All right.
We got Susie joining in and Rebecca.
Awesome, awesome.
Like they connect them up to auto audio.
Awesome.
Let's see.
Hey Reba.
Rebecca Franklin maybe.
Yeah.
Look, it'll be a surprise.
Hey Marcella.
Hey everyone I see some are still trying to connect to audio.
Hey hey.
See you.
As usual, we're always going to start with some wins I see some people still connecting to audio.
So I gotta win guys, and I hop in, and then everyone else can hop into. So y'all I did my first tick tock live y'all. And it was fun.
And it was, I had 100 because that you, you're able to see at the end of how many people join. It was 130 people.
And I actually did get a few new followers.
And it was, it was just awesome just to kind of like see people joining and saying hi and, you know, so I'm trying to, you know, look and see who's joining and keep you know keep going with what the Lord gave me, but it was just so good.
And it was just awesome just to kind of have that live engagement, you know with people. And so, um, so that was fun guys it was fun I went live I didn't like burst into flames you know like I'm still alive and intact.
I encourage everyone do it, you know, if you're able to go live it's fun to interact with those people like real time you know they have questions if they, you know, just want to share something I think it's a good way to connect with people so that's my win.
Anyone else have a win for this week.
Do you have a win. So well I did not go live.
I did go live in the kingdom messenger can that was, I wasn't gonna talk about that but I did go live in the kingdom messenger member community.
God was just on my heart, but my first win that I had was I hadn't done a tick tock, I hadn't done any video in a long time it had been a while I had so many life just kept happening kept getting in the way and so finally I got stuff off so I was invited.
I was invited to go on a retreat to Lake Arrowhead I'm a Southern California girl I have never been to Lake Arrowhead. And here I am driving myself up into these mountains and scared to death, I think we were like 8000 feet up but anyway, I get here with
I think I might have known two of the women it was about maybe eight or nine of us. And I'm just the presence of the Lord and just an impromptu I was invited to conduct an impromptu Bible study.
And I know the Holy Spirit came in and just the women were healed and just, I mean, honestly, the whole thing was just really a confirmation for the Lord had been putting in my spirit.
I didn't have a topic I did not study I did not come prepared to do anyone's Bible study but from that experience and seeing the responses and, you know, I got up and just minister to all of the ladies individually and then.
And so right after it was done, I was like, I hear, I hear something I need to put it on.
And so I ran and kind of put a little makeup on my face because I just, you know, kind of conscious on the space that my presentation.
But I tell you being in those mountains with those ladies, I was able to do my little tick tock I talked for 30 seconds I had to cut, I talked for 31 seconds I had to cut out a second.
I was like, okay, okay, you know, get used to so that's my way.
Good.
Amazing. I love it. And look girl you can go on even without the makeup but do what's comfortable for you.
I go on all the time without makeup so I don't know what you guys are complaining about.
Do we have any other wins, maybe one more.
That is hilarious.
It's my only it's my only joke every time Lindsay mentioned that
you already have those long dark eyelashes.
My mom for that.
Yeah.
All right, so cool this. That's so awesome.
You know you went live.
in our group to explain some of the things that was in your heart and awesome on that retreat
and everything. I'm sure everyone was blessed. So if no other wins. Okay.
I can sort of say the same thing as what happened with Marcella. It's that, you know, we just
happened to be in a space and then suddenly it's like the Holy Spirit just sort of takes over and
you go, hang on a minute. I need to really knuckle down in what's just happened in this moment.
And yeah, I just had a, one of those moments, you know, divine appointment type moments in a,
in a queue going into my son's performance on Monday night. And, you know, having this
28 year old lady who just started, you know, opening up and sharing about her disconnect
with her mother. And, and it would just was, my heart went to her, but my heart also went
to her mother. And I thought, Oh, how could I just bring those two just a little closer together.
And that's when all of this, you know, the who, the, the what, and the how, and the why
just was downloaded to me. So there you go. It's just comes. Absolutely beautiful.
I've done two videos this week, so that's good. Actually, no, I've done three. I did an ad video
yesterday, but it's still being reviewed. So just sitting there reviewing. So that's awesome.
When, you know, it doesn't have to take months and months to, to get that breakthrough, right.
On the clarity, like sometimes it's just a second. And then all of a sudden you're like, Oh, this is
the, this is the next step. And then now you've got all the tools and the resources to go, you
know, put it together very quickly. It's exciting. I think it goes months and months and months,
and then there's a sudden. Yeah, it was an overnight success. It was just the three years,
you know, beforehand. Well, Bruce, I, what you wrote about, you know, you put your first challenge
on in two weeks. Okay. And I thought to myself, if, if Bruce and Lindsay can do that, you know,
they made a decision to do a challenge and then they put it on in two weeks. Well, then maybe I
can do that too. So let's see. Let's see. That's I think, um, well, I'm going to let Tamara pray
and then we can, and we can start, then we can really start. Go for it real quick. Amen. Amen.
Father, we thank you so much for bringing us together on this day. God, just to Lord come
together to fellowship, come together to be strengthened and empowered. Lord, I just feel
this in my spirit, Lord, to say and declare over our group, we will charge forward. We will not
retreat. We will not retreat. We will not back down. We will not go back into obscurity. Oh God,
we will charge forward with your message that you have given us because there are people who
need us. Oh God, they need you. And you've given us the testimony. You've given us the clarity,
the healing, the deliverance. Oh God, to share. Oh God, with others, Lord, Lord. So I just thank
you right now that there will be a new fire within our spirit. God, even though we've might've
experienced warfare, technical issues, the list goes on and on and on, but how great is our God.
