Live Streaming Best Practice | Have You Thought About Inviting Yourself as the Guest to Your Live Show to Enhance Engagement?

Have you ever watched The Parent Trap where Lindsay Lohan played both twin sisters, or Adaptation where Nicolas Cage played both twin brothers?

In film and television, this technique - where one actor plays two roles in a single production for comic or theatrical effects - is called "dual role". And recently, this technique was brought to the live streaming world by Gabé Leal, the king of LinkedIn live streaming.

In his September episode of his live show Unfiltered Love, Gabe experimented with this technique by interviewing himself - something he said that he had wanted to do for a long time. In the show, he fully unleashed his creativity, mastered timing during "interviewing" himself, and gave his audience a super interesting and introspective show.

Interviewing yourself is both easy and hard. Easy in the sense that you just need to record your answers beforehand and bring them on stage at the right time. Hard in the sense that bringing your pre-recorded videos at the right time while you are streaming, and reacting to yourself at the right time can be very challenging (as the old adage says, it's all about timing!)