Are you a good judge of people?

An excellent driver?

Do you have great taste in music, movies, or art?

Do you have a wonderful sense of humor?

Are you a shrewd car negotiator?

Most people will answer "Yes",  but clearly, everyone is not.

You might be a good speaker, presenter, communicator, or maybe you are a part of the Dunning-Kruger club.

"The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don't realize you are in the Dunning-Kruger club"- David Dunning

In 1999, then-Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger found a cognitive bias whereby people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence.

A Forbes magazine article said “If you’ve ever dealt with someone whose performance stinks, and they’re not only clueless that their performance stinks but they’re confident that their performance is good, you likely saw the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action."

Is that you?

"I took Basic Public Speaking. I dont need more training." Basic public speaking is exactly as it's name implies: Basic. It doesn't even fix the filler word issue (which I will do for you in my Ebook on this site).

Do you really want to go into an extraordinary opportunity armed with only "basic" skills?

Where else do you apply THAT logic?

If you held a half day seminar, you are out the money for the speaker, the people in the meeting and lost productivity and money because they are tied up half the day.

This course is just over 5 hours long and is in digestable parts averaging 5 minutes each. At just 15 mintues or so a day, in 4 weeks you could have completed the course without those losses.

Because you get it all at one time, you have the option to pick which section or item you need most urgently.

No one has addressed what I do.

It's all TIME focused, not on the length you speak but how not doing it well makes you eat up minutes then go back for seconds.

You could speak for 60 minutes and still not say anything or you could speak for 5 minutes and blow people away.

It's about connection, content and delivery.

Other programs offer solutions that will attack this from the outside, with little impact whereas I attack this from the inside.

They will recommend things like "Everyone stand during the meeting"; "Make it a two pizza meeting, having no more in there than two pizzas will feed"; or "invite only those that need to be there" (duh!).

So now you have a room of pissed off people who all need to be there, standing, eating pizza while somebody else is up front droning thru their material, half of which didn't matter and the other half that won't be remembered because you haven't trained them. 

Oh, and bonus, you just wasted an hour at the cumulative price of all those in attendance.

Your meetings have become shampoo. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

These methods are like standing on the deck of the Titanic with a bucket instead of going down and patching the hole. This course patches the hole.

In TV News we had one and a half minutes to tell a story. You learn how to compellingly GET TO THE DAMN POINT.

That doesn't mean everything you do is shorter, it just means it's tighter, leaner. Puts more meat in your meetings and all you do from internal to external and client facing communications.

Plus, I am offering  you media training and I have been told by many that this alone is worth the value of the course.

I am teaching you how to be a better virtual communicator. I get it, as a professional speaker, it's damned hard to be engaging virtually. You ready to change that or do you want to keep having the same boring ones over and over?

You would have to hire several people to get the material I have put into this course and that would take more time and certainly come at a much higher price.

Even if you got training from well known speaking organizations you have to consider the amount of time spent going to those meetings plus cost! And they still won't cover all I do.

Typically, in those enviroments, even if you hustle, it will take you at least 2 years to get decent at speaking and it's a crap shoot on whether you hit a group with qualified helpers.

I have seen many who have been in those organizations for YEARS who STILL don't present well.

And the idea that you had Basic Public Speaking...forget it! Basic Public Speaking doesn't even fix the filler/killer words (ah, um) problem. It's what it's name implies: BASIC. 

Do you really want to go into an extraordinary opportunity armed with only "basic" skills? Where else in your life do you apply that logic?

My course is different because I give you 25 years of experience in 5 hours so you can speak like a pro but be heard like a friend and GET TO THE DAMN POINT!

Sales, Customer Service, Fundraisers, Entreprenuer's, Small Business Owners, Corporation's....and so on.

If you communicate with others to provide information or attempt to persuade them, you are a speaker and a salesperson.

Nonprofit organizations:

You need two life bloods: money and volunteers. I have been told, by several, that the inability of the staff, and volunteers, to be able to clearly and effectively communicate thier mission, is a huge problem that has cost them both of those life bloods.

Charityvillage.com says:

Giving effective presentations can contribute greatly to a nonprofit’s success.

