All right, cool, everybody good, we can see that.
And so let's jump in here.
So we like to talk about your kingdom content reps, okay?
So just like going to the gym, you have some new muscles you have to exercise.
So that's why it's feeling a little painful.
So someone said that's too small, so just let me fix that.
Oh, I did, sorry, wrong screen.
That's probably better.
There's a lot happening on this side of things.
Awesome, cool.
So kingdom content reps.
So you guys are exercising brand new muscles, the tech part,
you're figuring out how to write content for video,
you're figuring out how to talk to a camera.
There's a lot of new things to figure out.
So just be like practice makes permanent,
like you're going to keep practicing this and it will get easier and easier.
And so the way we like to think about this is a four-step process for your content.
So you're going to spend, the first step is planning.
You're going to plan out your episode.
You're going to think about what you want to say.
Maybe you're writing some bullet points, maybe you're writing a script.
And then number two, you're going to produce.
So you're actually going to pick up your phone, turn on the camera,
or if you have a webcam that you're using on your computer,
you're going to hit record, you're going to speak to the camera,
and you're going to sort of produce this episode.
The third step is you're going to publish it.
You've got to take that episode now, upload it to YouTube, upload it to Anchor.
And then the fourth step is just promote it,
like sharing it on your personal page, sharing it with friends and family.
Initially, it's going to be a lot of friends and family
that are going to kind of see your stuff and start following you,
but it will break out of that very, very quickly.
And it's a very exciting thing when someone on the Internet you've never met
or heard or don't know their name, and they comment on something
and just tell you how helpful your content is.
It will happen.
So the way we think about it is it just goes in this kind of continual cycle.
So you're going to plan episode one, produce episode one,
publish episode one, promote episode one.
And then guess what? You're going to start number two and number three.
And then when these 188 episodes end, it gets very easy after the more you do it.
But that just takes practice, and it does get easier.
So as far as planning goes, that's where you're, like I said,
you're outlining your episode, writing your episode.
You're researching maybe what's out there,
what other people are saying on this topic, answers.
Producing or filming the episode, using whatever camera you have.
Don't go out and buy a camera today or this weekend.
Use your phone, use your camera, whatever you've got.
And we like to say, like, you know, pick a quiet location
so you don't need to get a great mic.
If you're using your phone, the mic on your phone is amazing.
Like, this is crazy cool, and so is the camera.
One little tip that I will tell you about,
if you've got an iPhone or an Android or whatever phone you have,
just look at the size of the little camera that's on the front
and look at the size of the camera that's on the back.
Which one do you guys think is going to be a better quality?
It's this one on the back, okay?
So if you can, like, put this phone up, put your phone up
and record with the screen kind of facing away from you,
and you can see Hannah right there.
I don't think it's focusing.
Okay.
So that's it.
So kind of use this back camera.
The quality will be really, really good.
It's a full HD camera on anything that's in the last couple of years.
It doesn't have to be the latest and greatest.
Just if it's kind of recent, you're going to be totally fine.
So for your camera.
And then I'll say as well for your lighting,
I want to show you kind of the main light source that we used
for the first two seasons of Posture.
It's what we call a window.
We use God's lighting source called the sun, and we use this big window.
And that is what Lindsay used for the first many episodes of her podcast.
And so I jump over here.
I'm going to go to – here's what we're going to do.
If you ever want to be encouraged, go to someone's, like, YouTube channel
and just sort by the oldest videos first.
Okay?
It's always encouraged.
So this is one of the episodes Lindsay did on that weekend.
So she actually did five episodes, and then she launched, like,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
And so here we go.
Let's get into it here.
So this lighting right here, this is just using the lighting from our window.