You are there with us every step of the way. Oh God. So I thank you for the empowerment.
I thank you for the boldness, for us to be just courageous in what you've given us to do,
God. So I just declare that over this group, that no matter the setbacks that we have experienced
since coming into TikTok and coming onto so many different platforms, oh God, you are greater.
You're bigger than every setback. You're bigger than all of the warfare. You're bigger than. So I
just thank you, God, for just strengthening us on this day. We thank you, God, for health,
for our group, for our family members. Oh God, all of our prayer requests and the things that
have been in our heart. Lord, we stand together as one unit and declare victory over every situation,
God. And we just thank you for it now. We give you praise. God, I thank you for Bruce and for
Lindsey. Oh God, I thank you for what all that they pour into us. And we ask that you pour back
into them, oh God. And I thank you that we welcome you in, Holy Spirit, into this session.
Have your way. I thank you that you will give Bruce the clarity and everything he needs to
help us along this way. And it's in Jesus' name that I pray and give thanks. Amen and amen.
Amen. Thank you. Awesome. So good. And Lindsey will be joining here in a second. She's just
getting situated, but she'll be here in a minute. But yeah, I did want to talk to what
Mar was talking about, but I knew it would take a minute longer than...
And then we wouldn't have a chance to pray and kick this off right so we, if you guys have seen like we're host that there's a movement maker challenge it's happening now with our mentor Pedro deo.
You guys are all invited it's totally free I've been sharing the links if you would probably been spamming all our kingdom messengers a little much for that.
But we really really believe that the challenge framework, which you can call it a workshop you could call it online Bible study you can doesn't have to be called a challenge that I think is gonna be a powerful tool for kingdom messengers to launch
their ministry to launch, like the thing that the Lord's called them to. And I wouldn't like it's, it's one of those things kind of like Tick Tock, we feel like it's just such a powerful tool you can put very little bit of content into Tick Tock
and blow that up to thousands of people that could listen to you. Challenges are kind of the same way where you could have no content people don't know who you are, you don't have any social accounts, and then launch challenge and that all all that stuff
can come later it's like, it's like another place to sort of launch your entire space like ministry or your whole business in one in a very short timeframe.
And what we wrote about what Mario was talking about was, we went from an idea to hey we're going to launch this challenge.
And then all of a sudden within 14 days we had 250 kingdom messengers and in our community and our Facebook group, and our first like 24 people that were in our in this kind of coaching group, and, and then all of a sudden there was kingdom messengers
from hey you know before it was like hey there's this thing we could help like Christian content creators we don't even have the name kingdom messengers came up with the name like did all that stuff in about literally two weeks.
And then all of a sudden there was like now, here we are like a year and a half later still helping you know serving you guys. And so that's just something we would encourage you guys if you're what it is a lot of work, okay, it's, it is getting clarity
and all those things it's a lot of work, but it is one of the fastest ways to quickly see instead of spending like six months of thinking through content and maybe one day, launching or testing or spending a lot of times like trying different
pieces of content and running ads and all that stuff if you want to fast track it like a challenge is a great way to, it's a great framework at least to, to quickly test six months worth of marketing in a couple days or, you know, in a week or two.
And then you know like hey actually people don't want this course that I've been dreaming of for 10 years maybe I need to repackage it as something else and then try it again right so it helps you save a lot of time so one of those tools that we are very excited
and I think it just took a, it took this year we're really excited to help Kingdom Messengers start to add the income piece to the, to the influence as well. And this is one of those ways that can help, whether you're doing coaching or selling a course
it can be a way to add that thing so it's free thing we're in day two just finished today. We're also hosting like a, like an after party after each session just for 30-40 minutes with, with anyone in Kingdom Messengers who just wants to chat and talk
through and process, how this would apply to them so check it out I'll drop a link here I think it was in everybody's email and we have been spamming everybody to get it.
Get on it so I'll put the link there but yeah and the, I think the recordings will be up till Friday, Sunday of the main sessions.
And of course you could, you could check that out but definitely, it's something to just help kind of get exposed to the, the idea of a challenge and then you can always come back in these Tuesday calls, and you know, we can help think through how you guys
could do that, you know, do your own but cool so that's, that's our shameless plug I see Lindsay's on here, I think she's in route but she's listening to us in spirit.
So, let me just double check our list here, see who's up.
And then we'll go through that. See, I don't have anyone on the board here that had submitted anything ahead of time so if you guys have a question or you want us to chat, want to talk through something.
Just put your zoom hand up or attention will go from there.
Yes, Mara it has.
I was just going to ask about the, the review, you know the ad, you know, Facebook doesn't add review.
How long should it take and you see my account got hacked a week ago, and
it took me ages to get it back but I think the person who hacked it was trying to make ads was trying to use my.
account details too. So they blocked two ads apparently from this person.
And so yesterday I had to go through a process to try and re-establish my credentials with
Facebook to say I am who I am and all that. Even though I'd got my accounts but my, you know,
Facebook pages back and whatnot, they hadn't established my link to do advertising yet
because of these two that they had blocked.
So you have submitted it for review?
Yeah, I've submitted it but it's still reviewing.
Yeah, how long has it been?
