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Ep. 1 Mindset and Expectations with Photographer Jackson

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0:00Alienize Photos industry talk episode 1. Alienize Photos industry talk welcome to
0:11the first episode yes yes yes so I just want to jump right into it I'm not
0:17long-winded a lot of my episodes would be around 23 minutes now back then
0:24when you look at TV shows you see the average duration was about 23
0:29minutes and that 30 minute slot so yeah I just want to jump right into it set
0:35some expectations what to expect things that I'll be sharing I'll also have
0:41interviews but mainly this would be a solo podcast you know you get to
0:50listen in on my journal a personal journal I definitely want to have
0:57everything about this podcast be about different industries and we use our
1:07voice our platforms as I'm using alienize photos industry talk this
1:14podcast it's a media platform so I want to focus on all things media as well
1:23and kind of combine it and combining the two you know every industry to get out
1:33there it needs media some way whether it's a social media post whether it's
1:38a flyer on someone's car whether if it's you know knocking on someone's
1:44door and you know it's documented on camera or if you do interviews a lot
1:55one of these things in marketing is media and I knew that it was important for me to be in a media space and also you know own your media like the way the way the world is set up is because of media and the media influence and that's why I'm big on positive messages I love capturing and
2:24things with impact and positive messages as I do a lot of events do a lot of video
2:31production things with a good cause things with a good purpose things that
2:35inspire things that motivate things that bring your life things that teach
2:40and I'm forever a student so I'm big on that I'm officially jumping into this
2:49recording as it didn't capture but good I'm having backup audio this is
2:54first episode but just setting some expectations and I do want to speak
3:02about mindset later on this first episode because you know how can you
3:07receive a lot of things that's going to be broadcast on this platform you
3:17got to have the right mindset and the right mindset to take it to take it
3:21in to retain it and filter it you know and every bloodstream and every
3:29body in the right places but in order to do that your mind your brain has to
3:38be in a correct headspace before you start anything you have to have the
3:46right mindset again welcome to the first episode alienize photos industry
3:56talk as we discuss all things media and how different trends affect
4:01different industries I'm journaling my existence with my encounter with
4:10different industries and also bringing my knowledge mainly from the creative
4:16realm and also entrepreneur business realm the things that I know but the
4:24background I'm have collaborating with a lot of a lot of case studies and
4:47I was trying to figure out how I wanted to say it but I could say a lot of the
4:57things we do our case studies you know we're trying on different marketing
5:02techniques so that is does this work it may work for someone else but
5:06does it work for you hmm something to think about but before you start
5:19anything you have to get your mindset right you have to continue to water
5:24yourself with self-love real love continue to learn and do mental
5:30exercises just like bodybuilders go to the gym for physical exercise to
5:36stay in physical shape you also need to stay mentally in shape and mentally
5:48physically thought decisiveness and physical form of the shape that you
6:03want to allow growth to seep in you need to stay mentally in shape similar
6:16to missing a day watering a plant or even your garden but if you miss a few
6:23days a week a month a year a couple years and someone that plant will
6:30eventually decay transition whether away the plant that flower that garden
6:40was no longer in shape and you could put in shape in parentheses because as
6:48we spoke about the bodybuilder going to the gym to get physically in
6:53shape let's continue to water our minds and let it grow and prosper and be
7:01hydrated and nourished you know how good you feel when you nourish versus
7:07you you're hungry you're tired your energy depleted when you well rested
7:12you hydrated got some you know water on a mildly cool day with the you
7:25get some good food but today like a lot where you know you sluggish you know
7:31got the itis and want to go to sleep afterwards and you will nourish you're
7:37fed oh you could conquer the world so think about when you're always like
7:43this that flower that plant is gone no longer a shape is bent over a D I
7:55don't like saying negative words because I'm big on vibrations and you know it
8:04lost its shape it became a skeleton so what are the things that you are
8:11doing before your physical body turned to a skeleton what are the
8:22things we are doing that we're living life making impact learning being
