I love being a motivational speaker, but one thing that I don’t love is that it is often a singular lonely job. Yes, we get to know our audiences. And yes, we often become close with the meeting planners. But we rarely get to work with other speakers — people who KNOW what it’s like…
Ok. That’s not funny. Yes it is. Well… it depends. Humor is relative. (No, I don’t mean your relative is funny. I mean that what is funny to some people in some circumstances isn’t funny to others, and that’s OK.) I recently spoke in Colorado for the Kaiser Permanente Palliative Care department. We had nurses,…
My kids and wife wanted to go skiing. I didn’t. I’ve been on the road traveling as a motivational speaker to Florida and Pennsylvania, I wanted to sit home, eat Cheetos, watch the Olympics and veg out. But I’m glad I went skiing…my family was right. Doing ANYTHING beats doing nothing nearly all of the…
Just ask her pop. (Be patient; I’ll tell you about my daughter in a second.) A while back I saw my old friend and fellow Colorado speaker Steve Spangler tear up a group of 100 teachers. And by tear up I mean he was terrific… the audience loved him. Steve and I have been friends…
