One of the most challenging tasks for content creators is growing an audience out of thin air. A YouTube audience in particular can be quite the challenge. Although it may come with a few daunting tasks, successfully growing your YouTube audience is not impossible.
First things first, know who your audience is. When you are recording videos, who are you talking to? At this point, you should know what your niche is, which will make knowing your audience that much easier. When you know exactly what audience you are trying to engage, interacting with your viewers can be a breeze. Another sage piece of advice is in content creation, “Create content that’s going to get a viewer. Not only click on my video, but want to comment on it, want to like it, and want to share it.” A call to action, such as asking open-ended questions or giving pointed directions gives your audience permission to interact with you, the creator, and each other, the community.
“Create content that’s going to get a viewer. Not only click on my video, but want to comment on it, want to like it, and want to share it.”
— C.R BRANIFF
There are other things that you can do to increase traffic on your page and videos. CR Braniff uses what he refers to as the 10 Minute Rule. Before posting a video on his YouTube channel, CR spends at least 10 minutes interacting with other similar channels. This includes liking, commenting, and responding to other viewers on other channels. And not just a basic response. “Getting in the comments and truly having genuine conversation that’s not: emoji, emoji emoji, and then bouncing out of there. It’s treating the other person like they’re a person and interacting with each viewer of the content or with creators themselves.” After posting a video, CR spends another 10 minutes engaging in the same authentic way. Why is this so important? Not only does it tell viewers that you truly care, but behind the scenes, YouTube’s algorithm actually sends people to your channel. This form of interaction notifies the algorithm that these videos are similar, and should be suggested to the other channel’s already established audience.
Lastly, you can easily break down your videos into two categories. One, videos for your new audience. These are videos considered discoverable content. They may contain an exaggerated thumbnail and content, but ultimately make your channel seem enticing enough for a viewer to stop by your page. Although highly important, these videos should only be a small percentage of what you do. The second category is videos that serve your existing community. These should be the majority of your videos and ones that keep people coming back. These videos build trust and community. This also benefits first time visitors because there is already content to view. New visitors can peruse your catalog of videos and determine if your channel has what they are looking for.
Now armed with a load of practical tools, you should have a great jumping off point for growing your YouTube audience. Keep engaging your audience and building a community! You’ll have hundreds of subscribers in no time.
Show Notes:
[00:01:57] What are you obsessed with?
Bryan: Multi CamLink
Loren: Pixar’s film Onward
CR: Adaptable Lights
[00:05:39] Who is CR Braniff?
[00:10:29] How do I grow my Youtube audience?
[00:15:25] What do you do to engage viewers?
[00:19:13] Youtube Don’ts
[00:25:53] What’s next for CR?
[00:31:38] Rapid Fire Questions
Show Quotes:
“Create content that’s going to get a viewer. Not only click on my video, but want to comment on it, want to like it, and want to share it.” [00:11:50]
“Getting in the comments and truly having genuine conversation that’s not: emoji, emoji emoji, and then bouncing out of there. It’s treating the other person like they’re a person and interacting with each viewer of the content or with creators themselves.” [00:17:04]
“To try and reach new audiences and not really have a catalog of ways to serve them, there’s not going to be a lot of value for them sticking around. You have to have your community in place first… In order for new people to be reached and then come to your page window, shop your channel and say, you know what? Yes, this is, this is why I’m here.” [00:24:23]
Links:
- CR: https://www.instagram.com/cr_braniff/
- Girl Power! https://www.facebook.com/theadoptivemompodcast/videos/243071246716106/
- Love Without Borders: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062936264/love-without-borders/
Transcript
Well, so I call it the 10 minute rule. All right. So before, um, videos are uploaded, I’ll spend about 10 minutes. Um. This is YouTube specific. I’ll spend about 10 minutes on the videos that I’m watching. I’m commenting on other people’s stuff, right? Just getting my, my handle out there and maybe under our, this gathered nest handle commenting on other people’s videos that I find interesting.
Hey, what’s up everybody? Welcome back to the goat rope podcast. My name is Brian Fitton. This is a podcast dedicated to doing marketing differently, serving first giving value and building
your brand.
I’m so excited that you’re with us today and I’ve got my awesome cohost, Ms. Lauren Lewis. Hey. Hey, and then we have an amazing cohost, special guest, mr CR.
Brandon, how you doing? CR.
