Ep 90 Breaking Barriers and Building Dreams with Hunter Phoenix

Get ready to be inspired as we sit down with the incredible Hunter Phoenix, an award-winning Hollywood actress, model, voice-over artist, and digital entrepreneur. Hunter is no stranger to dreaming big and facing challenges head-on. From growing up in housing projects to making a name for herself in Beverly Hills, she’s navigated the tumultuous path to stardom with tenacity and grace. Join us as she shares her intriguing journey, the triumphs, and trials alike, and how she used each experience to fuel her success.

In our chat, Hunter offers an inside look into her transition into the world of voiceover. Discover the emotional hurdles that can arise in the booth and find out how she successfully handled each one. But the conversation doesn't stop there. We also delve into her work as an acting, modeling, and voiceover coach, discussing how she learned to embrace her voice and accept herself fully. Hear first-hand how practical coaching can offer tangible steps toward progress and help alleviate frustration.

Lastly, we touch upon Hunter's venture into video coaching, a powerful tool she believes can empower women and entrepreneurs alike. With the right guidance, anyone can step into their star power and elevate their confidence. We chat about key strategies to engage viewers, increase watch times, and generate quick content. Listen to Hunter's invaluable tips for shooting your first real, and learn how mastering this skill can catapult your business to new heights. Tune in for an insightful conversation brimming with advice, anecdotes, and inspiration. Get ready for a candid conversation that’s sure to leave you feeling motivated and ready to chase your dreams.

Transcript

Hunter: 0:00

don't chase. We tend to do that as entrepreneurs, creators, anybody who's creative tends to chase things. But there's chasing energy. The chasing energy is kind of out in the air, you know plan, get the big idea, but then stop, breathe down, put your feet on the ground and plan. There's a whole different energy into that and just deciding. There's a different energy and deciding than chasing. Definitely go for it, but don't chase. Chasing doesn't work. Creative industrialization is great, but know that it takes patience. There's a price of admission to get in bigger rooms.

Mikita : 0:33

Hey there, I'm Mikita, a small town girl with dreams who started a podcast with an old headset and a laptop at my kitchen table and made my dreams come true. On my podcast, time for Tea with Makita, we chat about living life unapologetically, on your terms, from career advice, entrepreneurship, relationships and everything in between. This is your one stop shop for real conversations and inspiration. If you're looking for connection, then you found it here. Join me every Tuesday as we dive into those sometimes hard to have conversations. So grab your cup of tea or coffee and get comfy, because this is Time for Tea with Makita, and the tea is definitely hot. Welcome back, it is Time for Tea and I am Makita. Thank you so much for sharing your time, your space and your amazing energy with me today. And, speaking of energy, I am so excited to introduce our special guest today. She has been named one of the most interesting people in Los Angeles and one of the most beautiful actresses of all time.

Mikita : 1:40

Hunter Phoenix is not only an award winning Hollywood actress, but also a model, vor silver artist and digital entrepreneur. With over 20 years of on camera experience in eight different countries, hunter is on a mission to bring more Hollywood magic to real life and help real people like me and you realize our Hollywood dreams. So Hunter's journey is not only about empowering others. And it wasn't always a glamorous journey, hunter. It took growing up from housing projects to now living in Beverly Hills. She knows what it's like to struggle and dream big. She firmly advocates for empowering women and entrepreneurs, believing that what changes lives can also change the world. Her passion for helping other is grounded, and not just in her amazing experience and background, but also her masters in psychology and certification as a master set of red coach. So, through the journey of mastering video and stepping into her own personal star power, hunter's message is clear you have the potential to make radical changes in your life. So, hunter, welcome to time for tea and thank you so much for your time.

Hunter: 3:03

Oh, my pleasure. Thank you for that wonderful, wonderful introduction. I'm so excited for this.

Mikita : 3:10

I am so ready. So, guys, let's go ahead and let's dive in and get all the tea. But before we go into all the juicy stuff, you have achieved so much in your career, from being an actress to a model, to a force over artists. What are five or more words would you use to describe who you are at your core?

