March 24, 2024 • 30 mins
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:
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:
- 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.
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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm excited to have Aldwin here to join me on
the Spoken Live show, and I appreciate you taking your
time to hop on a call here with me. I
know you're calling me from Australia and it's exciting to
have you here with me. And the purpose of the
show really is to dig deep into media personalities and
how they connect with audiences. So that's what I wanted
(00:22):
to talk with you about today was You've been in media,
and you've been in television and audio and radio and
making content for a long time to audiences, and you
must have a certain kind of approach that you take
to different audiences in how you actually produce the content.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And I'm just.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Curious what have you learned about speaking to and creating
engagement with audiences really no matter what the medium is.
But is there a particular approach that you take with
audiences that you think with your personality connects with audiences
in the best way. Granted this is a journey been
doing this for a long time, but how do you
(01:02):
think about that topic of being able to speak to
an audience really effectively?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh? Thank you, Rod, So great to be on your show,
And what a great question Wow. For me, really, I
think the most important thing is a speaker and as
a ear personality is to be true to myself and
being true to myself. This isn't always going to appeal
to different audiences, right, However, the way I look at
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it is the more that I am true to myself
and the more that I speak my truth, I am
going to find people that will love me, and there's
going to be people that will hate me as well.
You're going to get more or divide. And the more
you speak your truth. So I actually don't. I don't
alter what I say generally depending on the audience. If
it's a physical speaking gig that I'm at and it's
(01:49):
a group of women, I may tailor some of the
content more for females in that case, right, I guess
in that way. However, really, the voice that's coming through
how I present myself and what I share is coming
from my heart. It's coming from my soul's and tapping
into that place of trusting and allowing whatever needs to
be said, and that's something I like to do. I
(02:13):
know there's a lot of presenters out there that are
very structured in how they present, and they have their
whole talks outlined and they've all the questions listed and
all that kind of thing. Whereas I tend to very
much go with the flow of the energy that I'm
feeling at the time and the energy in the room.
Whether it's an online room like this that we're on now,
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,
I tend to feel into us in the room and
what they need, depending on what the topic is. Now,
my main speaking topic has have been about how to
gain free, positive publicity. Now with that, I do have slides.
I have a lot of slides that I got lots
of examples, and I have an outline of what I share,
and I have my seven awesome steps to gaining publicity
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which I go through. However, how do I present those
seven steps will be different every single time. There's some
things I may say that at the study. However, there's
other things that I tend to very much go with
the flow. And I think that could be from being
a radio announcer for many years and also m seeing
on some really big stages at the Woodford Folk Festival,
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
radio show, as you started out with live radio as well,
right before podcasting full podcasting was around, and with live radio,
you've got to think on the fly all the time.
You've really got to be able to speak at any
moment as to what is coming through and be able
to bounce off co hosts and things like that. So
(03:42):
I've learned, I guess over the years, this kind of
improv style of speaking and depending on the audience here,
I might tailor some of the content for them. However,
the voice coming through. It's always important for me to
be true to myself and to speak my truth and
not worry about whether people are going to what I
say or not, because the more we get into worrying
(04:02):
about what other people are going to think, the more
nervous we're going to get, the more that we might
stumble over our words, etc. It's really being true to self,
and that comes with there's a big process to being
true to yourself, and that comes with actually loving yourself
and doing the doing the inner work right. Because if
you don't love yourself, if you don't have a certain
amount of self confidence. And I'm not talking about arrogance you.
(04:23):
I'm talking about confidence, being confident in yourself and your message.
If you don't have that, you're not going to be
able to speak with authority on whatever topic you're going
to speak about, or even to be fully true to yourself.
In that way, You're going to come across make maybe
a bit nervous or a bit wishy washy, and people
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,
before we putting yourself out there, you need to have
a certain confidence about what it is that you're sharing.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, certainly, And I think where the opportunity is here
and based on what you're what you're talking about here
is this distinction between kind of scripted, pre produce type
of content as opposed to more live type content, which
is more speaking, more organically, more off of the cuff,
more off of how you're feeling at the moment, not
(05:13):
so much contrived by an outline or a script or
something like that. I am using a little bit of
an outline for what we're talking about here too, But
I do realize, for many years of doing this myself
is that just because you have an outline doesn't mean
you have to stick to it. So you just work
your way through what is relevant. But you also have
to listen too. I think that's a big part of this,
(05:34):
at least on the podcasting side. I think having a
conversation about something versus presenting something, and I think that
there is a difference there. I'm just curious what your
thought is that distinction between presenting something and then having
more of an interactive conversation with either your audience or
a guest or some combination a Do you which do
(05:55):
you enjoy more? Is it the interactive experience or do
you like present.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh that's a great question. Yeah, absolutely, It's two completely
different ballgames. However, in saying that, I love interaction with
a live audience and I love interaction like this with yourself,
which this is a very much an organic conversation here
that we have. When I'm presenting live, I'm always asking
questions of the audience. I'm always saying, now.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Who feels this and gets them to raise their hand
or something? Right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Style is very interactive. I really like that feedback, and
I do get a lot of feedback from people saying
that they find me very engaging when they've seen me
present live or in online master classes. I've done four
hour online master classes, I've done one day online master classes,
and people at the feedback I've had from this, people
have actually loved it. They've said they didn't think they'd
(06:44):
be able to sit there the whole day and listen
to what it is as I was sharing. But I
guess with the interactive style and with the passion I
think that I present, I think that can be it
can be very appealing to people to have when you've
got that passion, because a lot of people out there
don't have passion, and that which kind of blows me away.
Really in many ways, I look around, I see a
lot of people like the walking Dead out there. Very
(07:06):
sad when I see that. And part of why I
do what I do is that I really want people
living lives that they love. I would encourage people to
love their life and make the most of their life.
And of course I have a story why that is
the case, and it's because for many years I did
not want to be here on the planet. I grew
up very angry with the world. I used to watch
a lot of negative media with my dad. He used
(07:28):
to and he still does this day, God bless him.
He's eighty four years of eight. It put not just
one channel of mainstream news on. He watched multiple channels
of news, two hours of negative news every night. And
then I all eat as a child, and I saw
a lot of animal cruelty and all these things, and
I was so depressed and angry with the world growing up.
