March 24, 2024

Connecting Through Storytelling: A Media Pro's Tips for Engagement - Ep 5

Connecting Through Storytelling: A Media Pro's Tips for Engagement - Ep 5

In episode 5 of Spoken Life Show with Rob Greenlee my guest is Aldwyn Altuney, Mass Media Marketing expert and host of Media Queen TV/ Total Truth Show. Discover the unexpected journey of a media personality that has led to near-death experiences,...

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Season 1

In episode 5 of Spoken Life Show with Rob Greenlee my guest is Aldwyn Altuney, Mass Media Marketing expert and host of Media Queen TV/ Total Truth Show. Discover the unexpected journey of a media personality that has led to near-death experiences, resilience, and a passion for inspiring truth and good news. Uncover the transformation from a traditional journalist to a multimedia content creator who navigates through media's competitive and sometimes shallow world. Join in to unravel the story of overcoming challenges, embracing authenticity, and finding the true power of self-confidence and motivation. Dive deep into this captivating tale of resilience and impact, and stay tuned for the surprising twists and turns that have shaped this extraordinary media journey. https://aaxpose.com/about-aldwyn-altuney/ Aldwyn Altuney is a seasoned media personality with extensive experience in television, radio, and content creation. Hailing from Australia, Aldwyn's approach to engaging audiences is rooted in authenticity and speaking from the heart. With a background in live radio and hosting large-scale events, he seamlessly blends a structured approach with improvisation to connect with his audience. His passion for creating positive change through media is evident in his work, driven by a desire to encourage others to live fulfilling lives. Aldwyn's journey from overcoming personal struggles to using media as a platform for expression and change has shaped his unique perspective on connecting with audiences. The simple things in life are often the best, I think, and do what gives you joy. - Aldwyn Altuney In this episode, you will be able to:

  • Mastering the art of connecting with audiences as a media personality to build genuine relationships and engagement.
  • Embracing authenticity in content creation to captivate and resonate with audiences on a deeper level.
  • Discovering effective strategies for gaining free positive publicity to elevate your media presence and impact.
  • Understanding media's profound influence on mental health and society to create more mindful and responsible content.
  • Exploring the evolution of independent media and journalism to stay ahead of the curve and navigate the changing landscape.
Authentic Audience Connections
Building authentic connections with your audience is crucial for media creators to establish a loyal following. Genuinely and transparently engaging with your audience fosters trust and loyalty, ultimately leading to a more receptive and engaged community. By prioritizing authentic audience connections, media creators can create meaningful content that resonates with their viewers or listeners. The resources mentioned in this episode are:
  • Join the global good news challenge to share gratitude and good news and have a better life experience. Stay connected by visiting her website.
  • Explore the Conscious Community Global Facebook group for free access to the Thrive documentaries, which provide eye-opening insights into the media landscape and encourage critical thinking.
  • Consider enrolling in the Mass Media Mastery program, a media program designed to help individuals build their authority online as influencers and effectively navigate the evolving media landscape.
  • Connect with Aldwyn Altuney on social media to stay updated on inspiring truth and good news and access valuable resources and insights related to media, content creation, and personal development.
  • Embrace the power of gratitude and positive thinking in daily life, and consider participating in the global good news challenge to spread positivity and uplift others.
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All right.

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I'm excited to have Aldwin here to join me on

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the Spoken Live show, and I appreciate you taking your

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time to hop on a call here with me. I

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know you're calling me from Australia and it's exciting to

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have you here with me. And the purpose of the

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show really is to dig deep into media personalities and

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how they connect with audiences. So that's what I wanted

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to talk with you about today was You've been in media,

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and you've been in television and audio and radio and

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making content for a long time to audiences, and you

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must have a certain kind of approach that you take

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to different audiences in how you actually produce the content.

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And I'm just.

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Curious what have you learned about speaking to and creating

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engagement with audiences really no matter what the medium is.

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But is there a particular approach that you take with

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audiences that you think with your personality connects with audiences

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in the best way. Granted this is a journey been

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doing this for a long time, but how do you

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think about that topic of being able to speak to

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an audience really effectively?

