♪ Vlog like a boss ♪
♪ Vlog like a boss you ♪
♪ Vlog like a boss ♪
♪ Vlog like a boss you ♪
♪ Vlog like a boss ♪
♪ Vlog like a boss you ♪
♪ You can vlog like me too ♪
♪ 'cause it's easy ♪
- Good morning, good life everybody.
Actually, good evening in San Diego, California.
We just got here a little bit ago for a conference,
a conference I go to every year.
I'm speaking for like my fifth year,
fourth year in a row, I think I miscounted before.
I told somebody it was five, it was four.
But every year, come to this event,
it's kinda close to the heart,
so really excited to be here.
Vin's doing a lot of networking, he's not speaking,
I'm speaking on Friday and I'm gonna do some interviews
while I'm here which I'm excited about,
sit down with some people for some detail therapy.
It's gonna be good, and right now we're getting ready
to go to the speaker private party,
which Vin is invited to, because he's special.
So that's what's going on.
It was an unexpected rainy day in San Diego
so I'm really hoping my hair's gonna hold up,
I just kinda curled it just in case something happens.
And I think we're ready.
I don't wanna show you the room
because we've already trashed it.
- [Vin] Show it to them anyway.
Show 'em how.
- [Amy] Um, yeah, I don't know, it's kind of a mess.
Are you ready now? - Yeah, I'm ready.
- [Amy] You look fly.
- That was never in doubt. - Hmm.
- Ooh, come on, let's get out of here.
(upbeat music)
- Hello, Social Media Marketing World!
(audience cheers)
Oh, you guys are so sweet.
We have an awesome, awesome speaker right now.
Lemme just tell you about myself first.
I'm Dustin Stout, I have a little blog
that if you people read, you can go
to dustinstout.com and not read it.
You're not here to learn about me,
you're here to learn about one of my good friends,
somebody that I highly admire, Amy Landino.
She's the award-winning vlogger at AmyTV on YouTube.
How many of you subscribe to her YouTube channel?
We're gonna get more of you to do
that life-changing thing.
She is also the author of the bestselling book
Vlog Like a Boss, it's an amazing book, I read it.
You should read it too.
Who has read Vlog like a Boss?
Who are our boss vloggers in here, yes, awesome.
If that's not enough, she's also the co-founder
of Aftermark, she's just phenomenal.
She's a great human being and she's so fun to watch.
Please help me give a warm round of applause
to the one, the only, oh and by the way,
she's married to one of the most handsome men in the world,
which is no small feat. - I wish.
- Please, warm round of applause for Amy Landino.
(applause and cheers)
- That was excellent, thank you so much.
How are you guys feeling?
(whoops and cheers)
Good, good.
Stand up, hands free, stand up.
I'm doing this because I never do this
and I know that you guys need a little bit of help right now
so just like spirit fingers, get it going here.
Okay.
One hand in the air if you're really good at what you do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, two hands in the air
if you're really good at what you do.
Alright, if you are really good at what you do
and not enough people know it, I want you to say oh yeah.
- [Audience] Oh yeah.
- [Amy] If you're really good at what you do
and not enough people know it and you think
video's gonna be the answer to that,
I want you to say oh yeah. - Oh yeah.
- The one person that is inspiring you
is the not the same one person that supports you.
Your family, your friends, your husband,
your competitors who you're looking at,
they are your support for what you do.
Your inspiration is one person,
one person, who do you do this for?
Who are you talking to?
Who is your target audience?
Who is that person?
That is the only person that matters
from this point forward.
Nothing I tell you today will matter
if you don't focus on that one person.
Being consistent, showing up, your family's gonna be
like oh, you're still doing that video thing, huh?
Thanks, support system.
Who's the one person that inspires you?
It's the person you show up for.
Without that, this means nothing.
Alright, now sit down, pencils up,
we got a lot to go over here.
This is my authority video formula.
There's a lot going on here.
(calm electronic music)
Thank you very much for your time.
(applause)
Okay, we have a little bit of catch up to do.
When I started this video, we were in San Diego.
We were there for a conference I speak at every year,
I told you all of this, and my intention was
that I was gonna bring you along for a lot of it.
We captured some moments here and there,
but it was a lot of like podcasting for Detail Therapy,
podcasting with Brian for our other show,
Just Try This, and I spoke and it was just like a lot.
