January 26, 2026
I Refilmed My Entire Signature Program (Here’s What I Didn’t Expect)
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Re-shooting all the videos for a product that’s generated over $8 million sounds like a straightforward business upgrade… until it isn’t.
In this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of what it was really like to re-record every single video inside the Ultimate Bundle®. Spoiler alert: this was about way more than lighting, scripts, or batch recording. It cracked open a lot for me — about grief, seasons of business, fear of slowing down, and the pressure we put on ourselves to constantly “improve” things that are already working.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by a big project, nostalgic for earlier seasons of your business, or quietly scared of what might happen if you let yourself rest, this episode is for you.
Before we dive in, I also pull a card from my question deck and reflect on something I want… and am also a little afraid of. (Hint: it has nothing to do with ambition and everything to do with rest.)
In this episode, you’ll hear…
- Why re-shooting the Ultimate Bundle® felt more like reliving the bar exam than a simple content update
- What building an MVP actually looks like over eight years of growth
- The hidden cost of having a wildly successful signature product
- How grief, loss, and survival mode quietly shaped my business from 2020 on
- Why “easy” seasons of business can feel surprisingly uncomfortable
- What early-stage hustle teaches you that success sometimes takes away
- How I approached updating a proven product without burning it all down
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Why This Re-Shoot Wasn’t Just a Re-Shoot
On paper, this was simple: re-record outdated videos inside a program that’s grown far beyond what I ever imagined back in 2017. But emotionally? It brought me face-to-face with past versions of myself — the scrappy founder doing everything alone, the 2020 version trying to hold it all together, and the version of me now who’s navigating a very different season of life and business.
I share why this project felt so heavy and how I had to rethink what “better” even means at this stage.
The MVP Myth (and What Actually Works)
I’ve always taught the MVP (most viable product) approach — and this episode is a real-time case study of what that looks like over nearly a decade. From DIY videos and cheap mics to polished systems and a full team, I walk you through how incremental improvements compound over time (and why perfection upfront is wildly overrated).
Success Comes With Responsibilities No One Warns You About
Having thousands of Ultimate Bundle® members is incredible… and it also means constant updates, evolving laws, new questions, and responsibility at scale. I talk honestly about the pressure of maintaining something that works really well — and how listening to customer questions has shaped every update I’ve made.
When Growth Feels Boring (and Why That’s Hard to Admit)
This might sound ungrateful, but it’s honest: when things are stable and predictable, it can feel strangely dull compared to the adrenaline of the early days. I reflect on why hunger and uncertainty can feel exciting — and how to stay engaged when you’re no longer in survival mode.

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Sam Vander Wielen: Hey there, and welcome back to On Your Terms®. I’m your host, Sam Vander Wielen, and this is a podcast for online business owners who want to be as present in their lives as profitable in their businesses. This is also a podcast where I, I mean, I’m always honest and, and I will openly share with you anytime, but today’s share is gonna be a bit of a vulnerable one because I’m taking you behind the scenes of what it was really like to reshoot all of the videos for my signature product, the Ultimate Bundle®® that’s generated like well over $8 million in product just for this one thing. Not just to say like, oh, hey, here’s how we shot these things, but because it actually brought up so much for me, like so much more than I thought about or anticipated, and I wanna be honest with you about what it was really like for me and sort of how I navigated this.
Before we jump into today’s episode, every week here on the podcast, I pull a card at random from my deck, answer the question, and I invite you to do the same, whether it’s through journaling or just thinking about it while you’re driving to work or sending me a, a vulnerable share of your own as to like what came up for you when I asked you this question.
So here’s this week’s question.
What’s something you want and are also a bit afraid of? Okay. Well, the irony for this being, for this, uh, episode, but I mean, honestly, if I had to stay off the top of my head, it’s probably taking a break. Like I wish that I could take a break from creating so much, or even from writing my business or something like this and when I say like, I wish I could, I can. It’s just that I’m afraid to do it and I’m afraid that I don’t even know what I’m afraid would happen. Like everything would fall apart. I wouldn’t be relevant anymore. Everybody would like lap me and my business. Like people would just start, selling thing. I don’t know, like a lot of scarcity comes up around that.
