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Speaking Can Build Your Business ðŸŽĪ (Public Speaking)

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Brian talks about the value he got from a recent speaking engagement he had out on the East Coast.

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Speaking can build your business.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I gave a speech over the weekend, a small speech, a short speech, but it was one relating to my book, 9 Ways Amazon-proof your business, relaying it back to a group of business owners and their style of building business.

So that was, that was a lot of fun and I got a lot of great feedback on it. Actually sold some books, so that was fun. That which wasn’t even my intention to go and sell books, but I had some that were available for those that wanted them and so I was happy to do that.

Plus, if you happen to be watching this, and you bought one of those books, and you would like to give me any type of feedback afterward, good or bad or otherwise, I would love to hear it.

I will be happy to provide you with another free gift. I don’t know what that will be right off the bat. But I have a handful of things you may be interested in.

So get back to me go you could always go to my website, Brian J pombo.com. And if you’re interested in getting a free copy of my book you’re welcome to grab this to anybody watching, you get a digital copy, digital free digital copy, if you just want to read it, go check out AmazonProofBook.com.

So the book is all about how big competition is proof and so I gave a talk about it. And I got a lot out of that talk personally. Because every time you can verbalize more about what it is that you do, or verbalize more the thoughts that connect with what you do the ideas, the concepts, you can learn more about it then every bit than everyone else can.

It allows you to become more confident in what it is that you’re talking about. It allows you to be challenged a little more because you’re putting ideas out there. So you’re likely to get feedback that isn’t necessarily positive. And that’s okay.

But your look, you got to look for that type of thing. Doing any form of public speaking whatsoever cannot hurt your business, it can only help.

Not that you’re necessarily looking for a direct transaction right off the bat. But you might be that’s a different story. If you’re doing public speaking specifically, to sell something, that’s a different story.

What I’m saying is doing if you’re doing nothing but free public speaking, if you’re doing that, and getting a chance to talk about what it is that you do, this is a form of content marketing, it really is you’re giving people something that they can use right off the bat, while at the same time introducing them to you your ways of doing things your business, your cause your charity, your church, or whatever it is that you’re trying to get out there.

The main idea is if you can practice talking in front of people, one on one, either on a stage or in person, you know, one to many, or one to one, it doesn’t matter.

Even doing videos like this, if you have a chance to talk out your ideas to talk out your product, your service, and everything that surrounds it, and all the issues connected to that, from the perspective of who it is that you’re talking to.

That’s key. That’s very important.

If you can talk to them from their perspective, or from what you presume their perspective to be, then you can’t lose doing that you’ll get better and better and better. I was having a discussion with my friend Diana, earlier tonight.

We were talking about she was discussing wanting to become a better speaker. And then we were kind of throwing back ideas, things that we’ve heard things that we’ve known from other people, and how that could help.

And one of the things is just to get out and start doing that this is one of the principles of Toastmasters International, that’s a group of people that get together and practice speaking and practice discussing the concepts around public speaking.

It’s very, very interesting. It’s something I’ve always been interested in doing.

And if anyone out there is a big fan of Toastmasters, I’d love to talk with you and come on here and tell us your experiences. But talking about what it is that you do talking about your business, in public to other people. You can’t get enough of that practice. It’s only going to make everything better. It’s going to make your ideas better.

Whether the people listening actually hear you or not just you going through those motions is going to be is going to build you and what it is that you do. I’m hoping, I know I’m kind of just kind of keep saying the same thing over and over again here. But really, that’s what I do every night.

I say the same thing over and over in different ways, I bring up different examples to try and point to you ways of standing out.

Content marketing is one of those that you can use, that doesn’t require a stage. It doesn’t require anything else. But just talking out your ideas. This is so important to both getting attention and getting better at communicating, which is what it’s all about. In the end, you got to communicate your message to a whole lot of people.

You got to say the right things in the right way, in order for you for them to be able to follow you and for you to be able to have a following of what we would call a customer base or client base or whatever it is that you’re looking to produce.

So that’s all I have for tonight.

Hopefully, that’s helpful.

We’ll be back tomorrow. And in the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Scheduling In Chaotic Times ðŸĪŠ

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Putting a wrap on Brian’s trip to Sam’s Town in Las Vegas.

