Hey, Mary Alice, how's it going?
I think you're muted.
Did you have a nice Thanksgiving?
We did.
Good, good, good, good.
And you're still in Carolina, right?
Yes, North Carolina.
Good.
Good, good, good, good.
Good, good.
And you're still in North Carolina, right?
Yes, North Carolina.
Good.
Lindsay's muted too, but.
It's okay.
There I am.
Cool.
Smile.
Mary Alice, did you have a good holiday?
Um, actually, I was not feeling well.
I spent it in the recliner.
Oh, no.
But you know what, the recliner felt good.
I bet it did, especially when you're not feeling well.
I'm still not where I need to be.
You know what, guys, since there's no, okay, could I have like two minutes with you after
maybe like a Facebook messenger, I want to ask you a question, but, um, so I have written
seven lessons and I see where the Lord is going with them all.
I put up one yesterday, it was scheduled for yesterday.
I just checked.
I cut off the back end of it because when I'm doing it on my phone, I can't see on the
right where it ends.
It's still on my phone and it's all on there.
Then I went, I tried to use, uh, VIDIQ, I joined a little $10 group, like you suggested.
And, um, I did, I use all 500 words and I got up to a score of like 17 or 18.
That way, but I did not find the one until later.
I was, in other words, I am so deep in the weeds.
I don't know how to get out.
Um, I found another place where it gave me the high, low, all of that, but that was after.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, well, let's start with, um, let's start with one of those.
Uh, if you want to look at the, um, uh, we can, which one is the most, so there sounds
like there's three, three things you want to look at.
Um, is there one that's more.
Well, um, I could, I think because the one that did get posted got cut off, I should
take that down.
You could.
Yeah.
And you could just repost it if you want.
Yeah.
Um, but I really need to get this video IQ understood.
I understood it when you did it, but I made trips that I can't account for.
Nope.
No problem.
Well, why don't we, um, do you want to share your screen and we'll, we'll take a look at
the vid IQ and that's probably useful.
Um, um, share a screen.
Share a screen.
Let's see.
Hey Denise.
How's it going?
Yes.
Good to see you.
Did you have a good Thanksgiving?
Yeah.
Did you, we did.
Yeah, we had, we ate all of the food that you can imagine that one would eat.
Okay.
Now I did not post it to anchor or life lessons for the heart.
I just put it there.
On YouTube.
Yeah, that's it is.
And.
And I have actually taped two others.
They're on my phone, but until I find out how to do it right, they're going to sit there.
Yeah, we can we'll take a look at it.
Cool.
Yeah.
If you want to look at the vidIQ side, we could if you want to share your screen, we'll
take a look at it.
Oh, then I hit this other share.
Yeah, that's like, there you go, we can see it.
So let's go over to YouTube.
We'll take a look at your video.
I need to go to YouTube or you're going?
You can go to YouTube.
Okay, let me get a another link up here.
Well, no, I better.
I have it down here someplace.
So sorry, I dropped my phone on computer.
And I'm there.
Like I say, it got cut off at the end.
Okay.
Is this the 40?
How long is it?
126?
Okay.
Yeah, let's take a look at you can click on either one of these that like the last
the one with
I didn't have
Okay,
the vidIQ before.
Gotcha.
So go ahead and just pause that.
So it doesn't play.
And then let's scroll down here and we'll look on the right side.
Okay, so there's 18.
So let's take a look at see what's going on.
If you click Edit video there.
Okay, I'd like to edit video.
Okay.
And then it will take you right into the place where you can edit all of this.
So let's see.
Okay, that was in the description.
And then the scriptures.
Okay.
Yeah, that looks great.
Call to action.
Yeah.
So keep scrolling down a little more.
So at a thumbnail and okay, so I can see what the so looking at this, this little box
here.
So that's a really bad box.
So you can see what's going on here.
You've got 18 out of 100, which is fine.
We'll fix this in a second.
You can always fix it after you post it.
I was wondering if I get this right, because I watched you do one and pretty much use the
same words, keywords each time over and over.
Yeah.
But somehow after I did this, I'm fiddling around and I come to the page where it actually
allows me to find the high and low here.
I did.
I was just guessing.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
No, no problem.
So a couple of things here.
So for the tag count, this just means like that you have a lot of enough tags.
So you're getting five out of five on that.
So that's all good.
The keywords in title, we'll take a look at this.
We want to make sure that the tags that we're using also show up in the title.
So we'll look at that in a second.
And then we need some keywords to be in there like at least three times.
So we'll do it and you can always come back and watch this later if you want.
Let me see if I can do this.
I did find some good when that I accidentally landed on the page.
I need to approve of you and landed on the page where it said high, low and medium.
I wrote down a number of them that and a lot of them had to do with spiritual maturity
that not many people are looking for.
Yeah.
Let's take a look at it.
So I think it's asking you to do something here.
So just hit deny and we'll do that later.
So if you can drag your window back to center here so we can see kind of what's going on
over here.
I know Zoom is always in the wrong spot.
So if you want, like, why don't you just minimize this one on that yellow button, just minimize
that one.
Whoops.
I think it's back here, actually, like right on the far left is your that's what we're
looking for.
There we go.
Perfect.
So let's go to the very top.
Let me see what you said the title was.
So is is such a big word.
OK, so that's it's a very clever title.
We kind of want to have.
So this is where I'm going to lean on Lindsay to actually help with the title and stuff.
So I think this is very intriguing, but it would make a great thumbnail graphic and the
title needs to be maybe something that people might be searching for about the topic that
you're talking about.
Okay, I'm going to have to rethink that because in the verbiage, I talk about this is he is
our life.
He is this.
He is that that's eternal.
It's not subject to change.
So I'm really focusing on though, and we're just totally fine.
Like the content that's absolutely fine if that's what you're focusing on, because once
people click on the video, you're going to give them what they need.
But in order to get them to click on the video, the title has to be something that they may
want, want to know more about, for instance.
And so I love this is is such a big word because it's very intriguing, but it doesn't
tell us what the topic is.
And so people might not click on it because they might think it's not what they're searching
for.