Um, and I just get really nervous about taking a break. I also guess, I guess I wonder if I would be really bored and like, what exactly would I take a break for? I don’t know. That’s, those are all just things that come up for me when I hear that question. So I’m curious for you, what comes up for you.
Like I said, today’s episode is all about this big re-shoot that I did in December for all of the videos that are inside of my Ultimate Bundle® program. I also, because we finished so quickly, ended up recording all of January’s podcast episodes, which was a huge bonus. It was ama, not only because their studios are amazing, but like, you know, batch recording for the win.
So we came here really with the main goal and focus to reshoot all of these bundle videos. Now, I created the Ultimate Bundle® eight years ago. I shot videos for it then. Then right before COVID , or maybe at the beginning of COVID, the Ultimate Bundle® had, you know, already become bigger than I ever had intended.
It maybe had, uh, I don’t know, 500 people in it. Maybe it was closing in on a thousand people in it. At the time and I was like, okay, this, this product actually is something, and so I should re-record these videos. So I did that back in 2020.
Now, keep in mind, I always recommend to people that you kind of, you know, do what we call the MVP, the most viable product approach to creating a product. So when I created the Ultimate Bundle®, I didn’t know if anyone was going to buy it or if like a million people were gonna buy it. So I didn’t put the fanciest, you know, editing, filming, there was no sound, good, sound quality. Like I had a cheap mic off of Amazon. Like I, my main goal was getting good substantive videos out to my customers when I created this in 2017. And 2018 and then once my like, okay, I know that this product is going to be a thing, I really invested back in 2020 and, okay, let me make these videos even better. Let me make them look a little bit better. I made them shorter because already back in 2020, we were already starting to see the creep of attention span, you know, coming into play.
So I was like, let me make them a little shorter. I’ve learned more, you know, yada yada. So I did that then, and I would say that ever since 2020, both my life and my business have basically just been like head down, try to stay alive and and afloat because my dad got sick. My dad died. My mom died. Like all of these things happen on the personal side and on the business side.
It was just like a constant influx of new customers. I guess one of the things that nobody ever talks about when it comes to creating like this signature product, it’s like. It’s really hard, like yes, it’s easy that I have like one main thing to focus on every day, which is like pretty much just selling the Ultimate Bundle® and then I sell individual legal contract templates.
But one of the things that people don’t consider is that like I have such an influx of people coming in all the time and I’m taking care of them, answering their questions, like making sure they’re all taken care of. But I then am like, oh shoot. Like I also have to keep this thing updated, right? I wanna keep it good, so I keep the products themselves updated, like all of the Ultimate Bundle® legal templates get updated and those are included.
But then I also wanna include like the videos and all of this stuff, and it just like the world changes so quickly. There are all these like new laws and things that happen, and one of the benefits to having so many customers, like we have over 4,500 people in the bundle. One of the biggest benefits to that is that I get a lot of questions and I have so much data, I have so much volume that then I see like, oh, you know, 20 people have asked me this question this year.
That means like that’s a hole that’s missing in the bundle, or that’s a hole that’s missing in this video that like, clearly people don’t understand this, or this thing wasn’t an issue at the time. Like this thing doesn’t make sense to people. So those are all things that I’ve been clocking now for years, being like, okay, I wanna answer this thing.
I wanna update this video. I wanna add a video about this topic. But I felt about like coming into this whole process, I felt about reshooting, the Ultimate Bundle®, the way I sometimes think about the bar exam. I was just telling someone this the other day, like when I took the bar exam, I was 23. Bless my little heart.