Hunter: 3:33

That is so interesting. The first word that comes up and this is what other people say too they say kind or compassionate, and I think, because I have lived through a lot of hardship in my life you know I didn't start out with things being easy, not at all. And when people go through hardship it does make you compassionate because you know, you know what it's like on the other side. So that would be the number one. The other one would be passionate. I am super passionate, kind of, about everything. I do, maybe a little bit overly so, like everything is just the best, this is so exciting, this is going to be amazing, and then I died in and I can be a little bit too passionate about things. Sometimes I think I get blinded by that.

Hunter: 4:14

I'm curious, I'm intensely curious about everything. I want to know everything. What was that? Maybe everything everywhere all at once, like that's kind of how I feel. I want to know everything. It's just, and that can be overwhelming and I overwhelm myself by trying to learn everything. So that would bring me to the next thing, and I was thinking about this and I can be digitally distracted. It's just because I try and do too much and try and learn too much. And then I'm always downloading a new course, you know, watching a training video, downloading this PDFs, like, oh, this is cool, but I just need to do this, I just need this.

Hunter: 4:52

And even prepping for this interview, like I had to clear so much off the desktop of my computer so I can see something, I had to close so many web browsers, like I got Safari open, I got Firefox open, I got 10, you know tabs open in each one. It's like woman, you know we need to pre have some bandwidth here, physically and mentally, and you know the thing that goes with that. The last one is inpatient. I can be. You know I get all passionate and curious oh, I want to know this, I want to know this. And then I get 15 minutes into something and something else catches my eye. You know you could, on that rabbit hole on the internet, like, oh, but there's this too, I'll just open that tab so I can be very, very impatient. That's, that's something that's a constant work in progress.

Mikita : 5:40

I feel like you described me in so many ways Because, just like you, like I'm curious to learn, but I'm also impatient to like do it like I want to know it. Like. I feel like when you're someone is like marketing something to you like the newest thing, and they make it sound so simple and I feel like, okay, well, I can just spend like 10, 15 minutes and then I will have it, and nothing ends up that way. So I get the impatience and I get to wanting to know and just explore everything.

Hunter: 6:13

Yeah, that isn't the truth Like it's, and that's, you know, the beauty of marketing. I suppose you know people say, oh, it's just going to take this, and then you get into it, Really, Like you didn't tell me there's 10 steps before this one, right?

Mikita : 6:28

Exactly Now. Your background, your personal journey are really so inspiring. Did you have that magic moment, or what was that magic moment, when you realized that your passion was so much bigger than anything else Like this? What was that journey like for you?

Hunter: 6:48

There's a lot of defining moments in our life. We all have them. You know, one is there was a grade 12 teacher I had who changed my life. She radically changed my life. She was there were a couple of high school teachers who really were very, very instrumental in me getting out of the environment that I lived in. You know. They said you have got to do something bigger, you're meant for something bigger. And they really took me under their wing and fostered that and it not being. I can think of three women in particular. If it had not been for them, I probably would still be living in housing projects, but they really, really pushed me to get out of there, to get out of that city to go explore broader things.

Hunter: 7:30

But then I had an acting coach brilliant acting coach, absolutely brilliant. He went to Yale Drama School. He was in the same class with Meryl Streep. Okay, I heard this man knew things. I learned so much from him.

Hunter: 7:43

But he turned to me in class one day in front of like 20 of my peers and said to me you will never work in this industry. You have a high, squeaky voice and no one's ever going to hire you. So yeah, exactly, I was mortified, right, you're trying not to cry in front of everyone. So you go home and cry for three days and then I found the best voice training I could get, and voice work changed my life, because all of our blocks to voice are emotional blocks.

Hunter: 8:17

Yes, I did go into a high, squeaky voice and it was out of tension and fear and so when I worked through those blocks and the voice work it went on for years. But I remember like the first three months we didn't even use words, we just made sounds and there wasn't a single person who did not break down. Crying in that class Phenomenally changed my life. There are two like pivotal moments when things changed my life that pushed me into a career in voiceover. That never would have happened if I hadn't had the vocal training and that never would have happened if somebody said you're never going to work in this industry.

Mikita : 8:53

What mindset shifts did you have to make? Because it seems like they saw something in you that you made out of selling yourself. And then you get to this point and you deciding you know what, not only am I going to make it, but I'm going to invest in myself by doing the voiceover classes to show not just you but to show myself that I can make it in this industry. So what was the mindset shift that you had to kind of make to get to that point?

