Okay, everyone, happy Tuesday.
You got Bruce and Lindsey here today.
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Hey, guys.
While we're jumping on, who has a win to share?
Go ahead and unmute yourself if you've got a win,
a testimony. Hey, look, it's Ben.
I haven't seen you in a while.
Hey, Ben, good to see you.
How are you doing?
Sorry, something's wrong with my speakers.
I can't really hear you.
Okay. No problem.
No, no, it's good.
Hey, so good to see you.
Been a while.
Yeah, good to have you.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Hey, Amy, I saw that you unmuted.
Do you have something fun to share?
Yeah, I do.
Okay, so for anybody that didn't get to be on,
hasn't gotten to watch the live stream,
hasn't gotten to watch the community prayer call
from last night.
It was really, really, really awesome.
And Lindsay, I hope I'm saying this right,
but the gift that the Lord had was releasing to us
was the removal of heaviness on the garment of praise.
And I didn't share this
because I didn't really know what it meant,
but I mean, I wasn't really getting a whole lot
from the Lord last night.
And, but I did see something in my spirit.
And some of you'll understand this
maybe better than the others,
but it was like, I was on a stage and, you know,
the curtains and the stage, and I was wearing this jacket.
And, you know, I think in terms of body of Christ,
when I'm, I mean, it's just been, you know,
in my heart for so long to pray for the body of Christ.
But what I saw was like, you know, when, like,
instead of a gong, before there were gongs, you know,
when there was a bad act on the stage,
where there'd be a cane come out from behind the curtain,
you know, and jerk, jerk somebody off.
Well, what I saw was this cane come down
and like hook the back of my jacket and pull it off.
And, and I thought, well, you know, okay, you know,
he's lifting things off of us, you know.
And, but after I got off the call, I,
the word that came to my mind was performance.
And I thought, okay, performance on a stage, yes.
And, and coming off of Bridget, what you said about the,
you know, being comfortable wearing something,
so comfortable that you don't know you're wearing it.
You know, you forget that it's not, you know,
that you're wearing an extra piece of clothing.
So, you know, I didn't really get much and I,
you know, went to bed.
I stayed up kind of late learning to use Descript,
is that how you say it?
Because I haven't, I haven't been doing my long form
for the past couple of weeks.
And I felt like the Lord, I mean, like I've written stuff
and I just felt like the Lord said, wait, I mean, no.
And so I recorded something yesterday and I thought, okay,
this is gonna, this has got a lot of uhs and ahs.
So I was learning to do Descript
and I stayed up really late kind of learning.
And I loved everything that I learned.
And I just thought, okay, I stayed up too late
and I was pushing, I was pushing kind of hard.
And I woke up and when I was,
when I was, before I got my coffee, I was just checking
cause my posts went up late last night.
And I had a message from Sweet Bobby this morning
on TikTok and,
and she had no idea how like direct it went to my heart
because she had, you can speak into it if you need to Bobby,
but the Lord had just had her send that message to me
about the number one.
And, and I took it to the Lord
cause I thought, yes, you know, we're one.
But as I was listening to him,
I knew that that came was for me
and that it was almost like something,
I mean, an area of performance
cause the Lord's been walking me out of performance
for a lot of years, but very intensely in the last year.
And, but there is this drivenness
that somehow comes with performance.
performance and that I'll push, I'll drive to get the job done
and sacrifice my rest, physical rest, mental rest, you know, but
really close up to the boundaries, like to the edge of
the stage. And I felt like the Lord said, there is no
stage. And it was like, in my spirit, I could see the stage
just going away. And I was on a dance floor. And I was with him.
And we were like, I was in his arms. And we were looking at
each other, just transfixed. And it's like my feet were barely
touching the floor. And it didn't matter where he led. I
mean, there was just like this joy and levity. And I looked up
the word levity, which it can mean kind of ridiculous, you
know, but it can also mean lightness. And I feel like, like
if I'm in a bridal gown, which makes it so important that it
was you, Bobby, this message, you know, about being in the
arms of your groom. And like, it's not a performance, but his
glory. I mean, like, this hides his glory. And when it comes
off, we're a radiant bride in the arms of our groom. And the
thing that probably spoke to me the loudest last night was we
carry his name. Like, we get to like, hold up his name, use it.
Like, let, let the glory come off of that dance, that we get
to dance together. And the onlookers receive an invitation
onto the dance floor, that they too can get into the arms of
their groom, and see the radiance of his glory coming off
of their union, their oneness with him. And he told me, he
said, one is the most important number there is. And so anyway,
yeah, so yeah.
Yeah, thank you.
I love it. Because my prayer is that we carry, you know, what is
being offered on our Monday nights into our weeks. And so I
love how Holy Spirit, like met you, Amy in the place and use
Bobby to partner with what he was doing in you. And like,
that's so beautiful. I love that. And you know, guys, like,
I think a lot of us are still trying to earn something, right?
Like, so much of our heaviness comes from I still feel like I
have to earn something, earn his favor. You know, please him
earn reward, whatever it is. And there is principles of sowing
and reaping there. You know, the Bible does say that the Lord
rewards those who seek him. But we take that part of seeking
him and we turn it into a performance. We turn it into a
position, we turn it into a platform. And those types of
things should never be used as a measuring stick ever. And so
that's what I think he's setting you free from Amy and setting
the rest of it. I know I'm being set free from that at a
new level, which is really amazing. And I know that
Marcello was speaking about that and Tamara as well. So that is
pretty exciting. We pray first. Yeah, I'm gonna pray. And then
what we thought we would do is we just to honor people's time
is we would go ahead and go into open coaching. So if you guys
have specific questions about your channel, whether it's, you
know, your content, or your, you know, look at my profile, or I'm
stuck here. We'll take those questions. And then at the end,
we'll just share a few tidbits, specifically around getting more
views is what I want to focus on today. So start with some of
that, if it's just for context, or, okay, whatever you want to
pray for, maybe we spray, maybe we're on different planes. I
just Yeah, yeah. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for
thank you for lightness. Thank you that you are lifting, you're
moving that heaviness, that heavy burden, Jesus, we're
taking on your yoke, we're taking on your burden, once
again, making the powerful choice of choosing you choosing
what you said, choosing your promises, over past
circumstances, present scenarios, even future fears, we
remove all of that all of that heaviness, and we take on your
yoke and your burden, which is easy and light. We thank you
that you would just bless this call, Holy Spirit, meet us here
with your wisdom, your guidance, your leading. And we pray for
clarity and breakthrough today on this call.
We pray all these things in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Okay, what would you like to do?
I think we're talking about two different things.
Okay.
I was just going to say, as far as like announcements go and stuff, we are week seven, right?
So we're here this week, we're going to do it again next week, and then we're kind of
wrapping up end of September.
So I know we're on like September 20th, it's like coming into September, and some of you
guys are like, what's happening in October?
We'll tell you as soon as we decide and figure it out.
No, that's not true.
We just didn't want to, you know, we wanted to be able to stay focused and not have you
guys worried about the next thing.
Yeah, so what that will look like is you'll see something in your email, we'll share something,
probably a video of some sort.
And then we may do a call just to answer questions.