Now, what's funny about it is if you kind of skip around, like –
I don't know if it does it quite as much here but in some of the other episodes
where it so this is probably a sunny day
but when it's a cloudy day like the lighting would get really bright
and then it would get really dark and then it would get really bright and if
you kind of skim through it like the lighting is
literally going up and down so it's fine but we still launched right we
still got it out there we still had impact people
um and you're just sitting at the dining room table so
this is our table here lindsay was sitting here she was facing
the window we have these curtains so if you can
we don't recommend putting like direct sunlight on your face right you don't
want to be squinting into the sun or if it's so bright but generally be
facing the window don't have your back to the window
right because then you'll just be a silhouette um
yeah and a 45 degree angle so she was kind of sitting in
this chair here kind of facing um kind of off to the left so kind of
be facing the the window and then just sort of turn to 45 and it just creates
like a little bit more of an interesting um lighting it's not like
the goal for lighting is not to completely
uh um overexpose or have like every little
shadow filled in and that's what a lot of people start they want to just like
put like a desk lamp like right on their face
and it just looks like very um stark and it's not
it's not easy to look at and so because people want it to look natural so the
sun it doesn't just come in and fill every
part of your face like it basically like there's little shadows there's
contours and that's what makes someone look
natural um the fuzzy background um
basically it's just like a different camera um so you can use a dslr so the
camera we're on right now is a dslr these are all things you can upgrade to
as you go um and again we've we've let our we've
let posture basically like create some revenue so that we could
basically invest back into some gear and stuff so
um you definitely don't need that to start um it will happen
um awesome so let's head over to the publish
section um just we're talking about creating a
unique title putting a description putting a thumbnail
and then we like we just went through uploading to youtube
and uploading to anchor for your podcast um
promotion like i said share friends and family there's some keyword stuff you
can do on youtube post on social accounts and then if you
have a you know an email list or something you can even share to people
that you have if you have a ministry or a church that you could share with your
congregation you could share with your um people that are already following you
so that's the that's the content rep um thing plan produce
publish promote you're going to keep doing that over and over and over
again it's going to get much much easier um
so with that i'm going to hand it over to lindsay are you ready
um if we can go and drop um i think uh we just want to make sure so
you get it's gonna be the same link as last night i'm gonna drop it again here
for the worksheets um there was actually a worksheet
um let's do this real quick actually before you come up
so
cool so one and two was last night there's a session three and you remember
what we just talked about um setting up your youtube account um
there's a youtube tutorial and there's a there's a setup
um your podcast and so um there's links in here
where to go um what to do we even linked um to creating like a canva account
which i'm not going to cover in here because i think we'll
it's just another step you don't have to worry about but if you do want to go and
like design something there's some templates
and stuff with canva that will give you like that cool
um podcast um graphic if you want and then um this is a very short um
checklist that you can kind of check off um that was for like session
three and then session four um lindsay's got
these five keys to writing a script for video so you can take this
she's going to talk she's going to teach on this but if you want to come
back and kind of look at this again some great great questions and stuff in
here so these worksheets are super helpful
um and uh did i not let me just drop that link again a few times so
these are for the notes um it's the same link as last night
all the worksheets are going to be in the same folder
um awesome what app do you actually use to send
video to anchor or youtube so randy um uh when you actually upload the video
so you're going to record it on your phone
um you're going to uh just record it using the camera app on your phone
uh when you're ready for it you can actually there's two ways to do it you
can use the youtube app that's on your phone
and just upload it and there's there's a little video in the
um facebook if you go to guides there's a video
where i just like walk you through how to upload it on your phone
and how to upload it on your computer
So you can check that out, but yeah, so you'll basically take the file from there.
There's no special app to get them in, you just use the YouTube app to get it into YouTube,
or you can go to the Anchor website, or you can go to the Anchor app and get it in that
way.
Awesome.
Cool, cool, cool.
Awesome.
I'm going to keep dropping that link in case someone missed it, and we get to tell, yeah,
great, awesome.
I'm going to hand this off, let me just change some settings here, and yeah, I'll share this.
Cool.
Let me just...
So when you're driving on the road, what is the correct speed limit?
Now I know you're going to say, because you're a good Christian, the correct speed limit
is what's posted on the sign, right?