I did not want to be here in my teenage years,
and it was very rebellious, and I went totally off
(07:51):
the rails. Thankfully I had table tennis and I used
to beat the hell out of the balls. One way
I released my anger was through table tennis. Became a
very good table tennis player, while was also still very rebellious,
very strict to European father. I've got Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian background,
born in Sydney in Australia, so it's really quite a
unique mix in my bloodline. And having gone from many
(08:11):
years of actually having depression myself and not wanting to
be on the planet, I found the media a great
way to actually create change in areas that upset me
or angered me. Because my dad said to me, he said,
anger is danger and so for many years I internalized
my anger, which then led to depression. And I would
watch documentaries back well before social media was around, right
(08:34):
back in the nineteen nineties, I was watching a lot
of documentaries and news and whenever I saw something that
upset me, I would write a story about it in
that Initially it was the university newspaper. I edited that
in Canberra University when I was doing a media degree
back in ninety two to ninety four, and I used
to write stories about things like female circumcision, battery, farming
of chickens, people were duck shooting ducks for fun in Australia.
(08:57):
They still do it to this day. It blows me
away this happening in Victoria. To this day they're still
shooting ducks for fun, which is incredibly cruel, and things
like recycling and helping the environment. So things like that.
I would see these stories and I would reshare I
rewrite about these stories to help raise awareness. And I thought,
if I can just encourage someone, just one person, to
think differently, or to act differently when they go shopping,
(09:20):
or to be a little bit more conscious in this area,
then it's worth putting this story out. So For me,
the media was a great release.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Of my anger, like that, it's expression is what it
is really Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, expression and a fantastic way to create change. And
I think the way the mass media world has gone
in the last twenty years or so since we've had
social media, now, thank goodness, we have a lot more
alternative media content out there. We're not just hearing and
seeing the mainstream news and thinking that the world is doomed,
because we know the world is being Doomed's going to
(09:53):
be crack going on in the world. There's incredible going
on the beginning of talent. But at the same time,
there's also a whole lot of amazing stuff happening out
there as well. So let's focus on some more of
the good things that are happening, and let's create more
good in our own lives, so that ripple effect will
then affect the world at large.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, there's definitely an explosion of independent media now that
is really coming from a place of wanting to express
either the truth or I think to some degree, mainstream
media has lost sight of journalism per se, and I
think that mantle is being shifted over to independent media
more and more and it's really interesting to see that
(10:29):
develop and blossom. I know personally, I don't watch mainstream
media much anymore at all, and really rely and trust
independent presenters more than I really ever have. And I've
been a podcaster for nineteen years and have been a
media creator for a long time myself, I would hope
my audience has trusted what I said because I was
(10:50):
trying to cover things accurately and do the right things.
And I think that's what a lot of independent media
content creators now are trying to do. Is they're trying
to really do, which you said, create positive change in
the world and help inform people about things that maybe
they're not being informed about for whatever corrupt or political
reason that may be driving things the wrong direction or
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at least from the viewpoint of that particular content creator.
And that's okay, And I think that's very powerful type
of a situation that we've never as a human society
had the opportunity to have millions of independent content creators
that are trying to be a form of journalism and
trying to explore topics like this. I think in the past,
(11:34):
just like the topic that we're talking about right now,
has not really been covered that deep about why and
how content creators create independent content and what their motivation
is and what keeps them going. And I think that
was a fascination of mine because it was really this
roller coaster ride that I went on for many years
as a content creator too, of keeping my confidence, keeping
(11:56):
my focus, keeping my thoughts clear about what I was doing. Well,
I have a question for you next, too, is how
has your media life that you've had for all these
years impacted your life up and down? And I'm sure
there was careers here and then not careers for a while,
and then careers and then there was a lot of
change over the years. So what kind of in a nutshell,
(12:17):
what has been that journey for you?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh gosh, it's been a massive journey, I must say,
I didn't he radio and print, in traditional media, freelance
for magazine all over the world, the strategies forgetting publicity
are actually exactly the same no matter where you go
in the world. So there's actual the same strategies where
you're pitching stories to TV, radio, print, wherever you go.
You've got to think of what's relevant for the journalists,
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
with whatever it is you're portraying. So that's for those
who want to get publicity. For me, as someone who
worked inside the media as a journalist, it was very
stressful place to work and in fact, the last job
that I had was working as a sub editor and
a journalist at the Sun Commune Newspapers. Now when I
started some community newspapers is our local paper here in
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the Gold Coast area in Queensland, and we were we
put out at the time. When I started, we had
the Gold Coast Son and the Hinterland Sun, so we
had two newspapers every week that that came out. And
then what happened is in two thousands, so I started
do in two thousand. By two thousand and two they
then introduced five papers, so basically they got rid of
the Interland Sun and the Gold Coast Son. They brought
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in an Upper North, a North, a Central, a South
and a Tweed edition of the Sun newspapers and no
extra journalists. So I went from doing five stories a
week to now doing thirty stories a week. And if
I had kept going, I definitely would have burned out
at the time, I had a mortgage. I was, I
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
actually started biography business part time on the side while
I was working as a journalist. And I was I
had a great life because I was the entertainment reporter.
I had to do people like Hugh Jackman, Russell Crow,
Cindy Law. But I went to all the VIP shows.
It was fantastic to have that VIP treatment. But I
was working crazy hours and it was a very stressful
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job to be in. And I think that stress now
on journalists has increased even more so. Now they're all
battling for the advertising dollar, they're battling to stay alive
as media outlets, and so even more so now, what
I'm finding through the media is that it's actually getting
harder and harder to get onto journalists nowadays. I'm finding
right they're actually often just not even answering their phone.
(14:26):
They're really they're under such pressures that it's really becoming
more and more challenging to get their attention. Kind of
online social media world is just so full of information everywhere.
Now we're just in overload and overwhelming, and there's so
many bright shiny objects out there, so really to get
that cut through, you've really got to think differently. Now,
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
lot has changed in the world of how we're putting
ourselves out there, and now people are following people and
trust is a sheit.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Oh, I agree with you. Trust is probably the number
one issue right now. It's ironic that you were saying
what you were saying about the journalists not really responding
or listening to input external input. If I think back
to all the years that I was doing a nationally
syndicated radio show and all this kind of stuff, that's
all I did was listen to external sources. And it's ironic.
(15:21):
Is the media today, you think isolating themselves because they're
limiting their sources of information for whatever reason? Is it
because it's easier or and why isn't there this acceptance
that maybe you have to be open to other sources
of information if you want to get really be a journalist.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I think they're open to receiving the information. It's just
to actually be able to talk to them on the
phone because they're so time poor, because they so go
all the time that it's really it's more challenging now
to get their attention to be able to speak to them.
