- Good morning, good life.
Wow, look at that light!
I can't tell if it's sunrise or sunset.
It's sunrise.
We are in New York City.
We're pulling up to an event
that I'll be speaking at later today,
and I'm all dressed
and I literally don't speak for six hours.
(laughing)
I never get dressed until right before
'cause I don't like to mess with the creases.
But, we flew in this morning
and so I didn't have a lot of choice,
'cause I definitely don't have an iron on hand or a steamer.
Vinny is with me.
Hey, we're very excited.
Very New York vibes already.
It's actually super fitting,
this is the first event that was booked for me
by my agent Vayner Speakers,
and it's also my one year anniversary with Vayner Speakers
so it's all happening.
This event has been on the calendar for a year.
I'm opening up for Gary.
It's really exciting to do another event
with Gary Vaynerchuk,
because he's such an astounding speaker.
One of a kind.
He just kind of rolls up there and he's like,
"What do you want to know?"
But he crushes it every time.
And he invented the phrase crushing it.
So...
- [Vinny] He wrote a book.
- He wrote two books, and I was in one of them, so,
respect.
What else is going on?
I think we're almost there.
Vincenzo is very excited because he loves New York City.
He's also more excited because after this,
we go back to Connecticut to see Khaleesi.
Not that Khaleesi, that Khaleesi died.
His Khaleesi.
- [Vicenzo] No, stop saying that.
- [Amy] His Khaleesi.
- People don't know what you're talking about.
- I feel like a lot of the world
knows what I'm talking about.
Oh, I did give a spoiler though.
They haven't seen it.
- [Vinny] My Khaleesi is just fine.
- Maybe we should fix that.
(upbeat music)
- [Vinny] How big is that projector?
How big is that screen?
- [Man] It's 16 feet by nine feet.
(upbeat music)
- What do you think about this part?
(glass shattering)
(crowd gasping)
- [Host] Amy is the award winning host of Amy TV,
a YouTube channel, with more than 300,000 subscribers.
And what she's passionate about is helping you
go after the life that you want.
She's the author of Vlog Like a Boss.
You can find out more about her at AmyLandino.com.
Can you welcome to the stage Ms. Amy Landino?
(crowd clapping)
- [Amy] Hey ladies!
- [Crowd] Hey!
- If I have to be last, I really want to stand out.
I want to be relevant.
I've heard this song and dance before, okay.
Let's give it a try, it's great, come on in.
You get on camera and you start
to get a feel for what it's like.
And you're like,
"Mmm, I don't know.
"I'm not so sure.
No, this is the biggest mistake I think I've ever made."
Absolutely it is then,
"I need to be down there for a bit."
This is the most impactful, positive impression
you can make in real life.
You make a video, you put in all the places,
when is it gonna die?
Each of these is very different.
On Twitter, it's on average 18 minutes.
YouTube themselves would tell you,
if you post once a week and you start to see success,
you can go from there, grow from there.
Once a week would make them happy
to show that the concept actually works.
Deliver on the promise of your video, be generous,
and then wrap it up.
And when I say wrap it up,
this is your opportunity to ask for something.
You are another thought leader.
You are now a trusted resource for them.
They've got something out of this.
They're at the end of the video,
so really make time for that.
And I appreciate you for your time today.
Thank you!
(crowd clapping)
("Good Life" by Cardigan Club)
♪ I just wanna dive into the blue ♪
♪ Does it really matter what we do? ♪
♪ Don't let the moment pass us by ♪
♪ Just trust that the universe is right ♪
♪ 'Cause we struck gold in the shining light ♪
♪ And it's all gonna be all right ♪
♪ This is the good life ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ This is the good life ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Out in the sunshine ♪
♪ Nothing but good times ♪
♪ This is the good life ♪
♪ Whoa oh oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Whoa oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Whoa oh oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Whoa oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ I just wanna spend everyday with you ♪
♪ Happy with the little things we do ♪
♪ Just keep a smile ♪
♪ Hold your head up high ♪
♪ I promise it works every time ♪
- We'll do this actually.
Watch carefully.
I'm gonna draw a little heart,
and do me a favor, just blow on that so it dries,
for a second, okay.
Should be dry.
