This is one of the most overlooked reasons professional speakers fail. As obvious as it seems, most speakers bypass it or take it for granted. Making at the 6 or 7 figure level as a speaker is equivalent to becoming a 6-7 figure actor or singer. Not many succeed, but it’s often because they fail...
Dr. Alok Trivedi was one of the most successful chirpractors in the United States when I met him, but he desperately wanted to share his message with a broader audience around the world, specifically through professional public speaking. He became one of my original speakers apprentices, and over the next 5 years, he worked tirelessly...
Hollywood has a lot in common with the Professional Speaking Industry. At any given time, there are approximately 500,000 actors in Los Angeles looking for work. The odds of an unconnected actor breaking into the business and earning $100K per year are long. Unless…you have connections. Professional Speaking has smaller numbers, but your odds of...
This is my keynote speech during a star-studded national convention for 3,000 people on the strip in Las Vegas, including Brian Tracy, Don Hutson, Jim Cathcart, and others. This first story is about my kickboxing sparring match with the 300 pound former arm wrestling champion of the world and the mental toughness lesson he taught...