I studied like 16 hours a day. I didn’t get up. I was so hardcore, which I know will just absolutely shock everyone who has ever met me And so, so hardcore. Like my, all my friends from law school were like going to the gym all the time and they were like, it’s so important to get out and like I. Do things for fun.
And I was like, no, you gotta study all the time. And so I just studied for like 16 hours a day at Starbucks. My butt hurt so bad just from sitting in that seat. And my dad would literally come to visit me at Starbucks and he would just like, that would be his time with me for the day. ’cause I’d be like, I’m not leaving. I’m not taking the 10 minutes to go drive to your house. I was so insane about it and I was so worried I was gonna fail.
I think back on that time period now, and I’m like, I could never do that again. I could never take that test again. I really don’t think I could pass the bar both from like a physical body experience, let alone a mental experience.
I just don’t think I would be able to pass the bar again. And I still have nightmares by the way, about like someone comes to me in my dreams and tells me like, oh no, there was a problem, and like, you have to take the bar again. And I’m like, Nope, I’m just not doing it. It’s not happening.
I kind of felt like that coming into the bundle, to be honest with you. I thought back to like 2017 me and then 2020 reshoot me, and I was like, how did she do that? Like, I, I dunno how I did it. The funniest part about it is that I shot them myself. I edited them myself. I added captions myself. I uploaded them myself. You know, these are all normal things that people do in the beginning of their businesses.
Like, uh, I don’t get an award for this. The point being like, I have a lot of help now and so I have a lot more resources. I have all this help now. And I’m like, how the heck did I do that all of myself? Right? Don’t underestimate the power of being hungry, like when you are excited about something, that beginning of your business, there’s still like a little bit of a thrill where you’re like, is this thing gonna work?
Like it could either like work out amazing or could go like. Horribly wrong and like the thrill of that. You’re like, I don’t know, let’s like roll the dice. Let’s see how this goes. I don’t have that anymore because for one it’s already gone really well and I, I know that the bundle is going to continue to sell.
I know it’s really good. I also know I have like a lot of help and so yeah, I don’t know. There’s just something. That’s definitely like a bit of an overarching theme of something I’m experiencing right now where it’s like things are pretty easy and that’s boring in my respect. Like in my opinion. And there is a lot to, like, when I look back on the earlier years of my business, I’m like, oh, that was so fun because like I didn’t know what the heck I was doing.
And you might be in that stage right now and you might feel really frustrated about the fact that you’re like, I don’t know if this thing’s gonna pan out. I don’t understand. Like. What’s it called? Cap cut Pro or whatever. I don’t, whatever people even using now to cut videos, like I don’t even know ’cause I don’t do it. Right?
So, but, but I would have learned it like 2017 me would’ve been all over it. I would’ve learned it. I taught myself HTML. I taught myself WordPress and like how to build my site. Like I was so hungry and excited for it. And you want to rush through this period of your business. I know. And you want it to be like over and get back to like, or get to the place the, the good place, right?
That you’re feel like you’re headed. I just wouldn’t like mentally or emotionally skip over this journey part because I personally find that this part was really fun and everybody thinks that it’s the part when you are making in your business, multi seven figures or something like this, and yeah, that’s fun and it reduces a lot of stress in your life in a lot of ways, and it adds a lot of stress.
It also, like I sometimes am frustrated that I can’t do certain things in my business anymore because I don’t have the capacity. I can’t do it, but I miss doing those things. Like I don’t like having, always having people do things for me because I. I enjoyed that. I enjoyed the scrappiness of it, right? I enjoyed figuring out HTML.
I don’t wanna pay some website designer like thousands of dollars to go figure this thing out. I enjoyed it, but I also can’t do that anymore. So like these are just some of the things that people don’t think about when they’re like, I want this big business. I want all these things. Some of the things that you might be enjoying right now kind of get quote unquote taken away from you because you can’t physically do them anymore in order to have a business that’s of that size.