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Scheduling in chaotic times.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I want to talk a little bit about the scheduling process and how scheduling does not need to take place 24/7. But for certain items, when things are the most chaotic, that’s when you need the scheduling the most.

It doesn’t mean you need to organize everything and keep everything under control, it just means certain things need to keep going or have their space to them. I’ll give you a great example.

I apologize, first off for my voice, had a long weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. And it was very dry, a little bit more dry than I’m used to for this time of year.

Just between staying up late and talking with all my friends, business associates, it was really a lot of fun had a great time, there was more activity in terms of actual work to get done there than I expected.

Normally, I always have a period before bed that I’m able to kind of sneak off and do a video for you, well, we were able to get power one.

But the rest of the time, I wasn’t able to do any, because I was either so exhausted, I mean to the point where I could not keep my eyes open, or so certainly wouldn’t be able to provide any value for you.

Or there just wasn’t enough time, there were some nights where I wasn’t sleeping hardly at all. So it was just one of those things that’s to be expected.

As things grow with any type of business, you have to expect a little bit of chaos. And so for next time, I will definitely pre-schedule when I’m going to do these and make sure I have enough energy to be able to reach you on the regularity that you’re used to.

So and that’s for all of you that are watching this relatively recent, this was recorded in late January 2021, excuse me 2022.

If you’re watching this anytime, way off in the future, just ignore that part. But understand the principle.

The principle is, if you’ve got a scenario, where there are certain things that you don’t want to miss, have it scheduled, and have not just a reminder necessarily on your phone, if you’re anything like me, those are really easy to ignore, because you end up getting really good at putting reminders on then you have too many reminders, and then you just start ignoring them.

But if you can make it to where you have people that remind you actual people that you know, an assistant, anybody at all that you can help keep your schedule in order. Or at least remind you when those important things are do to get done. And make sure they get done.

That’s really important.

Especially if you’re dealing in a territory that is new for you if you’re in a new area. If you’re working with new people, it’s really easy to lose track and lose the good habits that you built up. Hopefully, that’s helpful to you.

Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You can get a free digital copy at AmazonProofBook.com. AmazonProofBook.com.

It’s all I got for tonight. You have a good one. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Sam’s Town Hotel Casino Las Vegas ðŸĻ

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Day one of Brian’s business trip out in Las Vegas.

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Sam’s Town Hotel and Casino Las Vegas.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

This is an unusual type of episode you can hear in the background if you’re not watching. There’s a huge waterfall over here, we’ll go take a look at that in a moment.

If you’re wanting to see this and all you can do is hear it, be sure and go to BrianJPombo.com, and you can watch the video that goes along with this.

Now, I’m going to flip this around. Like I said, this is going to be an unusual video.

Now flip this around to show you what I see.

The current software I’m using doesn’t allow me to flip it while I’m in the middle. And I’m not gonna sit and edit all this around. So I’m gonna flip, I’m going to physically flip my phone around to show you this is giant for one thing that you’ll see.

I’m not sure how well you can see there’s a lot of greenery in here, fake and otherwise, but look at this giant waterfall structure, giant rock thing going, Oh, I don’t know, probably four storeys high.

You look a little higher, you can see the entire entire hotel goes all the way around. And it’s a giant atrium. Pretty cool. Lots of fun.

This is a neat, neat feature. I haven’t seen this before. And trying to figure out how to get my mask off of my headphones here.

This is I know this is thrilling to watch, I want to tell you a little bit about something I experienced here, which was rather different.

They’ve got these animatronic animals that are making sounds that you constantly so if you hear an owl, or a if you hear an owl or a bear, or a lion, mountain lion, start making noise at us.

That’s what you’re hearing is animatronic animals, and they’ve got, you know, fake insects through the speakers and everything else.

It’s kind of reminiscent if you’ve ever been if you’ve ever been into a sorry for the horrible camera.

Like if you’ve ever been into a Bass Pro Shop, it’s kind of like that.

And so it’s it’s really a neat place to go to I’m here for a conference for a convention, and having a lot of fun.

Just so far not nothing official has started. And I’ve gotten to see a lot of people that I know, that are having a really good time. But here’s the experience that I came across the side, Sam’s Town seems like a really cool place, it’s very clean.

If you’re looking for a place to visit when you’re in Las Vegas, this is off of the strip. So it’s interesting.

But the thing about this place is when we got here, there was only one person working the front desk.