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Oh? Thank you, Rod, So great to be on your show,

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And what a great question Wow. For me, really, I

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think the most important thing is a speaker and as

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a ear personality is to be true to myself and

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being true to myself. This isn't always going to appeal

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to different audiences, right, However, the way I look at

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it is the more that I am true to myself

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and the more that I speak my truth, I am

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going to find people that will love me, and there's

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going to be people that will hate me as well.

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You're going to get more or divide. And the more

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you speak your truth. So I actually don't. I don't

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alter what I say generally depending on the audience. If

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it's a physical speaking gig that I'm at and it's

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a group of women, I may tailor some of the

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content more for females in that case, right, I guess

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in that way. However, really, the voice that's coming through

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how I present myself and what I share is coming

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from my heart. It's coming from my soul's and tapping

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into that place of trusting and allowing whatever needs to

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be said, and that's something I like to do. I

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know there's a lot of presenters out there that are

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very structured in how they present, and they have their

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whole talks outlined and they've all the questions listed and

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all that kind of thing. Whereas I tend to very

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much go with the flow of the energy that I'm

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feeling at the time and the energy in the room.

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Whether it's an online room like this that we're on now,

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whether it's a podcast or a Norma on TV show,

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or whether it's a physical speaking gig in the space,

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I tend to feel into us in the room and

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what they need, depending on what the topic is. Now,

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my main speaking topic has have been about how to

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gain free, positive publicity. Now with that, I do have slides.

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I have a lot of slides that I got lots

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of examples, and I have an outline of what I share,

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and I have my seven awesome steps to gaining publicity

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which I go through. However, how do I present those

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seven steps will be different every single time. There's some

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things I may say that at the study. However, there's

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other things that I tend to very much go with

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the flow. And I think that could be from being

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a radio announcer for many years and also m seeing

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on some really big stages at the Woodford Folk Festival,

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which I did for about fifteen years. So when you

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see on big stages and when you're doing a live

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radio show, as you started out with live radio as well,

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right before podcasting full podcasting was around, and with live radio,

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you've got to think on the fly all the time.

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moment as to what is coming through and be able

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to bounce off co hosts and things like that. So

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I've learned, I guess over the years, this kind of

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improv style of speaking and depending on the audience here,

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I might tailor some of the content for them. However,

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the voice coming through. It's always important for me to

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be true to myself and to speak my truth and

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not worry about whether people are going to what I

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say or not, because the more we get into worrying

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about what other people are going to think, the more

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nervous we're going to get, the more that we might

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stumble over our words, etc. It's really being true to self,

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and that comes with there's a big process to being

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true to yourself, and that comes with actually loving yourself

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and doing the doing the inner work right. Because if

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you don't love yourself, if you don't have a certain

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amount of self confidence. And I'm not talking about arrogance you.

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I'm talking about confidence, being confident in yourself and your message.

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able to speak with authority on whatever topic you're going

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to speak about, or even to be fully true to yourself.

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a bit nervous or a bit wishy washy, and people

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will see straight through that. So I think you need

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to as a speaker and as a media presenter, which ever,

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before we putting yourself out there, you need to have

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a certain confidence about what it is that you're sharing.

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and based on what you're what you're talking about here

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is this distinction between kind of scripted, pre produce type

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of content as opposed to more live type content, which

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is more speaking, more organically, more off of the cuff,

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more off of how you're feeling at the moment, not

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so much contrived by an outline or a script or

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something like that. I am using a little bit of

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an outline for what we're talking about here too, But

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I do realize, for many years of doing this myself

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is that just because you have an outline doesn't mean

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you have to stick to it. So you just work

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your way through what is relevant. But you also have

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to listen too. I think that's a big part of this,

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at least on the podcasting side. I think having a

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conversation about something versus presenting something, and I think that

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there is a difference there. I'm just curious what your

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thought is that distinction between presenting something and then having

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more of an interactive conversation with either your audience or

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a guest or some combination a Do you which do

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you enjoy more? Is it the interactive experience or do

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you like present.

