Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

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What is up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are on episode 56.

Yes, that is right. 56. My name is Grant Baldwin. I'm glad you're here today. And we've had a good month. This has been a fun month. Had a lot of fun. As you may know, we've been doing 30 episodes during the month of April, and we are nearing the finish line right now. Just a couple days left, a couple more episodes to go. and we got some good ones. We got some good ones that I think you're really going to dig. Also, I'm just going to tease this out there. Next week, actually, we're going to be releasing an episode with my wife. Oh, I'm super excited about that one. That is one we just recently recorded, and she's not one that was like, like really i took some convincing to get her to come do the the podcast but we wanted to talk about how do you balance marriage and

family and travel and life and kids with a speaker slash entrepreneur so uh we have that conversation

that's all next week though so you can look for that that's going to be episode 60 so make sure, that's why you got to subscribe to the podcast. That way that way you don't miss out on anything as it comes out. So again, be sure and look out for that one coming to you next week. But today's episode, we're interviewing and talking with my buddy Wes wages. Wes is a, he runs a video company and videography company. But he also does a, he did the demo video for me. So if you want to check it out, you can go to grant baldwin.com and go to the speaking page. And the demo video right at the top of the page there, Wes not only shot most of it, but he edited it and just does an amazing, amazing job. So in this we discuss, you know, if you're creating a demo video, what you need to think about, if you're going to hire someone to help you with that, what you need to look for. And then also if you wanted to try to do it yourself, how you can get a video done inexpensively and maybe even for free using your iPhone. So we discussed some strategies on that. He's also got a giveaway at the end. So make sure you

stick around for that and check that out. All right. Let's get into it. Here's my conversation

with my buddy Wes Wages. Enjoy it.

What is up, my friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Today we are

joined by my buddy Wes Wages, who is my video guy, actually. He's done

a few different video things for us, I think. And actually, our current demo video for

speaking, Wes, shot some of it and edited all of it and made me look prettier than I actually

am. And so, well done. I can attest to that, Grant. How you doing today, man?

I'm good, dude.

And by the way, your new site looks awesome. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. I always glad to have video on a site that looks really good. Cool. I'm trying to make you look good and you scratch my back. I'll scratch yours. So, Wes does a lot of video work. In fact, once you do this, let's start with, once you just give us kind of a high-level view of your business,

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