All right, welcome, welcome, welcome.
How are you guys doing?
Hey, Kingdom Messengers.
Good to see you.
Welcome to day three.
We're excited.
We made it.
Three whole days.
So we've had, you know, a crazy two days.
It feels like we're sharing a lot of information in a short amount of time.
So yeah, it was really cool.
I think that the end product of this is just for people to actually, just for themselves
to actually, you know, hit record and do that first video.
So we're really proud of you guys.
And we've gotten some feedback from you guys, which is really encouraging saying, yes, you
guys have made it so doable.
Thanks for helping me get unstuck.
That is our goal.
We want to go ahead and get you started, see that it's doable, and that's something that
you can continue to do even after these three days are over.
I want to start to get some shares.
They want to hear how's it going?
What have been some aha moments?
How does, how has the homework been going?
Hey, Mary and Spencer, I see your hand, let's get you unmuted.
There we go.
So let's still let all these people in.
Let me unmute you.
Hi, I've just lost my camera, so I can't show myself today, unfortunately, it's just
gone off.
But I found it really useful, really clear, really simple, which is great for me.
Because I totally appreciate clarity and simplicity.
And so I have done a video, I had a deadline yesterday, I couldn't do it yesterday, but
I just did it this morning.
It turned out, I haven't recorded it yet, I read through it, and it turned out to be
one minute, 50 seconds.
Nice.
Awesome.
Love the perseverance, love that you're moving forward.
Hey, Joe, I see your hand.
Yeah, hey, hopefully this will go better than last night when I couldn't get through.
But I just wanted to say that there's been like a paradigm shift and just hearing what
you guys are saying, even in thinking about things like TikTok and Instagram, when I was,
you know, just I didn't really want anything to do with those.
But the more I heard you guys talk about, the more I felt the Lord saying, you know,
if we don't get our message on there, then the only thing that's left is the world's
message.
And it really spoke to my heart.
And then the idea of thinking about the message that God's put in my heart in 60 seconds.
When I started embracing that, I just felt God flooding me with ideas.
Oh, come on.
And I just got so excited and amazed that I would find a way to get the message out
that God's put in my heart that I've waited so long to get out.
And I just want to thank you guys for that, because it's really because I'm saying yes
to this moment.
Awesome.
Great share, Joe.
Thank you.
Hey, Valerie.
I see your hand.
Let's get you unmuted.
Hey there.
Hey.
I was like totally freaking out this afternoon.
Let's unpack that.
So actually, see this?
Okay.
So this is my Jonah.
Like, I've been Jonah, but not with the heart of Jonah, because I do have a heart for the
people.
Jonah was like, I don't want to go there because he didn't care about the people.
I care about the people.
And I had this moment.
At first, I was like, all right, I have three hours to do this.
I have a time slot.
I have like three hours.
Come on.
Right?
Like, I should be able to do it.
And then like an hour disappeared.
And I'm like, I have two hours.
I have two hours.
And then like, I was like just getting distracted.
And then I saw like Keith Bronte like posted some like prophetic song.
And then I started like crying because I was like, I was getting so emotional because like
this is it.
Like, you guys, I did this course with you guys last year.
That was the first time.
And I was, you know, it was great and everything.
But I, you know, when you did this, like post the video, I was like, I'm not ready for that.
I can't.
It's like a year later now, you know?
So it's like, I've got to get out of the whale.
And so I was literally kind of like not having a panic attack, but I was like, I was definitely
like, oh yeah.
And I didn't even think I would have time.
But I did it.
I did it.
It's not great.
But, but, and it's not even like, I'm like afraid of video or anything like that.
I've done video before.
It's not that.
It's just this, this moment of like, this is it.
It is time.
And I just want to thank you guys so much because the push, like, I was just like, I
just have to do it.
Cause you're pushing.
And I, I, this, I can't keep delaying and delaying, delaying.
So I just appreciate so much this community and just, just actually making it happen.
And like, this is it.
You got to do it.
So thanks so much.
Like I said, it's not great, but I did it.
And you'll continue to do it and you'll get better and better as you go.
You know, part of the fear that we're punching in the face right now, or the intimidation
that people might be feeling is we have to be okay with not being great at something.
That's the, you know, kids don't really struggle with this.
I don't think as much as adults, we get to a place where we stop being learners because
we, we feel like we have to keep face and we have to pretend like we know it all.
And.
This is the beauty of being in partnership with Jesus, because there is an invitation to be childlike.
Because there's areas where we are five and other areas that we're thirty five.
And that's OK. He's working with us in every area of our life, sometimes one area at a time.
And so I'd love to encourage you of what Valerie was sharing was resonating with you.
And you're like, yeah, that was me. This was like hard. I need to push through.
This is not about what you're doing. This is about who you are becoming.
It's good. This is really another process, another another invitation for you to partner with him.
I know that it feels like and I'm speaking from my own experience, it can feel almost burdensome because there's for some of us,
it's like we've tried things before, they didn't work or we've delayed things and we have gotten stuck and we've allowed ourselves to stay stuck.
But I would love for you to take an opportunity to exchange that feeling of this is really heavy.
And maybe it's just really weighty. And that's OK.
That's kind of what I was feeling, if I could just say today to like like I felt that like I felt that weight of like.
Oh, my, like I'm about to actually do what God has been calling me to do.
I've known this for like 20 years, like that one day I would be doing this, like I've known this for so long.
And I think that's it's like now the moment's here. But it's just yeah.
So exactly. I love that for you.
I've shared it before in some of our previous trainings, but an aha moment for me that actually didn't come at the beginning,
but in the middle of everything as my numbers grew is the Lord reminded me that he had spoken.
There had been prophetic words that I received about speaking to arenas of people.
And I always thought that looked like a very specific something.
And then all of a sudden I found myself actually speaking to stadium sized audiences.
And I'm like, this is the word coming to pass.
It's just looks different than what I thought it was. Right.
So it was a lot bigger than you thought. And it was a lot bigger thing right there.
Yeah. And to grow continues to get bigger.
So thank you so much for sharing. A lot of people probably resonate with that.
Susie, I see your hand. Yeah.
OK. I've been doing with you guys for a year and I've been doing tick tocks and it took me
two months to do the one minute origin story that we were supposed to do in four days.
And so it's just been it's it's been a good growing experience for me.
And I just wanted to say, I don't know if any other people are on this.
My who has been clarified again.
And, you know, in just the last couple of days, my my message is clearer again.
And I've been doing kind of a simple tick tock of saying, OK, I'm thanking God for this.
And then I've got I live at the ocean. So would you like to thank God and give him the ocean?
So it was kind of something it was a tick tock kind of halfway thing.
And I am getting really excited because I keep having these more substantial, more like my origin stories.
But I only think of them while I'm doing the dishes or while I'm making the bed.
And then when I sit down and think, OK, I'm going to do this, it's out of my mind.
So I think I need to be like Marion and just know that God is going to do this.
And maybe I'll just find out how.
But I wasn't able to do it today.
I'm looking forward to doing it tonight.
Well, that's awesome. And I don't know if you saw Lisa, who we talked to last night.
She posted a video in our Facebook community singing at the sink because she was talking about I'm just I find myself at the sink a lot more.
So it might be you just having your phone at the sink with you.
Hey, Lisa, I love that.
She just went for it. And I think a lot of people will relate to that because think about this, guys.
Think about. How many people are invited to someone's home these days, right?
Like that's a very special thing to be invited to someone's home, and we're doing that by just by inviting them into our lives in the middle of the mess.
And I'm at the sink. I'm at my couch.
I mean, I look back, I filmed and I don't know the exact number, but maybe the first 70 of my episodes at our dining room table, it was like just at our dining room table.
And I see your whole, you know, yeah, the whole living room behind me.
And I think that that was something that connected with people, too, of like I'm just with Lindsay in our house.
And I think that's something that not a lot of people have the opportunity to do or have been invited to people's homes as much anymore.
So don't underestimate it does not have to be a perfect setting.
Yeah. Don't underestimate the power of just turning on your phone and sharing from your heart.
It's really good. I love that. Very, very OK.
Let me just pull up our notes here. Quick recap.
I always wish you guys could see what we're saying, because Bruce is.
He's running between all the streams and stuff that we're doing.
He's just a rock star.
He's so focused and able to.
I need to remember to smile.
