Educator Barnes: Welcome back to another episode of Brazen Education. I'm Educator Barnes. I'm your host today. And as you all know, this is the fifth year of Blazing Brilliance existence, and we have a series that is focused on entrepreneurship, education, consulting, essentially starting your own business. So if you would like to go into business for yourself, you have some tips so you don't have to bumble and fumble around like we did to kind of figure out what works and what doesn't work. Today I have another member from the team. I have Angel here. Angel, thanks for being here today.
Angel: Hi, hello and no, thank you for having me.
Educator Barnes: Angel, could you tell everyone what you do at Blazing Brilliance and maybe a little bit about yourself?
Angel: Yeah, so I'm the digital content creator and marketing specialist here at Blazing Brilliance. I kind of involved in like little bits and pieces here and there and pretty much anything that's digital here. that goes for flyers for the book clubs, epis like the flyers for some of the podcast episodes. I'm involved in some of the blogs. I've written a couple of blogs. I've also done some of the Spanish translations for them. And yeah, I mean like I said, it's just little bits and pieces there that I'm working on. and yeah, I guess to know a little bit about myself. I'm recent grad I'd say, and then I've been involved in marketing, done a lot of work from different little industries, ranging from news apps to nonprofits, and you know I I feel like the work I like to do is the work where I'm able to help people. So I that's kind of what I l I feel like I like that about Blazing Brilliance 'cause I feel like I'm helping educators and students feel a lot more comfortable in their in their environments.
Educator Barnes: Well, thanks. we have definitely been getting great feedback about how things look seamless and it doesn't look like the flyer looks one way this month, and next month it looks a different way. you've been great about like streamlining, but your background is in marketing. So what are some things let's talk about flyers because flyers is one of the main things that people use to say, hey, I got something happening. And right now there has been an influx of these flyers that look Very cookie cutter, look the same, being generated from AI. And I'm guessing people are doing that because it's quick, it's easy. But what is your opinion on all these AI-generated flyers? And what tips do you have for people when they want to advertise aspects of their business in particular with flyers?
Angel: yeah, I mean I feel like probably another reason a lot of people want to use AI is it's also pretty cheap. but I mean I feel like people can usually tell when AI is heavily involved. I'm definitely somebody that prefers more the human side and I think at the very least when you have a human involved you're able to you're able to like really play around with the things you're doing on the flyers more and I think you're able to create a flyer that meets your needs a lot better than something that AI might be able to create. I think if you're like a company or like an individual that wants to create flyers and you are thinking about how you want to do it without using AI, I think at the very least you just just start by thinking about what it is you want to do and you just start putting it on on like some kind of draft. I think as soon as you start working on it, you're gonna start figuring it out. at the very least, when I've worked on flyers, that's kind of how it's been. I figure out what it is that's needed and I just put all of that on the flyer. It looks terrible at first just because I'm just putting it on there just for the sake of putting it on there. But I think from there you're kind of able to figure out what's important and what really needs to be like the the focal point. And I mean I think at the very least when you're not using AI, that's something you're gonna be able to do a lot better because it's you're gonna be able to like you know, when it's AI you kinda have to ask it, okay, can you do this and then maybe change it here? And then sometimes it's not really gonna be able to do it the way you want to do it. just cause you know, it you have to be like maybe very specific to say like, can you put it in this specific place or something? When you're not using AI you can just you're the one in charge of it. You're able to just put it on there. but yeah, I think that'd just kind of be my recommendation. Just really just start putting your ideas first. I think as soon as you start, it's just gonna come to you.
Educator Barnes: And do you have any recommendations of platforms people could use if they don't want to use AI for flyers?
