Public Speaking for Fun & Profit | with Colin Ryan

Clarity and certainty are essential when you are packaging your talk and positioning yourself as a thought-leader!

This is also key to persuading your audience to believe in the strength and value of your message.

"Evidence shows people will remember one thing you say. When you speak for an hour, it's going to be something different for each person. But when you speak for a minute, you get to decide what that one thing is."

My guest is Ryan Dunphy -- the founder of the Adventurous Entrepreneurs Community. Ryan is incredibly passionate about his subject and about speaking to his audience. This can create the challenge of condensing his message into something more bite-sized when he wants to share his passion about being a speaker.

Ryan is one of the most supportive people I've ever met. So today I'm supporting him! And you in the process!

This live demo of my pitch coaching session with Ryan will show you how to use a simple 4-step framework to share your message quickly, powerfully, and persuasively. This story format allows you to teach without being preachy, serve without sounding salesy, and tell one memorable story that supports, and flows clearly into, your main idea.

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If you would like to use this story framework to craft or strengthen your message, here are free resources to get you started: www.15feet.com.

"It's been said that every sale is nothing more than getting someone to believe the solution you offer is the solution they need."

"The reason you create belief is so they feel within themselves that the person they want to be is the person they can be."

"Ask yourself, what is the belief that you want to create for your listener?"

What is the belief that you want to create for your listener? Schedule a free 15-minute call with Colin to find out how to tell the one-minute story that makes it happen.

This is a great one!

Christine O’Neill, MMSc, PA-C, ACC is a burnout interventionist, executive leadership coach, and medical clinician (and my friend!). She’s passionate about helping overwhelmed professionals learn how to make a difference while having a life by using values-based prioritization and neuroscience-informed self-coaching techniques. She specializes in professional burnout prevention/recovery, and executive coaching for people-centered leaders.

Christine has worked in healthcare for nearly 30 years, gaining deep experience in direct patient care, hospital leadership, nonprofit board leadership, and grassroots political advocacy. Fun fact -- She bought a camper van in 2020 and looks forward to visiting as many National and Provincial parks in North America as possible.

Christine's prioritization exercise: https://www.christineoneill.co/prioritize-your-life

The Approachable Expert Sequence will help you create deeper connection with your listeners, increase your impact, tell better stories, and go from intimidating to approachable. Would you like to know more? Check out our free resources at: www.15feet.com.

To be clear, Storytelling IS personal development. And Storytelling IS professional development.

Because there are times where the toughest story for you to tell is the most powerful story for your audience to hear.

Here is what you'll need to know in order to a) be comfortable & authentic when telling this kind of story, and b) achieve the results you want when telling it.

Do you want greater impact and income through your speaking/presenting? Schedule a free 15-minute call with Colin or start with our free speaking resources.

A racing mind can strike at any moment, and try to ruin a really fun thing like presenting. Here's how to invite that nervousness out of your brain and out of your life.

Want to up-level your speaking confidence, content, impact, or income?? Schedule a free 15-minute call with Colin or start with our free speaking resources.

It's all about a technique I like to call Human-Expert Positioning.

Want to improve your speaking confidence, content, impact, or income?? Schedule a free 15-minute call with Colin or start with our free speaking resources.

Storytelling will make your next presentation an unforgettable presentation, but only if you tell these 3 stories.

Want to improve your speaking confidence, content, impact, or income?? Schedule a free 15-minute call with Colin or start with our free speaking resources.

Here is a business growth strategy that will increase the impact of your message and generate more speaking opportunities.

Want to improve your speaking confidence, content, impact, or income?? Schedule a free 15-minute call with Colin or start with our free speaking resources.

Show Notes: https://www.colinryanspeaks.com/the-power-of-silence-when-presenting/

Let's explore using pauses as a technique in your presentations, inspired by a lesson I learned IN FRONT OF 1,000 people at a Moth storytelling performance.

I had the opportunity to perform my story for a very large crowd, in a beautiful theatre, amidst a roster of talented storytellers and a celebrity host. There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to do well.

Put another way, there’s a tremendous amount of pressure not to mess it up.

You’re speaking in front of a lot people, and it’s black-box theater lighting. The audience is completely dark, just a faceless energy out there somewhere. You’re standing in the middle of a 100 feet wide stage, staring into blinding spotlights, and pretending you haven't been thinking about this moment this for weeks.

I launch into my story, and soon enough I’m in the rhythm of it. I’ve crafted every word, memorized every line and practiced it over and over again. Two thirds of the way through, my mind goes completely blank...

What’s the #1 thing you want speaking to add to your life? Let’s make a plan on how you’ll get there. Schedule a free 15-minute No-Sales-Pitch call with Colin or start with our free speaking resources.

Lindsey Lathrop is a certified business & negotiation coach, and a Top 100 Global Facilitator with Google’s #IAmRemarkable Initiative.

Lindsey is not only my wife and favorite person in the world, she has also been my personal negotiation coach throughout my speaking career, and someone who instinctively and tirelessly adds value to the people around her.

In this conversation we talk about:

· How Lindsey turned a childhood wound into a superpower to help others. And because she’s such a talented coach, she presents a unique way you can do the same when clichés like “Just love yourself” don’t seem to solve anything.

· How she came to realize that workshop presenting IS speaking, and what she learned from giving 50 (!) workshops in 2020.

· The results she achieved by acknowledging that the world is probably not going to put a microphone in your hands and dub you a speaker, but you don’t need it to. So she went ahead and did that for herself, and has seen significant business growth.

Lindsey is powerful proof that you can promote yourself to speaker, do the minutes to become a more confident and charismatic presenter, and then watch how it changes your life and business.

Learn more about Lindsey at her website, and follow her on Instagram at @coach_lins.