If he's looking down, he's cause I'm like very serious or I'm not
mad at Lindsay or any of you.
I'm just like, why is that button not doing the right thing?
So, yeah, that's, what's going on, but we're going to do, we're going
to just start with a quick recap so we can, everyone can be up to
speed on what we've been covering.
So yesterday we, the homework, if you haven't picked up on that was
create your first post, we actually challenged you to create three videos
because we wanted to break through any temptation to give yourself to
perfectionism and over-perfecting one video.
So the challenge was do three videos.
If you can three 60 second videos, we talked about how video is dominating
the digital landscape right now.
It is highly consumed and not just any type of video, but short form video,
60 seconds or less it's everyone's kind of getting on the Tik TOK bandwagon.
So you, now you have Instagram reels.
You're probably seeing if you're on Instagram and YouTube shorts.
So we talked about why it's important and why that is a great starting point for
you to begin reaching a stadium sized audience.
This is what we hope is this gives you some freedom.
And it sounded like even from Joe, like, Hey, I'm rethinking this because
again, I've shared, I thought I had to have this bestselling book.
I thought I had to have this fancy website.
I thought I had to have kind of a very established something to start
reading, reading, reaching stadium sized audiences.
And what we have found specifically with short form video is we're
able to reach our who now no more delay.
And we're able to add value to them now, no more delay.
So if you're someone who's sitting here and you're like, I still want to write
the book, I still want to write the blog.
Go for it.
We would encourage you to focus on building your tribe through the strategy
that we've been teaching these three days and then go build the thing.
The course, write the book, do the blog, the discipleship program,
but start reaching your who today.
A lot of people build the thing first and they're like, if I build it, they will
come and that's not necessarily true for, I would say a majority of people.
I'll just jump in.
Like maybe you guys have tried to write a blog or a book or, you know, you put a
course out and you just put all, you know, we've definitely done it ourselves.
20, 30, 40 hours of effort, recreating everything just perfect.
You're like, well, once I build, I'm going to, you know, all
these sales are going to come in.
And the thing for all of that, and this is true of business as well as ministry,
anything you're going to put out there works when you have thousands of people
when you have an audience to talk to.
And so this is sort of the first step of just building that audience out so that
you can have someone to talk to that.
We call it your tribe.
It's your online.
So people who are following you, you know, we created a tribe
called kingdom messengers.
It's people who want to read, you know, use the, uh, online
to reach, uh, preach the gospel.
Lindsay's created a, a tribe for posture.
People want to live in perfect peace.
So you are going to be creating your own tribe, um, that then you can write, you
know, once you have that audience, then you can write the book and then
immediately share it with thousands of people and it can be a success.
You have already been showing up for consistently and adding value to their
lives, you're not waiting for the thing to be finished, you're starting.
And here's what, here's the cool thing.
The book that I was going to write two years ago when I'm like, oh yeah, one
day I'm going to write a book is not the same book that I want to write now.
Because guess what?
For the last two years, I have been rubbing elbows with my who I've
been having conversations.
I've been getting feedback.
And so now it's not theory anymore.
I can write, I think a more effective, something builds a more effective
something for them because I've been doing life with them on the screen for two years.
So this is why we've like called it a challenge as we want to just challenge
maybe some old mindsets and invite you to think differently about what ministry
at a large scale could look like.
Yeah.
So good.
And, and guys, this is one of the most powerful things.
I mean, we're even teaching some of this stuff to businesses as well.
And this is revolutionary even in some of the business, you know, place.
Uh, and I would just tell a quick story.
Like we were, I was helping a, um, a friend of mine who is a pilot who is
making a watch specifically for pilots.
So talk about niching down on your who, um, this is just people
who have a actual pilot's license.
Like not even people who want to be a pilot, but you have to have
an actual license to buy the watch.
So he casually mentioned this over dinner.
Uh, he's like, Oh, one day, like I want to go raise my capital and I'm going to
get investors and I want to go build this product, it's going to be amazing.
And he had all these cool things he wanted to do with it.
So I was like, you know, you could just start, right?
Like you can just start building, you can just, you know, with no money, you know?
And, and so he, he was like, you know, we talked, we helped him out.
And so we ended up running ads, uh, on Facebook.
We leveraged all the social media, Tik TOK, all that stuff.
And we just put a survey out to people, to pilots.
And he had over almost 2,000 people take five to 10 minutes to fill out a survey to tell them
what kind of watch they wanted. And so now he has literally 2,000 responses from all these people
who were like, I love your idea. They're writing like paragraph upon paragraph answers, telling him
like what they would like to see in a watch, the design, the color. So then he took all of that,
and now he's using it to go actually go build it. But he's already got 2,000 people that he's
talking to that are in a conversation with him now. And so I mean, this is someone who's super
smart in business, and I really respect in business, honestly. And it's just when you
kind of think about it a little bit backwards, like we put a lot of excuses and things out in
front of us as far as like, well, when I get the money, when I'm able to do this, when I get the
camera, when I get the whatever, or when I publish my book, then I'll start doing TikTok. It's totally
backwards. Go build the audience now and kind of figure it out along the way. Like we didn't think
about launching Kingdom Messengers when Lindsay was sitting thinking about like when she launched
Posture. We just did the next thing, right? But then we built Momentum. She built an audience.
So we were able to reach out to that audience and say, you know, some of the Posture audience was
some of the first Kingdom Messengers, right? Like we were able to do, we didn't, we had no idea about
Kingdom Messengers. It was two years before we launched. Yeah, a year before we launched. A year
before we launched. Yeah. So you just don't know. And I think that sometimes we can as a safety
defense mechanism, we just want to keep it in the future because then it, it, we don't find out
whether it works or not. It's just always in the future. Like this is what we want to bring
what's in the future into the present and start now. So I don't think we can say that enough
quite honestly, because I really feel, we feel very strongly that this is a year of breakthrough.
We shared with our community at the beginning of the year that we felt like the Lord had given us
a personal word that was also for our community as a collective, that this will be a year of
breakthrough. And what we found out very soon into the year was in order to break through,
in order to have a year of breakthrough, you have to actually break through some things. So then we
came up against some resistance and, um, this is what we just felt from the Lord that we need to
like press against that resistance. Valerie was even saying, you guys are kind of pushing.
And, and, and I know that she said, you know, I need it. Here's the thing with that pressure,
like you need pressure to birth something. And so this is not meant to, uh, this is not
meant as a negative pressure, but we just feel really strongly that when people come up against
resistance, this was happened to me even earlier this year, we can become resistant, resistant to
change, resistant to taking action, resistant to wanting to try anything new, pioneer anything new,
put ourselves out there. And so we want to break through that even tonight, as we're talking to
you, we want to break through any resistance that you have had to face this year, or maybe previous
years, because the word of the Lord is this is going to be a year of breakthrough. And we want
to partner with that word as much as we can. Dan says, I need a tech breakthrough. Bruce speaking
tech breakthroughs. Absolutely. Absolutely. Resources, tech, knowledge, skill. I believe
it's all we're breaking through. And the best thing that we can do is start, right? Start,
start, start. So we're going to continue to talk more tonight about that.
Yeah. And I know you guys are, are, you know, you're doing it. You're showing up on a call like
this, you're, you're putting in the hours to try and record. And it is, it is difficult, right? Yeah.
We like to say like, with all the mechanics, you know, we've been going through this plan,
produce, publish, promote, we're going to talk more about publish and promote later tonight,
and tell you kind of how to get your content out. But it feels very mechanical and awkward when
you're getting started, right? Because it's, we say it's like getting in the car, like when you
were a teenager, and you were learning to drive, you sat in the car and everything just was so
such a big deal. You're like, where are my hands? Okay, what gear man like, you know, are the mirrors
right? Like, my seatbelt, like, and then you like to try to move and everything's like very,
like stop and go. And it's very, it's not smooth at all. So that's a little bit like the kind of
the journey of a kingdom messenger, that's going to be an ad one day, we're going to do that as an ad.
But it's kind of like that. But But today, most of like, if you're driving, you just hop in the car
and go, you don't you just go to a place, you don't even think about sometimes you get to that
place. And you're like, how did I get here? I don't remember passing, you're just so intuitive
at that point, just second nature. And so that's just that idea of becoming and changing your
identity, become a creator, so that you can just create more easily, and it will become a lot
easier. So this is the hardest part, right? It's the hardest video, sometimes they're going to be
the first ones that you do, just because you're trying to start with no momentum, and you're
trying to generate momentum. So just be encouraged, like, take it does get
easier, it starts to flow, it gets faster.
