Ian Gray
Manchester
Dad & Huband | Creative AI Solutions for Smart Entrepreneurs & Businesses | Speaker, Consultant, Trainer, Podcaster | @smartadhdme podcast
Articles by Ian Gray
As the 2026 World Cup expands, so does the threat surface
For most of the world, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be remembered as a sporting event. For cybersecurity teams, it will function more like a live multinational stress test. Spanning three countries, 16 host cities, and thousands of miles of transportation corridors, the tournament depends on an interconnected ecosystem of physical and digital infrastructure operating under sustained pressure for more than a month.
As the 2026 World Cup expands, so does the threat surface
For most of the world, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be remembered as a sporting event. For cybersecurity teams, it will function more like a live multinational stress test. Spanning three countries, 16 host cities, and thousands of miles of transportation corridors, the tournament depends on an interconnected ecosystem of physical and digital infrastructure operating under sustained pressure for more than a month.
Football Muleriders welcome 2026 Class on National Signing Day
Coming off a successful eight-win campaign last year, finishing second in conference play, fifth-year head coach Brad Smiley and his Southern Arkansas staff have turned their attention towards the 2026 season. SAU welcomed 16 new Muleriders on National Signing Day in 2026. Among the signees is Kaleb Roach, a defensive back from Magnolia High School. The class includes four players on the offensive side of the ball, eight defensive players, one athlete, and two special teams players.
Studio Setups: Behind the Scenes with Jeff Sieh
Welcome to the Confident Live Marketing Podcast with Ian Anderson Gray. Helping you level up your impact, authority, and profits through the power of confident live video. Optimize your mindset and communication. And increase your confidence in front of the camera. Get confident with the tech and gear. And get confident with the content and marketing. Together, we can go live! Ian: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the confident live marketing podcast. I'm Ian Anderson Gray.
The Scaling Value Playbook
Overview Learn how to scale your business or organization and overcome the challenges in moving innovation to scale. The Scaling Value Playbook provides an overview of the challenges in moving innovation to scale, offering practical guidance on managing this process. It explores creating new ventures and discusses the road to realizing value at scale.
Top AI-driven Tools to Watch Out for in 2024
When ChatGPT was launched back in November 2022, it wasn’t long before everyone’s perception of the power of AI changed radically. Since then, tool companies have been scrambling to pack AI into their tools and adding taglines like “Powered by AI”. But do all tools need AI? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It kind of reminds me of Bluetooth-enabled electric toothbrushes or WiFi Smart Fridges. Does that extra bit of technology make much of a difference?
How to Make Your Facebook Account Private
Do you want to make your Facebook Account private? Do you want to lock down your Facebook account away from prying eyes and make it more secure? In this article, I show you how. This article first appeared on the iag.me blog. People have asked me many times how to lock down their Facebook account. Why? Not everyone wants to be on Facebook. But sometimes you don't have a choice. Perhaps you want to be involved in certain Facebook groups or keep tabs on what family members or friends are up to.
A Beginner's Guide to Communications Analytics
For this example, we are using a publicly-available dataset of 210,000 Huffington Post articles written between 2012 and 2022. For simplicity, I am running only articles in the "politics" category for this example (though several categories are available for analysis in the demo application).
How to Authentically Market your Brand in a Post-COVID World
By Ian Anderson Gray with Jon Ferrara Confident Live Marketing Podcast Episode 202 Duration: 53 minutes 16 seconds Episode Theme: Content & Marketing June 23, 2023 In today’s episode we’re diving deep into a theme that is crucial in our post-pandemic world: “How to Authentically Market Your Brand.” To help us navigate this topic, we’re joined by a special guest, Jon Ferrara, CEO of the influential CRM platform, Nimble.
Oxo-Stabilised Phosphonium Ylides as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors
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10 Steps for Professional Live Streams
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
Behind the Scenes with Jeff Sieh
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
How to be Awesome with Adobe Express
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
What I learnt from Courageous Content Live
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
How to Be Confident with your Business
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
How to use Discord
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
How to Create a Learning System
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
Level Up Your LinkedIn
Are you on LinkedIn? And do you actually USE LinkedIn regularly? LinkedIn is the social network for professionals. And if you're a coach or consultant, you're more likely going to find people who will actually pay you. In this episode, we're joined by Louise Brogan (her 2nd time!) She gave a great presentation at her event in Dublin a few weeks back about LinkedIn. So, I was excited to ask her back on the show. We'll be looking at how you reboot your LinkedIn. How to boost your engagement.
