat."

All right, she moves on to the next round.

Contestant number two comes up

and they go, "Okay, cat, K-A-T, cat."

(buzzing) You got it wrong.

Sorry, you fail.

You go home.

You're out of the competition.

Contestant number three comes up.

"Cat, Q-V-H, cat."

(buzzing) Sorry.

You failed.

You go home.

So the person who spelled cat with a K is treated similarly,

and exactly the same as the person who spelled it with a Q,

Q, whatever, H, V, or whatever,

and the fact that those two wrong things,

although one is very, very close,

but still perceived as wrong

because of the way that that thing was structured,

that's not okay.

So he was talking about the fact that

sometimes we don't get everything right,

but we are very close, and that's still useful,

and much better than those who aren't even in the

on that planet, if you will.

So, all right, "Great content.

"Great point, Pat.

"Doesn't have to be 100% perfect, or the best gear.

"Just do it and get it out there."

Thank you.

Chris says, "He's getting some great experience early,

"having fun while working

"and learning discipline through those imperfect posts."

Yes, exactly, and we should all be doing that.

I'm doing that right now,

and a lot of the YouTube videos that I've come out with

aren't great.

I mean, they're doing well,

and we're getting some good velocity.

Let's see how we're doing on subscriptions right now.

We're doing good on velocity,

and we're coming out five days a week, which is great,

but there's still a lot of room for improvement,

and that's why I'm connecting with people

like Sean Cannell and Amy Landino.

We got Roberto Blake, who just went live, by the way,

or maybe even is still live.

Sorry, Roberto, I didn't know you were going live,

so hopefully I didn't steal some people away,

but he's coming on inside the Tesla.

In a couple weeks you'll see him on my channel as well,

and I just was like, "Hey, how can I do better on YouTube?"

I still got a lot to learn, guys.

(laughs) Nice, okay.

So guys, let's finish up

with maybe five minutes of Q&A here.

I want to provide as much value as I can for you,

and then I'm gonna do a couple giveaways.

I'm gonna ask you guys a question

after you ask me some questions,

and I'm just gonna randomly pick two people,

and I'm just gonna randomly pick two people

who answer that question.

I'm gonna give away an Ask Pat shirt.

So I don't have the Ask Pat shirt on me right now,

but it kinda looks like the Ask Pat logo

that you see right down...

Kinda looks like the Ask Pat logo

that you see right down here.

So I just wanna send you guys some love,

and some thank yous,

and also, if you go back to my previous live stream video,

actually you could even do it here if you want.

No, actually, I want it all on the previous one.

That way I can just do it in one spot,

but if you guess when I hit 100,000 subscribers,

doesn't matter if you get it right or wrong,

that qualifies you to get one feature

in a upcoming YouTube video with me on my channel,

and one hour of conversation with me.

So if you go to my 100,000 subscriber guess live stream,

which I should have probably linked to in a card,

but anyway, you can guess when,

and that'll qualify you to be put into that random drawing.

So anyway, guys, I'm here to answer your questions.

Let's go.

"Ha ha, thought that counter was digital.

"The Tesla poster fun."

Thank you.

No, this counter is digital.

Look at that: 98,918.

Okay, I gotta bring this closer,

because it is very small right now.

All right, "Love the lower, by the way. Nice touch."

Thank you, that's awesome.

"You're an inspiration to all of us."

Thank you, Darrell.

Hey Darrell, you're awesome.

'Preciate it.

You've added one more person.

Let's see.

"I can only manage three social media platforms.

"What are the best to hype my podcast launch?"

So Darrell, typically I recommend

a person just focus on one or two

and just go all in with it,

and if you can only manage three,

I mean, that's great that you can get three.

The ones that I would recommend you really focus on

are the ones where you know your audience exists.

So what I would do is try to understand

who else is in your podcasting space?

'Cause sometimes it's really hard,

coming in brand new, with a new offering,

to find out, okay, where are my people?

So the easiest way to do it is see,

okay, who else is doing similar things to you,

or helping that same audience.

