Tell me about your vision. What's the goal? What's
the vision? So basically, like I said, like basically,
before I go to sleep every day, I have an insomnia.
So my mind races with a million things. So in
order to kind of focus that and try to relax
and fall asleep, I listen to podcasts while I
fall asleep. So, you know, it used to be audio
books. And then I discovered podcasts and I got
into them. And that's why I'm starting one myself.
But I like to learn things while I'm in that
state of falling asleep. Who knows what actually
sticks? Maybe I dream about it. But I was on
this kick of like, okay, I want to get better
at content creation. So I'm going to listen to
all these podcasts about content creation. And
there wasn't really anything focused on IRL streaming
specifically. uh for for people that want to
become irl streamers there was some stuff that
kind of talked about it in like a tmz sense or
like you know news gossip whatever of irl streamers
but there wasn't like and it wasn't really focused
on that either but there wasn't anything that
was specifically focused for irl streamers and
travel video creators that was active at the
time so um you know there's there are podcasts
that are for travel creators and stuff but they're
more focused on like instagram creators and stuff
i'm not really like like i have an instagram
but i'm not primarily an instagram creator right
okay or short form content creator so i was like
you know what like maybe i should think about
this and then i went to the pod tour event in
new york which if you don't know uh pod tour
is a series of events promoting podfest which
is um a convention for podcasters happened this
January 2025. I just think what year it was for
a second. All right. And yeah, in Orlando, Florida.
So I learned about Podfest. I met people and
they're like, oh, you should go. And I ended
up going in January and I was like, okay, so
now it gives me purpose. Like, okay, I'm going
to this convention. I'm spending the money. I'm
going out there. I'm going to take this seriously
and learn about podcasting. And basically I did
that and I'm now creating, you know, IRL Ventures,
the Travel Video Creators Podcast. So that's
the story behind it and where it came from. And
like I said, I want to learn with you. I don't
pretend to be an expert, but we can learn together.
And, you know, I do have some, it took me, it
took me three weeks to figure out how to make
the IRL streaming setup work. I just use my phone.
I only pay $10 a month. That's what it costs
to do IRL streaming. So there's a lot of technical
things that you have to figure out, but YouTube
and Reddit and discord are your friends. You
can learn from other people in the space, believe
it or not, they're actually really friendly and
helpful. Cause it is difficult. There's like
all this technical stuff you have to go through
kind of like coding type things. And if you want
to do it yourself and you don't have money to
do it like me, it's. the the barrier to entry
is high um but you can do it and i it took me
three weeks to figure it out but eventually i
did and now i just go streaming with just my
cell phone the ten dollars that i spend is for
baila box cloud which is disconnect protection
which is really important so if you are irl streaming
and you don't have disconnect protection basically
what that means is when the signal drops because
it will drop because you're out in the world
you don't have a stable wi -fi connection right
um then your stream ends and when your stream
ends you lose all your viewers and that is really
bad right so what disconnect protection does
is it allows the connection to redirect to a
signal on the cloud um and basically the one
i pay for connects back to my computer here And
I have my streaming set up on my computer kind
of running as a remote server, if that makes
sense. So when it disconnects, I automatically
get re -transferred back to a Be Right Back screen,
a BRB screen. And it says, hey, like Be Right
Back. And I have it showing clips of previous
streams and videos while it waits to disconnect.
So that way the audience is watching something.
And I don't lose everybody when it disconnects.
And that's a very normal thing for IRL streaming,
the disconnect. So people are used to that. But
basically you have to pay for the, it's just
$10 a month, Bailbox Cloud, and you can get disconnect
protection. But that's the only thing that costs
me money with the stream. So you can do it on
a shoestring budget. You know, it's possible,
right? You just have to be a go -getter. It's
more time than anything. That's amazing. And
when you said the be right back, I'm like, how
does that happen? So you totally. in my opinion,
just nerded out. And I'm just sitting here like,
that's how this works. And so that's what I love
about having guests that have an expertise in
something that I don't know about, because now
I'm sitting here in shock and all these people
got to watch me with my mouth open because I'm
learning. But you were just talking about behind
the scenes. What is one unexpected challenge
travel video creators faced that most people
don't realize? So I think in a weird way, The
biggest challenge is just getting comfortable
talking to yourself in public. It's strange,
right? And you feel self -conscious, not subconscious.
You feel self -conscious. And I don't know if
you ever get fully used to it. I mean, I'm sure
eventually you do. I'm still not there yet. But,
you know, and the thing is like. If you're a
considerate person, which I hope most people
are, you don't want to disturb people. You don't
want to, especially if you're traveling and you're
in a destination where there's other people like
trying to appreciate where you are. You don't
want to ruin that experience for them. So it's
that kind of thing of like, yeah, I want to make
my video the best that I can. I want to, you
know, like capture everything and I want to explain
it well. you know with a beautiful backdrop but
i don't want to be obnoxious so it's like trying
to find that balance and and uh you know because
it's like you you are doing a service for people
in a sense if you're if you're making videos
with passion and with you know love behind it
then you are sharing parts of the world that
most people will never get to see you're sharing
experiences and that is a you know a service
that you're providing to people and you're you're
helping people through that way they're learning
things about culture and history and geography
um but it's that kind of balance for me that
i is at the forefront of my mind um yeah so you
just have to be aware Don't be obnoxious. And
sometimes you have to wait and you can take some
footage and then later you can do a voiceover.