This is sharpie.
All right, here we go.
Watch.
If you watch carefully...
Got it.
- [Cameraman] Wait...
- Where'd it go?
(gasping)
Oh my god!
You didn't touch my hand.
No way!
That is weird!
♪ Hello, how are you? ♪
I don't know why that song is stuck in my head.
I'm back home and I'm well lit, aren't I?
I just got done filming.
Ooh, there I am again. Hi!
Just got done filming for Sunday's video,
and I thought I should wrap up what we were doing before.
Let's go to the living room.
So I left you in New York City.
I was speaking, that's evident,
and there's a lot of footage.
Vincenzo had a lot of fun filming, which is just so much fun
for me to watch back 'cause I'm so not used
to other people vlogging for me that much.
It's something we're experimenting more with now.
He really brought you the angles, when it came to speaking.
So I'm like super grateful for him.
So can you please go give him a shout out on Twitter,
'cause I was like
"Oh my gosh, this is kind of fun to watch."
Like, I don't get to see myself like this ever,
but even more so just the number of amazing people
that I got to meet at this event, which isn't weird.
I kind of have to mentally get prepared
when I'm going into an event like this.
It doesn't go how you think it would.
It's not like,
"I'm gonna go somewhere and people are going to know me."
That isn't at all what it is.
It's more,
"I'm gonna go somewhere, I'm gonna walk on stage,
"and I'm gonna do everything I can to wow them."
Which is already really difficult
for somebody who is introverted.
Did I say that right?
It's super hard for me as an introvert
to just learn how to speak in the first place.
I've got practice on that now,
but then actual human interaction afterwards
is a whole another level of exuding energy
or I should say exerting energy.
And so, there's a lot of prep that goes into that for me.
Most of it is mental, but also physical as well.
So the speaking part, that is...
I can't even begin to explain that.
That just takes a ton of practice in the first place.
And I would actually argue that an introvert
or an extrovert both can be really good at speaking,
because that's not I feel when introversion really shows up.
It rears its ugly head in more personal conversations.
So walking up on stage, being a performer,
that's just totally different.
I think That just takes practice.
What I actually have to prepare for mentally,
more than the preparation I do as a speaker,
the preparation I have to have really ready
is the post-speaking time.
The networking time.
Typically, especially when I'm speaking,
but in a lot of different situations,
I put myself in a networking scenario,
because as ugly as the word is,
it's just something that I know helps in every way.
It helps my career whether I'm gonna be a business owner
in 10 years or not.
You know, I'm always making sure that I'm connected
with people, so that I can be in a good situation
no matter what I want my life to look like in the future.
So that's really important.
But that's also the hardest part for me
is always being able to have that energy bank
of what I have to do to talk to those people.
So, it's really nothing against anyone.
Its not like people talk for too long.
Somebody could talk to me for less than 30 seconds
and I still have to exert energy.
So in order to have that, I have to stock it up.
So before I go to an event like this,
I really try to limit how much human interaction I have.
So you saw that Vincenzo and I took the car together.
We got there really early, like I said, we landed early,
and we found ourselves in a very small green room,
with too many people in it,
and I needed to be there for like three hours
before my sound check.
And then another two hours after that until I spoke.
So we immediately left.
We just talked to everybody, not everybody,
we talked to whoever was in charge, and we were like,
"Listen, we're just gonna go grab a bite.
"We'll be back."
There was no reason for me to be there anyway,
so I'm not gonna sit there and spend time
small talking with everybody,
because it wouldn't have gone well for me that day.
I would've spent too much energy.
I would not have thrived off of that conversation
while on stage and then there after.
So Vin and I just went and privately had a meal together.
We came back and I did my sound check.
And you saw a lot of that, kind of behind the scenes,
checking the slides in the sound booth,
and stuff like that.
So that was easy
because you're sort of dealing with a handler,
dealing with the sound guy,
and that's pretty easy stuff.
But then really pacing myself before I go on stage.
Talking to some people in the green room wasn't as bad.
It wasn't as many people.
But then taking a few minutes to just be alone
before I go on stage is really important,
not just as a performance aspect,
but because I just don't want to talk to anybody.
