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  • Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV. The place to be to create a business

  • and life you love. You know, the MarieTV audience has been growing. It’s not just the ladies

  • that love us. I love my ladies, but there’s also some fellas out there. I know you won’t

  • admit it, but you love us too. And more exciting than that, there’s a lot of moms who are

  • starting to watch MarieTV with their kids.

  • So I’ve been hearing about that a lot and then I got this email: “Hi, I’m Olivia.

  • I’m 12 years old and I live in New Zealand and I’m just beginning to create my own

  • digital publishing company as an author and illustrator. I’ve just signed up for your

  • B-School free videos. I don’t yet have a Facebook page, so I can’t post that way

  • yet. I may start one when I know what to do with it. I think your videos are very inspiring.

  • I’ve started to learn marketing now, your videos are very helpful in this area, and

  • also how to get the right audience to notice and buy my products. I would love my books

  • to touch people’s hearts, and really inspire them like these videos inspired me a few seconds

  • ago. Thank you. Olivia :)”

  • When that email came in, it absolutely filled my heart and I knew I needed to know more

  • about who this amazing young viewer was. Turns out she made a video for us, take a look.

  • Hi, I’m Olivia-Leigh. It is blowing a gale outside. But you know what rainy days are

  • good for? Drawing. My other favorite thing about a windy and rainy day is that it’s

  • perfect for writing. Welcome to my room! This is my office. That’s my bed and, if you

  • ask me, every single office should have a bed. Alright... that was so hard. After a

  • hard day’s typing, the best thing is grabbing a good book and flopping back on your office

  • bed and reading it. Now, if youll excuse me, I have stuff to catch up on.

  • So miss Olivia has quite a few things to say about creativity, about writing, and about

  • following your dreams. So were gonna talk with her right now via Skype.

  • Alright everyone, so I am here with the amazing Olivia and I am so grateful. It’s afternoon

  • here in New York City and Olivia, I know it’s the morning for you. Right?

  • Yeah, it is actually. About 8:30.

  • 8:30. Awesome. So tell us a little bit more about your inspiration to create books and

  • to write stories and to just start your own business.

  • Well, ever since I was little I... ever since I could hold a pen I’ve been drawing out

  • my own stories. I’d get a piece of paper and a pen and I’d have an idea for a story

  • and instead of writing it with words, I’d draw the pictures for each scene. Sometimes

  • I’d have entire chapters just with just drawings in them with little speech bubbles.

  • And a little later I was encouraged to maybe write down the words and then put the pictures

  • with it. So it sort of... it grew from that in a way. And then once I figured out how

  • to get past the where’s the letters on the keyboard stage, it got a lot easier to type

  • and I was able to do stories a little bit more properly and add the pictures with them.

  • And it grew from there. So, yeah, that’s pretty much how it happened.

  • That’s awesome. And so did you start drawing just on pencil and paper or were you drawing

  • on the computer?

  • Well, I do like to draw on computer programs, but when I started I was always had a pencil

  • and a paper. And I found it really difficult to draw with a pen, but now I really like

  • drawing with pens and... you know, it’s just stuff like that. But I, yeah, I did a

  • lot of pencil drawings and I would just draw and draw and draw and eventually I had huge

  • piles of just paper with lots of drawings on them and you can still find boxes in our

  • house with just these big boxes full of paper with drawings on them from however old I was.

  • That’s awesome. I actually started... that was one of the first things that I learned

  • how to do when I was little and it was one of my favorite activities. And for a while

  • I thought I was gonna be a fine artist. So I loved drawing just as much, it sounds like,

  • as you do. So, curious, do any of your friends have their own business? And what do they

  • think about you starting your own publishing company?

  • Well, none of my friends my age currently have their own businesses. But they are really

  • supportive when I tell them about it. I’ll tell them that I did something new on my website

  • or that I’ve done up a new set of tweets or something like that. And they are so supportive,

  • theyll go, “Oh, wow, I can’t wait to see it.” Or something like that and theyre

  • really encouraging, really supportive. Theyre great friends.

  • That’s awesome.

