Communications & Awareness Specialist, Michael Allosso has years of experience as a professional actor, director and personal coach. Today, in Part One of The 19: Entrepreneur Edition, he shares insights on the importance of living with intention, maintaining a strong objective and listening in business.

The 19: Entrepreneur Edition with Michael Allosso – Part One

Orange Label Podcast Script

This is The 19. In 19 minutes or less, game-changing insights from Orange Label, the leading response marketing agency for established brands that are driven by a fearless entrepreneurial mindset.

Host Intro:  Hi there! This is Rochelle Reiter, Agency Principal at Orange Label. Today on The 19, we’re thrilled to bring you another installment of our Entrepreneur and Leadership Series, this time, with professional actor, director and entertainer, Michael Allosso.   I have had the pleasure of seeing Michael speak and he engages and wows with even the most ordinary topics. He’s a personal coach and keynote speaker, offering insights into leadership and how to be “You on Your Best Day.” He believes authenticity and believability are paramount. The same skills an actor uses for outstanding performance are needed to be a top leader and communicator.  So, Michael, welcome to The 19! We’re so excited to have you.

Michael: Its always a pleasure to communicate with you Rochelle.  Thank you!

Host:  So I’ve seen you speak several times both in large conference settings, and in smaller workshop settings.  Tell me a little bit about how you got into public speaking and coaching in the first place.

Michael:  When you keep your stakes very high Rochelle and make every meeting like it’s THE only meeting you have in your life and THE most important event in your life.  Excellence happens.  And when excellence happens people want a piece of it, excellence is contagious people want it, people see it.  Every wonderful thing that’s ever happened to me in my life has been as a result of someone seeing me, hearing me, being with me.  And then doing some generous thing for me.  So I was artistic director of a professional theater in New England.  And I  give curtain speeches.  So,  curtain speeches  are these speeches that the director gives before a show telling subscribers about a season.  And people would come up to me and say hey can you teach me to do that, can you help me to do that.  And that became the transaction from professional theater into the business world.  One of the many segues.  I started my career as a high school drama teacher…. Yeah I knew as a kid I wanted to make a difference.  I knew as a kid that I always wanted to teach.  I I figured I’d be either a teacher or a lawyer.

Host:  two ends of the spectrum there,

Michael:  One seems more magnanimous.  Yeah they’re totally the same.  Litigators, teachers.  And so I chose the teaching track.  And after I did that for ten years I went back and got my Masters of Fine Arts in directing.  Immersed myself in the professional theater world and then that transitioned into this.  I I create shows for corporate companies I have a company called Personalized Entertainment.  So I create personalized events.  Companies hire me for their annual meetings to write shows.  All that theatrical stuff people like here you’re almost like a roller skating  monkey when you go into business.  People look at you and wow that’s kind of neat and unusual.  And really again because I did that with my whole heart and soul.  People appreciated it and they found a vision in me to do something else.  So now what I’m doing is the same way I’ve always doctors my whole career I’m coaching  CEO’s and other executives in all kinds of businesses.

Host:  Talk to me about the digital world and with so many things going digital.  Do you think people in general have lost the art of communicating in person?

Michael:  No matter how many times the experts measure the ...