8:39student growing because who loves the hamster wheel running in a circle in a
8:48circle in a circle circle circle circle circle circle over and over and over
8:55doing over that's insanity do the same thing over and over and over and
9:01over again is a sanity so why do we do the things that we don't like
9:07over and over and over again it's just time to stop it why are we in
9:17industries that we don't like why are we with are even collaborating with
9:24companies we don't like you know I speak a lot to entrepreneurs and also
9:29creatives so those are my main two demographic targets but I'm also
9:35speaking to everybody you know you could apply this to life you know
9:41Share this with a colleague a family member because this is real talk at the
9:46end of the day and we really have to start with our mind and get it in
9:54shape and you know it saddens me because I'm gonna say the school
10:11system failed this current generation that's currently 2025 if you know
10:19when they put a date on it but the reading levels has tremendously went
10:25down and you know a lot of things are technology based you know versus let's
10:36say even 20 years ago where we had kids picking up books ten years from
10:47now all they gonna know is ebooks and not know what a physical book was we
10:51used to hold this in our hand turn the pages here to hear that crack in the
10:56back as you first open it as you glance at the cover like okay let's open it
11:01and see what's inside you're like like a screechy door yeah and then a
11:09flicker and turn of the pages all right as y'all can see I'm not the
11:16best with sounds but I love being animated we're gonna have fun and you
11:21know like again I want you to get used to me and you know I don't want to set
11:25too many expectations but I definitely want to give you a frame and a
11:30structure of how it will go now again this is like journaling and you know
11:37just my insights on a lot of these solo episodes but when I interview
11:43it'll be interview style question answer have you know organic
11:49conversation as well and there may be some BTS that come along with it but I
11:59do want to keep this strictly an audio podcast now there will be content
12:04where you see clips and stuff and video and also like I said behind the
12:11BTS different clips and also promotions so yeah the best way I feel to tune is
12:23is with already I really want you to listen I don't even want you to worry
12:26about the video I want you to close your eyes and listen and someone said
12:33actually a few people you have a radio voice you had that that smooth
12:37talker you know smooth operator could listen to you all day like you have a
12:45real chill common voice is this comforting and soothing so I definitely
12:53want to express that and you know I want you to focus in on my voice and
13:02saying and things that's being put in the light and also the conversation the
13:12questions the answers the thoughts the ideas because at the end of the day we
13:22are here for each other to build each other and one another up to continue
13:32to grow and blossom be fruitful and I heard this quote from Myron Godin
13:46tremendous biblical business coach when you set the intention the
13:56obstacles come when you set the intention the obstacles come the
14:07obstacles come when you set that intention you set what you want you
14:11towards it that's when the problems and mishaps but you got a maneuver and get
14:26through them just like anything else in life then I was talking with a friend
14:35and you know discussing how they feel defeated and you know they lost and I
14:47said well we could eat losses or else they like to call it else almost like
14:56vegetable soup we eat that for dinner it's just it's just fuel you know
15:02energize me you know you got to have fun and you know with life and the
15:07things in life I think it's the same way with business because in some way
15:13business is a part of my life it's a it's a chapter it's a moment it's a
15:19continuation of my life so you know I want to be happy and smiling and
15:26having fun you know my religion is based off peace and love so those
15:37aspects helps you be grateful for those quote-unquote losses those else but
15:51really if you think about those else's lessons what is it teaching you what
16:04is it bringing your attention to how can you learn from this what do you
16:13need to learn from this what didn't you see that you can see now what you see
16:23that you didn't see sometimes things arise like oh we've got to go camping
16:34here come a snowstorm avalanche rain now it's muddy planes got to change in
16:50well if you were prepared and you know those things were gonna happen you know
16:57you could have planned for it maybe a thick sheet of tarp multiple layers
17:08another down maybe try concrete till it dries up and harden or maybe build
17:24house a cabin would build it up and you wouldn't have to worry about those
17:33things then you know you doctor up and tailor it from there build that
