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Hello, hello, hello.

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Hello hello hello, my friends.

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I am coming in from this beautiful,

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incredibly inspiring location.

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And I thought that this
would be the perfect time

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to talk to you about inspiration.

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What to do when you don’t have any.

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When you feel like you’re hittin’ a wall.

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You can’t figure out, you’re like,

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I know I saw that somewhere,

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I kinda wanna do that, what do I do?

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So when you’re setting yourself up

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to be doing head shots and
videos and social images

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and you just can’t quite
get yourself together,

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what I do is what I teach my students

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at AuthenticSuperstar.com,

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where I invite you to go right now.

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It’s my free five-day online challenge.

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Is to really start setting up

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inspiration boards for yourself.

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It’s a little different
than what you might think.

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I’ll tell you in a second, but first,

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for those of you who are new to me.

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I am Sharon Haver of focusonstyle.com

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and I help fellow savvy, talented,

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smart, brainiac entrepreneurs who realize

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that their expertise is not always enough

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to stand out in a very,
very, super crowded market.

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You need a little bit of zhoosh.

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You need your own secret sauce,

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your own special something,
to really not be a commodity

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in today’s very crowded marketplace.

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This is your reality
show, so let it go, right?

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So inspiration, what kinda
inspiration do you need?

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Well, when you’re trying to figure out

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what to kinda do for your
backdrops, for your videos,

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for your head-shots, your photos.

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The photos you set your
video up with are the first

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things peoples see.

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The photos you could use for book covers,

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the photos you can use for
your speaking one sheet.

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The photos you can use for
your website, for you means,

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for the featured blog post that you have.

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They’re different from
the ones from LinkedIn

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to the different to Instagram or Facebook.

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Like you would never really
put like the really fugly

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photo on Instagram, but you
could probably out it on

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Facebook and let it go real too.

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So what do you do when you
don’t know like how to pose,

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how do you position
yourself, what do you wear,

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where do you stand, where
do you sit, what do you do.

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What angle, what light,
what the time of day is

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it an environmental shot,
is it an at home shot,

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is it a studio shot?

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You’re so confused on what
to do like simply like

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how do I hold my hands right?

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Do I hold my hands like
pretty hands like that?

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Do I lean them like that?

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What do you do for a good shot?

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Well what I tell my
clients, my students is

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to use Pinterest as your friend.

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Go to Pinterest if you’re
not familiar with it.

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It’s an online visual board,

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social media kind of site.

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And create your own account
you can keep it private

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so no one else knows
what’s in there but you.

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And divide it up into
different kind of boards

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of what you need let’s say
like environmental head shots,

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or studio head shots, or on the
go videos, or slice of life,

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or whatever it is.

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Book covers, speaking one sheet photos,

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the main photo for your website.

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Whatever you need at that time.

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Then starting going and looking around

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the Internet and clipping
other kinds of photos

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that are similar that you like.

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Now I’m not telling you to copy it

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I’m telling you to model it,
and use it as inspiration.

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It is total what everyone did
on photo shoots for 15 years

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we had mood boards, we’d go
in and kind of take a photo

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from this and a photo from that.

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It does not have to be
in what you’re doing

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it could be a photo
from a fashion magazine,

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and you’re a business coach.

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It’s just the mood it’s the
essence, it’s the position

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of what you want as inspiration.

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I also highly recommend that
when you’re doing photos

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you also think of it’s placement

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because is it going to
be a vertical photo,

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is it gonna be a square photo.

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Is it gonna be something
that’s on top of a blog post

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and competes with other graphics,

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and other photos of you on the post.

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Or is it stand alone on a white page

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and you want it to be
a little softer then.

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So once you divide these boards up into

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the size of the photo you need, the shape.

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Is it long do you need a
little wingspan on the sides,

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you could put copying content.

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Or do you need it really
tight and really simple.

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And then from that when
you get to this point

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where you’re totally blank,
and you don’t know what to do.

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You pop back to Pinterest
and you scan through it

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and get tons of inspiration.

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I mean even if it’s the
cover of a magazine,

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I love like the covers of
Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

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And InStyle for the
positioning of you know,

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how is the actress or the models hands.

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Where are they, are they across her chest,

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are they behind her.

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And you can then get that
and do it on your own

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as just your jump start
to learning how to do it,

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and it’s cool right.

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So if you want something
that’s really super cool,

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I want you to go over to
AuthenticSuperstar.com,

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join me in my five day challenge,
and I will see you there.

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I will teach everything
you need to get going

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in five days, just a few minutes a day,

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it’s like five minutes a day.

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And I promise you, you will
become an authentic superstar.

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[mwah] See you guys soon, bye-bye.