Don Cooper is a fantastic speaker and wonderfully funny man. He recently was quoted in the National Speakers Association newsletter.
Check out this exerpt about the value of humorists:
“What’s a laugh worth?
Selling a topic like sales, marketing or customer service is relatively easy. Those subjects translate straight to the bottom line, so […]
My pal Tim Gard just submitted this to a newsletter! Great job Tim.
(The following is an excerpt from an aricle in the NSA Humor Peg newsletter.
So how do you sell the value of humor to a client? Why would someone pay for a humorist vs. a content speaker?
“I […]
Do YOU think humor has a place in business? I sure do. Check out this excerpt form a humor newsletter from Humorist Roz Trieber.
“Research demonstrates there is a significant correlation between humor and leadership effectiveness (Priest and Swain, 2002). Organizational culture, in the military and elsewhere, supports the use of humor by leaders […]
This is a note I received from a pal and High School Teacher, Lindsey Pahs….who happens to be a very funny person. I used to think he was an expert at humor by accident. But check out this note that proves him to be way deeper than I thought. And his point is […]
I’m on the plane coming home from a date with the ID Potato Shipper Growers Association. (Yup, potato industry folks really needed a humorist motivational speaker… their industry is going through some HUGE changes.)
I loved the date… the folks were nice. The potato humor was fast and furious (no… I’m not […]
Humor and Grief & Loss
I just returned from a funeral where I experienced first hand how even a tiny dose of humor can make a huge step towards healing and health. Smiles and laughter CAN make things better.
During the funeral service for a wonderful woman who died WAY too early. The entire […]
Yesterday I was in the Salt Lake City airport going to a job in Sun Valley, ID when I stopped into Starbucks. I was chatting with the woman behind the counter. She was just a fun person with a big smile.
When she gave me BACK my credit card she held it out […]
Comedian magician (and pal) Michael C. Anthony just did something very cool. As he was on the road working for a college in Mississippi where after the show he went to visit three different shelters for those who lost everything during the hurricane.
Michael took it upon himself to do some magic for the […]
Dateline: Ft. Collins, Colorado I just got back from Colorado’s premier magicians convention called Magic in the Rockies. What a blast. Colorado magicians converge on three days of tricks, lectures, and laughter. A couple of my favorites were comedians […]
Not at my house. But recenlty I learned that the spoken word CAN be “Family Friendly!”
When I was younger (and not yet a motivational speaker– heck, I wasn’t even a fireman which was my first goal) I spent a great deal of time in a little house in Silver Plume, Colorado. There was no […]