You can, and they want things had to them on
the plan if you well, that's.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
That's part of what I'm talking about here, is that
maybe they're not as open and to doing research themselves.
Maybe they're used to having it being, like you said,
given to them, which is I think from a journalist's perspective,
that's a little dangerous that you're seeing a bunch of
journalists operate from the perspective of they only take what
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
uncover breaking news. But is the news that they're covering
increasingly being given to them on a silver platter, which
is dangerous.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Absolutely, they're getting lazier basically because if you don't give
them a press release the way they want it and
photos and visuals the way they want it, it's less
likely to get a run. And also even with eb
crews now they're just understaff. They don't have the crew nowadays.
So often when when we've got events we're promoting, often
the media will say can we send them high high
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resolution photos? Can we send high definition video from it?
Because they'll use our footage more so nowadays and be
able to send their own crew out. And the other
thing that happening is that they don't care about quality
as much as they used to. There used to be
a lot higher standards, I think, with the quality of
news that we used to get, and I think more
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
just graduated from UNI, and they were just pumping out
a whole lot of rubbish content. I didn't really care. Plus,
there's a lot of syndicated content that we see, and
we know that some of the people run some of
these media organizations. There's definitely some hidden agendas at play,
right And if you watch Thrive documentaries, it says in there,
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,
having worked as a journalist, there were times I was
actually told to go out and get stories that were
not there. There were certain agendas that are being pushed
at different times. And I know when anything is blasted
through the news like COVID was right, I thought, oh,
here we go again. Okay, what's going on now? And
I wasn't exactly sure what was happening behind it, but
I knew that there was some fishy business going on.
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I do people to question everything, absolutely question everything, and
this is part of why I started the Global Good
News Challenge, because through COVID, we've actually had four times
the suicide rates worldwide than before. Now about a million
people a year worldwide take their own lives normally. Now
I've had four of my own friends take their lives
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
a massive mental health issue out there right now through COVID,
And this is what's so important. I believe that no
matter how much drama and crap is going on in
the world, that we can always come back to gratitude,
because if we don't come back to gratitude, then we're
going to be living miserable lives. And if you think
about it, a third of people die by the age
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of sixty five anyway, So why not enjoy your experience
of life no matter what the governments are doing, and
no matter what's happening out there. It's a lot that
you can control. And I think the more people realize
their own power and the thrive documentaries. Actually, I've posted those.
They're free. You can see them in the Conscious Community
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
encourage you to question everything because what you're seeing is
not necessarily the truth. In mainstream media and particularly through COVID,
we've had fact checkers, We've had fact checkers on Facebook,
and YouTube doesn't like certain context. I've got the Total
Truth Show. We don't stream all our shows to YouTube
anymore because they don't let the truth on YouTube at
(19:16):
scenes because their fact checkers seem to know more than
more than we do. I've done videos on the balcony
that YouTubers sent to me that is not correct what
happened on my balcony. I was there, they were, and
I don't know who these fact checkers are more and
this is happening so more people are standing for freedom
of information now we've had enough of the censorship, like
just let people speak their mind and then the audience
can decide for themselves what is true for that.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And I think that is certainly the path forward increasingly,
but I think we're going to face some increasing pressure
on that until we can weak more people up to
what's really going on here. I still think that there's
still a lot of people that still trust the media,
and at least the mainstream media anyway, and what the
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
the what we're called conspiracy theories two years ago have
come to pass that they're not conspiracy theories anymore, which
makes me wonder what's going on where more and more
conspiracy theories become fact. It's a worrying trend.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
The biggest conspiracy is what we've been seeing in the
mainstream media, and we've seen it again and again over
the years. History has been repeating itself, and even the
term conspiracy theory was created by the CIA in the
nineteen fifties to knock anyone who spoke against the government,
and you can look do your own research on it.
And this is the thing, This is where critical thinking
is a beautiful thing. A common sense unfortunately is not
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so common for a lot of people, and a lot
of people do not like to think that they have
been hoodwinked in any way. Right, we like to think
we can trust the government, Right, we'd like to think
that they have our best interests at heart. But for example,
the Out of Shadows documentary came out in June twenty twenty.
It had ten million views in a month and then
got taken down on a whole lot of platforms, and
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.
To believe certain things and to do as you're told,
to trust authority, all those kind of things. Now more
and more people are not trusting authority because that there's
so many lines out there, there's so much deceit. And
now it's absolutely crucial. I believe that we actually use
our critical thinking and we do our own research on
(21:21):
alternative media channels such as we'd shoot and rubble and
do your own research so that you can make informed
choices for your own life. Otherwise, don't come back to
us and say that we didn't tell you that. We
didn't tell you. We're warning you right now, so they
become inforced. So that will empower you.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, so you can also be open to independent sources
of media and not be so dependent on but still
that critical thinking is the critical piece there, because even
independent media can get things wrong or they can interpret
things maybe Unfortunately, it's putting us in a position where
we all have to self assess. It's the same thing
with our health and other aspects of our life. We
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have to take control of our own life, in our
own thoughts. And increasingly there's more and more people I'm
hearing more and more people talk about positive thinking, mental health.
The focus on love is such a huge aspect of this.
And before we run out of time, I wanted to
also ask you about the synergy that you've experienced over
the years of all the media that you worked on
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and how that's all kind of culminated in the talent
that you have and how you present. So, if you
think about the various media like radio and print and
photography and television and stuff you've worked in all these areas,
you're basically a content creator from lots of different mediums,
and how has that benefited you, I think in your
(22:41):
success over the years of having all that, because I
think a variety of people come into media just from
one thing that they go in and they become a
radio presenter, or they go and become a writer. How
does that cross synergy of being a multi media creator
helped you over the years.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Very grateful actually for all of that experience because actually
initially I did it media degree and I majored in
photo journalism and TV production back at university, so I
actually started in several media to start, and I actually
applied three times for the job as editor of the
university newspaper before I got the job, so I had
this resilience and tenacity about me. And then after that
(23:17):
I applied for about two hundred jobs before I got
my first job as a cadet journalist with the Daily
Mercury Mackay. And then once I got that job, I
then got the coff cyber advocate job. I was working
at Queensland Times in Ipswich satellite newspapers, and on the side,
I did theater and I did radio two HY for CRM.
