Hey guys, how's it going?
Make sure we got our sound up.
Happy New Year!
2022!
Yikes.
Wowie.
Is it good for y'all?
It got off to a slow start.
It was a rough start.
Health-wise.
I got COVID.
And I got food poisoning.
So...
It was like, Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
We had to miss Bruce's brother's wedding this past weekend.
What?!
So, uh, but we're doing much better.
We're resting in so much gratitude, we really are, because Bruce's symptoms are very mild.
We're very grateful for that, because we've had friends that have gotten hit with it and
it has not been mild at all.
I've remained, other than the food poisoning, feeling good and testing negative.
And Hannah has been doing well, great, you know, healthy as well.
So there's, we're just very thankful for that.
And we just feel like we went ahead and got the worst week of the year over with.
Come on over with, yes.
I was going to say that right away, but then when you said, and we missed Bruce's brother's
wedding, I was like, Oh, I don't want to make light of that.
That's like...
We, we, you know, humor is our coping mechanism in our household.
So we've had lots of, lots of jokes about it and things like that, but let's hear from
people.
Yeah.
Hey, everyone.
How's everybody else?
Hey, Ruby.
Good to see you back.
Yes.
Good to be back.
Missed you guys last week.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Looks like you're feeling a bit better.
Yes.
Feeling good.
Feeling back to normal.
And of course, I don't know if everyone got to see the live that you and Bruce did earlier,
but if you missed it, we have a new team member.
We do have two new team members.
I'm sorry.
Two new team members, but the live was with one of them.
So if you want to go ahead and...
Yeah.
We're excited to have Tamara on to help us with community management for the membership,
the roadmap, and then also the community.
And then if you guys saw, we just sent out the first email blast with our new Tech Tuesday,
which Monica did an awesome job.
Produced and starred in all of it.
I know.
It was awesome.
Yes.
So we appreciate you guys.
So Monica's coming on as like really a co-coach.
Yeah.
She's helping us with content, with tech, and just being a fellow expert for all of
our coaching needs, which is really awesome.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We have learned a lot from Monica.
So we know that you guys will as well.
Yeah.
That's great.
So, yeah, I just want to hear from you guys for a few minutes, like when we get started.
Yeah.
I feel like we have to like commemorate the new year.
Yeah.
First of all, just anyone can jump in, but like what are you guys looking forward to
in 2022?
I am looking forward to expanding my platform.
I know I've been just in YouTube, but I feel the Lord is calling me to get into TikTok and,
you know, expand and not be so afraid of expansion.
So that's kind of like my immediate foresight is just to broaden and get the message out
even more past just YouTube.
Love it.
Yeah.
Who else?
Okay, I'll share.
My desire is to be able to smoothly and quickly get my YouTubes up or, you know, my videos
up.
I want to get an intro down.
I want to get an intro down and the subscribe button and all of those little details.
So that that's what's been stopping me with this last posting is that I wanted to get
an intro done before I posted.
And I think, oh, yeah, I can do this.
I've seen you do it.
I know.
And then it was like, how do I do this?
And what do I do?
And I can't get what I really want.
And I would love for like Bruce, you said, you know, it hardly takes any time at all
because you've already got it done.
You just plug it in.
No big deal.
So I'm really looking forward to that.
Yeah.
Optimizing all of those.
Yeah.
Optimizing future videos.
Templates built.
Yeah.
It's hard.
It's always takes the longest the first time or two, but then you build a template, it
gets easier.
So, hey, Amy.
I see your hand.
I think you're awesome.
Thank you.
Well, I'm looking forward to growing
Thank you.
and I'm still getting over COVID myself,
but had a little backward having to go on an antibiotic,
but anyway, I'm moving forward.
But I'm really looking forward to the growth and expansion.
Expansion and Susie, what you were saying,
all of those things and the tension between that
and rest, inner rest.
And so I know that beating my head against the tech wall
has not produced very good results.
And so I am committed to really walking that fine line
with the help of the Holy Spirit.
And also just the growth.
I feel like that's, the Lord has told me
that whatever my growth journey is right now,
which I just described out from under pressure
is what I'm gonna take my people on with me.
They're gonna just grow right with me.
I love that.
I love that, that for the perspective
of I'm gonna take territory and I'm taking people with me.
Exactly.
I like that.
That's awesome.
Nice.
I see Reva and Brett are on.
How are you guys doing?
I got people joining.
Whoopie.
Hey guys.
Hi guys.
Hi. How are you doing?
We're doing all right.
I second what Amy said, Susie said, Tamera.
I second all of those because we, as you know,
have a lot of little things going on
that I'm waiting for that to flow.
And we're not waiting, like we're working.
We're working for it to flow.
But it does seem like we'll enjoy
once that pump is primed.
I feel like we're priming a pump
and so that things can just flow out more naturally.
So that's what I'm looking forward to.
Yes, taking territory
because ultimately that's what God is wanting.
Recently, we've seen several times
where Jesus is just showing us that he's cleaning house,
whether that's corporate church or specific.
I use that as a model for a couple of things
in the stretching into Jesus.
Like, this is like building a house.
You have to lay that foundation first
then you can build up from there.
For us specifically, when we remodeled,
we had to get a new roof before we did any other remodeling
because why bother if it's all just gonna,
doesn't have the right covering.
So we're working on all of those are pretty big.
It's a pretty big deal,
laying a foundation and having proper covering.
So we're really grateful, Lindsay, you and Bruce,
like just coming alongside, linking elbows
with all of us to encourage us.
You can do this one baby step at a time.
So definitely looking forward to flow
and then that freedom on all the platforms, right?
Where you have the confidence
that God has given you a message.
You need to do this now.
Don't wait.
Take the baby steps that you can right now, right?
Launch it a weekend.
And then I am looking also forward
to converting some of the things that we do live
where I am comfortable and then recording those
and sharing those across the platforms.
So that's kind of our like 22,
like hope and then our prayer request.
Yes.
Help us Jesus.
Love it.
Our goals and our prayers are the same thing.
I love that.
Something that I'm learning guys
is that momentum is not a feeling.
And I think I thought,
I think I don't know if I would have ever articulated it
that way when I talked about,
oh, I just wanna kind of hit the stride
and gain momentum.
I was expecting some kind of feeling that never came.
And everything always felt a little bit disjointed
because we were building as we went,
you know, we're pioneering.
Even if it's not pioneering,
like, oh, no one's ever done this before.
Like people have built YouTube channels before,
but for us in our own lives, it was new, right?
And so rarely do you feel momentum, but it's happening.
And I saw something from a pastor named.