I also now just feel like when I create something I already know, like I’m creating, uh, videos for a program that there are thousands and thousands of people in. So personally, I feel more pressure knowing, first of all, that anyone’s gonna see them. Like it was a lot more fun the first time around when I created videos being like, I don’t know if anyone will ever watch this video.
It’s like, oh, well now I know people do, right? And people have questions. And one of the things that I think that people don’t talk about in the online space enough, once they’ve built. An audience or a business of this size is that getting so much feedback and yes, the, the negative feedback is rare and so much less than.
The positive feedback that we get, but getting feedback from people, even when it’s constructive, does start to chip away at your sense of like, just freedom of expression and like how easily or quickly you express yourself and so when I’m with friends or family or something like that, now I’m pretty unfiltered.
But when I am doing stuff for online, when I’m creating for my podcast or I am creating videos, I know people are seeing, I’m so much more now like anticipating like, oh, somebody’s gonna have a problem with that. Someone’s not gonna like this thing that I said, well, I didn’t, uh, like qualify or give this thing enough context, or, you know, I didn’t talk about privilege here, so I wanna make sure I cover that.
And I’m just so worried about kind of managing everyone’s emotions about whether or not they’re going to be angry or disappointed or upset, or it’s too out of touch, not relatable enough for somebody, right? So I don’t think people quite appreciate or understand how much that like builds up. It’s like, it’s like clogging a highway, you know, in your brain that you, it just makes it like harder and harder for me to be myself over time.
But once we actually got here to Chicago and we started filming the videos, you know, I got in the flow of things like, obviously Michelle and Lindsey from my team are here. We’re, we’re in a nice little groove. We’re uploading, downloading, we’re doing all the things, getting all the videos. But then something happened that I didn’t quite expect.
Once I started seeing the videos of myself and because I had to also go back and look at the old videos or like the old transcripts for the videos, just to kind of get my bearings as to how, um, what I was covering in the new videos, I would see these like old images of myself, which, first of all, the videos that are currently in the bundle or, or were in the bundle.
They are at my old house in Philadelphia where I lived my entire life until I moved to New York. So for one, I’m like seeing my old house, but also, I have to be honest with you, when I saw myself physically, I was like, whoa. Like first of all. Who was that person? Because this girl not only like lived in Philly, had never even been to Long Island, for example.
And now I live there and like love it so much, but I had such a different life. Like for one, my business was tiny. I was still that little hungry position. I was like working hard to make this business. It was total girl boss era. When you were like hustle, hustle, hustle. And you like took all your pride outta how much I was working.
I was on my phone twenty four seven, like, hold on, can’t talk to you. I gotta post something on Instagram, like, and I loved it. It was like my whole identity. It also was a time when my dad was alive. I don’t even know if my dad was sick yet or maybe had just gotten sick. Right? So my dad doesn’t have leukemia then my dad hasn’t died yet. My mom hasn’t died yet. I haven’t moved yet. And I mean, it’s without question that that experience has taken a huge toll on me, both mentally, emotionally, physically, everything. And when I see pictures, videos of myself from that time period, I’m like, who is that person? Because that it, it’s just like, it’s literally like seeing the before and there’s a part of me that, like my heart breaks for that girl because I’m like, she has no idea what’s coming, right? Like, what’s about to happen? And, and I feel like so sad that I just feel like the weight of everything that’s happened ever since then.
Honestly, I don’t know if it’s like when I look at those videos then, or the ones I see now that it doesn’t feel like me. Maybe it’s kind of like, neither feel like me because this big thing has happened and it’s completely changed me. And if you’ve gone through any, you know, grief or loss, you know, that it, you’re just not the same person on the other side. But I don’t feel like I am. You know who I at least wanna end up as right now, uh, forever.
And I also don’t feel like I will ever be like that woman before in the, in the videos in my old house. Like that will never be me, and I’ll never be girl, girl bossing again or anything like that. And that’s okay. But that girl has also been through so much shit, and I, I can’t imagine I, yeah, it’s just like, it’s literally like looking at another person. I don’t even know how to describe it.
