204. I Studied Pamela Slim's Video. What I Found Shocked Me.

Pamela Slim has spent decades helping entrepreneurs grow businesses rooted in their expertise. But in today’s noisy online world, even experts struggle to break through.

In this episode I break down one of Pamela’s short-form videos to see if how well her short form video really works.

👉 Does her video stand out—or will it blend in? Stick around to find out what’s working, what’s missing, and what she could do to truly shine.

In a recent video, she shared her “secret weapon” for regaining focus: a practice she calls Stop, Drop, and Organize.

It’s not flashy. It’s not complicated. But it’s deeply human, and instantly relatable.

I'm breaking down what makes her message resonate so strongly… 

and how with just a little more packaging, it could go from helpful to unforgettable.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• The #1 mistake even seasoned experts make on camera
• How to turn your lived experience into trust-building content
• A simple way to stand out without becoming a content performer

💡 Here’s the Mic Drop Truth: The world doesn’t need more content—it needs your voice front and center.

So, what do you think? Does Pamela’s video stand out… or will it blend in?

📩 Want me to review your video in a future episode? Send me a DM. 

🎁 Free resource: Trust Signal Framework

Pamela Slim's Episode 127. Lighting Your Beacon

Episode 202. The 5 Trust Building Videos Every Expert Needs

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Because when you start showing up with clarity, confidence, and the right content—your ideal clients won't just notice you. They'll choose you.

Thanks for tuning in. If you found this episode helpful, share it with another expert entrepreneur who’s ready to stop blending in.

Episode Transcript

Brad Powell (00:00):
Pamela Slim has spent decades helping
entrepreneurs grow businessesrooted in their expertise.
But in today's noisy onlineworld, even experts struggle
with one thing overwhelm.
And in today's episode, I breakdown one of Pamela's short-form
videos to see if her secretweapon against overwhelm really

(00:21):
works.
Does her video stand out orwill it blend in?
Stick around to find out what'sworking, what's missing and
what she could do to truly shine.
Welcome to the Standout BusinessShow, the show for expert
entrepreneurs who want to make abigger difference by showing up

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differently.
I'm Brad Powell and I'm a videobrand architect who helps
experts turn one hour of theirlife into a whole month of
trust-building video content,without becoming fuel for the
content machine.
Now we've all been witness tohow the internet's getting
louder and more crowded thanever, which means that too many

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real experts are staying hidden.
And this is where the realtrouble is, because the world
needs your voice front andcenter.
There's no shortage of expertvoices online, but how many
actually stand out Together?
We're going to discover what'sworking, what's missing and
exactly how to turn your videosinto trust-building,

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client-attracting assets.
Today, we're looking at ashort-form video from Pamela
Slim.
She's a business coach, she'san author, she's a business
ecosystem builder, and she was aguest back on episode number
127, where we talked aboutlighting your beacon, and I'll

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put a link to her episode in thedescription Now.
She is someone who I trulyadmire.
If you haven't read her bookthe Widest Net, you should go
out, find it and read it rightnow.
It's one of the most helpfulbusiness books that I have ever
read.
But how does her message comeacross on video?

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Well, let's break it down.

Pamela Slim (02:14):
Hey everyone, it's Pam.
I was wondering if anybody'sfeeling a little bit out of
control these days, certainlywith what's happening in the
markets, but also there can beso many things happening
simultaneously of trying to runyour business and grow new lines
of business and focus onoperations and maybe you're like
me and you're getting a kidready for college for the first

(02:35):
time in another country.
So there's a lot of things thatare happening that can make you
feel out of control, and thevery best tool that I share in
my tiny marketing actions classis to do what I call stop, drop
and organize.
So this is when you're runningquickly, you have too many
things in your head.
You can pause for a moment.
It's easiest usually to get apiece of paper, a pen, and just

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empty everything that is in yourhead and get it all out on
paper.
With that you can zero in andmaybe circle the areas that you
know you really need to focus onthis week and then from that
subset you can zero in on thethings you need to focus on
today, because it can beoverwhelming when you're looking
at the short term and you don'thave things structured in a way

(03:20):
that allows you to accomplishthings that are the highest
priority.
I was doing a lot of this, justplanning, as I am running my
business knee deep and finishingsome projects and doing a total
website redesign, which is veryexciting, but there's multiple
tracks that need to happen, andso I ended up, after taking a
lot of small projects and kindof breaking things down through

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the weeks, I ended up spendingeight hours yesterday here in my
office which felt so good justorganizing everything, redoing
the files, doing kind of a macrostop, drop and organize, and so
when I came in work thismorning on Monday, I was feeling
so in control and, despiteeverything that's happening out
there, I had a plan.