Craig Rochelle, I'm paraphrasing because I don't have in front of me and I don't want
to misquote him.
But the gist was the quickest way to kill something special is to compare it to something
else.
Yeah.
And I for so long, I would compare my channel, my productivity, my workflow, my creative,
whatever, to what somebody else was doing.
And I never quite felt enough, you know, whatever the measuring stick was, I wasn't there because
I was always, you know, finding someone else to compare it to.
So when I finally just said, you know what, this is what I'm doing.
And this is, you know, this is what I'm going to, you know, walk with the Holy Spirit in
this and, and lean into best practices that I can, but I'm going to do what I feel like
I can do, as I can do it.
I felt like that's when I gained momentum.
I still don't ever feel it.
I really don't.
It's maybe some people and I'm a feeler.
I mean, I would describe myself as a feeler, but I don't feel momentum, but it's, it's
happening.
It's kind of one of the things you look up and then realize, oh, we have momentum because
things kind of get easier.
Yeah.
I'm looking up now and not just with my posture channel, but again, with kingdom messengers
and we're almost a year in and I, I don't, I still don't feel like I've got a handle
on all that we're doing, but things are moving forward and growing.
And so I've had to release my ability sometime, my, my need, I should say, to feel it in order
to give myself to it fully.
Yeah.
That's good.
Awesome.
So just for free.
That was for free.
What, what is, do we want to jump into people?
I have a couple of people that I don't see Lee on here.
I don't see them.
I see Susie's got her hand raised.
Susie's got her hand raised and those are okay.
And TJ had something, but I don't see her on yet.
So cool.
Go for it, Susie.
I don't know if anybody else is feeling this, but I've had this sense for a long time that
in my mind, my mind has tended to be occupied with how would I explain this to somebody
else?
How would I put it into words?
God gives me an idea and my mind immediately wants to put it into words.
And I'm getting this sense of, okay, I can, in my deep being talk to God.
And what I, and it's kind of like what Amy is saying, okay, how about if I just do this
myself and trust the Lord for everybody else, bless everybody else, but for a significant
part of my time, just be talking to him and then set aside time of, okay, now we're going
to put it into words.
Now I'm going to listen to what you want to do.
But I think my go-to, Lindsay, for what you're talking about is, oh, I'm not sure what to
do about this.
Let's think about it instead of, oh, let's sit with the Lord and say, okay.
How do we feel about this?
What's going on here?
So that's one of my big things that all I can do is trust the Holy Spirit that it's
his idea.
He's going to do it.
He'll keep reminding me.
And there's that whole lot of just trusting that there is momentum, that I will know what
to do and focus on him.
Absolutely.
I couldn't have said it better, Susie.
That's exactly what I'm practicing.
It's participation, giving myself to the participation of the process and the partnership, but releasing
myself from it, needing to look a certain way in order for me to feel successful.
So, Hilary.
So I just was like, why am I jumping on?
I don't have anything.
It's easier to hide and that's kind of where I felt like, as someone said, learning rest
and yet feeling so totally restless in this chrysalis process, I think that I'm in.
And so I'm just listening to each one of you.
It's like, oh, that's it.
Maybe that's it.
Oh, that.
No.
What she just said.
I'm still trying to figure out where I am and why all that momentum, as I've been on
here to share.
And then I've got so many things going on that I'll feel momentum and focus in one direction,
but something else needs to be tended to and that falls.
And today I've just been feeling like I don't even know where I am or what to do.
I have so much to do and I can't even find one thing to do.
And so anyway, I was just like, just asking the Lord and he said, come to me.
I'm moving you and I'm moving you and I have so much special in store.
So I said, well, what do you want to say?
And I saw acts 14 and 28.
So I was like, is it 28, 14?
or 1428. So this was odd. And I'm just going to put it out
there in case any of you. I mean, and one of the things we
have been another thing we've been totally preoccupied with
is, where are we going to live? We're still in an apartment
since God brought us to Florida, and we came so quickly. So
anyway, 1428 says, and they stayed there with the believers
with the brethren with the disciples for a long time. And
then I went to 2814. And it says, there, we found some
believers, some brothers, some disciples who invited us to
spend a week with them. And I was like, Whoa, that's crazy.
So what are you saying? Oh, yeah, no, Florida is totally
nice. I never thought I could live here. But I I'm just gonna
tell you, I love it. So anyway, I'm just throwing it out there
that I feel like there's so much that's ready to explode.
And I'm chomping at the bit. And I feel a vision. Oh, one cool
thing just came up, like, the Lord was just reminding me. So
one of my clients gave me as a gift to her husband gave a
prophetic consultation to her husband, that felt kind of that
felt good, like, Oh, my gosh, I'm a Christmas present. And
she's so excited to give this to her husband. And so um, so
anyway, we met and, and she didn't know if he would book
because he's like, like former military, like various all sorts
of stuff. We booked and then he bought a whole package of heart
healing and prophetic coaching and consultation. And she's
like,
I don't even know how that happened. So in all this, like,
like, I feel like nothing's happening that just came to my
mind that that was pretty cool. That was a pretty cool thing
that happened. And I just, I told her, I said, sometimes
we're looking through a lens we expect is accurate. And I just
expected that he would be touched by what God was saying,
and he would respond. So anyway, I don't know what I'm saying.
Some of my some of my favorite stories are when people are
connected to the prophetic, maybe for the first time, and it
opens our hearts and minds to the Lord and in ways that even
their family members are in awe, even people who know them the
best and love them the best are in awe. So that's amazing. And
you are a gift Hillary. Absolutely. Okay, so I see
Brendan and Lee are on.
They I think
you guys had submitted now some Facebook ads. Yeah, so they had
posted their ad in the group.
Hi, guys, welcome back from recovering from all that you've
gone through. And it challenges me when I'm still in bed, but
you've gone through both.
Okay, we're building resilience over here. Yeah, that's why I
bought the book atomic habits. So that does not so I get beyond
that.
Yeah. All right. Go ahead and for the group just kind of
summarize where you guys are and what you're wanting some help
with today.
Yep. So we, the Facebook ads, I've just done a whole stream of
new ones based on Bruce and Lindsay's coaching on like how
to do it together. Thank you so much to Tamara, Tamara, you're
encouraged. Tamara is in the group to thank you so much. It's
so encouraging when you feel like, I'm not sure if this is
right. But yeah.
And so I guess that I'm tracking them. So I'm trying to track
them for business purposes, like their performance. And then I
I've known how to do that before to go in Bruce, where you show
me screen by screen. But after the ads, they're now just
kicking on. I'm just like, Oh, I'm stuck with how do I compare
the ones that I've done compared to the ones that I'm doing now?
