- Good morning, it's Sunday and
I'm getting text messages.
I'm speaking today at Uniting Souls.
I told you guys about this.
With the books that I was signing, they're all signed.
I got it done. I didn't want to bore you
with all 225-something books.
I actually signed more than that, just in case we need more.
But yeah, they're all ready to go.
I'm very excited 'cause I spoke to this group last year
and so I think there's gonna be
a decent percentage of people
that were there last year so we can continue this education.
Lucy's not thrilled about it but
we'll be right back.
It's really not gonna take that long.
It's literally 20 minutes from my house.
And I think it's gonna be good.
And I'm making Vin go even though
he's been traveling like crazy.
He got home from Portland last night at,
what time did you get home?
- [Vin] Uh, 12:30.
- 12:30. 12, god.
I'm tired.
12:30, he got home from Portland, Oregon.
He leaves tomorrow morning at 6:00 for New York City.
Another day another dollar.
We gotta go.
I gotta show you my dress, though, 'cause I love this dress.
So I just wanted to show you
that I am breaking my rule today.
This is little bit shorter than I usually would speak in.
Oh, hello.
But, I think because it's long-sleeved and a turtleneck,
and Vin said it's okay, I'm gonna wear it anyway.
- It's great.
- It's so nice outside, and I'm like, this still
feels like summer, but it's supposedly fall.
But I'm gonna make it work.
Make it work!
What are you wearing?
- I'm wearing a Tom Ford.
(pop music)
- I've heard about her on a pretty big podcast
a few years ago.
And then I realized, oh wow, she's from Columbus.
And so I reached out to her, and said,
"Would you like to connect?"
and she connected,
and we basically chatted immediately, of course.
What did we talk about in the first time I chatted?
Her book.
Right, her book.
'Cause she had a book inside of her.
And we talked about vlogging.
Because I knew that David and I
wanted to take vlogging to the next level in our business.
And as a result, we thought,
wow, gee, this can work really well.
Where I help her with her book, and she helps our business
with vlogging, and it could happen.
Well that began a friendship, and her,
guess what, she got married over the last year--
(audience cheering)
Big chance, though, and you guys are all gonna be
on probably her vlog and her show today,
so he might be going around and
you guys are gonna be all over the place.
So if you're an author, you can position your book
just the right way on your table, right?
I mean, don't flash in front of the camera,
just (clicks tongue), alright?
But Amy has been someone who is a rising star.
People who know people in the industry are watching her,
because big name people are coming and staying.
We need her expertise.
We need to bring what she can share
with our top level people.
It's actually a great honor and privilege,
even though she's local,
for me to be able to bring her to our stage.
'Cause she's so busy.
She's going all over the world.
I believe, Slovenia, at the end.
I mean, crazy stuff.
So give a warm welcome to Amy Schmittauer.
(applause)
- Why the heck did someone have to make video a thing
yet another marketing thing that I have to learn?
Please tell me why.
(laughs)
Do I need to know the thing?
I've been there too, I promise.
(pop music)
Smartphones!
Smartphones, smartphones, smartphones,
smartphones, smartphones,
Everyone, raise your hand if you don't have a smartphone,
in which case I feel really awful.
I'm so sorry, sir.
I'm sorry.
You have been singled out in this room.
But do you have a camera?
- I do. It's really a bad camera.
- [Amy] Okay, so how it works.
Everyone has a camera, right?
- [Woman] Right.
- No excuses. Use your smartphone.
Because when it comes down to your gear,
it has more to do with how you're rationalizing
what you're doing, and how important your message is.
Is it important?
Thank you very much.
(applause)
- Alright, you guys can grab a seat,
we have helpers coming around
that are going to give you a book.
(applause)
So David and I had a meeting and we said,
"What do our people need?"
And we said, "The tribe needs to vlog."
And so this is an investment in you
And Amy was fantastic to make this possible as well.
But first of all, tell us what the book will give people.
Alright? So tell us what they'll get.
- Was anyone amped about what I just talked about?
- [Audience] Yeah!
- [Amy] This is the manual.
This is the manual.
I mean, practicality really is my middle name,
everything I have ever done has been so that
I can set people into action immediately.
I oftentimes lose sight of everything else, (chuckles)
in order to do that.
Kary, you just get me,
Like, you just walked into the situation saying,
"You got the book in you, where is it?"
And I was just like, "I don't know, Kary,
I really want one, but I just don't have time
and he's like, "I think I have an idea."
And it just felt like such a good thing
for Author Academy Elites to help me because
I was trying to map out how you could make time
for video, because I'm sure you figured out
the part about getting started with your book
and making time for that.
We have to figure out how to work these things
in to our lives.
Because the one thing that we all have
and can't take for granted, is time
and how we spend it.
This was important to me because people said they wanted it,
but I always wait until they really, really, really want it
before I'll make time for something like this,
but you still made it possible sooner,
because I'm not trying to be an expert in publishing,
I just need to get this out.
I've never had a product in my hands before.
I have inventory now, it's so weird.
(laughter)
We're out of books? What do we do?
Oh, we have to order them, like
that was just so foreign a topic to me
and in a way where some people are not thinking
that video is approachable for them,
the book was not approachable for me
and Author Academy Elite made it approachable.
- Awesome.
Notice how Amy and I started chatting.
There's a lot of smart people in the room,
there's people that you need to do collaboration with.