But actually, the answer really, in our heads and hearts, is the correct speed is the speed
that I'm going.
Because if someone is going too slow in front of me, they need to speed up, right?
And if someone is zooming past me, they need to slow down, because the speed that I'm going
is the correct speed.
And it's a little bit like that when you're learning something new, right?
It's like, okay, this is either too slow, you're already losing me, I'm bored, or it's
too fast, hey, please slow down.
And we understand that every one of us is kind of in our own journey, and we're at different
levels of skill sets.
And so what we try to do, even outside of this live teaching time, we want to accelerate
and kind of activate as quickly as possible.
That's why we invite you to get your hands dirty, go ahead and try to get YouTube up,
see as far as you can get.
But we also put some buffer there for people who might want to stop, pause.
Of course, there's going to be replays of all of these things.
But we've also made, like Bruce said on our YouTube channel, some just short tutorials
that you can go back and watch, like, hey, I just want to revisit that anchor setup,
or I want to revisit the YouTube setup.
And we have some other extra things there as well.
So don't feel like you're going to get left behind.
And also, if you're like, hey, I really want to speed this up, I want to talk about other
things, stick around, we're spending the weekend together, we're going to try to get all of
your questions answered.
Each time we do this workshop, we kind of learn something new every time about what
may work and may not work.
And so we feel like we've come up even with a way later this afternoon for you guys to
submit your questions in a way that will make sure that you can get them answered in
a way that helps you.
So okay, I'm going to talk a little bit today about writing script for video, because you
might be saying to yourself, okay, I'm ready to go, I want to put my phone up or put my
webcam up and start recording, but what do I like talk about?
And how long do I talk about something?
And so I'm going to share with you what I did, right?
There's probably, if you go on YouTube, you can see there's many different creators doing
things many different ways, but we're going to share with you what we did because we don't
like to teach theory, we like to teach what we have experienced and what has worked well
for us and what we feel would work well generally for many people that are starting out as a
kingdom messenger or wanting to get online for the first time with messages they might
have shared in a book or on a stage before.
And so the first thing that I do when I'm writing a script for my episode is I focus
on one big idea.
I asked myself the question, okay, I've got all these thoughts in my head, I've got this
revelation from heaven, but what is the one thing that I want my audience to walk away
with?
Because people will remember the one thing before they remember the five things.
Maybe you've experienced this, like after listening to a sermon that's really ministered
to you, or you've been talking to a friend about a speech that you heard and you're like,
man, it was so good on Sunday, I loved what pastor so-and-so shared, and they say, hey,
what did you like?
And usually it's the one thing that they said.
Maybe they had seven points to their sermon, maybe they had five, but there was one point
that stuck out with you and that's what you're now reiterating to your friend.
That's like the typical experience.
And so a lot of times we are so filled with this revelation, we have so much that we want
to share and we're about to share maybe even years of our story or our testimony, and it's
a discipline, it really is, but I want you guys to kind of breathe and allow yourself
to think about this is not a one-time thing.
I'm not putting up just one video and I'm done.
This is now a journey that I'm on as a Kingdom Messenger online, so I'm going to have many
episodes to talk about many things, maybe around the one big thing, whether it's for
me peace, right?
This is really good news for people of the Kingdom because we serve a limitless God.
So like I shared last night, how much can you share about peace?
Well, I'm finding there's a lot that you can share because I'm receiving more and more
upgrade of my revelation of that perfect peace, right?
So I'm not running out of content any time soon.
There's no scarcity.
There's no...
poverty when it comes to the revelation of God, but sometimes we feel like there's sometimes
we take on a scarcity mindset even with our videos or episodes and we think I have to
share everything in this one episode because I want people to know the whole story.
And I have found that sharing parts of the story at the right time has actually served
my who better than kind of just sharing everything with them at once.
And so when I sit down to write a script, I say what is the one thing and that sometimes
requires me editing out things that I'm really attached to because I'll start to get, I'll
start to write things down or put together my outline.
I think, man, it's so good.