This is of course an issue of the horrible situation we’re going through now in early 2022, to where we have a real lack of workers, people willing to work, or people willing to pay enough to get workers.

You have the people that are working have during the toughest time, the lady that I got to meet who’s working her name’s Cindy, she is very good with dealing with a very stressful situation.

Because we had a long line had to wait in line a long time just to get checked into our rooms. And it’s just not fair.

I don’t know whose fault it is but it’s a serious situation that you’ve got to deal with. And you have to be ready for it.

If you’re in a heavy service based business, you have to be ready for the blowback that’s going to come from it.

Nowadays, people posting videos like this and I’m not going to tear down the establishment or anything for having this circumstance. But it’s a reality and it’s something you got to be ready for both as a consumer and a business owner.

So hopefully, you found that somewhat interesting and get out there and start experiencing some cool places like this.

There’s places like this all over the country, let alone the world.

You gotta get out there and document that show other people get other people interested in moving, the more we move and get around and start talking to people the better.

So hopefully you found this helpful or interesting or otherwise, go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

I have a friend here who’s going to have me sign the book he brought his copy along from all the way across the country which is pretty cool I’ll see you tomorrow in the meantime get out there and let the magic happen.

Get Out In The Air and On The Road ✈ïļðŸš—

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Brian gets set for a business trip out to Las Vegas.

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Get out in the air and on the road.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today’s a quick one.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m going to be out and about the next video or podcast, we’re going to be coming to you from probably either Salt Lake City, where I’m going to I’m going for a layover, but distant final destinations in Las Vegas.

So I’ll talk to you from one of those two places tomorrow night.

But the big thing, the big news right now is that things are finally opening up and it looks like it’s going to be for a relatively decent period of time.

The general consensus is that things are moving forward and getting back to active and in-person and so forth. So I’m going to a business conference. I just encourage you to do the same thing.

Get out there. Get out on the road.

I know it’s winter right time and right now, if you’re in the northern hemisphere, it’s winter.

So it might be a little bit tougher depending on where you’re at but the best thing is to get out there get moving, get the blood rushing, it won’t be long before winters in the rearview mirror behind us and we can move on. So keep going.

Things are looking good.

I know in my life, there are a million things that are happening right now that are really exciting. I hope it’s happening for you too. But you sometimes you got to go out there and get it. That’s all I got for tonight. Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. Get your own free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

We’ll see you tomorrow night. Get out there and let the magic happen.

One Last Trip of 2021 🚙

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Brian and the family are off for one last trip to see family for Christmas.

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One last trip of 2021.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I’m a Business investor. I also work with businesses either as a partner, as an investor, or as a friend, to help them to use principles, strategies, and tactics that are already being used successfully out there and help integrate them into their business.

Now I tend to talk about ideas about how you can help make your business better make your life better. Therefore, as a result of that, tonight, though, we’re packing everything up so that we can leave early in the morning to try and beat the snow system that is going to be entering Oregon, and possibly blocking our path to reach California.

Which we like to go down to a few times a year as long-term watchers and listeners of Brian J. Pombo Live. And so Christmas is one of those times.

So we’re heading down a day earlier than we thought, we’re going to try and get across Interstate five. Before they shut it down before the snow becomes so large that they can’t keep it clear. So if we can do that, then we’ll, by this time tomorrow, I’ll be reaching you from Northern California.

That’s all I have for tonight. I don’t have a whole lot but just to kind of inform you what’s going on in my world. Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

By this time next year, this will not be the same thing I’ll be talking about where we’ve got quite a few things happening in 2022.

So it’s pretty exciting. Stay tuned for that.

But while you still can you get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com. If you go there, and you’re watching this sometime in the future, and the copy is not free, I apologize. But hopefully we’ll have something else there that will be interesting to you.

That’s all I got for tonight. You have a good one. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Make Them Feel At Home 🏠

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Back home from a family trip to California for a few weeks.

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Make them feel at home.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I am back at home.

For those of you who don’t know, this is the home office of Brian J pombo.com. What I call the headquarters. And it’s good to be back.

It’s about 10 o’clock at night, and all the kids have been put to bed and we’re just happy to be home. For those of you who are maybe new, the last couple of episodes I was at Disneyland and Legoland before that, celebrating Thanksgiving with family.