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different ballgames. However, in saying that, I love interaction with

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a live audience and I love interaction like this with yourself,

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which this is a very much an organic conversation here

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that we have. When I'm presenting live, I'm always asking

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questions of the audience. I'm always saying, now.

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Who feels this and gets them to raise their hand

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or something? Right.

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Style is very interactive. I really like that feedback, and

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I do get a lot of feedback from people saying

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that they find me very engaging when they've seen me

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present live or in online master classes. I've done four

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hour online master classes, I've done one day online master classes,

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and people at the feedback I've had from this, people

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have actually loved it. They've said they didn't think they'd

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be able to sit there the whole day and listen

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to what it is as I was sharing. But I

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guess with the interactive style and with the passion I

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think that I present, I think that can be it

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can be very appealing to people to have when you've

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got that passion, because a lot of people out there

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don't have passion, and that which kind of blows me away.

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Really in many ways, I look around, I see a

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lot of people like the walking Dead out there. Very

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sad when I see that. And part of why I

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do what I do is that I really want people

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living lives that they love. I would encourage people to

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love their life and make the most of their life.

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And of course I have a story why that is

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the case, and it's because for many years I did

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not want to be here on the planet. I grew

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up very angry with the world. I used to watch

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a lot of negative media with my dad. He used

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to and he still does this day, God bless him.

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He's eighty four years of eight. It put not just

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one channel of mainstream news on. He watched multiple channels

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of news, two hours of negative news every night. And

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then I all eat as a child, and I saw

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a lot of animal cruelty and all these things, and

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I was so depressed and angry with the world growing up.

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I did not want to be here in my teenage years,

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and it was very rebellious, and I went totally off

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the rails. Thankfully I had table tennis and I used

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to beat the hell out of the balls. One way

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I released my anger was through table tennis. Became a

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very good table tennis player, while was also still very rebellious,

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very strict to European father. I've got Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian background,

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born in Sydney in Australia, so it's really quite a

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unique mix in my bloodline. And having gone from many

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years of actually having depression myself and not wanting to

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be on the planet, I found the media a great

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way to actually create change in areas that upset me

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or angered me. Because my dad said to me, he said,

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anger is danger and so for many years I internalized

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my anger, which then led to depression. And I would

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watch documentaries back well before social media was around, right

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back in the nineteen nineties, I was watching a lot

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of documentaries and news and whenever I saw something that

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upset me, I would write a story about it in

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that Initially it was the university newspaper. I edited that

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in Canberra University when I was doing a media degree

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back in ninety two to ninety four, and I used

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to write stories about things like female circumcision, battery, farming

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of chickens, people were duck shooting ducks for fun in Australia.

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They still do it to this day. It blows me

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away this happening in Victoria. To this day they're still

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shooting ducks for fun, which is incredibly cruel, and things

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like recycling and helping the environment. So things like that.

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I would see these stories and I would reshare I

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rewrite about these stories to help raise awareness. And I thought,

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if I can just encourage someone, just one person, to

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think differently, or to act differently when they go shopping,

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or to be a little bit more conscious in this area,

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then it's worth putting this story out. So For me,

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the media was a great release.

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Of my anger, like that, it's expression is what it

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is really Yeah, yeah.

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I think the way the mass media world has gone

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in the last twenty years or so since we've had

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social media, now, thank goodness, we have a lot more

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alternative media content out there. We're not just hearing and

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seeing the mainstream news and thinking that the world is doomed,

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because we know the world is being Doomed's going to

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be crack going on in the world. There's incredible going

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on the beginning of talent. But at the same time,

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there's also a whole lot of amazing stuff happening out

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there as well. So let's focus on some more of

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the good things that are happening, and let's create more

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good in our own lives, so that ripple effect will

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then affect the world at large.

