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Never End Your Speech Like This... (opens the original)
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Several years ago, I was working at Ramsey Solutions and we were putting on a large youth event.Hundreds of teenagers came to learn about personal finance.After one of the sessions, Dave Ramsey took Q&A. Dozens of teens lined up and started asking what you’d expect: How do I get my first job? How do I save for my first car? How do I go to college without student loans?And then the very last question.An older gentleman, likely in his 70s, popped up and asked a super-nuanced question about Roth IR
The Rise of the Fireside Chat (opens the original)
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The “fireside chat” is nothing new.In fact, the term was coined by CBS broadcast executive Harry C. Butcher in anticipation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous series of radio broadcasts in the spring of 1933.FDR liked to imagine his listeners sitting comfortably around the fireplace as they listened. (If you’re a history nerd, you can hear an example of one here.)The format, though, has never really gone away. Over the years, we’ve just given it differen
How Many Notes Should You Bring On Stage? (opens the original)
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It’s September 22, 1993, and President Bill Clinton is getting ready to stand before a joint session of Congress to deliver his landmark address on health care reform when the unthinkable happens:The wrong speech is loaded into his dual glass teleprompters.So he did what any of us would do: he freaked out. He got flustered, apologized for his tech, filled the minutes with ums and uhs, and then awkwardly waited until the right speech could get loaded.No! What he <span
How Not to Sound Boring (opens the original)
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Recently, I was coaching a client of mine who received a huge opportunity to speak at an industry event. This event is going to be HUGE for his business.We’d worked hard to build a great speech. It had a great framework. We layered in stories. We layered in humor.The problem wasn’t the content.It wasn’t the structure.It wasn’t even confidence.The problem was that almost every line sounded exactly like the one before it. His delivery was boring.So I had him t
A Better Way to Learn Your Speech (opens the original)
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There is a quote I love:“The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and it doesn’t stop until you get up to deliver a speech.” - Edward de BonoHilariously accurate.Earlier this year, I had a client share with me that he gets brain fog whenever he gets up to speak and can’t remember a single word he memorized.There are lots of reasons for brain fog (hello middle age!), including both the psychological and physiological responses to speaking in public. Since I’
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