Oh, what time yesterday? We probably submitted it about middle of the day yesterday.
Okay.
So that's, sorry, it's about 18 hours.
Okay. Yeah, normally about a day. It can definitely take a day or so for,
especially an account that has any kind of issues or even if it's like a brand new ad account,
like if you just go create a brand new ad account and just start running ads,
they typically will take a day or two to get going.
Yeah, I'm going to, I do have a contact who is our, like Facebook, which I'll just drop here.
Let me see if I can get, yes. I don't know if this person will be helpful or even respond,
but I will share it with you if you want to email someone.
This Michelle Brunstein is like, she works at Facebook and then when we get like,
when you spend over a certain amount of Facebook,
then Facebook just gets very, very friendly and helpful and
support to reach out to you every time you run any ads.
And so you could just email, you could ask and just see.
It's just another, it's hard to get people's info to contact them.
That's almost impossible.
But she's very, yeah.
Look, I'll reach out to her, but I'm still getting a lot of
phishing emails at the moment.
Like probably it's lowering, it's getting lesser,
but I did get a disturbing one just before saying that
someone had requested the password change and I'm going, not again, not again.
So I, you know, I had put two factor in authentication into everything just now
and I thought to myself, that did not come across on my phone.
It should have come on my phone.
So I'm going to ignore it. It's someone pretending.
Yeah. That's good.
Yeah. Look, security is just one of those things.
Like it's a trade-off between convenience, right?
Like we have all our passwords just saved into our computers
or having that, you know, security.
So it's like, if you had, you know, a fence around your house
and you have to like unlock a gate every time, it's like, yes, it's really annoying,
but it's like, it's that extra curve.
So it's just how many of those things you want to put in place.
Two factor authentication definitely is smart.
It's very annoying when you need to get in and out of things,
but that's kind of the point.
But you can turn that onto your Facebook account as well
so that it does happen.
I've done it on my Facebook account too.
You could pretty much teach a masterclass on Facebook security now.
Maybe.
So your account got hacked, I think you were telling me.
And then, yeah, someone tried to run ads.
It took me two days to get it back.
Yeah. It's crazy.
Well, we could see from the meta place
where that Facebook had blocked two ads in the days when it was hacked.
So, yeah, anyway.
Cool. Well, I'm glad it hopefully gets resolved.
Let us know how it goes.
Thank you.
And Denise, I saw you had your hand raised.
Okay. Yeah. Hi.
I'm trying to get my video on.
Here we go.
Thanks for taking me.
Yeah. Thanks.
I just want to share some good news and then I have a quick question.
So we just did our 13th podcast.
It's still audio, but I wouldn't be this far without Bruce and Lindsay
because it's been really hard just to get ourselves out there
and learn this technology.
So a lot of time on the TikTok videos this week.
And so we'll probably get a TikTok ad out there soon.
But the good news is that just the podcast that have already aired
a person in a church similar to mine that's in a small group in Connecticut.
She used my podcast in her small group, and everybody loved it.
They're doing it every week, and that just blew me away.
And then one of them shared it with her minister,
and he's going to pass it on to his guys, the men in his small group.
And so it's just kind of neat.
It's just like, okay, it's getting out there in my circle of friends,
maybe not on the TikTok audience.
yet. But it's still getting out there. So it's encouraging. I
feel more good.
Well done. Yeah. And but again, it's more people that knew about
it this week, right than last week. Right. And it's it's
scaling your time, right? Because now, you could have gone
out and like helped each of those friends or traveled or gone
and helped do ministry, but all you have to do is put it in one
place. And now it's being distributed, which is really
exciting.
That's, that's a good way to look at it. It's it's much more
time, you know, consume less time consuming. So the question
is, um, so when I this is kind of a pretty organized, but in
this particular case, I wasn't unless I went on to anchor made
my podcast, I found some music I really loved and I played it and
I put it at the beginning at the end of the podcast. But it's not
long enough, like, and I can't find the music again, and I
forgot to write the title down. So I wonder if there's a place I
can find it somewhere like because I need to make it longer
like in other words, it plays and then there's this long pause
now I know you can cut off the beginning when you edit, but
I've tried to do that. So that it just but I want it to kind of
blend into my first few words and fade and I didn't do I
didn't do the fade.
Gotcha. And how long? How long is it? Because it's just like a
couple seconds. Six seconds. But the song is six seconds. Uh
huh. Okay, yeah, well, I would definitely get some a song
that's longer. It's gonna be difficult to stretch that
further. No, the song is longer. But my piece of the song, I cut
the song off at six seconds. Okay. And you just want to like
have it fade. Right? And I know the song is there. Is there a
way to find what song I used?
Um, if it's probably it was like a stock. It was a stock thing.
It was through. It was. It was through the let me go on there.
It was through the you know what they have there for you in
anchor, like they have some ample stuff. Yeah, right. You
could do that. There's also like we do have some music that you
guys are welcome to use. That's actually what we're using for
Lindsay's podcast. I think it's still on the old messenger
group. So I can drop a link here. Let me grab this. The
link. That's the some custom music. Those are like about 30
seconds. What's useful about those is they kind of they fade
in a little bit and then they kind of naturally as part of the
energy like fade out. So instead of taking like a three minute
song and trying to find like a 2032nd piece that fits, it kind
of has the right energy to start something and then just sort of
like fade naturally. But we typically like we let it we
typically have it start for like one or two seconds of just music
with no speaking and then it immediately the speaking comes
in within one or two seconds pretty quick. And then you can
have it like, as you start talking, you know, you can have
it then sort of like start to we have a the music plays right now
with Lindsay like says, Hey, this is what posture is about,
you know, this is based on the scripture. And then and then it
comes into her actually starting the episode and then it plays
for about 20 maybe 1015 seconds after that. And all we did are
using GarageBand or what are you using to edit it right now?