Your spiritual reality really is.
I don't know.
So you're talking about kind of living from the spirit, right?
Like, is that what the topic is about?
Yes.
Okay.
So, um, think in terms of like, go ahead.
No, no.
I was gonna say, like, I said, now, listen with me.
Christ is our life.
He is our salvation.
And I go and as he is, so are we.
So I'm emphasizing the is because I want to establish right from the get go the unbending
truth of our spiritual reality.
I love it.
You're speaking my language.
So even what you just said, the unbending truth of your spiritual reality might be a
better title because you're talking a little bit, you're, you're kind of using language
that people might be searching for.
Very briefly.
Can you remind me who your who is?
Is it people who are already Christians?
Yes.
Is it people who are a part of a certain age demographic?
Or is it kind of a no, I think I think more people are going to stumble on it, then hit
it directly.
And it could even be unbelievers seeing truth.
So I'm going to be contrasting soul from spirit and living because the subtitle is live your
spirit realm reality, lifeless heart, live your spirit realm reality.
So think about something that's clickable, like what you just said, the unbending truth
of your spiritual reality, or I think is what you said, or something around there, like,
I really like that.
Because it's like something like, okay, what is so true?
Here's I'm going to give you something that you might want to chew on.
Okay, so just here's an idea.
What you have that I think is to your advantage that a lot of content creators on YouTube
don't have is longevity.
Because you're in your 80s.
Right?
Yeah.
No, there's that's, that's good.
That's to your advantage.
Because what you have is breathing.
Okay.
It's a unique attribute about you.
So when you speak, there's an authority that comes from your longevity.
Like you've been in this for a while that like, I can't necessarily speak to yet at
being in my 30s.
Right?
So you might want to consider to especially with your titles, like, calling that out,
like letting that be something that you use to your advantage.
So an idea, again, you can chew on it and decide if this is something you want to do.
But like, a title, again, it doesn't sound clever, but it's very literal.
And it's something that is very what I would consider clickable is here what this 80 something
year old has learned from a long life with Jesus, or something like that.
It's not very witty, but it's very clickable.
And I think it's something that a lot of people would be interested in hearing because you're
not speaking any theory, like you've lived with Jesus a long time, I want to hear what
you've had to say more than I want to hear about what a 22 year old has to say, that
doesn't have a life experience.
So just something to consider even moving forward, as far as how you title these again,
the title is not really the clever part, it's literal view having lived more than it having
lived 80 years, something like that.
Yeah, exactly.
That type of stuff.
Yes, exactly.
That direction, I think would be
be really cool to experiment with your titles.
Okay.
So that's kind of the next part
is we would come up with a title here.
And if you click into the title,
I think if you click in over here,
you should see like, see this right here,
there says 23 out of a hundred.
So the ideal length.
This is blank here for me.
Yeah, so when you click in to like try to edit that,
then it shows up.
I don't know why.
So then it will show up while you're typing,
but you want to get that to about 60, 60 characters.
That's the sweet spot.
Anything beyond 60, they say is too long.
And anything, you know, close below that
or significantly below that is too short.
So don't, you don't have to be on a YouTube title.
You don't necessarily want to be like clever and short
and like to the point.
It can almost be like Lindsay was saying,
like a little bit more of a,
like a statement or a question.
I'm going to just type in some like title,
some you can copy and paste these,
Mary Alice, if you want to use for later,
but I'm going to just type in some options
while Bruce is sharing a little bit more
about the vidIQ stuff.
Yeah, there's some, what you have in the chat is good.
So what we would do then
is take the words that are in here
and let's go take a look at your tags.
If you want to scroll all the way down, keep going.
These are the ones that I,
that didn't allow me to see any,
they were just there.
Yeah, yeah.
So, okay, so I'm just looking here.
And I put Brian Orme because he speaks mature language.
Yeah, that's good.
So what you can do is let's click on,
let's click on that, where that little circle is.
Yeah, there you go, right there.
So that's sort of the magic button.
Now that should have a pop-up, I think,
when you clicked on it, let's see.
Well, I can do another one.
Try and scroll up just a little bit.
Let's click on it again.
Like right, yeah.
There we go.
Okay, so this is good
because there is 3,500 people searching for that
and there's low competition.
So I just wanted to check that before we go into it.
If I don't land on the page that you taught us,
I can put in words and click and get it that way.
Yeah, exactly.
So this is just a little pop-up.
So if you go to the top right here,
you can hit the X and it will close that window.
Sorry, this X right there, yeah.
And then, yeah, so now you'll be back here.
So you want to avoid,
I can just go ahead and delete wisdom.
You can delete growth.
It's just wait, like, is that growth of like weeds
in your yard that you need help fixing?
Is it, you know, it's just too generic.
It's not necessarily specific to what you're talking about.
Life in Christ is really good.
That's a great like phrase that I think could work.
So what you would want to do,
like, let's say you had life of Christ here,
life, sorry, life in Christ.
You would say something like with the phrase
life in Christ in the title.
So you could say like, if you want to use Lindsay's example,
like here with this 80 something year old has to say
about life in Christ or something like that, right?
So you're using, see how it just needs to match
what's in the title needs to show up somewhere in here.
Generally, like, unless you're doing an interview
like with specific people like Chris Backeby
or with Norm, like unless you're specifically featuring
or you're doing a quote from that person,
like if you're quoting that person on that set,
I think that's fine.
If you're just trying to get clicks through your video
that people who like Chris Blackbee would click on
that typically doesn't work so well.
So it works.
It's a different strategy, Mary Alice, than Facebook ads.
So you would use this strategy for Facebook ads
if you're targeting people that also like Chris Backebee,
but it's different when you're using keywords, yeah.
Okay, so goodbye, Chris.
Yeah, and it'll give you some more.
So you've got, you can see that number is going down.
So it'll give you some more space to add more similar.
Let's see what full stature is.
Yeah, I don't think it's too generic probably.
Very low, okay.
Well, and it's language that I can go back this way,
can't I?
You would just hit the X here.
Sorry, hit cancel.
