Almost closed the doors, then added onto her studio.

I'm fantastic. How are you?

I think a big transformation that happened was actually at a time when a lot of people were having transformations, but many of them in the wrong direction.

And that's when COVID hit back in early 2020. And I was working with you at the time. And we were literally in the middle of working together when I said to you, I think I'm done.

After forty years of doing video, I went, I guess the universe is telling me it's enough, stop, because I went, if I can't be out there filming people live, which I couldn't, I went, that's it, I'm done, I can't do anything else. And you said, well, wait a minute ... that's not really true. You said, what I'm doing with my clients and I can help you with is finding how to pivot, that became the big word ... back then. And it was like, yeah, but pivot from, pivot to what? I can't film anybody. So, well, we'll discuss it. And you helped me realize, which I've always knew, that I knew a lot more than I thought I knew. And I could do a lot more than I thought I did. And to gain the confidence in being able to go, what are people needing? And how can I help fill that need, that gap of, and even though maybe I can't get to them live, we realized that people were on Zoom calls, everybody was now online. And that became a big thing for me, because I was on all these networking Zoom calls. And I realized, oh, this is interesting, because one of the things I used to try to preach to people was how important it was to be online. I went, I need to help them gain some type of presence online. And I discovered a way to help them get on Google's page number one within seconds of me loading any of the videos, the ones that I created graphically, the voiceover videos, or if I did film them live, I can take that, upload it to YouTube, and they were on page one of Google, and I would take a screenshot of that and send it to them and saying, you now have an online presence.

It was too irresistible. I had to stop. I couldn't handle all the people to do this.

And then another thing you taught me, because of the pivoting, was there's never a, oh, well, that's it. There's always, if things change, and that's why my business is changing, well, people's needs are also changing, is why maybe they're not calling me for that anymore, because now they need, let me see what they need now. And I have been continuing through these past couple of months to kind of go with the flow to say what's happening now, because of what you taught me, what I learned from you. And my business continues to expand and grow.

And I'm also much more confident in myself and my abilities and what I know and what I can learn and what I can offer. And I don't care if people say no to me, if I quote them a price, because maybe it's too high, because I never did that before. And now when I quote people things, it's like, I quoted someone something the other day that if I had quoted before, I would have thought they'll never go with this. And I quoted it. She's, oh ... I went too cheap again, but I went higher than I had before. It's just unbelievable. And these people who are now, they've seen my work, they've seen what I'm doing for other people. And that's why they've been, they're coming out of the woodwork calling me now. Like I need to work with you.

Well, first of all, one of the things on my network Zoom calls that happened, when they went, would go around to do your little thing, I didn't wanna say anything. It's like, I didn't want people go, oh, I need, no ... So I started like, yeah, I'm Bonnie with Video Magic and I create movies, create video, next. It's like, you don't want to call me, it's like, I almost didn't want to, no matter what I did, people are, I'm getting little stuff in the chat boxes. Hey, I need to call you, can you give me your personal information? I need you, I need you. ...

Yeah, yeah. It's when, I knew this as an actress, the whole desperate stuff, and with your daughter being an actress, you don't get the work when you're desperate. You get it when you, I don't need you. I don't need any of this because I'm good and my work is good and it shows, and you wanna work with me, fine, you don't, really doesn't matter. ... And it's true. And I really absolutely feel that way. I don't care if someone doesn't wanna work with me. Before it was like, oh my God, I'm not good. It's like, no.

... I just remember that the pitch changed everything. That I came into my own with ... letting people know that I'm a professional actress and a creative director and a video marketing coach and a video producer. And just those words was like, yes, I am a producer. I produced, I am a professional video producer. I've heard other people say that and they went, oh wow, they're a video producer. They're so big, they're so great. Yeah, no.

And now on some calls I show people some of my stills from some of my acting stuff. When I was in Days of Our Lives and on Charlie's Angels and in movies, Universal, and they're like, oh my God, I think I remember you. It just brings the reality of, yeah, I've been around in front of the camera, behind the camera. I've won awards.

Yeah, yeah. Award winning. And I won, and I got it again for 2021. So it's just, it continues.