I haven't all I'm using is anchor right now. And you
mentioned last time I could use GarageBand. So I was going to
take step at that. But I ran out of time this week. Yeah. So for
15 seconds, actually into the episode, you have it play along
with the intro part, you have it played during all of that. And
then second,
if you don't have an intro, that's fine. You can just have
it start to do to have it for that. We have it attached as
part of our intro. I'm just trying to see if I can pull it
up for you. So I can show you but you can do this in any app.
It doesn't have to be I'm using Premiere here. But let me see if
I can share my screen.
Using Premiere GarageBand.
This is this is Premiere Pro, but the it'll look kind of
similar in GarageBand or whatever, or DaVinci, whatever
you use.
Okay, so let me see if I can get to it. So this is if you just
look at this green bar.
This is and this is one of those songs that's part of our
Kingdom Messenger group that Paul did for all the Kingdom
Messenger. So you can use this song and there's like seven or
eight others.
But it basically starts here. And then you can see, let me
just
shrink some of this stuff down, but just get it to where you guys can see. Okay, so that's
where she starts speaking and I'll play it here real quick. Posture is a short audible fist bump
to remind you God is with you in everything. And so she talks and she says like today we're
gonna take a you know posture of peace and then it ends and then it plays for like one or two
seconds and then after that we just do a little fade and then you can see it just slowly fades
like over the course of time. So you actually don't really notice that it's leaving. You don't
have to make music fade, it's already faded the way you have it. Well we are fading it as well
just so that but it does fade on its own naturally. It kind of drifts off you can see there even if I
didn't fade it I just make it even smoother. How do you fade it on your own?
So these little see these little like dots right here those are you can do this in any tool
GarageBand or DaVinci, but you can create like what's an automation. So it's at one level here
and then it's going softer and then it's going all the way down to zero. So it's kind of just
totally disappearing till the end. Yeah and you can I think you can it'll be a little different
in each tool but you can essentially they're called like key frames and you can you can set
that there. In GarageBand there's like little dots you can have if you want to get into it.
I wouldn't stress about it that's the key. I would use it as is if it works great just basically put
it in there and then make it soft so it's not competing with your voice and then worry about
the fade stuff if you want to. This is probably a little extra I just wanted to show you in case
if you are going to play with it this is sort of what we found works the best and then we do
kind of a reverse of that where we bring the music back in at the end. I show you this so we see how
we so they're still talking the so whatever is happening before this they're talking they're
talking the music's playing and then right as they finish we just bump up the music typically on
a beat so that's where it like starts so it looks kind of like let me bring this so
you can see the video but it may oh it's not going to play something into our
then it like okay so it comes in on the beat and I have things like marked so I don't even have to
listen to it when I edit it. A couple markers in here I know that all I have to do is once I have
the marker in my template I just move this marker to right where she's finished talking
so if let's say the next version of this is like is you know much shorter and it looks like that
I just grab this and I just move that marker to their last word so there's they talk and then that
that little marker right there I just move it into its place and then everything's the same
after that so undo that so don't but you can definitely have that in a template where you
don't have to think about it each time and then the same thing shows up at the end of every episode
so cool okay well I don't think you've got to learn but that was probably like a much longer
answer to your short question like how to add no no that's great I like the detail I like the detail
awesome yeah and there's I put the link in there if you want to try some of those
other songs if you can't find the same one for anchor but these are cool this is from
Paul who is also my cousin but he's also a BSSM Bethel school ministry worship leader as well so
he he just did these things for us okay awesome thank you so much this is really helpful I think
I'm going to make headway okay we can ask Brett and Reva to just make you something awesome
yeah I could do that too hey if you guys didn't see I'll just this is um kind of fun but there's
we put like some uh music together for kingdom messengers um called focus tracks because I think
I think Brett and Reva did this first they actually created like an eight hour which is crazy I don't
even know how you did it for that long but I'll drop a link to this as well it's on kingdom messenger
tv um and this is from Brett and Reva this is from Michelle Cuss and um and then this is just
some stuff we found and this is one that we did uh Paul did like one for us for for posture um so
we're experimenting with some some longer format music but um it has like we're still experimenting
so I'm not we're not gonna like teach on it just yet
But it, the watch time, like the hours that's coming from this has been insane.
Um, like it was a hundred times more watch time on this one video than any
of Lindsay's other episodes, just in the first week, um, just because it's so
much longer, I think people just put it on in the background.
So if you're looking for stuff while you're thinking, praying, meditating,
or just writing content, it's a great thing.
There's just some free tracks.
So how I will ask Brett and Reeve, like, how did that, um,
I know you guys, yours was about eight hours.
I think you did it for Easter, right?
Yeah.
That took a minute because I had to do it.
Yeah, but, um, you're right.
Well, we had that request where people are like, I want to sleep to this.
Could you make it for eight hours?
It needs to be longer, you know, not 30 minutes, not 60 minutes, not three
hours, we want it for the whole night while we're resting in it.