This is so good.
But then when I'm done, I realized I have like 30 minutes of content and 74 points.
And so I have to take a step back and say, okay, I'm going to use 73 of these points
later, but what is the one thing for this episode that I want people to walk away from?
And the second thing I do when I'm working on my script after I have that big idea is
I work on my intro, the very first thing that's going to come out of my mouth.
Now it's key that you have a quick intro.
I don't start with, hey, I'm Lindsay and I'm from Atlanta, Georgia, and I have a husband
and a baby and I just have this calling on my heart to serve people like me, millennial
women who may be experiencing burnout.
And I don't get into any of that.
I talk about the big idea because you have about really smart people, really smart researchers
and marketers have studied this out and they've looked at people's bounce rates.
They've studied people's screens and they say you have about 15 seconds, which I think
is still pretty long.
I think it's generous.
I think it's more like maybe seven seconds, but you have about 15 seconds to grab your
audience's attention before they make a decision about whether they're going to stay or go.
So that 15 seconds is critical about what comes out of your mouth.
And a lot of people, because there's a lot of gunk out on the internet, there's a lot
of click bait.
They say the title is going to be about this and then the video is about something else.
So we've got some skeptical people out there.
They're making very quick decisions about whether they're going to stay or go.
So they want to make sure what they clicked on is the content they're going to watch.
So you want to make sure that what you titled it or what the episode is about is what you
start talking about in that first 15 seconds.
So introduce your big idea.
So we've had people in past workshops and I think we even have some people in this workshop
that say, hey, I feel called to reach people that are in that second act of life.
They're people like me who are in the older generation and they may be tempted to think,
I don't have anything else to add, the best years of my life are behind me.
And I love that you guys are here.
And so an example of this is we had a guy in our workshops, a couple of workshops back
and he said, I really want to share my story of how when I hit retirement, I started pouring
into the next generation and it changed my life.
So one of his episodes could be all about becoming a mentor.
And so a quick intro for him on that idea could be, hey, I'm going to be sharing about
how becoming a mentor made retirement an exciting new adventure and then start talking
about that.
So what you're doing in this intro is you're telling them what you're about to tell them.
So before you even say your name, so like it would sound like this, I'm going to be
sharing about how becoming a mentor made my retirement an exciting new adventure.
Hey, I'm Greg and this is so-and-so podcast.
And then go into the content very quick, but it's giving people just that building
that trust bridge early on, like what you're expecting to get, you're going to get.
You clicked on this link wanting this content and this is what it is.
The third thing is I want to encourage you, especially as you're starting out or taking
messages from another medium online is to keep it short.
We would say three to seven minutes.
If that seems very constricting, the smart people on the internet, marketers and researchers
would say you've got no more than 12 minutes.
No more than 12 minutes before people's extensions fan or even people who are wanting to watch
something but see that something's 22 minutes long, they make a decision before they even
click on your content that I just don't have time for that.
And so it's important to keep it concise to serve your audience well.
People live very busy lives.
Love it or hate it, whether you think it's supposed to be this way or not.
People should have longer attention spans, whatever it is, it just is what it is.
And again, we're trying to serve people where they are and maybe bring them to where they
could be, right?
But you have to meet them where they are first.
And where people are is they lead very busy lives.
They have very quick attention spans.
There's a lot of competition for their attention on the internet.
So a way to serve them well.
Well, is to take your large piece of 30 minute sermon maybe, or hour long teaching, and try
to start condensing that into shorter episodes.
Now if you have more to say on a topic, which I'm sure you do, you can turn it into a series.
So you know, I did something a couple months back when I wanted to talk about some common
things that typically steal our piece, or steal our awareness of the piece we have.
So it was more than one thing.
So what I did is I took one of those things at a time and made an episode each.
I just made like a little series.
Like today we're going to talk about this, next week we're going to talk about that.
And I just cut it up for people so that they could, you know, they jump on and they see
it's a five minute video and think, hey, I have time for that.
I can consume that.
