Of course, I want you to go through every single lecture in this course. But the number one tip I have for you, it's the absolute most effective tool to really help people. It's also the least popular tip, I'm going to go ahead and give it to you. Now. The best way to really get ready for any media interview, any podcast interview, or any video that you're making, just for your own media, is to practice on video and look at it, you can just use your own cell phone, record playback, figure out what you like, don't like, keep doing it until you're convinced it's the best you can do at your current level of skill. This is the absolute most effective way when someone hires me for a day and spends a lot of money or some other media trainer.
That's what we're doing. We're getting them on camera. Again and again. Typically I do that a dozen times in a private one on one training for a day and the whole goal is to help someone get tiny incremental improvements each time. So by the end of the day, they love how they're coming across. And when I started this 30 years ago, TV cameras were big, bulky, expensive.
Now you don't have that excuse. Everybody is completely surrounded by video cameras. They're on phones, iPads, laptops, they're everywhere. I understand. You don't want to do that. Because you're thinking, Oh, DJ, I don't like my own voice.
I don't like the fact that I don't look as good as I did when I was 21 years old. Well, I don't look as good as I did when I was 21 years old. No one does. But after taking this course, I'm hoping you'll feel more equipped to actually practice on video because that is far away. The number one tip I have for you if you're nervous about doing an interview. It typically means you have not practiced on video if you practice your messages, your sound bites your answers on video again and again until you love it.
Guess what? It's virtually impossible to be nervous for the actual media interview.