So it's going to be outside of this Tuesday and Thursday call, because we don't want to
take time, like coaching time to talk about, you know, all that.
We can do that kind of offline.
We want to be able to take our time and share.
Yeah, but we'll have something for you guys.
We want to keep the momentum of what we've got here.
So just know that that is in progress.
And yeah, we want to, so we'll do coaching today.
And then we'll do, I'll do more of like a tech training on Thursday.
Yeah, keeping with our cadence, but we thought because we're kind of coming up towards the
end, it would be good to have both of us on the call today to make sure that we're able
to field any and all questions.
We don't want people to stay stuck if you're stuck.
And yeah.
What I'll do is like, I think from the open coaching piece, we'd love to keep it around
a specific frame.
And we're happy to obviously take any questions.
But I think the thing we could help the most with in the last kind of two weeks here is
just helping you guys get kind of that significant lift in views and kind of breaking out of
sort of the 200 view, you know, sort of there's like this 200 view thing that people tend
to get stuck in, where you kind of either hovering around 200 views per video and trying
to break out into something else.
So I'll just share like a little bit of why that's you're getting stuck in 200.
And then we could, I'd love to go into some specific people's accounts and like, let's
look at you if you are kind of trending on the same spot.
Let's like open up your account and take a look.
So as always, you can put your Zoom hand up if you have questions and we'll jump into
them. And so basically, the way that the TikTok algorithm works, and I think I mentioned
this a few weeks back, but just to kind of remind us like we, TikTok takes your video.
It doesn't look at how many followers you have.
It doesn't look at how many likes or anything like that.
You could just be a brand new account or you could be, you could have been posting for
years. They essentially take your video and they share it to 200 people.
And that's where that number of 200 keeps coming from.
So TikTok, no matter what, they're going to show it to 200 people in the lifetime.
And that may not be like in the first few hours, it may take a few days, but eventually
they will show it to 200 people.
And what they're doing is they're putting your content on like an audition so that you
can see if this is worth showing to the next batch of people.
And they keep building like bigger and bigger audiences.
And so the main thing you want to do for that audition to go well is just have people
watch a good portion of your video.
So if something's happening in those first five seconds and people jump to something
else and they don't even look at what, so that first five seconds is why we keep like
drilling like these first five seconds is to get people to watch the rest of the video.
So we can definitely look at some of your videos as well and kind of see what's
happening in those first five to 10 seconds to see if we can help give you guys some
ideas. But if you can have something there that when they show it to the first 200, it
does very well. TikTok will continue to promote it to the next layer.
The next year. And that's why some people are like, it's like 200, 200, 200.
Then someone has like 3000 views or like 5000 views.
And then like back to 200, 200, 200, because you get that one, which just seems to go
sort of viral. And then and then you kind of the next day you post again content that
you think is even better than that one.
And it just like it's back to like a few hundred views.
So we just want to help you guys with that as much as possible, because it's what drives
your followers the most is just getting tons and tons of views.
So if you have one video that's got 30,000 views or 100,000 views, I know some people
hit that. That's I can tell you, like 80, 90 percent of all your followers are coming
from that like one video.
So it all comes back to putting out really good content, but not just something that's
good revelation. It's also like how you package it specifically for TikTok is important.
So that's just that's all I want to share on that.
But we can love to look at some of you guys.
So who can be who can be brave and say, OK, I haven't broken kind of past that 200
barrier when it comes to my videos.
Or if you're kind of trending the last few.
Sure. Yeah. It's been recently like all of a sudden.
OK, I see Candy's hand.
Can pull up her account and Bobby here.
Can I get a candy was using her physical hand, a real hand.
Let's get you on. Let's pull up her account old school you know waving with the hand now, fleshly hand.
Um, yeah, I, I started a little bit late into the eight weeks, like posting regularly so I don't know if that's affecting things too so.
But I'm you've got let's see and we're trying to pull your account up your account up.
I was viewing your account recently candy and one thing I noticed was the sound in your video and I know you have kind of a unique thing because it's prophetic dance so music is important, but if your voice.
I don't know, I don't know you might have some tech feedback on that, but I felt like your voice was consistently like lower than the music, which is.
Yeah, I made, I did make an adjustment.
Later, I remember Bruce saying something about music being at like started a five, and then increase, and when I watched him when he said that my videos after that I started turning down, but because before that they were at like a 75 or something so the music
was really loud, but I didn't, I didn't redo those like repost those videos with the lower music so I've not got to that point if that's what you're talking about.
Like the music being louder than my voice. Yeah, yeah. So it sounds like you're, you're working that out which is good that's just something that all of us need to be paying attention to to make sure and just while we're on that topic I know people have posted
like Instagram hundred percent has some issues right now like you set the volume to 5% or whatever and then when you post it it just goes to like 100 so I am aware that I have seen that happen a few times.
So, we don't necessarily have a fix that I'm a fix for it but this may be a good time you could, if you wanted to repost.
If you had it on Tick Tock you could download it from Tick Tock with with snap tick, and then just upload it if you're having like that problem consistently.
Go ahead and do that with, with snap tick or just take the Tick Tock video that came out of Tick Tock, when you post on Tick Tock, and just upload that same video to Instagram it's not ideal it's not best practices but it's better than the music being like so loud on Instagram.
Yeah.
Okay, so first of all, I can you remind me like you're who are these people who you're like are they beginner level kind of into prophetic dance, or are they more seasoned.
Yeah, when it comes to the prophetic dance fitness I'm doing right now my who is fairly inexperienced. Okay, so we're starting with
very just basic exercises like we start with like the exercise library, and then kind of build off of that. Yeah, I mean I would really, from a hook standpoint, I would play up the beginner, like a speak directly to the beginner.
Or how to get started doing this thing. Yeah, prophetic dance, and it's interesting because I know that you have a really unique would in combination which I love because it's prophetic dance and it's kingdom fitness.
But I feel like it's, it might be too unique, starting out because it's like people are like, is it this or is it that, and I don't really know what that means so it's almost like, as you're beginning, especially on like Tick Tock and short form, almost like
niching down to like prophetic dance for beginners, you can definitely in your content talk about the fitness aspect.
I know it's a huge portion of what you do as well so I'm not saying like it's least important but prophetic dance I think specifically that term, especially helping people as a beginner.
I think would be really relevant hooks.
I can pull people in. Yeah, just a yes to all that but when we talked last I think any like you were even talking about going to like moms, young moms of special needs kids.
Well, they're a who of mine I, I'm doing a couple different things so, but they all kind of tie in together like the prophetic dance fitness is like dance fitness and then we got the heart healing stuff.
Right. So like, I'm doing like a prophetic heart healing certification program in that area.
It was a little easier for me to niche down on the households with special needs children and, you know, and doing sessions with people. It's been a little bit harder for me I felt like the Lord was breathing on me being ministering to mothers of children with either autism or special needs.
But then I, I kind of lost sight of that when I started actually doing the thing,
because I didn't know how to promote what I was doing to that specific person. So right now,
I'm just kind of like, whoever's interested in prophetic dance fitness, come see me.
