Subject: See How I’m Using Google Gemini, Nano Banana & Veo—AI Creativity Just Got Real
Hey there, fellow entrepreneur!
It’s Terry Brock here with Stark Raving Entrepreneurs, and I’m excited to share something straight from my desk (and my screen!) that’s been absolutely changing the game for me and a lot of other creators.
Let Me Show You What’s Possible with AI
Recently, I got my hands on Google’s Gemini—plus their new Nano Banana 3 and Veo 3 tools. I’ve been experimenting with them in my own business and membership community, and let me tell you: these things are impressive.
For example, I asked Gemini to create an image of “a middle-aged man casually dressed, talking on his cell phone, making a decision.” One simple prompt—and it popped out a realistic office scene that looked like it came from a stock photo library. Pretty wild!
Animated Videos in Seconds with Veo 3
But here’s where it gets really cool: those images can be animated into snappy 8-second videos (sound included!) right inside Gemini. I know eight seconds isn’t a blockbuster film, but the quality blew me away. Honestly, it works perfectly for b-roll in presentations or to add a little polish to your YouTube content, and you can always stitch together several clips to make something longer.
Best of all, a lot of these features are totally free to start—you just need a Gemini account. Personally, I sprung for Google Workspace (still less than $17/month at the time I’m writing this), which unlocks even more goodies. No sponsorship here—just an honest user tip from me to you.
Nano Banana Makes Infographics Instantly
Now, let’s talk newsletters and ebooks. I literally copy-pasted words from my own newsletter right into Gemini, then asked Nano Banana to whip up an infographic from that text. Just like that, I got slick “Do This/Don’t Do That” graphics in seconds. I’m using these in emails, ebooks, and even for my clients—saving me hours and making my info pop in a way that gets noticed.
This Is Just the Beginning
Sure, there are limits (like those eight-second videos), but things are moving fast. I really believe that the old way of making videos and graphics is fading out quickly. With all these new AI tools, the possibilities for content creation and storytelling are opening up for all of us.
Let’s Chat!
I always love hearing from other entrepreneurs and creators—how are you using AI tools in your own business? Got a killer prompt, a new trick, or just curious about something I mentioned? Hit reply and let me know! And if you haven’t yet, check out our latest episode where I walk through this stuff step by step.
Thanks for being here and for being part of the Stark Raving Entrepreneurs community. Here’s to creating smarter and not harder!
Innovate boldly, Terry Brock
Host, Stark Raving Entrepreneurs
P.S. If you want a peek behind the curtain, click here for my walkthrough on how I’m using Gemini, Nano Banana, and Veo. Test it out and let me know what you create!
Here’s a transcript for your convenience:
Terry Brock [00:00:00]:
Have you seen what Google has done with their Gemini product, their new Nano Banana three that they have, as well as Veo three? These are incredible tools, and there’s a lot you can do with them. In this video, I’m gonna show you how we use these at Star Craving Entrepreneurs, our membership program, and the kind of things that were being done by creators right now. You are gonna love this. And let’s get right into it here off the bat. Here’s a picture that I created. Let me show you how I did this and what I did with it. Here is the prompt I put together. Said create an image of a middle aged man casually dressed, talking on his cell phone, making a decision.
Terry Brock [00:00:35]:
He is in business a business office and the lighting is very good. So that’s pretty nice and it gives us the ability to see that. And here’s the image that it created for me. I’m gonna show you this right here. And as you look at that, I think, okay. This is pretty good. It shows me a real world image. It looks like it could be a real person.
Terry Brock [00:00:54]:
That’s nice. And, you know, okay. That’s good. We have seen these kind of things created with other tools, and I think this is nice that they do it. They seem to do it very rapidly right there within Gemini. And so this is something you’ll wanna make sure you can use when you’re working with it. A prompt like that can be very good, but it goes even beyond the prompt. When we get up here to this, we can see that this actually can create a video.
Terry Brock [00:01:18]:
Let me position this on the screen here for those of you who are catching this on video, and you’ll see that it gives us some really nice capability.
Speaker B [00:01:26]:
Are you serious? I told you this had to be done by noon. Now the whole deal is on the line. We need to fix this now. Are you serious? I told you this had to be done by noon. Now the whole deal is on the line. We need to fix this now. Are you serious?
Terry Brock [00:01:44]:
Okay. I’m gonna stop it right there. But you could see what this does is it gives you a tremendous amount of capability and what you can do with it. I like the fact that it gives us a really good video that can be done, and it’s nice. Now the downside of it is, or maybe the just the fact we need to know, it can go for eight seconds. That’s it. Eight seconds. That’s where we are right now with the technology.
Terry Brock [00:02:06]:
Now will it get better? Probably will. You know? It’s like we often say, this is the worst it’ll ever be right now because it’s always getting better. That’s the way AI works. But for eight seconds, this is good. And you did hear there was a little bit of an audio there. The audio can be good. It sounds good for a short period of time. I’m thinking the main way we’re gonna use this is for b roll.
