A 30-day ladder cured her camera panic

A 30-day ladder cured her camera panic
Q: "I want to do video but I physically cringe seeing myself. Will that ever go away?"

Short answer: it fades fast with graded exposure. A PR specialist froze on camera, so she'd recorded exactly zero videos in two years of meaning to.

We built a ladder, easiest rung first: week 1, voice notes only; week 2, talk to camera but post nothing; week 3, post 15-second clips; week 4, a 60-second tip. Each rung made the next feel small.

By day 30 she'd posted 9 videos and described the cringe as "mostly gone." One clip hit 22k views. The fear didn't need to vanish before she started — starting small shrank it.

Try this today: record a 15-second clip you will not post. The only goal is hearing your own voice on camera once.