The Mike Drop Moment

Oprah's 2020Vision Tour came to LA this week. For Christmas, I bought tickets for my mom and Phil and me to go see the show.

I remember since I was six years old watching Oprah Winfrey show. My mom was a huge fan and so I was a huge fan.

So it was really special last year when Oprah Winfrey announced that part of her partnership extension with WW, formerly known as weight Watchers, was going to be a tour.

The show this weekend included Julianne Hough getting us whipped up into a frenzy with her dance moves and musical stylings. It also included Oprah being well -- Oprah -- and a workbook with Oprah helping us figure out what our own 2020 vision was. And the guest in Los Angeles was Jennifer Lopez fresh off of her big stint on the world's biggest stage at the Pepsi Halftime Show.

I thought for this episode it would be fun to just talk about what happened, what did we see in ourselves, and what was the day like.

And also a call to action for Oprah toward the end. 

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In this episode, I wanted to take a little bit of a shift and talk about visibility. Why telling your story, being honest, while creating a brand that is true to who you are. Also true to who you work with matters.

Being on stage and being ourselves is important. That doesn't mean we need to walk across stage and come out with whatever thing we need to come out with. But it does mean that we can bring our energy and our realness to the different places.

We show up in presentations and board rooms, on stages, on podcasts. We have the chance to stand up and be heard. And I realized that to some extent, this is a privilege. 

I have the privilege of being a white gay male living in the United States and living in probably the most progressive of States in these United States.

I realize all of the privilege that comes along with that and I am thankful that that I have the ability to do that.

It isn't right for everybody, but if it is, then this episode is for you. 

Links mentioned:

Mercury Wines

Pete Buttigieg with Zachary Ro

Mike’s Medium Article on Visibility 

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Brant Menswar is one of the country's top 10 motivational speakers. He is an author and award-winning musician, a podcast host of a podcast called thoughts that rock would.

He's the CEO and founder of rock star impact, a boutique agency that teaches people and organizations how to cultivate values based leadership.

We also talk about his brand new book, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You. That comes out September 29th, 2020 it's called black sheep unleashed the extraordinary awe inspiring, undiscovered you. He takes us down that journey a little bit in this episode. So we can get a jump on  figuring out our own black sheep. 

Links mentioned on the episode:

Brant’s Website

Pre-Order Brant’s New Book: Black Sheep

Thoughts That Rock Podcast with Brant Menswar and Jim Knight

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There are about a million things we can do to become better public speakers, better storytellers, better share what I'm thinking in my brain with other people out loud and there's no shortage of places to find them. 

You maybe can work on managing your anxiety, meditate, and find ways to be grounded so that in the moment you're able to connect. 

You can work on your actual performance. 

How do you move, sound, and work the stage or the space you're in.

There's one thing that I think is at the core of all of it and it's getting really, really clear on what you have to say and honestly, there's no better way to do that than to become a much better writer.

On this episode we'll discuss why it's important to develop a writing habit, how it helps you actually clarify, distill and amplify your voice and what you want to say in the world.

And it's a wine in wisdom Wednesday. Today I have a very cool wine that's going to have a little bit of a history lesson for you.

To get more information check out the following:

The Power of Managing Ourselves by Ari Weinzweig

Improv for Writers Book

Burn After Writing (Writing Prompts)

111 Journaling Prompts (Writing Prompts)

Writer’s Emergency Kit (Writing Tips)

The Writer’s Block (Writing Prompts)

Cosentino Winery: The Poet -- Red Blend

Cosentino Winery: The Novelist -- White Blend

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Grant Baldwin is the founder of The Speaker Lab, a training company that helps public speakers learn how to find and book speaking gigs. Through his popular podcast The Speaker Lab and flagship coaching program Booked and Paid to Speak he has coached and worked with thousands of presentations to over 500,000 people in 47 states and speakers. As a keynote speaker, Grant has delivered nearly one thousand has keynoted events for audiences as large as 13,000. Grant has also been featured in national media including Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Huffington Post.

To get more information check out the following:

The Successful Speaker Book

Tell Your Story So It Sti cks Guide

The Speaker Lab

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People are obsessed with these short, quippy, helpful, informative talks from watching them to making them. We are obsessed with TED-style talks.

The TED organization has been around since 1984 but it's really since the year 2000 with the help of the internet and then in 2005 with the creation of YouTube that we've seen a huge growth in the TED and TEDx speeches that have made so many people really, really popular in the world, and so what does it take to do it? Why do we love them? What's going on and how do we have a shot of creating them?