Hunter: 9:21

I think it was a sheer tenacity and stubbornness. I do not like being told no. Like you asked me what my least favorite word is, it's no, it's. Somebody says you can't and it's like hmm, and that can backfire to I've done some stupid things because people have said you can't do it. It's just getting so bloody mind of it. The British say about things like yeah, I'll show you. It's not always been the best decision, but it's probably propelled me forward in life than anything else. It's that I don't like can't. I took ballet lessons when I was young and I had a ballet teacher. Ballet is hard man. You're trying to do things and you know we're all young girls I can't do it, I can't. And she said we don't use the word canter out here, it's try.

Mikita : 10:14

I like that and, speaking of something hard, I think, voiceover, being in the booth and having that experience, because it can be so intimidating to get in there. And what you said was there's emotional blocks and there really is your get past whatever fear, whatever emotion is like holding onto you, and I just found that to be the most intimidating but most like. It was an experience that I felt like really empowered me to embrace my voice and to accept myself like this is it, this is how you sound, this is how it is, but you are greater than that. It was like an emotional experience, like you said.

Hunter: 10:57

Oh, that's amazing and we did talk about this a little bit. I started voiceover school at one point and I taught voiceover for 10 years and that was the big thing people stepping into the booth. But I remember my own experience. The first time you hear yourself on mic is weird, because normally we hear a voice coming out of our mouth, it goes into the air and then it comes back through our ears. But we're also hearing it from the inside, resonating through like the bones of our skull. So when you hear it just played back only through the ears, it's like do I really sound like that?

Mikita : 11:31

This is what other people are hearing.

Hunter: 11:32

I sound like that. So we get really self-conscious and there's also a fear of being seen and heard. And I always used to tell people when we were doing the training. I'd say, when you first come onto this planet, the first few years you can almost do nothing wrong and you walk and you talk and everybody is so happy. It's like, oh, that's so good. And then the minute you get really good at walking and talking, everybody tells you to sit down and shut up, right. It's like you sit down and be quiet and then we have voice blocks. Why so? But yeah, it can be.

Mikita : 12:11

doing vocal work can really change your life because it forces you to move through that and it forces you to really use your voice in a powerful way that resonates with who you are, like stepping into yourself in a different way. A lot of, I feel like, self-reflection goes into that. Did the voice over like prepare you, or do you feel like it prepared you to step in front of the camera in that way?

Hunter: 12:38

So actually voiceover came later on camera. I came up through the theater as a kid. Yeah, I took dance, I took ballet and I took theater dance and then I started Doing like background, where they dance like a backup dancer, kind of not like Beyonce type backup dancers. I wish it's like a totally different thing. So and then I got into doing the lead roles in place because the first play that I auditioned for and I would never have auditioned for it but you know, I was pushed to and I got, I got the lead or one of the leads and I was like, okay, all right, let's do this.

Hunter: 13:23

So that's how I got into acting, that I took more acting training over the years and then modeling. And I didn't only start modeling until I was Old for the industry, like I'm only five, four. I'm not one of these, you know beautiful, you know five, nine, with legs up in here, but I've got. I got into beauty modeling because I have just the facial features for that. And that was not until I was like 24, which is like really old for the industry, and but it still wasn't talking on camera, was just posing, and modeling is very different. At the time I'm dating myself, but we we shot on film like actual cellulite films, so you had to be very Particular with your movements and poses. There is like, and you would get to a pose and the photographer say, okay, hold it, and you suck it in and hold your breath and you would move.

Hunter: 14:18

But then acting on camera was a whole different skill set and I took more acting classes. I took on camera training classes. It's it's very, very different from acting on the stage and you have to know. You know what your camera angles are and you're lighting and have a deliver Like a bit of a property for camera. You know there's technical aspects that go into it. And then voiceover came after that. It's I was playing around with voiceover, exploring, doing cartoon voices. I love doing little animation voices, little cartoon characters, and I was doing this and and a friend of mine who worked at a local radio station that you have to do voiceovers, you got to come in and cut a demo. I was like he was six foot two, a bigger than me. He won. So that's and I just I did train more but cut my first demo and went from there.

