I’m a pretty friendly guy and I always like to take time to chat with people when I can. I take life just like I took my acting career…once scene at a time. During the day when I’m out and about I like to ask people where they’re from and what they do. Of course, if I meet them where they work I already know what they do.

But sometimes people will ask me what I do. When I tell them some of the many things that I’m doing now and that I used to be a Hollywood actor and TV star, they almost always say something like, “Ahhh man! I wish I could do that!”

I usually don’t have time to talk to them about how strongly I feel that they could make it in Hollywood if they really wanted to. But I was thinking the other day about how they have so much more opportunities to ‘be in the movies’ than me and my generation ever did.

You see, we didn’t have the internet and YouTube and inexpensive video recorders back then. Back then the average person maybe had a little Kodak still camera, or later on maybe they had a camera that took color pictures or slides. But certainly they never had something that they could whip out in 5 seconds and capture video on-the-spot like they can today.

I know that back in the golden days of Hollywood there were a lot of very creative people who probably would have taken those kind of simple tools and just started making their own simple movies. I’m sure some of those people would have eventually graduated up to higher levels of acting too….in Hollywood or on Broadway or perhaps on TV.

Actors back when I was learning the trade took a long time to get the kind of practice you can get very easily, actually ‘in’ your own movies today. When I have a chance to give advice to would-be actors, I always tell them to make as many home movies as they can.

Nowadays getting practice acting and presenting yourself and speaking on camera is so much easier than it used to be. I know that lots of people are initially a little shy about being on the front end of a camera but I always tell people that the best way to become a star is to pick a niche that they’re interested in and just make a little, teeny movie about that. I tell them to start from there and then gradually make bigger and better movies as they get more practice.

Lots of people I meet already have an interest in some type of career other than Hollywood and I often ask them if they’re ‘doing anything with it’ online? Usually they don’t know what I mean.

But then I ask them if you’ve ever made any movies or videos and put them on YouTube. Most of them know what YouTube is but oddly enough they very seldom have ever made a video of themselves….I mean, a video movie where they’re actually speaking about something or presenting something or trying to make a point to the viewing audience.

Part of the process of becoming an actor is getting used to the presence of the camera and beginning to feel like it’s just another friend of yours in the room. Nowadays people can get that kind of experience very easily if they use tools (like portable video cameras and YouTube) that are easily available and if they will become more aware of chances to make easy, simple videos.

I do a lot of acting coaching and success coaching with business people. Many of them are already very successful but the reason they come to me for help is because they’ve heard that video is ‘where it’s at’ today in terms of using the internet in business (and that’s very true!). Their problem usually is that they sometimes lose all their confidence when they know they’re being filmed.

I always try to get them started with little, small, easy-step projects that will take them step by step, just like a baby learning to walk, up the ladder from simple video projects to more sophisticated one. This is a practical, simple process that works every time.

There’s a saying that ‘fear’ is just False Evidence Appearing Real (F.E.A.R…get it?) and I think that’s true. I’ve never heard of a camera biting anyone. Anybody can get excited about something and even for those things that maybe they’re not so excited about…they can still learn to act excited.

That’s really what acting is about…..expanding your emotional flexibility so that your personality gets wider and bigger and more flexible than ever before. Since so many of the situations we get into in life call for the same personal skills of expression…..it’s like it’s a movie that only has a handful of basic scripts.

I tell my acting students and life coaching students that once they learn some of the techniques I will show them about acting for real life (which by the way is the name of a book I recently wrote, “Acting For Real”) they’ll be amazed at how much more confidence they’ll have in everyday common business and personal situations.

Matter of fact, from the bedroom to the beer hall to the boardroom, life is just a series of scenes that we find ourselves in again and again and again.

I’m finding that many of my adult students are interested in the internet. They want to know what it takes to market themselves, their company, their products, services and ideas via the internet. I always tell them that the most important skill they can learn is how to make good videos.

I really believe that. I know internet video works because not only have I been making a living with film and video for almost all my life but my two sons do it too…although in a slightly different way.

My sons, James and Tyler McFadden(AKA: The McFadden Brothers) got interested in video and YouTube many years ago when it was still fairly new. They really dug into learning all they could about videos and eventually they became one of YouTube’s first YouTube Partners. Some of their videos have received over 1,000,000 views.

I’m really excited about how many people today are waking up to the idea that the internet and YouTube.com is the ‘the People’s Hollywood‘. Every month there’s new success stories of people using video successfully in affiliate marketing or in expanding markets for their own products, services and companies.

My sons and I recently launched an exciting course called NiceCeleb that teaches total beginners how to use video marketing and YouTube to launch new products and revitalize old ones. We show this new breed of online entrepreneurs how to become niche celebrities in their own local areas or industries.

I share all the knowledge of my many years of successful acting and James and Tyler share their several years of experience making successful online videos. It’s a winning combination that’s helps people achieve greater success, quicker and have more fun doing it.

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