Nick the poet reflects on fatigue, travel weariness, and using AI in creative work, sharing thoughts on pushing through low-energy days, naps, and insights from Seth Godin about showing up and reconnecting with purpose when motivation dips.
Hey folks, how you doing Nick the poet here. Thank you so much for joining my live stream today I hope you're having an awesome day an awesome start to your work week So today I want to talk a little bit about fatigue about work and about fun And so I was traveling for work this weekend. I didn't get back till really late last night So I'm feeling you know really quite tired today, and it got me me thinking I was even thinking about canceling you know this live stream You know when I had a little more energy next week But I decided to roll with it and to kind of build on it So we all face these days where we're just too exhausted to work You know our steps are feeling heavier, and we're tempted to drag through the motions Just noting as well.
I did use the help of AI To write some of this live stream, so I always like to share that I use AI a lot I use chat gbt a lot for work. I'm interested in the AI revolution I don't know where it's going, but I think it does open up a lot of interesting paths for People in the creative fields So yeah, do you use AI? What if you found about that please comment if so But here's the thing what if we could learn not only to push through these days But actually to enjoy them, and I do find a lot of the times that when I'm more tired I think like part of my brain turns off and I end up actually having a really good day And it might be different than the days where I'm really well Rested and this is a fine line everything.
I'm talking about here because we want to avoid burnout We want to avoid overwork, and so I'm not encouraging that whatsoever I took a glorious nap today that was super beneficial So that's not what I'm saying, but these are just some points to think about In regards to fatigue, and I think it brings up some other interesting Workpoints, so we're going to dive into today. We've got some of my favorites That we're going to get some info from like Seth Godin who is known as the marketing guru One of them certainly of the modern age and an author of the book the dip along with many others and he has a really you know Brilliant perspective on when you feel drained he says the hard part isn't coming up with new ideas The hard part is doing the work every day, so ideas are a dime a dozen But to actually you know be able to execute on those ideas and make progress That's a whole other thing and he's saying that some days We're not going to feel like writing or creating or showing up to work But a lot of times these are the days where we need to do this anyways He talks about these dips and energy is opportunities to reconnect with our deeper purpose And that's the key finding our why can be more energizing than caffeine Even when we focus on the bigger reason behind what we're doing it becomes easier to push through So next time you're tired remind yourself You know why you're doing this in the first place if we can connect to that why it's going to help us You know with that fatigue or with that boredom when we have to do these tasks that might not be the most Exciting but that might be crucial to getting ourselves You know closer to our dreams and to living in our purpose So next thing I want to talk about is leaning into your story and to this we're going to go to one of the great songwriters The storytellers of all time Barbara Streisand Who's faced stage fright and exhaustion many times said art does not exist only to entertain But also to challenge one to think to provoke even to disturb in a constant search for truth So Barbara would dig deep in her passion for storytelling, especially on those tired days She didn't shy away from the challenge.
She embraced it as a way to connect more authentically with her audience So what if you on these on these tired days treated work as a chance to? Embrace this notion and kind of uh, you know, maybe and just maybe it's doing some journaling or some writing To connect with what do you need in that moment? Do you need to search for your why that day and push through? Or maybe you need to take that that nap, you know, maybe you need to take that break Maybe you need to take you know that That time off will work that day.
So once again, I'm just kind of providing some food for thought on different ways we can look at work and Fatigue but always most of all Welcome here to the contest near Chaco is no stranger to put tea in work Gary be no one for his energy and relentless work ethic, but Gary isn't just about pushing through exhaustion He's about finding joy in the hustle. He often says when you're doing what you love the exhaustion just becomes part of the game So he's basically saying that, you know, if you find a work or projects that you're really passionate about, you know You might get tired in pursuing them He tells a story about staying up late to finish an ad campaign and instead of getting frustrated He embraced the fatigue saying that's when his true creativity kicked in now I don't know the ins and outs of that story Yeah, okay, all right.
Well, that's okay. That's okay. Keep working. Alright, so now what I'm gonna do is I go to my zoom and Wait a sec Okay, but now Robert. I will have had to start another zoom. Correct. I need to create another zoom No, no, he's a fun. Oh, okay So okay go into more and then do all the steps Yeah more live stream live on custom streaming service Okay, and then I'm going to Head back to those directions quit Okay There was someone else joined I didn't recognize. Hi guys. This is just a test. So if you're here You get to see me without my makeup.