Angel: yeah, I mean Canva's probably gonna be the best one. back when I was still a student, Canva was definitely the thing people would use whenever they wanted to get creative but didn't want to spend money. Just because Canva is a free tool. There is a paid version of it and I do use that. however I feel like there are plenty of things you're able to still do with the free version. 'cause I was probably using the free version for at least two or three years before I even considered getting the the paid version. and really the only reason I use the paid version is just because I do professional work with it now. So, you know, it just felt like a a worthy investment. But yeah, I mean if you're just don't want to spend a lot, definitely Canva's one of the ways to go. if you want to go even cheaper though, you can do stuff with with Google Slides honestly. It seems a little bit weird, but I've been able to like create some things using Google Slides as well. so yeah, sometimes it's gonna be platforms that you don't even think about, but there are definitely plenty of cheaper options.
Educator Barnes: Yeah, I would agree with Google Slides. I do gardening and one of the things I wanted to do was update my recipe cards and because I was using Microsoft Word. and we all know clip art things bounce around in Microsoft Word and I had just went to Google and was like recipe template and then like a slide came up, like a Google slide make a copy. And I was it didn't even dawn on me, I'm like, I could resize the Google slide and turn it to portrait and just move things around. So I made a pretty simple nice recipe card. and now in Google Slides you can they have stock images in there that you can get that are you know royalty free because that's always important. You don't wanna
Angel: Yeah.
Educator Barnes: get caught in copyright. so and that's that's free. You have a Gmail account. that there's no cost with that as well. I'm new to using Canva, much better at it now. now that Angel makes things in Canva and I work with an organization through Blazing Brilliance that the they use Canva a lot so they will share things with me in Canva. I'm like at this point I just need to get into Canva and start using it. But I love the fact that Canva also provides templates. So if you don't want to build things from scratch, you can just say, Hey, teacher slide deck or you know, slide deck for multiplication. There's just tons of stuff. And if you're a teacher, you want to check to see if your school has like a subscription because. Sometimes schools buy a subscription for the whole entire school, which allows you to see what other people in your school it is doing as well. the other thing that we do at Blazing Brilliance sometimes we put out different video clips. Do you have any tips about like making video clips, putting out video clips that people should consider?
Angel: Yeah, I mean I think for video clips right now in the like digital world at least people definitely appreciate shorter content. I mean I think there's still an audience for longer content, but at the very least, with how accessible phones are now and sometimes you just grab it just to like you know entertain yourself for a bit, that shorter content is definitely what's gonna grab people's attention. so I think at the very least for short content a hook's always gonna be pretty important. you know, just something to grab their attention. I think sometimes when people hear hook they think it has to be something like a like a really well written sentence or something that's really gonna capture someone's attention. But I think sometimes it's can be pretty basic thing. It's just like a like a pretty basic title that says exactly what the video is gonna be about and I think at the very least if your topic is interesting enough it's going to get people's attention. but you know and that isn't to like discourage people from making things that they feel like aren't gonna be interesting because I think at the very least if it's something you are willing to talk about to people online it's probably gonna be pretty interesting. I don't think because otherwise I don't think you'd even be considering making that content.
Educator Barnes: Yeah, I I really agree with that because if you are passionate about the things that you're talking about, that passion comes through the screen. And for everything that you like, there's somebody out there who is who wants to hear what you have to say. so I would agree to just put yourself out there. with with your marketing skills, what are some main things that people should consider in general when they're trying to market their business or just market themselves or market a new idea that they're trying to put out there.
Angel: I think f first of all it's gonna be honesty. you know, people don't lie like when businesses lie to them. I mean typically when you expect a business to lie to you, it's gonna be like a bigger business, but even still pe you know, people aren't don't they don't like that. So honesty is definitely gonna be an important thing. I think maybe the other thing is gonna be like what's the word I'm thinking about? It's like being genuine. some of the work I've done in the past, it was mostly through internships. so it you know, people weren't expecting the work I was doing to be, you know, some professional thing, but that also meant the work I was putting out never had to be 100% perfect. And for some of the companies I worked with, that was perfectly fine. For the I mentioned like I worked for a a news app company. the videos and the posts I would make for their TikTok page, a lot of those were never like professional grade content. they were things that I would just create in a couple of minutes. I'd send it to the person that was in charge of me and they'd either give me the green light or tell me to change a couple things. but from there it'd be able to be posted and And you know, people would watch it and some of them would enjoy it. but I think whenever you're being genuine, people who are coming to your business are gonna be able to trust you a lot more. bec it's gonna kind of fall in line with that honesty that I mentioned earlier. People when they're finding out about your business, your comp or your company, they wanna be able to know that they can trust you. And I think when you're honest and genuine it's just gonna allow them to be able to trust you a lot more easier. And I think it's but even when you do gain your customers' trust as well, I think they're also gonna help you evolve your business in the way that you want. just because they're whenever you do something that maybe doesn't fall in line with their expectations or what they want, you're gonna be able to use that. criticism of theirs to be able to make your to help grow your business and make it a lot better.