The tech somehow magically tends to work, you know,
more often the more you get familiar with it,
you kind of know what to expect
and how to deal with, you know, bugs that come up.
I mean, just think about using some social media platforms
for the first time.
Like I know it's maybe it's been like 10 years
for some of us, like, I don't remember,
but like you get on Facebook and you're like,
how does this even work?
How do I post?
And now it's like, you can just do it.
So even something technical,
even if you're not naturally techie,
there's things that you can learn that I promise
can become very natural over time.
But the more you do it, you have to be consistent.
I was just curious,
cause some of these mindset things,
I know some, we have some members that have been here.
We'll see if this is a good idea or not.
We didn't plan for this,
but it would maybe interesting to hear from some of them.
I don't know if you think that's a good idea.
I mean, it's always good to hear.
I just saw, I know.
I feel like all we've been doing
is putting people on the spot.
Well, I just, you know, Marcella, I see you've got Denise.
I see we've got-
Hillary's on here.
Just any, maybe like thoughts
that you guys, Marion's on here.
She's, and then who else?
So I saw Susie Walters on here.
So if you guys want, you're welcome to put your hand.
We won't put you on the spot,
but if you felt like you got something to share,
I saw Hillary was on here as well.
Marcella, I saw in the chat,
saying that she was having some inner breakthrough.
Marcella, are you able to unmute?
She's not, unless I ask her to.
And Denise has her-
Yes, yes, yes, I'm here.
I can't be on camera though, I'm sorry.
Is that okay?
That's okay, because we did not plan this.
Can you just talk a little bit about the inner breakthrough?
I'm just curious,
because I feel like the Lord wants us
to just talk about the breakthrough again, so.
Yes, so, you know,
I've shared in the Kingdom Messenger member group,
you know, when I started, where I started.
I can look back today
and see that it was God's hand leading me
through Bruce and Lindsay.
It's amazing how God will give you one word
and you don't know where it's gonna take you.
And so with taking the steps,
with the kindness and patience of Bruce and Lindsay,
and the rest of the Kingdom Messenger member group,
who just at a time I needed that kind of holding
and just a space of embracing and acceptance.
When I look at myself now,
a lot of the mindsets I had coming in about technology,
I was not, I had a friend of mine,
I'll use this example, just came to me really quickly.
We went to a concert last week
to see Kirk Franklin in Maverick City.
And she's the kind of friend who's always gonna document
and take pictures, post it on Facebook,
put it all together.
And she knows that, you know, maybe two years ago,
I would have been like, don't take any pictures of me.
I don't wanna be posted, don't show it, don't, you know.
I was that person.
And so we go to the concert last week
and I'm just taking selfies of myself and I made a post.
And she goes, I can't believe this is not the same person.
And so I believe a lot of it has to do with this group
and being a Kingdom Messenger
and just being willing to be vulnerable
and to document the transformation that God has done.
I now see it more so than just being on, you know,
in front of people, but telling the goodness of God.
People are looking for hope.
And I didn't think of myself as that person.
Now I see myself as a messenger of hope
for those who are struggling where I was
and how far I have come.
And I don't have to, I'm not on the top of the mountain yet,
but I am very much more closer to the top,
but I can share what I have gained thus far.
And Hillary's on here
and she's a part of that transformation process for me too.
So yeah, I love it.
I mean, just the whole mindset, the belief, the faith.
I can't believe I'm using Canva and just knocking it out,
you know, so yeah, all the things.
Thank you for sharing, Marcella.
That's awesome.
I love hearing about that.
There's Hillary, speaking of Hillary.
Yeah.
Oh, what just happened?
Hang on.
No, I think I tried to get a flag out of the window
and ended up tapping on it.
Sorry guys.
So yeah, so much has changed.
And really it's about getting out of my own way
here in Kingdom Messengers
in order to be a messenger for the kingdom.
I can't be a messenger about Hillary.
And even though that's my commitment,
there's still so many times,
even if the Lord's saying, I've heard the cries.
of my people. I've heard the cries of my daughters and I've come now you go and I'm like
but I stutter but I you know I start talking about me and then you get these you know
these testimonies from people that were totally falling apart. I said I'm just so grateful for
your mentorship or you have no idea what you've done to my life or and then you're just like
what the heck you know. So one thing that I just keep learning over and over again
is it's so not about us. Being a kingdom messenger just means you know like Paul,
an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God to you. That means I have a message from him
for you by his power and he has grace and peace for you and so that's one thing I just keep
hearing and when I do get into my in my own way then Lindsay brings out the fire and
and I get a good talking too even though what you're trying to do
is encourage and set us free. So I just want to say that's the biggest thing is really just
stepping into what you've all what we've all been born to be and that is kings and priests for a
kingdom whose work is finished. It's just our we need to we're like the chain we're the missing
link right that he's heard the cries he's come to redeem now we go and as we go he shows up and
we're co-laboring with the finished work and the people have been waiting for your voice all along
so thank you thank you thank you. That's awesome. That's a good word Hillary. It's good and I love
that like you guys you don't know who you're going to be helping like you don't know who you could
be reaching. Yeah. And that's like I think the the assumption I think we talk about this in
in some other training but the assumption is we we kind of go into the world into we go on
online we go to social media we go to YouTube and we see all the people that we're following
that we're interested in so other preachers and other authors and speakers and we see all these
are the people we follow and so our whole feed is just listed of all these different people that we
follow and so the more you consume that as a consumer you are you're more convinced that
well there's these people out here why would I need to say anything and so but you don't know
like who may be wanting to listen to you that have honestly never heard of the people you're
of your favorite person your favorite preacher leader the world is just such a big place and
that's kind of funny even when we've you know we could say oh well there's Graham Cook is doing
you know his ministry why would we need posture you know it's too similar it's too whatever like
I'm like why would I need to do this if he's already doing it and I think we have to realize
that the world's a very big place and there's so many people that are just desperate for hope and
peace to be sharing their life so yeah that's good. I was just going to add this one thing and
what you're saying is the more we do that the more we step out we're the ones being transformed
into the image of that messenger for a greater and greater level of of releasing that message
so I'm either going to follow comfort and my world gets smaller I'm going to find the
comforter I'm going to follow the comforter my world gets bigger and more comfortable with so
much more because I'm I'm not the same person over and over again that's right it's not true
it's not true I'm definitely not the same so I'm I've become and I'm continued to become
I'm not the same that I was two years ago and this was a talking point with me and the lord
before we started kingdom messengers there's a few things I there's a few resistance points for me
and one was I don't want to equip immature people to go take on the airwaves right and lord I don't
want to equip like what if what if I equip people that don't share my same theology and views of you
and he said linds I'm not asking you to be their holy spirit I'm just asking you to gather my
messengers because on the journey I am there with them and they will become like trust me with that
part of it I'm not asking you to mature people or handpick people I think a little bit maybe now I
can see that I didn't know then is maybe that's been happening a little bit too much and so there's
too many people within our kingdom that feel disqualified because they haven't been handpicked
for ministry or a ministry and I think the lord really wants to break that because the worthiness
is the indwelling of Christ in you.
And you have that if you're a follower of Jesus.
You already have everything you need
for life and godliness.
You've been given it.
And now we get to unpack all of that
on the journey with him.
So good.
That's awesome.
Cool.
We'll take two quick more and then we'll share.
Hopefully this has been encouraging you guys a little bit,
because I think we're trying to make sure that-
We don't ever want to appear like-
Some rock star.
They've just figured it out and they're doing it.
But we want to hear from different types of people
who have been on this journey with us,
who are doing it in their style,
in their walk with the Lord.
So you can see yourself in these stories
and not just think,
well, Lindsay and Bruce are just something special
and that's why it's worked for them,
but it will never work for me.
Again, we want to break through that lie once and for all.
Hey, Susie.
Hey, I'm needing this so much.
I really appreciate what everybody,
especially what you said, Hilary.
What you just said remind me of Graham
talking about presumption
and people not wanting to be presumptuous.
And he said he would rather people be presumptuous
than unfaithful.
