Check out this YouTube video footage of me testing my jokes and humor in Minnesota at the Mayo Clinic
In my job as a motivational speaker, I feel strongly that customized humor is an CRUCIAL way to “connect” with the audience.
The following article was written (and posted at Speaker Net News) for speakers who are […]
I recently returned from California where I attended the National Speakers Association convention. I had many highlights, but one of them was seeing my good friend and and one of my fellow Colorado speakers Sarah Michel do a concurrent session.
She taught the audience how to increase the interactivity in their programs, and I gotta […]
In my last post I wrote of searching for beta testers for my How to Be a Comedian program, Humor College. We had a bunch of really fun entries, but none were better than this one… it made me laugh.
Dear Mr. Montgomery,
We the daughters of Daniel Moirao and would like to give you the top […]
How to find your own “voice.”
Those of you who read my American Idol post know read about the crucial importance of finding your own voice. Thanks to a wonderful email from a budding magician and his questions, I have a follow up to that post. His question, in a nut shell, was: […]
An Open Letter to Crappy Magicians
I recently was hired to coach a speaker who also happened to do a bit of magic in her programs. It seems to me that the things that I told him are the same things I tell a bunch of people. Usually I’m nicer than what follows… […]
I am just back from Seattle, Washington where I had the good luck to speak to a group of Microsoft folks.
It went well. Really well. But for me one of the coolest things was watching the audience change from the beginning to the end of my program. They ended off great, smiling, […]
A recent article in the National Speakers Association newsletter Speak Up quoted a few of my pals; fellow humorists and motivational speakers as they discussed humor and being funny.
One of the coolest parts of this good article as a list of Funny Action Items. I’ll reprint them in this blog.
If you are interested […]
For those of you who think free is good, (and who doesn’t?) I have a free offer for you:
Fellow funny Colorado motivational speaker and humorist Scott Friedman and I have put together something really cool. It’s a regular dose of motivation for those of you who agree with me when I say that regular […]
A fellow friend a professional speaker Bert Decker just wrote a cool article about self-confidence and public speaking. And….uses an example from the auditions at American Idol to make his point.
Maxwell Maltz found in Psychocybernetics that we ALL undermine ourselves, and I find that to be experientially true in observing many thousands of people under […]
Mark Sharenbroich (based in Minnesota) is one of my favorite professional speakers and motivational humorists. He’s a rock star in the youth and school market, and is making some impressive tracks in the corporate world as well. No wonder… he’s terrific.
Mark is a teacher and friend, and recently we had the chance […]