Mikita : 15:17

Well, wow, that is very amazing. And but you're also a, a master certified coach. So how do you integrate your coaching experience into your, you know, into helping others, that's a great question.

Hunter: 15:33

And you know, and I got into coaching it was after doing so many years of therapy and Somebody put a coaching book in my hand many years ago. It was when life coaching was first a thing, like first kind of came out and it changed my life. This, you know, I did therapy with okay it's, you know, but there's a lot of picking apart childhood wounds and relationship patterns and that's, quite frankly, an ongoing process. We never figure it all out. But Coaching was tight, what I call tactical and practical. It gave me steps to move forward, to move my career forward, to move my life forward in ways that I didn't know before and I had long struggled with depression and this alleviated a lot of that because I had a clear path forward. Now I knew what to do.

Hunter: 16:23

The depression was really frustration, it's like I just felt stuck and not knowing, so that I just Explored more of it. You know, got certified because I was so passionate about coaching and For a while I did the life coaching as an adjunct to my entertainment industry career. I pulled back from life coaching a few years ago but it's translating it through a different medium and again, yes, to get people to do video. Who don't want to do video? Oh my gosh, you're coming up against emotional blocks.

Mikita : 16:52

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Mikita : 17:20

I think I'm one of those people, though, because you know video plays like a key role, and not only in my work, but your work as well. But you know, showing up live is different from recording for me. I think I Can record all day to show up live. You know I'm like taking a deep breath and like you can do this. You know giving myself those pep talks, but afterwards, you, I feel so invigorated and empowered. I'm like, oh, I can do this. You know, a couple more times today what are some of the biggest challenges most people say when it comes to doing videos or reels, or just being Out there that you get from people.

Hunter: 17:59

So one of the biggest challenges people have is just not knowing the steps. They don't know where to begin. I forget, because I've been doing it for a while, but you know, reels is very, very different than working on a film, tv or Commercial set. Somebody else behind the camera, somebody else is doing the lighting, somebody else is doing hair and makeup and somebody else We've been feeding you. Right, you're shooting yourself, you're doing everything.

Hunter: 18:26

So one of the trainings that I just made was called ready for reals and it's just getting people to shoot the very First real. Here it is step by step and I just had a woman message me yesterday who did it and she said, oh my gosh, this changed my life. She said I was terrified, set the camera and I just shot first video then, because I said send me a video, you know when you shoot it. And she did and she sent me another one. I think I can do better. And she's like, oh, I'm on a roll now, man, I'm ready to have her.

Hunter: 18:56

Do People go? Okay, so I'm shooting stuff, but I want to get better at this. You know, I want, I want to take my business to the next level, or I would just want to kick this up, or it's not converting and people aren't watching all the way through, and usually it's quick little tweaks and it's like, okay, here's why you're reals, aren't converting me to be this, this, this, this, and it's gonna bump your watch time way up. The thing that a lot of people don't realize is that watch time Plays really big with the algorithms. But they're on Tiktok or Instagram. Well, there's a platform. Look to see if somebody watched your video all the way through. If they do, they push it out to more people, mm-hmm. So you want to keep people engaged. You want to keep your videos short, at least for those two platforms, but you choose a little bit different, but those two are. Watch time definitely plays in a factor. It does.

Mikita : 19:53

And Not only that once you kind of get the hang of it, reals can be very fun and there are quick way to get a message out there, really simple and and it really help you connect and really showcase who you are to people that may not know you. It's kind of like there's some people like an introduction handshake, like hey, this is me.

Hunter: 20:13

Yeah, yeah, you're right, reals are good. It's just like you said, quick bites and sound bites. When you get into doing YouTube stuff or anything, it's like those staying podcasts that's a little bit more intimate than people can really get to know. You Right, the long yeah content.

Mikita : 20:27

So exactly as a strong advocate, you're always empowering women and entrepreneurs. How do you see this mission as connected for the larger goal of just having people like just Feel empowered to go out and embrace who they are and not be afraid to say I'm ready, I'm gonna show up and be me?