And yeah, do that step out.
And if we're presumptuous, he knows what to do with that.
No problem.
So I am so excited because my turning point
that prepared me for all of this
was when I was resistant to things
that God was speaking to me
and I realized it was my mind and my feelings
were what was resisting.
And that's when the Lord showed me,
oh, there's another part of us
with which we can say, yes, Lord, honestly.
This is the first time I'm realizing
that applies to doing this.
I mean, that's been scripture.
I haven't thought about it.
Oh, yes, Lord, to this,
no matter what I think and no matter what I feel.
Yes.
Love it.
We're walking in the spirit, even in this.
Even in this.
Oh, it's so obvious.
I love it, Susie.
Hey, Marion.
Hey, well, my breakthrough was originally
when I started to do all of this,
I thought I signed up and I thought
I can never learn the techie details.
I just, it goes right over my head.
And I signed up, I asked Bruce if, you know,
because I said, that's my fear.
And I signed up anyway.
And in fact, halfway through,
I would think the fourth year, I got so frustrated.
There were so many things,
even using a cell phone was hard.
And there was so many things I didn't know,
little details, I thought,
I'm taking up the whole of our question and answers
because I've got so much I need to know.
And I just went to God and I said,
God, I just, you know, what am I going to do?
And all of a sudden he said, I'm your teacher.
I can teach you.
And it just lifted the whole thing.
And, you know, it's not that
I still don't have things to learn.
Now it doesn't worry me.
That's good.
I know, and I do what I know with it.
And I know that I can come up with something,
Bruce will help.
And if he isn't able to, somebody else will.
I know it's there.
But I know there are people that may be like me,
not techie thinking, you know, I can make the videos,
but actually doing all the other stuff
is really beyond overwhelming.
But other people here,
but you just need to know that Bruce is able to help.
Lindsay's able to help.
And if they don't, there are other people like Tamara
or other people on the Facebook group
that have what you need.
And, but it's the teacher
and he can lead you to the right people.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
It's a good word, Marion.
Good word.
That's awesome.
Well, I appreciate you guys.
We just kind of put you guys on the spot.
They know they're fine.
They're kingdom messengers.
You guys are used to just speaking online.
Just speaking online, whenever.
That's awesome.
No, we appreciate that.
The perfect segue then, Marion,
to what we're gonna be talking about tonight.
Cause like Bruce said,
we're gonna be talking about publishing and promoting.
So taking that video that you guys worked on
in your producing phase yesterday.
And we're going to, okay, what do we do with this now?
So.
Yeah.
That's great.
That's awesome.
Is that good?
Yeah.
No, I was just gonna say, no, I appreciate it.
Hopefully that's helpful.
Cause I think, like you said,
I think just hearing from a lot of different people
is very helpful to know that you're not,
sometimes it's good just to know that you're not crazy.
Right?
A lot of times we've found people feel like
everybody else knows the tech,
but I'm the only one who's struggling.
And it's so funny when we sit in our group calls,
which is why we do it as a group,
because someone asks a question and they're like,
and there's probably three or four other people
that had the same question.
They just maybe didn't feel like they should ask it.
But then we found out like, oh.
Actually, yeah, everybody's running into this problem.
Okay, like that's, that's okay.
I'm, I'm normal.
This is normal.
It's okay.
Like, this is part of the, part of the territory.
Yeah.
Right.
Taking the territory.
Um, so a couple of things we wanted to do maybe, um, just cause we kind
of changed things up a little bit.
Do you want to, why don't we go through the teaching here and
then we'll do the reviews or.
Oh, they're going to do the reviews.
Yeah.
Let's do that.
You want to teach first and then review?
Well, I think we'll wait, this is still goes with the producing phase.
So what we thought we would do is bring up some of the videos that you posted
and do a live review of those videos.
So we probably won't get to, to like, there's just two or three.
We picked, we'll do this one first from Joe and, uh, I'm going,
give me just one second to share.
So we were, we're going to kind of put our coaching hats on and just give
some quick pointers for these videos.
And we think that because you guys are also done videos, you might hear some
of the feedback and be able to apply it to what you've done as well.
So I thought it would be helpful.
We're going to do Joe lives.
Okay.
Let's let's, uh, I'm going to play this back here.
And then we had, uh, work with me.
There we go.
Facing an intense situation.
Here's what the Bible tells us to do.
In second Samuel 23 11, there's a story about a man named Shama who found
himself in a really intense situation.
He was in a battle for a field and it said that everyone else had run, but he
decided he would station himself in the middle of that field and defend it.
And the Bible records that a great victory was won that day.
You as Christians, we already come from a place of victory.
Jesus has already won the victory for us.
So oftentimes when we're in intense situations, it's because the enemy is
trying to come and just dislodges from our field, dislodges from our victory.
And the Bible tells us in Ephesians 6, 10 through 14, that we got
to put on the armor and we got to stand.
We've got to actively resist the enemy by standing on the word
of God and speaking it out.
So if you find yourself in an intense situation today, trust in the Lord and
he will bring about a great victory in your life, just like Shama.
Awesome.
So we were giggling because Joe said in the chat after playing this, that
he posted the wrong take, but hopefully, you know, we can share just two, three.
And I think what will happen is you'll see some of your own, like we, you
guys can kind of self-correct on some of the feedback we'll give.
This is really good.
I love the concept.
Great hook.
You took us seriously when we said, don't hesitate in those first three
to five seconds, get to the point.
So you asked a question and then you went into the process.
Here's what the Bible has to say about that.
Then you shared a bit about the process.
Then what I love that you did is you invited the person
listening into the process.
Again, Hey, if this is something you're, you're feeling, this is what you can do
and kind of gave the payoff at the end.
Here's what, here's something you can do today.
So that was from a content perspective.
You did a great job.
That's great.
Yeah.
I would say just from a technical, so I saw a lot of people do this and I want
to actually give you guys a thumbs up.
Like recording in your car is a great idea because the sound is actually
really, really crisp because your car is naturally insulated.
It's quiet in the car.
It's this, there's not a lot of echo or anything like that.
So your voice will come up through really punchy and clear.
And you'll usually get really good natural light in the car.
Yeah.
It's just got, you got windows all around.
Um, so that's a great option.
And I've seen a lot of tick tocks, a lot of content.
And I think Rhonda did that too.
She was in the car for her videos.
Yeah.
We saw that on a few people.
So that's great.
The only thing I would say from a technical standpoint is, um, you want to
just grab your phone and just be eye level.
The camera needs to just be eye level with you.
Um, so that way you're not, you don't want to be looking up
too high or looking down too low.
So the camera's a little low here.
Cause it's just a weird perspective thing.
You don't want it to be looking down on people and you don't want
to minimize yourself by doing that.
So eye level is great too.
Cause it's like, you're talking to the person and you're
looking them right in the eye.
So people from a smartphone perspective, you can just show them where that.
Yeah.
And you remember your, your, your camera is just on the very top of your screen.
So don't try not to look too much at you when you're speaking.
Um, but look, try and look up at your camera.
That takes a little bit of skill because we're so used to just look.
You want to see yourself on the screen, but then it doesn't actually
look like you're looking into the camera, into the camera, into the eye level.
Little things.
So that's good.
Um, did you have any questions, Joe, since you're here, if you want to
unmute, you're welcome to respond.
I'd give you a chance since we just like put you on display for everybody.
Good.
All good.
Okay, cool.
Um, and so one thing I'll show as well, uh, and I'll just give this, uh, well,
let's, let's go through all the reviews.
I don't want to keep jumping around.
So let's just pull this up.
You want to do this one?
This was Shelley.
Shelley.
I think Shelley's on here live.
I saw her.
Yeah.
But I saw her somewhere.
Yeah.
So let's watch this.
Hey, what?
What is your favorite time of the day to just sit and talk with the Lord?
Mine? Early in the morning. I have my coffee. My dogs are quiet. By the way, I have seven.
It's still quiet outside, but I do live in the country.
But I sit in my chair at the table with my Bible in front of me and a pen and paper,
and I just listen, and I be still in front of the Lord.
And I let Him speak to me, and I speak to Him.
And we have great conversations.
And it's so peaceful and so lovely. I so enjoy my time with the Lord.
I hope you do, too.
Okay, Shelly, you probably have thought about this after we gave Joe feedback on the hook.