Just having the practice on a zoom All right, start the zoom call invite everyone turn off the camera Shannon and you should see the speakers side by side Okay, stop my video. Oh, yeah, stop my video Here's my question Robert. Should I not be in the video because I'm or like I feel like the first time I was I'm not sure. Let's let's follow the instructions. Okay, okay Turn off your cameras click view in the top right high non-video participants Hide, okay. I think I'm already doing that wait. Yeah, okay Do you don't see them side by side press more then click on live streaming custom service?
live streaming Hold on show some service Okay, and now I'm gonna put in looks like I just wait so for my streaming. Nope . I don't do that Streaming URL Getting we're getting it Copy I believe in you it's Colleen I also believe in you. Thanks friends. Thanks friends. Okay. Copy streaming key is the RTM PES key Copy streaming key live streaming PGRL is HTTPS at such copy no Yes Do I have to click custom streaming service requires? Authentication authentication to broadcast Robert does meeting is now streaming live on a custom live streaming service Okay on my end.
I'll give it a second Okay, awesome Now where it's taking me to on my screen. So you know is it's taking me Robert to my cadre home page Meaning it just took me to cadre the web app whoa So then my question is so now if you have a question type of a question in and I want to see if I can see it and I'm gonna Call me. Will you write a question in the chat on the your app? I am Also what I was seeing yeah on My screen is still just you I know I know yep me too So that's not what happened last time so I'd have a last time when it worked was this screen my Robert went to half Me half Andrew it looked weird on my phone, but then in the replay.
It looked normal And actually what happened was then I toggled into I had the option of Showing one person at a time and toggling back and forth and I just picked that because I couldn't tell if it was right or not I It's weird it's concerning me that it's not yeah going through And remember this is exactly what happened last time and then I just took my phone and held it up Can I ask you a question Robert did you see mine had like a notification That it's hosting on a custom service and I had to hit okay does that matter um I also got that But I think that was that okay just meant that you've read the notification.
I don't think it was like Colleen that was on your app that was on my zoom because here's the other thing the zoom will only be for the speakers So that's what we have to think about to like so meaning and I know you know that but like it's like Yeah, oh, I mean this is what we can I okay, so I don't think this is working So can you do something? Can you stop the live stream and then start it again? Yeah on zoom or in cadre in cadre. Yeah Bye everyone. Thanks for joining Okay, so I'm gonna hide that right now.
I just did it. I just did it on my thing. You hit it. You're the best Okay, so now I'm gonna start my life right now, okay Actually, it's just this finishing I wonder if I have to leave totally and come back. Let me try that You might have to even set up a new Yeah, we might have to a new life Let me just see I just want to see for fun Kajai It says internal oops should cancel. It says enter live stream again. Yeah, try that Yeah Close Oh, it's letting me only schedule it. Yeah, okay, so I'll schedule it right now for 230 perfect Also, do you have to do anything to stop the custom live streaming service?
No, I think let's leave that on Okay, what I'm wondering is if it's already streaming to it And then we start the live stream doesn't just pick up that video. Oh, good question. All right, so now I'm gonna enter the live stream again Hey guys, I am only here today as a test. We're gonna see what happens Open that up. Yep Maybe It's not showing you as live Robert yeah, I got it to cut back up. Oh my gosh and I see our videos. Oh What do you mean? What do you see? Oh? We're in there. Okay, so that's right.
But now here's my question. I want to try something Yeah, I'm gonna turn my video on for a second Okay And then I'm gonna do What does it look like now? Well, then there's like a 10 second delay. Oh, yeah So give it a second. I'll show you hello friends. Hello friends Welcome to the live stream Still doing that Okay, wait, wait, wait, oh Now what happened? Nothing my phone just went dark. Oh So says it's live So the other thing though is see it The other thing is it does it looks weird. So it looks weird looks.
Yeah, the video is not updating properly. Mm-hmm So I'm gonna turn off my video first so I can just see again So this is where last time what I had to do because it looked weird and people said it looks weird And I think I did multi speaker So now try and see if something happens. Wait, hold on. I Want to see what happens? Hold on Take a sense it does it looks weird. So it looks weird looks. Yeah, the video is not updating properly. Mm-hmm So I'm gonna turn off my video first so I can just see again So this is where last time what I had to do because it looked weird and people said it looks weird And I think I did multi speaker So now try and see if something happens.
Wait, hold on. I want to see what happens Hold on Take a sec it's like what's happening online. So because here's the other thing mine just still looks like this I don't I don't see what you're Do you see I don't see what you're showing Well, that's what I have now. So I went out Okay, I just went out and went back in Oh, okay. Now it looks like this. Yeah, and and it's up. Okay. Now we go. Okay. Okay. So although our faces are long Yeah, so Shannon what view view did you change it? So I changed it to leave just changes it between the speakers Yeah, but that one did work.