Doing great guys. Appreciate you having me.
Absolutely. So this is second time you’ve been on the show, correct?
Yeah, man, it’s been too long.
It really has. Yeah. Right out of the gate we had you on. And uh, I still think it’s one of the more, most downloaded episodes that we have.
I’ll see. Our holds the crown, he has
the most downloaded episodes. That means a lot.
There’s more pressure on you now.
You know, you’ve got to bring that a game today.
Well, and that’s why. So make sure that you guys go check back at that episode in the show notes. We’ll have a link to it, but it was around storytelling and it was a phenomenal episode.
Uh, but today we’re going to jump into actually a YouTube branding. I had to build the channel. Um, CR has, they have built this amazing, amazing channel around their family and what they’re doing. And, and so I’m excited to kind of jump into that, but also he has a marketing background as
well.
Um, so it’s really going to be, get some good stuff, but before we get into that.
Yeah. You like started off with some of the fun. What’s that, Lauren? I always like to start our episodes off with what are you obsessed with? So CR started off, what are you obsessed with this
man outside of toilet paper? Um, I would say actually, you know what, I’m staring at one right now. So this is, this is some, a light actually.
Oh, the light that Angie and I use, um, the manufacturer, to be honest with you, I can’t even remember who makes it. I want to say it’s like Adorama. , if that makes sense. But the flexibility of these little lights here to go from different colors schemes and intensities and saturation levels, it’s top notch, especially in our line of work where we’re doing like various photo shoots or social media content.
Um, they’re lightweight. They’re small and easy to travel with, so
I’m a fan. Yeah. Nice. You guys are just listening. It looks like he’s holding a glowing box from the Avengers. Basically,
when I snap my fingers, this podcast might end. It’s like
half and half of the podcast will actually, that’s awesome. All right, so I’m going to go tech to, uh, as well because, so this recent, I’ve been traveling, doing a lot of live podcast editing, and so we video it with multi-camera set up. And so I went and started using, we have the cam link, which makes your DSLR camera able to actually do live streaming and recording through your
computer.
And usually it has a webcam basically. And uh, so I, this was my first time to do multi-camera switching, basically video producing while we were recording a podcast. It was a lot of stuff, but it was, yeah, it went really well. Very excited. I do know that I’m going to have to upgrade my video. I have the encoder on my computer cause it was lagging just a little bit.
But yeah, it’s a, it was a lot of fun though. I got to nerd out a little bit on some of the pipe that was not Lauren saying. She’s like, you can have that. So Cru and I can talk about lights
and color balance and all of it all day.
We can do that. So, but anyway, yeah, that’s my obsession. So now I’m
going to.
Even after this, I want to dig into more info on that kind of stuff. All right. Get excited. Lauren, what about you, Lauren? What are you obsessed with? So my husband and I are trying with our oldest child who’s, um,
he’s almost four,
um, to do more like on Friday nights to do like intentional dates with him.
And so last week I went and saw onward with him, which is a new Pixar.
It was
super cute and it was like, I. Really didn’t know what it honestly was about, but it actually, it made me cry. It was
really good. It was surprisingly,
Hmm. A lot more in depth than I
thought it was
going to be. So I thought it was really good.
And I mean, it’s always fun to
go with your. Like your child that’s
like really little and still seeing through their eyes. It’s just interesting what they pick
up on and so it was really fun.
Yeah, we did that with the frozen too, and not halfway through the movie or five-year-old Phil asleep on me. So you got to watch the rest of the movie.
It was really cute, but it was just like, all right, he’s not gonna remember any of this and how I’m enjoying it was a great movie. I’m not gonna. And you fall asleep in Sonic too. Yeah, he did. I think I fell asleep and Sonic, which actually Sonic was a phenomenal movie, but I would say now that you have the reclining chairs
so it gets done.
Yeah. Oh yeah. I’m like, I sit back, it’s over.
There’ll be, he wants, there’s heated seats. We’re in trouble. We’re in trouble.
Yes. For real. Well, now they bring you your food as well. I mean, there’s no, you don’t have to get up. It’s terrible. I mean, it’s the most wonderful thing ever. So, um, all right. Hey, that was really good.
That was good. I was, you know, you didn’t have a tech one. That’s okay. You know.
No, I didn’t. You’re forgetting.