So you started off with, hey, I want to encourage you to go straight to the point.
Don't even say hello. I know it seems very impolite, but this is how things work on TikTok,
because we want to maximize the first three to five seconds.
Really, those first three seconds are pretty critical when it comes to gaining people's attention,
because they're making a pretty quick decision if they're going to keep scrolling or stop to watch.
So jump into it. And I would say focus on how you can bring someone in to the process quicker.
So you talked about your quiet time, which is awesome, because we said share some of your story.
Think of ways that you can connect the listener with the story that you're sharing.
And maybe you don't assume anything like, do you hate quiet time?
I love that you said, I love quiet time. So you can kind of make it about your quiet time.
And here's three things that I do during my quiet time. Like this could be your hook.
Here's three things I do during my quiet time that makes it a delight.
And you can just share three things.
And then at the end, you can say, if you want your quiet time with the Lord to be a delight,
I would encourage you to try these three things. So that could be like the payoff.
So you're inviting them into it a little bit. You're sharing something within a framework of,
here's some helpful information. Here's some value from my own story. And you can get fun with it.
What you did great is you looked right into the camera. It was very inviting and engaging.
Your facial expressions were very warm, like you weren't frowning. You weren't looking angry.
One thing that Bruce can speak to is the glare on your glasses.
I know a lot of people that are glasses wearers ask about this. How do I get rid of the glare?
So, yeah, there's a couple of things, you know, just take a second and kind of just notice it.
Because if you because we naturally when we're talking, people just move up and down.
You kind of look to the side. So if you wear glasses and both Lindsay and I wear glasses and contacts.
So this is we know we understand this. What you want to do is if there's any light.
So let's say there's like a lamp or something that is eye level. Just think about it.
It's going to like go from that light. It's going to bounce into your your glasses and it's going to reflect back into the camera.
So all you want to do is really just take the light source.
Either turn it off or, you know, obviously, if you need it, but just just raise it up.
That's the idea. So just change that angle so that it's coming down and then it's going to bounce away.
Essentially, if you're using it'll take some some practice.
Yeah. If you're using natural light, you might have to just play around with the blinds a little bit.
Kind of like bring the blinds down to the side, turn to the side, kind of at a forty five degree, forty five.
You're saying that right angle. So you're not looking directly into the window, but you're kind of facing this way.
And do just a few quick tests like record yourself for three to five seconds and just make sure like, OK, is that glare still hitting?
So you might have to move around a little bit. But if it if it's driving you crazy and you're like, how do I get rid of the glare?
Those are some ways that you can do that. If you're if you guys wear glasses.
Did you have any questions, Shelley? While you're while we. We're all good.
Cool. I see you're muted. So. Awesome.
OK, let's jump into we have Kathy next.
Have you ever wondered how God feels about us? I know I'm getting older and I've thought about that a lot of times.
How does God not just feel about us, but how does he feel about me?
Hi, my name is Kathy Haker and I have a passion to help other people understand God's grace.
I found the answer to my question, how God feels about us in the story of the prodigal son.
Most of us can identify with him. We've made pig pens of our own and we've been far away from the father.
But in the story of the prodigal son, he came back home to his dad.
And when he did, the Bible says the father didn't feel angry. He didn't feel disappointed.
He didn't feel disgust, said he felt compassion.
Have you ever thought about that, that when we're in the pigpen or we're on the way home
from the pigpen, how God feels about us is in one word, compassion.
The Bible says that when Jesus looked about on the crowds, he felt compassion for them
because they were like sheep without a shepherd.
Be comforted today that God's not mad at you.
He has compassion on you.
Awesome.
It's good.
Way to go, Cathy.
That was awesome.
From a content perspective, I loved it.
Quick tech.
Yeah.
Actually, I think there's almost the only, I mean, I'll comment on just one piece of
the content as a, more from an editing standpoint.
There's almost three TikToks in there.
And I love even just one of the, sometimes this will be for some people as well.
I think some, if you go back and listen to that, like there's a really great hook and
I'll, maybe I can try and find it really quick, but sometimes you can take, make a
second TikTok by taking a sentence that's like one of your second or last sentence sentences
and make that the hook for the next video.
And then just talk about that one thing.
So sometimes you can just rearrange the script a little bit and you can have multiple TikToks.
I think there's a couple of ways you could get that way you get two or three posts out
of it.
Cause it's such a weighty message and there's many ways that we can talk about that from
different perspectives.
So the one thing I would just say from a tech perspective as well, just know that when you
do put this on TikTok, TikTok is going to crop it for you.
So I'm going to see if I can draw this on the screen here.
Let me see if I can make that a lot thicker.
I cannot.
Let's just see here.
OK, there we go.
So it's going to crop it.
Let me try to draw that again now that it's working.
So it's going to crop it something like that.
So just know that if you're going to film landscape like this, and I think you're probably
using your webcam for this, that's totally fine.
Just know, maybe step back a little bit so that it's not quite filling your whole face.
So kind of just give it some space.
Just know that TikTok will crop it up and down vertically.
So again, you can use it on your phone or something else, but you can still use this
video. I don't want to say don't use this video.
I would most of what you guys, most of everybody who posted, honestly, like you guys
should be posting that on TikTok.
Right. Don't hold back.
So while we're giving some feedback, take that feedback for maybe video number two,
three, four.
Right. Yeah.
Awesome. So and we'll take it to a few more and we'll do a lot of like questions and stuff
because I think some of this is helpful to kind of get really into the practical, you
know, kind of steps here. One, did you have a question there?
I think Shelly said she had a question.
She just wasn't able to. Oh, you had questions.
Did you want to unmute yourself?
Shelly, are you here?
Let me see if I thought I saw you.
I am. Oh, there you are.
Go for it.
You're with me, yeah.
Yeah. So one of the questions I had, I did on the second video that I did, I actually
was talking about a scripture and was kind of asking them, you know, what what is your
favorite scripture? You know, because, you know, I have a scripture and this is what
it is. What is your favorite scripture?
And so should I also if I do it like that, should I also do a point or should it would
that be the question and the hook?
Yeah, that could be like you sharing and then asking them to comment with their
favorite scripture is a video in itself.
I'm just getting a conversation about, hey, this is my favorite scripture.
This is my life verse.
Like I think another you can do variations of that.
This is if you're if it's a life verse or it's a favorite verse, you can share a story
about it. You can do one that's like, here's how here's how I discovered my favorite
verse or here's the story behind my life verse.
And then at the end, you can say, tell me about your life verse and why you love it so
much or your favorite comment below with comment below with your favorite.
People are very good.
So when you were talking about the glare, I was using my phone, but I'm sitting in front
of my computer.
OK, it's so that I was I had all white and then I have a window behind me.
So I tried to put black on my computer so it wouldn't show my glasses, but I don't and
I kept trying to do this, but it made it look weird.
So I don't know where to actually I guess back in like the Joe, the way he did it in
his car.
It's a great place.
It's a great if you're if you're like my house is too loud.
There's many people that you guys I don't.
Yeah, if you're like, my house is too loud.
There's too many people who live there.
My office is a mess.
I don't want to show that on camera.
Like get in your car and share in your car.
It's a great, it's a great studio.
One of our members, actually, Monica,
she's been, she's working doing this like store thing.
Amazing, starting a store in this mall is awesome.
And so her time to film is on her drive.
Now I don't necessarily recommend this.
She's not holding her phone.
She has it on like a little stand and she hits record
and she like records these TikToks while she,
and she goes live from Facebook,
like while she's driving to her work.
I used to drive like five hours, four hours a day
to a drilling rig to work.
I used to watch TV while I was driving.
So-
You can't admit that here, Shelly.
You can't admit that.
We've worked this far, she's been doing this.
That's great.
I can understand why she's doing that.
I could do that.
That's great.
Yeah, no, and just, here's the thing.
If you're just doing it a lot, you will try different spots.
We have filmed so many ads around this office
to figure out a good spot.
Then we'll, you know, we'll sit on our front porch.
We'll try different backgrounds.
You'll find, oh, during like in mornings,
this room is really good.
But like this room is, there's just sun streaming in
and you don't necessarily want like direct sunlight on you
because then you're gonna be like squinting.
You just want kind of, you know, so anyway,
just you'll just have to, it's just experimentation
and seeing what works well.