17:41frame that foundation first again going back to why mindset is important once
17:48that frame of that house is intact and I love this because I'm you know
17:56investing to be specific so if anyone wants to help guide me and you know
18:03you can talk have chats about it I'm definitely open and interested and I
18:11will have a few people from the real estate industry on as we discuss
18:18industry trends and you know just sharing insights all around you know
18:26maybe I could get him some pointers from the outside something they never
18:30thought of and I know they would just definitely bless me with wisdom you know
18:39saying their story and how I could learn from it again sometimes we don't
18:45experience things someone went through it already oh so that's how you tell
18:52I was doing it like this the whole time you got a soup it around okay and then
18:58gotta go underneath that's how you do that okay I was missing a step I failed
19:05because I missed a step literally fail you fall and now you're falling down
19:13a step because you missed one step you was trying to go to pass you
19:19jump too high at once before you physically work out just like you
19:26worked out you worked out he used to jump in five steps at a time you able
19:31to jump three gracefully so think about when you're trying to go to
19:35stairs you can't skip a step because you haven't built that strength it
19:41wasn't doing those workouts it wasn't giving yourself those physical
19:45exercises and also those mental exercises which is as much more
19:50important because if you don't have a willpower to do it you're not going to
19:54do it at all just like the gym is more mental than physical the physical
20:02is the result of the mental because you'd be like oh no I ain't gonna do
20:07it I ain't gonna do it or you get to the gym get in a parking lot like
20:11I don't want to work out the day and then go home it's all mental you
20:15have to get in the gym first that's the first battle like sixty percent sixty
20:23five lose or don't meet their go gym goals because they can't even get in
20:28the gym I mean I was definitely one of those people but now you know the
20:37way I really want to focus my mind and study entrepreneurship and now
20:43real estate investing like I had to do my studies I had to put in that
20:47time but I know that so the gym is not that much important to me I get there
20:55when I get there that's that's my mindset and I know that shift you know
21:00it's a sacrifice but guess what when I figure it out I would be back in the
21:04gym full throttle but these things that I know because I came with it
21:10with attention I know I will have challenges along the way also but it
21:20was my attention to do this and get this done and execute on it because we
21:25have all these ideas and anybody that know me I have a bunch of ideas
21:29always have a bunch of thoughts a bunch of things there's like my mind
21:34is like binary code just running down the screen always computing and
21:39calculating and thinking of new things and fresh ideas because I love being
21:43original too and having fun like I said and just combining it with the
21:48creativity it's just like man a lot of problems could be solved and I'm
21:57thinking about it I'm thinking about it I'm thinking about it I think about
21:59this and thinking about that problem and how to solve it and it's like
22:03I'm completing multiple puzzles at once but one puzzle is not getting
22:12done and done on time or in a timely manner because I'm trying to
22:16one puzzle piece and too many puzzles at once but if I focus on that one I
22:27could get one puzzle done it was only 24 pieces it took me 20 years and I
22:37could just focus on one puzzle get it done versus multiple puzzles trying
22:46to do thousand puzzles at once just focus on that one puzzle and then
22:51move on to the next just like that one stair and then it compounds but if you
22:57can't do one you have nothing and zero times zero is zero but if you do one
23:06you do two one times two is two that number so if you keep going up and up
23:16incrementally it gets better just like you say you want to read six books in a
23:23year then next year seven books next eight and then you've reading a book
23:31every three days a book every three days and you know when things are foggy
23:49we can't see the picture so you got to focus it reminds me of like you know
23:57you know the outfit you supposed to wear and then you pile and close over
24:03the outfit you're supposed to be wearing just throwing your clothes and
24:10it's piling up and it's piling up piling up where's the outfit you know
24:15the outfit you supposed to be wearing you've seen it but maybe it was a
24:20little blurry because you didn't focus you was distracted your attention was
24:25off your intention wasn't on the right things because your intention follows
24:35your attention and vice versa piggybacks off each other no wonder they
24:41sounded like you know maybe you could have the right intention but if your