The day that I spoke, I actually was feeling so run down
by the end of that day, I was like Vin,
we gotta get out of here, we've gotta get out of here
and I just like was trying to shake hands
and meet people for as long as possible
but my introversion was totally taking over
and I was like I need a break and we had to like
go take a nap before another interview,
you know, 'cause you have to make the most out of
these trips when they happen, it's really cool
and you get to be around amazing people,
and if they wanna sit down with me and do a podcast
or we ended up going bowling later that night
which was just like so lowkey
that I could basically survive.
It was a crazy day.
So I didn't end up vlogging a lot of that.
I know Vin captured a lot of stuff
so I tried to share as much as possible with you.
Super helpful to have a YouTube husband over there.
We went home for a day and now we're in Las Vegas, Nevada.
So again, this is gonna be something I wanted
to share with you and I still do, but I thought
while I'm here I would just like take a beat,
catch you up a little bit, and I wanted to do
my travel morning routine with you,
because I get a lot of questions about that
because of keeping routines, it's already hard enough
when you're at home and maybe you have people
or circumstances that might cause you to miss that routine
every once in awhile but travel makes it even more difficult
because you're in a different space all the time
and so I kinda just wanted to share some of the things
that continue through with me.
So basically lemme just explain my morning.
We woke up this morning and one thing to note
is it's not like I'm a five A.M.-er
when I'm traveling.
It really depends on the situation,
depends on when and where I need to be,
but last night we actually got into bed pretty early
and I'm still playing a little bit of sleep catch-up
from the last you know, week or so of craziness.
So we slept in just a little bit,
we slept in until like 6:30, 7:00,
and that to me is 100% acceptable
because when you are on the ground for yet another event
and you're on your feet for a really long day,
I mean maybe it's similar for you.
You're on your feet all day for work,
you have to make sure you have the right amount of sleep.
We talk about this all the time,
it's not just about waking up early,
it's making sure you got good sleep right before that.
And so, I slept great last night, which is fantastic.
As soon as I woke up here because I know
that my lemon water is not just waiting
around the corner for me, in fact not even coffee
is waiting around the corner for me
because we're staying at the Venetian
and at the Venetian here in Las Vegas,
it is fancy, it is beautiful, it is extremely Italian
which makes it a lot of fun for us
but they don't keep coffee makers in the room,
so (scoffs) slight devastation there.
But because that stuff's not waiting for us,
I called room service right away,
like before we even got out of bed,
the phone's just right there next to my head
and I called them, and I said I would like
a pitcher of water with slices of lemon
and I also asked for mint and a coffee for two,
and also I typically don't eat this early in the morning.
I don't have like an intermittent fasting ritual
but what I try to do at home or as much as possible
is not eat until late in the morning
and stop eating a few hours before bed,
so it ends up kind of being the 11
to seven eating situation anyway.
Not today, we have a long day and the more important
thing here in Vegas is to make sure we are eating
food that is halfway decent for us
'cause it's very easy to get wafted into
one of the beautiful restaurants in the hotel
by the bread that they make, which we almost
did last night, I was just like no,
we need to have some eggs, some fruit,
maybe a little bit of protein,
but outside of the eggs of course,
I think we ordered bacon, which is a treat
'cause we really just need the eggs and the fruit.
So we're waiting for that but once I ordered that,
they said it'd be about 45 minutes, so I'm chugging
a Fiji Water because that they do have in the room
and they charge you a lot of money for it.
We should've brought our own,
but you gotta wake up, you gotta hydrate.
After that I did show you a couple of things here.
I went into the beautiful bathroom,
like it's just so fun to film in this bathroom,
it's so nice, I just did my skincare routine
which is pretty typical to what I would do at home.
I do a cleanser and a toner, and then today
I did a little bit of Vitamin C serum.
These bonuses, these like serums and oils and stuff
I'm not doing every single day anymore.
I found that it was mostly the reason
for dermatitis that was completely unnecessary.
My skin is not sensitive but for some reason
I think if you go overload on product,
it's not good, which makes me really sad,
but that's okay.
So I did C some today because I wanted like
a really nice glow because I'm gonna be on camera
a little bit today.
After that of course eye cream which I let set
for two minutes and I brush my teeth
with my little Quip which is a two-minute-timed toothbrush.
It's very perfect actually that the two of them
happen at the same time while my eye cream is setting,
brush my teeth.
Then moisturizer and then of course
every day, no matter where I am, but definitely
in Las Vegas, Nevada, sunscreen, people, sunscreen.
So that was pretty much that and then there is something
that I like to do but I don't do in my typical way
when I'm traveling, and that's morning pages.
We've talked a lot about Julia Cameron's
amazing methodology around morning pages
just writing for three pages straight,
just whatever is on the mind you empty it out of your head.