And so that was kind of the motivation for that.
I was going to ask you, Bruce, I saw that you had William Augusto as a guest.
Is there a live, um, or a zoom recording of that session?
I can turn anyone.
Sorry.
Zoom is okay.
There we go.
Um, he, I, I haven't met, connected with him directly.
Um, I just found it and I was like, we don't have anyone.
If it's someone who's not like a normal speaker, I just
had them listed as a guest.
Yeah.
Well, I'm sure he appreciates that.
So I can, I should ask though.
Field trip.
We'll just go to where he is.
Yeah.
I think I, anyway, I think he's part of the Bethel worship group.
Um, and so I could probably like text David Funker from one of my
production guys at Bethel and figure it out.
Yeah.
Excellent.
Yeah.
We're finding that, um, the ones that we do where it, it stems from live
worship is, is, uh, it's just, they're better, you know, if you're just
trying to recreate a hymn, there's already people doing that, what
I'm drawn to is the live worship.
And, and so if we can, we kind of do a blend of that, where we'll do
maybe 30 minutes of live worship.
Then we'll extend it out.
So people can just soak in a piece of that presence driven worship.
And so to capture that we need each other.
So keep praying for us because we are working in that
direction to do that full time.
And that's cool.
So you guys just hit record and then, and then worship, and then you've
had to find like a good piece of it.
Yeah.
Usually there's like a motive, like that one, it was blood of Jesus.
We need to, and so there was just kind of that chorus of
nothing, but the blood of Jesus.
But even the first one was the Lord's prayer and there was not a melody for that.
So, you know, he just receives and back.
That's, what's crazy about Brett.
He says that he, the Holy spirit actually leads his hands
visually to the keys too.
It's not like there's a script.
But that's not a complicated thing.
Sometimes I literally see my hands on the shape of a court.
And if I know that's G minor and I sit down and start right there,
it's not, it's not difficult.
It's just fun.
That's not difficult when it's spirit led.
And that's what I'm saying is that the spirit is really leading that.
Yeah.
That's fine.
I think that's awesome.
And I think there's like, you guys have obviously got multiple
angles you can come at it from.
So I think producing the music is one thing, but I think the.
Your process, right?
Like we're doing posture is like the ministry piece, but, but how we are
doing posture is like kingdom messengers, right?
Like you guys may even have a piece of this.
That's showing people how to get the, you know, how to follow that.
Right.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's coming.
I think so.
You know, we, we did some recording last Tuesday.
He is absolutely lighting a fire.
Um, and it, it was, um, I don't know.
It's like, there's a technical side too.
And Bruce, thank you for sharing your screen because I've worked
in premier since the nineties.
It's changed some, but the, the concept is the same, right?
You still have the bands and the volume and pull down menus change,
but the concepts do the same.
And when I saw that, I was wanting to know, do you use a master
template when you go in for your.
Weekly editing.
Yes.
Um, we did this a lot more.
I think there's a whole hour long video somewhere.
But the short version is that yes, basically like, um, we, it takes me, it
takes me like seven minutes to edit Lindsay's and that's not because like,
it's just, we don't have a lot of time to do it.
So we've, we've had to get really organized.
So for next week's episode, this is the process I actually go.
I duplicate, I change this from 203 to 204, I double click into it, and now all the clips are
here. The intro, everything is, let me try and make this bigger. I'm normally on my bigger screen,
so I can see it all, but there's her little intro. Hey, today we're talking about this.
Then there's the kind of posture intro with the music, and then she gets into the episode. And
right now we're doing, she's in an interview series, so we have that. So this does take
maybe longer than seven minutes, maybe 15 minutes, but we do have to clip where she starts
this interview, and then we typically just go straight to the outro. But you can see that
it's a template, but what I've done is I've got, just to make it really clean visually,
if you double click into the intro, the intro is actually composed of a number of,
like here is a white screen, this is the little animation, then it goes into the
with Lindsay, and then it fades back to white. And then I've even added this piece to it, where
it has Lindsay VanZale, and then it says the like and subscribe. So it's all part of the intro,
and I just drag it in as one giant clip here into this. So that whole sequence that was
over there is just kind of self-contained in this one little bar, and so I can move it easily.
And I don't have to listen to it, like I just know that that's where I need to put where her last
syllable is. So you can see she finishes talking, and that's that first marker, and then that's
where like music fades up, that's where she starts talking in the intro, and this is where it fades
back down, and that's where her first syllable is. So I just, this is placed in the timeline,
and all I have to do is, you know, I come in here, I delete that clip, and I would grab the new one,
and all I have to do is just drag it in, and then kind of line up visually. So I put where she
starts speaking on that second dot, and now it's like perfectly timed every time. So we don't
get creative is the key, right? I don't sit there and think about how to cut. Now it does work really
well for our process, because Lindsay, like that is just one clip, she just did it over and over
and over again. I'm not going back and like cutting out an um, and an ah, and all that.
If you guys really want to laugh, you should go look at one of my, if I do content for Kingdom
Messengers, it's like everything is cut into little like six second like clips, because I
try to edit it, you know, make it really seamless. Lindsay actually does it right, you know, many,
many times until she gets it smooth, but I rather just spend a lot of time editing,
um, make it a little bit more packed together. But anyway. Well, I've experienced both ways,
where I've gone along with the edits with the stretching into Jesus, but then with TikTok,
it's one take. And I, I actually don't know how to do the other way. I've seen it where people
are talking, and then they pause it, and then they're like, I don't know, go get a drink or
something, and they come back in there, they hit it again. Is there a certain template in TikTok
that you can hit pause on your recording, and then you get your next phrase?