Um, okay. Hey, let’s jump in to the topic today. Um, and it’s really. All about YouTube. Right. So Sierra, give us just a brief overview of who you are, what you do, kind of your background. Sure, sure.
So my name is CR Brenna.
Um, my wife and I actually have, well, we have a pretty sizable YouTube channel. That’s where, that’s where we got started. Um, it’s primarily a family blogging channel. And so basically we kind of go through our daily lives with a camera in our hands and try and tell interesting stories. Now through that type of content, we have pretty specific audiences that we’re trying to reach with regards to, um, demographics, I guess.
Um, you know, we want to reach families. That’s, that’s who we’re trying to, the inspire or, um, inform or educate, however you want to put it. But we’re trying to reach out to them and just share a big family life. Through our eyes. And so, uh, from a more professional background, I spent 13 years with a bank, uh, doing it risk management for the first 13.
About the last two of it, I actually ran several of their social media platforms, Twitter, LinkedIn, um, IgG and YouTube, and did content planning and some consulting work with their marketing groups. Um, on all things social. So from a more corporate side, um, I’ve got some professional background in social media and storytelling.
I left about two years ago, retired and came home and now I do social media full time with my wife. Um, she is the talent. I say this all the time. Um, we kind of put our heads together and figure out, you know, how we want to tackle this stuff from, um, a content standpoint. But. For the most part she is.
She’s the workhorse man. She picks up the camera. She has her own personal YouTube channel. She’s an author. I am her biggest cheerleader. So together we kind of go through life. Mmm. Tackling, tackling YouTube one video at a time.
Yeah. So you talked about big family lives. So how many kids do you have?
We have eight children.
We have eight. I think the last time you and I, or last time we spoke, I
have seven populations.
Thanks. Thanks. We adopted a little boy. Um, that’s all on YouTube. But um, yeah, it gets overall, so that keeps it lively.
Uh, and your family is just so beautiful. I love seeing the pictures and social media and the videos that you guys do.
Um, it’s always fun and you have burning body makes sure that you guys go out there and check, check them out. This gathered nest right for the, uh, the family blog. Um, what is, yeah, what is, uh, what is her personal channel?
I don’t think it’s Angela Brannon. So it’s really more lifestyle. Yeah. She started it up, um, a long time ago, but from a content standpoint, it’s really.
More geared towards motherhood and lifestyle, so she’ll get into a lot, a lot more than mom’s stuff. Then what’s discussed or shown, I guess on our, on our blog, so.
That’s awesome. That’s awesome. Yeah, we were joking about it. Like she always, she’s so pretty. And so it’s the, one of the things we were saying last time we were talking about, it’s like basically you see, or you must every morning just give her time to get ready or she just wakes up like that.
We don’t know exactly
what I would say it’s the latter, but she does spend some time getting ready and you know, we’re in a line of work where she, you know, she does that and she talks, she goes tutorials and stuff like that. Clothing and makeup and all that stuff too on her personal channel. So it’s all, it’s all a part of the gig.
Absolutely. That’s awesome. That’s awesome. Well, and we got connected back because she was on my wife’s podcast of the adoptive mom, because you guys are families. And so, and then after that she was like, you got to talk to Sierra like it. He’s like, right in line with what you guys are doing. And we became friends, digital friends.
We’ve kept in contact. It’s been awesome. So,
which reminds me real quick before we get into the, into the weeds here. You have a daughter that’s famous now I saw, I mean, that video
was so cute. Yeah. So that was totally off the cuff. We’ll put that in the show notes as well. So, yeah. Uh, I was randomly filming us.
They were just playing, and I mean, you take videos all the time of our kids and so, but sure enough, she stopped and she was like, I can’t, when I was like, you’re all power. And she’s like, yeah, girl power girls never stopped. And I was like, Oh yeah. I was like, that was not coached at all. That’s so cute. So she’s like tripping over a skitter and it’s like, we keep on rolling.
Keep on rolling. She’s just tripping.
Yeah. Right. You’re raising them, right, man, that was awesome. Yeah,
yeah, of course. Then there’s like the day that video comes out and we get like a bad report from school. She’s
like
mean and pushing kids and I’m like, of course. Of course. She gets on the news and everything and then we get like a terrible word for it.
Like that’s life though.
She’s celebrity status now. She wants, you know what I mean?
