Women of Inspiration Podcast - EP 0160 - Carrie Patsalis

I never thought that I could go in front of a camera.

That was the big no-no for me.

I'd always been a producer-director.

I'd always been able to produce other people in front of the camera.

And I think that probably it was just starting naturally on social media, on the small, you know, the small clips, if you like, not the big YouTube videos, but the small clips.

And just realising that I could talk to my camera.

I could talk to my camera.

And it was just this realisation that it felt no different to talking to a friend, just kind of like a little bit gossipy and this is what I'm doing.

And...

I don't know.

It was it wasn't it was never an active decision.

I just started to do reels about where I was or what I was seeing.

And I just found that it was really easy.

And so it was one of those things that I never planned for.

I never scripted.

I never considered.

And it just grew organically.

So when you, when you say that you didn't script it, are you still not scripting your journey or is there a certain level of scripting? Because I know even in my own journey, you know, I, I go, I free based, like I try to script it and then I make more of a mess of it scripting it.

than I am when I speak from my heart, because that's what needs to come out and be said.

So maybe talk to us a little bit about that, because I know that there's lots of people that want to jump into, you know, sharing their journey, sharing their stories, but maybe you can just kind of share some of the lessons that you learned along the way doing that.

I mean, I think also, I suppose, having been a producer director and worked with presenters, people do work differently.

So there are those people that want the confidence and they call it like a safety net of learning the words, which I understand, but... really if you kind of just know roughly what you're doing like what you're going to talk about it is much easier just like I'm chatting with you now I don't know what questions you're going to ask me and I'm just I'm just going with the flow I'm just answering you um and I just think that certainly if you're doing vlogs or you're talking to camera um for social media people kind of like the the real the authentic and it doesn't matter if you trip over your words you can stop and correct yourself um I would say now, as my YouTube has developed, I do consider... there's certain things that I will script if you like.

So for example, if I go to a historical site, then I will have to, my memory is a bit like a goldfish when it comes to kind of facts and figures and things like that.

So I'll have to kind of have a little read through about what I'm looking at this 17th century, you know, whatever it is, Safavid empire, incredible piece, you know, I'll often learn those short paragraphs just for something very specific.

But what I will never script is a chat with somebody.