Yep.
And then just hit the close at the top right there.
Cool.
Okay.
And yeah, sonship is good.
Like those are very specific,
you know, things around spiritual maturity,
you know, like it kind of makes sense.
But yeah, this is a great start.
So all it sounds like the main thing to focus on
is just getting the title down
and then try to take pieces of the title
and add them as keywords in here.
Always change with every video.
And yeah, in some ways you'll find things like,
we add like a Bible study or a morning devotional
or daily devotional, like to pretty much all of our videos.
I think spiritual growth is one that you have in there,
which we use as well.
It's a great one.
The phrase, yeah, Bible study.
Yeah.
So you see, you watch the video,
you're using all of our ones.
Bible study with me is a great one.
It's just, there's like 12,000 people searching
for that every month.
And so if your content is anything related to the Bible,
like use that keyword.
But yeah, this is a great-
So you're gonna have keywords
that you'll use with every video,
but then there'll always be a little bit of variation
depending on what the topic of your video is.
Yeah, you're missing one very important keyword.
Mary Alice Burt needs to be in there.
Not the Burt.
Well, yes, because it needs to be like,
it could be another Mary Alice.
So, because if people search for you,
basically you want all your content to be connected.
So now no one, if you, like, if you clicked on that,
like there are no searches right now at this point,
but if you tag this in all your videos,
since you're the one doing the content,
it'll start to link those videos together
to know that this is that content creator
and people who search for that.
So we quickly rank,
like we put Lindsay VanZale in every posture episode,
and we have posture podcast, we have posture episode.
There's a few of those keywords,
and it just helps group all of her content together
in case people want to search for Lindsay VanZale,
her most recent episode shows up in the search results.
So those are-
So you'll also want to use life lessons of the heart
as the keyword for all of your videos as well.
And LLFH.
Would I want to use the subtitle,
the current focus, live your spirit realm reality?
You could do spirit realm reality or spirit realm.
Like those, I would take pieces of that, maybe,
not the whole thing.
Okay.
But yeah, and the good thing,
so if you change the title
and then you change some of the keywords here,
I think you'll get a much bigger, better score.
And we can definitely jump on again
and take a look at it after you've got a different title.
Or if you want to go for the next 35 minutes
and work on a title,
you can come back at the end and we'll take a look at it.
Here's what I think I need to take this video down entirely
because only this morning
did I have the courage to look at it.
And the end got cut off.
And so when I try to edit on my phone,
so you know what, the last two that I did,
I didn't edit at all because I cut off too much.
I can't, I don't see it well.
You're talking about it's going,
I think the scroll, that edit scroll went too far.
So it cut off your end
when you were trying to edit the very end.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So did you, when you edited it on your phone,
did you re-watch it after you made the edit?
Sometimes I don't have the courage.
Yeah, so that is something you have to do.
That's pretty real.
I have almost posted videos
where like I've said like heresy,
like I've accidentally said the wrong thing,
like not meaning to, but just in my flow.
So I always re-watch the videos
no matter how painful it is.
But what you can do on your phone, Mary Alice,
because you're using an iPhone,
is that you would be able to even just watch the end.
So you could like make the edit
and just scroll and make sure that it cut off
where you wanted it to cut off.
And if it didn't, you just hit revert,
go back to edit and hit revert.
And so it will give you the video again.
And then you can just make that edit
until it's just the part you want.
Yeah, but definitely this is for everybody.
Like it's very, very painful watching yourself
or hearing yourself because your voice sounds so different
hearing it recorded.
But that is the only and best way to get better at video
is just to record it and then sit and watch it.
it like the whole thing start to finish.
And then, cause you'll just immediately see like,
why, why am I looking over there every time I speak?
Or why do I like glance over here?
You know, it's just weird things that you do.
And you'll, you'll be the, you're obviously
you're your biggest critic on when you're reviewing it
but it just helps to afford it.
And that way you'll, it'll kind of build up comments
but that's something just a side note, but.
It's a quick fix, Mary Alice.
Like if you go back to the video on your phone
and you hit revert, it'll, it'll undo that edit
that you made and you'll be able to just
you'll be able to edit it down again.
Cause all that happened was that you just
the scroll went too far when you were trying to edit it.
So it cut off too much.
So you can just do it again and test it.
You don't have to like reload it to watch it.
You can just watch it on your phone
and see that it cut off when you wanted it to cut off.
Let me just, okay.
When you talk about glancing up here and there
I've perfected my hokey teleprompter.
And so my pages are closed pin clipped to picture frames.
So I can kind of, but I downloaded B-I-G-V-U.
It's a teleprompter and it talks wonderful things
but it doesn't show me how to get the words
in front of me on the phone.
Yeah. I would try the one that we linked to.
I'll drop a link to it in the, in the chat here.
I would start, start there.
I don't, haven't heard of that one, but I'm sure it's great.
Well, okay.
Their sample was good, but it didn't tell me
how to get there.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Cool. I want to, I'm going to come back.
Let's come back.
The app that we recommend for the phone, yeah.
Cause there's one that we recommend
for the phone that's pretty easy to use.
Making a note to drop that.
I'll, I'll, I'll drop it while we're.
We're going to move on to Denise
just to make sure we've got time, but Mary else
we can go back to you if we get, get through everyone.
But we'll drop the link.
Sounds like you're, you're, you kind of know what to do next
with the editing.
Yeah, we'll come back.
Absolutely.
I love it.
I love all the movement that you're making Mary Alice.
It's huge.
It's good.
The fact that you have a lot of questions
means you're making a lot of movements.
That's awesome.
Great.
Okay. Denise.
Hi guys.
Well, yeah, good to see you all.
I am very happy to be here.
Very grateful for all this coaching.
It's definitely keeping me on track.
I'm just running into problems
because of the season I'm in professionally
that I'm not having a lot of time right now.
And I was communing with God about that.
And he said, take the pressure off yourself for December.
Cause I had a goal by the end of December
to post my first live podcast.
But what I've been doing and I still might make it
but it's nice to just relieve the pressure
and it's a lot going on and in personal life.