Educator Barnes: Yeah, I really-- that human interaction is super important. that back and forth and just putting out stuff and not being scared about it being perfect. there if I go back in the archives of videos I did long time ago, I've been teaching now for twenty years. if I go back to earlier videos from fifteen years ago, I would be like, my gosh, that is so bad now. But when I looked, so many students watched the video and said, I read the book or I did this thing that you said in the video. And I'm looking at it now and mortified. But they didn't care. They didn't care that I had you know a special special camera or special light or you know I was dancing or putting on my makeup while I was doing the thing. They were like, You have something to say. I trust you to speak on this topic, so I'm gonna tune in and listen. one of the things that you do for us that I saw as a gap. many of the schools that Blazing Brilliance works with, we work with people where Spanish is their first language or one of Many languages they speak, and it was super important for us to start putting our content into Spanish. What things do you consider when you are taking something that we have created and translating in into Spanish that might be important for someone who may just say, Hey, I'm just and then maybe what is your opinion about people just throwing things into Google Translate and just saying, Well, that's good enough. talk us through like your process of translating because sometimes things may Not exactly translate over word for word. So what is your process for that? What are some things we could we should consider?
Angel: Yeah. yeah, I mean I do use Google Translate as a tool when I'm translating, but I never use it as like the like the one thing 'cause like you said, it's never a direct translation. That's always just like the little tool I'm using to be like, okay, here's the general vibe, I guess we can say, of the sentence. But yeah, I always have like a Spanish dictionary open in another tab because I'm always like, Okay. Sure maybe Google Translate says to use This word for like this other this English word, but I feel like there's probably another word that can better describe the situation. but yeah, I mean I think the other thing I also consider is just since there is a lot of Spanish-speaking countries, there's also like the different words they use that you know differ slightly. So then I have to kind of consider, okay, well. Which words do I want to use? I normally want to use the words that I've heard in my life because well, you know, then I know I'm definitely using them correctly. but sometimes it's like, okay, well, maybe the word that I'm used to isn't the the right one and maybe it just because sometimes the words I'm comfortable with also might seem a little bit harsher, especially in like a more professional setting. So then it's like, okay, I do have to consider another word in that case and you know that's where that Spanish dictionary is gonna come in is gonna come in handy. but yeah, I mean it's just a lot of going back and forth with the Spanish dictionary and Google Translate and then my own Spanish experience and figuring that out. I'm kind of I'm usually going like sentence by sentence. Sometimes doing the whole paragraph all at once is gonna be a lot more helpful because you know context also matters. But yeah, I mean it's also just a lot of rereading the sentences I've maybe written as well. So yeah. It's a lot of going back and forth. but I think just because I do have that experience of being in around like Spanish speaking communities, it does make it a little bit easier for me.
Educator Barnes: I really appreciate the kind of the theme I'm hearing from you that technology is great to use, but that human component is super, super important. because Google Translate does do a good job of putting out things, but it might not say things. and before you even came onto the team, we had some other people translating things, and we would get people from different Spanish speaking countries that would say, Why did you say this? This is like very, very stern, versus you could have said this. and we have found that sometimes it's hard to find the phrase that makes
Angel: Yeah.