There's so many different and different radio stations, and then
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ABC and Channel seven things just snowballed from there. However,
I had that persistence and resilience that I wanted to
work in the media and nothing else right that I
was very determined. I think from that having all that
experience now it helps in so many different ways because
now what I do is I teach people how to
get into the media. I teach them what makes a cooto,
I teach them about video. It's really you can't just
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think one form of media anymore. I don't believe that
you've got it. You've got to actually think of all
forms of media, and particularly video is incredibly powerful. If
there's not many people doing video right now that I
am listening to this, so I highly recommend that you
put some more video content out. Audio thread powerful as well.
A lot of people are loving podcasts like this, and
these are great ways to build trust with your audience.
(24:21):
So I think it's all been really beneficial in helping
my clients to get their media out. And I think
also with the media that I've put out, it's all
been incredibly beneficial. And I'm always thinking about how am
I coming across and how is this looking on camera?
Even on zoom calls. I've got a great zoom background
which has my media Queen TV in one corner with
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my caricature, and the other corner I've got the mass
Media Mastery program, which is my media press. I'm always
thinking about how am I representing myself out to the world,
whether it's on a zoom call, on a podcast, online,
TV show, social media, however it is I'm putting myself across.
Am I being true to my brand at times? Which
for me, it's all about inspiring truth and good news.
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So it's about lifting the energy up that it so.
I actually share a lot of a lot in my
socials of beautiful nature, pictures and animals and reminded world
really is a beautiful place. It's easy to get into
winged mode and complain about things in your life. However,
you just take a moment and just step outside and
just appreciate it bird for a moment, or appreciate it
beautiful flower. You know it will just put your feet
(25:24):
on the grass. Just simple things like this. The simple
things in life are often the best I think and
do what gives you joy, and for me, the media
has always given me joy in the expression of what
I can do with the media. Now I must say
there's certain people I've worked with in the media that
been absolutely paid in the backside, and I can't say
the same for everyone that's worked in the media. I
think there's a lot of shallow people the work in media,
(25:46):
and in that way, I think you've got to be
very resilient to be able to put up with the
competitive nature of the media too, because there's always going
to be someone wanting to take and that kind of
thing as well. When you're in mainstream media at least,
it's a very competitive field and you've got to build
up your resilience. You've got to build up your self
esteeing your self confidence, do the inner work, do the courses.
(26:06):
I've invested half a million dollars in my personal and
business development with so many different courses of progress, and
I keep making on myself to this day. I'm constantly
doing courses and programs and working on becoming a better
version of me continually. It's an ongoing process and I
think doing that inner work is absolutely crucial to help
with however it is you want to come across in
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any media form.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So do you think about your your energy and your
confidence over the progression of your career. Do you think
it's changed. Do you think that you're now much more
energetic or in confident now than you were like maybe
twenty thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Absolutely. I've had a few near death experiences over the years.
I've had a quinsy in my throat that a few
years ago I ended up in hospital for three days,
and that that was very close to kelping me. And
then just a month ago I got swept out to
see about a coometer out in Costs Harbor had another
near death experience. That every one of these new death
experiences I've had, and every time someone close to me
has died unexpectedly, and I've had quite a few through COVID.
(27:05):
I've had friends die in their fifties that were very healthy,
next minute dead, usually heart condition or something bizarre. I'm
not saying it's from the JAB necessarily. How there has
been a lot. There has been some liage unexpected deaths
very quickly, and I think the more this has happened,
the more for me, it's been like kind of having
a rocket up my backside. There's a great visual for you. It's
like I've been even more motivated and more energized to
(27:28):
inspire more truth and good news to help lift the
energy out there and to live my best life, and
in living my best life is impacting as many other
lives as I can. So I've been even more motivated, inspired, energized,
particularly since COVID, I would say, so it's definitely changed
over time, and the more work I've done on myself
as well, the more confidence I've had in how I present.
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I've done a lot of different presenting courses as well
a lot of different media programs, and so I think
fine tuning his skills as a speaker as a presenter
is very important and getting the difference between I mean,
when you're speaking publicly, there's something known as the power
of the pause, whereas if you're on air on radio,
you don't want dead air. So it's actually quite a
different art form to present to a live audience as
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opposed to presenting powerfully online like this.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, I think if you think about it from radio's perspective,
it's not a casual medium and oftentimes it's not thought
of like that. It's a fast paced medium that's short
form content. And then commercial break short form commercial break
podcasting is a little bit more laid back. You can
pause more in a podcast, right, you can apply a
lot more kind of emotion to your content in a podcast.
(28:36):
I'll be sick, settled emotion, not so much high energy emotion.
I think podcasts that have very high energy, very fast
speaking stuff can be okay, I'm not sure that's essentially natural.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That's true podcasting. You do hear a lot more emotion
with podcasters as opposed to say, traditional radio. That's a
lot more go and they definitely don't want the dead
air on radio, then people change channels, whereas with a podcast,
you can see usually you can see the podcast as
goes for twenty minutes or whatever, and so usually if
there's a pause in there, you think, I'll still got
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another ten minutes to go. You can actually visually see it.
Was with radio you can't actually see that.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Heyes, I think, go ahead, finish with that.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And that makes too, I think, yeah, absolutely, it's a
good distinction between traditional radio and podcasting.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
So I appreciate you joining me. I've great to talk
with you and learn more about your experience of being
a content creator for all these years, and I'm sure
that it's going to be very helpful to the audience
of this to have heard your story. I think we
could go for two hours more talking about your journey
as a media creator and I just appreciate you spend
(29:41):
time with me here and calling me from Australia. So
thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Thank you. Rober spent absolute pleasure being on the show.
And for those who are listening, I would love you
to join in the Global Good News Challenge if you
want to share more gratitude and good news and have
a better experience of life. And let's stay connected at
Link Tree Forward, Slash Aldwin, La n K t R,
Dot E E F and Slash Allman. Thank you, Rod
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Speaker 2 (30:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm excited to have Aldwin here to join me on
the Spoken Live show, and I appreciate you taking your
time to hop on a call here with me. I
know you're calling me from Australia and it's exciting to
have you here with me. And the purpose of the
show really is to dig deep into media personalities and
how they connect with audiences. So that's what I wanted
(00:22):
to talk with you about today was You've been in media,
and you've been in television and audio and radio and
making content for a long time to audiences, and you
must have a certain kind of approach that you take
to different audiences in how you actually produce the content.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And I'm just.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Curious what have you learned about speaking to and creating
engagement with audiences really no matter what the medium is.
