All Posts by Craig Valentine

2 Irresistible Hooks to Keep Your Audience Engaged and Excited

If you don’t have hooks strategically sprinkled throughout your speech, chances are your audience will bail mentally if not physically. You have to find ways to keep hooking your audience so THEY don’t want to let go. Below you’ll find 2, out of my 7 favorite, super hooks that get your audience to say, “Tell […]

20 Ways to Destroy Your Speeches

This post has a strange title because, I’m sure your objective is not to destroy your speech. However, if you understand some of the ways we do destroy our speeches, you can avoid making these mistakes and, instead, become a much more impactful speaker. Here are 20 ways speakers destroy their speeches. Some of the […]

One Surefire Way to Create Magical Moments In Your Speech

Do you want to create the kinds of magical moments that give you an unbreakable connection with your audience? Great, here’s one surefire way to do just that. How to Create Natural, Spontaneous Moments During Your Speech   One of my favorite ways to use spontaneity is to ask a question (or two), listen for […]

2 Storytelling Tools That Will Instantly Transform Your Speeches and Your Audiences

Dialogue is what breathes life into your stories and makes your audiences come alive.  The problem is most speakers only use one type of dialogue and that keeps them and their stories very limited. Take a look at 2 (out of the 7) of my favorite types of dialogue that will get you to connect […]

30 Phrases to Guide You To Greatness In Speaking

How would you like to make a deeper connection with your audience than you have ever felt? The following 30 reminders will help you become an unforgettable speaker who touches lives, gets lucrative opportunities, and changes the world one speech at a time. Click the following “30 Phrases” link for these timeless truths. 30 Phrases […]

Why You Might Want to Share a Failure Early In Your Speech

You can gain an instant and lasting connection with your audience by sharing your failures and flaws. Sometimes sharing your frustrations and firsts also helps. Why is this? Why Some People Don’t Like Motivational Speakers Lots of people don’t care for motivational speakers because they are used to hearing the kind that think a motivational […]

One Thing a Speaker Should Always Do Is…

Below there are two videos. In the first video, Taharka tells you that the police arrested him when he was a teenager. Take a look for yourself. https://cv-newsletteraudios.s3.amazonaws.com/T1.mp4 Now take a look at the 2nd video in which Taharka makes a key revision. https://cv-newsletteraudios.s3.amazonaws.com/T2.mp4 What’s the main difference between the first video and this second […]

3 Sacrifices that Will Take Your Stories to New Heights

My mother was an English teacher. My wife’s mother was an English teacher. My wife is an English teacher. Therefore, I try my best to be grammatically correct. However, in public speaking, I do not believe you must use good grammar at all times. There are times when I sacrifice correct grammar for something that […]

The Secret to Keep Your Audience from Checking Out

So often I watch speakers tell stories that sound like this: “I did this and I did that and then I did this and then I did that and then this happened to me and then I did that…” And then, at the end of the story, they turn to the audience and say, “And […]

3 Ways Speakers Can Shine Onstage

The speakers who make their audience members the stars will be the ones who shine. “When you make them the stars, you shine too.” Below are 3 ways you can shine as a speaker by making your audience members the stars of your speech. Way #1: Let them Speak! Just because you’re the speaker doesn’t […]