It's good. And again, you're doing it, you're posting the videos,
you're getting the reps. And I think now what I think there's probably like a little,
I think there's a positioning thing where, and I'd love to hear your ideas,
because I think, I think there's something like, so, okay, so, so we're parents, and the parent,
like, content thing for like, people putting YouTube videos and stuff up that like,
parents can watch with their kids, or their kids can watch, is like blowing up right now,
like millions of views on YouTube, millions of subscribers, like, it's just a no brainer. So I
like there's, and it's kind of like, it's a, if you guys have heard, like the blue ocean,
red ocean, like analogy, like blue ocean is just wide open spaces. And like, no one's
doing anything like what you're doing, you know, for miles around. Versus like,
you think of like a shark attack, it's like red ocean, like everybody's like,
like just frenzy on this one topic. So you want to kind of always go out. And I don't
think there's a lot of people doing, you know, the prophetic dance kingdom fitness piece.
But I think the, the who that's even less served right now is that, that mom of special needs.
And if you could call that out, even in your videos, I think everything can still go together.
Like, I feel like there could even be activities that you do, like, for those moms, or for those
moms with the kids, or something like that. I just want to clarify, are you doing this
specifically to minister to the moms? It's not necessarily for the moms and their kids to do
prophetic dance together. No, not that I'm not open to that, but giving you like more ideas.
My who is me, you know, like Pedro says, me 10 years ago, you know, so that's just kind of,
I just know that the Lord's given me authority over the area of the autism community, just because
of the experiences that I've had. And so that's kind of like, and I have a heart for that specific
person as well. So that's kind of where I landed with my who. Like I said, I'm not entirely sure
how that fits in with what I'm doing. I can definitely see where mothers like me 10 years
ago would benefit from what I'm doing. I mean, you're exercising from home, online, you're getting
encouraged like crazy with the word of God, you know. Like, I feel like there's a piece of this
that you can add, like the autism piece can be added to where it's going to be like fully you,
right? So I don't feel like that's actually like when I, the rainbow scarf I use. Yeah. That
actually, the reason why I bought that was because that's what the Lord used to minister to me
concerning my son, because those are the colors for like the autism community. And so I'm really
like pretty bold and the whole, the Lord destroyed the spirit of autism area. And so like the
faithfulness of God over what he's spoken over my son. And so that's why I use the rainbow
card. That's actually where that came from. Yeah. I saw Leanne, special ed teacher as well. If you
want to comment on anything, feel free to jump in. Like, I mean, you have some, yeah. I just feel like
Candy, there's something around, you know, inviting moms of autistic children or ministering to moms
of autistic children through prophetic dance or something within that niche that I think
it's, it feels so much more fully you than what I, like, I know you could, you could teach
beginners, but if, but there's like this extra layer that I feel like is very special and there's,
I know that there's moms like you out there too, that are like powerfully choosing to believe that
this is not the end of our story and that healing and wholeness can be found in this,
like space, like this is not. And so anyway, I think that there's some, like, if you just went
all in on that, I think it would be really powerful. And call them out. Yeah. Like,
and even just telling your story and giving a lot of examples and testimonies and all that.
I don't know. I saw Leanne unmuted. I don't know if you wanted to add anything.
No, I love the idea. And I just want to encourage and affirm what you're doing. I'm just leaving
school. I've been working with SPED kids all day. And honestly, it's desperately needed.
Um, there are, um, there aren't, well, there are a lot of moms that need a lot of encouragement
in, especially in terms of what they speak and what is spoken over their children.
And SPED kids, they are big community, but they don't do it verbally. And so
And, you know, I think it's
really important for us to
understand that this may be
just the way to enable, you
know, a little one who, who
wouldn't normally express
himself that new way. And you
probably I mean I don't know if
anybody out there doing it. I
haven't seen anybody out there
doing it, do it, just jump into
it.
And you'll probably be surprised
how quick. It'll explode on you
because, you know, right now,
it's like the Lord will give you
wisdom and what's funny about
it is, as you step out. It's
like the Lord will give you
wisdom week by week by what
you're supposed to do just
purely out of your obedience so
just trust them.
It will come to it.
Thank you. I'm going to write
that down, do it, do it.
Everyone here. Well, and I don't
want to like, I know y'all have
to know what I'm talking about
, but you know how you're like,
I know that I should be doing
this, but I don't feel like I
don't have authority in this
area but I'm, I don't have the
evidence of my breakthrough
right now. So I feel like that
trips me up a little bit, you
know, because you're like, I
know what I'm saying is true.
You know, 100%, you know, but I
still I mean I picked up my son
from school today he suspended
because he punched his principal
in the face.
I'm dealing with all this stuff,
but I'm like, but, but God, but
he said, you know, and I'm like
dancing in spirit driving to the
school, you know, but it's just
like, I feel like that messes
with me a little bit as far as
having that confidence to step
out and do it to do the thing.
So, yeah, that's a good thing to
talk about just for a second
because I think everybody can
struggle with that. I think we
sometimes miss measure what
breakthrough actually is like
breakthrough we think it's just
this whole is it.
I think we think it's this one
glorious final outcome, but
breakthrough happens with our
journey of the Lord and layers
and levels like you're living in
a break. One of the breakthroughs
that you're living in right now
is the belief that God is healer
even over this, even as I'm
living in a world where I'm
even as I'm living in a what's
what seems unhealed space.
That's a breakthrough. And
there's a breakthrough that a lot
of people I think would want,
but they haven't even been able
to get there yet. Again, like
think of you maybe 10 years ago.
I don't know your whole story,
but like, I'm sure there was a
point of breakthrough where you
said, you know what, I am
powerfully choosing this God over
the circumstance breakthrough.
That's the one you're living in.
It's one you carry. It's not
even one that you're necessarily
contending for because that
belief is like it's, it's, it's
turned into a lifestyle. Like
you're living the belief. It's
not just I'm okay, I'm believing
this and now some days it might
feel some scenarios, but you're
choosing to walk victoriously in
the middle of what seems maybe
not victorious circumstances.
So don't, and this is for anyone
who's watching this, don't
assume that you're already
living in because it's not the
final glorious outcome.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Do you know that are healed
progressively over time.
Like, hey, so they've got a
disability. Okay, well let's
work on it. Well guess what we
work on it every day and guess
what we walk out of it, and we
overcome. And that's part of the
journey.
Yeah.
And I think like for so much like
coaching and anything where
you're discipling people or
leading people like just don't
underestimate like just the fact
that you're here on a call like
thinking about how I can serve
these people more like that's
just, you're already thinking
like you have there's so many
things that you can do.
Yeah.
And that's just because you
don't even have to be like 10
years ahead of someone like you
could be like a week ahead of
someone, like, if, and this is
whatever coaching thing you've
done like you could just be like
a little bit ahead of someone
but it's that next thing to help
pull people to the end of what
actually happens I find is
people like Leanne said, if you
were 10 years in the future and
you had, you know, all this
breakthrough and it was kind of
done and you're sort of, it's
not as relatable almost like the
problems that you're having even
today like it helps give you a
platform to help speak to people
where they're at right now.
And so just don't like so much so
much of the time like we can look
get other creators or even Christian creators out there and say like, Oh,
at it and be like, you know,
like, you know, like, you know,
these people already have millions of followers, Lindsay and I should just
like, you know, like, you know,
step back and let these other people just go like, teach all this content.
like, you know, like, you know,
And we didn't do that.