I have some time to like listen.
And so it just served them well.
So this is where they are.
You want to serve them well.
Longer format videos do exist on YouTube.
Okay, right?
Like we probably have watched, maybe you've watched like a 30 minute like cooking something
or a 20 minute tutorial on this, right?
They do exist and they can do well.
But typically those YouTube videos that are longer format that do well have a lot of scene
changes and movement.
Even some of the sermons that you guys listen to, like, hey, I like to listen to like 45
minute sermons on YouTube.
Typically there's a lot of scene changes on them.
Now sometimes it's just a talking head and maybe you turn it off and you're, I mean,
maybe you turn the screen off and you're just listening.
But generally speaking, there's a lot of visual changes and that kind of keeps people around.
Many of us are just going to be starting out talking straight to a camera like I'm doing
right now.
Not a lot of scene change, not a lot of visual.
And so it's just better so that you can start getting more engagement and connecting with
people sooner.
Especially you guys got to think you're introducing yourself for the first time to people.
So as they get to know you, they might stick around for 30 minutes, but if they don't know
who you are, like they're going to give you five minutes, right?
Before they give you 30 minutes.
Time is valuable.
People subconsciously know that.
And so when you're new to someone, that trust bridge still needs to be built.
And so we have some people on here that do longer format teachings or Bible teachers.
For instance, they have longer Bible studies.
What we encourage them to do and what has seemed to work really well is they have short
episodes that they put up on YouTube.
They begin to build some momentum, some rapport with their who, begin to find their who for
the first time through those five minute clips of little episodes, that one big idea.
And then they can point people to say, hey, I have more to say on this topic.
I did a 30 minute teaching on it.
You can click here to watch.
So it gives people kind of a bridge to the longer format content.
But again, the short format content is going to serve your who well, especially as you're
starting off.
The fourth thing is you want to make it conversational and invitational.
Okay.
What do I mean by that?
I want to encourage you guys to avoid generalizations, avoid pointing out your audience's potential
flaws, avoid making assumptions about your audience.
This is something that I still am practicing.
It's very easy to say many Christians struggle with this, or everyone faces this, but that
might not be true for the person on the other side of your screen.
And no one really likes to be told by a stranger what their flaws are or what you think is
wrong with me or what you think I need to fix, right?
So a way to build that bridge of trust is we utilize the power of testimonies, the power
of our own stories, and even what I like to call telling on yourself.
So you may notice that I do this.
I bring my story into the equation, right?
I say, hey, this is something that I used to struggle with.
This is a lie that I used to believe.
I don't know about you, but this is a lie that I used to believe.
I am giving people the space and quite honestly, the dignity to self identify with that problem
or not.
Can you see why that's important?
We have the wisdom of heaven and sometimes we use the tactics of the world to try to
reach people and it's a big turn off.
So before we point out the wrong, before we point out the flaw, before we point out what
we want people to fix or change their belief systems, why don't we first go the way so
that we can then show the way?
And again, I think this is the power of testimonies, right?
Hey, this is where I was.
I don't know about you, but this is where I used to struggle with.
I want to tell you about how the God of breakthrough entered my story and completely set me free
and just allow people as they're watching to self identify, hey, that's me too.
It's so much more powerful and again, you're going to win people to the truth of what you're
you're sharing because you're gonna help them
kind of stick around before they decide,
you know, I don't need another person in my life
telling me what's wrong with me.
I guarantee you, because we live in a broken world,
that the people that are coming to meet you on screen
probably know what's wrong with them
because somebody has told them,
and that voice, whether it's an inner critic
or an external voice of someone that
should be speaking life but is not for whatever reason,
like, they're carrying that lesser word in themselves.
But we, as people of God, carry a greater word,
Jesus, who is the word made flesh,
and now lives inside of us.
So let's use that greater word to uproot the lesser word
that's in people's heads and hearts about themselves
and about their future and about their identities.
So, you know, again, we have some people,
I love this, I love people who feel called to serve moms,
I'm a new mom, so I'm like, yes and amen,
we need more voices of hope and truth in our lives.
