Meeting My First Stalker (It's a guy)
I'm traveling to Austin to meet some of the most amazing people I know!
I’d be meeting with Cathryn, my cofounder of Best Self, and we’ll be catching up with Josh. Plus, we’re going to meet our stalker! Kidding! He’s not really our stalker. He is an avid user of the Best Self journal.
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Transcript:
Good morning, everyone.
I’ve got my vest, I’ve got my bags, and that means one thing.
We’re traveling.
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So my flight started boarding five minutes ago. I got all backtracked. I thought I was flying American, so I went to one terminal, and I’m really flying United, which is all the way on the other side of the airport, and I had to catch a train. The train was only running 15 minutes at this hour. Let’s see if I get it.
(relaxing instrumental music)
I just landed in Austin. Now I’m waiting for Cathryn to get here. She was gonna be here in about two hours. Then I’ll rent a car and we’ll hit the Airbnb, and then meet up with our old ads manager Josh. We’re still good friends with him.
What did I get accomplished on the flight?
I got accomplished the talk, and the outline and the structure and the framework that we’re gonna do for this weekend, so pretty excited about it.
I’ll let you guys know how it goes, bye.
So I just realized Cathryn’s not getting here for another two hours so what I might do is go rent a car and go find a Starbucks or a coffee shop, so let’s go do that instead.
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All right, got the rental, gonna go grab the vehicle right now, and I just realized I was on the wrong escalator. I have to be on that one, not this one.
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All right, we just got the rental. They upgraded us to a standard size. I’m not mad. So now I’m gonna jump on a call with my marketing team and go over a couple of the things that we have on our agenda for this week. Today is actually Jess’s last day before she goes on vacation, so what I want to do is chat with her a little bit and make sure that we have everything in place before she departs, and that everything runs smoothly with the transition, so let’s start this thing.
(relaxing instrumental music)
Guys, we met up with Josh.
What’s up guys.
And we found Cathryn.
Josh made me lose the vest. It was good advice ’cause it’s hot here.
Yeah.
Josh, where are we eating?
We’re eating at Elizabeth Street Cafe. They have really good Vietnamese food.
Mmmm.
Really? Elizabeth’s not really a Vietnamese name.
Yeah, I wouldn’t think that.
Yeah.
(relaxing instrumental music)
We just got to, what’s this place called, Josh?
It’s called Perla’s.
Perla’s. We’re having a couple drinks. We migrated here after lunch.
We met up with James.
Cathryn, what would you consider James, a brand champion?
[Cathryn] Yeah.Brand champion, that sounds about right. Ambassador, brand ambassador.
Oooo.
Ooo, I like ambassador. James is an avid proponent of BestSelf and everything that we put out, including our products and content and-
[Cathryn] And he uses the Self Journal every day.He has one with him. He has his own with him, and he’s actually a big support pillar in the BestSelf alliance.
Why don’t you just tell us about your experience?
I got the journal when I was really trying to establish my goals and figure out, I do writing, so, figure out what I wanted to do with that and to make it so that I was actually productive as a writer, ’cause I’ve been writing since 2004, and I think that’s a lot of story of a lot of people, like, it’s been 10 years and I still haven’t published anything.
That’s not useful, so that’s what I really wanted it to do is to get me to the point where I was publishing. So many people, not so many people, but I’ve had at least a few people send me private messages where they’re like, “Your share made all the difference in the world to me,” and I’m like, “God, that’s great.”
[Cathryn] Wow. The group that you guys made, it’s just so many positive people in there, and there’s so many people that give so much great information that it’s, I think somebody said it once where they were like, “I bought the journal, and it was valuable, but then I joined the group and it was like 10 times more valuable now.”
[Cathryn] Yeah. And I was like, yeah-
[Cathryn] We need that testimonial.
I agree with that, you know?
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It was so good to see Josh today.
I love Josh.
Yeah, it was good to see you guys.
We were bust (beep)
Check us out.
(Cathryn laughing)
That’s gonna be bleeped out.
That’s not a plug, I swear.
Yeah, always plug, always plug.
(laughter)
These two are as cool as you think they are.
It’s totally true.
Aww.
Yeah.
Pretty much-
We are. Authentic to the core.
Authentic.
Yeah.
They did not bribe me with drinks and food to say that. Exactly who you think they are. Just saying. I bribed myself.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Josh, always plugging, always giving his affiliate link.
[James] I think I’m headed this way, guys.
Be good, dude.
Yes.
Thanks for…
[Josh] Nice to meet you.
See you again.
Take it easy, dude.
Yes.
I got it.
Don’t give her the keys to drive.
Josh. Josh. Love you, dude.
Love you guys too.
It’s always good, Josh, it’s always good.
Yep.
Bye.
Good morning, everyone.
Cathryn and I had a successful morning. We went over our talk and our presentation and now it’s just after 11, and we’re gonna go into the AppSumo office, so follow us.
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So we just left the AppSumo office. It was pretty cool. They actually merged two townhomes and apartments together to create their pretty swanky place. They have boardrooms where they rate the best tacos in the area and a game room and all that stuff. It was pretty cool.
So we’re actually gonna get some food and then work on our presentation a little bit more. We may meet up with them for Happy Hour.
What’s up, everyone?
It’s another beautiful day here in Austin, actually-
[Cathryn] It’s not at all. It’s not at all, it’s raining. But that’s okay because that means the heat’s not so terrible.
Cathryn and I worked on our presentation this morning. We’re feeling rock solid about it. That’s why I’m dressed in a collared shirt because I’m going to be presented, presenting.
Running a little bit behind. Now let’s head to the event and venue.
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All right, we’re just getting in. Cathryn reminded me about the name tag, so that’s good. I think we go this way.
(whispering) We’re taking the stairs.
(normal voice) This is Cathryn’s workout for the day.
(laughs)
(relaxing instrumental music)
Just bumped into John Logar. Good friend of ours.
(whispering) And now we’re in.
(normal voice) Do need some water.
Cathryn’s brand new MacBook doesn’t have the correct port to display the presentation on these big screens. They don’t have the appropriate dongle for it, so what we’re going to do now is do a little switcheroo with laptops and presentations, so hopefully the formatting’s the same, fingers crossed.
This is how it goes.
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So we just wrapped up the first day of the conference here. Cathryn and I did two presentations. We fucking killed it, let’s be honest.
[Cathryn] It was pretty good.
Yeah. (clicks tongue)
(Cathryn clicks tongue)
Cathryn, what can you tell us about the presentation that we did?
That it was good. I thought the first one was better. It was more in flow, but they were both good.
Yeah, they were both really solid.
We had like five minutes between each one, right?
Yeah.
Five to ten minutes, so.
I really enjoyed putting this whole presentation together and actually delivering it. It really got us excited about our business and sometimes we get so jaded about what we’re working on day to day, we forget how far we’ve come and how quickly.
We loved it.
Now we’re gonna go relax for a little bit before we go meet up with my buddy Ben.