Hunter: 20:49

What I have seen since I started doing this and really I fell into video coaching kind of accidentally. I was looking for another Avenue. I'm going to stop Avenue. I'm going to say I was ready to get back into the coaching field again, just looking for another venue, and it came about totally accidentally when somebody I was with a group of business group and Somebody was talking about making video and saying I'm just so scared, and somebody else commented Excuse me saying nobody's gonna hold your hand, you just got to get out and do it. I went, I'll hold your hand, I will. Are you struggling with? Really? I didn't know that. So, hey, it's. It's that what we talked about earlier? It's people. I. You know that.

Hunter: 21:34

My tagline is they step into your star power, because that's really what it is. You just step into the shining light and people who start doing video like I just see them light Up, like their confidence just goes through the roof all of a sudden and showing people to shoot in a way that they like what they see. You know I get so many, especially women, going oh, I don't like the way I look on camera. You know too old and do that and do wrinkly. I'm too, whatever it is, just think, oh, it's because your camera's the wrong angle, you got bad lighting, let's just fix that. And then, on a broader scale, I Tend to work with business owners, entrepreneurs, both digital and people with physical businesses. If you can help people, and especially women, build their business and make more money, that's life-changing.

Mikita : 22:28

Did you kind of just fall in love with, just like helping people to show up, or it was it kind of like a gradual, like I just want to see how this thing works and then I can really get at this and I would I just want to keep showing up and helping people show up.

Hunter: 22:43

It comes back to. We talked about the beginning being passionate. It's all of a sudden it's like wow, I had this great idea, let's jump in and do this. And any type of coaching I found just lights people up. That is so frigging magical when people light up and I'm like everybody's biggest cheerleader. I am so thrilled when somebody gets something Like I'm. People laugh because I'm like jumping and screaming yeah, you got it. That's awesome, because I really feel that way and it's just life changing and we all love that.

Hunter: 23:16

And step by step, you're right. I mean, how many trainings have you downloaded or things you've watched? And it has not been step by step? Are you thinking how did they miss that? You know how much time this just cost me because you left out a major step. I'm so big on meticulous, step by step and that's what I did in this ready for real training that I created. But I'm expanding because I've gotten so much positive feedback on it. Right now it's free, but it's going to become a paid product and I guess I've been expanding on it. But it's like step one, do this, step two, do that, step three, do this. Do not skip this step, do not skip this and go to step four, because that's what's going to get results.

Mikita : 24:00

So you're speaking to people like me who want to skip the steps and just skip there.

Hunter: 24:05

I literally put in the instructions Do not skip this. So big, bold, capital letters.

Mikita : 24:12

How do you start setting your goals? I think sometimes people need to slow down for a second. There's a moment where I feel like just kind of hit pause for a second. How do you kind of hit pause to set the goal?

Hunter: 24:26

That's a great question and I think entrepreneurs are like that. We see possibilities, we see the world in possibilities. That's what creates everything in life. So and I also said at the beginning, I tend to be digitally distracted. So usually it's when I a lot of it's intuition, it's when all of a sudden I get this hit what do I call it? A hit on something, an emotional or an intuitive hit, like the thing about video, getting into video coaching.

Hunter: 25:00

I knew I wanted to do some kind of coaching and it wasn't in this business meeting and somebody made a comment and I went, oh thing, and I just knew that was the right thing to do, instantaneously, knew that was the right thing to do and then it started to putting a plan in place to achieve that, to see it to fruition. Other times it may be being overwhelmed where I've got so much on my plate. I've got 20 browser windows open and stuff all over you know screenshots all over my desktop and I have to say, okay, woman, you need to stop this for a minute. Stop the crazy right, start, start deleting stuff, put it away.

Mikita : 25:46

Yeah, I definitely have to do that. My husband always tells me my computer's going to crash one day because I have too many browsers open. He's like I don't even know how this thing works.

Hunter: 25:57

That's so funny. Like you know, even preparing for this interview, I had to force myself to go close browser tabs to reboot the computer because it's like, no, I don't want to reboot. What if I miss something? Right, what if I lose something? It's like you got it, it's okay. Take notes, finish things up, get it done.

Mikita : 26:18

Now, if you could dream of three tidbits of advice for listeners who are chasing their dreams on their terms, what would it be?