But is there a particular approach that you take with
audiences that you think with your personality connects with audiences
in the best way. Granted this is a journey been
doing this for a long time, but how do you
(01:02):
think about that topic of being able to speak to
an audience really effectively?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh? Thank you, Rod, So great to be on your show,
And what a great question Wow. For me, really, I
think the most important thing is a speaker and as
a ear personality is to be true to myself and
being true to myself. This isn't always going to appeal
to different audiences, right, However, the way I look at
(01:27):
it is the more that I am true to myself
and the more that I speak my truth, I am
going to find people that will love me, and there's
going to be people that will hate me as well.
You're going to get more or divide. And the more
you speak your truth. So I actually don't. I don't
alter what I say generally depending on the audience. If
it's a physical speaking gig that I'm at and it's
(01:49):
a group of women, I may tailor some of the
content more for females in that case, right, I guess
in that way. However, really, the voice that's coming through
how I present myself and what I share is coming
from my heart. It's coming from my soul's and tapping
into that place of trusting and allowing whatever needs to
be said, and that's something I like to do. I
(02:13):
know there's a lot of presenters out there that are
very structured in how they present, and they have their
whole talks outlined and they've all the questions listed and
all that kind of thing. Whereas I tend to very
much go with the flow of the energy that I'm
feeling at the time and the energy in the room.
Whether it's an online room like this that we're on now,
whether it's a podcast or a Norma on TV show,
(02:35):
or whether it's a physical speaking gig in the space,
I tend to feel into us in the room and
what they need, depending on what the topic is. Now,
my main speaking topic has have been about how to
gain free, positive publicity. Now with that, I do have slides.
I have a lot of slides that I got lots
of examples, and I have an outline of what I share,
and I have my seven awesome steps to gaining publicity
(02:58):
which I go through. However, how do I present those
seven steps will be different every single time. There's some
things I may say that at the study. However, there's
other things that I tend to very much go with
the flow. And I think that could be from being
a radio announcer for many years and also m seeing
on some really big stages at the Woodford Folk Festival,
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
radio show, as you started out with live radio as well,
right before podcasting full podcasting was around, and with live radio,
you've got to think on the fly all the time.
You've really got to be able to speak at any
moment as to what is coming through and be able
to bounce off co hosts and things like that. So
(03:42):
I've learned, I guess over the years, this kind of
improv style of speaking and depending on the audience here,
I might tailor some of the content for them. However,
the voice coming through. It's always important for me to
be true to myself and to speak my truth and
not worry about whether people are going to what I
say or not, because the more we get into worrying
(04:02):
about what other people are going to think, the more
nervous we're going to get, the more that we might
stumble over our words, etc. It's really being true to self,
and that comes with there's a big process to being
true to yourself, and that comes with actually loving yourself
and doing the doing the inner work right. Because if
you don't love yourself, if you don't have a certain
amount of self confidence. And I'm not talking about arrogance you.
(04:23):
I'm talking about confidence, being confident in yourself and your message.
If you don't have that, you're not going to be
able to speak with authority on whatever topic you're going
to speak about, or even to be fully true to yourself.
In that way, You're going to come across make maybe
a bit nervous or a bit wishy washy, and people
will see straight through that. So I think you need
(04:43):
to as a speaker and as a media presenter, which ever,
before we putting yourself out there, you need to have
a certain confidence about what it is that you're sharing.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, certainly, And I think where the opportunity is here
and based on what you're what you're talking about here
is this distinction between kind of scripted, pre produce type
of content as opposed to more live type content, which
is more speaking, more organically, more off of the cuff,
more off of how you're feeling at the moment, not
(05:13):
so much contrived by an outline or a script or
something like that. I am using a little bit of
an outline for what we're talking about here too, But
I do realize, for many years of doing this myself
is that just because you have an outline doesn't mean
you have to stick to it. So you just work
your way through what is relevant. But you also have
to listen too. I think that's a big part of this,
(05:34):
at least on the podcasting side. I think having a
conversation about something versus presenting something, and I think that
there is a difference there. I'm just curious what your
thought is that distinction between presenting something and then having
more of an interactive conversation with either your audience or
a guest or some combination a Do you which do
(05:55):
you enjoy more? Is it the interactive experience or do
you like present.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh that's a great question. Yeah, absolutely, It's two completely
different ballgames. However, in saying that, I love interaction with
a live audience and I love interaction like this with yourself,
which this is a very much an organic conversation here
that we have. When I'm presenting live, I'm always asking
questions of the audience. I'm always saying, now.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Who feels this and gets them to raise their hand
or something? Right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Style is very interactive. I really like that feedback, and
I do get a lot of feedback from people saying
that they find me very engaging when they've seen me
present live or in online master classes. I've done four
hour online master classes, I've done one day online master classes,
and people at the feedback I've had from this, people
have actually loved it. They've said they didn't think they'd
(06:44):
be able to sit there the whole day and listen
to what it is as I was sharing. But I
guess with the interactive style and with the passion I
think that I present, I think that can be it
can be very appealing to people to have when you've
got that passion, because a lot of people out there
don't have passion, and that which kind of blows me away.
Really in many ways, I look around, I see a
lot of people like the walking Dead out there. Very
(07:06):
sad when I see that. And part of why I
do what I do is that I really want people
living lives that they love. I would encourage people to
love their life and make the most of their life.
And of course I have a story why that is
the case, and it's because for many years I did
not want to be here on the planet. I grew
up very angry with the world. I used to watch
a lot of negative media with my dad. He used
(07:28):
to and he still does this day, God bless him.
He's eighty four years of eight. It put not just
one channel of mainstream news on. He watched multiple channels
of news, two hours of negative news every night. And
then I all eat as a child, and I saw
a lot of animal cruelty and all these things, and
I was so depressed and angry with the world growing up.
I did not want to be here in my teenage years,
and it was very rebellious, and I went totally off
(07:51):
the rails. Thankfully I had table tennis and I used
to beat the hell out of the balls. One way
I released my anger was through table tennis. Became a
very good table tennis player, while was also still very rebellious,
very strict to European father. I've got Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian background,
born in Sydney in Australia, so it's really quite a
unique mix in my bloodline. And having gone from many
(08:11):
years of actually having depression myself and not wanting to
be on the planet, I found the media a great
way to actually create change in areas that upset me
or angered me. Because my dad said to me, he said,
anger is danger and so for many years I internalized
my anger, which then led to depression. And I would
watch documentaries back well before social media was around, right
(08:34):
back in the nineteen nineties, I was watching a lot
of documentaries and news and whenever I saw something that
upset me, I would write a story about it in
that Initially it was the university newspaper. I edited that
in Canberra University when I was doing a media degree
back in ninety two to ninety four, and I used
to write stories about things like female circumcision, battery, farming
of chickens, people were duck shooting ducks for fun in Australia.