Like we stepped out and we're like, Hey, we don't have a million subscribers.
Like, hopefully one day we'll have that many, but we don't know we're in close.
And if we just sat and waited till like this magical number of like a million,
but like, there's so many people just it's kingdom messengers is a great
example because breakthrough is so measurable, but by your kind of audience
level but the same thing, like there's people along the journey at every phase.
So just, just because like, you just want to always get that perspective,
like don't underestimate how many people are behind you in that journey that you
could potentially be helping and help them just show, show the way forward.
Like just even in practical things, I think that can be very, very helpful
and great and a lot of great content for that, just encouraging them.
And, and I would, when you're speaking specifically to that, yeah, that mom with
young kids of special needs, like you could give a lot of different types of
advice to them on all, like it could be everything from meal prep to this, to
discipline, to whatever, if you want it.
Okay.
Well, because I, because I feel like there's this, we want to make sure that
there's this point you could, if that's what you're passionate about, right.
Cause I know that there is this fitness component, but I think that there's
this point of convergence where we have to give ourselves permission to go super.
Precise.
I like using that word of like, Hey, this is what I'm actually
passionate about, about this.
Like there are things like I'll just use my own, like when it comes to like
overcoming anxiety that I'm just like not passionate and having a conversation
about that, like, I don't really want to talk about, you know, hormone balance
and like supplements and like important, but like not, not what it gets me excited.
You know?
And so you can also give yourself permission to say like in this space.
And I think there's an expansion of that over time.
You might say, Oh, and then it's just this, but like, don't, don't be afraid
to be precise with the prophetic dance and the movement and it's like, come dance
with me, come dance with me, mama.
Like we're going to dance in victory over this situation or
this scenario or this, whatever.
Well, and I, with just a respond to Bruce a little bit, um, I'm more
passionate about helping people, getting people in a position where the Holy
Spirit's ministering to them about diet.
If I, you know what I mean?
Like I just, especially going through the heart healing stuff, like I want to
create a space where this person can meet with the Lord and the Lord can
minister to them about what's important to their child, to themselves, you know?
Um, cause I do know that there's health things that are important, but I am not
passionate, I do those things, but I'm not passionate about telling somebody what
to do or giving people advice in that area, but I know the Holy Spirit wants to
counsel them and so I'm passionate about making that connection, you know, Hey,
here, mom, here, Holy Spirit, have a, have a conversation, you know, so that's
where I'm at in that area, I guess.
And that's like another, I mean, those are more episodes, right?
Like you can just have even conversation starters, like dance starters or
everything like the Lord, like, Hey, here's what I asked the Lord today.
Like you should ask him this too, or, you know, things like that.
So just think about all of those, those things that you love that have been,
that have been, that have ministered to you and like reserve that to people in
a way that they can invite them into the journey with their, with the Holy Spirit.
Yes.
Awesome.
Well, thank you.
Good stuff.
Thank you.
Let us know how it goes.
Like, keep us in the loop, um, post in the group.
So, um, and then, yeah, so I know like we had about a few people just joined since
we started and I know that we took a little more time on that because I think
it was very helpful because that pretty much applies to everybody where they're
at.
Um, so we're just gonna, yeah.
So I think, say Bobby's got her hand up.
Hey Bobby.
Let me grab this.
We don't necessarily need to go through mine.
I just, you said, are people hovering around 200 and I thought, I think I am.
If I know how to read in Tik TOK, I feel, I don't even know if I'm doing that,
but in Instagram, I feel like I'm almost better in Instagram, which is not a big
hooray, but I, I started very late as you two know, I started like, but you
started, I started like three weeks ago.
So for that, I, I think, praise God, you know, I've started, so I'm so happy
just that I, I'm the one, Amy, I'm the one I'm just, I started.
Okay.
So, um, just really super quick.
just Amy really just super, super quick.
What if you're not really thinking about performance?
What if that's an old buy and it's passion?
And he said, performance does make you exhaustion
and you're just used to that,
but really it could be exhilaration.
And so,
Lindsay said no measuring stick
and but Christ crucified as a measuring stick.
So I think it's just a little psych from the enemy.
You have nothing to worry about.
You're not in a performance mode and praise God.
We're all tired sometimes.
So just, you know, get over yourself and yay team.
Okay.
And then everyone candy has people.
If you don't have an autistic child,
every single one of us have relatives
or people close to us now,
as the other teacher was saying
that have autistic kids that we love.
And we hear the mama speaking always what is
instead of what could be.
And so the substance of your faith, it's already done.
Your son's already healed.
So you go into those classes,
you know, with the substance of faith.
I have things that the substance of my faith
is so large right now that when it happens,
I'm just going to be like, thanks Lord,
because it's already happened.
So you have a total right and righteousness
to go into those classes.
And I'm wanting longer classes.
So if I see you in my car, I can just listen.
But then at my time, I can go in my basement.
I can click you on and I can pray
and be loving to those people who have children
that I can't be in their life every day.
And so you're going to touch people that I can't
and all of that.
So just, I believe what Lindsay said,
you have a niche.
And then what Bruce said is it's the blue water
and the other teachers said that too.
So you go part the red sea.
You know, it's good.
No.
Okay.
That's it.
And we don't, I have some technical questions,
but if you want to look at my stuff later
and then maybe give me some tidbits because I want people
to have time to, to ask some questions if they need that
or whatever you guys think.
Okay.
Something that we're just looking at.
So it looks like you've kind of consistently,
I mean, you've gotten a few that have gotten,
you know, like 493, 538,
but I see like the recent ones,
something that you can try.
This is for everyone when it comes to,
if we're hitting like around that 200
and we want more views because of what,
remember what Bruce said,
as far as it's the length of viewership,
like how long are people watching the video?
So something that you guys can try is instead
of doing a 60 second,
try some 30, 15, 10 second videos.
Cause that's going to jump.
That's going to like jump your length of, you know,
think people will watch like a 10 second video.
They'll watch a 15 second video.
It will just help the algorithm kind of reset
and do some, some shorter, even shorter pieces,
like one big idea or sharing like,
Hey, here's a scripture.
I just wanted to clear this over you today.
Like do it in 15 seconds.
It'll help your length of viewership.
And that'll help like kind of boost views.
Cause if you find yourself kind of plateauing,
cause I just see like the last couple
or just like not as many,
you might want to try to try that hack.
Yeah.
And even if you could just say like,
if you can somehow call out your who
and just share something like,
yeah, that's actually good.
Here's a scripture for all moms
who have kids going back to school.
Like, and you just share some,
like read the like read the verse over them.
And it could be, it could be seven seconds.
Like there's this trend of like seven second thing,
content as well as a seven to 15 seconds.
I know it's, it's going to take some practice
of recording and like maybe some editing and stuff.
And the other thing that you could do,
here's another little hack that I've seen people do
is just put, don't even have you speaking
or just have like, it can be seven seconds,
but it could just be like,
you could just say like,
here's a scripture to help encourage you today
and just point and then just have like the scripture
written there on the text.
And it will, they'll, people will be able to watch
the whole seven seconds, right?