So right now what God's doing
is he's helping me refine my message.
And when I look at the sheet of clarify your message
define your audience, set up social accounts
produce your first video, go live.
My question is I'm clarifying my message.
I'm getting that down.
I'm trying to hone it down.
I'm much more, we've much more defined our audience
through some books I've read on the Dunn's
and people done with church, but not with God
and people that really want a deeper relationship with God.
And then I'm setting up my social accounts.
This is my question.
So I'm getting someone to help me with my website
but it's gonna take a while, it's a mess.
And so my question is
she was trying to get my links to Facebook and all that.
And she said, you haven't gone live yet.
I said, no, I haven't.
But in this order, do we go live on Facebook
and go live on YouTube and go live on anchor and everything?
And then don't, and just do that
and then produce the first video.
And then when you say go live is the fifth step
that's after you've produced your first video
that's going live with your video.
That's what you mean by that, right?
Yeah, publishing.
Just publishing it, yeah.
So I should go live with all my Facebook right now.
Yeah, you can set up your accounts
even if you don't have content that you're ready to get
go ahead and get your accounts set up
so that they're there and ready.
And so when your video is done
you can just publish to those.
accounts. Also, it makes sure that you get those, what they
call handles, you know, like the name that you want for your
account, like set and reserve.
I did that. I did. Yeah. I think I didn't go live, but I got
everything set up. So I'm sure.
Those are all set up and ready to go. So they're ready for
content to be posted when you're ready to go live now. So this is
the other question. So I want to listen to a podcast where he he
talks about a particular theme. He puts the the questions out
there on his Facebook page. He asks his audience questions
based on their responses. He does the podcast. So my podcast
is going to be kind of interactive like that. So I
may I want to get some kind of way for them to interact with
me. And that will be through the Facebook page. Correct? Not
through necessarily,
they're going to be able to comment. Yeah, not your website,
not so much your website, some people will probably go to your
website, but the majority of your engagement will happen on
social media. And people the most engagement will happen
kind of through your comments section, you know, like people
will comment on the video itself, ask questions, give
feedback, say this was great. I have a question about this. Can
you do an episode on this topic? You know, that's the kind of
like comments you'll probably get. And so that's where a lot
of your engagement will happen. When I first started posture, I
did not have a website. I came a little bit later. websites are
are great to have, but they're not necessary. I would I it's
kind of like your it legitimizes you in a way like, oh, she's got
a website. But a lot of people are not going to, like, they
might look at your website once, for instance, go sign up for a
newsletter, maybe. But the majority of people are going to
be connecting with you daily on social media. Because that's
what they just end up getting on their phone. And they're like on
Facebook. And it's like, oh, there's a new video from
Denise, or like, you're not going to like go to your
website. Like, I wonder if there's anything from Denise
today. It comes down to traffic, right? So like,
honestly, the more we go into this, like I would create a
website like a year into it when you're like 100 episodes plus,
like I would think about like, go buy a domain just so you have
it. But honestly, like, I've seen so many people just take
their domain and just when you go to like Lindsay van Zyl,
calm, it would just send you to YouTube to the page. Because you
basically, what you want to do is spend all your time where
people are right now, like take your content to where the
traffic is. So if you've got these sites, like Facebook and
Instagram and YouTube, where there's billions of people all
around it and acting it like no one knows to go to your website
to go check it out. And since you're here, like you're, you've
got a tribe site as well, which is the website. And so I would
just honestly use that because then it helps you get back to
focusing on the social media platforms and building that
following thing. But yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about
like, a website, I wouldn't put any effort, honestly, into a
website at all. So, oh, okay, used to be important. It's not
anymore. Unless you're doing like very specific things with
it, and you're having a funnel and things to like, drive people
to a specific product or a particular product or something.
You know, I just wouldn't focus on it as far as wrong to have a
website. It just can be a big energy sucker. And people think
it's priority when it's not. It's a distraction. Yeah, for
the content creator. Yeah.
That's what I've been wondering. I just need to get the
distractions out of the way. Like for me, notion was a
distraction. So I just put that aside for now. I'll get it
later.
Don't say that.
I know. It's really good.
Really good for technical.
I'm just teasing.
But, you know, it's really good. It looks like it's excellent.
But I'm really thinking, if I can just understand from you
guys, just what to focus on. And I keep hearing your voice say,
just put the first video out, and just put it on the Facebook
page for the coaching. And don't even, you know, just get it
done. And so I have four hours tomorrow. I'm hoping to do it
tomorrow. But the thing is, I'm just, I don't know how to do the
tribe thing. And I'm just trying to get, it's a lot to get
your message honed and your audience honed and all these
different sites up when you're not technical. And I'm thinking
I probably need to hire a technical person. Because a lot
of I'm listening to podcasts all over the place. And some of them
have technical producers and editors and, you know, and all
of that, if you can afford that, I think I'm going to try to find
someone who will do some of that for me, because
and there are like, so there's, there's, like virtual assistants
and people that we have used over the like, while I think
what and that can be very affordable, you know, to do
that. And
But I would say like, um, focus on like, yeah, don't worry about tribe.
Don't worry about website, like focus on just what, just kind of
learning one new thing each week.
Um, take it one step at a time.
So like, rather than like, okay, I've got to create this video and then post
it on all these different platforms.
Like you could make your goal for the week is I'm going to like either, um,
record a video and post it to Facebook.
Like just do that just because, because if that'll build momentum so that next
week, you're like, okay, I'm gonna post to Facebook and I'm going to post to
YouTube.
Okay.
So I'm only like then week three, Facebook, Instagram, like take it,
take it in baby steps.
Um, we also like try to organize the weeks now in the roadmap a little bit
more clearly.
Um, so you don't have to do everything in week one in a seven day period.
You could just work your way through like line by line, you know, as you have time.
Um, and so, yeah.
So, and again, keep it simple.
Like if I think what you said, like you can ease distraction is like such a like
enemy of productivity because it's, and it's the overwhelming feeling of like,
like I'm not posting on one platform because I feel like it would be so much
work to post on all five platforms.