Educator Barnes: every single Spanish speaker happy because the different countries, different contexts, different registers of language and what's formal and what's proper and what's acceptable. And sometimes I've even found the age of the Spanish speaker might matter too, what words they think are you know more appropriate for the professional or the school setting versus a younger person
Angel: Yeah.
Educator Barnes: is like it's fine I don't see a problem with
Angel: Yeah.
Educator Barnes: it. so we we do we do our best to try to to meet that happy medium. But I do think it's important, especially if you're in communities. one school that we work with is s seventy-five percent of students, and they're not all Spanish speakers, but majority of them are, has a parent or them or the student themselves speaks Spanish. So it's super important if they're interacting and then many of their teachers also like I'm thinking About a teacher right now, like Spanish is her first language. So it's great to be able to even give to a teacher a resource to say, hey, you can just read this in Spanish instead of going through the English because you probably would prefer to read it in Spanish. just knowing that there are many professionals who work in schools that are bilingual themselves, that gives them the opportunity to read in the language, they're probably more comfortable with reading in as well. So that's the one thing I really appreciate about having you on the team. it has allowed us to produce things. in a way where it's more accessible and in education accessibility is key. do you have any final tips for people when it comes to marketing, promoting themselves as we wrap up this episode?
Angel: no, I I don't think so, just because I do feel like that honest and being genuine is probably the biggest advice I can give. I guess just because we touched on it a lot here, being human is also gonna be something that I think will come through the screen. you know, just I think it's a little bit difficult to not like to not want to use AI tools, especially right now with how big they are, but I I think even if you do choose to use them, don't forget that you still have to put in a bit of yourself in the marketing that you choose to do. Never you know, never just rely entirely on AI. Just use it as a tool to maybe generate a couple of ideas, maybe a couple of drafts, but never let it be the final product. Just let it be like a small percentage of what it is you do.
Educator Barnes: Well, I really appreciate that. And if you go to our Blazing Brilliance channel, you will see a book talk by Angel. that was really, really well done. So thanks for watching this episode. Definitely check out Angel's book talk. And of course, I'm not gonna tell you what the book is because I want you to go to the channel and find out. And of course, tune back in. We still have a few more team members to interview. so tune back in so you can see who we are going to talk to next. And thanks for watching.
Angel: Hi, hello and no, thank you for having me.
Educator Barnes: Angel, could you tell everyone what you do at Blazing Brilliance and maybe a little bit about yourself?
Angel: Yeah, so I'm the digital content creator and marketing specialist here at Blazing Brilliance. I kind of involved in like little bits and pieces here and there and pretty much anything that's digital here. that goes for flyers for the book clubs, epis like the flyers for some of the podcast episodes. I'm involved in some of the blogs. I've written a couple of blogs. I've also done some of the Spanish translations for them. And yeah, I mean like I said, it's just little bits and pieces there that I'm working on. and yeah, I guess to know a little bit about myself. I'm recent grad I'd say, and then I've been involved in marketing, done a lot of work from different little industries, ranging from news apps to nonprofits, and you know I I feel like the work I like to do is the work where I'm able to help people. So I that's kind of what I l I feel like I like that about Blazing Brilliance 'cause I feel like I'm helping educators and students feel a lot more comfortable in their in their environments.
Educator Barnes: Well, thanks. we have definitely been getting great feedback about how things look seamless and it doesn't look like the flyer looks one way this month, and next month it looks a different way. you've been great about like streamlining, but your background is in marketing. So what are some things let's talk about flyers because flyers is one of the main things that people use to say, hey, I got something happening. And right now there has been an influx of these flyers that look Very cookie cutter, look the same, being generated from AI. And I'm guessing people are doing that because it's quick, it's easy. But what is your opinion on all these AI-generated flyers? And what tips do you have for people when they want to advertise aspects of their business in particular with flyers?