So instead of getting on and starting your episode saying,
you're probably a mom who is really stressed out
by your daily schedule, okay, like,
that's just, even if you say it very soft,
it speaks loudly, like, I don't need another person
telling me that I'm probably, I'm stressed out, right?
Why don't we try this instead?
You can say, hey, I don't know about you,
but I used to be a mom who was totally stressed out
by my daily schedule, but not anymore.
So I wanna share a story with you
about how I overcame the daily chaos
and then share how you did that, right?
Hey, I'm Lindsay.
And then just go into what you're sharing.
What I don't want you guys to do while you tell on yourself
is I never want you to belittle yourself.
This is not about self-deprecation, right?
That's not kingdom.
You can still powerfully show up
because you're living in the instead right now, right?
Because you've broken free.
So none of this, like, hey, I'm a hot mess,
or, you know, I'm a failure, I'm a sinner.
You know, don't belittle yourself.
Show up powerfully, but show people where you are at
so that you can bring them to where they should be,
and that's living in freedom and living in truth.
Am I making sense to anyone?
Just wave at me if I'm keeping,
oh, sorry.
All right, the last thing is I always wanna end the video
with a call to action.
This is where we tell them what we just told them.
So at the beginning, you're gonna tell them
what you're gonna tell them.
Then you tell them, and then you're gonna tell them
what you just told them.
Because we wanna close the loop for people.
We don't wanna leave it open-ended.
We wanna reiterate the big idea,
and we wanna help activate people in this truth, right?
So we wanna make it invitational, not confrontational.
We don't wanna say, I know we have people on here
that feel called, bless you for this,
that you feel called to redeem the health industry
and share about how wonderfully created our bodies are
and the things in this earth that can be used
to nourish our bodies, not destroy them.
So instead of sharing your piece
about cutting out sugar from your diet
and how that can be helpful,
don't just then end your video with,
so today you should cut out all sugar from your diet.
They probably should, right?
But there's a better way, there's a better tone
of making it invitational.
I always like to use the word, I wanna encourage you,
I wanna embolden you, I wanna empower you.
So instead of saying, today you should cut out
all sugar from your diet, end your video
by activating them by what you just told them
and say, hey, today I wanna encourage you
to start cutting back this amount of sugar in your diet
by doing, and then just reiterate what you just told them,
some of the tips that you just shared in your episode.
So it just closes the loop for people,
gives them a call to action, activates them
to then go implement the truth that they just heard.
And you can do this even with series.
So you say, well, I have a lot to say,
like I had a lot to say about the things in our lives
that can typically steal our peace.
But I took one and I did one episode per thing,
and so I was able to close the loop on each thing.
One peace stealer is accusation.
So I just told them, I talked about accusation,
and I told them at the end what I just told them,
and I said, okay, now you can go,
now I wanna encourage you to do this
about accusation in your life.
Sometimes it's not actually an action,
it could be a mindset shift, right?
It could be, I know some kingdom messengers do this,
it's awesome, they pray at the end of their episode.
They say, so if you're identifying with this,
I just wanna say a prayer of freedom over you.
I wanna say a prayer of breakthrough over you.
I think that's very powerful as well,
because I think there's a lot of people out there
that don't have people in their life regularly
who are praying out loud over them.
So I think that's very powerful as well too.
several ways that you can end it,
but just make sure you're reiterating
what you just told them
and you're doing it in an invitational way.
Hey, I wanna invite you to live in this truth.
I wanna invite you to be free from this today.
I wanna invite you to think differently,
take on a fresh mind.
And you can say it, obviously, in your own wording,
but that's the heartbeat of how we wanna close the loop
on each of our episodes,
is we wanna invite people into walking in the truth
that we just shared.
So those are just five things
that I use when I am writing my video scripts
and they've worked really well.
And I have just started,
I've been in it for almost two years now,
187 episodes and just,
I think it was 185th,
I just started experimenting
with doing longer than 10 minutes.