Right.
So then we, so then nothing, nothing goes out the door and no one hears your
message.
Um, that's a funny thing.
Like if you just take that one step into one place, it'll kind of build momentum
and then it gets easier to post on all the other platforms.
Um, that's very helpful.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm just really, I can see why you need a year to do this.
Thank you for making it available for a year.
People like me need that.
And be encouraged that there is acceleration that comes and momentum will build, you
know?
And so it's not going to be this hard all the time, you know, it's just getting
kind of started and think you'll begin to that.
You'll have a new set of problems once you kind of get a flow, but that's good.
You know, you kind of, there's always something to improve on.
Um, but for tomorrow I have just found, do you already have your script written?
Yeah, I have, I have a script written for the first podcast, but then I keep wanting
to change it.
I'm what the Lord told me as I was kind of processing it with him is, and, and, and
Bob, my husband, cause he's really busy.
So he can't, he can't really do it with me right now.
So I'm going to have to start out probably by myself and then he'll probably join me
later.
But, um, so I have it written, but he's just, I think what the Lord is saying is
just write them as I give them to you.
Don't worry about putting them in a particular order.
I want to make sense of them and put them in order.
Yeah, I was just saying, just part of the simplification for that is like trying to
get some of the tech out of the way.
So if you want to, if you're, and this is just an idea, don't have to do this, but
because like, I would say, get an idea, a message together, bullet pointed, like put
it out on a piece of paper and then just go on Facebook and like hit go live on your
page and then just teach people for like 10, 15, 20 minutes, however long it takes,
like just get through that, everything you felt like you should be sharing.
And then just, and that'll just go out as a post and that will be your official first
video ever out the door.
And you will feel like a totally different kingdom messenger after that, because
you'll be like, I got my first piece of content out and people can actually go watch
it.
Um, and then you could come back and like, even pre-recording it and posting it, like
you could do that later.
Um, but just whatever feels simple or just if you want to do the recording, like record
on your phone and just post it from your phone directly to the YouTube and, and call
that, that's all you're going to do for the week.
Cause if you have four hours, um, that's a, that's a good amount of time.
Like I'd love, like I would challenge you to get a piece of content out online in four
hours.
Uh, that's totally doable.
Get something like really raw and not professional and ugly and the lighting's bad
and it sounds bad.
Like just, just for the sake of, because no one's on your channel, the content will be
rich.
Yeah.
The content is what I don't want you to hear is like, Oh, it all has to be bad.
It just is.
What happens is that it's like gift wrapping piece.
Like there's such treasure in you and you you've, you've, I know this because even
just from knowing you the short amount of time we did, like you are a very intentional
person.
You wait on the Lord, you get downloads it's there, but it's just the last piece
of the presentation, um, that can keep us from ever sharing that treasure.
And so there's something about, I think there's something that happens in the
spiritual realm and I'm not saying that lightly or being sarcastic, but there's
something about the activation of like doing it that releases some of that pressure
that we.
put on ourselves for that, just the perfectionism
or like it has to look a certain way.
Case in point, just even this past week,
this posture that went out on Monday,
I was really struggling because it was 15 minutes long.
It's the longest one I've ever done.
And I'm, you know me, I'm very much like
wanting to keep it brief and everything,
but I've been doing a little bit of experimentation
in season seven, longer episodes, just to see if the,
you know, cause I've been doing it now for so long.
If people that are kind of been with me
will stick with me that long.
And I, I mean, I was nauseous going to bed that night.
Cause I'm like, I feel like I rambled.
I feel like I didn't have one point.
I feel all this stuff.
And I think I'm going to confuse people.
I don't even know if people are going to understand.
I mean, all the things, but like,
I needed an episode for Monday.
I made sure Bruce listened to it.
So it wasn't like accidental heresy or any, you know,
there wasn't any unrest because of a certain particular,
you know, I make sure I have kind of my,
my partner, like, look at it.
And he's like, lens, this is fine.
This is great.
It's it's, you know,
I don't know why you're struggling so much,
but I was struggling.
And wouldn't, you know,
the messages that I've gotten from people about this 15
minute episode,
like literally someone today reached out to me private
message and said,
I have been struggling for months with this,
with this problem.
And it lifted after I listened to your episode.
And like, I like guys,
like I almost was like,
I'm just not going to put an episode out this week.
I was struggling so hard with it.
I don't know why there was just this resistance in me.
And I felt like it just wasn't what I wanted it to be.
I thought I could do.
And you know what?
I probably could, if I've tried it again,
I probably could say everything that I said in five minutes.
It could be a little bit more snappy,
but it was what I had to give that week.
And so it's what I gave and it's what people ended up
needing and help people.
And I don't think that's just because I was so brilliant.
I think the Holy spirit partners with that, right.
And kind of meets people where they are and ministers to
them and guides them in the truth.
So I just want to encourage you,
like there is something about just doing it.
That's going to do something I think within your,
within you, that's going to bring some momentum there.
So, and I understand like, I don't think that you're crazy.
I don't think that you're silly for wanting it to be the
certain way.
I know that your heart is you want to serve your who well,
you want it to be something that they can receive and
digest, but it's in there and it needs to be out here.
So maybe really challenge yourself with that for hours.
Like, Hey, what I have,
the script I already have written, like it's going out.
I'm going to sit down and record it.
Okay. All right.
So you guys, this is good.
I'm glad you're challenging me.
I'm having dreams about this same thing that I have a
treasure, but I'm not, I'm not,
I'm holding back and God doesn't want me to hold back and I
keep holding back.
And so this is helpful to just get that challenge to put
something out and I don't have to edit it. Right.
I just run it by one person maybe, and then put it out.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
I run it by Bruce. Just if I'm,
if I'm really struggling and being like,
I just want to make sure that I'm not confusing, you know,
or just something, whatever that is, it's not the, Hey,
look at this and make sure my hair looks great.
It's just,
and so I know that I can trust Bruce to tell me the truth
and that like, he's,
he's going to push me in a good way to say, Hey, like,
maybe you were looking off to the left,
but like the message was good.