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is really coming from a place of wanting to express

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either the truth or I think to some degree, mainstream

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media has lost sight of journalism per se, and I

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think that mantle is being shifted over to independent media

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more and more and it's really interesting to see that

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develop and blossom. I know personally, I don't watch mainstream

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media much anymore at all, and really rely and trust

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independent presenters more than I really ever have. And I've

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been a podcaster for nineteen years and have been a

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media creator for a long time myself, I would hope

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my audience has trusted what I said because I was

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trying to cover things accurately and do the right things.

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content creators now are trying to do. Is they're trying

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to really do, which you said, create positive change in

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the world and help inform people about things that maybe

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they're not being informed about for whatever corrupt or political

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reason that may be driving things the wrong direction or

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at least from the viewpoint of that particular content creator.

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of a situation that we've never as a human society

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had the opportunity to have millions of independent content creators

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that are trying to be a form of journalism and

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trying to explore topics like this. I think in the past,

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just like the topic that we're talking about right now,

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has not really been covered that deep about why and

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how content creators create independent content and what their motivation

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is and what keeps them going. And I think that

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was a fascination of mine because it was really this

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roller coaster ride that I went on for many years

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as a content creator too, of keeping my confidence, keeping

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my focus, keeping my thoughts clear about what I was doing. Well,

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has your media life that you've had for all these

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years impacted your life up and down? And I'm sure

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there was careers here and then not careers for a while,

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and then careers and then there was a lot of

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change over the years. So what kind of in a nutshell,

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what has been that journey for you?

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I didn't he radio and print, in traditional media, freelance

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for magazine all over the world, the strategies forgetting publicity

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are actually exactly the same no matter where you go

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in the world. So there's actual the same strategies where

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you're pitching stories to TV, radio, print, wherever you go.

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what's relevant for the media outlet, and how can you

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be of service, how can you help the wider community

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with whatever it is you're portraying. So that's for those

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who want to get publicity. For me, as someone who

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stressful place to work and in fact, the last job

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that I had was working as a sub editor and

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a journalist at the Sun Commune Newspapers. Now when I

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started some community newspapers is our local paper here in

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the Gold Coast Son and the Hinterland Sun, so we

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had two newspapers every week that that came out. And

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then what happened is in two thousands, so I started

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do in two thousand. By two thousand and two they

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then introduced five papers, so basically they got rid of

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the Interland Sun and the Gold Coast Son. They brought

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in an Upper North, a North, a Central, a South

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and a Tweed edition of the Sun newspapers and no

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extra journalists. So I went from doing five stories a

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week to now doing thirty stories a week. And if

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I had kept going, I definitely would have burned out

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at the time, I had a mortgage. I was, I

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had a bit of fear around leaving the full time work,

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leaving the stability of the full time work, and I

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actually started biography business part time on the side while

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I was working as a journalist. And I was I

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had a great life because I was the entertainment reporter.

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I had to do people like Hugh Jackman, Russell Crow,

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Cindy Law. But I went to all the VIP shows.

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It was fantastic to have that VIP treatment. But I

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was working crazy hours and it was a very stressful

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job to be in. And I think that stress now

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on journalists has increased even more so. Now they're all

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battling for the advertising dollar, they're battling to stay alive

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as media outlets, and so even more so now, what

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I'm finding through the media is that it's actually getting

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harder and harder to get onto journalists nowadays. I'm finding

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right they're actually often just not even answering their phone.

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more and more challenging to get their attention. Kind of

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online social media world is just so full of information everywhere.

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many bright shiny objects out there, so really to get

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that cut through, you've really got to think differently. Now,

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you've really got to build those relationships. You've got to

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build your own authority online. Now as an influencer, a

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lot has changed in the world of how we're putting

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ourselves out there, and now people are following people and

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trust is a sheit.

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Oh, I agree with you. Trust is probably the number

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one issue right now. It's ironic that you were saying

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what you were saying about the journalists not really responding

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or listening to input external input. If I think back

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to all the years that I was doing a nationally

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syndicated radio show and all this kind of stuff, that's

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all I did was listen to external sources. And it's ironic.

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Is the media today, you think isolating themselves because they're

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limiting their sources of information for whatever reason? Is it

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because it's easier or and why isn't there this acceptance

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that maybe you have to be open to other sources

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of information if you want to get really be a journalist.