(08:57):
They still do it to this day. It blows me
away this happening in Victoria. To this day they're still
shooting ducks for fun, which is incredibly cruel, and things
like recycling and helping the environment. So things like that.
I would see these stories and I would reshare I
rewrite about these stories to help raise awareness. And I thought,
if I can just encourage someone, just one person, to
think differently, or to act differently when they go shopping,
(09:20):
or to be a little bit more conscious in this area,
then it's worth putting this story out. So For me,
the media was a great release.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Of my anger, like that, it's expression is what it
is really Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, expression and a fantastic way to create change. And
I think the way the mass media world has gone
in the last twenty years or so since we've had
social media, now, thank goodness, we have a lot more
alternative media content out there. We're not just hearing and
seeing the mainstream news and thinking that the world is doomed,
because we know the world is being Doomed's going to
(09:53):
be crack going on in the world. There's incredible going
on the beginning of talent. But at the same time,
there's also a whole lot of amazing stuff happening out
there as well. So let's focus on some more of
the good things that are happening, and let's create more
good in our own lives, so that ripple effect will
then affect the world at large.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, there's definitely an explosion of independent media now that
is really coming from a place of wanting to express
either the truth or I think to some degree, mainstream
media has lost sight of journalism per se, and I
think that mantle is being shifted over to independent media
more and more and it's really interesting to see that
(10:29):
develop and blossom. I know personally, I don't watch mainstream
media much anymore at all, and really rely and trust
independent presenters more than I really ever have. And I've
been a podcaster for nineteen years and have been a
media creator for a long time myself, I would hope
my audience has trusted what I said because I was
(10:50):
trying to cover things accurately and do the right things.
And I think that's what a lot of independent media
content creators now are trying to do. Is they're trying
to really do, which you said, create positive change in
the world and help inform people about things that maybe
they're not being informed about for whatever corrupt or political
reason that may be driving things the wrong direction or
(11:14):
at least from the viewpoint of that particular content creator.
And that's okay, And I think that's very powerful type
of a situation that we've never as a human society
had the opportunity to have millions of independent content creators
that are trying to be a form of journalism and
trying to explore topics like this. I think in the past,
(11:34):
just like the topic that we're talking about right now,
has not really been covered that deep about why and
how content creators create independent content and what their motivation
is and what keeps them going. And I think that
was a fascination of mine because it was really this
roller coaster ride that I went on for many years
as a content creator too, of keeping my confidence, keeping
(11:56):
my focus, keeping my thoughts clear about what I was doing. Well,
I have a question for you next, too, is how
has your media life that you've had for all these
years impacted your life up and down? And I'm sure
there was careers here and then not careers for a while,
and then careers and then there was a lot of
change over the years. So what kind of in a nutshell,
(12:17):
what has been that journey for you?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh gosh, it's been a massive journey, I must say,
I didn't he radio and print, in traditional media, freelance
for magazine all over the world, the strategies forgetting publicity
are actually exactly the same no matter where you go
in the world. So there's actual the same strategies where
you're pitching stories to TV, radio, print, wherever you go.
You've got to think of what's relevant for the journalists,
what's relevant for the media outlet, and how can you
(12:42):
be of service, how can you help the wider community
with whatever it is you're portraying. So that's for those
who want to get publicity. For me, as someone who
worked inside the media as a journalist, it was very
stressful place to work and in fact, the last job
that I had was working as a sub editor and
a journalist at the Sun Commune Newspapers. Now when I
started some community newspapers is our local paper here in
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the Gold Coast area in Queensland, and we were we
put out at the time. When I started, we had
the Gold Coast Son and the Hinterland Sun, so we
had two newspapers every week that that came out. And
then what happened is in two thousands, so I started
do in two thousand. By two thousand and two they
then introduced five papers, so basically they got rid of
the Interland Sun and the Gold Coast Son. They brought
(13:26):
in an Upper North, a North, a Central, a South
and a Tweed edition of the Sun newspapers and no
extra journalists. So I went from doing five stories a
week to now doing thirty stories a week. And if
I had kept going, I definitely would have burned out
at the time, I had a mortgage. I was, I
had a bit of fear around leaving the full time work,
(13:46):
leaving the stability of the full time work, and I
actually started biography business part time on the side while
I was working as a journalist. And I was I
had a great life because I was the entertainment reporter.
I had to do people like Hugh Jackman, Russell Crow,
Cindy Law. But I went to all the VIP shows.
It was fantastic to have that VIP treatment. But I
was working crazy hours and it was a very stressful
(14:06):
job to be in. And I think that stress now
on journalists has increased even more so. Now they're all
battling for the advertising dollar, they're battling to stay alive
as media outlets, and so even more so now, what
I'm finding through the media is that it's actually getting
harder and harder to get onto journalists nowadays. I'm finding
right they're actually often just not even answering their phone.
(14:26):
They're really they're under such pressures that it's really becoming
more and more challenging to get their attention. Kind of
online social media world is just so full of information everywhere.
Now we're just in overload and overwhelming, and there's so
many bright shiny objects out there, so really to get
that cut through, you've really got to think differently. Now,
you've really got to build those relationships. You've got to
(14:48):
build your own authority online. Now as an influencer, a
lot has changed in the world of how we're putting
ourselves out there, and now people are following people and
trust is a sheit.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Oh, I agree with you. Trust is probably the number
one issue right now. It's ironic that you were saying
what you were saying about the journalists not really responding
or listening to input external input. If I think back
to all the years that I was doing a nationally
syndicated radio show and all this kind of stuff, that's
all I did was listen to external sources. And it's ironic.
(15:21):
Is the media today, you think isolating themselves because they're
limiting their sources of information for whatever reason? Is it
because it's easier or and why isn't there this acceptance
that maybe you have to be open to other sources
of information if you want to get really be a journalist.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I think they're open to receiving the information. It's just
to actually be able to talk to them on the
phone because they're so time poor, because they so go
all the time that it's really it's more challenging now
to get their attention to be able to speak to them.
You can, and they want things had to them on
the plan if you well, that's.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
That's part of what I'm talking about here, is that
maybe they're not as open and to doing research themselves.