She’s Beyonce always. That’s good, man. That’s awesome. All right, so Lauren, let’s jump into some of the content today. All right,
so I mean, one of the questions
that we get a lot from people who are starting their YouTube channel is how do I
grow my audience?
And you cannot just throw videos at the wind and expect that there’s just going to grow without any
strategic.
Thought process unless you just
randomly get lucky.
Um, so what advice would you give to people who are
wanting to grow their YouTube? Yeah, so I guess I’m, I would approach this from, from the standpoint of, I would assume as a business owner who, you probably know who your audience is, right?
You know who you’re talking to. You know who you want to bring through the doors or, or who you want to visit your website, and you’ve got that image in your head. At this point, you’re going to be using video content to try on. And reach them, find them and engage with them. And that’s exactly what YouTube is for.
Um, obviously it’s a social platform, so because the word socialism there, the intent of the platform is to get people to engage with you as a creator and for you to engage with them. Right? That’s a huge, huge, huge talking point. Um, I would say starting in 2019 and when the platforms really went away from by reality, really searching for click baity titles and promoting that type of content to really promoting content that drives engagement with their viewers.
And so if I were to start somewhere, first, I would start with wanting to create content that’s going to get. A viewer. So not only click on my video, but want to comment on it, want to like it, and while I’m to share it. So as I’m strategizing and thinking through different types of content, that’s what I’m thinking about.
What is going to get my viewer to stick around through the duration of my video and have an opinion about it, have a feeling, have something that they want to converse with me about or, or leave a comment about. And those are the types of things that YouTube really likes in 2020 is content that drives engagement.
Hmm.
And that’s awesome. Yeah, and I think even with, we’ve talked about watch time, you know, we kinda dove into some of the analytics of that on in the past, but, um, watch time is a big deal because they actually are wanting that full connection that you have with somebody to be able to actually have them comments, leave a stick around, like make sure it’s interesting stuff and they’re getting value from it.
That it’s not just, we’re getting away from the early days of YouTube when there was just really click baity like this is a really cool thumbnail, but then the thumbnail has nothing to do. With the video itself and the content itself, I think is awesome. As as a platform, YouTube has done a really good job of that, of kind of fostering that community, taking away the anonymous, you know, trolls essentially.
Um, being able to like focus on what’s actually important of building that community back and forth. And you’ll always have, you know, obviously bad, bad people out there who are hurting and different things like that, that, that wants to bring somebody down. But for the most part, moving and I’m in a very good direction.
It’s, it’s healthier than it than it was when it 10 years ago when it, when it started. You know what I mean? They’re really focusing on not only the creator’s experience, but the viewers experience and the brands, the business side, you know, the, the advertisers, they want to make sure that the triad, if you will, are, are all working in unison towards the same goal, which is an enjoyable experience on the platform.
Yeah. Yeah. So what are some of the things that you do in the video? And then we’ve talked about. You know, having a hookup frown, Hey, this is, this is something that’s, we’re gonna, you know, this is what the video is about. It’s interesting. Hang on, stay tuned, type of, um, type of thing. But, you know, you talk about wanting, giving them almost permission to comment, to engage with you.
What are some of those guys do in your videos?
I mean, you’ve got to ask for it. I mean, really it’s calls to action. I think when you’re, when you’re creating content and you’re planning out either your editorial calendar or your content strategy, you almost have your narrative arc within the story you’re telling, right?
You’re kind of figuring out at what point in today’s blog or today’s video or today’s tutorial, am I going to reach out to my audience and ask for their opinion on something? Right? And that it’s as easy as that at the end of the day. Um. Majority of people are going to do what you tell them to. If you ask them for for permission, or if you, you come across as salesy or pushy, you’re probably gonna lose, you know, some engagement or some authenticity there.
But if you’re really treating them like they’re an intelligent human being, which you have to, right? I think in today’s society, you have to treat them, um, or have to treat everybody as if they’re, um, as if they’re human. And you’re asking for that, for that call to action in some form or fashion, whether it’s, give me your thoughts, click here, go here and check out this product.
Let me know what you think. Um, you’re gonna, you’re gonna get that
activity. Yeah, absolutely. Well, and that goes back to, I mean, why the show exists is doing marketing differently than what most companies do. Marketing as where it’s just, it’s not marketing and sales, right? They’re just pushing sales are pushing that.