And go into the ad set? Because you know, like, it's, yeah, it's
new.
Yeah, we can. Do you want to share your screen or bring it up?
And we'll take a look. Yeah. And you're running Facebook ads?
I just asked my tech.
I love it.
Yeah.
Awesome. We make this bigger.
Good.
And just make that biggest.
And then you
just
enter the screen. Yeah.
Yeah, so and the goal here is for you guys trying to get page likes, it looks like.
Yeah.
Okay. Awesome.
So I don't know what else.
Yeah. It looks like this top one obviously is running right now.
Yeah.
So you want to click into this one.
Let's just take a look at that campaign.
And yeah, if you just click into the blue text.
Yeah, we'll just go a level deep.
So we've got one ad set running and then do you have,
you said you created multiple ads?
Previously, we did an ad, but we didn't really practice and rehearse it too much.
So this one's had about, yeah, a lot more time spent on it.
Okay. How long have you been running this one?
This is, oh, yeah.
Okay, cool.
That's good. So basically for this type of campaign,
we're always looking at like cost per result.
Like how much did it cost to get people to do the thing we want them to do?
So you've got the goal.
We want to get page likes.
So it's basically just going to figure out what basically what that cost is.
You guys are a very specific demographic and geographic audience.
I remember when we did it.
So it's probably not going to be as cheap as like other people
who are just going sort of worldwide,
like anybody who needs help with peace or like,
you know, or any Christians that are this age group in the world.
So that's not crazy high.
I mean, it's not cheap.
And so we definitely want to try and get that under a dollar for you.
And so there's a couple things we could do to check it.
One thing I would do, though, is I wouldn't run like fixed price for like,
you know, $50 for just a total campaign budget of $50.
I would do like $5 a day and then just let it run.
And then you can just pause it and unpause it
when it spends as much as you want to spend.
It just tends to like get a little bit more momentum.
Yeah.
If I change that now, Bruce, could you teach me how to just change that up?
If you click, if you hover over here and then hit edit.
Yeah.
And I think, let me try this and do this again.
Let's see if it will let me.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
Let's see if this works.
I don't know if it'll work.
So if we click into this one and let's look at your budget.
Let's go to the top here.
So okay, you may have.
And I've selected an end date too, which.
Okay.
That's probably what it is.
So if we could, let me just go up a level here.
Okay. So you did do daily budget and then we just had an end date.
So that's actually not that bad.
You can kind of leave it like that.
I would just, like I said, just take uncheck this and just let it run.
And then you can pause it if you feel like it's not working.
And you pause it through that same screen
because that's where I was like, oh, I've been.
If there's a campaign running, I'll just close this.
It's just this guy right over here.
And you can go to the very top level.
And this coaching program here and just turn that entire campaign off.
Just it's so subtle, but just making sure that you're seeing these folders,
like it's campaign, then it's ad set, then it's over to ads.
So let's go to that top level.
And then you can see the budget right here, $7 a day.
And then you would just, that would look like it's paused now.
And then this is us restarting it.
That's how easy it is.
And anytime you click on it, you'll see it like it updates.
And so it reflects that.
So does this have your newest ad in here?
Yeah.
Okay.
And let me just see what you've got to have.
Maybe we could get some text help here.
There you go.
I can even make it bigger.
Cool.
So we have been doing shorter text like this,
like maybe two or three sentences.
But I don't know if you have any thoughts on a hook or something.
I like that.
It's a question.
It's helping people self-identify.
It's pretty specific.
And when you say something like, have you left care?
The people who you're speaking to know what that means, right?
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going to try something and see if this works.
Maybe just give it a promise, like have you left, because you asked a question and just say like,
you know, follow us for, you know, resources and something.
The follow is good because you're wanting to, because you're doing a light campaign,
it's helpful to like let people know what it is that you're wanting them to do.
Yeah.
And the mission of what you guys are doing is really to redeem like people's experience.
So like, how am I thinking about articulating this?
If this helps you, I can tell you one thing that, you know, our Who said,
because there's been a couple of really good comments amongst it.
She said, I wish this was available to me.
When I left care, these kids really need it.
Thank you so much for doing this.
Just thinking if I could get permission from her to be like,
I don't know if that's good to use.
Yeah, you can.
I think like, what I would love to like, again,
I think what really makes these zing is when you have
kind of different variations of the same thing, right?
So same video, but a couple of different ads with different primary text.
Yeah.
So utilizing a comment is something you can do.
But what I was trying to think of with this primary text is kind of,
it's like, be what you wanted.
It's not that, you know, so that's not how you articulate it, but like,
others, you know, because it sounds like what everyone's,
there's a lot of negative experience that people have transitioning from care.
And what you guys are trying to do is redeem that.
So it doesn't happen.
It's preventative for people, for future generations.
Yeah.
So that it doesn't have to be somebody else's story.
Something like this, where like, just introduce like, hey, are you,
are you this question?
Right.
You say like, we're Liam Brendan, and we launched this channel to,
and then give some sort of promise, like to provide, like, you know,
provide, you know, resources to, you know, people leaving cares,
the care system or something like that.
Yeah.
For those transitioning out of care.
Provide resources.
What I don't do well is not having something in front of me to write with.
And Risha's putting me on the spot.
So you see what you're doing here.
And this is just a copy thing is you're always,
you're giving them the problem.
Like, hey, there's this people transitioning from the system.
And then the solution is, hey,
we created this channel to give you resources to help people.
And that's where you just want to give them a promise of like,
why would I follow you?
Yeah.
From care.
Yeah.
Can I interrupt?
It looks to me like who they're targeting is people who want to help those
who are transitioning from care.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
That's, that's a good.
Which is what they're saying, like, be the change,
because we want those 28 year olds who are reaching out to us going,
this is, this is great to see this ad.
And I think a lot of, yeah, the targeting.
This is really good.
That's a good distinction.
You could word this.
I'll let you write it there.
It's good.
Yeah.
Lindsay will come up with something in a second.
Could that be, could that be something like to connect people who have left care
with those who are leaving or, you know, for that connecting part?
Um, yeah.
Left care who want to help.
Others.
Like have a better experience, but that feels that that falls,
those words fall flat, but that's what it is.
That's exactly what it is.
Um, just not to do it alone.
Um, uh, yeah.
Yeah.
Something like, I think, yeah, anything in what you're saying is great.
Cause you're creating this sort of this, this punchline of like, why, um,
why, why follow you?
Why, you know, um, so, and while on the cut, just what I was doing on the right there,
um, is when we started, you had like, you had the black bars on the left and right.