Maybe they're used to having it being, like you said,
given to them, which is I think from a journalist's perspective,
that's a little dangerous that you're seeing a bunch of
journalists operate from the perspective of they only take what
they're given, not with their deep researching and trying to uncover,
(16:18):
which is the typical role of a journalist is to
uncover breaking news. But is the news that they're covering
increasingly being given to them on a silver platter, which
is dangerous.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Absolutely, they're getting lazier basically because if you don't give
them a press release the way they want it and
photos and visuals the way they want it, it's less
likely to get a run. And also even with eb
crews now they're just understaff. They don't have the crew nowadays.
So often when when we've got events we're promoting, often
the media will say can we send them high high
(16:49):
resolution photos? Can we send high definition video from it?
Because they'll use our footage more so nowadays and be
able to send their own crew out. And the other
thing that happening is that they don't care about quality
as much as they used to. There used to be
a lot higher standards, I think, with the quality of
news that we used to get, and I think more
as more of the senior reporters started leaving over the years,
(17:10):
they brought in these young cadet journalists from people that
just graduated from UNI, and they were just pumping out
a whole lot of rubbish content. I didn't really care. Plus,
there's a lot of syndicated content that we see, and
we know that some of the people run some of
these media organizations. There's definitely some hidden agendas at play,
right And if you watch Thrive documentaries, it says in there,
if you really want to know what's going on in
(17:31):
the world, follow the money trail. And so I know,
having worked as a journalist, there were times I was
actually told to go out and get stories that were
not there. There were certain agendas that are being pushed
at different times. And I know when anything is blasted
through the news like COVID was right, I thought, oh,
here we go again. Okay, what's going on now? And
I wasn't exactly sure what was happening behind it, but
I knew that there was some fishy business going on.
(17:53):
I do people to question everything, absolutely question everything, and
this is part of why I started the Global Good
News Challenge, because through COVID, we've actually had four times
the suicide rates worldwide than before. Now about a million
people a year worldwide take their own lives normally. Now
I've had four of my own friends take their lives
by the age of forty five. I've had depressions of
(18:14):
mess about one in three people have depression, and it's
a massive mental health issue out there right now through COVID,
And this is what's so important. I believe that no
matter how much drama and crap is going on in
the world, that we can always come back to gratitude,
because if we don't come back to gratitude, then we're
going to be living miserable lives. And if you think
about it, a third of people die by the age
(18:35):
of sixty five anyway, So why not enjoy your experience
of life no matter what the governments are doing, and
no matter what's happening out there. It's a lot that
you can control. And I think the more people realize
their own power and the thrive documentaries. Actually, I've posted those.
They're free. You can see them in the Conscious Community
Global Facebook group. In there, there's a whole lot of
(18:55):
amazing documentaries that will blow your mind. And I do
encourage you to question everything because what you're seeing is
not necessarily the truth. In mainstream media and particularly through COVID,
we've had fact checkers, We've had fact checkers on Facebook,
and YouTube doesn't like certain context. I've got the Total
Truth Show. We don't stream all our shows to YouTube
anymore because they don't let the truth on YouTube at
(19:16):
scenes because their fact checkers seem to know more than
more than we do. I've done videos on the balcony
that YouTubers sent to me that is not correct what
happened on my balcony. I was there, they were, and
I don't know who these fact checkers are more and
this is happening so more people are standing for freedom
of information now we've had enough of the censorship, like
just let people speak their mind and then the audience
can decide for themselves what is true for that.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And I think that is certainly the path forward increasingly,
but I think we're going to face some increasing pressure
on that until we can weak more people up to
what's really going on here. I still think that there's
still a lot of people that still trust the media,
and at least the mainstream media anyway, and what the
government is telling us about what is going on. I'm
(20:00):
generally not a conspiracy theorist, but increasingly a lot of
the what we're called conspiracy theories two years ago have
come to pass that they're not conspiracy theories anymore, which
makes me wonder what's going on where more and more
conspiracy theories become fact. It's a worrying trend.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
The biggest conspiracy is what we've been seeing in the
mainstream media, and we've seen it again and again over
the years. History has been repeating itself, and even the
term conspiracy theory was created by the CIA in the
nineteen fifties to knock anyone who spoke against the government,
and you can look do your own research on it.
And this is the thing, This is where critical thinking
is a beautiful thing. A common sense unfortunately is not
(20:38):
so common for a lot of people, and a lot
of people do not like to think that they have
been hoodwinked in any way. Right, we like to think
we can trust the government, Right, we'd like to think
that they have our best interests at heart. But for example,
the Out of Shadows documentary came out in June twenty twenty.
It had ten million views in a month and then
got taken down on a whole lot of platforms, and
that was all about It's all about how we've been
(21:00):
controlled by the media and by our education system, etc.
To believe certain things and to do as you're told,
to trust authority, all those kind of things. Now more
and more people are not trusting authority because that there's
so many lines out there, there's so much deceit. And
now it's absolutely crucial. I believe that we actually use
our critical thinking and we do our own research on
(21:21):
alternative media channels such as we'd shoot and rubble and
do your own research so that you can make informed
choices for your own life. Otherwise, don't come back to
us and say that we didn't tell you that. We
didn't tell you. We're warning you right now, so they
become inforced. So that will empower you.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, so you can also be open to independent sources
of media and not be so dependent on but still
that critical thinking is the critical piece there, because even
independent media can get things wrong or they can interpret
things maybe Unfortunately, it's putting us in a position where
we all have to self assess. It's the same thing
with our health and other aspects of our life. We
(21:58):
have to take control of our own life, in our
own thoughts. And increasingly there's more and more people I'm
hearing more and more people talk about positive thinking, mental health.
The focus on love is such a huge aspect of this.
And before we run out of time, I wanted to
also ask you about the synergy that you've experienced over
the years of all the media that you worked on
(22:20):
and how that's all kind of culminated in the talent
that you have and how you present. So, if you
think about the various media like radio and print and
photography and television and stuff you've worked in all these areas,
you're basically a content creator from lots of different mediums,
and how has that benefited you, I think in your
(22:41):
success over the years of having all that, because I
think a variety of people come into media just from
one thing that they go in and they become a
radio presenter, or they go and become a writer. How
does that cross synergy of being a multi media creator
helped you over the years.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Very grateful actually for all of that experience because actually
initially I did it media degree and I majored in
photo journalism and TV production back at university, so I
actually started in several media to start, and I actually
applied three times for the job as editor of the
university newspaper before I got the job, so I had
this resilience and tenacity about me. And then after that
(23:17):
I applied for about two hundred jobs before I got
my first job as a cadet journalist with the Daily
Mercury Mackay. And then once I got that job, I
then got the coff cyber advocate job. I was working
at Queensland Times in Ipswich satellite newspapers, and on the side,
I did theater and I did radio two HY for CRM.
