Q1 2026 Philippines Keynote (March 26, 2026)
Okay, I’m impressed that Google has incorporated its Gemini product directly into YouTube. Today, I gave this keynote and you can watch it (unedited) here:
Yes, that’s cool and feel free to watch it if you weren’t able to catch it live. But here’s where it gets interesting:
Using Gemini, you can now “ask” the video questions. What?
What’s more, since “prompts” are where most people get it wrong, Google anticipated that problem and pre-programs prompts that are most relevant …
Okay, Google. Let’s see what you’ve got!
So I asked Google to summarize my keynote and here’s what it said:
This keynote webinar, featuring speaker Bill Carmody, is designed to help coaches build a sustainable and financially free business by focusing on fundamental business principles rather than distractions. The session emphasizes minimalism in business—identifying essential actions and letting go of the non-essential to achieve financial freedom.
Key Takeaways and Business Framework: (10:19)
Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less but better (10:19). Non-essentialists try to be everything to everyone, leading to overwhelm, while essentialists focus only on the most important tasks.
The Four Fundamentals: To find freedom, coaches must clarify their Niche, Offer, Generation (finding clients), and Conversion (closing deals) (13:20).
The Power of Focus: Narrowing your focus expands your business. A good niche passes the "cocktail test"—it is clear and specific enough that people understand exactly who you serve (17:19).
Irresistible Offer: Coaches do not sell coaching; they sell outcomes (22:36). An irresistible offer bridges the gap from a major pain point to a desirable promise.
Sales Without Coaching: Do not coach on a discovery call (1:02:32). Use that time to qualify the client, understand their needs, and determine if your offer is the right fit.
Q&A Session Highlights: (47:03)
Handling Outcome Uncertainty: (47:07) Discusses how to promise results (like promotions) when you cannot guarantee the outcome. Focus on the transformation, energy, and work the client puts in.
Niche Targeting: (52:23) Advice on focusing marketing efforts on the decision-makers (e.g., parents for study abroad coaching) rather than just the end-user.
Industry Specialization: (1:13:45) Encouragement to narrow down to specific industries or sub-industries to make the irresistible offer more compelling.
Not bad, Google. You’re at least at 80% accuracy and it took less than a minute to summarize my 90 minute keynote. Is it accurate? Not entirely, but it does get you “the gist” of it. As AI gets better, this will become more and more impressive. It’s still early stage and AI doesn’t know where to focus per se. Like it has trouble “watching” the slides in the presentation and has to rely on the talk track thereby missing important nuance that humans pick up on.
But if you wanted a “preview” before you invested time watching this keynote, Google does a good job of getting to the heart of it. I do think it’s missing important information and the summary isn’t sufficient to take action on, but if you just wanted to know “Is this worth my time?” then I think it does the job.
I continue to be impressed with how AI grows and expands. There are still gaps, to be sure, but those gaps are getting smaller and smaller and the speed of growth isn’t incremental — it’s going exponential.