Really quick because it's so short.
So your percentage of viewership,
essentially, or retention will be extremely high
because it's really easy if you get people to watch
five seconds of a seven second video, right?
And you'll even have people who will just kind of,
it'll loop back.
So it's a little bit, it takes a little bit of creativity
to think of how to do seven or 15 seconds, but.
You might see, you guys might've seen this on reels
or TikToks even watching where there's like
a paragraph of text.
It's because it takes people time to read through the text.
And so they finish the video,
cause they read through the text.
And then it like loops.
So basically they get like multiple people
or the algorithm sees that as like,
this person watched this video three times.
Like not only do they finish it, but they like, you know.
So those are things you can.
and you just kind of reset your viewership.
And even like technical as well,
or here's like 10 scriptures
and it could just like 10 different scriptures
would come up,
because people will pause it,
they'll write that down.
Or I know like Paul's on here,
you've got like technical,
here are the presets I use,
it could just be a screenshot
and it could be seven seconds long.
That lets people just like,
kind of get two or three screenshots
and they'll watch it a few times
or pause it, you know, and stuff.
So anything like that,
it's kind of a little hack.
I wouldn't say do all of your content that way.
It's just like do one or two every now and again
and just see how it performs.
Is that the same for Instagram?
Cause like Instagram,
I have like maybe 200, 300.
And then I had one like,
oh, I love this 11,000.1,
which is, I love those numbers so much.
That was the only one.
But, and I didn't even think it was that great of one
because so much of it's just practicing for me,
but I don't know.
I could, I try to like analyze in the notions,
which I love notions.
I put down all the matrix,
but if you can't figure anything out,
like it's the music or it's theory.
We're looking at your Instagram right now.
This one has 3,000.
Oh wow, I didn't know that.
Seems like, holy spirit.
Cool.
So we want to, didn't do well.
I mean, I think these are really good.
You got a few that have spiked to 3,000,
3,800, 3,000, 2,000, 3,500, 5,000.
This is a great, okay.
If you guys aren't posting,
this is where everybody,
and I know I'd say about half the people on this call
are not posting, cross-posting,
but look at like the viewers here,
viewership here on TikTok.
So if you're only doing TikTok,
stop only doing TikTok.
Go and copy all your videos to Instagram
because we've got like 141 views, 73, 221.
All these viewers are just much, much higher
over here on Instagram.
And like Bobbi did no extra work really.
She just put it on there.
I did one three times and I didn't know what I was doing.
And look at that right there.
It was weird.
Which one?
If you go back down, that one right there.
Okay, one, two, three.
One did 70, one did 68, and then one did 2,000.
Same video.
So that's a great example of why you want to repost stuff
because some of you guys have some amazing content
and it didn't do as well as you thought.
So just repost it, do another version of it.
Like just try something,
maybe slightly different hashtags, just different music.
Or if it's been like-
A while, yeah.
If it's been a few weeks, just repost it
because it's probably still really relevant.
But this is really,
you should be really encouraged with these numbers.
I mean, that's awesome.
11, there's your 7,300.
I mean, you've got a lot that are doing well.
So I think it shows that Instagram's finding your people.
I mean, I wouldn't really change-
And guys, I mean, this is like,
some of you are like,
oh, I have higher viewership on TikTok or Instagram.
Like, that's fine.
There's ebbs and flows to that.
But if you're finding like, you know, TikTok is a good,
I feel like TikTok's a good like anchor because-
We are his many rooms.
That's kind of what I've used as like,
when it comes to short form as like my anchor,
as far as like what I'm analyzing.
And then I'm not analyzing every single platform
when it comes to short form,
just because I can't right now.
So I kind of have picked my,
but if you guys are finding like,
hey, I'm just having more favor on Instagram,
kind of use that as your baseline
and like work on resetting that.
And just, so, you know,
that's what I would encourage
because some of you are gonna,
there's gonna be ebbs and flows.
Like there were,
there was a season where Instagram was my highest reach
and now it's back to TikTok.
Like I have 20,000 more on TikTok,
but it used to be Instagram was higher.
And so I haven't really changed anything,
but I've just kind of,
I've kind of continually checked in on my TikTok to say like,
are things growing?
If there's plateauing,
do we need to do something different?
Do we need to switch up hashtags?
Because I can't do that for like YouTube
and Instagram and Facebook.
So Bobby, for you, it was like,
hey, if things are going well on Instagram,
like use that as your baseline of like,
hey, this is doing really well.
And if you find that something's doing well on Instagram
that hasn't done well on TikTok,
try reposting it.
Cause it could just be a timing piece.
What you want to kind of be looking for
is not necessarily video to video,
but like, is there a pattern?
So like, is there a pattern?
Like, am I plateauing?
Like are the last five to 10 videos,
like just not,
it's okay if they're not getting 3000 views,
but are they like all like around 200?
Then like, maybe I need to like do that reset
we talked about, do some 10 second, do some 15,
you know, change my setting, you know,
just to try something different.
visually even, and I'm sharing this with you,
but it's for anyone, like, are you noticing a pattern?
Not like, hey, this one or two videos
didn't do as well as I wanted it to.
If you feel really passionate about it,
like I know Joe did one a couple of weeks ago,
and he's like, I just felt really like
there was something on this
and it didn't do as well as I wanted.
Okay, we'll take that video
and try to do a different positioning,
but you don't have to do that with every video.
That will be exhausting.
Just look for patterns.
And when you see that something is plateauing,
that's when we need to like work on the reset.
That's good.
Yeah, so everyone should experiment with that,
this short form, like when we say everything's short form,
but I'm talking about these like seven to 15 seconds.
Yeah.
Just experiment.
It's one of those things that's actually pretty easy to do,
but just kind of see what results.
It may just help reset things as well.
Yeah, do some jumps and stuff in your viewers.
Yeah, cool.
But great job.
Awesome.
Yes, yes, on Instagram too.
The same-
Should we do the 15 seconds?
The same strategy would work on Instagram for that reset.
Yeah.
Yeah, awesome.
I see Riva's on here.
Hey, good to see you.
Hi guys.
Love you guys.
Missed you.
We have been covering you in prayer, you and your family.
I appreciate that.
We've definitely felt it.
I definitely feel like with Candy,
being real with people, even online,
especially online because it's so rare,
is really a powerful thing.
And so I had to monitor my own, like where I'm at
and what I'm able to share reasonably.
You know, I have a couple of videos
where I went ahead and documented where I was at.
It was real and I didn't share it because it was too real.
It was too much.
It was just, right, TikTok's in your face.
You don't want to have somebody falling apart in your face.
And yet I know that God can use that.
He does often sharing in one another's suffering, right,
is how we allow the spirit to flow.
My question kind of out of all of this
and where I've landed at the end of these eight weeks
is I started, you know, we're songwriters,
we're worship leaders.
So the intercession just flows more naturally.
What's more like in tune with what is being presented
is the devotional stuff.
So when I started with the stretching into Jesus
and I really wanted to go kind of like with Candy too
into the more prophetic side of things,
I put a few out there that are like,
this is what we did in Bible study today.
We went to the marina and we prayed
and we worshiped with our flags.