I also can’t help but like beat myself up over how that has impacted me physically. I mean, what I’ve gone through with, with grief and all the stuff, the amount of stress, uh, especially for that period of time, it took such a huge toll on me physically. And so obviously I can see the effects of it.
I don’t feel like I look and feel my best now and, and definitely like even when I see videos from the last couple of years, like when I was in the thick of caregiving, I’m like, oh, girlfriend. Like I, I feel bad for myself as what I was going through. I also feel really proud of myself that I was showing up despite everything that was going on, and like, I don’t understand how I was able to do that.
I don’t necessarily think it’s that admirable, to be honest, just because I wasn’t, you know, I was just like running on all cylinders and, and running myself into the ground. And I also have compassion for myself that I was doing the best I could do and like trying to distract myself from a really horrible situation.
And so it makes sense to me. I also needed to make a living and so like I di I just didn’t really know what to do, but I look back and I see the toll that that took in me, I see the toll that has caught up with me, and I’ve been working really hard since probably the summer of 2025 on my health stuff.
And I’m frustrated that it’s not like done yet. You know, I’m just, I want the like 30 day version where you just like pop out, uh, like a, like a toaster oven and, and I’m all done. But I, I recognize and I respect the fact that like, it took me years to get, you know, into this position where the amount of stress and like the toll it took in me, and it’s going to take time to, to kind of peel that back off, right and like feeling myself again, have energy sleep through the night, all the things that I’m working on doing right now.
So one of the mornings that we were here in Chicago, this just like really came up for me and I was really upset about it and I talked to Lindsey and Michelle about it, like I needed to just kind of get it off my chest because it’s also, I think it’s a lot to carry around on your own and just be like, I have this like big worry and concern in the back of my head, but then I’m supposed to be this like smiley, like, Hey, welcome to the Ultimate Bundle®, like entertaining person on camera.
It’s, it’s kind of a weird, I don’t know. I found that to be a very weird position. Just in general, since I’ve been through so much grief stuff and have this kind of business, is that like we have like a, I don’t know, an outward high energy business of sorts, right? Like you have to be quote unquote on even when you’re being vulnerable.
It’s still like taking a lot of energy. Like even for me to do this right now, it’s like it takes a lot of energy for me to be this honest, I’m worried about how it’d be perceived. I’m worried that I, I’m depressing somebody that I’m too much of a downer, but like. All just, it takes so much energy being the one that has to produce the content, right? That gets to produce the content.
So I just sort of needed to reset myself, get it off my chest and, um, I, I honestly got back to work. But I mean, that’s, that’s, I feel like if that’s like a summary of my last, uh, probably five, six years in business has been like having a really hard time behind the scenes and then being like, well, let’s go shoot some videos and that’s just how I have to proceed.
I simultaneously want to be here and want to do this and love what I do, and I am having a hard time and that’s pretty much been the, like my reality since my dad got sick. And I started taking care of him, was like, I didn’t lose my ambition. I didn’t lose the love I have for what I do.
I love podcasting and writing. I love working with my customers and hearing what kinds of businesses they’re starting. Like I, I love content creation, I love all of these things and I am having a really hard time. So how do you show up? Right? It’s pretty much what my book is about, the whole thing. So that’s what I did here in Chicago. I just kept, kept going because that’s what I’m used to doing.
So as I was sharing about this week on social media and what we were doing here in Chicago at Kit Studios to refilm the bundle, I started getting all of these questions from you guys online and so I thought I would answer a few of them about what was going on here at the shoot.
So Kelsey on Instagram asked me, what made you decide to rerecord everything? I have that on my plans for 2026 to launch my course. That’s a great question, Kelsey, because I, you know, one of the things I always think about is like when you create a signature product, you have to be really careful not to zhuzh it too much, right?