So that’s right mentality. But you need to give value in that. And I think YouTube is a great platform for that. Yeah. Excellent. So, um, so when we talk about that community aspect, right, you said, you know, give those calls to action, make sure that people are given that permission, right. To do that. Um, but what about on like a commenting or like community building aspect?
I mean, are you guys responding to comments, you know, with a lot of people put out their stuff and then they just don’t do anything with it. They just like, here it is,
or,
and then they don’t engage. What are, what are some of the things you guys are doing?
It’s PivotTable so I call it the 10 minute rule.
All right. So before, um, videos are uploaded, all spend about 10 minutes. Um, this is YouTube specific. I’ll spend about 10 minutes on the videos that I’m watching, um, commenting on other people’s stuff, right? Just getting my, my handle out there and maybe under our, this gathered nest handle commenting on other people’s videos that I find interesting.
About 10 minutes after our upload, I do the same thing. I’m going out to . Similar styles of content, similar audiences, maybe where our viewers would go next to watch a video. And I’m also commenting on those ones. And it’s not something that is done disingenuously right? Like I’m, it may take me from my type of content to a similar creator’s content where maybe in the same genre and I’m interacting with those audiences as well.
And what that does within, um, YouTube algorithm and behind the scenes and say it kind of connects the dots. That’s right. It’s like this content creator and this content creator are connected. The people that are watching these videos might, might have something in common. And so I think straddling both ends of an upload is an interesting strategy.
It’s something that we’ve put into practice, I would say, over the last 12 months or so. Um, and it’s worked. And so outside of that, getting in the comments, um, and truly having genuine conversation, it’s not. Emoji, emoji emoji, and then bouncing out of there. Right. It’s treating, treating the other person like they’re a person and interacting with either other, other viewers of the content or with, uh, with creators themselves.
So it’s, it’s critical. It is, because again, it’s a social platform. So if I’m not being social on there, then it’s just a repository.
yeah. I think there’s a big difference
for a lot of people
when they put their YouTube channel, it’s like, I want to be
famous.
And that’s a very different goal
from, I want
a community because with a community you have to talk to those people.
I’m a very introverted person, so sometimes that sounds very daunting, but it’s like there’s two really different goals, and if you really want that genuine growth of community, that people that are gonna
follow you through thick and thin, you really have to engage with them. It can’t be just like, well, just look at
me.
And then be done with it.
It’s self-serving versus serving others. And I think you brought it, you brought it up earlier, right? I think serving your audience, um, and continuing to serve is always at the forefront. And a way to do that is to interact with them, right? Regardless of the type of content that you’re building, if you’re trying to educate them on.
Oh, cars or business or if you’re trying to entertain them through blogs like we are creating those connection points and opportunities for interaction and authentic discussion is, is vital, especially in today’s day and age where. Thousands and thousands of hours of video content is uploaded every minute to YouTube.
It’s just crazy.
It’s insane. Yeah. What’s funny though is you’re, what you’re saying is, is the same advice and things that we’re doing, you know, we tell them our clients, like building Facebook groups, it’s engaging with them. It’s commenting. It’s giving them permission to ask, and then going back through and giving value.
Even if you’re in other Facebook groups, don’t be on there to sell, but to actually help. People in solve their problems, you know, cause they’re asking questions, be involved in that community. And that that comes back tenfold all the time.
100% man. Absolutely.
All right. So CR, could you give us, I mean, maybe you don’t, it’s okay if you don’t have these, but, okay.
What are some of your
don’ts
when maintaining a channel?
I think it’s always good to have a few, like, Hey, I probably should watch out for these or be cautious
about this kind of, okay.
um, I would start by saying don’t sacrifice your integrity or one video or two videos or three videos. Right? I think at the end of the day.
People that kind of sell their soul, so to speak, to try and get clicks or videos because you’re interacting with an intelligent audience. They’re going to smell that type of stuff out, and then you’re going to lose their trust. So if you’re running a business and you feel like, well, the hot and the hottest trends right now are X, and I want to be a part of that conversation, so I’m going to create some video that incorporates it.
If that isn’t authentic to you or your brand or why your audience is following you, don’t do it. It’s okay to say no. All right. Only insert your voice or your, your brand in conversations where it makes sense. That’s the biggest thing because, um. On YouTube specifically, you’ll see it. I’m a good strategy is always to kind of keep an eye on Google trends and, um, if, if your audience does that, going in there and seeing, you know, what’s spiking for Google searches on a daily basis, building that into your routine is a good practice.