How to Boost Your Live Video Engagement with Branding
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
Accelerate Your Live Show
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
Behind the Scenes with Joanne Sweeney
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
Cool Marketing Experiments with Social Champ
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
How to use Facebook Bots to Supercharge your Live Video Marketing
Introducing Sacha Listen at [18:04] With over 35 years of experience in the Sales and Marketing industry Sacha is a genius at helping businesses generate leads and close sales using conversational and permission-based marketing.
Top Live Multistreaming Tips with Jeff Sieh
Did you know that when you use Restream to stream professionally from your browser, you can invite up to 20 guests to join you in your broadcast? Pretty amazing, huh? But this week I’m skipping the crowds and just talking to ONE special guest: Jeff Sieh. Jeff recently joined me for the second episode of my new show, Go Live! with Restream, where we talked all things multistreaming and answered some really interesting audience questions too.
Get Started with Multistreaming - Go Live! with Restream
We all have our favourite platforms, right? Maybe you’re a big Facebook fan or you just can’t get enough of YouTube — and if you’re consistently broadcasting live on your channel of choice that’s a great start in building your audience. But, there are so many other platforms out there and if you’re only ever appearing on your own personal favourite, you could be missing out on a whole load of people who would really benefit from your expertise.
What's New at Confident Live?
StreamYard StreamYard is my top recommended live video streaming web app tool. Because it works in your web browser it works for both Mac and PC users.
How to Use Ecamm Live and Restream Together
Why Should You Use OBS Studio? Listen at [37:38] If you are looking for a free tool, and if you are a PC user then OBS Studio might be a great tool for you because it’s free. It also works on almost all platforms including Macs, PCs and even Linux as well. So from that point of view it's great. It also has great flexibility and power. You can do amazing things like crop images, rotating frames and that sort of thing.
How To Create A Killer Confident Live Process For Your Live Shows
How Important is Trust when Working with a Virtual Assistant? Listen at [30:00] When you hire a virtual assistant you usually have to hand over passwords, email access, credit card information and various logins. So it’s absolutely vital that you have trust between yourself and your virtual assistant. Having so many mutual friends certainly helped cement that trust between me and Tonia, plus the fact that she was already working with prestigious clients including Social Media Examiner.
How to Work Out Your Perfect Audience
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
Building Your Confident Live Video Studio
Restream Restream is the complete multi-streaming suite for entrepreneurs. With Restream you can stream to multiple platforms all at the same time. They have a plethora of destinations including: LinkedIn Live Facebook Live YouTube Live Twitch Periscope and so much more You can stream from another tool to Restream and Restream will take care of the multi-streaming for you really easily. Or you can broadcast directly from Restream to your platform of choice.
How to Plan the Content for your Live Video Shows
One of the biggest struggles my clients and audience face when planning their live shows is knowing what to say. In a way, this is kind of odd because live stream video is just another kind of content — just like blog posts, podcasts and regular pre-recorded video. But, although live video shows are just another type of content format, they are unique and they have their own challenges. So, how do you work out what your live shows are going to be about?
How to use Filmmaker Storytelling Techniques to Captivate Your Audience
Are you worried that your live videos are, well… boring?! Are you concerned that your audience is getting distracted and switching off? What if you could learn from filmmakers and documentary makers and tell stories that will actually captivate your audience? Well, in this episode I’m joined by a fabulously talented guy… Pascal Fintoni.
How to Launch Your Facebook Live Show in Just 10 days
Want to launch your Facebook Live Show? It’s time to stop procrastinating! You know the power of live video…. Building your confidence, growing an audience and community, and building a content repurposing powerhouse! But how? What if I told you, you could launch your live show in just 10 days? That’s what I am going to share with you in this episode.
How to Produce a Virtual Live Event with Success
Was Janet Nervous About Hosting a Virtual Live Event? Listen at [46:34] It’s always nerve-wracking hosting an event, especially when it’s online and anything can go wrong. In order to ensure that the day ran smoothly Janet put in palace multiple contingency plans - back-up of backups. She took insurance out and had back-ups and recordings of all of the events to ensure that if the tech did go down, that people would still get the content that they paid for.
Why Growing A Small Community Is Important To Me? Listen at [32:08] A couple of years ago, I had a mailing list of over 20,000 people. That might not seem like a lot to some people, but I think it was quite a big number. I grew that mailing list really quickly using content, through my live videos, and through my blog post. The problem was that the vast majority of the people on that list weren't really interested in what I was doing.
100th Episode Mega Bumper Edition!
Annette McDonald’s top live video tip… Listen at [04:04] Annette is in Australia, so it’s silly o’clock in the morning at the time of recording. So she pre-recorded a tip for us. If you are feeling nervous, or unsure about going live then it’s a great idea to have something that will help put you into character and channel your extrovert energy. Joanne Sweeney’s top live video tip… Listen at [04:44] The difficult thing about live is that you have to embrace the things that make you uncomfortable.