That's what I'm asking for.
I'm asking for feedback on the message itself.
Not so much like, did the video look great?
Cause the video can always look better.
Yes.
Can I share?
Thank you.
Enrichment on that.
Sure.
Is that okay?
So just the other day,
I was kind of struggling with something and didn't want to
make a mistake and want to,
so I just was like, Lord, before I press submit, you know,
just what is it?
What is it?
I need,
I need to know something if I'm going to take this action.
And he said, Hillary,
if you're putting it in my hands,
like loaves and fish that can't really anything by
themselves,
if you're putting it in my hands, like loaves and fish,
I know how to more than meet the need with plenty leftover.
Oh, wow.
It was that picture of like,
I was literally depositing it in his hands.
I didn't possess it anymore.
I didn't have to think about it anymore.
I didn't have to figure it out.
I didn't have to anything.
It literally was deposited in his hands.
And I'm telling you the clarity that came to me for the
rest of the night for, for,
for something I'm learning was like,
I knew something had broken just by making that deposit,
you know, bigger than I was comfortable with whatever it's a,
his hands for what he could do.
And it was a transaction I made with him.
So I just felt like everything you were just
talking about, Lindsay, everything you were saying, I
just feel like, oh my gosh, that's like the experience I had
the other day.
That's beautiful. Thanks for sharing that. This is all very
encouraging. Thank you guys.
Awesome.
We're looking forward to it.
Yeah.
Karina's here. Good to see you again.
Hey, Karina.
Hi, guys.
I'm good.
I
all right, I think I may have more of a heart issue. I'm just
going to preface it like that.
This tick tock. Okay, so I got over my 1000 so that I can do
lives.
And every time I do a live, it's awesome because I get so many
followers, I'm actually making money off of it, which is
awesome. However, then it comes with that price of all the
trolls.
And so when I do lives, like when I did a live yesterday, I
was just getting so much hate comments during my live that I
just had to when I did it yesterday, I just had to turn
off the comments. Because even though I don't ever respond to
them, I don't acknowledge them. Just sometimes seeing that while
I'm trying to spread the gospel. It's like, you know, it's like
this little thing gets thrown in my face a little bit. So I mean,
how I'm not sure is keeping the comments off while doing lives.
The best thing I'm just not sure how to navigate this, which is
so new for me, because I haven't, I don't really normally
get so much hate on all my other platforms.
Yeah, like the Wild West of the social media. Yeah. Yeah. So
first of all, first of all, I want to say, I'm really sorry
that you're getting hate. It's normal. It comes with the
territory. I don't know one content creator that doesn't
have to deal with this, especially on TikTok, because
it's just it is the Wild West. And there's like a lot there.
But that sucks. And I'm sorry that you had, you have to deal
with that. That's not great at all. I, I don't know, Bruce, I
think we're in unity on this, I would say like, turning off the
comments is absolutely okay. Especially because you know,
right now, it's a huge distraction for you. And
there's nothing wrong with it being a distraction. Like, I
don't know, I really don't know of anyone. Like, it's not a
strength issue. It's not a faith issue. I don't know of anyone
who like doesn't struggle with like, getting that kind of
feedback. Like, I'm, I'm right now in a season where I'm, I
just know that I'm extra tender. I don't know if it's like, I've
become a mother now and my empathy levels and my I'm just,
I know that I just know myself. And so I've had to be like a
little bit more proactive and protecting myself from certain
types of feedback. And that's okay. I know content creators
that have millions of followers that have recently turned off
their comments. Just because they're like, hey, I'm in a I'm
in a season of life where like, I just this is not good for my
mental health. It's not good for my emotional health. And so
they've done that, like, we would say best practices, you
want to keep that line of engagement open. But the
reality is, if people really want to connect with you, TikTok
is kind of like a gateway of getting to know you, but
they're gonna like find you on other platforms, you know, and
so I'm, like, I'm, I don't actually look through any of my
TikTok comments, we get you guys know this, I've, I'm kind of
use utilizing some of the income that I'm getting, like from
YouTube, and I hire someone every month to post my shorts
and my TikTok. And so they go through the TikTok comments for
me. And like, if there's anything that's like, crucial,
they'll let me know. But a lot of TikTok stuff is just like,
very quick, you know, people are like, Oh, that's great, or
thank you, or whatever. It's not like deep, deep stuff. Or like
deep questions. But it's okay. So like, it's okay, if you want
to turn off your comments, especially knowing that it's
affecting you from doing what you need to do, which is share
the gospel. There's nothing wrong with that doesn't make you
like, less than a kingdom messenger, like, Oh, I'm not
really strong right now. Like, I'm a strong woman. I know that
but like, it's just not good for me right now to feed on certain
types of feedback. And so it's again, it's not people asking
legitimate questions. It's just trolls. It's like, they're not
even real people.