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I think they're open to receiving the information. It's just

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to actually be able to talk to them on the

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phone because they're so time poor, because they so go

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all the time that it's really it's more challenging now

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to get their attention to be able to speak to them.

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You can, and they want things had to them on

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the plan if you well, that's.

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maybe they're not as open and to doing research themselves.

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given to them, which is I think from a journalist's perspective,

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that's a little dangerous that you're seeing a bunch of

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journalists operate from the perspective of they only take what

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they're given, not with their deep researching and trying to uncover,

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which is the typical role of a journalist is to

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uncover breaking news. But is the news that they're covering

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increasingly being given to them on a silver platter, which

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is dangerous.

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them a press release the way they want it and

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photos and visuals the way they want it, it's less

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likely to get a run. And also even with eb

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crews now they're just understaff. They don't have the crew nowadays.

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the media will say can we send them high high

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resolution photos? Can we send high definition video from it?

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able to send their own crew out. And the other

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thing that happening is that they don't care about quality

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as much as they used to. There used to be

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a lot higher standards, I think, with the quality of

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news that we used to get, and I think more

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as more of the senior reporters started leaving over the years,

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they brought in these young cadet journalists from people that

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just graduated from UNI, and they were just pumping out

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a whole lot of rubbish content. I didn't really care. Plus,

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there's a lot of syndicated content that we see, and

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we know that some of the people run some of

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these media organizations. There's definitely some hidden agendas at play,

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right And if you watch Thrive documentaries, it says in there,

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if you really want to know what's going on in

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the world, follow the money trail. And so I know,

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having worked as a journalist, there were times I was

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actually told to go out and get stories that were

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not there. There were certain agendas that are being pushed

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at different times. And I know when anything is blasted

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through the news like COVID was right, I thought, oh,

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here we go again. Okay, what's going on now? And

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I wasn't exactly sure what was happening behind it, but

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I knew that there was some fishy business going on.

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I do people to question everything, absolutely question everything, and

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this is part of why I started the Global Good

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News Challenge, because through COVID, we've actually had four times

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the suicide rates worldwide than before. Now about a million

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people a year worldwide take their own lives normally. Now

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I've had four of my own friends take their lives

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by the age of forty five. I've had depressions of

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mess about one in three people have depression, and it's

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a massive mental health issue out there right now through COVID,

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And this is what's so important. I believe that no

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matter how much drama and crap is going on in

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the world, that we can always come back to gratitude,

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because if we don't come back to gratitude, then we're

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going to be living miserable lives. And if you think

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about it, a third of people die by the age

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of sixty five anyway, So why not enjoy your experience

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of life no matter what the governments are doing, and

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no matter what's happening out there. It's a lot that

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you can control. And I think the more people realize

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their own power and the thrive documentaries. Actually, I've posted those.

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They're free. You can see them in the Conscious Community

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Global Facebook group. In there, there's a whole lot of

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amazing documentaries that will blow your mind. And I do

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encourage you to question everything because what you're seeing is

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not necessarily the truth. In mainstream media and particularly through COVID,

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we've had fact checkers, We've had fact checkers on Facebook,

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and YouTube doesn't like certain context. I've got the Total

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Truth Show. We don't stream all our shows to YouTube

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anymore because they don't let the truth on YouTube at

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scenes because their fact checkers seem to know more than

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more than we do. I've done videos on the balcony

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that YouTubers sent to me that is not correct what

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happened on my balcony. I was there, they were, and

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I don't know who these fact checkers are more and

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this is happening so more people are standing for freedom

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of information now we've had enough of the censorship, like

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just let people speak their mind and then the audience

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can decide for themselves what is true for that.

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And I think that is certainly the path forward increasingly,

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but I think we're going to face some increasing pressure

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on that until we can weak more people up to

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what's really going on here. I still think that there's

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still a lot of people that still trust the media,

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and at least the mainstream media anyway, and what the

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government is telling us about what is going on. I'm

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generally not a conspiracy theorist, but increasingly a lot of

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the what we're called conspiracy theories two years ago have

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come to pass that they're not conspiracy theories anymore, which

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makes me wonder what's going on where more and more

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conspiracy theories become fact. It's a worrying trend.

