Instagram has been glitching and engagement has been down across the board for many mompreneurs, creatives, and influencers in this space. There have been so many conversations surrounding the anxiety and depression that follows these ruts and today I want to help you take back the power from Instagram with this simple mindset exercise!
Intro: 00:06 You’re listening to motherhood ignited a podcast for mompreneurs creatives and influencers who are rocking the beautiful balance between working passionately and nurturing presently. I’m your host Christy Keaneand every week I interview inspiring mom bosses, brands and industry experts to bring you the knowledge, tools and strategies to grow your influence in business through purposeful online content creation. So come in and cozy up mamas and get ready to ignite your goals.
Christy Keane: 00:36 Hey Mamas, thank you so much for tuning in to this week’s MIP mini. Today we’re going to do a little bit of a mindset exercise because there has been a lot of talk lately about Instagram and the decrease in engagement and the decrease in likes on people’s posts and I did find out Instagram has been down this week, so everybody across the board is having issues with liking post, getting as much reach on their posts, so that is normal for everybody. I just want to let you know if you’re worried about what brands are thinking, they all know this is a trend that is happening right now. I cannot wait to post my interview with James Nord because he has insights for 80,000 influencers and across the board people are losing followers, their engagement is down. It is a trend and it is okay. It’s normal people and we have to shift our mindset about that today.
Christy Keane: 01:28 Instagram could be gone tomorrow if just after one day of it being down, we feel a little bit out of control or if after a couple of weeks of decreased engagement we start to question our abilities and ourselves. That is a problem. So I want us to come together today to change our mindset and this is my new mindset exercise for when this happens to me because it’s definitely happening to me. I am not immune to this at all, but what I’m doing now and what I want you to do is to imagine your children when you are posting. Imagine that they are the ones that are posting something that is important to them, whether it’s a picture or the caption that goes along with the picture. How would you feel if they had taken the time to create this content or to take this picture and capture this memory and they put it up and they immediately slandered themselves for not getting the engagement from strangers about it.
Christy Keane: 02:28 It would break my heart like seriously, my heart would be broken if my girls were putting any value on their self worth through this app. It would break my heart. So that’s what I want you guys to do. Like imagine when you’re posting something, imagine that it is your, your beautiful daughter posting it or your bright, enhance some sun posting it and how you would want him to feel about what he’s posting, why he’s posting it. And if he gets zero back, you would still want him to feel excellent about himself and you would still want him or her to love what they put out into the world. It shouldn’t be any different for you. So I would want my kids to post what matters to them and it might not matter to the rest of the world. And that’s okay. Right? When you think about it in the eyes of your children.
Christy Keane: 03:20 It seems silly but it’s okay. I would just want them to post what makes them happy and what makes them smile and I wouldn’t want them to live their lives or somebody else. I wouldn’t want them capturing their memories for Instagram. I would want them living their lives for them and capturing their memories for them and we need to shift our mindset to be similar in that way. You know what it comes down to is that, I know, I know that a lot of us rely a lot on the space right now, right? This is our, this is our playground. This is where we work, especially as mompreneurs who are launching businesses and as social media influencers and creatives. The space is important to us but it is not everything to us and we need to take back the power. You guys, you are giving Instagram so much power every single day.
Christy Keane: 04:07 You are giving them the power to change how you feel about yourself. Think about that for a second. That’s huge. I don’t even think I had been this affected by like relationships in my life to make me question myself and my abilities like Instagram has. So like it’s huge that this single platform can just change the way that you feel about yourself. You’re given the algorithm, the power to change your self worth and then it’s not. Okay. So we need to check, take that power back because when you think about it, if you are creating for this social media platform, you’re not really being that creative anymore. We’re losing our power to create, you’re losing your power to become a world class entrepreneur. Think about that for a second. You could be a world class entrepreneur, but not if you’re you relying on Instagram for it.
Christy Keane: 04:57 You have to, you have to be creating and building businesses for yourselves. You have to, you know, be thinking about what you’re doing on and off of the platform and then you need to be happy. You guys, you need to be excited. And I don’t know, I just felt such a pool in my heart to come on today and share this because I don’t want a decrease in likes a couple of weeks or a decrease in engagement to stop you guys from following your dreams. And maybe some of you guys are just starting out from zero. It is really hard out there right now on Instagram and you cannot give up because of what one app, statistics and analytics are telling you. Okay? So I bet all of you guys today, every single time you post, imagine you’re posting through the eyes of your baby girls or your baby boys and be proud of what you’re doing.
Christy Keane: 05:53 Be Proud of the message you’re putting out in the world, even if nobody, and I mean even at zero people had anything to say about it. I want you to feel good about it and I want you guys to take back the power today. Build something off of social media. I want you guys to just take that control in what you create and who you inspire and how you build your business. Like take back that control. Today. I was joking in a group, I have a fabulous group of women that I chat with daily on Instagram and we were all sharing our feelings about just how Instagram had been down this week and the lack of engagement. And I had brought up this message, which is why I decided to make this my mid mini today, but I brought up the message of taking back the power from Instagram.
Christy Keane: 06:43 And so you know how there’s that phrase, it’s like dance like nobody’s watching. I feel like the new quotes should be posts like nobody’s liking, just post pose, whatever you want, posts what makes you happy. So yes, change that mindset and take back the power. You guys, if you like today’s episode, please subscribe, leave a rating and review. I was so happy when I saw that I was on new and noteworthy this week and not one but three categories, business management and marketing and kids and family, you guys, that’s because of you of tuning in and listening and showing this podcast so much love and I can’t wait for us to just keep growing together. Another great way that we can grow together and build a community is over on Facebook at the MIP insiders group and my p insider’s group on Facebook. And I would just love to continue the conversation there as well. Thank you so much for tuning in, and I hope you have a wonderful week.