But if the results don’t, don’t make sense for you being a part of the conversation, it’s okay to say no. So. When you’re planning out strategy and planning out content, make sure you’re staying authentic too. Um, yourself. The type of content that you and your brand are trying to make, the message that you’re trying to get out there and the people you’re trying to reach.
Yeah. No, that’s huge. That’s a, so even right now, and this will kind of date this podcast a little bit too, but a Corona virus, right? That’s a big topic of conversation right now. Um, and I’ve seen. It’s so crazy, but you’re absolutely right. I’ve seen people that I follow who don’t have any business talking about this going into it as experts or as something that their opinion matters.
Um, and it’s not that I don’t, yeah, I’m like, I don’t go to you for this type of content, you know? Um, but if you’re looking at it like from your point of view, if you guys are, um, you know, as a family, how are we preparing? How are we protecting ourselves and our community as a family? Like, you can still fit in.
That
in. Exactly. Exactly.
You’re not coming on there saying, all right, Hey everybody. I’m going to tell you my opinions of coronavirus like that doesn’t fit with the content that you’re producing.
So there’s two ways to, you’re exactly right. And there’s, there’s two ways that we approach content. Every time we upload a video.
All right, we’re gonna, we’re gonna. We’re going to serve one of two audiences, a discoverable audience or our community. All right, so before we plan out a video, we have an intent. We have an intention of saying, you know what? With this video, I want to try and reach new audiences. I want to try and bring in followers or subscribers that don’t know I exist yet.
So my strategy for thumbnail, our strategy for titling that video. Is much different than what we would do for creating content with the sole purpose of serving our existing community. And so every now and again, um, I would say a few times a month, you know, we’re trying to widen our reach. We’re trying to get out there with, um.
With our content and reach new audiences and what you just said brought up. It’s perfect, right? If I wanted to take what was hot today, searchability wise, which is the Corona virus, obviously it’s going to be extremely saturated already, and I wanted to insert my type of content into that conversation, but I wanted to bring in new audiences.
I would definitely tailor a title and a thumbnail that was. A little bit more exaggerated, something that would maybe drive a little bit more click through on our title versus staying really, really authentic and saying, you know what? I’m going to serve my community so as our large family, here’s how we’re interacting with current.
Here’s how we’re preparing. And so that’s much more, I would say, true. As to what I’m comfortable doing. But for as an example, and as a part of this conversation, discoverable content and community content have two different purposes and two different strategies all in and of itself.
Wow. I have that is, that’s some great advice.
I don’t know that I’ve ever, ever thought about it in that sense too, but, uh, yeah. That’s fantastic. Um, so how do you, going from that, you know, we’ve talked to mainly marketing directors, um, you know, business owners, that type of, um, that type of a role. How would you even balance those two? So that community building, but then also, you know, discoverability.
So what, what advice would you offer
them? Sure. So I would, I would say, um. I think from a ratio standpoint or,
yeah, yeah. So is it 50 50 is it 10% is it, you know, cause you do want to take care of your current audience, right? And so you’ll always want to foster that community there, but you definitely want to expand and get things that are, that make that discoverability go up as well.
But
so here, here’s my, here’s my advice right? To try and reach new audiences and not really have a catalog of ways to serve them. There’s not going to be a lot of value for them sticking around. Does that make sense? So you also have to, your community has to be in place first. Your, your niche in the market, your, the people that you’re serving.
In order for new people to be reached and then come to your page window, shop your channel and say, you know what? Yes, this is, this is why I’m here. I wanted to know about X. This, this creator creates a ton of content. I kind of have a ton of tutorials around this topic. Um, I’m going to stick around a little bit, right?
So if they’re just, if you’re going to bring them in to window shop, your channel. There’s got to be other things for them to buy as well. Right? Otherwise, it’s like there, they’re gonna. They might, there’s no point in subscribing as somebody that, that doesn’t have that in place. And so early on, create content that’s going to build your community as you begin to grow and in you’re looking to grow and scale and you’ve got probably some catalogs, a have videos going with, you know, good playlist.
Um, I think at that point in time, it’s a good option to start creating a little bit more discoverable content, trying to get into new audiences.