that's just like yeah and i would say it's be like we're just we're so quick to ban people for life
from anything posture or kingdom messengers related like like because of the issue like
it's people who don't even like if you go to their accounts like they haven't posted anything
they don't have you know i mean like it's like there are literal there are literally people who
like just get on to to troll to spam and so it's not even like it's a person who's like hurting
on the other side of the screen it needs me to like witness to them it's like no these are
people who are like out for blood yeah and that that can be really discouraging um and then you
like don't want to say anything you don't want to get on the platform and share anything because
it's like it's just it's just in your it's in the back of your mind yeah um and so yeah we're very
like and that's that's fine like for a season we're just um like lindsay doesn't look at any
of her comments at the moment on any platform right like um but and that's fine like we're just
um and if you like we always say like oh it's great to reply of like and engage in the comments
if you don't have the bandwidth for it don't do it right now like do it later when like it makes
sense and just as you see stuff like just be quick you can you can definitely ban people i'm not 100%
sure how it works on tiktok i know on youtube and facebook you can ban people um and just kick
them out um there's just the world is such a big place that like there's so many millions of people
that could hear what you who would love to hear what you have to say so if you accidentally ban
a few of the people in the way even if they're just like slightly negative or if it's a guy
who's like commenting on how pretty lindsay's hair is i will ban him for sure
yeah
and here's the thing like it's just we're all you know it is like this is a digital landscape so
we're all learning we're learning best practices and at the end of the day like there's no we don't
have to like play the hero like we're partnering with jesus and like i just have i have to trust
that like at the end of the day he's going to reach people that that need to be reached it's
okay if i if i can't if i can't partner with him in that other than putting out my content like i
don't need to like you know convince people in my dms what i've discovered is like you'll kind of
just you'll kind of discover too like which platforms are kind of bringing those so comments
like tiktok is like 50 50 pretty much volatile you know you're gonna get some good comments you're
gonna get some crazy people um youtube i found that it's probably the second as far as like
comments go shorts mostly on shorts not so much on my long form work content but like the shorts
because the algorithms are still very new so like all kinds of people get exposed to my shorts which
is great because kind of like putting a big net but then that also means i'll get some more negative
feedback than like i normally would on longer pieces of comment again i don't mind if people
disagree with me whatever it's more of the nasty stuff that i'm like you know not gonna like um
entertain but what i found is that i get the most genuine conversation that's interesting
enough and questions from people in my instagram dms that's just for me it might be different for
other people so that's something that i'm checking regularly right now because i know like if
something if someone's gonna like have some like a legitimate like yeah but i have a question about
this can you explain more they're not going to comment publicly you know maybe it feels too
exposing but they want to like know more and they'll dm me on my instagram um and so that's
what i've kind of been checking on facebook unfortunately i get a lot of spam and messenger
so sometimes i'll miss comments or miss dms in that one because it just there's a volume in there
but i get i think my second most kind of genuine questions or encouragement or whatever would be
facebook comments public comments so i just know that kind of from doing it and kind of figuring
it out so because of that like i just had to go through a season where especially after maternity
leave and i knew i was definitely like a little bit more sensitive um like i didn't check youtube
stuff because like stuff from shorts was coming in and i didn't want to change i didn't want to
stop the content from flowing but if i started getting in the weeds of like all the comments so
i've had bruce go in and like um you know make sure like nothing's spammy like there's not people
that are dropping links that other people could click on and get like viruses from or whatever
um but other than that like we've just been i just had to kind of take a break from it and
because i the con it's more important that i can continue plus we had kingdom messenger stuff
happening and i know you have like larger ministry things happening too outside of just the platform
so you just it's this is this is an opportunity to partner with the holy spirit you know
the comments are great for feedback but that's not where we go for validation
so i knew and it's in the season of life that i'm kind of walking out of now with just
you know new motherhood and maternity and my body kind of getting back in balance like
i knew that i couldn't utilize
That those, that comment section for healthy feedback, cause I was going to
look at it as from a validation.
And so I just, I had to be honest with myself and say, I know that's not healthy.
So I've got to like remove myself from that until I feel like I can get back in.
So I'm, I'm just starting now to kind of get back in the swing
of things slowly, but surely.
And it's helpful to talk to other people and help help people that you
trust kind of speak into your life.
And, you know, like there's just days I go to Bruce or my mom is somebody else
that, you know, looks at my content quite regularly and I need to say like,
Hey, am I still making sense?
Am I being helpful?
Is this encouraging, you know, and I know that they'll tell me the truth.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, but I'm not looking to strangers on the internet for, uh, validation or even
permission to continue to do what I'm doing.
That's helpful.
I think one thing that surprised me is that I am pretty unoffendable.
So even when, um, and it doesn't happen very often, but sometimes if someone
does leave a negative comment, um, like on one of my regular posts, I just leave
it and I'm like, God bless you.
You know, I just like, I, I, I, I'm not easily offended.
And so the fact that just doing these lives and it's, you know, I've only done
like four so far, um, it's just really has seemed to affect me.
And I'm like, what is going on?
What is happening?
But when you said Lindsey, um, Like I don't need to be the hero.
I'm like, there's something in that, that hit me that I never, I didn't consider
my, that I was doing that, but I think there is something in that, that I'm going
to pray into because, um, yeah, I just felt my spirit stir when you say that.
So, and, um, and I appreciate how, how you are reminding that we don't need the
outside validation to keep doing what God has called us to do.
I really need to hear that as well.
So thank you.
I was just going to say real quick on that, like moving into these new spheres,
I've noticed, especially doing the studying I'm doing with the brain science
and heart healing issues is that when our, our brain automatically responds
to triggers, you know, response to the perception of danger or a threat, or
shuts down all that beautiful reasoning that says I'm not offendable.
And then plate rolls, tapes and placings that then when we notice that it's like,
okay, all right, the ruler of this world is common.
Look, he found something in me.
Like, you know what I mean?
And, you know, and we can just take that to the Lord to where we're having an
exchange with him to say like, all right, where am I anchored?
Where is my trust?
What am I believing?
What's the mindset that's hindering me because it's being exposed for a reason.
So I try to take advantage of that before it hides again.
You know, if I feel myself flailing and uncomfortable and I'm like, okay, I need,
I need an encounter with the Lord.
I need a conversation with the Lord over this so that it doesn't
go to the background again.
So I just say like, sometimes it's such a beautiful, those areas of discomfort
are beautiful opportunities for us to realize there's something more for me to
overcome here.
And I'm about to be strengthened where I feel so especially vulnerable and weak.
So yeah, that's good.
Hillary.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I, I mean, it was really extreme because I had 3000 people join me when I was
on live and I had over 500.
Like hateful comments.
Like it was like a lot.
All I heard was 3000 people got to hear you and then something about comments, but
refocus.
Yeah.
It's really, I mean, it's very, it's, it's, it's very normal.
It's very normal.
I know I like, yeah, just, you know, this is, this is the big leagues.
It's like, I just, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm still, I feel still like I'm a small
fish in a big pond, but I've been able to rub elbows with people like Graham cook,
as you guys know, who's like been at this for a while.
And like this, the, the threats even that he's had to like, not just like, I don't
like you or you're committing heresy or you're going to hell, but like death
threats and stuff, you know, it's not like fun stuff.