And I saw this and, you know, people are like, what?
What are you talking about?
What does this have to do with anything?
This does not make any sense to me
because it was too niche, right?
I'm trying to figure out like, where am I at moving forward?
Should I separate channels?
We kind of landed that Brett and I
were going to be together on YouTube
because we are working together
and because our music is together and it's for families.
It's, you know, I'm hearing what you guys are saying
about your audience, who's your who.
And I feel like,
I feel like I need help on my who.
I'm either going to have to start another channel
so that like the stretching into Jesus
can just be a stretching into Jesus channel
so that people who want that get that.
And then people who just want like a,
hey, good morning, it's me, devotional.
That feels like more of the for you page,
the more broad, you know, biblical encouragement
kind of thing.
But I really need an outlet for our music.
The soaking songs carried us through this.
I even posted onto YouTube the overnight
that I was sitting next to my dad.
And we had this waiting song we started in May
and the Lord was like, wait on it.
It's not time to release it.
I'm like, okay, but I don't like this waiting
because it's so good.
It was so beautiful.
We just had this wonderful time of worship
and Brett had this new song come, but then we waited on it.
And then it became very apparent that, ah,
this is the hospice waiting.
This is like, we're all waiting to be promoted
and graduated onto glory, you know?
And so we released that the morning that he passed
and I was able to put some like heritage pictures with it,
him in his Navy suit, he and my mom's wedding picture.
And that felt right on, real.
personal and yet like we all relate,
we all have somebody who's passed on ahead of us.
So I'm talking more about that will probably be,
you know, the more like devotional, like general audience,
but how do I share our music,
like our soaking songs from TikTok?
Do I use like a green screen or a link or something?
Cause I feel like it's too disconnected.
So I want to bring people all together
to what the original intent was,
which is to share the music.
Yeah, that's good.
Like, I think I know you just passed a thousand on TikTok,
so that's awesome.
So I wouldn't, so I would,
because you've got some momentum with that TikTok account,
like I would just keep going with it.
Like just start, it doesn't need to be so nice and ordered.
It's kind of like for a creative,
like we want to go get like one notebook
for our worship songs and then like one notebook
for like our business thing and one notebook for our family.
And it's just like,
cause then it's all neatly separated and stuff.
I think these, what's happening,
and you can see this even on some of your,
and some at everybody's videos,
sometimes you'll get like 53 views
and sometimes we get 500 or a thousand.
TikTok is rewarding that particular content
to say that it's good.
So you just need,
your profile just becomes like a gallery of all things,
Reva and Brett, I think.
And it's going to show it to whoever,
like it's, you're going to be shown
to so many different types of people,
depending on what that particular content is.
It's not so much that like,
well, this whole channel is about this one thing.
So they're going to show this channel to someone,
if that makes sense.
It's more, it's almost like down
to the individual content level,
at least from a technical standpoint.
So it may be something that just freeing for you guys
to change the name of that account
to something that's more inclusive.
And yeah.
I just, I feel like it's not,
cause I don't want us to confuse people
cause there is beauty in precision.
But I think that what you're doing is not so,
it's not like two different branches.
Does that make sense?
So you have the devotional content on TikTok,
but it would not be a left turn
to include the worship side of you.
Cause that is also devotional, right?
It's valuable for the people who are in that space
of wanting to, like you said, enjoy life with Jesus.
So that's why it's not like you're now like,
oh, and I also have like a food channel that I want to.
Yeah. It's not that different.
It's very, it's very,
I feel like it's a very similar who.
So I would give yourself some freedom
to do different types of content within your TikTok channel.
Like it doesn't all have to be the same.
Yeah.
Cause it's still the same who.
Yeah. And as far as like doing a short,
like I would do like a 15 second, again,
version of like, just cause the kind of the soaking music,
you can just do 15 seconds of that.
And the text underneath just says like,
click YouTube, you know,
go to our YouTube to watch the full length.
Also just now that you've got a thousand,
a couple of things like happen.
So you can definitely go in here
and I would add a link to YouTube in here
or do your solo link.
I think you had, I thought I saw it.
One should definitely add a link in here as well,
but just have a link to us, the solo account.
Then you can have like your YouTube page and all that stuff.
So when people in your text, it would just be,
it could just be a picture of a river
or you guys have like some, some like video stuff happening.
That's, you could just take 15 seconds of that
and just say for the full one hour soaking thing,
like go to our YouTube channel.
And I would try to do maybe not back to back,
but a couple versions, maybe not a couple,
more than a couple of versions of this.
And don't, so the prop, not the problem,
the sometimes challenging thing with prophetic communicators
is we're not blunt enough with our language
for people to very quickly understand what is this for.
So I would encourage you with the soaking music,
positioning it several different ways.
Like, you know, you have on YouTube,
it's like music for new hope.
That's wonderful.
But I would also do a 15 second preview
and like soaking music for times of grief.
Like just be very like, cause it could be for that.
It could be for, you know,
so how you can position it several different ways
so that if someone were coming across it,
they can immediately self-identify and be like,
that's for me.
And music is wonderful because it is versatile
and that it can be for several different things
in several different seasons.
So.
Yeah, music for, you know, healing from a season of grief, like just there's several
because it's a long piece, so you can break it up and have several different previews.
And I think like, also, now that you've your thousand, like you can also go live on TikTok.
And so you could just do like a live spontaneous worship session with Brett, and he could play
piano and whatever, just go live and you'll like, I've got some friends here doing it.
Peter Neves was doing it.
He's like a kingdom lawyer who does like, he's just helping people with IP protection.
Like it's very specific, but it's like kingdom as well.
And he just like goes live and he just like answers questions and throws out random stuff.
And it's just like, there'll be, you know, 50, 100 people just all of a sudden out of
the blue following.
Going live is not going out to your thousand followers.
Going live goes and gets anyone and everyone on TikTok and makes it available to them to
like scroll through.
It's like they get to flip channels and you're one of the things.
So prepare your heart for that because it could be some stuff, but if you're doing worship
specifically, you can just ignore the comments and just, you know, let it be for the people
that it's for.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's good.
I like those tips, especially the previews for the full length.
I did do a couple of those, like the comfort one, but I have not tried doing different
versions, positioning it different ways, like you had suggested.
So I will take that on.
And I would consider like your TikTok page.
Like this is, you're kind of, because you're the face of this, of the TikTok account.
Like I know you and Brett are together on YouTube.
That makes a lot of sense, but that's okay for you to still keep everything the same
here on TikTok and just share like the, it doesn't, you don't now have to put Brett's
name on TikTok.
If that makes sense.
This is really turning into like a personal, for lack of a better term, spiritual influencer
account.
And so different pieces of what, of your ministry can like be shown here and highlighted, but
it doesn't have to be like, this is also Brett and Reva here on TikTok because it's just
you.
You're, you're kind of the, the face of this account.
Well, and Candy, I have on my YouTube channel, that's just mine.
My handicapped cousin, Stephanie, who I just finished working full-time with her, I'm back
to one day a week.
And we have songs, we have tons of songs.
She has her own theme song.
And even like as a homeschool mom, like I have all of these other songs that are like
early childhood development that crossover into kind of like, you know, handicapped.