What social media channels are they on?

And it might take some time to do that research,

but actually, through that research

you can also find who are the top players

to potentially build a relationship with those people too,

'cause that's what social media's about:

building relationships.

First, it's the social part,

then it's the media part,

and then it's the marketing part.

I got that from Leslie Samuel from becomeablogger.com.

I really love that.

That's the order of operations in social media.

It's the social part, the media part,

and then the marketing part.

So the marketing part comes

after you build those relationships,

and you have the media to share,

but beforehand,

when you're building up your social media presence,

I would go to where other people in your space are,

because that's where other people

who are in your audience are as well.

Another thing you can do, if you're not quite sure

who else might be listening to those shows,

one thing you can do is you can go to iTunes,

look up shows that are gonna be in the same category as you,

and then click on the Related tab.

This is on your desktop, by the way,

the desktop iTunes version.

Look up the Related tab,

and that shows you people who also listen to this podcast,

listen to this podcast, or these podcasts,

and that'll give you some idea

of who the other influencers are

in the space that you are about to enter,

and where they might be.

So you might actually go

and listen to some of those episodes,

see what their call to actions might be,

in terms of, which social media platforms

they seem to be most engaged on,

or where their audience seems to be most engaged on.

It's gonna take some work,

because not every audience, or niche, is cut the same,

so that's what I would recommend.

Let's see, "Would using the audio for my YouTube videos

"to start a podcast be okay,

"at least until I can create its own content?"

(sighs) So taking YouTube videos

and turning those into podcasts.

It's a very, very difficult thing to do in a good way,

because YouTube is a completely different platform

than podcasting.

So YouTube is very visual.

If your content is very visual, which it should be,

there should be some stuff

that engages people visually here on video,

taking just the audio part and putting that into a podcast

can be very dangerous,

because A, you might blatantly say, "Hey, look at this,"

and if you say, "Hey, look at this,"

and there's nothing to look at,

it's gonna make a person feel left-out.

It just completely reduces the trust

that a person has for continuing to listen to that show.

There are ways to do this in a very smart way.

Actually, I know a person named Chalene Johnson,

who some of you might know.

What she does is she actually goes live on Facebook,

and she takes the middle part of her Facebook Lives,

which is always not interactive,

but actually she records a podcast

specifically online video,

and then she takes the audio from that video

and puts it into a podcast,

knowing that that middle chunk was one

where she made sure not to mention something visual,

but still had people who were there afterwards

to ask questions,

and she interacted with people,

and people love seeing behind the scenes,

that sort of thing.

I think it's a little bit easier

to go from podcast to YouTube,

because then you can take audio clips,

and add some cool B-roll, or visual elements,

kerning images, text, quotes, pull quotes,

those kinds of things,

but don't take the entire episode,

'cause usually podcast episodes are much longer.

I would take just a chunk of it,

that accomplishes a specific goal,

or has a specific outcome.

So let's say you invite Gary Vaynerchuk on the show,

and he talks about all the different social media platforms.

Take the part out about Snapchat only,

and put that into a video,

and then title it What Gary Says About Snapchat,

or Gary Vaynerchuk On Snapchat's Future.

It's just a chunk of that larger conversation,

but that's gonna be something that's gonna be more useful

on a platform like YouTube, which is much more quick hit.

Let's see: "You're making tons of video content.

"Do you edit yourself, or do you hand it off to a company?"

This is a question from Josh.

I am doing a lot of video.

We are batch processing.

For example, Caleb is my videographer.

He's sitting in the back seat

in those Tesla videos that we do,

which is really funny,

but he and I get together on Mondays,

and we plan our video shoot for the next day,

and on Tuesdays we shoot all day

to create five to 10 videos all in one day.

I literally have different shirts that I change into

between each video.

Sometimes it's done here in the studio.

Sometimes it's done on the couch here.

Sometimes it's done in the conference space.

Sometimes it's out and about.

Depends on what the video content is,

and what scene would make sense

for that particular piece of content.