The better thing is that you just keep recording.
You keep hitting record.
You try it.
We were joking last night that Lindsey was using the window.
And so like some of the episodes
were just really, really dark.
And some of them were like crazy bright
and we still published them.
And people were still impacted.
So don't let that.
And unfortunately, some of the ones
that you don't like the most
are gonna become your most popular content.
That's just how it works.
But thanks for sharing.
Yeah, awesome.
And guys, if you have time,
go check out some people's videos.
I would say if you posted a video
and people are giving you feedback,
maybe go and find three other people's videos
and just give them feedback.
I know when we were watching this,
you guys are so encouraging in the comments,
just letting people know, hey, this is awesome.
It's moving.
It's powerful.
I think that's really helpful
because we need to encourage each other as a community.
This is hard.
Some of you guys are putting this out for the first time
and you're like, it's very scary
to put yourself on camera with your content,
so just let's try to encourage.
So the seed of encouragement.
So we are gonna get to some practical things,
but I do wanna, before we jump into the practical,
we did something a little different this time,
which we hadn't planned at the beginning of the challenge,
but we understand that there is quite a few steps
to actually posting that video on TikTok.
So because we have such limited time
with our live sessions here,
we wanted to have that to be more of a dialogue
and a conversation,
but we did some really good training earlier this year
on literally a step-by-step on how to do TikTok.
So what we've done is I've taken
some of those masterclasses,
some of those pieces of the masterclasses,
and we've put them for you guys for free,
just as a bonus to go watch some of that training.
So I'm gonna jump over here to show you where that is.
So if we click over to the challenge day three,
there's a video called
how to record your first TikTok post.
So some of the things about holding an eye level
and where to stand, window, all that stuff.
Lindsay actually records one live for us
in this little demo.
And this is about eight minutes long.
And then you can go, there's one called,
sorry, I was looking at post your feedback.
That's the video that we,
this was the process we just went through.
So it's these two videos right here,
live posting a demo.
So this one's about 22 minutes long
and Isaac Holt,
who's been someone who's been very helpful.
He was the friend back in the story.
He told me to get on TikTok.
To get on TikTok.
He's an awesome guy.
And he came and helped us with the training.
And so this is, he takes 20 minutes or so
and just walks you through like,
okay, now click the TikTok app.
Now click this button.
Now do this thing.
And now, and then he talks about adding hashtags
and a bunch of things.
And we're gonna touch on some of that tonight,
but just know before we get into some of the training,
there's a step-by-step guide.
You guys can watch it.
You can pause it.
You can go follow along.
So we're just gonna make that available
because I think that's gonna help you guys out.
And that would just allow us to have more
dialogue on here.
And then we can, you guys can look at that later.
So, okay, let's get into this.
Publish.
So we're on number three.
I just need to find screen.
Okay, so last night we talked about planning and producing.
So we're writing our episodes.
We're putting all the content together.
And then we're gonna actually produce that content.
Many of you have already done.
Right.
Which is awesome.
And so.
You're halfway there.
So let's just jump into publish.
So, there are a number of things we just justice I don't want to let my screen, which were you looking at.
Okay, cool.
So, for publish. When you're posting on Tick Tock, you can use things like popular hashtags so I'll explain what this is in the description you can put the pound sign hashtag, and then you can type a phrase you can say like Christian, Tick Tock, or you can
say, you know, Jesus, you know, so when you do that, you'll see something that looks like this on the far right I know it's a little small.
But you can see on the right here when I start typing social media tips hashtag social media tips has 35 million views, but social media tip without the s only has 4 million views.
So you kind of want to be in at least, you know, a few million views, you know, maybe to 100 million views, there are things like if you do hashtag Jesus, there are literally billions of views for that so you probably aren't going to get like listed
because there's just so much traffic like overly saturated saturated but you can say like a hashtag like Jesus is life like that would be a more specific hashtag so as you type this and what we're going to do in this training is just told you the strategy of how
to do this so when you get ready to post, there'll be a place where you can add hashtags, and you can just go in in there and actually choose one of these and when you start searching so maybe your topic is about Christian marriages, you know, a Christian marriage
and then a bunch of suggestions are going to come up for you. It does all the work for you and you can just kind of pick two or three of those hashtags to be on your video and what that does is it tells Tick Tock hey this video is for Christians, and people who want help
with Christian marriage, right so now other people who already maybe have hundreds of thousands of followers are posting content about that but your content now gets served, if that person, you know, if a person who's consuming content, you know, is tagged as as enjoying
that type of content, Tick Tock will automatically take your video for you and put it in front of someone else. So I hope that you guys are making the connection to have how important it is when you're talking about knowing your who how that can feed into this process
as well. Because when you know your who you can think through like some hashtags around that who, whether it's people who have been divorced whether it's parenthood or people who are rock hounds right is that the correct title, Dan so that's why when you know
who is or you have an idea of your who, it helps you target them with this strategy, right. Absolutely. And, and so these are just things if you don't do the hashtags, you're going to be missing out on a ton of views that you could be getting and then you may think
somebody likes my video. Yeah, that's not the case, it's that you may just be some of these practical things. And yes, we're getting asked is this on Tick Tock yeah this is what it looks like when you're on Tick Tock, and yeah, you're going to see a window.
And for this everybody like when you post on Tick Tock you are going to be on the Tick Tock app on your smartphone. There is technically a way to do it on the website it is not built for that really yeah the website does not as well on your computers.
So to do that you can you can set it up a pretty quick but when we show you a screenshot here yeah that's going to be on the app, and all the features to edit your video, add music, add the hashtags and then post it it's all going to be inside that Tick
Tock app so they make it pretty easy.
cares about is keeping people on the platform, right like they they don't care now it's a great question Joe copyright issues. So this is where Tick Tock has actually kind of found a way around this, they have a, they've actually worked with artists to make sure
views and the royalties and it links back to that artists page so you can't just go and upload your own music, but you can just search and see what's on there so they have this has to be done in the app you don't add music prior to recording your video or, you know, prior to
putting it in the app and you don't like have music playing in the background while you're recording because it will pick up as a copyright, but you can use the music that the app has, and they have clips that they have worked out with the artist and it's free.
It's free for you to use as a clip. Absolutely. Yeah, so just use what's there if it's on Tick Tock and the audio section, you're allowed to use it, that's the short version.
Now to help you guys get started.
You can come back you can pause the video.
You can screenshot this, you can write these down.
These are the hashtags you would everybody should have.
This first top one is hashtag for you page, hashtag FYP, hashtag for you.
And then hashtag for number four, YP.
And so you're just going to tick tock.
This is tick tock specific.
This will help service to people that this is a really good fit for.
That's just there's kind of a little hack.
This is something that Isaac showed and that he does on video.
So for example, down here below, it shows you the first line is just
the for you page line of all the hashtags.
And then there's things like Christian tick tock, Christian life,
hashtag Christian girl, this is for Lindsay's podcast.
So hashtag Christian girl, hashtag Christian, hashtag Jesus,
hashtag Jesus loves you, hashtag Christian boy.
So it's just grabbing and he's used some
of these over and over and just tested a lot of them.
You can definitely start here.
If a guy don't put hashtag Christian girl,
probably going to attract the wrong audience for the wrong reasons.
Again, think about it in your scenario.
But we wanted to show you what it would
look like when you use a for you and then you're the hashtags that you choose
for your topic and your who.
And again, the strategy is go and search for it.
You're saying you'll find ones that, you know.
So and again, don't overthink it.
If there's only hashtags that have hundreds
of thousands of views, that's still awesome.
Like imagine if you got one hundred thousand views, you'd be very happy with that.
So anywhere in the hundreds of thousands
of searches versus all the way up to, you know, millions is good.
Just try to avoid anything with, you know, billions.
Basically, you're helping tick tock,
understand what your video is about so they can get it in front of the person
that it's for. So this is how you work with their algorithm.
So that's why you want to be able to tag
it with the hashtags and then using the music is like another way to tag it to
where it's saying, oh, well, these people have watched things with this music.
So I'm going to serve it up to them.
So you're just working within the algorithm to get them to put it in front
of people and people that are actually wanting to watch your content.
Right.
And so a quick question, I'll move on to the songs and then I'll
answer questions in the chat here.
Same thing with songs.
You can start with these again when we share songs like this.