... There was a time when you actually were a speaker at a meeting that I was on. It was the Pasadena meeting of women. And at the very end, and you were awesome. And at the very end, and I almost didn't get on this meeting. It was very interesting. I almost didn't get on, onto the meeting, because of our offer, I was supposed to speak to somebody around that time. And then I told her, can we talk later? So I came on very last minute and I stayed for a while, and almost at the end of the meeting, somebody who also, it was her first time on one of these meetings, raised her hand and she had a question about subtitles, captions on YouTube videos. And I didn't say anything, and you said, that sounds like a Bonnie question. So I unmuted myself and realized that it's a whole explanation. So I just said to this person who I didn't know, I can help you with that. Why don't we talk after, I'll give you my information or whatever.

She called me afterwards, she was working for some company. They had a video they had had done a while ago with a video production company who put it up on YouTube. And the company's name was ... YouTube did their own, so the company didn't do the captions, it was YouTube's captioning. And YouTube heard ... as vomit. And a client called this person to tell her, by the way, your video says vomit, and said, you really should fix that. So I said to her, when we talked, I said, why don't you just, it's very easy to fix that. You just go on. Said, whoever put the video up, if you put the video up, just go in, and she says, oh, well, I didn't do it. It's a video company, we called them and they said, oh, well, you were on our standard package. And in order for us to do this, we'd have to charge you blah ... And I went, you've got to be kidding me. I said, first of all, we're in COVID time, and you would think that a company would want to, even if they did have stuff like that.

Secondly, I don't play those games when I work with somebody. I'm there to help them. They don't do something like that. And thirdly, that would take them about 10 seconds to correct.

I said, if you give me your login information, I don't know if you want to, I could go in. Anyway, we ended up talking for two hours. She fell in love with me on that phone call, talked to her boss the next day. I ended up doing their next company video.

They got rid of the video with the vomit and they have my video up now.

And she has now since left that company, she's got her own company. She has me do all her videos. She then, the next day, she couldn't get over having talked to me. So the next day she called, she said, I'm telling everyone on every network call that I'm raving about you. And then she had somebody that she wanted me to meet right away, who she introduced me to, who has their own, who leads their own network group with seven chapters in the South Bay, which is a different area than I live in. ... I am now their video person. ... She tells every single person she meets, and she meets lots of people, because that's her world, about me. I've gotten probably 10 new clients from her. ... Because of you saying that's a Bonnie question on a Zoom call.

So it's amazing. You never know. And again, once the people do hear, and again, I wasn't telling, she just found out that I'm caring and I'm somewhat knowledgeable. And then once I did the video for her company, she also went, oh my God ...

And it's my pleasure. And I just want to tell this other story. When I was leaving LA, I decided to move to Charleston, South Carolina in the middle of COVID. You called me as, I don't know if you know this, but you called me as I was literally driving out of LA. ... That's when I got that call from you. And of course in my mind I'm going, am I doing the right thing, move, and you said to me, I just have to tell you, you changed my life. I had to call you right now and tell you I changed, you changed my life. And that to me was like, that was it ...

... You gave me a new lease on, literally, on life, on business. I feel there's nothing I can't do now. But the biggest thing is I'm not that hungry desperate. I'm, yeah, this is what I do. Like it, don't like it, doesn't matter, because I do damn good work. If you wanna be part of it, you'd be part of it. You want be part of my life and my world and what I can offer.

You really did. You changed my, you changed the way that I look at myself in terms of how I look at what I am to my business and for my business and about my business. And I'm so much more and offer so much more than I ever allowed myself to present or to think or just to grasp onto of who and what I am and what I can do for people. I do do some pretty amazing things for people. And I create great videos and it's my passion and it's my art. I do, I make movies. I make something that emotionally people will feel. And you helped me really, really, really grasp that

so that I'm confident in my own skin, and my business took off and never looked back. And it just continues to this very day. I told you just this last week, I've learned five more things. It's nonstop. It just, it won't stop. So it's very exciting and it makes me feel great and young and powerful ...

Off the fence, get off. You are, if you were, whatever, if anybody is on the fence, get off the darn fence and start working with Carla, because she'll change your business and your life.