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The biggest conspiracy is what we've been seeing in the

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mainstream media, and we've seen it again and again over

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the years. History has been repeating itself, and even the

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term conspiracy theory was created by the CIA in the

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nineteen fifties to knock anyone who spoke against the government,

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and you can look do your own research on it.

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And this is the thing, This is where critical thinking

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is a beautiful thing. A common sense unfortunately is not

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so common for a lot of people, and a lot

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of people do not like to think that they have

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been hoodwinked in any way. Right, we like to think

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we can trust the government, Right, we'd like to think

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that they have our best interests at heart. But for example,

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the Out of Shadows documentary came out in June twenty twenty.

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It had ten million views in a month and then

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got taken down on a whole lot of platforms, and

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that was all about It's all about how we've been

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controlled by the media and by our education system, etc.

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To believe certain things and to do as you're told,

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to trust authority, all those kind of things. Now more

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and more people are not trusting authority because that there's

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so many lines out there, there's so much deceit. And

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now it's absolutely crucial. I believe that we actually use

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our critical thinking and we do our own research on

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alternative media channels such as we'd shoot and rubble and

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do your own research so that you can make informed

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choices for your own life. Otherwise, don't come back to

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us and say that we didn't tell you that. We

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didn't tell you. We're warning you right now, so they

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become inforced. So that will empower you.

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of media and not be so dependent on but still

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that critical thinking is the critical piece there, because even

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independent media can get things wrong or they can interpret

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things maybe Unfortunately, it's putting us in a position where

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we all have to self assess. It's the same thing

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with our health and other aspects of our life. We

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have to take control of our own life, in our

460
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own thoughts. And increasingly there's more and more people I'm

461
00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.599
hearing more and more people talk about positive thinking, mental health.

462
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The focus on love is such a huge aspect of this.

463
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And before we run out of time, I wanted to

464
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also ask you about the synergy that you've experienced over

465
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the years of all the media that you worked on

466
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and how that's all kind of culminated in the talent

467
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that you have and how you present. So, if you

468
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think about the various media like radio and print and

469
00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:34.599
photography and television and stuff you've worked in all these areas,

470
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you're basically a content creator from lots of different mediums,

471
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and how has that benefited you, I think in your

472
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success over the years of having all that, because I

473
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think a variety of people come into media just from

474
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one thing that they go in and they become a

475
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radio presenter, or they go and become a writer. How

476
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does that cross synergy of being a multi media creator

477
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helped you over the years.

478
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Very grateful actually for all of that experience because actually

479
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initially I did it media degree and I majored in

480
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photo journalism and TV production back at university, so I

481
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actually started in several media to start, and I actually

482
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:11.400
applied three times for the job as editor of the

483
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university newspaper before I got the job, so I had

484
00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:17.519
this resilience and tenacity about me. And then after that

485
00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:20.039
I applied for about two hundred jobs before I got

486
00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:23.359
my first job as a cadet journalist with the Daily

487
00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:25.839
Mercury Mackay. And then once I got that job, I

488
00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:28.079
then got the coff cyber advocate job. I was working

489
00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:32.039
at Queensland Times in Ipswich satellite newspapers, and on the side,

490
00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:36.000
I did theater and I did radio two HY for CRM.

491
00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:38.440
There's so many different and different radio stations, and then

492
00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:41.880
ABC and Channel seven things just snowballed from there. However,

493
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I had that persistence and resilience that I wanted to

494
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work in the media and nothing else right that I

495
00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:49.039
was very determined. I think from that having all that

496
00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:52.079
experience now it helps in so many different ways because

497
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now what I do is I teach people how to

498
00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:56.759
get into the media. I teach them what makes a cooto,

499
00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:59.359
I teach them about video. It's really you can't just

500
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think one form of media anymore. I don't believe that

501
00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:04.240
you've got it. You've got to actually think of all

502
00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.920
forms of media, and particularly video is incredibly powerful. If

503
00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:10.680
there's not many people doing video right now that I

504
00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:12.839
am listening to this, so I highly recommend that you

505
00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.839
put some more video content out. Audio thread powerful as well.