So there is an actual video coming through because so can you change it to gallery Okay It's in gallery now Okay Mine is gonna take a minute to update Yeah Okay, it is doing this weird thing too. So give it a second. Oh, so you know my mine came through kind of Oh, see Robert talked Okay. So now look at Colleons. Colleons is red. Colleons is good. Look at Colle ons. Robert is behind me What do you mean? Look at we're not at the same spot Yeah, that that's just gonna happen because ever all of this is getting Yeah Well, what's interesting is Shannon you are showing up totally normally Are we in your When you when you see your um zoom is your video on your zoom screen.
This is can you see me that? Yeah, no, I mean you're I'm talking about your zoom screen on your tell I see on my zoom screen is a regular zoom with the two of you And you're not in it I'm not in it because I hid my well so because I hid well actually no because hold on I hid my I hid myself you now I'm in it Because in the directions, I think it's a hide self view Okay, so now I think I'm getting you through your phone and not through I agree . Yeah, so I hide myself view Okay, so hide self you and so now so wait, okay, so I currently just so you know I have it on gallery Just the two of you showing Okay Okay now hold on And then just a second would you do me a favor would you type in a comment type in a question on the Because this is the other thing I didn't have it last time.
It's super important is like I couldn't get any questions But this also, then I am nervous because they're disappearing so fast Which I know you're on already Robert. I just said You sent one into this stream I did It's not showing yet. I don't see any I don't see any kind. I am far behind though. Okay, so let's give it a sec Yeah Yeah, I'm still not getting your hold on. I'm gonna mute for a sec Okay Sorry, I was just listening back And now we're like kind of up to speed and we're not getting this view back And also I'm not I did never saw your comment calling okay, so that's weird Hmm I will say this does seem right as far as how it went the first time where like I had my phone here And I could see my phone Like all of that, you know what I mean, but it and then you guys so just it seems like the right general Things Okay, where's your phone right now is it pointed at the ceiling Mine Yeah, it's like literally just I set it on my computer in front of me next to your guys this window Can you set it on the so it's pointed up with the ceiling Well, I think that is I have it like this Well, you can't see me.
Yeah. No, can you point it up? Just set it on the table Like what do you mean pointed at the ceiling like flat? I just set it. Yeah, I just set it down on the table right now. It's flat Okay, yeah, your video is coming through your phone It's also like 15 seconds off. Yeah, I'm about I'm about eight behind Okay, you're about to point it at the ceiling here. We go right there. It just happened. Yeah, that's far behind where So somehow it went back to Man, that's weird And you didn't see my comment at all Shannon.
No I made a comment too. Do you want it? I didn't see anything Gosh, that's interesting Did you see that No, I'm seeing nothing But like again the comments haven't been working generally lately at all Because like I know comment at the other day in my live and somebody else said they did too and then I didn't see I didn't even know they were there I just put my phone back up for what it's worth I don't like that. That's covering your face. There we go Oops All right, well this doesn't work very well at all.
That's it. What is it that you need to do? Like what is the what what are we trying to do in a life Q&A for 45 minutes? When does that what does that happen? m But I have to I have to give them a heads up by like I mean, I have to give them directions probably like Wednesday end of day just to make sure they have time to understand it Okay, let's jump off this live To stop my life. Yeah Okay, should I leave the zoom on? Yeah, okay Yeah, I was talking about it live. I just hit it calling That's you're so quick.
It asks you now if you want to hide it at the end of everyone Did you do this? Did you build that river? Uh, no, I did that. Oh, well that happens It literally says that when you end I think that's been true for a while. I've when I tested lives a while ago. I did that too It's been a bit Okay Okay, so I think I think it's fair to say that that this is we can't do this right This this route. I mean it doesn't work at all really right So when you say can't do it though, what do you mean? I mean we can't use we can't use We can't use this route to do it correct this tool right like I don't think we can use zoom It's a stream And my guess is it's probably not zoom.
That's causing the problem. It it feels to me like it's more Our side of the world I wonder why because I have no absolutely no clue how this works at all. I wonder if something changed when Like Alec got off like in the back end like when Alex wasn't wasn't on the team anymore and there was like one something. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I have no I I Have no absolutely no clue and there's probably no easy way to find out. Yeah. Yeah, so Yeah So let me so this has to be live the thing on thursday I mean it's already been pushed back a week and the last one went wrong like last month was the one that so I mean I would feel really shitty if we didn't deliver it because we're also meeting with them on thursday or friday to close the deal for next year Oh, what I mean is does it have to be live though?