‘Cause you don’t wanna keep updating it, like keep pouring all this energy into it, first of all, ’cause that’s not a very like, profitable, productive thing for you to do. But also you wanna give the course or the thing that you’ve created time and you wanna give people time to take it, consume it, give it feedback.
You don’t need to give it as much time as I’ve given in like as many people necessarily, but I think that you know, it’s time to rerecord when I mean, of course if the videos are wrong or outdated in terms of information not helpful anymore. Something like that. I know for me, one of the things that came up was like the way that consumption behavior, even alone has changed since the last time that I recorded bundle videos made me want to rerecord them. So last time when I recorded them in 2020, I made them a little shorter, but now I feel like it’s just like completely attention span is just like completely collapsed.
So one of my biggest goals for this one was to make them even shorter and more actionable. Another contributing factor to potentially rerecording them is when you consistently get questions from your audience or your customers where people don’t understand something or they still have a question or something has changed now and so like this question keeps coming up. So for me, I paid attention to these frequently asked questions over time. We kept them in a document and then those were all things I used to update those exact videos.
One of the things I was really excited about in terms of like why I wanted to reshoot the bundle was that just recently I actually had a customer, um, interview where this person told me, with all due respect, I think you need to focus more in your marketing on telling people how the Ultimate Bundle® actually helps people to form a business from scratch.
Because she thought that the bulk of the Ultimate Bundle® was just the fact that you get all these legal contracts and website policies. I think that’s like a really helpful reminder that sometimes you lose sight of what exactly like the value is in your product and how you communicate it to other people.
So me as a lawyer, like I often think, oh hey, my contracts and website policies, like, that’s what’s so valuable because I’m thinking about it from like a monetary perspective. Like that’s what you would pay a lot of money for, right? I know for the new entrepreneur or like the want to be entrepreneur, learning the exact steps to take to form a business and just like get it from like soup to nuts off the ground is a huge value.
And so that’s why when I re-shot it and just did this in Chicago, I actually came up with this idea to like have it so that when you log into the Ultimate Bundle®, there are 10 steps to start an online business. And right now there are 10 super short, easy, actionable videos that help you nail each one of those steps like super methodically, like form your LLC, get the business bank account, get your business insurance, yada, yada.
So those were all, I think, big contributing factors to rerecording. Now, someone else had another very good question, Melissa, on Instagram asked, can you do a post sharing a bit about why you chose to record at a studio versus your home?
I assume better equipment, no distractions, et cetera. But I’m curious about this as an option. Okay, so this is a great question, Melissa, because well, for one. If you use Kit, which I’m a huge kit customer, it’s what I use to run my, this is not sponsored, but like I use them for my, all my email marketing and all that kinda stuff.
If you use Kit as a Kit customer, you get access to, uh, their new kit studios, which as of right now, they have in Boise, Idaho, where they’re based out of, and then they also have one here in Chicago. I think we also have one coming in New York soon.
And first and foremost, they’re just beautiful. They also have like all this insane tech, like the most insane cameras and all of the mics and everything’s hooked up and like it’s just really easy and they’ve made it like pretty plug and play.
Like you bring a hard drive, you plug it in, hit record, and you have all the video, the audio, everything you need. So there’s just, for one, I just thought it was helpful to like up level, I would have to pay thousands of dollars to have this kind of equipment, but also have all of this stuff set up and like you know, I film from home, so I don’t want all these cameras and like wires and TVs and all these lights and everything like that. So it’s pretty cool to just like, it’s like you get to borrow somebody else’s, like already set up, pre-made office.
It is definitely also true, as you mentioned in your question, Melissa, about like being at home, it’s definitely distracting. Right? So like if we were doing this at home, I would’ve done like six loads of laundry. By now. I have a dog named Hudson who, you know, if I had my druthers, I would just spend all my time with him. So like, you know, he has to go potty. We take walks. Then my neighbor comes out and starts talking to me about like some cool she, things she found with her metal detector.