Hunter: 26:29

This is such a good one. First thing I'd say don't chase. You know we tend to do that as entrepreneurs, we creators, anybody who's creative, tends to chase things. But there's chasing energy. The chasing energy is kind of out in the air, you know plan, get the big idea, but then stop, breathe down, put your feet on the ground and plan. There's a whole different energy into that and just deciding. There's a different energy and deciding than chasing. Definitely go for it, but don't chase.

Hunter: 27:01

Chasing doesn't work. Been there, done that, it just didn't work. So patience, which is a struggle for me, patience is not my strong suit. But to have patience, you know, once I've had a thought like I kind of want it done, like right now, like in my mind it's done, I've seen the picture, it's done and that's great. You know, creative visualization is great, but know that it takes patience. And I have to remind myself of this Kind of like. When you see a woman that's pregnant, you don't say to her at five months well, let's just yank that little sucker out now and see if it's done. It's not FYI, it's not. You need some patience. And the other thing is, with the patience and this is something I learned recently it's not learned. Recently it was reinforced To get to the next level. There's a price of admission to get in bigger rooms.

Mikita : 27:59

What are your go-to confidence boosters when you feel kind of down?

Hunter: 28:05

There's different levels of down, there's nervousness. It's not in the imposter syndrome I'm not enough, but part of it is trusting myself to be enough in the moment. I'm a different person now. I have a different skill set now than I did even a few years ago and I can only be enough for this moment. I can't be enough for the person that I'm going to be in five years or something. This is it. This is all I got. This is all I got in this moment.

Hunter: 28:34

I will do my best, prepare and do my best, but things I really find out. It's a review in your mind like what was the past success? What was the time that you said something that really let somebody up? Or a great review, maybe that you got on your podcast or something. Know that you're doing good work. Just to know that you have proof.

Hunter: 28:57

I keep what I call a love and praises folder on my computer and in my inbox. Whenever somebody specifically sends me an email about something that's really worked for them whether they're really happy or a client testimony it goes into my love and praises folder. Then I look at them at the time and it's so heartwarming. I read stuff from clients from like ten years ago and I go, oh wow, I forgot about that, I forgot about that moment. But that can really lift you up. You don't have to change everybody's life, just change one person's life. That's huge. They are the thing.

Hunter: 29:40

I think I'm probably getting a lot of things here, but affirmations I'm huge on affirmations. I'm kind of crazy. This is my stack of affirmation cards and I have an app on my phone. It's called I Am. They send out affirmations all day. I have a set up so if I can find I Am here, they send me an affirmation like every hour. Then you heart the ones that you like. I've got like 150 stored affirmations. This one is about like I'm working, and you can pick whether you want to work for relationships or self confidence. Right now it's money. I have the income I need to live the life of my dreams. I'm always able to tap into the universe's well of abundance. I can just reinforce that. Zig Ziglar, who is a famous like one of the early motivational speakers and coaches, said motivation is like bathing it doesn't last, which is why it's recommended daily. Yes.

Mikita : 30:48

Daily. I do. I love using affirmations and I love quotes. One of my favorite quotes was by Maya Angelou, but I heard another quote that I think was Mary Ann Williamson and she wrote our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. When I read it, I was like, okay, I got to put this in a, because I usually print them out and then I stick them all over the place. I love how you are using those moments to show up and I think that sometimes we all just need a reminder in the book having a book that you can actually put those. I think I'm going to actually put that into practice, like any review or any good thing that I hear as someone says like put that in a little book as a reminder that what you're doing is not.

Mikita : 31:43

It's being noticed and it makes a difference.

Hunter: 31:46

Yeah, yeah. Like I said, it's easy to just forget as we get caught up in our own drama, in the misery of the moment, with whatever we're going through. We get caught up in the immediate. But I've been coaching for a long time like this and I've coached a lot of people and every once in a while I go through the full. That's like, oh my gosh, I forgot I even talked. But that's yeah, that keeps me going sometimes.

Mikita : 32:12

Yeah, it definitely does. So before we wrap up, is there anything else that you want to share? I know you have this amazing free download for people ready for reels and I've actually shared it throughout my page as well because I was just like I was just like this is like so amazing. I shared it to my private Facebook group because I was like I feel like people will definitely like get this and be able to like use this thing, to like grow, and sometimes that one little growth leads us to a place that we never dream possible.

