Speaking

Can Personal Development Save the World?

The world is on fire. Political corruption. War raging in Europe. Social unrest. Economic uncertainty. Widening wealth gap. It seems as though we are all constantly being weighed down with heavy news. If you’re an author, speaker, coach, consultant, entrepreneur, or business leader that believes in personal development, I’m excited to announce the creation and...

How To Write Your Success Memoir

If you’re over 40 years old, and you’ve achieved any level of success, I recommend writing a book I call a “Success Memoir”. This is a combination of the success you’ve acheived and the strategies that catapulted you there. This is a book that can serve as the core content of your speaking, training, consulting...

How to Start a Speech

Professional Speaker’s have numerous ways of starting a speech, all designed to grab the audiences attention in the opening seconds, without making it sound like speech. Counterintuitive, I know, but this is an important distinction. The best professional speakers sound like they’re having an intimate conversation with their audience, as opposed to sounding like they’re...

Professional Authors and Writers Are Whistling Past the Graveyard

The writers strike in Hollywood rages on. Writers want more money, and I don’t blame them. Writing is hard work. I’ve written 12 books over 20 years, and I know how tough it is. The only problem is the writing business is over. Dead. Done. Finished. ChatGPT was the beginning, and the the newest artificial...

SPEAKERS: Don’t Make This Social Media Mistake

Social Media has become an absolute phenomenon all over the world. Some people see it as a positive technological advancement, while others believe it’s doing irreparable damage to society. Either way, one thing is for certain: social media is here to stay. This is why it’s critical for Professional Speakers to use it effectively, without...

Who is Going to Buy Your Book?

Before you decide to write a book, ask yourself who is going to buy it. This is the first question any publisher or book agent is going to ask you. Do you have a fan base? Are you well known in the area that your book will address? Are you a media personality, social media...

#1 Reason Professional Speakers FAIL

This is the most overlooked area of the becoming a professional, fee-paid speaker. This is the reason so few speaker training companies advertise in this area. New speakers assume it’s not important, and yet it’s the single most important aspect of the becoming a successful speaker. Maybe the best example is how little attention is...

How to Become a Highly Paid Professional Speaker

Professional Speaking is arguably the highest paid profession in the world. Outside of being a public celebrity, professional athlete, movie star, Fortune 500 CEO, or rock star, where can you earn $10, $20, or $30 thousand dollars per hour? It’s a wonderful profession where you can help people all over the world become more successful....

Professional Speakers Pension Strategy

Professional speakers can earn high incomes. The top non-celebrity speakers earn millions per year. Despite this fact, many speakers fail to build a retirement portfolio and end up struggling towards the end of their careers. I know household name speakers that have little or no money to retire. To make sure this doesn’t happen to...

Speakers Should Be an Inch Wide and a Mile Deep

As much as I love my motivational speaker friends, most are experts at delivering an incredible speech, with little problem-solving content. Their expertise lies in exciting an audience for 45-minutes and moving on to the next speech. In corporate America, they’re known as “slot-fillers”, filling slots on a convention agenda, kicking-off or closing the meeting....