24:48attention is over here or somewhere else now it's got to be diverted and
24:52go somewhere else it will follow your attention but if your attention is on
24:58your intention and what you're supposed to do I made this plan to get
25:02to this step and that the the train tracks are laid them down now I'm
25:07diverting from the train tracks not that the train is off somewhere in the
25:11forest but yeah I digress this is my set and definitely follow me on all
25:26media alienize photos as I am a media company focused on live events and a
25:36quick thing about me I started off as a creative a poet a musician
25:42performing hosting and I used to capture people and take pictures on the
25:51camera phone my iPhone I perform pull my phone out and record or take
26:01pictures of other artists as they perform and also I looked at that as
26:08community and showing support and one day I was like huh let me invest in the
26:15camera so I took time out of that and made sacrifices because my attention
26:21was on really learning and do it and then a couple years later I'm like
26:26yeah I really enjoy this is like yeah I could tell stories in a
26:31way now and I focused on it and I learned I started a business but I didn't
26:43start a business right away also had to learn business I'm still learning
26:47business still bumping my head but I'm smiling through it all because I not
26:51know I know what's on the other side I know what's on the other side like
27:02my life partner she has this song stay solid you know if I got a mushy tool
27:13how can I break down the walls but if I sharpen my mind sharpen my head my
27:24thoughts I could break through that wall I could pierce through the wall
27:31without even touching it because I'm so sharp if it gets the wall get
27:37next to me it would just shatter because I'm that sharp it's like you got a nice
27:45diamond and you cut you or a nice stone you get cut similar to a paper cut
27:54you get too close you get cut so I'm that sharp but again I digress and if
28:07you want to promote the podcast I encourage you promote using industry
28:17talk as a hashtag so hashtag industry talk again hashtag industry talk and
28:28tag alienize photos let me know that you're listening in tuning in your
28:33thoughts and how do you like it definitely give me some feedback all
28:37is welcome if you want to be a guest on the show you can visit my website
28:46alienize photos.com and fill out an inquiry request form also I will have
28:55booking links below please definitely tap in if you want your event capture
29:03whether that's with videography photography or if you're looking for more
29:10commercial and video production all things media contact me I even do
29:17weddings so just want to mention that because one of my goals was to be a
29:27destination wedding photographer it got kind of buried but you know I do love
29:34live events more than all but secondary it's definitely weddings which
29:39I still consider event so I love it and it reminds me of sports my
29:45favorite game is basketball you know those sprinting up and down the court
29:49that marathon and it's just it's just I'll speak about it in another podcast
29:57about basketball and how I relate it to life but the anticipation of that
30:05you know with certain sports especially basketball there's certain
30:08things in anticipation oh they're gonna go to the basket I'm
30:12just like weddings I anticipate you know the rhythm you know they're gonna
30:17kiss do the first kiss you know people are gonna come down you know a tear
30:25gonna shed but you don't know you got to anticipate certain moments that's
30:29what I love about it the most a lot of events you always on your feet
30:32always on the toes you know what to expect you may have a template or
30:38something that's gonna occur but sometimes things don't happen and you
30:42got a kind of pivot and I like it because it's like okay now I get to
30:47use my mind as like birthday parties I don't see the creativity in them or
30:59that the in a sense challenge because you know you do like a concert well
31:05maybe if a light go out then you know it's real dark how you gonna take
31:10photos and focus in this dark can you really see it now if things are
31:16changed and so you just got to continue to pivot maneuver but yeah
31:25again I digress I'm just excited it's just like I got so much to talk
31:31but again I do want to keep these close to 23 minutes as possible there was
31:38something would be some you know longer maybe an hour maybe just break
31:41it up at that point but a lot of these I do want to keep you know 23
31:46to a half hour again I'm available for workshops event coverage video
31:54production assaulting coaching high-level projects follow me at alien
32:04eyes that's eyes like the eyeballs eyes with a Z photos with a S alienize
32:11photos and alienize photos calm yes yes it's been a blessing thank you for
32:25alienize photos industry talk thank you thank you thank you
32:31peace love and blessings I love myself I love my life I am divine life