And so a whole lot of traveling via car, a little bit of traveling via plane and just go go go for 10 days straight kind of a marathon for me and my family. So it was it was fun.

And what I like about traveling, I like getting out and doing something new.

I love going to new places.

I love going to places I’ve been before I just love getting out there and moving and shaking things up, I really do.

But the funny thing is, is there’s nothing quite like home, especially after you’ve been away a while. There’s nothing quite like this getting back at home, it’s just that comfort zone. That just feels right.

And everything’s where you want it to be, you know, or where you at least expect it to be, you may not even want it there. But you’re you expected to be there.

And everyone’s got that in someplace. If it’s not the place where you live, sometimes the place you know, where your parents live, or where you grew up, there’s always a place that you consider home where you feel the most comfortable.

This plays back into business because ideally, what you want to create for your customer base is a feeling of home, all of those types of comforts.

Obviously, this can be taken too far and done in the wrong way and create horrible addictions and everything else by feeling that comfort. But I don’t want to get into that I want to talk about just the easygoing idea that people feel like this is where they belong.

If you can create that belonging concept in your business, it makes a big difference. And you got to think of it as the same way you feel when you’ve been away from home and you come home.

That feeling if you can somehow duplicate that in your business. That’s a really useful thing. I talk about it a little bit in my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business by a little bit.

It’s one of the nine ways is how to create belonging. And it’s I dedicate a whole chapter to it. It’s at least a start in talking about this idea it kind of exploring it for you and your business.

So I highly recommend you go check that out. If you haven’t yet, gotten yourself a copy, you can always just download a free copy, go to AmazonProofBook.com.

It’s been a long day and a long week in so I’m gonna I’m gonna you know, have a cup of herbal tea and get to bed relatively early.

So I can have a nice full day tomorrow because we’ve got stuff to do tomorrow. Certainly stuff around the house, a little bit of business, and a lot of fun.

So, we’ll see you then come on back.

And in the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

You Don’t Have To Be Famous To Be Effective ðŸ˜Ū

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Brian’s family trip continues as the fam gets set for a trip to Disney’s California Adventure.

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You don’t have to be famous to be effective.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.

Today I’m coming to you from Anaheim, California. I’m staying at the Paradise Pier Hotel and I have had a great day. We’ve had a couple of days, you know, if you’ve been following we’ve had a couple of days of chaos and turmoil. Not a bad way.

So one of the fun types of turmoil, okay.

Today we got to start our day in California Adventure Disney California Adventure is the strange wording of it, but just understand it’s the second Park in Anaheim, California, straight across the way from Disneyland from the original Disneyland that Walt Disney built.

It’s great that they’ve done a whole lot with it, it was started in a really odd way.

California Adventure on discussing will start in a very odd way. And they’ve maneuvered around it over the years to create somewhat of a storyline and to start having a newer character and so forth in there.

One of the major changes that they made was that they took a lot of the story of Walt’s life and created lands around it in order to make these lands that were originally created when the when California venture first came out and have a make a little more sense of the first place you walked down is a little bit like the main street, USA type deal.

Except they changed it to call it when a Vista Street and Buena Vista Street is the main concept of it is this is LA in you know the 20s, late 20s, early 30s, when Walt Disney first arrived on the scene.

He already had a rough go at it he had he had a situation where he completely lost a whole lot of his staff, he lost the character, he was working with everything else.

He was looking to try something brand new and so is in LA for the first time. And there’s all these casts of characters in places and everything that go along with it.

So this is where this, I’ve got this picture I want to show you. First off give you a little bit of background when we first walked down the street, it’s very quaint, it’s very cool. We’re going during the holiday time, so they’re playing Christmas music and Christmas music of that time period or that style at least.

And walking down is really nice.

In the center circle, kind of like a hub. What they have, because of COVID they have the characters that got Mickey Mouse, they had Minnie Mouse, and Goofy dressed in you know, 30 style garb.

But you can’t go up and hug them and talk to them and take pictures with them directly. And because of the whole COVID thing, so that got him kind of distant behind a chain-link fence and not chain link fence but a chain behind a chain where kids can’t come up and touch you but they’re encouraged to come up and take pictures.

So my kids all run up and take pictures with Goofy and they all run up and take pictures with Minnie Mouse. And then along the other side, I noticed two other characters who I the only reason I know who they are is that I’m a nerd about this type of thing.