Yeah. So when you're doing, if you're doing it in the TikTok app, you can, I think you can press
and hold, and it will record. And then as soon as you let go, it basically pauses. So then you can
set up for the next one, and then just do that next piece over and over again.
Yeah, I feel like that would be very helpful. And I really, I was crying, actually,
when you were saying, we don't have time to edit, we have to be organized. And so you guys saw
Brad's video that said, organize, polarize, there's like, you know, we have to do this thing,
we have to get organized, because he wants us to do so much more. But it has to be efficient,
because there's not time to labor with the splicing.
Well, and it's, it's kind of like, there's organized, but also keeping it extremely
simple. Because if you keep it simple, it basically gives you speed, right? And that
way you can, but it is, there's kind of finding that fine line between like, keeping it simple,
which is very difficult for creatives, because we're like, every time a piece goes out, it's like,
needs to be a work of art. So that's just something you have to kind of figure out on your own.
Like, when we, when we talk about just getting content out there, the difficulty for me is that
even from the time that I was a kid, I've been in pursuit of excellence. And the other night,
I learned about that in the 70s, when Breakfast for America, the album was released,
they were running out of time. And the pressure was so intense, the record label was mad at the
band. Forget the name of the band. And also, the band was mad at the guys who wanted it to be
perfect.
So the lead vocalist moved a bus to the studio
and for seven months, that is 16 hour days,
seven days a week, they labored over that album
that changed musical history.
And so I have to know when, like, that's not the goal.
Well, we've already moved the bus in, it's our home studio.
Yeah, yeah.
So, but yes.
Those are dedicated professionals that get those results.
I feel like the TikTok today was an example of the extreme.
That's the one extreme to be moved in for months.
And then today I released a two clip
and it was five second scripture.
And that's what you guys are saying.
If you want momentum on TikTok, you have frequency.
And so if you'll get shorter content,
focus, you know, as I said, focus on your short content
and then you'll have your audience grown
so that you can say those bigger things.
Maybe the distinction, this is real full,
is there's two modes, right?
There's the marketing promotion,
the traffic piece that you're talking about,
where it is just a snapshot.
It's a billboard that, it's a TikTok
that points people back to a longer form content
or some sort of product.
So think of like promotional traffic,
just getting in front of a lot of people.
But then what Brett's talking about,
but then what Brett's talking about is different, right?
It's really the product that's coming out of the sides.
You've got like promo and product and that, yeah,
go all in and excellence, do it right.
You know, don't kill yourself, right?
Don't have it be like 98% perfect,
but you haven't released it.
Like that's where you can't get into that.
As long as you give yourself that deadline
and you're actually publishing something.
But think of it this way.
It's like, Lindsay's doing a podcast,
but if she were to go write a book,
then it's not slap it together and get it out the door,
right, it's a different mode.
As you're building, yeah.
So that's where I think you're,
have the, just know which one you're doing
is really helpful.
Like, hey, this is just quick promo doing on my phone.
Audio doesn't have to be perfect.
This one is gonna be something I'm recording
and I want this to stand for the next, you know,
30 years, right, that people are gonna listen to it.
So I think just know that distinction.
And I think with the promo side,
that's where you need to be consistent
and get things out regularly, you know,
on TikTok or long form content.
But on the product side,
those are things you do in the right season.
You don't have to put out a book every week, right?
That's silly.
I use the book analogy
because everybody knows books take forever to put together,
but same with an album, it would take long,
but cool.
And can I add to that, Bruce?
It's so good what you shared
and a really helpful distinction.
I don't know if you've ever said it that way before,
but that's exactly what it is.
I would say-
You let it down, so that means that it was good.
I would, I wanna expand that idea a little bit
because sometimes we confuse what people want
to be the things that we're producing,
the product, for instance, like the book, the course,
but at the end of the day,
the value is connection with you,
is your who connecting with you.
And we sometimes do to,
whether it's false humility, self-consciousness, whatever,
where we've been taught it, learned it, however,
is that we devalue our presence in people's lives.
So we think it has to be something that we,
like it has to, like, oh, they,
it's what I'm producing that they're connecting with,
but at the end of the day,
you guys are connecting with Bruce and I.
Like at the end of the day,
that's the connection piece, right?
That's the piece that is most transformative
because we're connecting and we'll take it
to a kingdom level.
It's the presence of Jesus in you.
And so we have to show up.
And so that's why Bruce and I are very big.
I mean, we are people of excellence, we are,
but we've had to break out of some religious mindset
when it comes to excellence
because it kept us bogged down and paralyzed.
And we were putting all of ourselves into the product,
into the ministry, into the course, into the business.
And we were totally devaluing just the transformative power
and treasure that is us in people's lives.
And it's the same with you guys.
So that's why it's not, I don't ever want us
to think about it as like,
oh, we just have to slap something together.
It's like, no, we are showing up.
And because we're showing up in people's screens,
a difference is being made.
Transformation is happening because Christ is in us.
We're one with him.
So when we show up into a room, when we show up on screen,
when we show up into a meeting,
like the atmosphere shifts, hearts are touched,
lives are changed.