The ones that are shot at home, I edit myself,

and that's because it was only happening

this past couple weeks

because we caught up to our production,

and I've had to create kinda on the go.

Next week, we're gonna start getting into

more batch processing.

So yes, I do use, mainly, other people to help edit,

but I still edit a lot of the videos myself,

especially the ones that are filmed at home.

Jimmy says, "Which day were the videos batched?"

Tuesday,

so if you actually follow me on Instagram, @patflynn,

you'll see that a lot of times

I go and share some behind-the-scenes

of some of those video shoots.

James says, "Is there a max time

"you try to keep videos under?"

There isn't.

I try to make the video content as long as it needs to be.

Sometimes those videos only need to be five minutes,

but it's gonna be the best five minutes ever.

If the video needs to be longer, then it's gonna be longer.

I don't like,

whether it's podcasting, or blogging, or video,

I don't like trying to say,

"Okay, they're always gonna be 10 minutes,"

because what if that video needs to be 12 minutes?

You've talked about eight of the nine points,

and you're at 10 minutes already,

but the ninth point

is the one that makes it all come together,

then it would be weird of me not to continue on, right?

"Sorry guys, I'm not gonna give you the last tip

"because we're at 10 minutes."

No, I don't do it that way.

Or the other way around, trying to get to 10 minutes,

but I've talked about everything I need to talk about

in five minutes, what's gonna happen?

Well, I'm gonna add a lot of unnecessary things

in that video, and it's not gonna be as engaging.

People are gonna leave, and maybe drop out of YouTube,

in which case it ends that session time.

So we need to make those videos as long as they need to be.

I do try to keep my content a little bit more longer form,

to try to take advantage of watch time, if that makes sense,

but I never just do it just to make it longer.

I try to make the content as great as it can be

to teach that thing that people wanna learn about.

Let's see.

"That is so...

What's the...

I'm not sure what the, "That is so not okay

thing, S-V-N-T-R-S.

I'm sorry, I didn't catch that, but let's see.

Phil's asking

Phil, by the way, is a star student in many of my courses,

and is super-awesome,

and joined me today in some of my office-hour calls.

Phil says, "Pat, are you going live every Friday,

"or just until you get 100,000 subscribers?"

I don't know, what do you guys think about

this going-live-every-Friday kind of rhythm?

Are you guys cool with that?

I might give it a shot.

I wasn't considering going back

onto regular Ask Pat office hours

'scuse me, Ask Pat live streams, but I kinda like this,

and this is a good time to do it, so I'm not sure.

Neptune says, "How often should I record a podcast

"or post podcasts to video, or really get to use it?"

Let's see, how often should I record posts on podcasts

or video to really get used to it?

Oh, so in terms of being comfortable doing something,

how often do you need to do it?

I would say do it as much as possible.

Whatever is comfortable for you.

You don't wanna get to the point

where it's just a drag anymore, though.

You still wanna have fun with it,

and that's another important aspect

of just being comfortable with it.

As long as there's some aspect of fun in it,

whether it's the editing of that video afterwards,

like that's the fun part,

make sure to look forward to that

as you are kind of struggling with maybe

getting the balls to come up and shoot video in public,

or whatever it is.

Have some sort of fun in what it is that you do.

I think that's really, really important,

and that gives you the courage to do those things,

because you know there's always some fun piece of it,

even though a lot of it is kind of a drag

for a lot of people.

"I'm loving this live.

"This is awesome video."

Cool, thank you guys so much.

"Every Friday would be cool.

"Team Flynn, you guys are amazing.

"This exact time is perfect, Saturday morning in Brisbane,

"so I get to catch you live (mumbles)."

That's awesome.

"Friday live sessions would be awesome."

Thanks, Chris, and Seven, Ray.

Good to see you guys.

Thanks.

"Love the small group.

"Feels good."

Awesome.

"Hello to you."

Frankie says "Hell Team Flynn."

I'm assuming you meant "Hello Team Flynn."

Let's see, #flynnfridays, yeah, that's cool too.