Hunter: 32:50

That is so true and definitely tell people to get it. Like I said, I think it is going to become a paid resource very soon because people are just getting such amazing results for it. I've got video recorded to go with it. It's just getting good at. Re-itals in today's world can change your world if you're in business. I mean, I looked at the stats last month and right now, 82.5% of all internet traffic all internet traffic is video. That's a huge number and that is just going to get bigger. That is our preferred way of consuming content right now. So what was the question? I think I missed the question here. I'm just going to rambling. No, you're fine.

Mikita : 33:41

I was just asking before we wrap up Was there any information or anything that you wanted to share extra, or just anything that we missed that you want to come back to? Definitely?

Hunter: 33:54

There's two things I'm going to say. One definitely for people who want to start doing video, who want to improve their video, definitely grab that download. I'm going to put in together new downloads as well. Jump onto my Instagram. I've got three Instagram accounts, but I have a new one, four star powerpreneur, which is video coaching. Definitely jump on there. I share really, really good tips on there, quick tips of how to get good at video.

Hunter: 34:26

What was the last thing I was going to say? I'm going to say this because I was thinking about self-care, actually prepping for this interview, because your podcast is primarily about self-care. I was going through my drop box looking for something and a file popped up. What is true self-care. I don't know when I wrote this, when I put it together I don't remember doing it, but it's two pages of what self-care really is, two or three pages. I'm just kind of glancing at it now. It was so helpful for me to read this and to remind myself that self-care isn't always pretty.

Hunter: 35:07

Self-care is sometimes a thing that we don't want to do. Sometimes it's looking at our finances when we don't want to. We're sticking to a budget or exercising when you don't feel like it. Sometimes it's even starting a podcast when you're terrified yes, so to really have a lot of grace with yourself, but also perseverance. Self-care isn't always pretty, but it's not all about bubble baths. We seem to have created lives that are so busy that we're always looking for an antidote from it. That's not self-care, that's desperation. Self-care is to try and create a life that you don't need, an escape from. You're right.

Mikita : 36:05

I really like to hone in on self-care. Self-care covers so many different levels because it's not just about there's nothing wrong with taking the bubble bath or getting the socks. It's all wonderful, great things. But self-care is also about that personal growth, professional growth, saving the money, having the discipline to say this is what I want to go after. The passion, the things that make you you, is part of your self-care. That can be whatever. So tell people how they can connect with you and get those ready for reals. Download before they disappear.

Hunter: 36:49

I just had this brain flash right now when we were talking. If somebody listens to your podcast, this is a reward for your listeners. They get ready for reals and it's a paid program. Email me or message me and I will still send it to you for free. I'm like 90% sure that it's going to become paid very, very quickly, but I will still send it for free. Go to my Instagram, which is starpowerpreneurcom, or you can even go to my. I've got two other Hunter Phoenix Instagrams Hunter Phoenix, which is kind of my personal one, and then Hunter Phoenixtv, which is I use more for acting. Go to starpowerpreneurcom. There's going to be links there. I can't give you the links right now. Right now, the link for the free download is bitlylinkditly forward slash ready, dash four dash reals. But you know just fine stuff.

Mikita : 37:43

So probably Instagram, I'd say, is the best way, facebook too, somehow we'll get it to you, gotcha, and don't worry if you don't have a pen and paper ready. All of that information will be for you in the show notes. So take a deep breath, we'll have it for you. Okay, all right. Well, hunter, thank you so much for just coming on and smelling so much amazing tea to just really, you know, get us in the mindset that anything is possible and that if you trust yourself, that you can do some amazing things, regardless of your background, where you come from. If you dream it, you can definitely achieve it. So I definitely appreciate you coming on and just being genuinely who you are.

Hunter: 38:27

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me Absolutely delighted.

Mikita : 38:32

Yes, are you guys? That is all the tea that we have to spill today, because what you get to join me next Tuesday for more delicious hot tea. I'm going to end this episode. Don't forget to go ahead and leave a review and also sign up for the newsletter, where you can get all the inside tea to live it straight to your inbox. All right, I'll see you next time, namaste.