Yeah.
I didn't know how to get rid of that.
Yeah.
So it's very easy.
You can hit edit video.
And, and so before it looked like that with the black bars, um,
and so you can actually have it cropped to 16, nine by 16 here and it will reap.
It'll do all the editing and stuff for you right here in Facebook.
Okay.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
You can also trim your videos.
Um, I know some people have asked about that.
So like it's 62 seconds.
So.
Typically, they would want it like just right under 60 seconds, if possible, but at this,
you know, so you could trim like a second or two up on either side, but this is just
some simple things to, you know, the captions were an issue, but we can go through that
another time.
It's we, we, we tried, Brendan tried so many different things and he's still working on
it.
He's going to work it out.
I chose promote rather than doing it through an ad set because promote was a promote that
is boost, boost, boost helped me do the captions, but it starts with caption overlay, which
is really annoying, but yeah, we're learning how to do that and we're using an SRT file.
Yeah.
And it's just not, it's saying it's not picking it.
It's not.
Yeah.
I think, I think we'd help Susie with this as well.
Like we were creating, if you want to create the captions in YouTube, you can add the video
to YouTube.
They will auto caption it for you and then you can just, there's a tool in YouTube to
go edit those captions and that's where it was.
That's it.
Okay.
Yeah.
So yeah.
This is good.
I think your target's good.
Your audience size is good.
It is just going to be, you don't necessarily have to specify language.
I know that seems counterintuitive, but I'll just take that off.
It's not going to really make a difference here, but it's just best practices.
Let me go back.
So yeah, we can, we'll read again, this isn't going to necessarily make or break it right
here in this sentence, but it does help a little bit just in case people do read it
like that.
And I think zooming in the picture like this will make a huge difference.
So what is it?
It's a piece of ballpark.
Cool.
So, and that looks, I know it's a little bit intense.
Like it's probably like very close to your face, but that's much better than having the
black bars.
Yeah.
On either side.
Yeah.
Cool.
I feel like that.
Yeah.
Well, you can work on, let me just say, yeah, I haven't told Brendan yet, but TikToks are
like a dance.
That's where we get lots of traction, but they, they like dancing videos.
So I haven't told him yet that we'll be like doing a dance for 10 seconds.
I just told you that's fresh off the press.
Yeah.
We not only have to do dance videos on TikTok.
Yeah.
It does help.
Thank you, Lizzie.
He needed that.
Introduce kids as well.
I think that would be helpful.
Yeah.
That would be good.
Yeah.
And your team, is it Alignment Media?
They're amazing.
Oh, Jens?
Yeah.
They're amazing.
He's a vendor.
Yeah.
Helps so much with that intro and next video.
Awesome.
Yeah.
That's good.
Yeah.
No.
Awesome.
Yeah.
The other, on TikTok, we probably are going to be doing like our first TikTok challenge,
like workshop, probably end of this month or beginning of next month.
And so we'll do like a three-day workshop just on TikTok.
So I think between YouTube and TikTok, those were really going to be emphasizing this year.
Yeah.
Because if you create content for TikTok, you can translate it to Instagram reels.
You can translate it to YouTube shorts very quickly.
So anyway, just a fun thing that we're doing.
So a lot more to come on that.
But yeah.
That's for our audiences.
That's a lot of where we've taken off.
I will.
We can, if we can think about now or if you do it later and we can just.
Yeah, I've got it in front of me.
Like it's going to, it'll happen within the hour, but.
So it's good.
And what you can do here while that's happening is just go up to the Slayer before, now since
it's like not, it's kind of edited, but it's not finished.
I'll just pause it.
So it's not displaying it in this state.
Yeah.
So everybody can come back, edit it, and then just turn it back on when you're ready.
Yeah.
Cool.
Awesome.
Did you have any other questions on the ads here?
No, Instagram ads, but I haven't figured that out yet.
And I'm going to read some more and look at some of the things on the roadmap.
And yeah.
Okay.
YouTube ads as well, whether or not they should do that.
Yeah.
And so this is obviously a page-like campaign.
So yeah, if you go through and kind of watch the training, basically you set up a traffic
campaign for Instagram and you're just getting people to your profile page.
Okay.
That's all.
Yeah.
I'll watch the videos.
I haven't yet.
And that'll be another one.
You guys have been doing stuff on TikTok though.
What is, what are your followers up to, amount, number?
I thought it was like a couple hundred already.
Yeah, yeah, it was.
I think it's seven.
Sorry, I put you on the spot.
I know you check it every hour,
but I just figured you may have memorized.
Yeah, I'm just getting my fun.
It's like, I, yeah.
Yeah.
Cool.
I think it's about 4,400.
Okay, awesome.
Great.
I think seven, sorry, I haven't got my glasses.
732 followers.
Wow, that's awesome.
You guys almost have like a thousand on TikTok.
When you hit a thousand,
you're gonna have some extra features that'll open it.
Yeah.
I know Facebook is where I would love,
I wish there was traction on Facebook,
but, cause I love Facebook.
There's only, that demographic that you're looking for
aren't really on Facebook.
I know, that's true.
Yeah, yeah.
The 28 year olds.
And then you'll find them on TikTok for sure.
Yeah.
I love that TikTok search.
I think Instagram and TikTok for you guys
will be the magic.
Cause, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, you know, and then you just kind of pivot.
So like what you could do is pause the Facebook ads,
go over, set up all the Instagram ads
and just see which one gets better results that's cheaper.
And just go with the path of like least resistance.
So TikTok is working.
I mean, you guys are just,
I know you're doing some ads
and creating a lot of content there.
I would just focus on those two
and you may not have to worry about YouTube and Facebook.
Just put those on the shelf for now.
Yeah.
Just go all in on those two platforms.
Yeah.
Just because your demographic is so specific age group wise.
Whereas most people I think are just going
to a more broader audience.
Yeah.
Cool.
Thanks.
All done guys.
Thank you.
Keep it moving forward.
Yeah.
So, cool.
We don't have anyone else in the queue.
So you guys,
just you can raise your hand or unmute yourself.
Just a free for all now.
I've got a question.
How do people get really good lighting?
Cause clearly we're in a new house
and it's lighting like,
I don't want this light right on my face.
Like.
I can see a ring light in your whiteboard behind you.
Yeah.
I know.
You can see our reflection right there.
I know.
It's a UFO.
That's what we found when we did our podcast.
Anyway, the free for all is not about us.
So go for it.
No, no.
No, that's okay.
It's probably an easier question for you to answer.
Like system.
Yeah.