And to Hillary's point, like.
this is a beautiful opportunity because things are being brought to the surface
that need to be healed and released. And thank God that it's not hiding anymore. Right. And so
like, don't, don't, I mean, I, I heard, I mean, I heard you Hillary. Cause I'm like,
I needed to hear that. Like, don't let this, don't just put it off or just be like, I'm just going to,
you know, barrel through it. Like, no, there's something here that the Lord wants to reveal
so he can heal and we can move forward and more empowerment and strength than before.
And that's the only way that I've known people who have really had longevity in ministry,
like, like a gram be able to continue to move forward in strength is like, they've had to
let it reveal and heal and really be released from it. They can't hide it. So thank you for
bringing this up, Karina being, you know, feeling like you're, this is a safe enough place to be
vulnerable because people need to hear this. This is a very valid situation that all of us
are going to deal with in our kingdom messenger journey. And so, yeah. Yeah. I just say one quick
thing to Karina and it's triggered by what Lizzie just said, things that come up early, early,
early in my walk, the Lord showed me like on a farm when they used to have these big milk cans,
big tin things, and they'd milk the cows and the milk would sit there. And then the cream would
rise to the top. When something rises to the top, he said, because it's time to scoop it off.
And I actually, I mean, I grew up on a farm. So that's,
I get it. I get it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Karina. I'd also love to, I actually came on. Hey,
sis. I just came on because I saw on, on my computer that you guys were on. And then I
saw your question. I'm like, Oh, I have to go. Also, I got the, the Facebook live button
for the first time in 2015. And so I have been doing lives ever since then. And over the years,
I've noticed just like what Hillary was talking about, there are like these ebbs and flows
of personal growth that come with the whole process of putting yourself out there. And so
with, with time, with experience and practice, you get to a point where like right now,
I'm at a point that when I go live, I always feel like I'm going to war. It's like, if I see a
comment come up, it's, Oh, good. You're why I'm here today. I I'll call them out. I don't feel
more bold. I'll just say, Oh, perfect. This is exactly why we're here today. I love it. Welcome.
You know, and just continue like pushing through. But I think when, when your, your audience,
your assignments see you also, you know, and there's like a period for healing and all of
these things, but when they see that you are unbothered by it, then they are like, wow,
there's something extra to partnering also with Holy Spirit on this, right. In that sense. So
it's almost like, so it depends on the phase that you're in. You'll get it in the way that
Lindsay was talking about it. And then you'll get it in the way that I'm talking about it, like
like setting the example. And on the other side, it's he's ministering to us in that quiet place.
Right. So, so you'll get both of the sides and there, I think they're both just as important
because you need both in your, in your walk. Right. And and your people will be able to see
that and they'll be inspired by it, seeing that you're not bothered by robots. Right.
Good word. It does speak to people watching it. Thank you.
I love this. I love this family.
Goliath was an answer to prayer. He was a quick and easy victory delivered into the hands of
the Israelites. But only David could see it. Everyone else saw themselves. Only David could
see the magic of, you know, divinity on humanity, humanity with divinity. And you have divinity
in you. You're the light attracting all the good and the bad. And so that's what's happened. That
light is shining and people are noticing that's what's happening here. And so like, you know,
there's no overcoming without a big old mountain. There's no strengthening without resistance.
There's no victory without an enemy, an obstacle. So, this is
so cool. You're just like going through what you've been
through before only at to move to a new place of authority and
and in that place of authority, you're a conqueror. You're the
one with the most power there in that room. Can you imagine
that? Like that's just hitting me in the head right now. You're
the one with the most authority in that room. God looks at his
enemies and he laughs. So, like, oh, they're drawn to the
light. The enemy has overplayed his hand and now these little
ones are drawing to the light. So, they're acting out. They're
manifesting but greater is he that is in you than he that's
been keeping them captive. Come on. I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm
just like excited right now. I literally want to take clips.
I'll ask. I'll, I'm going to, I want to take clips of
everyone's response and like make this a video to put on the
Kingdom Messenger YouTube. Like, what do you do? Because like,
this is, everyone, everyone saying is so good. I'm being
ministered to right now. I think I'm being set free. This
is an answer to my prayer. So, Karina, again, thank you for
bringing this up because Bruce and I literally had a
conversation two days ago about next steps for me kind of
walking out of this season of extra tenderness because I feel
like it's time but you know, I'm like, I'm kind of got used to
the, like, just being in the background and he's like, no,
it's time. So, thank you everyone. I'm being ministered
to. I will be, I will share the whole story when it unfolds but
this is good. Lindsay, I'm hearing that song as you talk.
Um, I come to the garden, you know, just that, that tender
place where the Lord just tenderly meets you right where
you are and he honors that part of you that's been working hard
to protect you that doesn't know him yet and this is a sweet,
sweet opportunity to just and he walks with me and he talks
with me and he tells me I am his own. Yeah, this is awesome.
This is for you. This walking through this time is a gift for
you. Same with you, Karina. Same with you, Monica and Ben and
Mary, Alice, Bruce.
So good. Well, Ben, I do have questions. I haven't been
monitoring the chat but I know that you were in line.
I, we've been chatting. Okay, I can help you if those are the
two things you needed help with. I can do it real quick. It's
totally like a left turn from all the awesome stuff that's
gonna happen.
I want to honor everyone's time. Their questions answered. So
good.
And yeah, I can take that offline, you know, or kind of
the Facebook chat. I don't want to, you know, kind of, yeah,
I'll, um, we'll do is record a video real quick, right after
this call, and I'll just post it into the chat. And I'll, I mean,
it's the group and I'll tag you in it. And then if you have
questions beyond that, we can you can just chat there. It's
probably easier to do that.
Cool.
Okay, cool. I don't know if I lost you guys for a second. But
I heard you. You're gonna do a video for
I'll do that. And then we can, I can do that. I'll be good. So
thanks for hanging out guys with us. But yeah, we'll see you guys
on the next call soon. Have an awesome week. Good luck,
everyone. See ya.