506
00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:18.720
A lot of people are loving podcasts like this, and

507
00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:21.079
these are great ways to build trust with your audience.

508
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So I think it's all been really beneficial in helping

509
00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:27.279
my clients to get their media out. And I think

510
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also with the media that I've put out, it's all

511
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been incredibly beneficial. And I'm always thinking about how am

512
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I coming across and how is this looking on camera?

513
00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:39.640
Even on zoom calls. I've got a great zoom background

514
00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:42.200
which has my media Queen TV in one corner with

515
00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:44.240
my caricature, and the other corner I've got the mass

516
00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:47.160
Media Mastery program, which is my media press. I'm always

517
00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:50.240
thinking about how am I representing myself out to the world,

518
00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.880
whether it's on a zoom call, on a podcast, online,

519
00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:57.480
TV show, social media, however it is I'm putting myself across.

520
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Am I being true to my brand at times? Which

521
00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.079
for me, it's all about inspiring truth and good news.

522
00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:04.920
So it's about lifting the energy up that it so.

523
00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:06.880
I actually share a lot of a lot in my

524
00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:10.880
socials of beautiful nature, pictures and animals and reminded world

525
00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:13.680
really is a beautiful place. It's easy to get into

526
00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:16.359
winged mode and complain about things in your life. However,

527
00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:18.799
you just take a moment and just step outside and

528
00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:21.519
just appreciate it bird for a moment, or appreciate it

529
00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:24.359
beautiful flower. You know it will just put your feet

530
00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:27.039
on the grass. Just simple things like this. The simple

531
00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:29.279
things in life are often the best I think and

532
00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:31.559
do what gives you joy, and for me, the media

533
00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:34.960
has always given me joy in the expression of what

534
00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:37.079
I can do with the media. Now I must say

535
00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:38.920
there's certain people I've worked with in the media that

536
00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:41.599
been absolutely paid in the backside, and I can't say

537
00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:43.200
the same for everyone that's worked in the media. I

538
00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:46.880
think there's a lot of shallow people the work in media,

539
00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:48.640
and in that way, I think you've got to be

540
00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:50.920
very resilient to be able to put up with the

541
00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:53.440
competitive nature of the media too, because there's always going

542
00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:55.880
to be someone wanting to take and that kind of

543
00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:57.880
thing as well. When you're in mainstream media at least,

544
00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:00.759
it's a very competitive field and you've got to build

545
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:02.920
up your resilience. You've got to build up your self

546
00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.759
esteeing your self confidence, do the inner work, do the courses.

547
00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:09.160
I've invested half a million dollars in my personal and

548
00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:12.440
business development with so many different courses of progress, and

549
00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:14.599
I keep making on myself to this day. I'm constantly

550
00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:18.759
doing courses and programs and working on becoming a better

551
00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.359
version of me continually. It's an ongoing process and I

552
00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:25.920
think doing that inner work is absolutely crucial to help

553
00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:27.799
with however it is you want to come across in

554
00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:28.759
any media form.

555
00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:31.359
So do you think about your your energy and your

556
00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:34.359
confidence over the progression of your career. Do you think

557
00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:37.680
it's changed. Do you think that you're now much more

558
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:41.720
energetic or in confident now than you were like maybe

559
00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:43.000
twenty thirty years ago.

560
00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:46.119
Absolutely. I've had a few near death experiences over the years.

561
00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:48.319
I've had a quinsy in my throat that a few

562
00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:50.319
years ago I ended up in hospital for three days,

563
00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:52.240
and that that was very close to kelping me. And

564
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.440
then just a month ago I got swept out to

565
00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.480
see about a coometer out in Costs Harbor had another

566
00:26:57.559 --> 00:26:59.359
near death experience. That every one of these new death

567
00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:02.039
experiences I've had, and every time someone close to me

568
00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:05.039
has died unexpectedly, and I've had quite a few through COVID.