I mean, there's some,
it's just, you know,
the ring light is difficult
because it's hard to make it look good.
It's either really harsh or it's like not very.
Yeah.
But there is, I'll find it real quick,
but there's a.
That's better.
It is 730 in the morning.
Bruce, here's what you had us by this.
Yes.
There's like a, that's a, that's one panel.
I think the only thing with that is it was like
almost too bright for your space is I think when we worked
with Michael on that, but that does look good.
I think specifically since you have two people
it with your content, maybe good.
Cause like what Hillary's got is it's called a one by two.
So it's one foot by two feet.
So it's like a wide rectangle.
I will find some stuff.
Let me just pull it up here on Amazon.
And there is like a lighting.
Yeah.
Let me just find it real quick.
I'll send you the exact link,
but there's a couple of ways to go.
Let's see.
Yeah.
So these are actually really great.
These little led strip that actually has two in the box
with this and they're very, very thin.
So if you're in a tight space, like a smaller office
these are very low profile.
And then these are sort of standard.
This is what Sean Cannell recommends.
They have like some color temperatures
that can go from being warm to being cool.
So more bluish to more, you know, yellowish.
And so you can kind of dial it in depending
on what other lights are in the room.
This one is like obviously a little more expensive
but this is a little bit more of a pro level.
And I think there's actually a cheaper version of this
but it is very big.
Like I wouldn't even be able to put this.
It's got like a huge soft box.
It's like three feet wide.
Our space is like, there's a wall
like two feet behind my desk and the window.
So there wouldn't be enough room.
for us to do that in here.
But one of these two options would be good.
And again, I would try it.
The goal is to get it as soft
and as big a source as possible.
So even on your ring lights,
like getting something in front of it or whatever
to sort of diffuse the light and spread out.
Like a white sheet.
And sometimes they come with like covers and things
to help do that, to soften it.
These will as well, but you can always,
to get a very like high quality kind of film video.
I would definitely be the first thing to invest in.
Like other than like, if you have fairly decent audio,
lighting is gonna make the biggest change.
Because you can use your iPhone camera
with good lighting will look awesome
rather than like a $2,000 camera with bad lighting,
if that makes sense.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's really good.
Yeah.
So I'm noticing that they, and you, Bruce,
that you guys all have,
you have these whiteboards behind you.
Is that intentional?
Do you need to have that whiteboard?
My whiteboard was found on the side of the road
in our last home.
So I'm just covering the gymnasium mirror.
This used to be a gymnasium mirror.
Yeah.
Because we ain't gonna be coming in here
doing whiteboards.
I just, yeah.
The whiteboards are-
This is just our office.
Yeah.
You don't need it, but it's on the wall.
And this is our-
As is my ball, you see?
Yeah.
That's funny.
It presents more of a problem usually,
because there's, you can see the reflection of things.
Maybe put a curtain over the,
I don't know, on the whiteboard or something.
Yeah.
We'll change rooms there, so.
We might change rooms,
because we tried to put my paintings to cover the mirror
to cover what we did with the light.
One free way to do lighting there
is I would take your desk and everything
and turn it into the window
and use that light that's coming through.
So we have a lot of big windows here.
They're all covered right now.
But if I turn my lights off and I open all those windows,
it would actually be pretty decent lighting in here
just with the outside lights and natural light.
But first, right now it's gonna be a silhouette.
And so you either wanna kind of close it off completely
so it doesn't get in the way,
or you wanna kind of work with it.
Gotcha.
Cool.
Thanks, Scott.
Yeah, I dropped a link in the chat there for you, so.
Cool.
Yeah.
Who else has questions?
Everybody.
Scott, jump in.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Tony.
I wonder if there's in the community,
has there been kind of a prayer function
that's been raised up
that's sort of surfaced
in terms of covering people's projects
and reach and questions and families?
I just wondered if-
Are you volunteering to lead our prayer movement?
That's what I was gonna ask.
Yeah, is that what I'm hearing?
That just came to my mind,
like, oh, I wonder if there's prayer.
Yeah, so we, personally,
obviously we are covering the community in prayer.
We do not have a prayer team for the community.
Like a live call or-
Or a live call or anything like that.
It's on, I'll tell you this,
it's on my heart to do,
but I don't feel like I'm the one to lead it,
so I'm waiting for the Lord to-
So maybe-
There's no pressure for anyone.
I'm just saying, I feel like my prayer to him was,
I don't feel like he was saying, I need to lead it.
We're also, and this is like membership talk, right?
Cause it's kind of our insider talk.
We haven't, we are in a season in our leadership
where the Lord is upgrading us
to not do all the things that we could do,
because I feel like the desire of our hearts
and the desire of the Lord's heart
is for us to not be, how do I say this?
I don't know what you're saying, yeah.
No, I don't think you should run the prayer.
We want team and we want to do things in community.
And I think our past leadership roles,
we've done like, we've worn a lot of hats
cause we could do it.
Like, you know, it's what leaders do.
It's like, oh yeah, we need this, we need that.
We do all the things.
It leads to burnout,
but it also doesn't let there be any space
or room or breath for healthy team dynamic, right?
Cause sometimes there has to be a need
for somebody to fill the need.
But if you're not,
if you're filling all the needs yourself, then so.
And you can't scale that way.
So no, I would start with like one,
I'll pray about a time and then.
Yeah, just reach out to us.