You know, it changes every day, literally on TikTok.
So you get the idea.
There could be something from Hillsong, something from Bethel.
It could be something from Elevation Church, whatever.
You know, try to find out what you like to listen to.
Sometimes it's a good place to start
and just be like, hey, is this something that's trending right now?
Yeah. And if you just type in worship, you'll get a lot of suggestions back.
I would recommend using some instrumental
music so that it's not there's not like loud singing.
That's also with going over your voice.
In Isaac's example, he will show you how
to turn the music really soft as well so that's not competing with your voice.
This is just a little setting in TikTok to to make that change.
But again, this is going to be specific to the day, the week.
So as soon as we show you a slide like this, it's probably outdated.
So just go and search.
And when you add sounds, there'll be a place where you can search
for sounds and then you can you can set that up.
And then I'll answer a quick question here from Valerie, who said when you do go
to post the same video on Instagram Reels, how do you add music there, too?
So Instagram Reels has their own library
of music, good chances you won't be able to use the same song necessarily on TikTok
that used for Instagram.
So it's just a little bit.
But what you'll find is the song.
Don't obsess over it, it's more just there to help you get more views,
essentially, so don't I mean, you can pick something that you like,
obviously, but don't obsess over the music and you'll probably find there's five
to ten songs that you end up using over and over again, and that's totally fine.
Yeah.
So just use their library as well.
And same for YouTube shorts.
They do also have music as well in there.
But you have to do it within each app because it doesn't translate over.
Yeah, for that reason.
So and this is just showing you the same thing.
You're creating one video like you've done and then you're going to share it to TikTok.
It's such a great.
It's a screenshot thumbnail.
I really appreciate you picking that one.
And you'll see there's things like this
text on here says the love of Jesus is everything.
Isaac will show you how to add text because people are going to scroll
and they're visually they're just going to read something on there and they're
going to start listening to you, so maybe your hook is got some text on it.
That's that's not you know, you're just going to go through that.
So
that was asking, is it hard to set up these three accounts?
It's really not.
There's literally billions of people on each of these platforms.
So they've tried to make it as user friendly as possible.
You're just going to go to TikTok dot com,
create a new account, they'll ask you some questions, download the app.
You download the app. I would recommend.
Yeah, Instagram.
Same is pretty easy to set up a new account.
They want to make it really easy for you.
YouTube, you can use your if you have a Gmail or Google account as well.
It's very easy to set up.
Awesome. And so that is that's the publisher we're gonna talk a little bit about promotion, and there's quite a few things we want to touch on maybe with promotion but yeah so this we're just talking about like things that you can do for free.
So when you think promote you think okay buying ads, nothing wrong with that we've done that as well. Some of you are here because we buy ads for kingdom messengers but we wanted to, again, not let there be any barrier for you starting so here's things
that you can do for free. So, um, let people talk about your content, meaning, don't disable comments. A lot of people want to do that because they don't want bad comments they don't want the trolls, but this doesn't necessarily encourage the
algorithm to show your content to people because they're not going to see a ton of engagement on those videos, so don't disable comments, that will be our, that's like, don't, I know it can be scary.
But part of this is you having connection points with your who as well.
So, yeah, there's going to be some haters out there, I get haters, like, I, especially when we do ads like because it goes out to more than just our who because it's kind of how that works so this is something this is a great place to grow up in the Lord.
And I'm not going to say that it's easy, I'm not going to pretend like I've practiced this into permanence where it doesn't bother me if someone comments negatively negatively on my videos but I will tell you time and time again, for every one hurtful comment,
there are 10 times over comments of people saying 100. Yeah, over of people saying, this was for me today, can you pray for me. Amen. Hallelujah. And so like this is something that Susie touched on about being led in the spirit is something that I'm actively
practicing, even now, and that is we know that psychologically, there is something and I'm going to botch it if there's therapists and scientists on this call but I'm just going to try and give a summary we know that for every negative comment, the way that our brain
works is we tend to fixate on the negative more quickly than the positive. And often when there's 10 positive things that happen in one negative thing for the way that we are wired sometimes because of our neural pathways, and is we just attach ourselves
to the negative. So that's how it, that's how we know that it works so it's like, don't feel bad if that's happening to you. That's kind of a normal thing for most people, but we are people of the kingdom, and we can be led by the spirit, so we can bypass
the physical and the metaphysical, and we can walk in the spirit holy and so this is that's how I choose to show up every day when I'm having to go through the comments knowing that there's going to be some hateful things that people say is I'm showing up as a daughter
walking in the spirit, remaining untouched by the negative noise and fully focusing on the call and purpose and partnership that I have with the Holy Spirit, knowing that if it does sting, and I hang on to it.
I have a comforter, who will be with me in that, and will walk me through that process, because sometimes it stings because it feels true right like it's not like something crazy it's like they've said something about my hair and I was actually feeling really horrible
about my hair that day or they said something about the way my voice sounds and I actually do hate the way that my voice sounds right, but we are, we are inviting the Holy Spirit to like remove the hooks once and for all.
So what I want to encourage you to do is don't let the people who aren't your who keep you from reaching your who. That's good. You can say that again. Don't let the people who aren't your who keep you from reaching your who.
This is something I'm actively walking in, because there's days where I'm like, I don't want to look at the comments I don't know if I can do this.
And it's okay you don't have to do it every day, but don't cut yourself off from reaching the people you're called to reach, because there's some few people making some noise that aren't even the people you are called to reach there's somebody
else's who let them be reached by that.
Are we allowed to block. Absolutely.
Absolutely. This is your territory. This is your real estate. Okay, so don't feel like you have to let trespassers in to keep things authentic. Like, if you like we don't have to deal with that like there's just there's people that I just block because I'm like
this, they don't want to be reached by me they don't want help they just want to like, come at me.
I'm going to bless them by blocking them so I don't show up in their feet anymore so you don't have to hesitate by blocking people, there is going to be things that are going to be obvious spam like maybe it's not negative but it's promotional people dropping
their links trying to sell people on something or get people to come to their website. I block those, because it's usually spam and I don't want people clicking on spammy links if I find those I just delete those.
If you can walk away with anything today. It's, don't cut off the
conversation with your who because of people who aren't your who that are trying to send in some
negative stuff because it is out there and I know it can be hard and if it's something that you're
really struggling with like find a buddy find a friend that maybe you can say like hey can you
help me with this can you can I talk to you about like this I got this comment it's really bothering
me like you don't have to bottle it up inside and like just be like you know super strong about it
like if it's bothering you process that with a friend process it with the lord because maybe
there's a hook there from the past that it's pulling at that needs to be unhooked once and
for all so I've had conversations with Bruce I'm like this person came at me it's really bothering
me it's stirring in my head we talk about it we release it you know don't feel like you just have
to like be be like a warrior about it and not ever be um affected by it and if you are affected by it
means you're weak but push through that push past that resistant don't become resistant in that
resistance because there are so many people who are going to be blessed by your content that would
love to be able to comment and it's leveraging the digital landscape because it's getting you
further up in the algorithm because YouTube and TikTok and Instagram are saying hey people like
your comment and they're engaging with their comment they're commenting they're liking we're
going to serve this up to more people it's awesome so good so guys just to just to kind of recap
everything plan produce publish promote this is something you can do for a TikTok you can plan
produce publish promote for 10 minute YouTube video as you grow as you experiment with different
types of content it's the same process just going in circles it's getting these these reps down
getting the process down so that you can just focus on being a creator you have to go through
all these processes anyway is that sometimes you can go through all four phases in a span of five
to ten minutes like you can have an idea for something you know captured on your sink be at
the kitchen sink yeah capture it you can publish it right there from your phone and then you know
start engaging with comments start promoting it that can all happen very quickly um so don't
overthink that it's going to take you you know hours to get through each of these these steps
I do want to just comment on one thing because people are talking about trolls and someone and
Dan said you know you can try to witness to the trolls too you absolutely can Dan if you feel like
led to do that but I do because we sometimes are nicer than Jesus I'm not picking on you Dan I just
feel like this is a thought in a lot of people's head this was something I even struggled with too
when I was like do I block this person do I try to convince them of what I'm sharing they probably
need Jesus they're really mean I think sometimes it's worse when it's definitely another Christian
that's coming at me it's like makes it 10 times worse and I'm like you know Jesus the same Christ
living in me lives in you and this is how you're responding so what I would say is this is where the
who conversation really helps because there are so many people on the digital landscape billions
and billions right and everyone has a who but don't let who's not your who keep you from reaching
your who because sometimes we can go off on a tangent with a troll in the comment section and
then other people are coming to our aid and they're getting in the debate too and they're
saying you know I mean I've seen this happen where there's people that are arguing in my comment feed
about something that has nothing to do with the topic anymore and it's just a display of division
quite frankly that I just don't want to put on display so that's why I kind of cut it off
and block the instigator don't like block everyone because people are just out of the
goodness of their heart trying to defend but like we don't really need that on display and
I would say as well like I don't think anybody's really going to change a lot of the how they think
about things in the comment section of a video like that just it doesn't seem to like and whatnot
if you feel like in a dm or direct message you're having a one-on-one conversation and you feel that
do whatever you feel the Holy Spirit's doing just know that doing it in public in that form
tends to go negative really fast and then it's just you end up just throwing mud at each other
because no one's no one's seeing each other's faces in the comment section right no one's
making eye contact it's easy it's very anonymous in many ways and so it's very easy for people to
just slug mud at each other with very little accountability and no real relationship or
connection this is a big issue right now on the digital landscape is everyone wants to just share
their truth without doing the hard work of building a relational bridge you are showing up as the
kingdom messenger showing your face sharing your message and working to build a relational bridge
don't allow all the comments like negative comments to hinder the bridge building that
you're doing because someone has an agenda that they that day that they want to like
get in they're not doing the hard work of building relational bridge they're not doing
the hard work of building a kingdom channel they just want to share their truth in the comment
section it never goes well so this is how we kind of have to take on a new mind about these things
like this is not people sitting in a room looking each other in the eye having a conversation
we have we have to think differently about how we engage in these conversations
Even with DMs, I'm pretty careful about the conversations
I engage with because there are spammers,
there are people that are pretending to be people
that they're not.