Terry Brock [00:02:26]:
So it can be playing in the background maybe during a PowerPoint or keynote presentation. That’s a good thing there. You can use that. Or when you’re doing your YouTube videos, you might have choose to have a video playing over your shoulder or maybe on the full screen for a short period of time. This can work really nicely. Using the, video capability that we have, it gives us the ability to do quite a few things. And all you have to do to get that video created is just ask it to animate it. Put it in there and animate that.
Terry Brock [00:02:57]:
And matter of fact, let me show you the exact, prompt that I used. I said, now animate this and include sound. So I did that right there. I didn’t even have to put in the include sound part, and it worked beautifully for us. So this is something you’re gonna be able to use in a profound way. I like what it can do, and I think it’s very, very nice. Think about the capabilities of using Gemini for that. And by the way, this is something you can use in their free version.
Terry Brock [00:03:23]:
So the free version gives you that ability. You can do a limited number of them. I forget the exact number, but just a few of them. However, for the price I’m paying for the Google workshop that gives me the ability to access Google Docs, my Gmail, all of it together, and then we’re getting a lot better system that way. And at that, less than $17 a month currently for the program that I have. You’ll find that you can get a lot of things from that. Now Google is not supporting us on this. It’s not a sponsor.
Terry Brock [00:03:52]:
I’m a paying user myself, paying them, and just saying from user to user, this is something that’s a really good deal you wanna look into. And there’s another way that you can use this as well, using Gemini and then tying into Nano Banana three. I love that now. Just to say more and more say it. I like it. Nano Banana. And it gives you the ability to create some real nice things. Matter of fact, let me show you what I just did recently when I put together my newsletter that I sent out.
Terry Brock [00:04:19]:
So here it is. Let me make that a little bit smaller so you can see it here. It’s just us here. And I put in here I started it with a quote from Marc Andreessen who has a great quote. You’ll see here’s the text. Don’t worry about exactly what I’m saying. But what I wanna focus in on, look what we see here. It’s giving us a very nice infographic that it created.
Terry Brock [00:04:37]:
It took the words that I had to say, and it created a nice infographic of don’t do this, but do that. What I was talking about here was I just because I think something’s a real dandy idea, then we shouldn’t do that. You should go with the data. And it just shows the thing not to do and the thing to do. This is an infographic that it created. The point is, when you have text, say you’re writing a newsletter, you can put out a nice graphic, infographic by just telling it, here’s the words. Make an infographic of this. I literally took the words from my email, copied those words, pasted them into Gemini, and said, have Nano Banana create an infographic for me of this episode.
Terry Brock [00:05:24]:
And so it just took that, created a real professional looking graphic. I’m doing this now every so often for email. You can use this very nicely on an ebook that you might create. Put in two or three different infographics. I’m using this for clients. I just spoke the other day for a group of people out in Dallas and got a chance to share with them some ideas on it, share with them some of the infographics and some of the information that just pack together for them to use in a practical real world way. So this is what we’ve got, real handy tools to use. I would recommend take a look at it, see how it can work for you using those prompts that I’ve given you, and work with it.
Terry Brock [00:06:05]:
Let me know what you think. Wherever you’re catching this, whether it’s on video or maybe you’re getting the audio only version of it or on some other platform, please let us know. Leave a comment below, and I’ll eagerly look forward to hearing from you on this because we got some good information we wanna use here to help you in a big way. There it is again. You’ll see that kind of information is available for that infographic that you can create very quickly and very easily. And the beauty of all of this is that it’s all contained in one area. Gemini, which is very nice for giving you good ideas and information, consolidating that. NanoBanan ties into it quickly and easily with really good graphics.
Terry Brock [00:06:43]:
And then v o three, the video can be there for your nice rolling video, etcetera. Oh, and by the way, one thing you can do and you say, well, eight seconds isn’t enough. I want more. You can create different videos. You can just tell it to start with this video that I’ve had and now continue to the next one, and it creates another eight second video. You could go on. I know this sounds kinda goofy, but you could take several of them, put them together. In some cases, that would work.
Terry Brock [00:07:10]:
In some use cases, we could see that. I think what’s gonna happen though is quickly, they’re going to come out with more technology. They’re gonna have competition, and they’ll go to thirty seconds, which they can do right now on the paid versions and add a little bit more. I’ll see it going to several minutes and going beyond that. The days of doing video the way we’ve done it for several decades is coming to an end. We’re now gonna be using these tools like v o three that’s available for Google and many others as well. A lot of good things in store for you. And some of those good things are gonna be available, we’re talking about, at Stark Raving Entrepreneurs.
Terry Brock [00:07:45]:
We’d love to have you come over and take a visit, just see what we’re doing there, how we can help you, and the opportunities that are available for you to start working with it. What you wanna do today is work with the tools, but make sure you’re in a good community. Oh, and before we get away, we got another video that’s gonna show you specifically how you can use some of these tools and work with them right away. Right over there, you’re gonna get a chance to see that and work with it. I’m Terry Brock with Starkraving Entrepreneurs. Thank you very much for joining me.