let us know what you're thinking and do one time where everybody comes in and then we can know
what's specific to you and then what else is and it can just be about kingdom messengers that
i'd be about that okay yeah hey amy i see your hand and we'll yeah tomorrow we've been started
talking someone just commented yeah we've been talking about that with tomorrow as well about
yes so yeah it's gonna it seems like there's it's gonna happen so just we'll connect everybody
so this is just this is a comment and uh does not mean volunteering for um but i just i had
the thought as we were all talking at the beginning you know um that i i mean just in
in the sense in my spirit that we needed to pray for each other and i know um lindsey um
i don't know how many you know a couple of months ago where we were just chatting before everybody
showed up we started a few minutes early and um and you had some words and bobby you had
you know words and um that were so impactful and and and prayed you know because i was at a place
where i needed to um express and i i needed exactly what was brought to the table and um
and i i just as an intercessor i mean you see those needs when they crop up and i know
lindsey you know you've noticed it so i just feel like just to affirm what everybody's saying
thank you for that encouraging yeah i think we're heading in that direction pretty soon yeah
i think so um and i think like we're also open to ideas for you guys for thinking about 2022
if there's better ways to i think what people love doing is showing up on these calls and
just listening to other people's stuff so we're trying to figure out like a good balance between
like how do we help as many people but also um just providing a lot of value so i know we're
going to be doing a lot more content um this year so like kind of going back on some of the
master classes up so we probably will be teaching some stuff live um either on these calls or and
actually doing um like specific topic like okay like we're going to go through tick tock we're
going to get more in depth with facebook ads or instagram or any of that um and we've been
playing with this idea of even kind of creating a lot of mini courses so rather than just like
all the resources being in in the kingdom messenger roadmap or whatever it's we try to
kind of segment them into smaller uh courses so there's like little things we're playing with but
um so we may use some of these times as well to to do some training with you guys or maybe do
other times during the week but we'd love to know from you guys you can also email us or
yeah now like if you have ideas if you think there's things we can improve on
if you we have time during the week to support you guys and again everybody's
we're we're quick center you guys graduated from kingdom messengers uh when you have over
10 000 people following you i know we said a thousand we're way more interested in getting
you to 10 000 um and that's always been the goal like um and so we're once you guys in here and
growing and stuff until we see you guys reach out and we have had i'd say like five or six people
out of the 55 that have graduated past that from like very few people all the way to i think some
people are at 19 000 20 000 um now so it's definitely possible if you guys were like wow
10 000 sounds like a lot it's not um it's not a lot at all so it's it's definitely reachable so
anyway we just want to use these times to resource you guys and like figure out like hey what what
can we be doing next to help you guys go to the next level so cool awesome and i see yeah riva
and brett you guys have your hand raised
oh hi okay so i feel like now that i've gone through that first round of launch and i'm
following along like if you're at one two or three level i really need your help to assess
what's my next step you know there's a degree of okay keep up you know keep your head oh look you
can schedule it in advance you know record an episode and schedule it in advance but then i'm
like okay but what's on the list that i'm missing so i feel like i need a coach to run with me to
say okay yes good okay now here go this way on the race path yeah have you been going like week by
week on the kingdom messenger roadmap is that what you've been like utilizing yes the kingdom messenger
roadmap and then i actually
I did a go for launch checklist that I reworked for where I'm at, like, um,
adding scheduling posts to the promotion side and kind of getting in my mind,
like how that integrates with my work week on top of homeschooling and
caring for special needs adults.
Yeah.
Um, and we would consider what you were asking.
Like, I would say like, we consider that a, what we call a channel audit.
So just kind of, Hey, let's like pull up your YouTube channel and
just give you a bunch of feedback.
Happy to do it.
And I can do that now.
If you want, like,
it's scary.
I have thoughts, um,
do it.
It's so good.
Yeah.
Rip the bandaid off.
We got 91 subscribers, so that's not nothing getting to that first
hundred is really good.
So that's, I should feel good about that.
Um, so, and I think, I know you guys went and laid all this out
with playlists and everything.
I think it looks great.
Um, I was, I actually listened to, um, yeah, some of these new ones.
I think, was it this one?
Um, these are awesome.
If you guys haven't heard their stuff, this, like, this is great.
If you want to just focus and like write or do something creative, I've
been like putting these on, on, you know, in the background and then
you can go work and stuff.
It's super helpful for focus.
Um, and what I would do, so you guys, I think you did add some video
tags, it looks like.
Um, and I would just keep adding even more here.
So you can, um, see the tags here.
It's giving like a red flag to say that there's not enough tags.
Um, so look at like, so I, so I did Isaiah 43, um, like prayer worship study.
I'd love to see some like words in the tags for prayer worship study.
Um, and you know, you want to put it basically as many tags as
you possibly can fit into that.
Um, and there is a, like a training specifically on, I think it's keywords here.
I'll drop it in the link.
Um, yes, this one, uh, in the cat there for you.
Um, just on how to like do some vid IQ stuff.
And what you want to see, let me zoom in here.
Um, is these numbers here.
So like for, for Brett, like where you're actually are ranked
number four for this tags.
If I just go to YouTube and type, uh, Brett there in the chat, then, um, this
is going to be the fourth video that shows up, which is what you want essentially.
But the other thing is not a lot of people may be searching for him just yet.
Um, now there's a lot of people searching for worship, but it's so far.
You're not going to rank for the word worship because there's
just too much content for that.
But you want to do like longer tags.
So like I would do, you know, uh, worship study, you know, four, three,
two Hertz or something like that.
Um, and I see Michelle Kuss is on here as well.
She's also doing some soaking music as well.
So I don't know if there's anything you want to add, Michelle, what's worked.
Cause I feel like some of your content had a few hundred views on it already.
Not to put you on the spot or anything.
Yeah.
I feel like that was beginner's luck.
I think, um, I put all of the things I could think of in the title.
It was like worship, meditation, study, focus for 32 Hertz,
instrumental soaking music.
And then just hashtag like the crap out of it in the description.
Mm.
Um, so I don't know if that, and I was, I was following, yeah.
William Augusto, I was following his lead.
Yeah.
And that was just, do you not have to even get that creative?
Like, could you just come over here and see what he's tagging?
Um, so he has the word soak and soaking worship.
He's like number one there.
So you can see what he's being ranked for.
So if you just search for the word Bethel, like it's his videos
coming the 24th up in the list, which is, so there's a lot of people
searching for stuff like that.
A lot of people searching for the word soaking.
So in the beginning, you want to do longer when they called
them long tail keywords, which is just a little bit more present.
He's also, it looks like he's tagging a lot of, um, you know,
Spanish words and stuff, which is awesome.
I think he's actually from Brazil.
Um, so that that's, you know, you can just kind of look around online.
This is, you have to have the vidIQ plugin and it will tell you all this, um, when
you kind of browse around to other people's stuff, um, so that may be
something, just the keywords.
And then, um, I think, uh, like, um, I haven't checked out your latest one.