Notice with Amy, I knew, wow, I called David right after,
I said, "She has a skill and a talent that we need."
And then I said, "You know, we can provide a skill
"And a talent that she needs."
These are the types of relationships in business
that work really well.
Who do you think I focused on the first time we sat down?
Did I say, "Oh Amy, can I, you know, pick your brain,
"can I do this, can I do this?"
Do you remember the first time we met?
What did we actually do on the napkin?
- [Amy] You wrote the entire book that I had in my head
on a napkin.
- So you see, when you're meeting with someone
and you think, wow they'd be really good for me,
do you lead with that?
- [Audience] No
- No
- Also, Kary didn't tell you the real story
about our first meeting, because he reached out to me
and I did not reply to him initially.
He waiting another, like, six months
and he was like, "Hey, it's me again.
(laughter)
"Do you wanna go to coffee? I heard you on the podcast
"and I'm not sure if you got the last message."
It turned out I really hadn't.
I'm very good at replying to email.
And he did not just let that go away,
he knew there was something there,
he didn't wait for failure
to just determine the entire story.
I wouldn't have this book if he did,
so keep that in mind.
(pop music)
(indistinct chatter)
- Well hello, I am running so late this morning
so I'm vlogging on my Iphone,
'cause my purse is too small for a vlogging camera (laughs)
I had to run out.
I'm speaking today at the Columbus Realtors office,
so it's gonna be a good afternoon,
but clearly this has not been taken care of,
my nails are a hot mess,
I leave tomorrow morning for Connecticut
because we're having a party
with a much larger group of people
who could not come to the wedding.
We really had to, like, limit the number of people
that could come to the wedding,
so we're having, like a hometown party in Connecticut
for Vincenzo's side of the family,
so I leave tomorrow morning for that.
Today is going to be a crazy day,
I have to push a video out,
hair and nails, speak, spray tan,
and then pack for Connecticut.
It's gonna be ridiculous,
but we're gonna hold it together.
Better!
Yes, yes!
This volume will last like five minutes.
So I finished my nails, came home, set the lights up,
and immediately started filming a couple of videos
that I've got to do to get ready
while I'm in Connecticut this weekend,
'cause I have to post Thursday and Sunday
and I'm not going to be home for that,
so got those done, I literally have to walk out the door
in ten minutes and I still need to push my video live,
and I still have nothing to wear.
Everything's fine,
my life is not crazy.
There it is.
I'm late, I gotta go.
- Join me in welcoming my favorite friend
and all of your new friends,
Amy Schmittaur (applause)
- Thank you.
Hello.
Thanks for taking the time, I know how valuable it is.
I really appreciate it, thank you so much
for being here.
Was anybody at the last, I don't know how many
of these you do per year,
but I spoke with a group with Chris earlier, I think,
this year.
Was anyone there in March?
Awesome.
Anyone never heard of me before?
Great, no honestly, higher hands for that one please.
Yeah, okay, great, cool.
It may feel like, I'm gonna help anyone
who wants to buy or sell a house,
but it's not.
You have your clients that you worked best with,
and you have your clients that you wanna work with,
and you have the ones that are really your sweet spot.
That's what we want all the time.
Because it's gonna help you make something,
put something out in the world,
that's actually going to elevate your brand,
because you did it with such intention,
'cause you had that person in mind,
so that you'll affect the money.
(pop music)
- So we are currently in the green room
for our second wedding.
Vin and Blake are peeking on the guests. (laughs)
We're hiding because we're in Connecticut.
We're having a wedding celebration for our wedding
that we had over a month ago, almost two months ago.
And Vin's mom is putting it on for us,
so this is my second white dress,
and Vin is wearing his tux, Vin show me the tux
- (mumbles) she'll notice me
- What?
- You dressed me.
- Oh, show your tux, show your tux,
looks great.
Come closer to the light.
- (singing) Come a little closer, baby
- You look wonderful.
- Feel like laying you down on a bed
of sweet surrender.
I don't know the rest of the words.
- Yeah it's okay, we figured that.
This is a crazy week,
I've got three speaking gigs and a wedding,
ish...
So keeping it interesting, always keeping it interesting.
(pop music)
- So that's why I thought it was very important
to have Amy here,
to show you how to Vlog Like a Boss.
Ladies and gentleman, Amy Schmittauer.
(applause)
- Hi everybody.
So glad you're here, dispersed.
Believe it or not, in the back of the room,
I can see you better than the front of the room,
'cause the lights are all on back there, okay?
It has been the craziest week,
this camera's totally gonna die by the way.
Just with all the speaking,
and I've just, like, seen a lot
in the last video in particular,
I think like, the speaking part has gotten to be
I don't want to say, "easy"
but it's just gotten to be like, my groove
so much.
Like I genuinely feel very much in my element
when I'm speaking,
but there's so much that goes in to speaking,
that doesn't include the actual speaking in my life.
For instance, exhibit A (laughs)
I'm gonna leave the vlog here,
I really love being able to bring you along
those many speaking gigs that I had this past week.
It was really fun for me,
I got to talk to a lot of new people,
and get some practice in before we go to London,
which is gonna be the next, like,
day in the life-y type vlog that you watch here
on this channel.
So stay tuned, make sure you subscribe for good vibes,
and remember to do the work
and keep on going
so that you can go after the life you want.
Lucy, keep tapping, keep on tapping over there.
I'm delirious, it's time for bed.
Cheers!