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 learn for speakers is that their speaking has value.

Use videotape yourself every now and again.  Speakers need to know how they sound and act on stage, and video is a humbling, but vital way to view your strengths and weaknesses.

Connect

Connect with Charlie Engle on his website, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. We recommend checking out his Instagram feed as an adventurous runner he has a great feed!

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Should you memorize your presentation?

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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... in a humorous way Chris recommends speakers learn quickly how to get outstanding status with one airline instead of good status on all the airlines. 

Reframe and or teach something the audience didn't already know when you speak. Chris feels your voice makes the difference. Use your time and money to hone your tone, and delivery - it's part of what makes you unique as a speaker.

You can't fake confidence - and preparation is what creates confidence.

Connect

Connect with Chris Daltorio on LinkedIn - or at his website MyNewVelocity.com.

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 Alan explores how matching your language to your audience is valuable.

  

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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 content needs your involvement along the way.  

On the podcast, Dr. Kelly Edmonds suggests the speaker needs to be involved in some "live" way with the course participants using webinars, online discussion forums or live call-in sessions. She feels that completely self-directed courses can't have the full impact a course creator/speaker is hoping for without their involvement.

On her blog, she has articles and a page with resource options/ideas to use when building an online course.

Connect

Connect with Dr. Kelly Edmonds on her website, Dr. Kelly Edmonds, Creating Learning Journeys and on LinkedIn.

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Going off script... should you? And if so, when? Listen as Alan Hoffer provides some guidelines in this coaching MillsWyck Minute.

 

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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.

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Do you love or hate your voice? Hear what Alan Hoffler suggests in this MillsWyck Minute!

 

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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.

1. Tell me about your audience?
2. Why are you calling me and what do you want the audience to get from me?
3. When the audience leaves, what do you want them to talk about?

Giving Back by Speaking For Free

There are specific instances where Wayne Olson will speak for free. In the podcast, he shares his criteria, and how he is specific about making sure the value of his services are documented.

Tip

17 years ago another speaker gave Wayne words of advice and they ring as true today as they did almost two decades ago. Listen to the podcast to find out!

Connect

Connect with Wayne at his website, WayneOlson.com, and on LinkedIn

Wayne Olson is the author of "The Disney Difference: The Complete Guide to Adding Disney-like Magic to Your Corporation or Organization". On the podcast, he offers the listeners of the KEY5 Podcast a discount if they go to his website.

MillsWyck Minute - Coaching for Speakers

In this MillsWyck Minute, Alan shares the question to add to any story that will cause the audience to relate the story to themselves.

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 business.

Do you think your impact begins and ends with your speaking? Hear what Alan Hoffler says on this week's MillsWyck Minute!

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 speaking business forward in a small way, every day, week and month, you will eventually be successful. Casey Cobb feels this mindset is as true in speaking, as it is in business and every other part of life, including parenting. Improve little things over a long time and you'll achieve great things.

Connect

Connect with Casey Cobb on his website, on LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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Recommendations?

Do you have any recommendations on who Robert should interview in Season #2 of the KEY5 Speaker Podcast?  Connect with Robert on Twitter as FergusonValues to spark the conversation!

This concludes our first season!

Thanks for listening!

See you in October 2017 for Season #2

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 way.

One Tip

Grab everyone and anyone you can, including the dog, to practice your speech.

Connect

Connect with Katherine Fabrizio on her website, Daughters Rising, on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and see her KEY5 presentation here.

MillsWyck Minute When you're speaking, having someone say, "You rock!" is not a good thing. Listen to the podcast to understand Alan's tip this week.

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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 audience
• deliver a powerful message through a consistent theme - Evan expands on this idea in the Podcast - it's brilliant!
• convey the message through story

Process to Deliver the Speech

After the usual things you need to do to prepare to deliver a presentation (Evan lists them), having the right emotional state as you go onto the stage is the most important part of delivering the presentation.

The Team at the KEY5 Conference in January 2017 can endorse Evan's ability to get into the right emotional state! Evan Carroll became our pinch hitter Master of Ceremonies when weather circumstances grounded our scheduled MC. Evan jumped in on the morning of the event and he performed with panache!

About Q & A in a Presentation

Evan has a specific way he handles questions in a presentation. He gives some practical suggestions for all speakers on the Podcast - listen to find new ideas to add to your repertoire as a professional speaker.

Connect

You can connect with Evan Carroll on his website, on LinkedIn, and Twitter. Take a look at his YouTube channel to see him in action!

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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. She then expands her presentation to support that one practical takeaway. Memorability is Wendy Gates Corbett's desire for each presentation. She has a solid point about using specific vocabulary and how visuals may need to change!

 A Tip from Wendy

Practice your presentation out loud.  Practice even if you feel you know your presentation. The more energy you can give to your audience, the greater impact your presentation can have on your audience. We all have a finite amount of energy and using that energy to remember your content does your audience a disservice. Use your energy to connect with the audience.

Connect

Connect with Wendy Gates Corbett on her company's website, Refresher-Training.com, on LinkedIn and Twitter on her speaker website, WendyGatesCorbett.com

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Alan has 3 reasons why your slides are not your presentation.

 

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