Happy Saturday everyone, this is Kayla and if you've no day's story I suppose if you're following along with this episode and I changed my podcast name So I kind of took a little hiatus for most of this month because I don't know I wasn't really feeling my initial Podcast idea, so I've now changed it to the daily pod Which I'll definitely be updating Monday through Friday So kind of my idea with this podcast is more of like my thoughts on things that are happening with me at work in my personal life But also kind of like articles that I read or think just things that are going on in the world That was kind of my problem with my last title of the podcast I guess which was daily wins slash weekly wins. I don't know. I felt like it just kind of like pigeonholed me into just talking about Winning which I really in hindsight couldn't care less about so anyway, I think that this is gonna be kind of a better Overview yeah, I kind of figured it's not worth just putting myself in a quarter in one topic rather I'd kind of want to be able to talk about anything so Welcome to the daily podcast So moving on from the name change which again, I'm pretty excited about I know today Saturday, and I said that I would be updating this Monday through Friday, but consider this the initial episode of the daily pod I wanted to talk about reach outs. So Two things happen this week.
I went to a couple different conferences One was hosted by Facebook and slash Instagram and I was hosted at a really awesome location here in Stockholm It's right on side of a month. It's called Munsham jigere yet, which I guess translated is Munich Brewhouse, yeah, I'm actually not sure what the dark translation is But we'll go with that It's kind of like an old warehouse location that they've renovated and they could not have been more beautiful So I was there on Wednesday For that event talking about digital marketing and kind of how companies can use Facebook For that type of a platform really really awesome They had great speakers and overall like I left around lunchtime and was super productive for the rest of the day I love conferences I know a lot of people hate them, but I think it's definitely a testament to how The company that's hosting me event books a speaker because the day after on Thursday I went to an event hosted by Salesforce and I'm so torn I'm not talking about this event because part of me loved it And then like the second part we hated it so to explain further The Salesforce event had two speakers the first one you guys she was amazing like everything So the Salesforce event was also about digital marketing Salesforce has launched a new Digital media platform or digital marketing platform I can't even remember the name of it the second speaker kept referring it to it as DMP Without really going into like what that meant so but more on her later But you guys the first speaker was such a testament to how a public speaker should be She was like she was engaging you could tell that she had mastered what she was talking about and like she was just so captivating Like her hour long powerpoint presentation felt like five minutes and afterwards I wanted to listen more She also dropped a like clip of Gary Vaynerchuk which I'm obsessed with him If you're not following him on instagram or watching his youtube videos, you definitely should be he's so inspiring But after her speech she brought up Amazon and we had like a brief 10 minute interlude and I never do this I never go up and introduce myself But something inside of me was like Kayla you just have to go up like just talk to her tell her what a good job She did so sure enough she finished speaking I went up to her and I think she was like pretty taken back It's not very Swedish to go up and talk to someone that you don't know but I went up and I was like oh my gosh Like I love your speech you're so good She talked about Amazon and how they're basically changing the game Which is interesting that she mentioned both Amazon and Gary Vaynerchuk because earlier that day I had just listened to an episode on his podcast where he was talking about the purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon and then I'd also read an article about day and business insider about For the first time ever Amazon's actually sold more toys than the company Toys R Us. Now if you live in the US, you know that that is mind blowing I mean Toys R Us only sells one thing, Toys for Children, but Amazon is Beating them but I think the odds are like three to one like by a lot Toys R Us isn't even number two It goes Amazon then Walmart then Toys R Us So if that's an investment to like how a corporation like Amazon is just eating up everything else I don't know what is but anyway Uh, I walked up to her and I mentioned this article and I like I've just been thinking about this interaction for like The last two days and then I came across another article Late last night and it was talking about reachouts and as I was reading I was like oh shit like I I need to reach out to this woman So um, I figured before I continue on with this kind of a long rant about how much I love to hurt this woman Um, a reachout is basically sending an email to Like I'm not even I don't even want to say like a mentor But just kind of like reaching out to someone that you find inspiring So the article that I read this girl talked about how she sends one every Monday And that sounds super intimidating. I don't even know who I would reach out to once every every week But it was pretty cool.
She talked about If you did this every Monday for a year I think the number was something like you would have at least tried to extend your influential social network by people that you're inspired by but at least like I think it's like 260 people Which is insane and obviously not everyone's gonna reply to your email because if you're inspired by them Chances are a lot of other people are gonna be inspired by them But I mean, even if like a quarter of that You know, like even if something as tiny as like 50 people replied back I mean, how awesome is that people that you're inspired by that you've done started dialogue with? So anyway, I woke up this morning on a Saturday I was like, you know what before the moment passes, I kind of reached out to this woman So I went on to her website her name is Jackie or Jacqueline cough bower I think that's how it was pronounced unsure, but sure enough one in follow her instagram drafted up an email Mentioned like hey, I talked to you after your salesforce page It was really great Just wanted to tell you like I went to the office the day after it felt so inspired And then I attached the Spotify link to like a three-minute pod class clip from Gary that I mentioned and Here's the thing like I'm not expecting here back from her I don't expect anything from her like in true like Gary v style like I gave 51 percent Like I'm not looking for anything back I'm looking to give more than I'm willing to get back in that instance And it was such a contrast to the woman that came on stage after her Oh my god, it was so painful She is like a country director for Salesforce Sure, like she seemed like a really nice person But the minute she started talking You know when someone has that like nervous quiver when they're presenting that was this woman Like she lost all credibility but like within the first two seconds of her presentation On top of that it was such a boring PowerPoint She didn't really know any of her information and people left in the middle of her presentation Like mind you, this is an afternoon like Like an afternoon event So it's not I mean we got there at two and it's supposed to be over by 430 I think her presentation was only supposed to be like 45 minutes long We were maybe a hundred people invited and I would venture to guess that at least 25 people left during her presentation I mean it was so oh so hard to watch I mean and I don't agree. I don't think you should ever leave a speech I was tempted but I would never be that person And it just showed me like what a difference in public speaking It is if you are a master of your craft like The inability to self-assess from the second speaker I honestly like I have zero idea what her name was I couldn't tell you anything she talked about versus Jacqueline the first woman that presented I can tell you a detailed like play-by-play of what she discussed I mean, let's just say it was a masterclass in how to and how not to present a speech Well everyone that includes my roundup of the past few days I'll let you know if I heard back from Jacqueline Like I said, not expecting to but if I do I would be pleasantly surprised Also wanted to make a quick note on something that I can already feel is going to be a comment on this podcast I was having a discussion with a friend of mine Pretty recently about this I know that I speak English in a really interesting way Swedish is known as like a sing-song language And I know that when I speak in English It's something that like my college roommates have made My college roommates a few years ago made fun of me for My English goes incredibly up and down I'm obviously a native speaker But because I grew up speaking both I know that like that habit kind of infiltrates into English So just wanted to throw it out there if in case it sounds super weird That's gonna be the reason why Just to already throw off any like negative comments about it because Putting your voice out there is very scary But again, I'm gonna reference Gary Vaynerchuk You guys like I said go and check him out He keeps talking about how big voice is gonna be in the next couple years And I'm gonna say like I have to agree I love listening to podcasts And I like I really enjoy making voice memos of my ideas If anything else, if never ever listens to this Like I'll at least have them recording of like what I was thinking Anyway, to cut off this weird kind of end of a ramble I hope you guys all have a great rest of the weekend I will be back on Monday with a fresh new episode Alright guys, take care And stay tuned for the daily podcast Thanks, bye