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Marketing

How to Simplify Your Message (and why you should be doing it on video)

‘The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.’ — Ralph G. Nichols Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen a recurring theme. A question that keeps coming up is, “I offer so many services, how do I put into words everything my […]

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Marketing

3 Words I’ve Banned From my Vocabulary

Our inner dialogue plays a huge role in our mental health and how we see ourselves. In my first podcast episode I spoke to social and emotional learning consultant, Jocelyne Chirnside, about our inner dialogue and the words we use. Did you know that 85% of the thoughts we have every day are negative? And […]

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Video Production

3 Ways to Improve Your Face to Camera Videos

If you’re doing Facebook Lives, IGTV videos, or want to have a quick chat with your audience, here are three tools and techniques you can use to achieve more professional-looking videos. 1. Use a Tripod The first tool I recommend having is a tripod for your phone. Not only is it exhausting to hold your […]

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Story Telling

7 Tips for More Engaging (and Fun!) Interviews

I love interviews because when you get someone talking about something that they are really passionate about, their whole body language and voice changes, and it can be magical. Interviews are great to break up the content on your social media and also to have a different voice reinforcing, or bringing a new perspective to […]

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Video Production

So What Exactly Does a Videographer Do?

When I first started calling myself a videographer a few years ago hardly anybody knew what that meant! “So are you a photographer?” “Videos? Like for movies?” “Do you work for the news?” While I dabbled in those things, and yes I did work for the news once upon a time, that’s not exactly what […]

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Video Production

5 Tips to Feel More Confident on Camera

  I arrived to do a shoot with a client who was telling me how nervous she was, and how she had never been in front of the camera before. She asked me if I was nervous about the shoot. I thought, that’s such a strange question, why would I be nervous? I get to […]

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Mindset Mastery

Reducing the Impact of Stress on Our Body

The first episode of my podcast series Mindset Mastery came out today! I spoke to social and emotional learning consultant Jocelyne Chirnside about good and bad stress, exercising our brain, the difference between bullying and conflict, and how we can reframe our thoughts to live happy and healthier. Here is an excerpt from the show […]

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Mindset Mastery Story Telling

I’m Starting a Podcast!

We are what we believe we are. We are only capable of what we believe we are capable of. We are only limited by what we believe we are limited. In two days I’m releasing my new podcast, Mindset Mastery. I really believe that to be successful in anything we do in life, we have to […]

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Video Production

Mistakes I Made When I Started Making Video – And How You Can Avoid Them!

I was doing a hard drive clean up recently and stumbled upon some old projects from the very beginning of my video making days. I actually love looking back at old work to see how much I’ve grown, but it was also an eye opener to things I wish I had known from the start! […]

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Video Production

My Top 5 Smart Phone Video Editing Apps

Video editing apps are becoming more advanced and more intuitive all the time, and it’s so exciting! You don’t need a desktop computer to be a YouTube star anymore. Most apps allow you to edit and export straight to social media, and are adding more features and editing precision with every update. Here are five […]