So we have to be wise about that.
And I rarely engage with people that have no posts.
Like I'll go to someone, like if someone's asking me,
like, hey, can you answer this?
And it's about the episode.
What I'm not gonna do is be talking about content
that I haven't even addressed.
Like I've had people reach out and said like,
can you talk to me about your views on the rapture?
That's just not something I cover.
So like, that's not a conversation I feel like
I have to have with someone in a private message
conversation, like have that with somebody
who is actually talking about those things,
talk to your pastor, talk to people in your community.
I'm not addressing those things.
Like let's not, you know, I'm sharing this
so this is gonna happen to you guys.
So I'm pretty careful about not even having conversations
that don't have to do with what I'm talking about,
what I'm teaching on.
People want me to be responsible for their own study.
You'll find this, you know, they want me,
they see me teaching about something,
they have a question about something else
and they're, instead of studying it out for themselves,
they just want my opinion on it.
I don't think that's often very helpful.
So I don't have those conversations.
I look, if it's something where it's a little bit bitey,
but people are like, seem genuine,
like, can you talk to me about this?
You said, you know, Jesus is peace,
but I don't really believe that,
or I've been struggling with anxiety.
And I think what you're talking about is hurting people
because you're sharing with them that, you know,
blah, blah, blah, whatever it is.
I go to their Instagram profile.
And if it's a private account with zero posts,
I don't engage.
Because this is not an active participant
in the digital landscape.
I don't know if this is a real person.
I don't know if it's a bot.
I don't know if this is someone that's trying to catfish me.
So, and I've got a lot of, you know,
once you grow, you're gonna have a lot of messages
that you have to go through.
So that's just a boundary that I've made.
I feel at peace with it.
You talk to the Holy Spirit about what your boundaries are,
but those are some things that I consider
because I wanna be able to engage and minister to my who
as best I can in the comments and in the private messages.
So those are some things that I use
to protect myself from spammers,
protect myself from talking to people
that aren't even real people.
I just don't feel like I have to address
every single comment and message,
but I do engage as best I can,
even if it's just liking a comment
and that helps with the engagement.
I love that.
That's so good.
And guys, these are the, I know this is,
we're kind of picking on the comments thing,
but these are the things that I think hold people back.
Yeah.
Right?
Like this is the thing that maybe,
and that idea of like not letting the people
who aren't your who get in the way.
When you're doing marketing or we're doing things like this,
you're trying to filter the right people in
and the wrong people out.
It's actually okay if your content's not for everybody,
because the people who do engage, who do listen,
are gonna be some of your biggest fans.
And so part of that is just helping you guys
think through some of the mechanics of it,
because I think the things like the comments
and people are just,
there's a little bit of fear associated with that.
Intimidation even.
And you're helping, I think, demystify some of that
and take some of the fear out of it.
So hopefully that's helpful to you guys
as far as what to do with the promotion,
but you guys wanna have that discussion,
wanna be able to dialogue with your audience.
And I would say very often,
people are just amazed when you do respond to them.
Yeah, I mean, they feel-
They actually can talk to you,
that you will respond with some help.
So don't underestimate how much that connection
can mean to someone who needs that connection
in the moment.
So, all right.
Okay, cool.
So guys, that was the cycle we went through,
plan, produce, publish, promote.
I know we're coming in for a landing of three days,
an hour and a half every single day.
And I know you guys are also recording content
and trying to catch up, watch replays.
So we appreciate you guys hanging out with us.
Thank you for sticking with us.
All the way through.
We'll give you guys a couple of quick announcements here.
So when you guys, what to do next, okay?
So a couple of things are happening.
You can head over into the group
here on Kingdom Messenger TV.
If you haven't already watched,
there are some challenge bonus sessions here.
It's a fantastic session from Hannah Brencher,
who is a TED speaker
and an awesome, powerful Kingdom Messenger.
Blogger, author.
She just has-
Instagram stories.
It'll just inspire you.
Yeah, it's all around content creation,
creating content and building systems
for creating content consistently.
Yeah, so you can go there.
You can check this off.
And then we do have an awesome interview
that we are sharing from our masterclass library,
where Graham and Lindsey did an interview.
They hung out-
Graham Cook, if you don't know who that is,
is a mentor of mine,
and he is a prophetic powerhouse.
He's been in ministry for over 40 years,
and he actually-
near doing ministry online. He has brilliant TV, which is an online mentoring community that he
mentors. And he was one of the first people to kind of do that online. So he's a veteran when
it comes to being kingdom messenger online. And when we talk about in this episode, the mindset
of a kingdom messenger, he shares a lot of wisdom and insights on, you know, how to walk into the
digital landscape, how to be a powerful kingdom messenger. So I would encourage you to watch that.
Awesome, guys. Well, it's been an honor serving you guys. We let's just let's just like, let's do
a blessing just for Yeah, so Father, once again, we say thank you. Thank you for the gift of
community. You're so kind to give us each other. And we are once again reminded of how awesome it
is and how iron truly sharpens iron when we come together and gather as your body in one accord.
And Lord, we're kingdom messengers. We've said yes to this calling. And we've said yes to the
partnership with you. Holy Spirit, we are so excited for the innovation that you're going to
bring us the creativity, the ideas, the comfort that you'll bring us when times are hard, the
ease in which things will flow and surprise us even I pray for our who the people that we're
called to reach. I pray that there would be no more delay and getting the message that you have
birth in us out to them. No more delay in that I just pray against distraction. I pray against
noise. I pray against discouragement. And I say no more to that. Lord, we welcome all that you have
in store for us. And also, I pray for every person on this call. Lord, we've talked a lot about your
redemption. And I really truly believe that this is a year of breakthrough for all of us and that
you are redeeming things in us that we are going to restore in others. Things from long ago are
going to make sense in this season like never before. There will be a redemption of time.
There'll be a redemption of places where we've been wounded. There'll be a redemption of loss.
There'll be a redemption of the low places and the valleys that we've had to walk through.
So we say thank you to that in advance. I just declare Hebrews 11 over each of these kingdom
messengers that just like our biblical ancestors, we are people of great faith. And we are led by
your word and your word alone. It was enough that you said it. And we say yes and amen to what you
have said. And we pray all of these things in the mighty majestic name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Guys,
awesome. Give yourselves a hand. You guys did it. We've so enjoyed spending our time with you.
Have a wonderful rest of your evening. We'll see you guys. Bye.