I understand what the point is behind them but these two characters are standing there and not many people are taking notice of them at the time. I asked my wife I could go over she didn’t mind if I go over I don’t need to ask my wife’s permission but I asked her if she didn’t mind if I go over for a second and take a selfie with these folks.

So here you can see the picture of me with them.

The reason why I took this picture is that it all of a sudden hit me it’s like this is so interesting how these characters were created specifically for this park specifically for this area and most people aren’t even going to know who they are so that the gentleman dresses as a character played by multiple cast members.

Different actors who have played the part of officer Calvin Blue, and he is a character made specifically for that area of Buena Vista Street.

And he walks up and down and would chat people up and talk to people as if he was in that era and is very much a caricature.

Then the other one is Donna, the dog lady, also a character that wanders around talks to people, but because the COVID thing, they don’t do that, so they have to come out and just stand there.

Well, most people don’t know who they are. So they’re not going to go up and take their picture or go talk to them. But they’re there anyway.

So it’s an interesting thing. But besides that, I wanted to point something out bringing it back to business, because that’s what we talk a lot about on here, right. So one of the things that I discussed in my book. 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, which you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

And I apologize that I’m, I’m yawning, it’s been a rough couple days, just kids and everything else. And I’m up late right now, past when my brain is should be allowed to be able to continue functioning.

But my book, 9 Ways Amazon-Proof Your Business, you can get a free copy of Amazon proof book.com. In it, I discussed the concept of being somebody or becoming a somebody if you will.

Whether you are you aren’t, there’s importance be behind being one. And so having a personality that people can connect with, is so very important. Even if they don’t necessarily consider you a celebrity, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, these are celebrities, these are people that are older than most of us.

It’s just really interesting, you the dichotomy between those two, yeah, they can sell, you could sell coffee mugs, and stuffed animals to this day with these characters on and you’re not gonna be able to do that very easily.

With Officer Calvin Blue, and Donna, the dog lady, but the importance is, is that they exist, they were created out of thin air to fill a void.

The same thing can be done in your business, I don’t care what kind of business it is, you can create a character out of thin air, whether it’s real or not, whether it’s yourself, which is always nice, because people light genuine, even if you’re, you’re nothing flashy, or anything else, if you’re genuine people really enjoy that.

But whether it’s yourself or whether it’s a completely made-up character, if it’s interesting enough, if it holds attention. And I say that in the sense of being made up, if it isn’t made up, just the fact that you’re genuine will draw attention. But if it’s made up, it’s got to be interesting.

And so if it’s an interesting character that has some color to it, and some in something to keep your attention, people will go along with it, even if they know it’s a complete fabrication.

You know, people go along with the Geico Gecko, even though they know this is a cartoon on the screen, or, at the very worst-case scenario, they, they don’t think that a gecko has been trained to speak English and, and sit there and promote insurance. So there you go.

It’s very important to have that personality somewhere in your marketing, you can, you can do a whole lot without it. But have that it handles a whole lot of the heavy lifting that you would have to do otherwise.

It’s very difficult, where if you can add that to it, you’ve added a dimension, that’s, that can’t be replaced. I mean, to this day, they haven’t found a replacement for Colonel Sanders over at KFC. And that’s because it was such a unique character that this man had developed. He’s both himself and he’s a flamboyant character.

You can’t replace that.

So just a quick tip, quick ideas of how to think about go check out my book for more details. Or stay tuned here. Wherever you’re watching or listening to this.

I love to hear what you think about characters, and whether you think it’s something that your business can need if it isn’t what you think it needs. If you think there’s no possible way that you could include personality in your business.

Leave me a comment wherever you’re watching or listening to this. I’d love to hear from you. That’s all I got for tonight. You have a good one.

Get out there and let the magic happen.

Disneyland and COVID19 👀

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Brian’s family trip continues as the fam gets set for a trip to Disneyland.

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Disneyland and COVID-19.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

We had a great day at Disneyland today not really a full day, they were closing early and we got started a little later than we expected, or than we wanted to I should say it Was pretty much what we expected and so we squeezed as much out of the day as we could a day at Disneyland with a wife, my and also my mother along and three kids, all under the age of seven, lots of fun, we had a good time.