Can it just be a video? That's yes, it has I mean like that's the entire thing is it's a live q&a so people can come in and ask their questions in real time That's that's why it matters that it's live. Okay, and they already put it out to their waitlist They advertised it last week and I do just want to say we did have one successful that was like it worked perfectly Yeah, and then we had the one that was broken. So we've only ever tried this twice Well, yes Okay But the first one worked Um Do you remember why is there something you did differently or?
Literally, it's just followed the exact same instructions that I've been following like both things like literally cut and paste what Alec gave me Like is it worth it to ask Alec or is that past? Yeah, totally. I mean there I mean to be honest, there's no way we can make this work by thursday unless Alec knows some way to make it work Okay, I mean that's the honest truth, but um, I mean I could start digging in or have one of the guys start digging into How this thing works, but it's It's monday.
Okay, and if it doesn't work. I mean if we had to deploy code, it would be a few days Um Okay, so let's assume we can't freak like so okay beyond that like in a long- term solution scenario um Is there a world in which we can build it into the platform? A live q&a allowing multiple people. Oh totally. Yeah, so what's the time to turn around something like that? I mean it would take at least a couple of weeks probably to build Okay Um, okay, can we put that as a because that's also something we just pitched to sink or hospice Like we're starting to do it with them as well Is that we were going to be able to do live q&as?
Yeah With multiple people exactly like we did it before. Yes Um, yeah, we can add it to the backlog Right, but we also promised communities by just by thanksgiving. So Yeah, no, I know but so when you think about our corporate clients communities and live q&as are the two things we're selling the most so Okay, like two tpi to sincry hospice to map like our top prospects. It's that those are like the key features we're selling Okay Um All right. Well, can you I mean Do you have a relationship with Alec?
Can you reach out to him? Will he answer you? I mean, I can try there's no harm in trying. So I'll try that. I'll see what he says Um, I do think those two are the top priorities aside from like bugs or whatever when it comes to our prospects and what we're closing and selling Okay is um God, I wish there was another way to do this without using the live system So Well, I don't know if we can I I don't know if it's the same functionality But I was checking in to see like if we could use like a stream yard Or What is stream yard?
Stream yard is um, hold on Stream yard is what we use at the radio station Okay, and it's um A live streaming and recording studio in your browser Um, can record kind of that you can stream live To facebook youtube and other platforms. Oh, yeah, that might be helpful. What is um, where do you So It is possible to get a free account on it It has a studio just like like you can switch cameras and stuff like that I guess I would want you to to experiment with it because I don't understand technology but Okay Shannon if we needed to do a temporary workaround for any reason I have some ideas about how we could do that too Some of that means like wait like if we really can't find any way to go live.
Yeah What is it? I think we could do you could do a recorded session Either I know over zoom or stream yard solicit for questions And then That's not the problem though. Like the fundamental piece of it is that it highlights our platform like Holy get it just makes us it's just it makes us look shitty. So that's that's why i'm having a response obviously um Because that's like the cool thing that we sold and and because we did it once That's why it's more. You know what i'm saying. I fully get it.
I know you do um I Sorry, I'm re I'm looking at the stream yard site to see if I can figure it out I'm texting hello to um Oops, that's okay just to see if he's being if he's willing to go through it again Yeah I mean, I think that's probably our best shot here Like is there is is there a it looked to me like it was sort of working Okay, except for it was just the it never updated Like it's definitely connected. Right. There's like something i'm wondering if it's like an order of operations situation, you know What I mean where it has to go in a specific order?
Because I that's the one thing that's like in my brain is like was there I feel like there was something in the order That like I was like shit. Did I like not write part of it down or something? Yeah, um I just texted um, yeah Um, robert i'm reading here and maybe this will make sense to you. It does not make sense to me, but um regarding stream yard Uh You can use the multi streaming function Which says uh, which platforms can I stream stream to stream yard has a direct integration with facebook youtube instagram linkedin and twitter and twitch But you can also stream to other platforms Using the custom rtmp feature.
Yes Let's try that Let's do that. I can someone sign up for a stream yard account on it Give me a moment I think that you can use a free account too At this point if we have to pay for it, we might just have to pay for it. Yeah It's gonna ask me a trillion questions Um Hey robert Can I ask you another question while callings doing that or is your brain occupied? Please. Yeah, no Um, so we're meeting tomorrow with um edison health, which is a third party administrator basically they Basically, they're going to help us sell cadre Um, and so like one of the questions and this continues like also I met with mac leadership last week and one thing that people are getting really jacked about is the ability to book one who won through cadre Okay, um, and so that's like that whole book now feature, you know yeah so how would we What's the reality of like if we were to book via like blue cross blue shield employer or you know Blue cross blue shield only or if we were to book would integrate with only like Certain one-off individual clinicians like is there a process that's the same no matter what or what does that look like?
