Today, I’m shining a spotlight on someone whose talent has added something truly special to the Your Stage Community — @Mike LeBlanc We’ve just launched the Your Stage Music Category, and Mike poured his heart, creativity, and musical brilliance into it. His custom-written lyrics and original music have helped shape our community anthem and these powerful pieces will now serve as the intros and outros for our live events. Mike didn’t just contribute music…He captured the soul of what Your Stage stands for: Confidence, Clarity, Connection, and the Courage to share your voice with the world. If you’re looking for someone who can translate emotion into melody, message into music, or vision into a powerful sonic identity, reach out to Mike. He is truly gifted at crafting custom lyrics and musical compositions that resonate deeply. Your Stage is better because of him and the community will feel his impact every time we go live. Thank you, Mike — your art inspires the stage we all stand on.

This Saturday I want to lean in on a Substack article shared by @Keith Keller https://keith907.substack.com/p/how-can-gamification-help-you-to?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2truzn This Saturday let's help members rank up by engaging in one of the following: 1. Drop a GiF to best describe your biggest worry when going live. 2. Drop a GiF to describe your preference; on camera 📷 or off camera 📷 3. Finally Drop a GiF to best describe your favorite format: monolog, interview, panel. @Liisa Reimann I'm hosting a GiF party 🥳 and everyone is invited.

I'm thinking of running an episode of Take the Stage and not stream it live. What are your thoughts?

Happy Monday! I wanted to share two things with you. First, Over in BloomingVoices Streaming TV Community, and with @Katya McEwen I am building a Streaming TV Readiness Scorecard tool for your videos. Below is a screenshot of the homepage. I used the "turn your videos into a TV show" image as a placeholder for now, and I am still brainstorming what the final image should be. If you have ideas, I would love to hear them. I have a deadline of Friday for the first collateral so that I get in the promo deadline for Katya, so more soon! Second, my win of the day/weekend: I finally have a better background for filming. Saturday, a friend was over, and helped me fill out the wall. I brought in some flower pictures from other parts of the house, and now I feel much more comfortable doing native videos right here without a virtual background. Lesson learned though, I need to remember to close the door when I am filming. Stay tuned, and I will see you soon! Questions for you (1, 2 or all 3, your choice): 🪴on the image for the tool, same image, different words, or a completely different image or does it matter? 🍁what's your win from last week, the weekend or today? 🦋 what are you working on this week?

What a fabulous day, I took the opportunity to go live not once but twice today. I went live to answer questions and create assets to go along with the questions. I then chose to come on a random hangout to share what I was up to this Sunday. In doing so, I had the pleasure to welcome @Carrie Crews . @Karin Crawford One of my two recordings are the dedicated to the YouTube analytics question asked over on Blooming Voices so Stay tuned, I will be repurposing that recording as well. You can find it now on YouTube