And why are we so obsessed with them as a public? Why are we so obsessed with giving them and how do we even start thinking about what it takes to put it together?

Well, this is the second part of a two part series. We started this conversation back in episode 14 with my friend Chloe DiVita from Perceptive presence in episode 14. We covered why are we obsessed with them, why do we keep giving them?

And now in episode 16 this is part two we're going to talk about how to memorize your talk. We're going to talk about stories and data and what to put into it and then what to do after the talk.

And also in this episode, don't forget, it's a wine and wisdom Wednesday episode. So I have a really fun kind of appropriately named wine to share with you.

Notes:

Learn more about Chloe DiVita

www.mikeganino.com/storycraft

Full show on YouTube

Wine featured in this episode: Rockin’ TED

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I can't believe the conversation I get to bring to you with a woman who has been called, “the most memorable on the Internet,” “original in a world with too little of it,” “not safe for work at all,” and also, “really kinda sweary,” and that last one is also how'd I'd describe this episode -- so be warned.

Ash Ambirge is one of the internet's favorite voices -- and with her new book "The Middle Finger Project" -- I think she is about to become the favorite voice of an entire generation of entrepreneurs.

In this episode, we talk about creativity, ignoring the haters, growing up in a trailer, Roseanne Barr, and how to craft radical self-reliance so that you can create the life that makes you happy.

You learn more about Ash Ambirge at The Middle Finger Project.

You can buy her new book, The Middle Finger Project, here.

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People are obsessed with these short, quippy, helpful, informative talks from watching them to making them. We are obsessed with TED-style talks.

The TED organization has been around since 1984 but it's really since the year 2000 with the help of the internet and then in 2005 with the creation of YouTube that we've seen a huge growth in the TED and  TEDx speeches that have made so many people really, really popular in the world, and so what does it take to do it? Why do we love them? What's going on and how do we have a shot of creating them?

And why are we so obsessed with them as a public? Why are we so obsessed with giving them and how do we even start thinking about what it takes to put it together?

Well, this is the first part of a two part series. I dive into this with my frequent co-conspirator and partner in crime Chloe DiVita from perceptive presence. We dive deep on this, breaking it down and looking at it and we'll be back with part two and episode 16 of the mic drop moment. Where will dive deeper.

And also in this episode, don't forget, it's a wine and wisdom Wednesday episode. So I have a really fun kind of appropriately named wine to share with you.

Notes:

Learn more about Chloe DiVita

www.mikeganino.com/storycraft

Full show on YouTube

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Eric Himan has opened for people like Ani DiFranco, Patty Griffin, Edwin McCain. He has put out 10 studio albums with an 11th album on the way.

He's toured around the country up and down North America and the world.

We get into that in this episode. We talk about music. We talk about creative writing. We talk about the power of writing and creating from your own truth and how to find your truth or the truth in other people. When you want to talk about their stories, we go deep on, when do you stop worrying about being good enough and how to look for the micro stories all around you.

We also talk about finding new ways to encourage your creativity. Eric has done this as a musician, plays guitar, writes his own songs, but he also had a cooking show.

He is a standup comedian these day,s and he's always really innovative. I'm so excited to introduce you if you haven't met him before or to reintroduce you to him in a whole new way.

To get more information check out the following:

https://www.facebook.com/EricHimanMusic/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFGZPwIlbWUsijNcLtG8SVg

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/eric-himan/5095743?ign-gact=3&ls=1

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Public speaking looks like a lucrative career when you view it from the outside -- you travel to exotic locations like Des Moines, IA, you stay in fancy conference hotels, you get a nice check for being on stage for an hour, and ALL the applause from the audience. 

Except a lot of speakers are missing out on the check part. I have clients who come to me frequently worried that they are not great on stage because they aren't getting booked more or they aren't booking business from their speech. And while there are usually some performance tweaks we can make -- there is almost always a business model issues and a talk design issue for us to fix. 

Let's say you speak to owners of spas. The average person in the audience owns one location with 15 employees. Your audience is full of these people. If you travel to the conference and speak for free to this audience to build momentum, you can't be upset if they book you for a speech. You see the owners of these locations don't hire keynote speakers -- so if your talk, your bio, you description all lends themselves towards you being a keynote speaker only -- then you've blown your chance of making money at the event. 

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