Key5 Speaker Podcast

Charlie Engle says, "I'm an addict who runs, and a runner who  writes."  He has run across deserts, summited ice-covered volcanoes, swam with crocodiles and served a stint in federal prison. But his greatest challenge is the one he takes on every single day—sobriety. He's the author of the book Running Man. He speaks to audiences about the idea that any obstacle can be overcome if you're willing to adapt to changing circumstances. Developing a Story and Being Prepared Go out there and do things - it's the experiences that will create the anecdotes for your speaking. Charlie expands a bit on those ideas in the podcast - listen to hear more of where his stories grow from and about being prepared to speak to each new audience. Tips Charlie Engle says the first thing he learned about speaking is that you don't need to inform the audience about every detail of your life - they can check you out later if they're interested. In the podcast, he expands his experiences when asked to speak for free. A hard lesson to l

Chris Daltorio and his company New Velocity helps people become the superstar versions of themselves. He speaks to audiences on leadership and sales. In the podcast, Chris tells the story of how he moved from selling toys to starting a sales & leadership development company. Telling Stories Stories take your audience on a carefree ride. No one feels pressure when they're hearing your story - they're just coming along with the story and they can learn without pressure. Chris Daltorio suggests using stories often and in most cases use them first rather than boring mumbo-jumbo.  Ensuring the stories are relevant to your audience starts with knowing your audience. Look through the lens of your audience at the stories you want to use. Frame the story with valuable nuggets. Speaking for Free Chris feels speaking for free can be the right thing to do - just make sure you have a referral and backend process. And speaking without cost is way one to give back to charities you value. Tips A Speakers Traveling Life.

When speakers seek to take their content into the online world, many consider creating a course. That's the expertise this podcast speaker provides. Dr. Kelly Edmonds designs and builds online ready courses. What she provides is more than a simple online course - she provides learning journeys. She brings everything she has discovered in the last 20 years about teaching, learning, and people to her instruction. Her design work is informed by her research, advanced degrees and mastered techniques, and she shares many free ideas on her site. Speakers and Online Courses Speakers who want to create an online course to scale up their business are one of Dr. Kelly's valued segments.  The online market is busy and noisy. In the podcast, Dr. Kelly Edmonds shares some tips and ideas when creating a course so speakers can be successful. One of the tips is that speakers who create online courses need to know what they want participants to do with what they're learning after the course is completed. Relevant course cont

  Cory Mosley is a Change Catalyst who speaks professionally about how to become more credible, likable and bankable in the marketplace. Know Before You Go Corey Mosley says that when you speak you should hone in on your cornerstone content. When you speak, learn about the group before you go - know the break-up and make-up of the room so you can make the message new and unique for each audience. On speaking for free, Cory suggests speakers think about the strategy on how to make the deal when you have the opportunity to speak. Listen to the Podcast to hear his suggestions on how to be strategic. A Tip Authenticity comes from being aligned with your strengths. It's important to focus on those strengths when you're speaking. Connect Connect with Cory Mosley on his website, and on LinkedIn. MillsWyck Minute Do you love or hate your voice? Hear what Alan Hoffler suggests in this MillsWyck Minute!     KEY5  Podcast is produced by the Team at Your Local Studio

Wayne Olson is an International keynote speaker, trainer, and consultant in the areas of Fundraising and Customer/Donor Relations. He's also the author of "The Disney Difference: The Complete Guide to Adding Disney-like Magic to Your Corporation or Organization". Show Vulnerability Audiences appreciate when you tell stories that demonstrate you, the speaker, are the same as them. These stories increase character and credibility in the minds of the audience. Using Stories to Relate People relate to stories. Make your point using a story. What makes a great story? It's your story. Listen as Wayne Olson provides examples on how to shape the same story so it works for any audience. 3 Questions Wayne Olson provides the three questions he always asks when someone wants him to come to speak and how these questions are quite revealing. Tell me about your audience? Why are you calling me and what do you want the audience to get from me? When the audience leaves, what do you want them to talk about? Giving Back by Sp