In fact, presentations serve as an important avenue for organizations to share their stories, build partnerships, garner community support, and acquire new donors or volunteers.

Although most nonprofits recognize the need to take advantage of such opportunities, their presentations can sometimes fall flat.

One main challenge nonprofits face is that they need to prove their value in a way other industries don’t.

For Entreprenuers, Small Businesses and Corporations: 

Train your whole team, not just your C-Suite and middle managers.

Other reasons: Want to ace a job interview? Advance in your company? Have better communications with co-workers?

The list goes on.

All you have to do is search this topic on the web and you will find tons of reasons why, but no one else, and I mean no one, will teach you how to GET TO THE DAMN POINT doing this.

“Would you help a son take over his dying father's phone number?”

That was the opening sentence of an email I sent to Mr. Randall Stephenson, Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman, of AT&T.

My second line was:

I hope you will indulge me for this email as I wish to appeal to you as a person, not just the CEO.

My father had been given 6 months, or less, to live and the number was still in his name with AT&T. It had been our family phone number dating back to my childhood. It was the only phone number I ever knew we had.

Daddy had managed to run up a bill of $3,104.00 that was written off by AT&T and turned over to a collection agency. What I knew, that they didn’t, was that he had filed bankruptcy so the collection agency would have to write it off as well.

I wanted that phone number for purely sentimental reasons and expressed that to Mr. Stephenson. I told him both his sales team and loyalty department had been wonderful but were not able to reinstate it. They told me that number was locked up and never going to be used again.

I even admitted to Mr. Stephenson that I wasn’t an AT &T customer.

Was I insane?!

I was asking the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation to free up a phone number his company had lost thousands of dollars on, so I could have it reassigned to a competing carrier.

I felt like it was a complete waste of my time, but, I was determined to not let this number go. I took a deep breath and pressed send.

The email shot out of my computer at 6:47 p.m., May 22, 2018. The next morning I was awakened by a call from an executive in the Office of the President and she informed me that Mr. Stephenson told her to make this happen.

On June 14^th, 2018, 270-669-4229 became my cell phone number.

Daddy never got to know that. He died May 29^th, just one week after I sent my email.

Imagine the inbox for Mr. Stephenson. How did my letter cut thru the noise?

Partly because of what my momma always said, “You are not better than anyone else and no one is better than you. They put their pants on one leg at a time just like you do.”

During my career, I’ve had the good fortune to work with everyone from the homeless to the rich and famous, and it has taught me one, immutable, universal truth: Momma was right. We are all just people. With rare exception, most everyone I’ve met is kind and compassionate.

I have carried momma’s advice into my work. I’ve trained over 100 journalists and photojournalists during my time working in the world of television. The first thing I taught them was “Be a human being first”. I told them not to go to a house fire where someone just lost everything, turn on a camera, flip on a light, shove a microphone in their face and ask “How do you feel?” How the hell do you think they feel?!

I told them whether it’s professional or personal, be humble; be kind, be human and it will be returned tenfold.

I have lived by that and it did return. I reached out to the man who sits at the head of the table of one of the biggest companies in the world to ask a huge favor and his response reaffirmed my faith in people.  

He helped me get a phone number that meant nothing to him and everything to me.

A number I will keep until my number comes up.

If I can reach a man like this, who can I help YOU reach?

• If you are prepping an important speech or presentation, we can work together to make it top shelf.
• Or maybe you want some longer term consulting, we can do that too!

• If you have, or record, a video of a speech, I will watch it and give you specific feedback and a critique to help you improve it.
• Creating a video? My varied background in that medium means I can help you craft the perfect production that connects to your audience.
• I offer Keynotes as well.

Contact me:

[email protected]

Be sure to get the name of my company cleared in your filter system because "damn" sometimes gets chucked in the spam folder.

Here's the obligatory condensed resume:

I am a TEDX Alumni, Award winning Speaker, Photojournalist and Director with an extensive background in Television News, Entertainment News, Commercial Advertising and Independent Film.

You can learn some things from my TEDX TALK here:

https://www.ted.com/talks/you_won_t_die_from_public_speaking_but_your_deal_might