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- Hey everyone, it's me Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere as always,
back with another Motivation Monday.
So, this week is kind of a,
it's a new month, right, February's starting.
Blackity, black black black we out here right.
Journal's here.
I have a few month goals that I'm trying to work through.
So I wanna be, apply to be certified
with the city this month,
I think I had talked about it in my last Monday Motivation
about the five ways to get referrals
and to start looking for referrals.
So the City of San Antonio is really into working
with minority run businesses, there we go, Monday y'all,
with a focus on women as well
so I wanna apply to officially be certified
as a female owned business and a black owned business.
So that way they can see that
and then I can begin to bid on projects for the city.
Hoping that I can tap into that
and then have that be a revenue stream
for StumbleWell as well
because I think working with the city in general,
or working with just a government entity,
just looks really good,
I think it's just a good way to be involved in the community
in a very organic way.
So I'm try to get in the process of this month
of just branching out
and making sure entities know that we exist
and to reach out if they have any opportunities
that they think we'd be a good fit for.
The other thing y'all know
I'm trying to launch a second channel,
I'm trying to work on Sans Gluten
and so last month I hit our goal,
I wanted to film four videos last month
and we filmed all four, really proud of that,
you've probably seen a little bit of it,
in my Instagram Stories and things like that,
and the Stories for StumbleWell as well.
Every time we filmed I tried to do some behind the scenes,
so y'all could see that.
This month I wanna try, it's a shorter month,
so I wanna try to, my goal is three, to film three,
or, excuse me, three Sans Gluten episodes
because also simultaneously,
I wanna launch the channel in March.
So I need to start editing them,
figuring out the look and feel,
figuring out just the design,
like what does Sans Gluten's logo look like,
what does Sans Gluten's little avatar look like,
what does the banner on YouTube look like,
like that kinda stuff.
I'm not gonna go too HAM on it
because, just, I'm trying to launch a channel
and just get it going.
Eventually I'll probably work with an Anastasia again,
who helped design the StumbleWell logo,
I'll probably commission her again
to help us figure out our color palette officially.
For now, I'm just gonna try and build some stuff internally,
keep it pretty simple, pretty straight forward
because I just wanna, sometimes you just need to start,
you just need to get it out there,
so coming at it from that angle.
Also need to do the intro video for the channel,
something pretty simple like,
"I'm Hallease, he's Mr. Hallease, we make gluten free food."
I'm starting to work on that stuff
and y'all probably be talking about that more here,
essentially doing what I did for Say It Loud
but just truly, truly by myself
rather than having a bit of a team behind me.
It'll be slow but gotta get it out there.
So yeah, I wanna film three Sans Glutens
and then I wanna edit two of them
and then the other thing that I've got going on is,
what I've started to do is,
I've started to list out the videos I wanna make every month
and so these are a continuation from January,
so in January, it's all the ones I actually filmed and made,
I crossed 'em off and then all the ones where I was like,
"Oh, I'll try to do that next month" I had them go over.
In February there's a lot of How-To videos
I've been wanting to make.
They're videos I just like making in general,
every year or so,
because I like to go back and reference them for myself
just to see what I was doing for that year.
So there are a lot of videos around like,
"How I stay moisturized"
'cause I've actually changed my moisturization routine,
in regards to my skin.
Because I have hyperhidrosis and stuff,
I usually can't really actually use a lot of those creams
and butters and stuff, I have to use really light lotions.
And so I wanna talk about that in a video
'cause I think that'll be really helpful for people,
below the Mason-Dixon, where it don't get too cold actually.
I also wanna do an updated backpack video
because my one in 2018,
a lot of y'all responded really positively to it,
like seeing just how I've, what I bring with me
and how I think about filming on location
if it's just me for a video and since that video,
I have really slimmed down what I bring with me filming.
I think y'all be surprised
by how little equipment I actually have
when I'm making a vlog.
So I wanna update that video 'cause I have a backpack
that I've been using now for a long time
and I really like it
and I like how it restricts me from bringing too much stuff.
My skincare routine, as well,
just because I feel like a lot of people have noticed
that my skin is looking a lot better
and part of that is just hormonal birth control
and all of that but some of it is technique and consistency
and not doing the Korean 9-Step skincare routine.