Angel: yeah, I mean I feel like probably another reason a lot of people want to use AI is it's also pretty cheap. but I mean I feel like people can usually tell when AI is heavily involved. I'm definitely somebody that prefers more the human side and I think at the very least when you have a human involved you're able to you're able to like really play around with the things you're doing on the flyers more and I think you're able to create a flyer that meets your needs a lot better than something that AI might be able to create. I think if you're like a company or like an individual that wants to create flyers and you are thinking about how you want to do it without using AI, I think at the very least you just just start by thinking about what it is you want to do and you just start putting it on on like some kind of draft. I think as soon as you start working on it, you're gonna start figuring it out. at the very least, when I've worked on flyers, that's kind of how it's been. I figure out what it is that's needed and I just put all of that on the flyer. It looks terrible at first just because I'm just putting it on there just for the sake of putting it on there. But I think from there you're kind of able to figure out what's important and what really needs to be like the the focal point. And I mean I think at the very least when you're not using AI, that's something you're gonna be able to do a lot better because it's you're gonna be able to like you know, when it's AI you kinda have to ask it, okay, can you do this and then maybe change it here? And then sometimes it's not really gonna be able to do it the way you want to do it. just cause you know, it you have to be like maybe very specific to say like, can you put it in this specific place or something? When you're not using AI you can just you're the one in charge of it. You're able to just put it on there. but yeah, I think that'd just kind of be my recommendation. Just really just start putting your ideas first. I think as soon as you start, it's just gonna come to you.
Educator Barnes: And do you have any recommendations of platforms people could use if they don't want to use AI for flyers?
Angel: yeah, I mean Canva's probably gonna be the best one. back when I was still a student, Canva was definitely the thing people would use whenever they wanted to get creative but didn't want to spend money. Just because Canva is a free tool. There is a paid version of it and I do use that. however I feel like there are plenty of things you're able to still do with the free version. 'cause I was probably using the free version for at least two or three years before I even considered getting the the paid version. and really the only reason I use the paid version is just because I do professional work with it now. So, you know, it just felt like a a worthy investment. But yeah, I mean if you're just don't want to spend a lot, definitely Canva's one of the ways to go. if you want to go even cheaper though, you can do stuff with with Google Slides honestly. It seems a little bit weird, but I've been able to like create some things using Google Slides as well. so yeah, sometimes it's gonna be platforms that you don't even think about, but there are definitely plenty of cheaper options.
Educator Barnes: Yeah, I would agree with Google Slides. I do gardening and one of the things I wanted to do was update my recipe cards and because I was using Microsoft Word. and we all know clip art things bounce around in Microsoft Word and I had just went to Google and was like recipe template and then like a slide came up, like a Google slide make a copy. And I was it didn't even dawn on me, I'm like, I could resize the Google slide and turn it to portrait and just move things around. So I made a pretty simple nice recipe card. and now in Google Slides you can they have stock images in there that you can get that are you know royalty free because that's always important. You don't wanna
Angel: Yeah.
Educator Barnes: get caught in copyright. so and that's that's free. You have a Gmail account. that there's no cost with that as well. I'm new to using Canva, much better at it now. now that Angel makes things in Canva and I work with an organization through Blazing Brilliance that the they use Canva a lot so they will share things with me in Canva. I'm like at this point I just need to get into Canva and start using it. But I love the fact that Canva also provides templates. So if you don't want to build things from scratch, you can just say, Hey, teacher slide deck or you know, slide deck for multiplication. There's just tons of stuff. And if you're a teacher, you want to check to see if your school has like a subscription because. Sometimes schools buy a subscription for the whole entire school, which allows you to see what other people in your school it is doing as well. the other thing that we do at Blazing Brilliance sometimes we put out different video clips. Do you have any tips about like making video clips, putting out video clips that people should consider?