And so like, then we start talking, then I come home, then I’m hungry, then I have to have lunch. Now I have to clean the kitchen. Like it just, it’s a, you know, being at home, it’s like a whole thing. It’s just a different thing. So there is something about going away, leaving the husbands, you know, leaving the dogs, leaving the kids, leaving everything behind, and just being like, we’re only here to focus on this.
If you’ve listened to the podcast in the past, you know that one of my best like productivity hacks is always that if you have some task that you need to do in your business, like a specific, like you need to write this week’s email newsletter, I highly recommend just going somewhere like a library, a coffee shop, like go sit outside in a park.
It doesn’t matter. Go somewhere and be like, the only thing I’m doing at this place is that task. Like whatever the thing is that you have to do. There’s just something about like having this mindset that you’re going to this place, you’re only doing this thing, and I just find that always get that done plus like a million other things I didn’t intend to do.
Whereas when I’m home, sometimes I will just toil and walk around and do a bunch of different stuff. So yeah, being at home. Such a blessing and a curse. Like working from home has so many perks. It also has some difficulties, and you have to be really disciplined.
And, uh, I, I just think especially when it comes to like the audio visual, like podcasting, recording videos, there’s so many factors. Like your neighbor has the guy, you know, blowing the lawn with the leaf blower and somebody’s dog’s barking. It’s just like, there’s so many things outside my control, like it’s, it’s cloudy that day. So now we don’t have light. It’s a whole thing. So this has been awesome. I, I personally would recommend it.
I would love to get into the habit of like, well, especially once they have these in New York, I would go all the times, it’s not that far from us, but even if like you live near any of these cities, or if you’re going to Kit’s craft and commerce conference, for example, in June in Boise, which I’ll be at again, I spoke at it last year. It’s the best conference. They have their studios there and you can book time. So last year I was speaking twice while I was there, so I did not do it ’cause I was trying to save my voice. But everybody I knew who came to Kit last year, they all like did podcast interviews and like recorded videos and did all of this stuff. So like take advantage of these things when you travel.
If you have to come to Chicago for something, book an extra day, come to Kit Studios, knock out two or three podcast episodes, like you can do so many things. So yeah, I just think it’s a great way i’m like very curious to see how this all turns out in terms of how upleveled the videos look and we’ve gotten such incredible B-roll behind the scenes. I’ve been able to do all these little like video clips and everything for Instagram. Um, we’ve also done now so much for the podcast that we have. All these podcast videos to use. So like, think about how many assets you can get out of just this, like one thing, this one day, this one trip.
Yeah, so that’s a little behind the scenes of how the shoot actually went, what I was sort of thinking, why I went about doing it this way. I’m so curious whether you have any questions for me about shooting in a studio like this or traveling for work like this, or what maybe comes up for you when you’re on video?
I think one of the reasons why I wanted to talk about maybe some of the more real things that came up for me behind the scenes. That I always worry that people think that like people like me are okay. Like, oh, it’s ’cause video never bothers her. Or like, she must be so confident or like, this must be so easy for her.
Like, we tend to project onto other people and assume that like it must be different or easier or better for them. And so if you are worried about what you look like or you’re worried like you’ve had a rough year and you’re like, I’m not camera ready yet, and so like, I’m worried about that or. You’re worried about feeling confident on video or in a podcast like.
I think you’d be surprised how many people who you see doing those things feel the same thing as you. It’s just that they’re doing it anyway. I think that’s kind of the difference, and that’s why I just wanted to like openly share about this is that like I feel these things and I do it, and it doesn’t necessarily always get easier.
Some things do get easier. You get a little more used to talking into a camera and looking stupid when you’re walking around and talking to yourself on your phone, but other things don’t, right. Other, more deeper, uh, deep cut wounds. I think don’t, don’t always get better. And it’s really about like, do you just wanna do this anyway? And I think at the end of the day, that’s what I choose to do.
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