How to Use the Rodecaster Pro for Live Streaming
The Pros of the Rodecaster Pro Listen at [29:54] One benefit of the Rodecaster Pro is it has audio processing with APHEX effects. If you’re not sure what they are, I’ll explain. The APHEX effects are a way of mixing sounds that allow you to adjust the sound levels without making anything too quiet to actually be able to hear. You can also adjust sounds coming from your computer. You can use sound pads to add intros, outros and sound effects, and toggle between different settings.
Do I have ADHD?
What ADHD Symptoms Do I Have? Listen at [34:34] I'm 45, almost 46, so in many ways, I’m quite old to be thinking about whether I’ve got ADHD. Interestingly, I've spoken to quite a few people since who have only found out about their ADHD in their late forties. Throughout my life, I’ve suffered from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and self-loathing, and this was partly down to the guilt I felt due to the fact that I procrastinate and struggle to get things done.
How to Get Started with StreamYard
Ian is a Confident Live Marketing Coach and founder of Seriously Social. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more What do you think?
Store, Share, and Organize Social Media Assets Easily With Agorapulse's Asset Library
Have you ever scheduled an entire social media campaign for a client only to learn that you accidentally used images from the wrong photoshoot? Are you constantly asking busy agency colleagues to share approved assets—and receiving radio silence in response? There has to be a better way to store, share, and organize social media assets. Right? Fortunately, there is! Whether you want to save time or minimize mistakes, a digital media library offers a smart solution for social media teams.
How to Get the Absolute Most Out of Your Social Media Inbox
Managing social media messages and comments can be an absolute nightmare when you don’t have the right tool. First off, there’s notifications coming from all different platforms forcing you to log into each account to reply. Trying to switch accounts on your mobile to answer complaints. The internal emails you need to send to notify other account managers. Then there’s the ad notifications that don’t come through at all—and get discovered a week later.
How to be a Productivity Genius
How Erik Started his Podcast Listen at [09:40] When Erik started his podcast in 2012, he had no idea how big it would get or that he would still be doing it 10 years later. He was already interested in productivity for a while, looking for ways to make the most of his time. In high school, he even carried a notebook and pen to make notes wherever he went to help him track activities and tasks. He did the same in college and found it helpful to support his undiagnosed ADHD.
How to get Started with Amazon Live
Live Stream Dos and Don’ts Listen at [50:24] Some people stream their podcasts directly to their Amazon Live show. They make a portion of it product-centric, so they discuss items as they go. Chris starts off with a two-minute timer, but he’s made it transparent. That way, it doesn’t look like a video and viewers can see him moving around in the background. Sharing a video that’s longer than five minutes will get you cut off.
How to Use Google My Business With a Third-Party App (and Why You Should)
Do you want to manage your company’s Google My Business profile more efficiently? Are you looking for new ways to connect with customers and boost your business on Google? If so, we have good news for you. The Google My Business integration for Agorapulse is here to help your team manage profiles, respond to reviews, and let those five-star ratings shine. What Is Google My Business? And How Can It Benefit My Brand?
ADHD Mindset Optimisation for Entrepreneurs
Types of ADHD Listen at [42:30] Tamara says that the diagnostic style manual is probably a good 20 years behind the research on ADHD and is actually missing a lot of cases, especially high IQ women with ADHD. They can fake it and they can look very professional, just slightly anxious. This means that the current diagnostic is sorely lacking. Our understanding and research of ADHD is blowing up because now we can actually see the brain and have great FMRI and other brain imaging studies.
Promote Your Live Video Shows with Pinterest
Want to promote your live show and podcast? Have you thought about using Pinterest? In today’s show, the fabulous Alisa Meredith is going to show us how to use Pinterest as a powerful part of our live video marketing. We’ll be looking at promoting our live shows and the replay as well as podcasts. Alisa is a Pinterest Product Specialist and Marketing Manager at Tailwind.
How to Level Up Your Money Mindset
How We Can Overcome Our Own Challenges Listen at [36:04] The first thing to do is to be aware of the negative conversations we’re having with ourselves. Lesley explains that our subconscious is there to keep us safe, but by doing so, it tries to hold us right where we are. If we carry on doing what we’re doing, we won’t put ourselves in harm’s way.
Launch Your Live Show & Podcast Now!
The Planning Stage... Listen at [30:32] Hands up if you hate planning! (*everyone raises their hand*). Planning is something that I find extremely difficult due to my ADHD brain. I used to find it boring and time-consuming, and I really did everything that I could to avoid it.
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