There's so many different and different radio stations, and then
(23:38):
ABC and Channel seven things just snowballed from there. However,
I had that persistence and resilience that I wanted to
work in the media and nothing else right that I
was very determined. I think from that having all that
experience now it helps in so many different ways because
now what I do is I teach people how to
get into the media. I teach them what makes a cooto,
I teach them about video. It's really you can't just
(23:59):
think one form of media anymore. I don't believe that
you've got it. You've got to actually think of all
forms of media, and particularly video is incredibly powerful. If
there's not many people doing video right now that I
am listening to this, so I highly recommend that you
put some more video content out. Audio thread powerful as well.
A lot of people are loving podcasts like this, and
these are great ways to build trust with your audience.
(24:21):
So I think it's all been really beneficial in helping
my clients to get their media out. And I think
also with the media that I've put out, it's all
been incredibly beneficial. And I'm always thinking about how am
I coming across and how is this looking on camera?
Even on zoom calls. I've got a great zoom background
which has my media Queen TV in one corner with
(24:42):
my caricature, and the other corner I've got the mass
Media Mastery program, which is my media press. I'm always
thinking about how am I representing myself out to the world,
whether it's on a zoom call, on a podcast, online,
TV show, social media, however it is I'm putting myself across.
Am I being true to my brand at times? Which
for me, it's all about inspiring truth and good news.
(25:03):
So it's about lifting the energy up that it so.
I actually share a lot of a lot in my
socials of beautiful nature, pictures and animals and reminded world
really is a beautiful place. It's easy to get into
winged mode and complain about things in your life. However,
you just take a moment and just step outside and
just appreciate it bird for a moment, or appreciate it
beautiful flower. You know it will just put your feet
(25:24):
on the grass. Just simple things like this. The simple
things in life are often the best I think and
do what gives you joy, and for me, the media
has always given me joy in the expression of what
I can do with the media. Now I must say
there's certain people I've worked with in the media that
been absolutely paid in the backside, and I can't say
the same for everyone that's worked in the media. I
think there's a lot of shallow people the work in media,
(25:46):
and in that way, I think you've got to be
very resilient to be able to put up with the
competitive nature of the media too, because there's always going
to be someone wanting to take and that kind of
thing as well. When you're in mainstream media at least,
it's a very competitive field and you've got to build
up your resilience. You've got to build up your self
esteeing your self confidence, do the inner work, do the courses.
(26:06):
I've invested half a million dollars in my personal and
business development with so many different courses of progress, and
I keep making on myself to this day. I'm constantly
doing courses and programs and working on becoming a better
version of me continually. It's an ongoing process and I
think doing that inner work is absolutely crucial to help
with however it is you want to come across in
(26:27):
any media form.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So do you think about your your energy and your
confidence over the progression of your career. Do you think
it's changed. Do you think that you're now much more
energetic or in confident now than you were like maybe
twenty thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Absolutely. I've had a few near death experiences over the years.
I've had a quinsy in my throat that a few
years ago I ended up in hospital for three days,
and that that was very close to kelping me. And
then just a month ago I got swept out to
see about a coometer out in Costs Harbor had another
near death experience. That every one of these new death
experiences I've had, and every time someone close to me
has died unexpectedly, and I've had quite a few through COVID.
(27:05):
I've had friends die in their fifties that were very healthy,
next minute dead, usually heart condition or something bizarre. I'm
not saying it's from the JAB necessarily. How there has
been a lot. There has been some liage unexpected deaths
very quickly, and I think the more this has happened,
the more for me, it's been like kind of having
a rocket up my backside. There's a great visual for you. It's
like I've been even more motivated and more energized to
(27:28):
inspire more truth and good news to help lift the
energy out there and to live my best life, and
in living my best life is impacting as many other
lives as I can. So I've been even more motivated, inspired, energized,
particularly since COVID, I would say, so it's definitely changed
over time, and the more work I've done on myself
as well, the more confidence I've had in how I present.
(27:49):
I've done a lot of different presenting courses as well
a lot of different media programs, and so I think
fine tuning his skills as a speaker as a presenter
is very important and getting the difference between I mean,
when you're speaking publicly, there's something known as the power
of the pause, whereas if you're on air on radio,
you don't want dead air. So it's actually quite a
different art form to present to a live audience as
(28:10):
opposed to presenting powerfully online like this.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, I think if you think about it from radio's perspective,
it's not a casual medium and oftentimes it's not thought
of like that. It's a fast paced medium that's short
form content. And then commercial break short form commercial break
podcasting is a little bit more laid back. You can
pause more in a podcast, right, you can apply a
lot more kind of emotion to your content in a podcast.
(28:36):
I'll be sick, settled emotion, not so much high energy emotion.
I think podcasts that have very high energy, very fast
speaking stuff can be okay, I'm not sure that's essentially natural.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That's true podcasting. You do hear a lot more emotion
with podcasters as opposed to say, traditional radio. That's a
lot more go and they definitely don't want the dead
air on radio, then people change channels, whereas with a podcast,
you can see usually you can see the podcast as
goes for twenty minutes or whatever, and so usually if
there's a pause in there, you think, I'll still got
(29:08):
another ten minutes to go. You can actually visually see it.
Was with radio you can't actually see that.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Heyes, I think, go ahead, finish with that.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And that makes too, I think, yeah, absolutely, it's a
good distinction between traditional radio and podcasting.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
So I appreciate you joining me. I've great to talk
with you and learn more about your experience of being
a content creator for all these years, and I'm sure
that it's going to be very helpful to the audience
of this to have heard your story. I think we
could go for two hours more talking about your journey
as a media creator and I just appreciate you spend
(29:41):
time with me here and calling me from Australia. So
thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Thank you. Rober spent absolute pleasure being on the show.
And for those who are listening, I would love you
to join in the Global Good News Challenge if you
want to share more gratitude and good news and have
a better experience of life. And let's stay connected at
Link Tree Forward, Slash Aldwin, La n K t R,
Dot E E F and Slash Allman. Thank you, Rod
all Right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
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