If you don't mind, you were saying, you know, we were both on camera and now through fortune or misfortune, now we're both in front of the camera. So if you don't mind elaborating on that, that would be great and I could potentially use this for content. Yeah, for sure. So it it's sort of we like like we said we're now forced to be in front of the camera right to be this voice.
And and we talked about it a little bit before where you know when both you and I got into this broadcast medium that you needed this whole equipment. You needed a studio and a control room and a cameras and a satellite and whatever to sort of get your voice, your message, your platform and and now you
have it on your phone. You can reach the World through your phone and you know, before you and I, you know, maybe would have been on camera here or there, just, you know, or segment or, you know, something we knew about or a cycling expert in my case. But you know, that wasn't Our Calling. Our Calling was always in that moment to sort of be behind the camera, to put the puzzle
together, you know. And now that we're in front of it, fortunately, we don't have to talk about what we were involved with before, which was either politics or natural disasters or, you know, whatever was just horrible stuff of news or whatever it was that had to be with news that maybe that wasn't our passion to talk about, that we didn't want to
read some scripts. And now having that ability to talk about something that we're passionate about, something that we care about, something that means something to us, that's what gives us that comfort in front of the camera. If you're talking about something that you really like to talk about it, it's going to happen. And I tell people, Jamie, what is it? What is it that you're passionate about? What is it that you love to read about?
What is it that you love to to delve in and and what is that expertise and become the the best person at that the most expert you know knowledge at that and then sell that have find a way to monetize that find a way to sort of you know show that off to the world and show it off by a little bit. But when you have that confidence in and and talking about something that you believe in and your passion it's a lot easier. And I and I know a lot of us are. I know you know what I'm scared
of the camera. I don't I can't get in front of the camera. If it's something you really you're passionate about it, it makes it a lot easier for sure. Now when you first started, you know, I was to be to be transparent, shocked that you went right on camera. And we're like talking to the camera from your kitchen and explaining everything. And I was like, Oh my gosh, how
is he doing this? Like there's a big difference between, you know, taking some photos, making some fun reels versus putting yourself on camera and delivering what you're passionate about and trying to connect with an audience. So since that first reel, you know you're you've been showing up on on camera, on Instagram, for example, on a constant basis. Passion drives you, but what do you think has helped you perfect your messaging? Looking at other content, you
know what I mean. Looking at other content, Really. Informing, right? Always have something new, always have a tidbit. Always, you know, continuing to be informed and whatever my niche is, right. Whether it's finding what the, you know, pain points of people my generation are and address how those relate to microducing or maybe how microducing can benefit them. Right. So it's it's it's the more you're informed, the more content you can create that's 1-2.
Obviously there's a whole bunch of tools now that are available that you can use. You know it's sometimes you know what gets stuck out. How can I come up with content for 30 days? You know, there's there's there's tools out there, there's AI tools that you can use and if you use them, you know correctly. And if you use them smartly and you use the right prompts and you really harness into that niche, whatever, it makes it a
little bit easier. I think the other thing is, you know before, I mean remember when we first started the work in broadcast, if you if you weren't an editor, it was almost like intimidating. When you see these editors go in there and they start editing real quick, it's like now you can edit stuff on cap, on cup, on cat cup. It's sort of yeah and it cap cut in a second right.
It's it's it's it's very easy. It's very it's it's hands on and for you know usually as you get older technology gets scarier, it gets more complicated there's more things there's stuff that you can use that that that that that obviously makes it a little bit easier. The other thing again for me and it's it's it's maybe because of the topic that that that I step in, right, that that for me there was this awakening.
And it was funny Jamie, because you know, when when this awakening happens to me, when plant medicine comes into my life and and it totally changes and I'm able to sort of find this new me. I still was at CNN and I was at CNN telling people like, dude, I'm micro dosing like, oh and they're like, what? Stop. Like, are you seriously? Like you're telling us that you're here at work and you're like on drugs? You could call them whatever you want, but that's not what I see
them. Like. They sort of made me a better person. So it was it was that desire to really manifest what I was doing, manifest what I was, what I was living. Right, this new awakening of OK, wait a minute. I can see life a different way you know I'm not look I'm not high you know it's it's micro dosing is sub is sub intoxication it's sub perceptual if you if you feel a tiny bit
it's you've taken too much. It's that sense of I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm so passionate about how my life was changed and turned around because of what happened that I want to tell everyone so it's so it made it that easier and whatever if your passion is look I love cupcakes and I love that when I make these cupcakes. 00:05:52,480 Like I love that people smile when they eat my cupcakes and put that passion into whatever content you're making. Right.
That that that that people feel that that I think that one thing and and and and I get it with you too Jamie and and your content is I get a sense that that I can relate to you that if I've met you on the street I'd be like hey Jamie how's it going. And you'd be like, hey, follower, how's it going? Right.
That that that people that you're not you don't sell yourself or. And it's you know what it is Someone someone said it to me that age of influencer of Rolex, influencer of look at me in Dubai, influencer. Look at me on my yacht in Miami. Influencer. Like those are gone. Like you're an influencer. Like Jamie's an influencer because she's influencing people who were on camera to say, you know what, maybe I can be
better. Maybe there's ways that I can present myself there's ways that I can shoot different stuff. So your influence, you're truly influencing people to do something. These other knuckleheads that are wearing, what are you influencing me to do by showing me off your Rolexes. What? How is that a name? Yeah. I'm not buying it. Yeah, exactly.
So you know, I consider myself an influencer because hopefully I can influence people to look at these medicines and these healing modalities a different way and influence them to maybe change, you know, and if it helps them then great. So that's that's if if find exactly, find how you can change people, how how people can relate to you. Find how, you know be that influencer. Not in the sense of like hey you know what sign up for whatever and you're going to make gazillion dollars.
No, be be be true to who you are. Be authentic. I think the the more you're authentic the and and you've seen it. There's there's people, seriously that you ask yourself how are they standing in front of the camera? Because they're authentic. Because they don't care. They don't sort of it's just me and if you want to accept me the way I am, fine. It's a huge world. It's a huge global audience out there. And yes, there's going to be people.
They're going to be like, wow, scoff and shut you off. But there's going to be people that would be like, Oh my God, that's awesome. We just, we have to take that leap, right? We have to take that. We have to, you know, it's it's when you're standing out there at the Cliff and you got that parachute on, you got two options. You're just going to stand there. You're going to jump.
And you you see that when you jump sometimes things fall into place because then you jump and you take a deep breath, then you open the shoe then you go up. But if you don't take that jump all those other things aren't going to happen. So it's it's it's it's it's again, feel confident.
It doesn't. And that's the other great thing about I think the world we live in now Jamie and I'm sure you've seen in content that's created and and you and I come from a different world because we came from a world that everything would they had to be perfect. Like it had to be. It had to be perfect. Edits had to be perfect. There was no jump cuts. There was no, you know, clips that were on there that was the wrong graphic. It was whatever. Now it's like, it's OK.
It's OK if you mess up. It's OK if you're normal. So, you know, sometimes we take it too seriously. We're like, you know what? It's got to, I got to do it over and I got to do it over and I got to shoot it over and I got to shoot it over and it's like just shoot it just. Yeah, I'm all about one takes and that's what I am talking
about in my workshops. I'm like 1 take maybe 2, but let's like you got to just move because if you take too much time, it's going to be time taken away from you living your life, all because you're trying to create content and that's not what it's about. So I really hope that we get to talk more about this on the podcast. So yes, really glad we could have this conversation.