Lois Creamer works with professional/public speakers who want to get more bookings and create alternate revenue streams with their intellectual property by repurposing their content. She's the author of the book, "Book More Business: MAKE MONEY SPEAKING". What do Event Planners want from speakers? Content. Event planners are looking for content. Lois Creamer says that the days of motivational speaking are over. Listen to understand how she's come to this conclusion and how speakers can respond to remain relevant and build their business. Tips Continuing in the area of content, Lois Creamer feels that speakers must have a deep expertise in a specific area. Also, the sooner they can target a relevant industry, the greater their speaking business' momentum will become. She goes on to give specific suggestions and illustrations in the podcast. Connect Connect with Lois Creamer on her website, Book More Business, on LinkedIn and on Twitter. Check out Lois Creamer's book, as a general primer on the speaking busin

Casey Cobb helps organizations thrive by keeping founders focused on delivering value. He has co-founded and invested in 13 different companies, including web development agency Project Ricochet, and speaks regularly at conferences, accelerators, and companies on topics ranging from co-founder selection to his popular “Avoiding Accidental Evil” keynote. Learning from Mistakes Being passionate about speaking isn't going to automatically make your speaking business come together. If he were beginning over, Casey Cobb would reach out to a speaker coach much sooner in the process.  On the podcast, he talks about all the benefits of engaging a consultant. Preparation Precision Casey Cobb talks about Chip Conely, as an example of someone's style he admires - listen to understand his view of what's important to prepare as a speaker. His experience in preparation is a bit different than other speakers we've interviewed this season. Tools and Tips Mindset is the best tool in every venture - if you are pushing your sp

Katherine Fabrizio, the founder of Daughters Rising, helps adult daughters who had difficult mothers, empower themselves to parent their daughters in such a way their daughters receive what they never had themselves. Katherine is also a psychotherapist in practice for many years and author of "Daughters Rising". Learning from Mistakes Saying too much, and offering disclaimers or conditional statements are the mistakes Katherine highlights in this podcast. She suggests speakers need to be confident in their message. Preparation Precision One point Fabrizio shares is that standing on the stage - practicing on the actual stage - helps you realize the lights are going to be in your eyes and you'll have difficulty looking into people's eyes to connect. She discusses more on how speakers stand and move. Listen to the podcast to hear ideas that impact all speakers. The speakers that Katherine Fabrizio likes to watch and emulate are Meryl Streep and Marriane Williamson because they command the stage in a feminine wa

  Evan Carroll is a professional keynote speaker and workshop facilitator who inspires companies to leverage technology, data, and analytics to drive customer loyalty and advocacy. He's the author of two technology books, Your Digital Afterlife and Blue Goldfish. Learning Assuming your marketing materials will work (all on their own), Evan says is his greatest learning from mistakes he's made. "Having all the marketing pieces in place does not equal gigs," says Evan Carroll The best marketing a speaker can do is be on the stage and speak! Preparation Precision What should you do to ensure you're staying on the stage is to seek out every possible stage you can - even if it means you're not being paid. Fill up the month with speaking even if their local events or you've created your own event. Speakers Speak. If you want to be a professional speaker you must be seeking the opportunities. A Process to Prepare work through ideas before pen goes onto paper (listen to hear more) create a way to connect with the a

Wendy Gates Corbett is a Presentation Consultant who fixes boring presentations and presenters by providing presentation design and delivery consulting. She speaks nationally on the power of visuals and presenting powerfully with presence. Learning from Mistakes Make sure you're in sync with the theme, vibe or tone of the event at which you're going to speak. Wendy shares her story of learning from her experiences - listen to the podcast for the details. Robert is sure there are many speakers who have a similar experience to share - what about you? Your Visuals and Slides Wendy Gates Corbett provides a great number of valuable ideas for all speakers on preparing their visuals and slides. Be sure to listen to the podcast to hear all Wendy's suggestions. You're going to hear ideas you've never considered. Preparation Precision It's an ever-evolving process to prepare, Wendy says. One of the main ideas in her preparation process is to focus on having one main idea that's practical for everyone in the audience.

