Welcome back to another episode of the Putty Report . So I was thinking about this recently when somebody was asking me about showing up and being confident in my content , and I was thinking , when did that change ? Because I came across this picture . It was actually , you know , facebook , love it or hate it .
I mean , it's one of those things that I'm glad that I documented a lot of things on Facebook back in the day , like you know , six , seven years ago , because now I get these memories that pop up and I can see what I was doing in 2017 .
It was actually August 2017 , I had done my first public speaking appearance and this was like the first one since , you know , doing presentations in college or being an MC for events , which is also what I did in college , but this is the first time I'd done something where it was me putting myself on the line and creating a presentation and being very , very
nervous about it , but it was actually at my church , so I did it at a church .
I created this presentation that was all about writing and how to just do creative writing , what creative writing is , and I remember being so scared , so , so , so , so scared , and I think back , I saw that picture and I just you ever have like you see a picture and you see , like the nostalgia just hits you and you have that , this whole reaction of like ,
oh my gosh . I remember how nervous I was in that moment or how sweaty I was or how my heart was pounding and I hope no one could hear it through the microphone because , oh my God , I was shaking so bad and so scared . But I started thinking about when did that change ? Because it also happened whenever I went live for the very first time on Periscope .
I still remember holding my phone and my hand was shaking and I thought , oh my gosh , my voice is cracking and people are gonna be like who is this person ? What are they doing here ? And then now today , I can flip on my phone and just immediately start talking for Instagram story , or I can start recording a YouTube video and feel very confident .
Where does that come from ? Like , what is the secret formula to make that happen ? Well , there's no secret formula . I'm gonna share my formula with you , but it is the equal sign . So imagine you're actually looking at a formula . You think you're having confidence in your content . That equals showing up all the time .
Showing up plus consistency , so showing up consistently over time . So think about if you have like the parentheses of showing up plus consistency in parentheses over time . Time is the factor that everything really happens . Because what happens is people will come to me and say , well , I tried a YouTube video once and I hated it , so I stopped .
I thought about doing a podcast episode , but I listened to my own voice and it was not good . I didn't sound like I knew what I was talking about . I didn't know what I was doing , I didn't know how to transition from one segment to the next and it sounded like an idiot . And I'm just like it's just not for me .
It's not for me and it's really unfortunate when I hear people say that , because it wasn't for me either . I didn't know how to do any of this stuff . I didn't know how to do podcasts , I didn't know how to do YouTube , I didn't know how to do Instagram stories .
I didn't know how to record myself , I didn't know what to say , but I kept showing up consistently over time . And here we are today and I do feel confident . And I do feel .
You know , I still get that nervous energy right before you go on stage , but it fires me up , and I'm excited to do it because I know that I have a message that needs to be shared , which I'm sure you do too . I know that you have a message that other people need to hear .
So , if you're looking for the secret sauce to have confidence in creating your content , it's showing up consistently over time and that's what I'm gonna continue to encourage you to do Keep showing up , stay consistent , keep doing it and you will have that confidence building in your content . But that's all I have for you today .
So , as always , remember , keep it fresh , keep it fun and just keep going .