Angel: Yeah, I mean I think for video clips right now in the like digital world at least people definitely appreciate shorter content. I mean I think there's still an audience for longer content, but at the very least, with how accessible phones are now and sometimes you just grab it just to like you know entertain yourself for a bit, that shorter content is definitely what's gonna grab people's attention. so I think at the very least for short content a hook's always gonna be pretty important. you know, just something to grab their attention. I think sometimes when people hear hook they think it has to be something like a like a really well written sentence or something that's really gonna capture someone's attention. But I think sometimes it's can be pretty basic thing. It's just like a like a pretty basic title that says exactly what the video is gonna be about and I think at the very least if your topic is interesting enough it's going to get people's attention. but you know and that isn't to like discourage people from making things that they feel like aren't gonna be interesting because I think at the very least if it's something you are willing to talk about to people online it's probably gonna be pretty interesting. I don't think because otherwise I don't think you'd even be considering making that content.
Educator Barnes: Yeah, I I really agree with that because if you are passionate about the things that you're talking about, that passion comes through the screen. And for everything that you like, there's somebody out there who is who wants to hear what you have to say. so I would agree to just put yourself out there. with with your marketing skills, what are some main things that people should consider in general when they're trying to market their business or just market themselves or market a new idea that they're trying to put out there.
Angel: I think f first of all it's gonna be honesty. you know, people don't lie like when businesses lie to them. I mean typically when you expect a business to lie to you, it's gonna be like a bigger business, but even still pe you know, people aren't don't they don't like that. So honesty is definitely gonna be an important thing. I think maybe the other thing is gonna be like what's the word I'm thinking about? It's like being genuine. some of the work I've done in the past, it was mostly through internships. so it you know, people weren't expecting the work I was doing to be, you know, some professional thing, but that also meant the work I was putting out never had to be 100% perfect. And for some of the companies I worked with, that was perfectly fine. For the I mentioned like I worked for a a news app company. the videos and the posts I would make for their TikTok page, a lot of those were never like professional grade content. they were things that I would just create in a couple of minutes. I'd send it to the person that was in charge of me and they'd either give me the green light or tell me to change a couple things. but from there it'd be able to be posted and And you know, people would watch it and some of them would enjoy it. but I think whenever you're being genuine, people who are coming to your business are gonna be able to trust you a lot more. bec it's gonna kind of fall in line with that honesty that I mentioned earlier. People when they're finding out about your business, your comp or your company, they wanna be able to know that they can trust you. And I think when you're honest and genuine it's just gonna allow them to be able to trust you a lot more easier. And I think it's but even when you do gain your customers' trust as well, I think they're also gonna help you evolve your business in the way that you want. just because they're whenever you do something that maybe doesn't fall in line with their expectations or what they want, you're gonna be able to use that. criticism of theirs to be able to make your to help grow your business and make it a lot better.
Educator Barnes: Yeah, I really-- that human interaction is super important. that back and forth and just putting out stuff and not being scared about it being perfect. there if I go back in the archives of videos I did long time ago, I've been teaching now for twenty years. if I go back to earlier videos from fifteen years ago, I would be like, my gosh, that is so bad now. But when I looked, so many students watched the video and said, I read the book or I did this thing that you said in the video. And I'm looking at it now and mortified. But they didn't care. They didn't care that I had you know a special special camera or special light or you know I was dancing or putting on my makeup while I was doing the thing. They were like, You have something to say. I trust you to speak on this topic, so I'm gonna tune in and listen. one of the things that you do for us that I saw as a gap. many of the schools that Blazing Brilliance works with, we work with people where Spanish is their first language or one of Many languages they speak, and it was super important for us to start putting our content into Spanish. What things do you consider when you are taking something that we have created and translating in into Spanish that might be important for someone who may just say, Hey, I'm just and then maybe what is your opinion about people just throwing things into Google Translate and just saying, Well, that's good enough. talk us through like your process of translating because sometimes things may Not exactly translate over word for word. So what is your process for that? What are some things we could we should consider?