A lot of interesting things that you can take, as I’ve mentioned in the past three or four episodes that you could take off of vacation, especially when you’re going to a money-making place like Disneyland, where the whole thing is designed to separate you from your money as much as possible as quickly as possible.

And it’s a really tough thing to do.

I’m not really sure what the answer is but you can really see a huge change that has happened.

I mean, as in everywhere but especially at Disneyland with COVID-19. And a lot of this goes back to the history of Disneyland, it’s a very interesting idea of how it was put together.

How Walt Disney very specifically referred to the staff at Disneyland as not just staff or security or this or that job. But as cast members, they call them cast members.

So he came from the entertainment industry, right.

But he saw that if they see this as more of a show that they’re putting on, and that they are cast members, and that the people that are there are guests, and they are putting on a show for them in a sense, if they realize that, that that that brings on a completely different field than any other job, especially in the amusement field, right.

So it that’s interesting.

So you’ve got, you’ve got a job, you take a job at Disney at Disneyland, you are a cast member so you’re an entertainer of sorts, you are fulfilling a need as a member of the cast, whatever that need is, even if you’re sweeping, you know, crumbs off the ground like I saw someone do it today who didn’t seem too thrilled about it.

I mean, who could be right? It’s tough to make that look joyous.

I’ve seen it done but it’s rare that you see somebody do that. But you see a situation where you’ve got to perform, you’re always on.

You realize that and really that’s true of any customer service position or any position where you are in the public eye at all. You really are a cast member in a sense. But Disney Land has always made that a point of what they do.

Now, I’ve never been a Disney cast member. So if there’s anybody out there, if there’s anything I’m saying that’s off base, please put me in my place. This is all from the outside looking in.

From all the stuff I’ve read about Disney and spoken with other cast members about so I could be off on some of these ideas but you’re a performer in a sense, you’re also a servant to them, to all the guests that are there.

This is one of those things that’s very much drilled in, in and Walt Disney himself from what I understand he said something to the extent of, you know, we work so that the guests can play.

That’s the idea that that’s the idea of being a cast member really putting it all out there and doing everything you can for each individual guest’s experience.

So if you see a way to be able to create some magic that day for somebody, you go out of your normal routine in order to do that, that that takes priority over your normal routine, depending on what that routine is.

Bringing COVID, right, all of a sudden now you have a situation and I’m not going to get into the politics of it. But just the plain fact of the matter is the state governments specifically and now the federal government more and more but specifically the state government has made a very big push Disneyland’s in California, right.

So the state governments made a very big push from Cal OSHA to make sure that masks are worn in buildings at all times vaccinated or unvaccinated, doesn’t matter that masks are to be worn by everybody above the age of two and above.

So if your child is two years old like mine, mine is or above, they’re required to wear a mask indoors, outdoors, no masks are required whatsoever. Okay.

That is, the problem is it’s being left on the business owner’s responsibility to enforce it. So now what does this cast member become?

This cast member becomes somebody that’s policing you in a sense, I mean, they are saying, hey, put the mask up. But then and it’s constant, it’s all the time. And it’s not, it’s not that they want to, and it’s not and some of them may want to I don’t, it doesn’t matter to me whether they want to or not, but doesn’t matter if they want to, they are being forced to do it. In order for Disneyland to even keep its doors open.

They have to go along with this specific mandate. And they’re being watched and being kept as an example, to the rest of the amusement park industry. So they’re put in a really nasty situation, and the cast member concept is being twisted quite a bit.

Regardless of all the other regulations that are in place there. There’s a lot of really interesting ones that are happening. COVID-19 has caused the government to work in a certain way, which has caused businesses to have to change in a way that will certainly be detrimental to them in the long run.

You can’t, you can’t mess with that relationship and hope to have a good outcome. So it’s screwy. It’s strange, and there’s a whole lot of other levels to it.

I’m a bit too exhausted to go into all that right now. I know more will come up over time. So I’ll bring some stuff up in later episodes. But hopefully, that’s helpful to you. I’d love to hear what you think about it.

Have you been to Disneyland or other amusement parks, theme parks and what have you seen of how this help?

How are they different from each other?

How has it changed their business practices?

Do you think it’s a good thing or a bad thing?

I’d love to hear about leave a comment wherever you’re watching this or listening to it. So also go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com That’s all I got for tonight.

You have a good one. Get out there and let the magic happen.