Guess who teaches speakers how to be better speakers? Well, in the case of some very cool and very kind speakers in Northern California, it will be me. (I’ll be speaking to the Northern California Chapter of the National Speakers Association.)
This should be a blast. I’ll be doing my program Got […]
I just found this photo! A few years ago I was visiting China with my wife and ended up doing some simple coin tricks to some folks in a pretty small village.
Who was most amazed? Me! I had forgotten how powerful and fun magic tricks can be; it was an […]
A little embarrasing. A little cool.
I graduated from Brown University in 1988, and their alumni magazine flattered me with this cool write up. (The truth is that I have a pal… Carrie Printz to thank… she wrote and pitched the article.)
Going to an Ivy League school and ending up a magician? Gotta […]
I was just talking to a client who was wanted to know about how speakers charge. What are our rates? Our speaker fees?
I found myself giving her a short course in Why Motivational Speakers Don’t Charge By the Hour, and thought you might be interested too.
She asked, “For an Hour? It’s […]
Ok, I travel a lot for my job as a motivational speaker. I admit that I HATE O’Hare airport in Chicago, Illinois. But there is one exception… I love this tunnel between the B and C concourses. It has cool neon, music twinkles in the background, and it generally makes me happy.
I […]
Check out this excerpt from humorist John Kinde —www.humorpower.com’s ezine. He is right on!
So when you’re delivering humor from the platform and you receive
negative feedback (maybe they don’t laugh or a heckler contributes
his or her opinion), don’t flinch. Don’t apologize. Don’t explain
the joke. Don’t assume you failed. Here is what may […]
Even spies need motivational speakers.
I got to deliver my motivational keynote speech to the CIA. But I can’t tell you about it.
(I‘m kidding… read about it here!)
I’m convinced that there is a huge and important difference between customized motivational speakers’ programs, and tailored programs.
You definitely do NOT want your motivational speaker or humorist to come into your event with a customized program.
(Unless you are a huge risk taker.)
Read about it here
I love this stuff! If my wife would let me, I’d have tons of this all over our house. (I once saw a hole in the “floor” that looked like you could see “into” a fish pond. Cool!)
It seems to me, that if you ran into something this cool on the way […]