Angel: Yeah. yeah, I mean I do use Google Translate as a tool when I'm translating, but I never use it as like the like the one thing 'cause like you said, it's never a direct translation. That's always just like the little tool I'm using to be like, okay, here's the general vibe, I guess we can say, of the sentence. But yeah, I always have like a Spanish dictionary open in another tab because I'm always like, Okay. Sure maybe Google Translate says to use This word for like this other this English word, but I feel like there's probably another word that can better describe the situation. but yeah, I mean I think the other thing I also consider is just since there is a lot of Spanish-speaking countries, there's also like the different words they use that you know differ slightly. So then I have to kind of consider, okay, well. Which words do I want to use? I normally want to use the words that I've heard in my life because well, you know, then I know I'm definitely using them correctly. but sometimes it's like, okay, well, maybe the word that I'm used to isn't the the right one and maybe it just because sometimes the words I'm comfortable with also might seem a little bit harsher, especially in like a more professional setting. So then it's like, okay, I do have to consider another word in that case and you know that's where that Spanish dictionary is gonna come in is gonna come in handy. but yeah, I mean it's just a lot of going back and forth with the Spanish dictionary and Google Translate and then my own Spanish experience and figuring that out. I'm kind of I'm usually going like sentence by sentence. Sometimes doing the whole paragraph all at once is gonna be a lot more helpful because you know context also matters. But yeah, I mean it's also just a lot of rereading the sentences I've maybe written as well. So yeah. It's a lot of going back and forth. but I think just because I do have that experience of being in around like Spanish speaking communities, it does make it a little bit easier for me.
Educator Barnes: I really appreciate the kind of the theme I'm hearing from you that technology is great to use, but that human component is super, super important. because Google Translate does do a good job of putting out things, but it might not say things. and before you even came onto the team, we had some other people translating things, and we would get people from different Spanish speaking countries that would say, Why did you say this? This is like very, very stern, versus you could have said this. and we have found that sometimes it's hard to find the phrase that makes
Angel: Yeah.
Educator Barnes: every single Spanish speaker happy because the different countries, different contexts, different registers of language and what's formal and what's proper and what's acceptable. And sometimes I've even found the age of the Spanish speaker might matter too, what words they think are you know more appropriate for the professional or the school setting versus a younger person
Angel: Yeah.
Educator Barnes: is like it's fine I don't see a problem with
Angel: Yeah.
Educator Barnes: it. so we we do we do our best to try to to meet that happy medium. But I do think it's important, especially if you're in communities. one school that we work with is s seventy-five percent of students, and they're not all Spanish speakers, but majority of them are, has a parent or them or the student themselves speaks Spanish. So it's super important if they're interacting and then many of their teachers also like I'm thinking About a teacher right now, like Spanish is her first language. So it's great to be able to even give to a teacher a resource to say, hey, you can just read this in Spanish instead of going through the English because you probably would prefer to read it in Spanish. just knowing that there are many professionals who work in schools that are bilingual themselves, that gives them the opportunity to read in the language, they're probably more comfortable with reading in as well. So that's the one thing I really appreciate about having you on the team. it has allowed us to produce things. in a way where it's more accessible and in education accessibility is key. do you have any final tips for people when it comes to marketing, promoting themselves as we wrap up this episode?
Angel: no, I I don't think so, just because I do feel like that honest and being genuine is probably the biggest advice I can give. I guess just because we touched on it a lot here, being human is also gonna be something that I think will come through the screen. you know, just I think it's a little bit difficult to not like to not want to use AI tools, especially right now with how big they are, but I I think even if you do choose to use them, don't forget that you still have to put in a bit of yourself in the marketing that you choose to do. Never you know, never just rely entirely on AI. Just use it as a tool to maybe generate a couple of ideas, maybe a couple of drafts, but never let it be the final product. Just let it be like a small percentage of what it is you do.
Educator Barnes: Well, I really appreciate that. And if you go to our Blazing Brilliance channel, you will see a book talk by Angel. that was really, really well done. So thanks for watching this episode. Definitely check out Angel's book talk. And of course, I'm not gonna tell you what the book is because I want you to go to the channel and find out. And of course, tune back in. We still have a few more team members to interview. so tune back in so you can see who we are going to talk to next. And thanks for watching.