Tim Toterhi provides executive coaching, HR consulting and message management services to help individuals and companies shape their success stories. Check out his business website, Plotline Leadership to see videos. Tim has a valuable way he looks at being a professional speaker... A speech is like a high-wire act with no net - you're out there and need to make it happen in one take! Learning From Mistakes As a speaker be confident enough to ask for exactly what you need from the event coordinator. Listen to the podcast to hear the story behind how Tim Toterhi came to this learning! Preparation Precision Tim says he focuses on these three things Have the first minutes of the presentation/speech down cold. Know your stories and then work the transitions. Use "burst into flames" preparation. (Brilliant - listen to the podcast to understand!) Once he's on the stage, Tim Toterhi develops the relationship with the audience and it's OK if he goes off script at that point. Learning Tim refers to himself as a s

Stephanie Scotti has dedicated her entire career to preparing speakers for high-stakes events. Her expertise enables clients to consistently outperform the competition, gain recognition, win new business, shape policy, and influence decision-makers. At the beginning of the podcast, Stephanie explains the journey her career has taken from her first love of public speaking to working with key policy makers, including the President’s Cabinet, preparing them to speak on energy policy and onward to coaching CEOs and business executives. Learning from Mistakes Two ideas came immediately to Stephanie's mind when Robert asked her about learning from mistakes: Remember that your power point deck is not your presentation. People resist or neglect practicing out loud. She went on to explain in detail these two points - listen to learn more! Different Presenters Over the years, Stephanie Scotti watched business leaders deal with time constraints when preparing to speak to a group. She asked herself a question... (you'

Graeme Newell is a researcher, speaker, and author who guides businesses in finding and implementing their authentic business purpose. He's the co-author of "Red Goldfish: Motivating Sales and Loyalty Through Shared Passion and Purpose"  Graeme’s company, 602Communications, has consulted with some of the world’s most emotionally passionate brands, including GE, CNN, Sony, Disney, Metlife, CBS, News Corp, CNBC, and Madison Square Garden. One Mistake One mistake Graeme Newell sees is that speakers don't realize that speaking is a business. He says that 95% of speaking is selling - cold-calling, doing PR and being on social media. It's critical that speakers have a defined revenue model and that connects to his one tip: a professional speaker who wants to make a living at this has to be a great business person first. Building a Business Speaking for free is good for the practice - to try out new material in front of an audience. He has a whole list of places where he can speak to hone each presentation. In addi

Stephanie McDilda is a heart-based leadership expert who helps leaders reduce turnover and absenteeism while increasing engagement and employee satisfaction. She knows that the key to leading successfully is to come from your heart, communicating authentically, building rapport, providing real developmental experiences, enforcing tough decisions and expecting the best from your employees. Learning from Mistakes She says this learning came to mind as soon as she saw the topic: investigate to understand the needs of the group you're speaking with before showing up to speak. Stephanie McDilda shares from her experiences one instance where what she was told to address wasn't what the group felt they needed. Great, real-life, on-the-ground learning! Preparation Precision Find out who is in the room, and know their expectations. And because "Heart-Based Leadership" is a relatively new term, Stephanie will connect with some of the attendees to ask them what questions come to their minds when they hear the term "hear

Dr. Dave Minionis likes to say that he "unwraps" people - he helps them discover their gifts and their greatest areas of improvement with respect to presentation skills. He leads the training company, Humanetrics - making smart people... people smart! Learning from Mistakes Dr. Dave Minionis says the greatest hindrance to an effective presentation is to rely on your ability to "wing it". In his interview, he tells a story of how he came to understand that preparation is the most important step for a great presentation. Preparation Precision With the right preparation before a presentation, you make it easy to be natural and genuine, in addition to making the presentation easier for the listener's ear. He suggests organizing the content into 3 or 4 idea chunks. Then add stories. A speech without stories is boring! Rehearse for flow, including speaking the talk aloud to feel the cadence and to find the right words to convey the message. It's better to find you need other phrases to convey your message in the pr

