Get Your Message Heard

Sometimes it's all too easy to forget that you are the product. That means you need to show up bright and shiny, with no dings, no dents, and no distractions.   That's why you need to take care of yourself at every turn. Whether it's planning travel, managing your content, balancing downtime and connection time, protecting your intellectual property, or engaging a coach to push you and keep you on track, making a conscious effort to be your best every time you step out to serve matters.   In today's episode I explore each of these topics a bit and share some insights stimulated by a hectic week where I did intentionally did some things different while traveling.   Some of it worked, and some of it didn't.   But there were some lessons and insights worth sharing to support your success as you make decisions about how you will build your business.   Here are the key topics covered in this 'potpourri' episode:

• 4:00 – Planning to Travel to Protect Your Energy
• 8:30 – Providing Information: Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right
• 13:00 – Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone to Connect
• 16:30 – Protecting Your Intellectual Property
• 23:30 – Pushing Yourself with the Help of a Coach

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

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This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

There's a significant shift when you start thinking of your presentations as a performance rather than a speech.

There are many underlying things performers do differently than "speakers" ... and these have some terrific ramifications for us when we speak. It elevates the importance of our speech, and it also means we need to script and rehearse things more than we think.

In this episode, I share 3 additional takeaways from my time at Michael Port's Heroic Public Speaking conference:

1. Sourcing stories
2. Feedback
3. 7-step rehearsal protocol

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

I recently attended Michael and Amy Port's Heroic Public Speaking event, and what an event it was!

As I listened to presenter after presenter, I was struck by a common theme woven through the most effective speeches:

"The source of your most significant pain is the path to your greatest impact."   In this episode, I share my thoughts on how you can constructively weave in authenticity and vulnerability into your speeches without feeling like you're drawing undue attention to yourself.    Authenticity will always have an audience, but striking the right balance can be a challenge. Tune in to today's episode for some tactful recommendations on how to balance the right amount of authenticity and information into your speech. Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

You've probably heard some version of the "burn the boats story."

One version is that in 1519, eleven ships carrying 600 Spaniards landed on an inland plateau that would one day be known as Mexico. Their goal was to conquer an empire that had amassed a massive fortune.

However, with just 600 men, most of whom were vastly under supplied, the prospect of conquering the vast Aztec empire seemed like an impossible task.

Rather than charge forward, the commander Cortes gathered his men on the beach and ordered them to burn the ships they just arrived on, effectively destroying their only escape route. The only choice left was to push forward and succeed.

It's easy to see how many entrepreneurs often find themselves in similar (though probably not as life-threatening) circumstances. To be a business is to contend with a constant sense of being outmanned, outgunned, and out planned.

Sometimes, burning your ships and eliminating your safety net is the only way to push forward in the face of daunting odds, and it's what I talk about in today's episode.

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

What are you committed to? This question is more difficult to answer than you might expect.

Outside of the obvious, such as family, friends, health, well-being, etc., it's important to examine how your values carry over into your business practices. 

In this episode, I share a few little things that go a big way in conveying your commitment to your clients: things like placing their logo on your handouts, or just following up on what you say.

Speaking of commitment, I'm recording this episode at 4:30AM because yes: I'm committed to you!

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

Many of us in the "expert business" love to consume content. We're just wired that way - we love to consume information, process, and figure things out.

The challenge is whether we're consuming content in an effective manner and whether it serves us well. In this episode, I ask three questions to help you weigh the choice of what content you choose to consume:

1. What content are you consuming? (Where are you spending your time?)
2. Why are you consuming this particular content?
3. How is the consumption of this content moving the ball down the field for your business?

Tune into today's episode and you'll hear how I personally weigh my content selections, including how I navigate the fine line of taking "downtime" content and applying it to my "uptime" business-building work.

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

Have you ever felt the universe "conspire" to give you exactly what you need at exactly the right time? This has happened to me on more than one occasion, whether through a book, a phone call, an opportunity, an email, and yes - even a social media post.

In this episode I share the seemingly random events behind how I went from college professor to consultant - but more than that I go into detail on the series of small encounters, people, and conversations I've had that ended up having big impact on my life path.

My hope is that you will be encouraged to:

1. Keep yourself in gratitude
2. Keep yourself open to the universe, and what it brings your way
3. Keep yourself teachable to the feedback of others

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

In today's episode I talk about one of the most influential stories I've ever heard: The Howling Dog Story.

There was a young man walking down the street and happened to see a old man sitting on his porch. Next to the old man was his dog, who was whining and whimpering. The young man asked the old man "What's wrong with your dog" The old man said "He's laying on a nail".

The point of the story is that the dog feels pain, but not enough to move. 

I've seen this scenario play out in countless situations in business and life, including my own. In this episode, I peel back the curtain and share some very personal experiences into how this story has shaped me to get my message heard. 

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

Today, the podcast takes a different turn as Jody Maberry interviews me about my experience at Mike Kim's Influence & Impact conference last week.

One of the big takeaways from my experience there was the importance of being candid -- even as it pertains to pushing people out of their comfort zones.

It's all-too-easy to stay polished and poised, but I'm finding that real impact is made when I truly "own" who I am and what I do. My friends have referred to me at times as an "agitator" -- someone who pushes and provokes people out of their comfort zone and into breakthrough.

Join me and Jody Maberry for this candid conversation right off the heels of our time together in New York.

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.

Nothing threatens your success in getting your message heard more than the desire to do everything perfectly.

Have you ever considered the pitfalls of perfectionism?

• It leads to isolation, and isolation kills creativity.
• It ignores what the user wants.
• It violates the recipe of Ask, Listen, Learn, Serve.

In this episode, I also share candidly about how perfectionism trapped me in my head and led to me never shipping a product or service. Tune in today for the full story.

Have A Question? I'd Love to Answer.

Simply email [email protected] and your question will be answered on a future episode of the podcast. I will also send you a free copy of my book, Public Speaker Secrets.

Download Your Copy of the 3-Step Roadmap to Start, Run, and Grow Your Speaking Business

This free guide contains my best strategies to help you start, run, and grow a speaking business from scratch.

Download it today and you'll access to time-tested tactics that I've used to help hundreds of coaches, consultants, and professional speakers create impact with their ideas and get their message heard.

To get your copy, just Text HUDSON to the number 33444.