Give Me 5 Minutes and I'll Help You Sound More "Natural" on Camera

0:00 Give me just 5 minutes of your time and I'll help you improve your communication so that you'll sound more natural on camera. The reality is doing what I'm currently doing is not natural. No one comes born out of the womb great at communicating with a camera. No, this is not something that human beings have done for thousands of years. This is something that we've only started to do in the last 20 maybe 30 years. The reality is we expect ourselves to be good at this because we have this illusion in our minds that when we watch our favorite YouTubers, our favorite Instagrammers, our favorite communication coaches, when we see them on camera doing this thing, we go, "Oh, oh, that's just talking. That should be easy. I know how to talk. I should be able to do this." And then you switch the camera on and you go, "Can can you is it?" And then you're just extremely awkward and you go, "What

0:45 the freak? Why can't I do this? Why do I suck at this?" It's even more strange because our brain starts working against us. So your brain is going to go, "Ah, you're being too much. Oh, you're overdoing it. Oh, you're you're exaggerating your hand gestures. You're you're you're trying." And and then your brain starts working against you. So you have to work through your own mindset challenges while you're practicing this. You have to practice delivery skills. You have to learn so many different things. You've got to understand that this is a skill like anything else. When you think of a pianist, let's say you you want to become a better pianist. You want to learn how to become a better piano player. How would you do that? Ask yourself the question, how would you do that? You'd say, Vin, well, it's obvious. You just practice. And you're right. So, so, so what do you mean? Like, get really pragmatic for me. How do you practice? What the hell, Vin? You sit at the piano and you pract Yeah.

1:30 Yeah, but but what else do you have to do? Well, you have to schedule, right? You've got a schedule. Okay, I'm going to practice for 45 minutes on Monday after school. I'm going to practice on on on Wednesdays after work from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. I'm going do a 90-minute session there. So you'd practice and you'd schedule that practice. But the practice for piano is really straightforward. We'll sit at the piano and play. Okay. Well, then I'll ask you another question. How do you practice your communication skills? Ah, this is where people get stuck. People go, um, I don't know. I guess when I'm talking to other people because of that lack of clarity on how to actually practice your communication skills, as a result of that, people just don't improve their skill. So, how do you actually practice? You're not going to like this answer because how do you get more natural on camera? Record yourself more. And I mean dedicate yourself to the process by setting aside dedicating time, scheduling time to just practice

2:16 recording a video, even if you never post the video. Say, "Every single Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00, I'm going to sit down and record one or two videos." But why is that process so important? It's important because when you create the video, watch it back and just have one question in your head. What's one thing I can do better next week from watching this video? Ah, I noticed I barely used my hands and my hands were under the table. One thing I can do better, I'll bring my hands above the table and speak next time. And then you bring your hands above the table next week and you go, "Oh, cool. Uh, I I kept using this gesture. You know what? Next week, I'm going to try to create more complicated gestures, right? I'm going to increase my gesture vocabulary." Great. This is one of mine. I keep touching my glasses. Damn it, Ven. It's cuz my skin gets really oily and my glasses are thick framed and they're heavy. They keep sliding down.

3:03 Damn you, oily skin. It's an oily skin thing. and only my oily skin friends will know what that feels like and is like and then also who wear thick frames. Anyway, I want to show you a quick before and after example of a student of mine. His name's Austin and he recorded a video of himself speaking to camera and within just a few weeks, not even months, just a few weeks of recording and reviewing himself, I want you to watch the difference, hear the difference, and feel the difference in energy. When you have 10 seconds of toxicity, don't waste the 86,390 seconds you have left. Don't waste the rest of this precious, special, and amazing gift we've been given of life. So, that volume I think is a key aspect and that's something I'm going to focus

3:49 on as well as pitch because that's just kind of an exciting funny. There's a lot of elements to pitch that really can bring about some energy to it. Oh, I'm so proud of you, Austin. I'm so proud of you. This was such an incredible recording review session. Now, you see, in the first video that he did, Austin recognizes that, hm, I don't have enough volume there. I need to have more volume, and I also need more pitch variety. And in the second video, he immediately injects those two qualities in, and it completely transforms the way he comes across. And this is more subtle, but I don't know if you noticed it in the first video. He also noticed that when he was sitting down, he came across a little lethargic, low energy. So, in the second video, when he stood, what did that do? That allowed him to use more of his body language. That also allowed him to come across with more

4:35 vitality and energy. Can you see how powerful it is just going through that record and review process just once? He made three changes and it completely transformed the way he came across. Now, the question that you might be asking yourself at this point is, Vin, how do I know what to look for when I'm watching my videos back? Last month, I created a brand new workbook that's completely free that's going to take you through this exact record and review process that's going to tell you what to look for. You can download this PDF just by clicking the link in the description below. And I want to say one more thing here. Don't be so addicted to knowledge acquisition. Most people won't take action. They just keep consuming and consuming and consuming and they don't apply the things they learn. So be a part of the 1% who's addicted instead to knowledge application and dedicate

5:20 yourself to this process. And I want to ask you to dedicate yourself to doing one video a week. Schedule it. You'll notice that by week 10, you will have the flow you're looking for. You're going to become a different person within two to three months.