If we were to be like, hey, we want to do that Well right now. I mean the only thing we could do is just have a link to some outside Website or something like that like we don't have any capability to actually like Schedule time or sign up for things or anything like that. So it would it would basically be If if they had like a direct link Yeah, a link to a URL Which i'm sure they do right which is like some kind of scheduling page or something like that then we could do that Like right now. We don't right now.
We can't do that, but that's probably something we could do You know in less than a month Okay But so so and I think that's okay because like part of what i'm telling them is like that stuff is coming by like Thanksgiving or like you know by December of like the community Yeah, and the other features. So I think it is Something so we could say but by the time you if you were to kick off with us by the time we get to December That would pretend that could be live I mean it depends on what you tell them it is, but yeah if they want a link to a scheduling page that could be in December if they want like the ability to actually like Schedule things so there's like a calendar integration or a scheduling integration or something like that that definitely could not be done by December Okay, so at this moment.
It's purely a pass through to their own booking system . So they leave cadre at that point So we're just real source. Okay. Yep. Exactly. And what about our coaches though So like this is the other thing like Luke right now was doing book now Yep, like book was so and so does that just send an email to us. I have no idea how that works. You'd have that's Luke Okay, but if Luke wants to handle that like if he wants to handle whatever requests come in through that and manually Connect those people.
That sounds like a perfectly good way to do it. Yeah, okay I'm gonna just practice. Yeah, I have to upgrade this mofo What mofo um stream yard Because Is it a down is it a mobile app or a downloadable app? Yeah, they they do have an app now. Yeah Okay If so the idea is that you're going to start a stream and then you're going to invite us to it That's yep, but first I have to upgrade Oh shit, it wants like the full fucking year How much is it? $240 a month. There has to be a monthly option Twenty five dollars free 25 bucks.
There you go. There you go. There you go. Yeah, so there is a free account, but the free account Um does not include the premium feature of the rmtp or 25 bucks is done is fine I need to find my credit card. Hold on. Oh here. I'll do you want me to give me the quick the company card That would be awesome. Yeah here. Hold on Oops All right, hold on Okay, are you ready for the number? Um, yeah, although. Oh, it doesn't matter. Okay. Yeah, go ahead uh 4098 0840 0402 4757 And then month year 1126 And then the cvc 022 And then what's the zip code?
55110 Purchase plan Okay, I'm on the monthly core plan for the week. So now This what I'm going to do Um Okay, I never do this at the station so I have to figure this out Alex calling right now Hmm Alex calling me. Oh perfect. I'm just gonna take it and mute you guys. Yeah I think we still go down that road though calling. I need I'm on it Okay, so Um live stream reusable studio. Let's just do this Um Oh Okay Oh, that's interesting So when I was setting up a studio Robert It asked me for a custom rmtp Perfect.
Okay. Do you have those instructions? Yeah, do you have those instructions from there, but hold on. Let me get out of this studio first Oh here, okay Edit, no Okay, so I'm making a reusable studio Called cadre I think it's gonna work. I'm confident. I am too But what I'm trying to do now is find the Okay, then it gave me that option and then it disappeared so Okay, hold on Starting all over Create a reusable studio. I'm gonna call it cadre Create Okay, now I'm gonna go to settings General That doesn't help me Okay Shoot Okay Okay, I'm gonna create a live stream add a destination custom Okay, so then it gives me rtmp server URL and then stream key.
Okay, so are those two things both Yep, those are all in the instructions so the streaming URL More of those three things. It is um RTMP server URL and then stream key Yep, okay, so the RTMPs and the key are both in there. Yep Then stream key What would the stream key be? Would that be streaming URL? Nope, there's a thing called RTMPs key in instruction. Oh, that's the stream key. Yep Got it. Okay. Um, okay Oh, by the way, our thing is still going. Can I cancel this? What's still going is our This is gonna ruin it.
Is is uh Shannon still on? I think she is. Oh, she just turned off her camera That's okay because I think when we get out of here and go over to the other one Well, I mean, I think we need her to stop this before we start the new one. Okay Shannon, can you hear us? Um Okay I just slapped her. Oh good. Okay. She's back Oh, she says You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You [BLANK_AUDIO]
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