And then I have like the Bible songs and you guys keep praying for me.
I will.
This is like, we, a lot of people are multi-passionate and I know that it can be difficult.
I think it's always helpful to remember, like follow the favor.
Like there's guys, there's lots of things that I would love to talk about, but I'm just
like, it's just not what I need to be like putting out there on the internet, not because
of anything wrong.
What do you want to be known for?
Like, yeah.
And I feel like, you know, when I like, I just followed the favor when I, because you
guys know, I did blogs and it was like home improvement stuff and like lifestyle thing.
And there wasn't favor on it.
And that's okay.
Why?
Because no one's sitting and listening to us talk about home improvement blogs.
They should probably, but you know what I'm saying?
So like, this is like, allow yourself to have some experimentation as well.
I'm just like, Hey, like, this is kind of what I'm going all in, all in on, and there's
going to be some different expressions of that.
And, and that's okay that it's not everything that I'm passionate about or everything about
my life is on this account.
I just want to have your little baby girl here.
Our little books in the Bible song.
Guess what?
She's not going to hear them unless you post it.
So I was like, Lord, what?
And then I'm like, well, maybe all this is just so that I get that little song out for
your little girl.
That's great.
I love it.
We will totally listen to it.
I mean, we, yeah, we're always looking for content like that.
I've told Lindsay, I was like, if you could do like a posture versus dream, this is a
perfect example.
I mean, it's great for kids.
Paul can do some like awesome background music, like read like devotional stuff.
I think it's wonderful.
I just, it's not, but maybe someday, but not right now.
When I was younger, a younger mom, I actually had a postures of praise that was like, oh,
like worship dance for little ones.
And then I did this whole aftercare program where we had prayer warriors club and we did,
we filled the gym with flags and we worshiped in spirit.
So that, but that era is now past, you know, like I'm not doing that on afternoons anymore.
So, but I just know that that content is still there.
And now with my new friends, with new little ones, I think, oh, you should give them this
because it was good.
It was, it had favor on it.
So I love that.
Follow the favor.
And yeah.
We'll do it.
Yeah.
No problem, yeah. What way to go? I was going to say on the kids thing, this is why I keep
bringing up the kids thing. Just getting off my soapbox here. This video was posted six
months ago. That's M for million views. We figured out that like this person, I don't
know how many, 1.3 million, she had 200,000 subscribers just like not even a year ago
and just has kind of blown up. And the reason these work so well is they're like 30 minutes
to an hour. And so we like do it in pieces. We don't let Hannah watch like an entire hour
long thing. Just in case anyone's worried about screen time. Yeah, so I mean, there's
a bunch of stuff, but she just keeps, this video, they've reposted over and over and
over again. Like she did it a year ago. She did it two years ago and she posted again
six months ago and it still gets on her. So we worked out she's making between like
$40,000 and $80,000 a month putting out this content. Just so like, so just something fun.
Like there's a huge niche out there. There's a ton of other things you have to be careful
of with kids content. You have to actually check the kids content. There's different
things like you can't do comments and other things don't take place. That's a great example
where your whole account should be for that one thing. I can't mix it. So anyway, just
those are my, that's my reasoning. That's my argument for kids content. I'm not saying
it's a bad argument. So some things to think about. There you go. Sounds good. Awesome.
Again, I know we're kind of at four, so we'll happy to keep going with a couple of tech
questions if you guys have them. I think Susie had a Descript question. Yeah. If you guys
do need to go, you're welcome to hop off. We'll be back on Thursday with more training
and do some new content stuff. And then I just want to, I think the most helpful thing,
hopefully this is helpful for some of you guys just to go specifically into just throwing
out ideas because everybody should be able to hear what we're helping like one person
with and just kind of apply that to your own channel as well. They're all the same principles.
So quick question. Oh, by the way, Tamara answered my question. So ask Tamara first.
It was just about how do I undo when I've done something I don't like. So now I've,
I've got that. You mentioned putting YouTube on our Tik TOK profile. I thought that it
was all right to put our website, but not our Tik TOK channel on our profile because
of Instagram Tik TOK. So, so you can have like, so, so one, I said that wrong. Tik TOK
YouTube. Is there a problem? Sending people from Tik TOK to YouTube? Yeah. Putting my
YouTube channel on the Tik TOK profile. Yeah. I said that wrong. Yeah. So one, you'll have
to wait until you have a thousand followers. I think you do. I think you do. Yeah. But then
what you would do. Yeah. You can definitely. So, so there's different ways to add a link
on Tik TOK. You can actually add your YouTube channel as there's actually a link for that.
Like in your profile setting. Yeah. I can't really. Yeah. I put up my website. I just
thought you were saying at one point, you know, because of the conflict between.
It's more about, it's more about in your, it's more about, no, it's just more about your episodes.
You're not wanting to like you that's okay. I'm trying to like, keep this simple. You want to
post natively if you can, because of the conflict between the platform. So like posting natively on
Tik TOK, posting natively on YouTube, that's best practices. Sharing links. Like
most, like on Facebook, you'll see this often. People will share a YouTube video instead of
posting the video to Facebook. So those are things that we've talked about long ago that
you still want to do. Like Facebook is not going to serve up a YouTube link before they're going
serve up something that's natively posted into Facebook. But on your Tik TOK profile, there's,
when you're doing your settings for your profile, there's a place where you can put like a website
link. You can put your YouTube link. So that's totally fine. That's like in your, in your bio
information. It's more about, you don't want to use a video to be like, and now go to YouTube.
Say, Oh, saying it like saying it verbally, having text on screen, Tik TOK will pick that up,
but you can say link in bio and then they go to your bio and they can click on the link.
Okay. You can say link in bio. Because for me, if I'm talking about a Greek word,
I want to be able to say, okay, you can go to YouTube and see more about this.
So like ways to kind of like, I would try getting around it as saying like full episode,
like to watch the full episode, link in bio. Like those are ways that versus it being like.
Or if you're interested in learning more about this word,
check out the link in my bio is probably fine.
And yeah, yeah.
Some people know a little bit more subtle at this point that there's like more
resources essentially there.
And if people, I think there's kind of a trend where people know, like, okay,
I think Susie is awesome.
Like I want to get more of her stuff.
So they go to your page, they click on your link.
They know they can, there's probably ways to connect with you outside of Tik TOK.
Versus using an episode in Tik TOK to like be an ad for your YouTube channel.
That's what you want to avoid.
Cause Tik TOK will be like,
I don't really want to serve this up to people because it's just taking them off
of our platform.
Right.
We're trying to sell some something.
Yeah.
So also with this, you know, expanding thing.
I, I had one that went from my 200 to a thousand to 8,000 and a friend looked at
it to see, okay, what's the difference here.
And she said essentially what you did was she just felt it was who I was that
was a difference.
And you don't have time, but I would,
I would appreciate it if sometime you had the chance to,
to look at that one and see what was different with that four seconds.
This one is this the one it's the one I'm wearing the same shirt as I've got on
now. Yeah.
Is it the origin story one or is this a different one?
No, this is not the origin story.
Is this the one that we talked about last week and you reedited?
I did not.
Um, no, I didn't reedit.
That was the one. Yeah.
With it.
