How do you get text from a book straight into your phone without typing it out?
If you want to create Instagram Reels but feel like your ideas, saved posts, videos, and inspiration are scattered everywhere, Instagram’s Edits app can help bring more of that process into one place. But when you first open the app, there are quite a few buttons and sections to figure out. If you’re wondering how to use the Edits app and what all those different tabs actually do, this beginner-friendly video will give you a…
How to Add Instagram to Google Search Console: Beginner-Friendly Tutorial
Want to know if your Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube content is showing up in Google Search? Google Search Console now lets you add your social media profiles as platform properties so you can see how your content is performing in Google Search. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to connect your Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube accounts to Google Search Console and where to find the data once they’re connected. You’ll learn how to see:…
How to Use Your iPhone as a Microphone
If you record videos on your iPhone but don’t have an external microphone, you may be surprised by how much you can do with the audio tools already built into your phone. In this video, I’ll show you how to make iPhone audio sound better without a microphone by changing one camera setting before you record and then adjusting the audio afterward. This is especially useful if you’re creating Reels, social media videos, tutorials, or…
How to add a slow zoom in your talking head videos!
If you’ve seen talking-head videos where the camera suddenly punches in for a second or slowly zooms closer while someone is speaking, you might be wondering how they’re doing it. The good news is you don’t need to record your video from different camera angles. You can create those changes while editing one video clip. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add zoom effects in the Edits app, including both a quick zoom-in…
How to Upload a YouTube Short on Phone
If you’re already creating Reels for Instagram, you don’t necessarily need to make brand-new videos for YouTube too. You can take content you’ve already created and upload it as a YouTube Short, giving that same video another chance to reach people. Learning how to repurpose Instagram Reels as YouTube Shorts is especially helpful if you’re trying to be more consistent with your content without spending even more time filming and editing. Instead of thinking of…
How to adjust the volume on your Instagram Reels
Have you ever added music to an Instagram Reel only to realize you can barely hear yourself talking anymore? Or maybe the music is so loud that it competes with the original sound in your video. Instagram lets you use both the audio from your original video and a music track, but you may need to adjust the volume of each one so they work together. The controls are easy to miss if you don’t…
What Exactly is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and What Do I Need to Know About It?
In the past two weeks I’ve had no fewer than three women send me DM’s and asking me what magic I’m doing behind the scenes because they put a question into AI (Chat GPT and Claude, but the same is true for Gemini, Perplexity and other AI models), and somehow my Instagram reels showed up to answer their question. Clicking on the video linked in the answer led them to check out the video in…
What It Looks Like When a Business Community Shows Up for One of Its Own
I have at least one call every single week with my community. It’s a general Q&A, come as you are, ask-me-anything -live kind of call. Right now there are about a hundred women who have access to that room, and if you’ve never run something like this, I don’t know how to explain what it does to you to watch the same faces show up week after week. You go from a hundred strangers scattered…
How to Add Links and Share Stories or Add Context
You sit down to write. You know what you want to work on. And then suddenly you’re checking your phone, making tea, rereading the same paragraph, or wondering why writing feels so much harder than it did yesterday. If you’ve ever wondered how to get into a flow state when writing, it helps to understand that flow isn’t something you can force. It’s part of a cycle, and what happens before and after a focused…