I can but yeah I would also make sure just you're tagging everything what you've got so that you are
getting ranked for Reva stretching into Jesus is number three so that's good but try and go through
the content if you mention a scripture in this video I would add it so there's Isaiah 43 18 so
you can tag Isaiah 43 you can tag Isaiah 43 18 you can tag Isaiah 43 18 to 21 that's actually
four different tags um vidIQ um just check this link down here so kind of take you through how
to set set it up vidIQ is a just a plug-in like a tool you'll use it's just for YouTube though
um so that's what that is you may not even need it uh for Brennan Lee if you're going
to be on TikTok and Instagram so if you're doing YouTube you would want it for sure
um are you guys sharing your videos like the YouTube links to YouTube on Facebook
yes uh but on the Facebook there's not very there's not as many uh maybe likes uh so sharing
it and I've tried with ads um I'm a little hesitant about pouring more into Facebook
for ads but I don't know how else you get the word out have you guys already talked about what
Facebook's name change means for the future and how we might be impacted by that um you mean the
meta meta yeah um and that's also kind of like their parent company they will be changing it um
it's already popped up in a lot of places and a lot of it's not really changed much like the
platform's still gonna pretty much stay the same um but yeah we could we haven't really looked into
that too much um unless Monica you had some thought I know you've been tracking some of the
Instagram changes yeah for Facebook it's basically just they're kind of weaning us off of
of just being used to that one name and they're starting you'll see you know the name meta just
coming up more and more I honestly don't think it's going to be a while before
Facebook itself has any dramatic changes like with the name I would just proceed as as normal
on Facebook yeah if that's where your your audience is you know if it's not where your
audience is then if because we're in transition so we used to be full-time worship leaders
and that had its own flow and community um but as we warm up and we get into the live
events outdoors I would like to have a QR code and maybe link like Bruce to Tribe Social is that
a thought um yeah you can definitely do that um I think um what you can do is well
yeah if you're gonna do a QR code I would send them something like a link tree type site which
is just like a way to you've seen people do that in their profile and then you can have you know
three or four different links like hey go watch us on YouTube hey here this is where we are on
Spotify um here's our website if you know if you want to order something um so that's like
if you're gonna take the time to do that um for and I think a QR code going to a link tree type
site I mean there's link tree there's a lot of alternatives to that as well um yeah I think
uh you know again don't don't be um it may feel really slow on YouTube YouTube is the hardest
platform I think to grow organically but it does build tremendous momentum um the more you
post but one thing I found as well if you guys do have just getting traffic to the site right
like posting the link you can actually post multiple times to the YouTube video like post
it on Monday when you share it and then again on Thursday to say hey in case you missed it here's
the link again because people miss stuff with the algorithm and everything um share it on your
personal pages if you have any email addresses of people even if they're just kind of friends
and family like email hey new new post is up um we find like we get about 20 to 30 new subscribers
on kingdom messengers like when we email people okay just when I just want to email and get 30
new subscribers just just by emailing everybody um people don't know to go there and check it
right um you're seeing it from your side because it's like all like yeah it's published it's
broadcast but you have to be very loud trying to get it the message you know letting people
yeah that's all good
The tips Thank you.
Also, you said you're going to be going live correct once again, yes, so using whatever your secondary social media platform is to go live on would be helpful as well just boosting that since you know they they love anything live.
When it comes to algorithm pushes and all of that, and then you can even download your lives and take snippets from it to create smaller.
Smaller things for social media either like a real or a story that kind of.
Okay.
I think just if you just kept doing what you're doing now, the fact that you got to nine like I think I don't remember what you guys started at a few weeks or months.
Well, we started a whole new channel, so we started zero.
Okay, so that's awesome so getting to 91 is is difficult.
it's just getting that first hundred I think it's something like 99.99% of YouTube creators never pass 100.
Like you're like in the you know top percentage just by getting close to that and just keep posting and what will happen is it took.
Lindsay like three or four months to get to 100 or sorry to two months, two or three months to get to 100 and I think it took us like three weeks to get to 200.
Like it, the it picks up we're talking started by talking about momentum but yeah that's one of the things that just gets easier people just tend to find you you're getting more views just organically.
So yeah just be encouraged, I think you guys are doing everything right, you know, maybe try some new tags.
Try, I want to add our children's music too, but I don't know like do I put that under the same I mean it's us.
yeah just keep keep putting it on the same channel.
flooded yep okay then pray for us about the whole copyright thing like when you write and record a song, we know how to do that, you know how to go and and and gather people to worship Jesus that's what we love, but then like what do you do with it, then it's recorded okay now what.
So that's the I feel like that's where the log jam happens is the.
You have it recorded where do we put it.
We look talked about a service at one point that I think you guys were looking into.
What was it called.
We had CD baby and then you're looking at.
there's another one.
yeah district kid district kid district kid that was the one I was thinking of yeah.
I don't know if that's solves anything any part of that.
Well it's confusing with the publishing because then, when you're self published because you wrote it and you recorded it because you're not with a label.
Then CD baby or district kid says oh we'll help you, but then it's like the fine print and understanding all that we believe is hard to figure out.
yeah.
I have not done it through to show any music, so I know my brother has done that he put some music out and use that yeah definitely and.
And just I would dive into it look look for their channel on YouTube they may have some resources like some training and stuff to kind of go into the details, a lot of these services are very creator focused.
Anything that's kind of a newer modern platform like like there's is very creator it generally the first of the creators being the preferred parties.
yeah because that's the that's the most scarce resource right now, whereas before it was like artists just had to like fight their way and like claw their way to get rights and stuff where it's now like people fall over themselves to get you know people on their platform so it's a little different but.
I was just.
website.
His it's his.
albums he put out were called sunrise projector they're just like a little instrumental things.
I may or may not have played some guitar on them for some of that.
that's my whole contribution to music.
So cool.
awesome keep going, you guys are doing great.
i'm cool any other questions I don't want to jump up I know we're kind of coming up on an hour here, but if you guys have anything else.
I just have a comment for killer is it Hillary Hillary Hillary Hillary you looking like a superman because you got Batman and Robin going on like you've got.
Like my kids that are we're trying to engage would love this this coaching session because they'd be like hey look she's cool she's in a car, but she's still in her office look at.
It just wants to show it to you.
Florida like with the most iconic Florida thing. I don't I don't think Michelle is outside
in a convertible you said it was below zero there so.
No I'm sorry I was like why didn't I shut off why didn't I shut off my office connection why did I
just it's the lord he knows I needed to laugh today I needed a laugh. My husband came out
and said you need to go get Caleb and I was like oh and I just didn't think so anyway yeah
yeah this is the appearance of multitasking.
Um Susie did you have your hand raised I thought sorry I just saw it go down.
You were you asking sorry were you asking me I didn't yeah I thought I saw your hand raised.