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I knew exactly what I was doing.
So you can start very small byjust exhaling, writing
everything down, circling whatyou need to get done, but over
time, maybe, given this month,you can zero in on those
projects that might need alittle bit of extra effort and
by putting some focus time intothem, you can make some big
changes.
We'll get through this together.
Focus on what you can control.

Brad Powell (04:28):
All right.
So I'm gonna use my standoutframework to highlight the
strengths and the features inPamela's video.
So the S in standout stands forstory first, and Pamela opens
with a question Is anyonefeeling a little out of control
these days?
And that's a really strongempathy hook.

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She's leading with humanityrather than hype, and it's
really instantly relatable andit's especially true for parents
or entrepreneurs or both.
The T in standout stands fortruth telling and she shares
something personal about sendingher kid to college abroad.
And this is the kind of detailthat grounds her authority in

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real life.
And I can relate because I havea daughter who's about to go
off to her second year incollege in Quebec, who's about
to go off to her second year incollege in Quebec.
It's like, oh, she gets me withthis little bit of detail.
Now the A in STANDOUT stands forauthority in action.
She doesn't just say here'swhat I teach, she shows how

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she's living it.
She's speaking from her livedexperience and talking about her
own eight-hour organizingsession, which gives the
framework that much morecredibility.
Now the N stands for naturaldelivery and I've got to say
that this video is reallynatural.
It doesn't feel scripted at all.

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It feels like Pamela justdropped in to give us a pep talk
, and that's a real strength.
It's maybe even a superpower.
If you can accomplish this inyour videos, people are going to
relate to you that much more.
So now let's move on to whatcould be a little bit stronger,
and I want to be very gentlehere in that, first of all, this

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is a great video.
Pamela is doing really greatcontent.
In fact, all of the examplesthat I'm planning on sharing
with you are all really goodcontent.
But we all know, no matter howgood we do, there are ways we
can make it even better andgreater, and so I'm just going
to talk about a few things herewhich, if she chose to, if you

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chose to, these are things thatyou could think about as a way
to enhance your message and makeit even stronger.
So the D in standout stands fordistinction, and while Pamela's
advice is very strong, thepackaging of the video is very
soft, and I know this is onpurpose.

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She literally is just turningon her camera and talking to the
camera.
There's no editing, there's novisual overlays, and so there's
no visual context to what she'stalking about.
She doesn't do any textoverlays.
There's no bold headline toanchor her takeaway.
And if you didn't already know,pamela, would you stop the
scroll when you saw this video.
Now the O in standout stands forownable point of view.

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Now she's got a unique conceptthis stop, drop and organize.
But it gets kind of buried inthe middle of the video.
What if this concept was theheadline?
What if it was brought right upfront?
What if the video opened withthe phrase on screen and a
visual of her desk before shegot organized and talking about

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the overwhelm?
Well, that might be a littlestickier.
Now the U in standout stands forunforgettable moment.
And while the emotion is therein this video, there's no visual
moment that is really burnedinto your memory.
Even something simple likeshowing her writing the list or
somewhere during the eight-hoursession would make this stand

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out even better.
And the T, last but not least,is trust signal.
Now I did a whole episode ontrust signals.
That's episode number 202.
You can go check that out.
I'll put a link to the episodein the comments and you can get
my trust signal framework if youwanna learn more about how to

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do this really well.
Now, pamela's tone in this videois very warm and very
trustworthy, but without astrong call to action or a next
step or a way to engage further,this trust building that she's
done has really nowhere to go.
So I think we can all agreethat Pamela's message is

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powerful and her delivery isdeeply human, but in a world of
short form video, even thegreatest advice could use just a
little bit of packaging.
And if she restructured theclip to lead with her stop, drop
and organize idea and gave us avisual to anchor it, this could

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make her video go from helpfulto unforgettable.
So what do you think?
Does this video stand out orwill it blend in?
Drop a comment.
Please let me know what you'rethinking and if you would like
your own video critiqued likethis, reach out.
We could feature it in a futureepisode.
If you enjoyed this episode,share it with another expert

(09:46):
entrepreneur who needs to hearthis.
And if you're ready to startcreating trust-building videos
without the grind, you can grabmy Trust Signal Framework PDF.
It's free, the link is in thedescription and it'll give you
the cheat code for sending trustsignals to your audience.
And thanks for tuning in.

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See you next time.
So long.