1) I got the chance to really take a hard look at myself from new perspectives and do a lot of brainstorming on new ways to approach my social media messaging. Specifically, I’ve always tried to steer clear from the use the emotionally charged language in my messaging because I personally do not respond well being emotionally manipulated and wish that all advertising I saw was more cut and dry, to the point, so I don’t have to peel back all the layers of emotional material and kindergarten level explanations and other useless stuff obscuring what I really want to know about the product/service: how it works in detail so I can determine two things. 1) whether I think the person trying to manipulate me emotionally is full of shit, and 2) if I can do it myself after I learn how it works because I usually can. So I thought I was being respectful to my audience by treating them how I want to be treated… golden rule, right? Instead I finally came to understand that what I see as having to wade through several levels of BS in the way between me and what I want to know, most other people perceive as helping them to connect emotionally, build trust, and be guided through the process so they don’t have to try to learn more. The first time they got to a part of my message where they didn’t understand the complex stuff I was trying to teach, most people just skipped to the next video instead of trying to figure it out. So even though in my mind I was coming from a place of service, it was a service that very few people heard about. 2) what worked best for me was really reflecting on the feedback from day one and two by posting in the community and getting feedback. 3) My biggest piece of feedback on improving structure is to provide the hw instructions earlier in each day’s lessons and classify more of the other videos as bonus content or something like that. It was a lot of time, and there was TONS of value in those videos so thank you from the bottom of my heart, but I’m not sure that ALL the information was strictly needed to complete the assignments at satisfactory levels that would allow people to still get a LOT out of it, and lower amount of time to complete the hw may increase participation.

@Nicolas Canon nope not there for me. I’ll look it up on Reddit later lol

I have the same issue Gina, doesn’t show up when I search.

@Gina Marie wow Gina that is wild how similar our paths have been! I apologize for my delay in replying. In my next draft of this I’ll find a way to work in those points without going too much longer. It’s already on the long side! I was worried that I spent too much time on my story, but I tried to make each part of my story be about connecting with the reader as best as I know how.

@Nicolas Canon speaking more simplistically is a constant challenge for me. I fear that I will come off condescending, or even worse given cutting-edge nature of my work, snake oily. I mostly prefer to consume and create deep, long-form content where I can satisfy my curiosity and feel like I have more freedom to speak my mind, respectively. I find most short form content to be a waste of my time in my personal life. I don’t scroll IG, Facebook, and TikTok in my personal life at all, but I feel like I have to post content to it and I feel like a square peg in a round hole when I do. I am still working on ways to adapt and be more relatable while still explaining how what I do is so radically new and different. To anyone reading with advice for me on the subject, I would love to hear your perspective!

@Nicolas Canon your short form content that I have seen no, I’ve even shared some of it! but I also admit I haven’t seen very much of it as I only actively seek out your longer videos and read your longer posts. I know I need to change my style in the short term to meet the needs of people. I just need to figure out how to make that change in a way that feels genuine for me. I think I have hard time with this because it seems I do social media backwards from most people, I won’t watch someone’s short marketing content until I vet their long content to see if they’re full of it or not. I start on YT and rarely click on videos under 10 minutes. I’m fully aware of the messed up things this says about me, but that’s more of a long-term problem 😂 In the short term I need to refocus to become really good at producing content that I strongly dislike and would never personally watch. As I sit with that more, I think I’ve been avoiding it because 1) it did not feel genuine to me, so I was afraid that people would pick up on my feelings and 2) I’m afraid that won’t know how to judge whether content I don’t like is worthy of posting. But in reality the end result was that I just posted content that performed shitty anyways so I might as well just try to make what people will watch, I suppose, and keep doing it shitty that way until I find a way to feel genuine while doing it.