I'm just debating um I am so low tech I'm only using my phone for video and um with the
da Vinci I would like to have this intro and I would like to have my voice over a picture
and I don't know how to what do I just video myself and then delete the video part of that
and put the picture into that I tried doing that but it cut the whole thing so this is you know one
of those details I don't know if anybody else is interested in and I wasn't I hear that you're I
hear you um coaching people that seems individually do you set up individual
appointments for a fee or how do you do that no I mean these these calls are really for that um
if you want to I mean that's where we're just having people just fill out the form ahead of
time just so we kind of put you to the front of the line but yeah I'm we happy to just to spend 15
20 minutes and go through something like that um it would be very easy uh if you can record
just record a video of the audio that you want um if you have that you have the image ready to go
and you have it just you know with da Vinci open then I can kind of step you through
like exactly a few few steps to do what you want to do um I don't know if you want to do that now
I have I have all of those things ready just in case late yeah I don't I don't mind as we don't
really have any other questions I don't mind we can do it now and let let other people yeah and
if if you guys need a jump as well I know we're coming up on an hour you're welcome to go or you
welcome to hang out um so but yeah well we can show you that that in da Vinci and I'll say it's
if you're using premiere or da Vinci um or I maybe you can kind of do all all of it will work the
same way yeah I did I thought that I just picked it up on my I thought I just opened it up on my
screen but I'm not seeing it um to be able to share okay I think let me let me see
oh there it is okay I guess it just took a little while
okay awesome um so the just to make sure like this part is the sound that you want
yes and then this is the image you want yes okay so just grab the start by just grabbing this image
and just drag it like up to this layer here okay okay perfect and then what you're going to do
next is like kind of hover over to the right side of this you'll see like a um
uh and you can kind of drag the end of that image out there we go just keep dragging it
all the way to cover um so this is you're basically wanting it to show up the whole time that you're
talking um or I don't know which part of it is it just a part of this video that is the intro
this is just a test so it doesn't yeah so if you move the um just click like up here kind of in
this area um it'll move the play bar there so you can kind of see what's happening so you can see
like back here is the video and here's the image that's on top of it so you can see that because
it's got um this is on top and this is on bottom here now what's happening is the image has some
space on either side so just double click on this image
um and we essentially want to zoom it in um and okay let me see
Bruce can I interrupt you I've got this text that I want to have on over the image
okay and I also I'm not sure how to get
get your pictures off of the screen
so that I can see this whole screen.
Yeah, it's just, that's just Zoom.
It's always in the wrong place when you don't need it.
But if you want to move this on top of the image,
just drag this up to a layer here.
It will create like a,
so now if you click kind of over here, there you go.
Okay, cool.
But again, if you hit play,
it's going to kind of play to that point and then stop.
So you can make it as long and as short as you want.
Anything like an image or text,
it can be as long and short as you want.
You're just telling it how long to hold that,
you know, that on the screen.
So what you can also do is you just need to Zoom
that image in.
So I'm just not quite sure of like the way to get,
I don't have DaVinci on this particular computer,
but see if you can just click into the image here
on the kind of this box, yeah.
Or just, yeah, click down there.
Click down here?
Yeah, like somewhere like over there.
Okay, it's not going to quite work like Premiere.
Let me, can you move it into this mode here?
It's like magic.
That's a Fusion one?
Yeah, I think that's, yeah,
this is really way more than what I was looking for.
I'll, let me find out, there's just a mode
we got to get it into to where you can Zoom that image in.
I mean, if anyone else is using DaVinci
and knows exactly what to do here.
What do you mean?
Fill the whole screen?
Yeah, Hank, let me see.
Because I think I can.
Oh yes, that's the button.
So if you go to effects here or, sorry,
just click on the image, let me grab my pen again.
So if you click on the image here.
Okay, just a second, I am giving you.
Okay.
Okay, permission, okay.
Let's see.
So I need to do that.
Okay, I'm sorry, I'm not paying attention.
Yeah, so just click into that image there
or like double click, sorry, down here
in the kind of bottom.
Privacy thing, are you seeing that?
Yeah, you can just close that.
We don't need it.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have distracted you with that.
I was just.
Because I did see a way to make it,
I did see a way to make the background bigger.
Yeah, if you just double click on the image.
Okay, so here it is right here.
So there's the zoom right here.
If you just click over there.
Okay.
And is that like one right now?
So if you just click on that, maybe make it like 1.2.
So it says.
Let me see if I can move my DaVinci screen
so that I can see underneath there.
And, oh shoot, everything that I am touching
to try to move that is not letting me move it.
Yeah, I know.
We can all see it, but you have zoom.
Anyway, I can't see underneath the zoom.
Okay.
I mean, I can't see the number.
When you get off of zoom,
ironically, the word zoom is right there, ironically.
But it's actually.
And now I can't hear you.
What did I do?
Okay.
I'm not sure.
Okay.
I clicked something trying to.
Yeah.
So let's do this.
So when you get back from this,
go back to the, just watch the replay.
I can't hear you.
I did something.
Okay. Hang on.
Okay.
So just go back and watch the replay.
And you'll be able to see it very clearly on our screen.
And then you'll see what it is.
There's like a 1.0.
Just change that to like 1.2 or 1.4.
And you'll see the whole image will zoom in
and it'll fill the right and the left bars.
So sorry, you're having some technical issues there.
No problem.
Okay.
Cool.
Well, if anyone, does anyone else have anything?
I don't want to leave without anyone.
I had one quick thing I wanted to share.
Yeah.
And it is this year, my word of the year is abide.
And I am such a go, go, go person
that I think the Lord just wanted to sit me down.
But one of the things that I've talked about for years
but I haven't really done
is I've talked about having a business of ease, right?
And so I was just thinking about that right now.
when I was thinking about everyone here.
And so what I did yesterday, I said,
I need to find out what ease is,
because in my mind, it goes automatically to easy, right?
Which is not what it is.
And so I looked up the definition
and I just wanted to share it with you really quickly
because I think it would really inspire you.
So God is calling us to work a business
or whatever mission that he has you on assignment with ease.
And the definition is, it has quite a few.
It says the state of being comfortable,
such as freedom from pain or discomfort,
freedom from care.
How many of us care about everybody else
and what they're doing?
Freedom from labor or difficulty,
freedom from embarrassment or constraint.
And it talks about having a naturalness.
So I wanna just encourage you all during this week
to spend some time owning your naturalness.
He made each and every one of you so unique,
so specifically for your assignment
that he wants you to have ease.
Lots of times we spend time, oh, I wish I was like that.
I wish I was a little bit more like that.
And he's saying, no, this is a time
where you basically step into that naturalness
that I created you in.
So I hope that encourages you throughout your week
to just remember that you are grounded in him
and everything that you are called to do
is within that framework, that container of ease.
Awesome, that's so good.
I don't know why you were sitting on that
for 75 minutes into the call,
but I'm glad you shared it.
That's awesome.
That's a great way to end.
So hopefully that encourages you guys.
Awesome, well, let's go after this week, guys,
and we'll help you guys.
If you need anything, find us in Facebook
and we'll see you next Tuesday.
Bye, guys.
Thank you.
See you, Batman and Robin.
Bye-bye, thank you.
Thanks, Monica.