  • And I do have some adult friends though who do run their own business. And the ones I’ve

  • told are also really supportive, so everyone rocks.

  • I love it. And so have you met your adult friends through your parents or through friends

  • of your parents? Is that how you got in touch?

  • Well, pretty much. I mean, were around the same area and so we know them from around

  • here and we meet them. We catch up quite a lot so, yeah, we spend a lot of time around

  • each other so we do get to talk about that sort of stuff actually quite a lot.

  • That’s so great, I love hearing that. So next thing I wanna ask you, because I think

  • it’s true for any entrepreneur, when you run into challenges, whether it’s creative

  • challenges when youre working on a story, or it comes more to the technical side of

  • your business, how do you handle those challenges? Who do you go to to ask for for help?

  • Well, there’s definitely mom and dad. Theyre really helpful with business. Also stuff like

  • my dad might help me with the tax and things, because that’s always fun.

  • Yes.

  • But there’s auntie Google and cousin YouTube.

  • My favorites, my favorites.

  • Theyre really helpful. It’s... with Google because I might be needing to do some research

  • on a time period in a book I’m working on, and I’ll go to Google and I had a really

  • weird thing I needed to look up and actually it’s surprisingly helpful. You know? And

  • with YouTube, I might have a book that needs a certain style of drawing.

  • Yeah.

  • And it’s really hard to do that particular style or maybe I just don’t know it or I’ve

  • never even heard of it or something like that.

  • Yes.

  • So I’ll look it up on YouTube or I’ll get help to find it, and I’ll just watch

  • an artist who knows how to do it and practice, and it’s really, really helpful. Yeah.

  • Isn’t it just amazing the time that we live in that you can just go online and whether

  • you want information, education, or inspiration, it’s just all at your fingertips? And the

  • thing I love about you, Olivia, is that you get this on such a level. It’s like this

  • is just how you think and I can’t tell you how excited I am for you because at 12 years

  • old, right? Youre almost 13? What youre gonna be able to create in your life is just

  • so miraculous. And youre such an inspiration to me, the fact that youre getting started

  • this young, I just think it’s fantastic. So thanks for sharing with us a little bit

  • of how you overcome your challenges with... what do you call them? Is it Uncle Google

  • and Auntie YouTube or did I get that switched up?

  • It’s Auntie Google and Cousin YouTube.

  • Oh, love it. Love it, love it, love it. So next thing I wanna ask you as were kind

  • of wrapping this up, one of the reasons I wanted to interview you was because I so admire

  • your ambition and the fact that you had dreams and you had dreams around creating stories

  • and creating books and you just take action and, as I always say, everything is figure

  • outable. So I know so many people in our audience of all ages have a dream of having their own

  • book and putting their ideas out into the world. So what would you say to someone who’s

  • just starting out? Any tips for them?

  • Well, I do have a few tips that I would definitely give to a person like that. I’ve got 7...

  • well, no. 5 actually. 5 tips. My first one is that you should just start and write regularly.

  • Because if you have a schedule and you just continue to type through it, then youll

  • get through it. Youll finish it. If you don’t, then you won’t.

  • Let me ask you, before you go on to your next tip, do you have a regular writing schedule

  • for yourself?

  • Well, I do try... I had a little period where I was writing and writing and writing and

  • it was going really well. Then I finished the first draft of the book and I took a break,

  • and I’ve found that now I’ve got a great drawing spurt so I’m going for that. Sometimes

  • it just... I’m taking turns with it. I’m writing, drawing, writing, drawing. So it’s...

  • that’s sort of how it works personally for me.

  • I love that and I actually find that to be very true as well. When you get those creative

  • bursts, as long as youre consistent with whatever it is that you wanna create, it works

  • well. So yeah, let’s go on to your second tip.

  • Alright, well, my second one is it’s really easy to publish your own book online in today’s

  • world. I mean, because on Amazon, Kobo, and all of the other ones have free guides that

  • you can just follow the instructions on. And youll find it really easy to just get it

  • up there, it’s really great. My third one is that make sure your cover is... it actually

  • looks really cool. Make sure it looks really good and that your title is really importantly

  • really easy to read when it’s the size of the thumbnail online.