Up until that time,
everything I've done has been under 10 minutes.
I'm experimenting to see,
I've been with some people for a long time,
still people are finding me,
but there's a lot of short format content
that they can go back and watch in my library.
But I'm just kind of seeing now,
like, hey, what does a 15 minute episode do?
Am I getting views, but are people watching to the end?
Are they only watching the first five minutes?
So we're just kind of in experimentation mode,
but that's 187 episodes in.
So please start by going short,
making it one big idea.
And I think that will also make your creative process,
and as you write the content, a lot easier,
especially a recording process, I'll say that,
than just sharing 30 minutes, 45 minutes of something,
whittle it down.
It doesn't have to be a 45 minute something.
And what's key, because we talk about consistency,
at least once a week is what we recommend
for you uploading episodes,
as far as keeping you active in the algorithm,
keeping your who engaged,
keeping those creative reps getting stronger
in your own head and heart
as you do the creative process once a week.
It's much easier once a week to do a five minute video
than to do a 50 minute video.
So it's gonna serve you well,
and it's gonna serve your who well.
So those are my five tips.
What's next, Bruce?
That's awesome.
All right, so good.
So there's a couple questions that came in
that I'll just want to highlight for some people.
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Awesome, awesome.
So let me just see here.
So there were some questions that Kate, you had.
Kate's on our team, by the way,
if you haven't seen here in the comments,
she's in the issues that admin here with us
helping make this happen.
And do you have some questions for us?
I think you posted some, let me just grab.
There were some from the technical side.
Let me run through those real quick.
But she's probably been messaging them to us here,
and I didn't see them.
So let me just pull it up real quick.
So we had a question.
Here we go.
So this is specifically some things
that we saw like, I think we, yeah.
Can you change the name of your channel?
Yes, you can do that.
What formats?
Yeah, what format to save, MP4.
Honestly, you're gonna use the video format
that's on your phone.
Try not to worry about formatting.
If that was something that was holding you back,
don't worry about it.
Basically, you'll just take whatever files on your phone
and just upload it to whatever platform.
Hopefully, you shouldn't be messing with that.
Let's see.
Can you give tips on memorable,
creating a memorable or a catchy name for your podcast?
Do you wanna?
Yeah, I mean, I, for me, it came as I,
like my message, it kinda came from my message I shared.
It was an Isaiah 26, three promise,
perfect peace, and that word stayed,
just stuck out to me,
because I realized it was this posture
of resting on the Lord.
Here's the thing about posture.
It's meaningful to me, and it's working,
and that's good news,
because it's not very descriptive, right?
Like, if you, we've had, you know,
like people are like, is this a chiropractic channel?
Right, like, people, so I think that should set you free
from, hey, if something's meaningful to you, use it.
Like we said, like, use your name as well.
So my channels are, you know, it's called Posture Podcast,
but if you go on my YouTube, for instance,
or my Facebook, you'll see that it's Posture
with Lindsay VanZale.
So that just kinda brings me into it.
They aren't just connecting with, like, a brand name,
but they're connecting with me, a human person.
And so I know that they're, like,
Laura had mentioned that she had a channel called Entwined.
of reigniting the heart with Nancy Mattis, that's her.
So reigniting the heart was a meaningful thing
based on what she felt like the Lord was sharing with her
about her message, she added with Nancy Mattis.
So people are like, okay, this is Nancy's channel, right?
It's really Nancy's channel.
And some people, which is totally awesome,
just use their name, Lindsey VanZale.
I'm actually Lindsey VanZale on TikTok, partly, yeah.
So like I use posture across everything.
So people know that, hey, this is Lindsey on Instagram.
This is the same thing on Instagram, on Facebook.
Like you wanna use the same name across platforms,
but we encourage you to put your name out there,
even if it's, because if it's something clever,
it's usually not something that is descriptive,
or at least not in the beginning.
You kind of have to explain it to people.
So you can use it, but use your name as well.