All right, guys, hey, you know, we are going to finish up,

but before that, I'm gonna do a giveaway.

So I'm gonna ask you guys a question,

and this relates to something I mentioned earlier,

and this'll help me create more videos for you.

I'm gonna pick two random people.

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Actually, if I call your name,

send me an email, [email protected].

I will let my assistant know that you were the one

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Anyway, the question I wanna ask you, leave a answer,

I'm gonna pick two random people in about two minutes,

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We're gonna send them to you free of charge,

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So the question is,

what's a video you would love for me to come out with?

That, or who would you like me to collaborate with

in the future here on YouTube?

So leave your answer,

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So what video or videos do you wanna see from me?

And also, who you would like me to collaborate with?

One or the other, or both.

That'll help me, but I also wanna give away a couple prizes

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I appreciate it.

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that'd be awesome too,

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but if you're not subscribed yet,

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and if you've gotten some value out of this video

about how to get comfortable on camera.

As you can see,

I've gotten a little bit more comfortable on camera.

It is still something that I'm scared of.

I get really nervous before I go live or go on stage,

but you know, I do it anyway

because I know that if I don't,

then I might let some people down,

and hopefully this information was helpful for you today.

Let's see, "Time Ferriss would be awesome."

Let's see, "Johnny Cupcakes, CreativeLive.

"I would love to see you collaborate with..."

Oh man, I would love MKBHD, that would be sweet.

I need to come up with some cool tech gear

that he can review, though, right?

"A video on SEO."

Great, thank you, Amin, appreciate that.

"Collaborate with Chase Jarvis."

I love Chase.

That'd be awesome.

"I wanna see A Day in the Life of Pat Flynn vlog-style."

I like that idea, thank you.

"Would love more videos on marketing podcasts

"and getting more traffic to the podcast."

"GaryVee, GaryVee to debate your difference in approach."

We have a completely different approach, right?

Like, from him swearing all the time, to me not swearing,

to him never showing his family,

to me talking about my family quite a bit,

to him working so hard, hustle, hustle, hustle,

to me, like hey, let's build something

that can continually work for you over time, passive income,

yet we're still really good friends,

and that would be a pretty interesting conversation,

for sure.

Let's see, "Overlaying sounds for podcast intros."

So a little bit more technical.

"Ryan Holiday, that'd be awesome.

"The obstacle is the way.

"I love you to make more vlog-type videos."

"Dan and Lloyd, collab with Linus Tech Tips."

Nice, I agree,

definitely vlogging style would be really cool to see.

You know, that's actually what got me excited

about doing video again, back in September

when I started doing vlogs on my trips,

and now that I've gotten used to this,

and I've built a little bit more of a community here,

you'll definitely see some more vlog-style stuff from me.

Stuff that still comes with a lesson, though.

Like, one thing that I wanna do next week is actually

I was thinking about creating T-shirts for Team Flynn,

so instead of giving away Ask Pat shirts,

I'd love to give away some Team Flynn shirts,

and I'd love to just take you behind the scenes

on how I design those shirts,

and where I go get them printed,

and how you can get one too.

Like, would that

I don't know, I'm just shooting ideas here.

I don't even know who I'm looking at.

I often look off-camera

to look like I'm talking to a roomful of people

who work in the studio here, right guys?

But I actually don't work with anybody here.

It's just me, by myself,

using the studio right here on the camera.

So, on the computer.

"Creating branding stuff."

Okay guys, let's pick two random people.

If I choose you, congratulations.

Send a email to [email protected]

and we'll hook you up with a shirt.

Let's see.

Let's pick, uh, let's do

Robert, Robert Maisano,

you're number one, so congratulations, Robert Maisano,

and number two, let's choose, um,

let's choose Josh, Josh Kolbach.

So Josh Kolbach, and who is it that I mentioned?

It was Ryan, right?

Oh, I lost it.

Oh my gosh, I lost it.

There's too many comments coming in.

Hold on.

I just (laughs)

Anyway, you heard your name.

Sorry, I just lost it in the comments.

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