I, I believe that and I'm actively practicing making that belief my lifestyle because for so long, I did not understand that.
And I completely devalued and so I would just sit on my hands, because I wanted it to be perfect and I want because I, I thought it was the thing that was transforming people, it was like no it's me.
It's me showing up in people's lives and it's you showing up in people's lives that's transforming, so I like I just adding that to what Bruce said there are going to be times like we're yeah hours need to be poured in things need to be edited,
you know, all kinds of stuff. Absolutely. We do that with things, but at the end of the day, like, the world needs us.
Because we're one with Christ we are one with Jesus the world needs Jesus and we are the hands and feet of Jesus on this earth.
And that's not something to be taken lightly and there's, it doesn't we don't have to move forward with any kind of religious pressure and if I don't show up then I'm letting people down and letting God down now this is partnership guys this is not
performance is all about partnering. It's a delightful thing. We practice that we're becoming more aware of it as we do it but we have to move forward in the thing step by step, even if it's 1% each time.
The worst thing that we can do is not show up.
Especially if you're spending so much time focused on produce, here's what here's what we wanted the pitfall will call it that we want you guys to avoid is don't spend go off for weeks or months, creating that, and then not have any of the promotional
tick tock, you know, stop driving traffic right because you'll actually, you're actually be going backwards as far as the growth like knowing that you're there's different seasons right like if you're in, if you're launching and you're in a startup if you're
in a startup, for example, like, it's, it's kind of like all like you're just everybody's doing stuff you're in this like crazy launch like startup mindset right you're just being really scrappy hustling like all those good things.
But if you're like a mature company that's been around for a bit, then you can start to say hey well this quarter we're going to do this and we're planning six months to do that and stuff but like startups don't talk about they're like hey in six hours we're
going to do six, you know, it's like very short compressed timeline so now I know you guys have been doing this for, for decades.
All that that means is you probably want to have a tendency to go to that to that place but just know that as long as you're, you're the promo side is growing because you're wanting to build that audience right now like that's the mode you're in build build
momentum, so that you can have, you know, a product that goes out an album a song that goes out, and it doesn't have to be, it can be every few months it could be once a year like, you know, but then you've got, you've got somewhere to send you got an audience
to talk to right you've got that platform built.
So that's the thing we want just make sure that you're building that audience, so that when you do say hey tada here it is like you just have thousands of people like all of a sudden swarm to it is what you want so.
But that's why like doing it like Lindsay hasn't written a book, right, like, I think everybody on this call could say that Lindsay could probably write a book in no time.
That can all help.
But the point is that we started building the audience first.
And even if you talk to publishers, and that they they say that I think the stat we heard from someone was that if you haven't, they publishers want to see you having an audience of at least 10,000 on social media that's actually one of the criteria that
because they want to see that the books going to be successful if they if you promote it. And so just spending time building that audience out means that whatever thing and product and thing of excellence you do in the future.
You can then just promote it to that group. Right, it's just it's they kind of feed off each other but just I think that that's a good distinction like the two modes but yeah hopefully that that's helpful.
Awesome.
Thank you so much guys.
Cool.
And one idea is just I thought when you meant to say this earlier when you're talking about doing the live kind of worship thing. I don't know if you guys have.
You could consider doing like a weekly or monthly potentially live stream, where you just go live for an hour or 90 minutes and use something like a simple as restream to just, you know, basically broadcast to your, to your group to YouTube or Facebook,
and just do it live right and then if you guys like it at the end you can leave it if you're like, none of that was good you can just unlisted right that's totally up to you, but that may be another way to get the presence part Lindsay's talking
about.
um with some of the excellence to get the quality and stuff out there but it also helps you produce
something regularly um or it doesn't have to be perfect because if you guys were going to a live
stage like every time you play live it can always be better right like you're just always trying to
get better better it can be more excellent there's going to be like slight things that could be done
doesn't matter how good you are um so if you think of it in that live context just capturing that as
kind of the presence and you showing up um that could be just another format because sometimes
there's like different formats that work for different people so you could explore explore
with that so awesome okay um amy i saw you had your hand raised
sorry about that um really i think i got my question answered i'm just gonna have to go
like process and meditate because what i was going to say is i didn't get to do the last workshop
because of uh travel and um and it's kind of been extended that anyway it's just a really
really busy month going into a pretty busy summer and i i want to do the ads i want to like replace
my instagram ad and um and do you know like do what we did on the workshop for the
facebook ads and i'm trying to kind of up my tiktok game and i really do feel like there's
a challenge out there for me um but i'm not ready for it yet and i'm beginning to see i mean like i
just even this this week and last week have gotten a lot of feedback on my long form content
um just i mean and not through social media i mean it's like people you know um coming up and
you know and explaining and lindsey i feel like what you said and what reba and brett were talking
about like all together it helps me like sort of like relax a little bit and you know come out
from under any pressure to have to do any one thing and just kind of let that come to me but
i know it's it's out there for me if i'm understanding correct so you're getting
feedback from people like hey you should do this you should do that no no it's not you should it's
more feedback on my content but they're like coming and and so i'm getting like some specifics
specifics on how it ministered to them and what's going on in their lives and it's supposed to be a
pulse for my who yeah yeah yeah this is it's very interesting because um this is a perfect