'Cause I know that as soon as I get off stage,
I'm gonna be rushed to the step and repeat,
I'm gonna be rushed to take photos,
just typical photos that they want me to take for the event
so that they can market the content later,
and then when you're out of step and repeat,
which if you don't know what that is,
that was like the backdrop that I was standing at
to take pictures.
When you're out at, you're standing there
and people are like,
"Oh! Let's take pictures."
And so people just want to take pictures
because now they just saw you on stage,
and then they see you in a place where people take photos,
and they get really excited.
So that's how it all kind of starts.
And then the people who saw your session
want to talk more about it,
and then the people who maybe kind of know who you are
want to talk more about what they've seen.
Especially if it's like,
"Oh my gosh, you make YouTube videos!
"I've seen them before!"
And then there's whole levels to that.
And that is where I am really hitting the ground running
and exerting the most amount of energy.
I can literally feel it leaving my body.
If I didn't spend time before conserving it,
not talking too much, not overthinking things,
not doing things outside of my comfort zone,
I don't think I would be really good at networking.
And I really do trick people into thinking I'm an extrovert
because I am so on when I'm having a conversation with you
in person, just as on as I'm having this conversation with
you right now, just as on as I am when I'm on stage.
Because I feel like it's a mode.
It's just a mode that I'm in.
So, if you want to spend money, you got to make money,
you got to save money.
If I want to spend energy,
I've gotta sleep, get some of it back, save it,
hold on to it, and then spend it.
Spend out.
When it's time to spend it, spend it.
But as soon as they said,
"The car's here!",
it's like,
"We gotta go, because the car's here."
And first of all, I like to be on schedule
when they have a car that's driving me
from New York to Connecticut.
Yes, please.
That's way better than taking a train,
but also that's my pass.
That's my pass to say,
"I'm leaving on a high note."
I'm not leaving totally exerted, I probably am,
but I feel good, so it's time to go
before I get to a point of no return.
The other thing I do is I always talk to Vin before an event
and he's such a natural extrovert.
Like, so willing and able to talk to people,
and just loves talking to people,
and so I have to just kind of tell him in advance like,
"Hey, just make sure you don't forget about me."
He never does but I'm always like,
"Hey, so if I look at you funny,
"then I need to take a break.
"And I need you to come and get me
"so I can go use the ladies room.
"And then I'll be right back."
But you know, it's really cool.
That didn't happen this time.
It was pretty easygoing and we had a great time.
So I don't know,
I wonder if that's helpful for you,
because I think its really easy to just get bogged down
by the idea of talking to people if you're an introvert,
specifically and you can do it.
You just have to know how to do it right for you,
instead of not doing it at all.
And it's just like being fearful of anything else.
If you don't find the right way to do it for yourself,
then you won't do it.
And I can promise you,
not meeting people, not talking to people,
not listening to people, not learning about people
is a really great way
to not be successful in any way in life.
Even if you're just somebody who says,
"I just need a job, I just need to pay bills."
Okay, cool.
Don't we all?
Somebody you know, someday, is gonna get you a job.
So now it's a matter of who do you know
that's gonna do that for you?
The more people you know,
the more you take care of those relationships,
the more likely it's going to go well for you,
and it's not gonna be a job that you're not really into.
So anyway, I just kind of wanted to wrap up.
I'm kind of bummed because Vinny
is in Florida for the month,
so I'm not gonna see him for a while.
He went straight there from Connecticut.
So I'm home alone, and so that's gonna be kind of difficult,
because you know,
I'm not used to being alone like I used to be.
It's very different level of introversion that I am now.
It's interesting, but anyway,
I'm gonna get back to work.
All the videos, all the podcasts, all the things to do.
Super interesting vlog hopefully to come.
I'm hosting an award show this week.
I'm hosting the .Org awards, and its in D.C.,
and I think I'm gonna have somebody along with me
to help me capture the moment.
And so, I think that's gonna be the next time you see
a little vlog action from me.
So hopefully you enjoyed this,
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That's all for today.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I appreciate it as always.
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Cheers.
(upbeat music)
I think this should just be my thumbnail all the time.
(laughing)
Khaleesi, are you gonna be a good girl?
Are you listening?
You be a good girl, okay?
Okay. Bye.