And then obviously use that bio
or use that description portion of your profile
to explain a little bit more about what it's about.
So I know that probably doesn't really answer your question
of like, here's a formula to like find your name,
use what's meaningful to you, use what speaks to you,
but also put your name in there.
Because people, at the end of the day,
they're connecting with you
before they're connecting with your message.
That's awesome, that's good.
Cool, and the one, there was some other questions.
We're gonna have something,
let's talk about questions here for a second.
So, and if you want, we'll take some at the end.
So if you do want to put your hand up,
use the Zoom, just use the reaction Zoom.
Just put your hand up,
it'll basically put you to the top of the list.
And then we'll come to you guys in a second.
So I think we have enough about,
we normally like to go to 1230.
So you got about 20, 19 minutes or so.
Can I answer one question?
Go for it, yeah.
Because we've been seeing a few things about editing.
So this is the key with keeping things short
is I do things in one take
because I don't have the time to clip things
and edit out bloopers.
And so what does that mean?
Does that mean that Lindsey gets it right the first time?
No.
I sometimes have to record something like 64 times.
Yeah.
Because what I'm trying to do
is get that five minute episode in one take.
I'm not trying to get it perfect,
I'm just trying to get it done, right?
Trying to get from the beginning to the end
and sometimes I flub it up.
This is the power of scripting it beforehand
or putting it together in outline at least
so you don't get off in rabbit trails
and it helps you stay concise.
But what I do is I sit in front of the camera,
I hit record and then I start from the beginning
and talk to the end.
And that makes the post edit very easy
because you're not having to go back
and figure out how to clip up things
and take this out and then put this thing together.
You can do that, but it's a slower process,
especially when you're starting out
and you've never used editing equipment before.
So that's what I still do.
I still do everything in one take.
Sometimes that take takes many times,
but it's not wasted.
It is practice.
Something that we say a lot here
that my mentor Graham Cooke taught me
is practice makes permanent,
so never despise the practice.
Don't be tempted to believe
that just because you shot it 50 times
it's all wasted time.
I've had some days,
like there has been open weeping
over some of these episodes
because there's been some frustration
and I don't feel like I'm saying it like I want to
when I've had to do this for the 60th time,
but what I have always found
is something is building in me.
And what I found too is a lot of times
the message is getting into me
before it's getting out of me.
So when I'm sitting and doing the take
over and over again,
I'm saying the message over myself
and it's getting deeper and deeper
in my own head and heart.
And so don't despise that process.
But I really do encourage you,
do the one take
because it's gonna set you free from the editing.
The editing can happen,
but it's gonna make your editing process a lot easier,
especially as you're starting out.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I got a question.
Can I share this
or do you think it's gonna trip people up?
What?
Yeah, no, don't share it.
Okay.
We lose people.
Basically, yes,
we would recommend writing it out.
I do.
Just answer that.
I do write it out before I speak.
I like to write out my entire script.
It's just part of my process.
This trips people up
because they think then they have to do that
and they're like,
I'm just used to doing outline.
Then do outline.
Do what's normal and natural to you.
And if you don't know what's normal or natural to you,
try both.
Like discover that.
But for me,
I write out my entire script.
I'm only hesitant to share that
because some people hear that
and then they get frustrated
because they're like,
now I have to write out an entire script
and they're used to outlining.
Do what works for you.
Couple of the questions people had like,
do you use a tripod for iPhone camera?
So there are little things you can use to grab it.
I'd say for this weekend,
you're probably not gonna have time to order
a $10 tripod on Amazon.
So literally just prop up some books.
I'd recommend getting your camera.
it to be about eye height so if you're sitting down at a table or desk or if
you're standing somewhere just look at the height that your eyes are and try
and get the camera about that height and then tilt down again it's gonna you may
have to record it come check it you know record it a few times don't worry you'll
kind of find a spot for it and that looks good and all that and the work and
the other thing is if you can't do all that just just hold your phone and just
make it look natural and and you know just go sit in an internet