opportunity to practice engaging with the holy spirit's leadership and and how to move forward
because there's something very valuable about getting feedback from your who of like hey i'm
going through this or this would be like you know so you're getting ideas like maybe i should do an
episode on this or maybe i should address that and oh yeah i'm on i'm on to it i mean right right
which is helpful but at the same time what is the holy spirit wanting me to do and what does
the holy spirit want me to talk about so for instance like just an example for for me um because
i talk about peace a lot so people are like tell me like talk to me about like is it okay to take
medication or not take medication like that's just you know and like a lot of people have that
question right obviously understandably so but i have not felt um released to have to talk about
that to even talk about my own journey and what i did with like natural health and everything like
that because i'm like i it's not my lane and i don't think it's bad to talk about i don't think
it's wrong you know i think it could be helpful for people obviously but for whatever reason i
just feel like the holy spirit has said wait wait wait so i haven't done an episode or a series on
that yet and but there's other things where people have like written in and i'm like okay that's
something i can address so that's that's a question i can answer or do a episode about so just
encouraging you like you don't have to answer all the questions and you don't have to address all
the scenarios this is for everyone listening because you're going to get feedback and you're
going to want to help everyone because this is your who right you're going to want to be like
oh i want to talk about this i want to talk about that but it's a great opportunity to just go back
to the holy spirit and say okay like what is this for me now is this for me never is it you know and
and continue on what you feel like led to talk about um the the temptation is to feel that if
i don't address all the feedback i'm i'm gonna it's i'm gonna be irrelevant and we don't have
to ever worry about that we're being led by the holy spirit well in these um they sort of fit into
two categories which um for my
I, who I just have a pulse on what God is doing within the body of Christ, you know, in that season. And it's, it's more of a confirmation from the Holy Spirit of that yes, like what I'm sensing that he's doing is, is what he's doing.
I mean it's like, you know, it's more of a confirmation. So,
I also see later being because like one young man that I'm at a, my, my daughter granddaughter's preschool graduation this morning.
I know he is a young pastor but he was just talking about, you know what, what he was walking through and, and kind of the progression of my, my podcast.
And, you know, and you're right, you know, I wanted to just like reach out to him and like help me, but, but I could see that being a type of challenge down the road for me later in the area that he was talking about because it has to do with, like,
my story, you know.
And, but I'm just not ready to dive into that yet.
Well you're doing awesome Amy and you've been, you've been consistent I know it's crazy. May is crazy.
May is a crazy month.
We talked about this topic actually in our discussion after today's challenge because we were talking about the whole concept today was how to get down to your, your who really, and your what Pedro calls like your micro niche, and I'll share.
And that was one thing that came out is like there are an infinite amount of ways that you can help an infinite amount of people right like and as believers like we want to help people want to minister to people, but you have like I can I use the example
like I could go mow our neighbors lawn for them right now.
There's an infinite of like this between that and serving you guys or whatever, like there's so many ways you can go and serve people. So it's just knowing like Lindsay saying like what is your lane like there's so many things Lindsay could talk about.
But no, like, have the peace about it as far as like what is the Holy Spirit given you to share and, and also be aware of like who is the Lord giving to you, right, like we spent a lot of time with you guys who are kind of doing life with in more of a coaching
space like Lord's given us. So we're spending a lot of time with you guys doing life. But if someone's just like coming in on a comment randomly and they want, we're not going to dive into like serving that person for hours of zoom coaching right if that
makes sense, like you can have to see who's Lord like bringing into that circle of who you're going to really help and invest a lot of time and energy into.
If it's helpful I'll share this this one screenshot and was very helpful from today's call, which I'm probably going to steal and use this for our next challenge, but it just says I help.
Insert your who like and be as descriptive as possible with, and then some sort of problem solved or outcome that's achieved like I want to help them get to this by, and then whatever your process your method your approaches without and then anything
that they've tried in the past like whatever they've tried but it's failed, things that they've, you know, invested time, like maybe, and I'll use give the kingdom messenger example and then even if and whatever the number one objection so we say, we help, you
know content creators launch and scale their online ministry and and influence by, you know, leveraging the digital landscape and social media, without, you know, writing blog posts that you know we're spending hours and hours, creating content that nobody
uses, you know, so those are the some of the pain points, or the without part and then even if the number one objection. They're not tech savvy and they're not on, you know, tick tock or social media or whatever those, you know those objections are so you can kind
of use that framework, I thought that was very helpful.
I seem to help some of you guys out so cool.
Awesome.
Thanks for the discussion guys thanks for hanging out with us.
Did you have anything else Lindsay, you're adding, I think you're muted. Perfect.
So, yeah, if you guys are free and you want to join us every day this week, or I'm going to be live for the for the challenge. So there were watching it live with, there's like 10s of thousands of people that are doing the challenge, the movement maker
challenge, and then afterwards we're just hanging out with our group so you guys probably seen us going live to Wilson to join any of those things.
introduce the concept of challenges.
So that is all.
So hope you guys have an awesome rest of your week.
Keep us updated, use the Facebook group
to let us know how you're doing,
share testimonies or anything that,
or any questions you guys have.
So, yeah, go for it, I just saw your hand.
I have not had time to get on that this week,
but I would like to see it at a later date.
Will it be available?
Yeah, so all our recordings will be
like our discussions, definitely.
I'll see if we can get a copy of those.
I think we can do that somehow.
That would be great, yeah, thank you.
Cool, awesome guys.
Well, have a great rest of your week
and we'll see you soon.
Cheers, bye.