Gina also provides interactive and motivational keynote speeches on the power of communicating with purpose and impact. And I have seen her in action doing this.

I first met Gina in March 2020 - right before the world seemed to shut down. She was backstage in Cork Opera House getting ready to host a full-day event packed with interviews and panel discussions.

I was doing some behind the scenes filming for a promo video and I asked Gina if she wouldn't mind answering a couple of questions.

She said 'absolutely' and immediately I loved her.

She was so present, enthusiastic and authentic and I'm delighted to chat with her about all things video here today.

Connect with Gina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginalondo...

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In this interview Judie speaks to Hilary about her life as an actor, filming self-tapes for casting directors, imposter syndrome and her blog about living wild and free in our modern world.

Here are three key takeaways:

1. The Self-Tape Set-Up:

As an actress, filming self-tapes are a big part of Hilary’s life.

“Nowadays before you even get in the door to do an audition face to face with somebody, you do a self-tape first.”

Hilary started out filming with her laptop camera however more recently she has upgraded to the iPhone 13, two softbox lights and she always makes sure her background is neutral.

While casting directors and directors can somewhat see-through poor quality self-tapes, they do have some expectations for the auditionees.

2. Imposter Syndrome:

Imposter syndrome is ubiquitous. Even the most confident among us can still feel the burden of a bad day or lack confidence when we need it most. Hilary too struggled from imposter syndrome and to her, this was a signal that she wasn’t “going in the right direction”.

Hilary used to put a lot of weight on her career but now, she has realigned her values. While she takes her job seriously, she now treats her roles with fun, and she tries not to take herself too seriously.

“I think the second you stop taking yourself seriously, you kinda drop all those negative expectations almost of yourself.”

3. Self-connection and frequencies:

In 2020, Hilary had created her blog website called “Live Wild” - https://bit.ly/TheVidLiveWild. Hilary shares that she has a whole other side to her that is very deep and holistic where she loves to go “barefoot walking in the woods” and “sea swimming”.

As humans, we all naturally strive to connect and Hilary understood that people were craving this connection, however, not from an external force. For her, “the blog was all about self-connection, like connecting deeply within oneself”, where people are looking for connection deep within themselves rather than externally.

“What you emanate from yourself is a frequency and when other people match that frequency you are drawn together quite a bit”

For Hilary “the frequency of love is the highest frequency that one can attain” and as sovereign beings, we have the choice to change our frequencies whenever we want.

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Explore Hilary’s blog Live Wild. https://bit.ly/TheVidLiveWild

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I first Tadgh back in school through a mutual friend and then the next time I saw him, he was on TV singing Halleluiah at a huge Irish singing competition.

Since then he has created TV shows, acted in multiple films, written and delivered comedy gigs and appeared in loads of ads.

He didn’t waste any time during the pandemic and continued to work online throughout it and more recently his video content has exploded on social media.

In this interview, we chat about the first video he remembers uploading, how he comes up with video ideas today and how his process changed over the years, his favourite video, his most popular video, how he handles negative comments and some of the biggest lessons he has learned about creating videos over the past few years.

Follow Tadhg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TadhgHickey

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In this live-recorded interview, Judie Russell speaks to Nahla Summers about her passions, her purpose and how she embraces video content creation as a method of communicating her missions of kindness to the world and building a community of people who believe in the power of kindness.

Nahla Summers is an adventurer, author, social campaigner, and researcher for kindness.

She undertakes challenges each year asking people to show support by doing an act of kindness for a stranger, her biggest to date was a World Record for further distance on an Elliptical cycle in a single journey of 5007 miles in 2020.

She has also founded A Culture of Kindness, which specialises in culture change in businesses using the concept of kindness. Right now she’s training for a couch to marathon and recently she launched her second book called The Accidental Adventure.

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Thanks a million for watching and I'll see you next time.

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