Karin Wiberg is an editor and publisher, and so much more. She works with thought-leaders to write and publish nonfiction books. Many of those thought-leaders speak on their topics. Writing and collaborating with speakers is a natural fit for Karin. Speakers Writing Books Firstly, Karin says don't worry about feeling qualified to write. You have topics you speak about - and some of the audience will want to go deeper so the book you write allows them to do that. You have a built-in audience -  you're qualified to write about what you speak. If a speaker has difficulty writing, Karin Wiberg says she's found one of the secrets is to "talk your content". Turn your topics into questions. Expand on the level of detail you want to write about. Then have someone interview you. Have the interview transcribed and those words become your initial draft for the book. This process is one of the many techniques Karin uses when her clients struggle with blank-page-syndrome! Learning From Mistakes Don't imitate someone els

Stephen Scoggins began his public speaking telling his personal story, which led to sharing life lessons, and those life lessons morphed into transformational lessons and then into transformations for people. He's an entrepreneur, an author and founder of Journey Principles. Practice to Connect When asked about how we learn from mistakes, Stephen Scoggins recommends two points - practice and be "you". First - Create a framework. Don't just get up on stage and start speaking. Practice and have many stories to pull from to make sure you connect with your audience. How do you know when you're connecting? You'll see head nods, smile, and even tears. Secondly - Be you. You'll never be like someone else - know your own style and your strengths. Take the stage to light and draw attention to what the audience needs to look at. Preparation Precision The points themselves might not bring transformation, but the points within the story will make the difference. Tell the story of.... "Tell the story of...." is Stephe

Holly Buchanan is a speaker, researcher, author and consultant who focuses on two areas: the first is in the financial industry on the differences in how men and women buy differently and the second is on how professionals win and lose credibility. Learning from Mistakes One profound and painful lesson learned involved a conference running overtime and a sponsor. Holly explains the incident so well in the podcast. Holly says, "When conferences are running behind - and they will - be very clear about the expectations of your time and end on time." Precision Preparation She finds everything about her audience: what do they want to hear, and what do they not want to hear, and more. Holly has a checklist of things she does. Her speaker reviews/ratings demonstrate the value of arriving early and speaking with audience members to address specific questions from the people within her presentations. She also prepares for all the challenges and expectations Her speaker reviews/ratings demonstrate the value of arrivi

Dr. Kevin C. Snyder is a speaker who inspires audiences with passion, purpose and a powerful call to action. He's also a speaker coach, author, and publisher. He began as a leadership "junkie" and it all grew from there. Signature Story A good story is engaging - but a signature story differentiates a speaker. His signature story is about The Price is Right - it's a personal experience.  What must a signature story contain? it must engage the audience it has a universal message it has a solution to common problems Even years later, a speaker's signature story is what people remember. On Meeting Planners Meeting planners are looking for: an extraordinary speech that the speaker can deliver expert content and the people at the event will find value while they're being engaged Preparation Precision Preparing a speech like planting a seed. It grows and develops. you must have a story - it's your message you need to be engaging you need to have a concrete call to action and frame your content to solve your li

Carol Linden is a speaker, consultant, corporate trainer, a member of the National Speaker’s Association and author of  "The Job Seekers Guide for Extraverts and Introverts".  She says, My company is "Playing Well with People" because playing well with others is just good business!" On Speaker Associations We can't learn it all on our own. Be aware of the value of being a part of a local speaker group, and seriously consider joining the National Speaker's Association and eSpeakers Bureau. Though Toastmasters doesn't fit Carole's needs or style, she's seen definite advantages for other speakers who have gone the Toastmaster route. Preparation Precision Before you get to the location, connect with the planner and get all the logistics right: cords, clicker, and technology in general. Then practice your talk, especially the transition points. On paper, highlight in bold all the transitions and then practice over and over and over out loud. It's not only athletes that need practice! One Recommendation Believ