I remember this one.
I think we gave feedback about like, right.
Okay. So this is the one before, before we, okay.
So, so this is okay.
What is it about this four seconds?
You know, like you're saying, what is it that made this go to 8,000?
We unmute it real quick.
One of the Bible verses that I resisted the most is Romans 12.
That is like that hook Susie.
That's what it was.
I mean that hook, like, don't you want to keep watching?
You're like, wow, this person's admitting that they resisted this.
Like, and they're going to like, share what it is.
And the horror.
No, I mean, it's like people like, oh my gosh, like I want to know what it like,
why? Yeah.
Okay.
It's all it is.
I mean, do you see that?
Does that make sense to you?
Yeah. Yeah.
Um, and I did feel hesitant to even say that, but then I also, I did another
TikTok that kind of said, and this is why I stopped resisting it in this one.
I just said, I resisted it for decades.
Then I asked the Lord and I suggest you do that also.
And that's all it was.
I mean, that's it.
But it, but you're inviting people into your story.
Remember we shared the power of the story.
You're, you're sharing from your own experience.
Not, you didn't start by saying, not that it would have been a horrible hook, but
Hey, if you find yourself resisting a Bible scripture, here's what to do.
You said you kind of like the Christ-like way kind of laid down your life and your
story and said, I'm going to be vulnerable first and like open to space, not from a
place of like, let's all stay in the black pit together, but Hey, here's what I
resisted.
Here's what I did about it.
Here's what you can do about it too.
Yeah.
Okay.
I have thought about that because I've got more of them.
And I was thinking about saying, um, here are, here are three thoughts that helped
me get past resisting, resist, you know, rejoicing in the Lord.
And I don't know if that's because you're talking about, you know, saying, okay,
there's going to be three things here or something, but they were more of, these are
things that helped me instead of go ask the Lord yourself, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
So either way, either way, I think it's, yeah.
And I would that, that one, um, in the pink shirt to the left, it's only got 92
views.
That's the one that was my origin story that I felt like I chopped it up too much.
I, I did two hooks and I didn't allow for the proper amount of time for the one I
removed.
So it ended up being too long and I felt like I chopped it up anyway.
Yeah.
The one that you, the one that you posted on the 18th and Facebook, I commented on
that today for whatever reason.
I didn't see it until today, but, um, I, I, it was choppy, but not in a way that
distracted from the message.
So I was like, go for it.
So, but anyway, that pink one, if you wouldn't mind, look at the first four
seconds about that and say, what's wrong with that?
Yeah.
It's I, I mean,
okay.
Cause that like people already scrolled, like, I don't know what the video is about.
So they just scroll, right?
It's too much of a lead up, like our logical, like there's too many ad like
descriptive or adverbs there.
Like, um, even if you just said our minds are amazing gifts from God, like then you
kind of embellished on it.
Cause it's like, you need to get to the point, like in the first two or three
seconds.
Um, but like, that's typically a way to reduce it.
um down to like a much simpler way because it's got to be so fast that if you add anything like
logical reasoning these are more complicated words when people are like just skimming stuff
like right they're just skimming it um so you just want to get like um and i don't even know how you
would rephrase that like i even just taking out our minds are amazing gifts from god yeah and here's
why there's a hook except it's not here's why if you go on for a little bit sec i extended this one
okay this is where i started my other hook my other hook would have been my logical mind cannot
renew itself that was my other hook yeah that was the one i think i saw no i i didn't i showed you
this one i think because i didn't post the one that was okay my logical mind can't resist itself
it can't renew itself everyone i watched on facebook i like i'll go back and watch it
but i think it's getting you there has to be a little bit of a i mean you got to think about
the hook has to be an invitation like here's the hook come for more like that's what it has to be
so the way that you can position it so like what is the main point of this what is the main value
piece of this um yeah that my mind my mind can't renew itself god restores our mind back to its
original condition okay my mind tends to resist and so my answer is to say yes lord in spite of
my resisting mind i'm thinking yeah okay so romans 2 12 2 is that the transforming can you what is
that verse yeah um yeah the essence for this is being renewed by you know be transformed by the
renewing of our minds and my my point is for decades i tried to renew my mind myself yeah
i have figured it out it's not about renewing my mind it's about actually being restored to
its original state yeah which i love too much teachery kind of thing so here's the thing you
have restoring our minds i think you need to use like the renewing your mind language because
that's what most people are going to connect with renewing your minds and then a hook for this is
um how do you renew your mind you don't i like that and then you go into
i found out my mind can't renew myself and then everything you just shared
okay video okay so how do you and and i did i did think about what you were saying
and i said and i said renew in the beginning and then i said my mind can change itself
but actually in romans 12 2 is talking about restoring our mind to its original state
which is in god's image enjoying his presence yeah i mean i love i've watched the i watched
the video the concept is solid it's more of how do i invite people into this conversation because
this is the hardest thing for communicators that like love language because we develop our own
language right like graham for instance think about like some of the like stuff that he says
and you're like you just have to take a second to unpack it so in a short form content it doesn't
actually serve people if you start from the place of a new language because they're still stuck in
the old language and you have to build that bridge so you don't have to think too hard about
it it's just a matter of instead of saying restoring our minds let's talk about renewing
your mind because that's the concept that everyone knows already and then pull them in with that then
you can upgrade them to the new language the new idea the new perspective but you kind of have to
start where they are otherwise you're already over their heads and they're already scrolling to the
next thing and just cumbersome language in the beginning i think was a problem there yeah yeah
and that's just something over time you'll like get quicker at like developing that hook but that's
where a lot of us should be spending our time because it doesn't matter how great the content
is if they don't keep watching so it it makes sense to really work on your hook memorize that
hook it's only three to five seconds so that you hit it and you're not like there's no ums there's
no ahs there's no pauses you have to jump right into it and then you can take time unpacking a
little bit with the rest of your video so that's something also by the time i posted this i had
already said it 40 or 50 times so it was it was pretty comfortable badly for um so you had said
that you tended to um practice a bit before you post also i practiced i definitely practiced the
hook and i actually what works for me is i record myself to see what i look like what are my facial
expressions like all that stuff and then i also know
what the end is going to be so that I can land that payoff.
Otherwise, I, for me, it started to fizzle out and it would just kind of end.
Right.
So I wanted to really pay attention to the beginning and the ending, but if I
could only choose one, definitely the beginning, cause that's what keeps people
around.
Yeah.
And you, it wasn't that you delivered it poorly.
It was just a little bit too weighty of language for a concept that you kind of
need to massage and people into, you know, cause you're changing their
perspective on an old, uh, or, or something they're already familiar with.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Great conversation.
Okay.
Bruce had to go relieve the sitter, but, uh, did we get everyone's questions
answered and we will be back on Thursday.
Awesome.
I hope this was really helpful.
I think it's always really great discussion.
Um, and guys, we're going to finish strong.
I there's so much, there's so much that's already happened that I feel like we.
We're like trying to keep, be keepers of the testimony.
So let's not forget the wins that we've already made, um, during these almost
eight weeks and, oh, I'll share it.
I got an, I got an exciting one, but I'll share it in our Facebook group.
So, okay.
I'll talk to you guys later.