Absolutely. No, and we, we’ve talked a little bit about the playlist in the past, but I mean that give them a place to go if they have a specific question, Hey, this is what we talk about in this playlist and this play.
Give them an opportunity to dig into more content and obviously loves that. So awesome. Yeah. All right. Um, so. Kind of moving on here too. I mean, uh, Siara what’s, what’s kind of next for you guys? What’s, uh, what’s coming down the pipe? We know there’s a book coming out, right? Oh, there
is. So this is all my wife right?
Here she is. She’s been working on this book, baby for two years. And it gets published April 28th that’s the go live date. And so we are in like everything YouTube wise is kind of taken a back seat because I had no idea how much work went into publishing a book and promoting it. And I’m not even doing it like this is, this is her baby.
And so like I said, man, raising eight kids and trying to bring this, this book baby into the world to, that’s, that’s the full time job. Um, I think once. Once the book does go live and hits the shelves, um, she’ll probably be doing some, some book touring up in New York and LA and then in Texas, and then maybe
Arkansas.
That’d be awesome. We’re, we’re thinking about the kids. I know, right? Throwing the kids in the RV and then just kind of, uh, traveling to these different locations. So yeah, it’d be fun to drive through and busy. You guys.
How, by the way, how big is the RV now? I mean, have you had to upgrade your RV because you guys already had a pretty big,
yeah, not, not yet.
It’s at max capacity right now. We’ll just get this latest edition. So, um, yeah, we bring in anymore. We got, we got issues on our hands.
Somebody sleeping in the trucks or so. That’s right.
Or on the roof.
Yeah. Just to expand. You can always go up. You can always go, Oh, that’s awesome. That’s awesome. Well, cool.
Well, we’re very excited for you guys. So we’re, where can they check out, preorder the book or anything like that? It’s called,
yeah, so the book is called love without borders. It’s a memoir that my, my wife wrote kind of about her upbringing. And then, um, kind of what, what changed in her life to spark, um.
An unlikely journey to, to build our family the way, the way it’s been built. And so you can find it anywhere. Books are sold. It’s on Amazon books, a million Barnes and noble available for presale now, and it goes live, like I said, April 28th. So
yeah, that’s awesome. Well, good. Well, we’re really excited for you guys.
Um, and where can they follow you guys? And we kind of mentioned a little bit, but. Yeah. Where can they go?
Yeah. Yeah. So on YouTube, our channel name is this gathered nest. Um, if you want to, all of my wife, her channel is, is Angela . And then on Instagram is where we were a little bit more active as well. At the same thing, this gathering us for my wife.
And then again, my name is CR Breno. Um, and I think if Facebook miss gathering nest as well. So, I mean, we’re all over there, but not too active on Twitter.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, and that’s a, I don’t know how you guys balance it cause you’re always releasing like really cool, like three 60 videos as well.
There’s, I mean one of my favorites was the go-karts. You’re just having having that three 60 camera and Roger go, I was like, this is the coolest thing. Nothing’s like happening, you’re just driving in the go car. But just seeing it obviously in different angles is really
versatile little tool there. I know we’re veering off a little bit, but, um, I’ll, I’ll, I’ll check out with you a little bit cause it’s like, I can do that with you.
Um, those little three 60 cameras now they are versatile and you know, once you start getting into content creation and video, once you got your storytelling and your angles down, if you can make, like creativity is the, is the byproduct of good storytelling. It just supports it. And so. Different shot angles and stuff like that, in my opinion.
Always throw a wrinkle in there for the viewer and make them like, huh? How’d they do that? Yeah, so
that’s fine. Do you still have the bird scooter or the, uh, your motorized scooter that you ride around? I
do actually have a video we uploaded just today. How’s me on the scooter? It was like 70 degrees out for the first time the other day.
So me and me and my juice box biker gang took a roll around the neighborhood and. Like through the school, I had the scooter, Dolan and a three 60 camera and I got a lot of looks because I’m like a mid thirties guy rolling around a neighborhood on an electric scooter. Take it for what it’s worth.
Well, you know the fit and family, I mean, we’re a scooter gang as well as we know.
So that’s, that’s the one we need to, I actually wrote a one wheel the other day and I didn’t wreck or anything and it felt pretty smooth. Get one of these. Amazing. Of course. I don’t know that my wife will let me, that’s his medical bills waiting to happen. So
just increase the life insurance policy and, you know, we’ll be good to go.