I have a dedicated notebook for this at home
but that's silly to carry around with me.
What I do like to bring with me is my bullet journal
so for me to bring my morning pages journal
and my bullet journal, it would be unnecessary packing.
Also, I'm not gonna lie, if somebody found
my morning pages journal, I'd be pretty mortified
so I don't wanna risk losing that.
So what I do is I go to the hotel drawer
of wherever I am, and they usually have
a few pieces of paper.
As a matter of fact, the Venetian had three pieces of paper
so I'm gonna have to as them to restock this paper
tonight because they usually don't have very many
but these are the perfect size.
Actually this is like a bigger size
than most hotels.
Most hotels give you kind of more note card size.
These are a little bit bigger which is nicer,
about the size of my journal.
So what I'm doing is I'm just free morning pages writing
on these slices, (chuckles) slices of paper.
Pieces of paper, and actually it's kind of a fun touch
because I'll fold them up, I'll take them
back home and I'll just kind of stuff them
into my morning pages journal and then it says
you know, morning pages on this date
and it also has the official branding of the place
that I stayed, which is kind of like a fun memory.
You know, if ever for some reason I would
read these back in the future, it's just a little bit
of extra flavor in my morning pages journal,
which I'm, you know, they're not gonna be chronological,
I'm just gonna like stuff it into the back of a journal
but it's still pretty nice to have.
And for a workout, we are kind of far away
in the hotel from the gym, and so I just did
a little yoga in the room just to make the most
of the time that we have, very little time to get going.
Other than that I basically just need to get ready
to be gone for the whole day, which is also not typical.
At home, you know, I'm at home.
I can be in yoga pants or I can be fully dressed
and I'm still working from home.
So full face of makeup, getting ready,
and I'm not gonna be in this room the rest of the day
so the one really big change is that
first thing in the morning I'm getting on the computer.
You know, I do all of this stuff first
so that it's not the absolute first thing that I do
but because I am running a business at the same time
as at a conference covering what's happening here
at Adobe Summit, I need to make sure
that all the ducks are in a row, there's no urgent emails,
there's no urgent communications with my assistant
on Trello and so I do need to pop in and just
do some of that.
I don't get super heavy on it, I just make sure
that everything's okay, and that at least
it's something that I have a heads up
if I need to work on it while I'm out and about,
it's something I can either call or handle from my phone.
I will probably have my computer with me today
so it'll be a little bit more flexible on that front
but I do check the computer earlier in the morning
when I'm traveling because there's typically circumstances
where I'm here for something else that's committing
a huge part of my day away from typical operations
and I've gotta make sure everything's good to go.
So for now I think we're just gonna hang and wait for
my lemon water, which oh, I'm so excited,
I asked for mint.
Did I say that before, I asked for a side of mint also
because I don't keep mint at home and I'm always
trying to remind myself to get some from the grocery store
just to add a little bit more fun
to the morning lemon water, and especially since today
I also I'm not gonna have a lemon squeezer.
Typically I will squeeze the lemon into the water
and add slices of lemon on top
so it's really lemony, but since I'm just basically
adding slices of lemon to my water
I wanted to add some extra stuff.
So we're waiting for that, waiting for breakfast
and then we're gonna proceed with the day.
P.S., thank you for putting up with no makeup,
I feel like it's still a little dark
and it could totally be a variable
but I know you'll forgive me because we're talking
morning routines, and quite frankly,
this is routine in the morning, relatable.
- [Hotel Worker] So you're here for the Adobe?
- [Amy] Yes, yep, just like everybody.
Excellent, oh yeah, you loaded up the mint,
I love it.
- [Hotel Worker] The mint is good for you.
- [Amy] Very good, I'm excited.
Perfection.
- [Hotel Worker] You put it for your coffee?
- [Amy] I was actually, no I was actually
gonna put it in my lemon water.
- [Hotel Worker] Oh, yes, that's, lemon and mint.
- [Amy] Yes, very healthy.
It's a great way to start the day.
- [Hotel Worker] If you let it sit for eight hours,
the benefits are good.
- [Amy] Really?
- [Hotel Worker] That's what they said.
- Oh yeah.
Oh my god, so good.
When I said a pitcher of water,
they brought Pellegrino.
I should've seen that coming,
but it's still very good, still very refreshing,
great way to start the day before coffee.
Gotta have it before coffee, right babe?
- [Vin] Right.
(chuckles)
- Alright, we're ready to go!
I did not feel like doing my hair, so vibes, vibes.
He wants me to move faster.