How to Take Your Audience on an Emotional Rollercoaster Ride

Good speakers give speeches, but legendary speakers create unforgettable experiences for their audiences. They elicit emotions, make their audience members TALL (Think, Act, Laugh, and Learn), and leave them feeling more than satisfied. Here’s a 5-minute section of a recent MIC (Monthly Implementation Call) for my Speak and Prosper Academy Members that includes 2 tools […]

How to Have Your Audience Love the End of Your Stories

You’re about to pick up one tool you can use to have your audience members remember your speech for years and another tool to have them feel extremely satisfied with the ending of your stories. The tools are called the StoryWrap Method and the Parallel Payoff Take a look at a short 5-minute segment from […]

One Formula for Energizing Your Zoom Speeches and Making them Unforgettable

Let’s face it, Zoom has been a huge gift to speakers and presenters worldwide. However, it definitely IS quite an adjustment to speak without the audience being directly in front of you. The energy feels different. THE BACK AND FORTH METHOD One method I like to use to combat the silence and the potential lack […]

Uncover Humor In Your Speeches – 4 Types of Dialogue to Keep Your Audience Laughing All The Way

Don’t add humor to your speeches. Uncover humor within them. That’s a huge difference because, when you add humor, it often feels forced. When you uncover humor, it’s simply found. It’s organic. It’s part of your story and, even if the humor doesn’t work, the story is still true and you simply move on. When […]

Are You Making This Distracting Delivery Mistake While Speaking?

Speaking and storytelling are about clarity, clarity, and clarity. Distractions are the enemy. Take a look at the following video excerpt of a recent MIC (Monthly Implementation Call) that I held for the members of my Speak and Prosper Academy. Oh, and make sure you check out the time-sensitive, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity below the video once […]

Complimentary Podcast on How to Master Storytelling

In mid-September of 2020, two World Champions of Public Speaking (Mark Brown and Darren LaCroix) picked my brain on the topic of storytelling on their Unforgettable Presentations Podcast. Now you have the opportunity to uncover various ways to strengthen your stories, feel a deeper connection with your audience, and become the kind of speaker that […]

When Telling a Story, A Speaker Must Commit to…

As a speaker, when you deliver your story, you must commit to something that you will pick up in the live audio below. Nearly 14 years ago, I shared this important idea with a small audience in Ohio and I’ve recently recovered the audio of it. When you follow the advice in the audio below, […]

A Strange Yet Highly-effective Way to Connect with Your Audience

One of the best ways to stay connected and deepen your connection with your audience is to do something that I don’t see many speakers do. It’s to let your audience members beat you to the punch. What does this mean? Let them beat you to the punch Let’s use some examples. Listen to this […]

Storytelling Secret – How Narration and Dialogue Should Work Together

If I put a trophy on top of a table, what do you think I want you to see, the trophy or the table? Of course it’s the trophy. We can look at narration and dialogue the same way. Narration is the table and dialogue is the trophy. The narration is only there to set […]

8 Minutes Including 2 Rarely Used Tools that will Forever Improve Your Stories

As you may know, I have an entire Speak and Prosper Academy and we have Monthly Implementation Calls (MICs) to help members put these valuable tools into action. Every now and then, I share a short section of one of the calls to those outside of the Academy so that they too can use a […]