Maybe you’re getting another quarter million or something.
Yeah,
that’s hilarious. All right. Hey, Sarah, thanks so much, man. Seriously, this has been great. And obviously, I mean, always, always fun to have you on the show. Um, and, uh, the value here. So if you guys, uh, you know. What more information makes you guys.
Check them out, follow this, gather nest and all that they’re doing over there. Um, as well as a, you know, his show notes. We’ll have those up and going, right Lauren? Yup. We’ll have everything there for you guys. Uh, so anyway, thanks so much for tuning in and we’ll see you next week.
All right, we’re ready. Let’s do it. Rapid fire. Go. All right. If you had to delete all but three apps from your smartphone,
which ones would you keep?
Oh, goodness. You can only have, I mean, you’re talking like social, we’re on all the
social plans. I know that
this is apparently post-apocalyptic on your phone.
I want to see her go first on this one.
Which three? When I keep, um, Instagram, YouTube creators studio, and probably my text messages. Text message threads.
Oh. And we’re doing those ads so we don’t even get an account. I think that counts. Oh, man. Okay. Okay, good. Okay. That’s good. Your smart phone can do. Okay.
I would definitely delete the phone app because I’m not a fan of people calling here. Me calling.
I would agree with that one.
Um, so I, I’m going to, I’m going to say. Instagram as well as I’m LinkedIn. I’m, I’m big on the LinkedIn side and then the may be a Marco polo situation.
Oh, no.
Yeah. Oh yeah. You’ve had time to think about, these are not so rapid fire right.
I guess I would have to be like Marco polo. I text messages and then honestly my Walmart grocery app so I can order my groceries.
That’s a good one.
Yeah. Yeah. Wow.
That was probably about Instacart too. Yeah. Genre. All the grocery shopping apps.
Yup. Yeah. Using use Instacart for all the, do you guys have all the out there?
We do, yeah. All these awesome.
So it’s a good one. All right.
This is a simple one. What is your most used emoji. Uh, mine is the ex.
Yeah. If they are going to be a black heart
or black heart, I do the
black card.
It’s, it seems like it seems a little more manly, even though it seems durable. I do use the black card
probably that has the black heart.
Yeah.
I, again, it’s like I was putting red hard, you know, we almost show some love. Right. I was like, the red hearts are just, they’re just
popping out too much.
I like black on black, on black, it’s UCR.
I’m most used emoji. I would probably say either the hand that does this right here. I’ve been on this like punk rock isn’t dead thing, and so I’ve been getting it.
I’ve been trying to get my girls into a little bit more of a like pop punk music from the early two thousands which is, that’s my, that’s my love language. And so I’ve been using a lot of this thing lately, so. I don’t know what you call that. I like it.
So why are we saying pop punk, like little, little hardcore ish?
Like not, not like the singing scream mode type stuff, or are you talking
about, I mean, I love, love all punk rock music. Underneath that John MRE umbrella. I have an affinity for the new found glories of the world, the starting line. So a little bit more poppy, but I can definitely get into some hardcore stuff too.
Nice.
That’s a good era. It’s good air. Really was. Yeah. Well, once you learn, uh, I think it’s either like bell, the laughing, crying face. Um, Oh, yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Or the nervous space where you’re like doing this. Yeah. He mentioned
how the women,
uh, for the longest time, I thought that was just like a big smile. So I would send it to people like. Like thinking that it’s a big smile, but it’s not as the, uh, yeah.
I have a question for you. Did you, I was told that this is not praise hands. Like, Oh, it’s not the whatever, the two hand thing, I was told it was a high five.
Like a drug, like a high 10 I don’t know if that’s accurate or not. I figured I’d come to the .
I always thought it was bright. I use it as praise and like, yay, great job. Or I guess it could be a double high five. I mean, you’re, you’re giving some kudos, right? So
you’re right. I don’t know.
I don’t know. In certain countries, if that’s a high five States, culturally, that is like
culturally relevant.
I think it’s
okay,
but I might know infinitive. Yeah. I
know in certain countries, if you’re very careful with your hand motions,
like it can mean different things.
So many
people out there,
but that’s fair.
Cussing at me right now. Oh, goodness. Anyway, Hey, those are good.
Those are actually good.
Sometimes he’s like, Oh, that was good.
Big smile.