  • Yes.

  • It’s really small.

  • So this is big. Olivia, I think that this is such a huge tip and I’m so glad that

  • you brought it up. So the idea of not only having your cover be really good, but having

  • your title be really good and, most importantly, that when it’s that tiny as a thumbnail

  • that it’s still attractive and that it still connects. I was reading this article about

  • a woman in, I believe it was Forbes. She started selling vintage clothing online using Ebay,

  • and one of the things that she discovered, by the way, she started off doing this just

  • in her house and now her company, I think, is doing about 129 million a year in revenue.

  • All from one of her biggest things was making sure that the pictures look really good when

  • theyre tiny. And she said that’s one of the tips that most people don’t get.

  • So I just love how wicked smart you are that you got that already. So that’s huge, thanks

  • for that.

  • Thank you very much. My fourth one is that publishing is really easy but you still need

  • a really good book. Because if you skimp on quality, what happens is if someone picks

  • up that book and goes, “Ooh, interesting.” Reads it, and they go, “Uh...” They don’t

  • really like it if it’s really bad. Then, well... then any other books that your name

  • is associated with or that youve written, theyll probably assume that theyre really

  • bad as well. So you shouldn’t really skimp on the quality of the book. Give it your best

  • and the cover and everything. Yeah.

  • I’ll tell you, you know, youre talking about something that we talk about in our

  • B-School program. And it’s this strategy I talk about, I call it the Happy Meal Mistake.

  • Where people will put out kind of crap stuff on their website and then expect people to

  • want to pay them really good money for some of their other training or their programs.

  • And it’s kind of like if someone took you on a date to McDonalds and got you a Happy

  • Meal, would you ever really expect them to go flying you off to Paris for some romantic

  • weekend? Probably not. So it’s like youre talking about in the book world. Right? Not

  • wanting to make the Happy Meal mistake. Do you like this tip?

  • I really like it.

  • So what youre saying is with your book, it’s like you don’t wanna put out a Happy

  • Meal book. Right? That’s like kinda low quality and no one’s gonna wanna come back

  • for a gourmet dinner.

  • That’s really funny. My fifth tip is that you should celebrate every milestone. When

  • you finish your first draft, because that’s a really big accomplishment, I mean, youve

  • gotten to the end of something relatively. So you should celebrate, just whatever tickles

  • your fancy. Just celebrate in a way. And when you finished your edit, you should celebrate

  • that. And when you finally publish it, you should also celebrate. My family, when we

  • finished the first edit of a book, well often go to a beach and we have this little

  • recently made tradition that we have, where we go to a beach, we just get something yummy

  • to eat, and then we do a dance. For some reason, we do a dance. I don’t know why.

  • Because it’s fun. Yes, that’s right, because it makes you feel alive and that’s like

  • what better way to hang out and celebrate with your family than to dance around and

  • be goofy and enjoy each other’s company? I think that’s awesome.

  • Yeah, it’s a lot of fun.

  • That’s really cool. Olivia, I just think you are fantastic and I wanna, first of all,

  • thank you for writing us that email months ago letting us know what a difference our

  • videos make. And I just adore you, I think youre fantastic. Your parents are great,

  • so please send them my best. And, yeah, you gotta keep us up to date and I know right

  • now everyone watching this MarieTV episode, theyll be very, very inspired. And a lot

  • of moms also watch with their daughters, and I’m sure their sons too, so youre providing

  • a great example to many, many, many folks in our audience. So thank you for that.

  • Youre welcome.

  • Youre so cute. So right now, as we always do on MarieTV, we wanna thank you guys for

  • watching. If you like this video, please like it and subscribe. And if you want even more

  • great resources to have a business and a life that you love, make sure you get your butt

  • over to MarieForleo.com and sign up for email updates. On behalf of me in New York and Olivia

  • in New Zealand, thank you and well see you guys soon. Thanks everybody.

Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV. The place to be to create a business

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