So I wanna just talk about all of that in a video
'cause I think it will be really helpful
and go against the grain
of what is expected with skincare videos, I think.
Also, a lot of you have asked about my personal style
and I'm trying to think about how I wanna frame that
and write that because I have developed a personal style
over the course of years, but so much of that is influenced
by how you were raised,
experimentation,
influences.
One of my influences is GQ.
Actually, I'm really inspired by men's fashion (laughs),
more so than women's fashion.
So, talking, I just wanna,
I need to figure out how I wanna approach that video
'cause I do wanna make one.
Let me know if y'all interested in this.
I wanna make a Bullet Journal video, an updated one.
I remember I made one last year,
when I talked about how I manage multiple projects
and I showed y'all how I use my Bullet Journal to do that.
Since then I've simplified my Bullet Journal even more,
and I've pulled influences from a lot of other people
that are really out here in the Bullet Journal world.
My Bullet Journal is not beautiful or anything like that,
it's super simple, super straightforward,
I just need somewhere to write
what I need to do for the week,
so I can literally come on here
and talk, say what I'm gonna be doing.
Are we Bullet Journaled out?
I feel like everyone's Bullet Journaled out, right?
I don't know.
And then the other thing I wanted to ask y'all too is,
are there anymore StumbleWell podcast episode ideas
that y'all have, please let me know down below
because we have some ideas
but we feel like we've already kinda talked about them
in a variation or in a way,
so we're kinda "ehh maybe not those".
With the StumbleWell podcast
we like to put out two StumbleWell's a month.
So, yeah, I'm just trying to think through,
what are our StumbleWell episode ideas?
And to be fair usually with the StumbleWell podcast,
I end up, I'm noticing that I'm pushing those
to the end of the month.
For me creatively, I have all these ideas
but then, I'll not necessarily know
how I wanna approach something,
so I'll just let it be in my subconscious
for a week and a half or two weeks or a month.
Case and point the, my 2019 review video that I did,
I had been thinking about
how I wanted to approach that video since November
and I would just kinda think about it for a weekend,
not working on anything else but just kinda sitting
and just thinking about it,
then I'd maybe journal a little bit about it,
"yeah, yeah, no, no" and that kinda thing where I'd be like,
"Oh, what if I", or I'd stand in front of the mirror
and talk it out, and your like, "What do I wanna say,
"how do I wanna say this?"
Until finally, I remember we were gonna go get dinner
and all of a sudden I was like, "I know how I wanna do it."
I use a lot of,
I use Google Docs to write most of my scripts now,
and so I pulled up a blank Google Doc
and just jotted down some quick ideas and stuff like that
and I was like, "Okay, cool,
"that's enough for me to come back and flesh this out."
But the StumbleWell podcast it's kinda the same thing,
sometimes Mr. Hallease and I will talk about,
"Oh, what if we kinda talk about this topic,
"we could come at it from this angle."
None of them are really speaking to us right now,
we're just kinda.
Our last few StumbleWell podcasts were so topical
and poignant and vulnerable.
We're both just like
(laughs)
"We shared a lot."
I don't know.
If y'all have any ideas
for topics you'd like us to talk about,
please let me know down below,
otherwise we'll just keep marinating on it,
creatively like we do.
That was lot, but it's the first of,
it's the first Monday of February,
so I feel like at the beginning of each month
the Monday Motivations are just gonna be a little long
'cause I work in terms of months, really.
So I'm just like,
"What do I wanna get done this month?",
"How do I wanna do it?",
"By the end of the month where do I wanna be?",
"What are my goals?"
So it ends up being a little long,
a little epic (laughs), sorry.
Like I said these videos are for y'all, every Monday,
just so I can keep in touch with you
and let you know what I've got going on.
And then if there's a way, anyway, that I can help out
by making a more targeted Monday Motivation
around a specific topic, let me know
and I'm more than happy to do it.
So, with that, I hope you have a awesome, awesome February.
I hope your month is good, I hope you set some great goals,
if you have, let me know so I can cheer you on
and yeah, see you next week.
Bye.