Or if you're not around a bunch of people, you
can do your talking head portion where you're
explaining stuff, you know, when you're not in
everyone's faces necessarily. Or maybe it's,
you know, a place like like if you're I don't
know if you're like right. underneath the Empire
State Building and you're like I'm here at the
Empire it's like that's fine because everyone's
just walking by you know so you have to like
judge where it's appropriate um and I think that
today that's a very pertinent uh conversation
to have because particularly IRL streamers have
cotton caught a lot of flack recently um because
there are some bad actors um that are what they
call nuisance streamers, right? So there's a
lot of high profile cases going on right now.
There's people that are currently in prison or
in jail awaiting trial for what they have done,
you know, being a nuisance while doing IRL streaming.
And so that gives everyone that does it a bad
rap. And that's the problem is that, you know,
like a lot of these countries, like in Japan,
it's become a big issue because. People think
that, oh, I could just do whatever I want in
Japan and, you know, prank people and be like,
sometimes like people are being like outwardly
like racist and just trying to get a rise out
of people, you know, making messes, breaking
things, trespassing. And it reflects on not only
IRL streamers, which I would like to believe.
And I think it's true that most are not like
that. Most are. respectful people trying to share
things in the world but that small minority of
that loud minority of the nuisance streamers
is reflecting poorly on the rest of us and not
only that just foreigners in general that go
and visit these places um you know that that
kind of like makes it harder for everyone as
a whole um who is a tourist or who's there for
business or whatever but they're just traveling
there and they're they're a foreigner it reflects
badly on everyone and so that's something i wish
that people would really think about um and also
on the other side of the the coin you know people
should understand like hey if you have a camera
and you're doing you're not always gonna be doing
something bad um but that's i think that's like
a very like pertinent conversation right now
is like that balance of being respectful and
also sharing with your audience and you made
me think about going over into different countries
as a uh as a tourist or whatever and and if you
don't actually read into it right what is their
culture like how do How do you make yourself
respect their culture? If you just go over there
with the intent of doing the IRL travel video
without actually researching, I can see where
that across the line a lot because what we do
here, you can't do everywhere else. And the respect
level is completely different. So I love that
you said that for those that have intentions
of going to another country or going somewhere
else that they don't know about. research it
first you know what i mean because yeah you don't
want to be obnoxious and in my opinion not most
people want to end up in jail but that's where
you want to go that's okay too um but i never
really even thought about that and i i honestly
um i'm so glad you decided to come on and talk
about this because if it's a lot of people that
are doing this, these are things like you said,
it's a really good conversation to have. And
as you mentioned that you may not be, you know,
an expert in this, you're definitely the expert
right now, especially for someone who's just
trying to begin and being obnoxious and annoying.
Yes, it may make a rise. with viewers, but what
does that say about you as a person? Because
you still have to go out with your family, your
friends, and what reflection or brand are you
truly trying to make? So I love that you talked
about that. That's a big deal. That's a big deal
for me. But when you were talking about speaking
and doing that in front of people and the confidence
you have to have. Hey, hands down for you, because
I can barely take a picture in public with somebody
behind me without feeling like. Yeah. Yeah. So
I still feel like that, but I just do it. I push
through. Yeah. And then you get home and I'm
sure you're like completely worn out after that.
Right. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's easy for
me to get worn out, though. So I never sleep
right. crazy i love this um i want to say thank
you so much for choosing to take the time to
meet with me be my guest um i really truly loved
it i'm learning about something that i've never
really known anything about so at the end of
the day your your audience is like in the dub
mode which is me and now that we're able to share
it with everybody else you know um I think that
this is great. Do me a favor. Share with the
audience where they can contact you at, where
they could follow you at and the podcast. When
will that come out? So we are going live. Let
me double check. Look at my calendar here. The
exact date and time. So, oh, no. OK, so it is.
Yeah, we are going live with our first episode
with Nadine. mulvina from uh the sober butterfly
as our first guest um at 7 p .m eastern time
on march 10th okay and that will be live streamed
on my twitch channel twitch .tv adventures live
uh and then like i said i'm going to be doing
the uh editing of that podcast, and we'll be
putting the video version out on YouTube later
on my YouTube channel, youtube .com slash adventures
vlog. And that will be released on YouTube and
Spotify and all other spot. or all other podcast
platforms. Thank you for being here today. I'm
really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros
Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions
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you for giving us your time and attention. Have
an excellent time building out your vision and
becoming a vision pro yourself.