569
00:27:05.079 --> 00:27:07.599
I've had friends die in their fifties that were very healthy,

570
00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.279
next minute dead, usually heart condition or something bizarre. I'm

571
00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:13.720
not saying it's from the JAB necessarily. How there has

572
00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:17.119
been a lot. There has been some liage unexpected deaths

573
00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:19.079
very quickly, and I think the more this has happened,

574
00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:21.279
the more for me, it's been like kind of having

575
00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:23.720
a rocket up my backside. There's a great visual for you. It's

576
00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:28.079
like I've been even more motivated and more energized to

577
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:31.160
inspire more truth and good news to help lift the

578
00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:34.039
energy out there and to live my best life, and

579
00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:37.039
in living my best life is impacting as many other

580
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:42.119
lives as I can. So I've been even more motivated, inspired, energized,

581
00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:45.279
particularly since COVID, I would say, so it's definitely changed

582
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:47.119
over time, and the more work I've done on myself

583
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:49.839
as well, the more confidence I've had in how I present.

584
00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:52.160
I've done a lot of different presenting courses as well

585
00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:54.640
a lot of different media programs, and so I think

586
00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:57.640
fine tuning his skills as a speaker as a presenter

587
00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:00.200
is very important and getting the difference between I mean,

588
00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.119
when you're speaking publicly, there's something known as the power

589
00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:05.759
of the pause, whereas if you're on air on radio,

590
00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:07.920
you don't want dead air. So it's actually quite a

591
00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:10.920
different art form to present to a live audience as

592
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.000
opposed to presenting powerfully online like this.

593
00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:17.440
Yeah, I think if you think about it from radio's perspective,

594
00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:20.519
it's not a casual medium and oftentimes it's not thought

595
00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:23.400
of like that. It's a fast paced medium that's short

596
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:27.160
form content. And then commercial break short form commercial break

597
00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:29.799
podcasting is a little bit more laid back. You can

598
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:32.519
pause more in a podcast, right, you can apply a

599
00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:36.119
lot more kind of emotion to your content in a podcast.

600
00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:40.319
I'll be sick, settled emotion, not so much high energy emotion.

601
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:44.160
I think podcasts that have very high energy, very fast

602
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:48.160
speaking stuff can be okay, I'm not sure that's essentially natural.

603
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.200
That's true podcasting. You do hear a lot more emotion

604
00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:55.400
with podcasters as opposed to say, traditional radio. That's a

605
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:58.319
lot more go and they definitely don't want the dead

606
00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:02.279
air on radio, then people change channels, whereas with a podcast,

607
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.960
you can see usually you can see the podcast as

608
00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:07.079
goes for twenty minutes or whatever, and so usually if

609
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:08.799
there's a pause in there, you think, I'll still got

610
00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:11.119
another ten minutes to go. You can actually visually see it.

611
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:13.319
Was with radio you can't actually see that.

612
00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:16.880
Heyes, I think, go ahead, finish with that.

613
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:17.759
And that makes too, I think, yeah, absolutely, it's a

614
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:20.200
good distinction between traditional radio and podcasting.

615
00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:23.519
So I appreciate you joining me. I've great to talk

616
00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:27.039
with you and learn more about your experience of being

617
00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:29.559
a content creator for all these years, and I'm sure

618
00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:32.680
that it's going to be very helpful to the audience

619
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.119
of this to have heard your story. I think we

620
00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:38.480
could go for two hours more talking about your journey

621
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.559
as a media creator and I just appreciate you spend

622
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.279
time with me here and calling me from Australia. So

623
00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:45.279
thank you so much.

624
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.079
Thank you. Rober spent absolute pleasure being on the show.

625
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And for those who are listening, I would love you

626
00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:53.079
to join in the Global Good News Challenge if you

627
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:55.279
want to share more gratitude and good news and have

628
00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:58.039
a better experience of life. And let's stay connected at

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Dot E E F and Slash Allman. Thank you, Rod

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all Right, thank you.

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