I notice that I am different because_______________________________.


When you know these three simple answers, you will more easily be able to identify:

===> Where you want talk

===> What type of talk you want to give

===> How you can stand out in a highly competitive marketplace.

Just a few thoughts to help get you started on the road!
More tips and training will come in bite size pieces over the next 21 days.

Keep up the great work! Stay connected! And keep rocking your talk!
I’m cheering you on all the way!

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Or sat in the audience of a meeting, presentation, or speech that starts slow and dry, and just as its beginning you’re already wishing it would end?

Remember that its hard to go from being “in your head” to suddenly rocking your talk. Video, Audio, Live in person… its all the same.

You wouldn’t go from sitting on the couch all day to running a marathon without warming and stretching, and this isn’t any different. So we’re going to warm up your engines first and find out what happens.

Even if you think this sounds nuts, over the top, and not for you because “you’re not a professional speaker” “you just lead meetings at work” “you just lead little local workshops”…

TRUST ME AND TRY IT! Before your rock your talk…

1. Warm up your VOICE so that you have vocal variety: Chat with a friend using lots of inflection, do scales (think music class), or sing along with your favorite song. This will give your voice a little more range, more highs and lows, which keeps people’s attention.

2. Warm up your BODY so that you’re connected and grounded: stretch, lift a few weights, do a few push ups. Get grounded in your body and connected. You’ll stand taller and you’ll speak with more confidence.

3. Get your BLOOD PUMPING and YOUR ENERGY BUMPING: clap your hands, jump up and down, have a dance party, shout out a loud “WOOOO HOOOO!!!”Do whatever it takes to get the blood pulsing through your veins, and the energy and enthusiasm you need to lead!

Then and only then should you step on stage, start your teleclass, or lead your webinar. What happens after steps 1,2 and 3 is that now you’re engaged, energized, and ready to dive in. You’ll start your talk with the energy you’d normally take 5 or 10 minutes to work up to, and it will pay off big time.

People will be leaning in and paying attention from the get-go, and you won’t have to try to win them over later, because you’ll already have them leaning in and wanting more!

Willing to give it a try? Let me know how it works!

Join me at Angela Johnson’s IGNITE 2012, where I’m speaking along side David Neagle, Suzanne Evans, Andres Hess and more!

It’s a 2-day transformational women’s conference that has already created big-time change for thousands of women. It’s the place where REAL people with REAL tools and solutions create personal transformation and THAT is how we create global change.

I’m coming to Utah specifically to help you Rock Your Talk and Profit!

You will get the secrets to have more money, better health, unstoppable confidence, the career or business of your dreams and richer relationships.

I’ll be sharing with you:
o The importance of knowing how to drop your notes and command any room.

o The top 3 mistakes that will cause you to lose the room and the sale.

o Plus, the 4 BIG ways you can cash in at every single talk you give (big or small).

As a speaker & sponsor, I am automatically made an affiliate, so if you purchase a ticket to this event, I will be paid a referral fee.

Click here to register and attend this amazing event!

What separates a “professional and polished” speaker, from one who motivates and moves audiences?

How did I get booked all the time as a speaker even when all I had to show for myself was a crappy one sheet with a hideous looking Sears photo?

And what the heck do the Foo Fighters have to do with ANYTHING?????

Well Dave Grohl hit the nail on the head last night in his Grammy acceptance speech for the Foo Fioghters. But before you scroll down to the bottom and watch the video of his speech, please hear me out.

While watching his acceptance speech,
I was literally (just ask my husband) throwing my hands in the air shouting
“AMEN, Dave! Tell it like it is!!”

It made me think about my Command Any Room program, which is like “the little engine that could”. Its my first product, and yet it was a huge success, and it just keeps selling even when I’m not promoting it.

Its not super fancy. Wasn’t recorded in a big studio. But its great content. I poured my heart and soul into it, years of books read, speeches booked, talks crafted, and delivered.

I’ve walked out empty handed. I’ve walked out with thousands.
Everything that failed, and everything that flew…. it all got boiled down into one program that I was excited to share with you.

And for all those reasons, it resonates with people, and it gets them results. You can’t fake that.

Now you can buy the program, and copy it, and try to sell it yourself (and YES someone basically DID do this!) and guess what? It won’t ever be as successful, because you can’t fake “real”.

The best news is that to be successful, you don’t have to do any of it perfectly.
But you do need to be your own, true imperfect self. 

You don’t need to go to Toastmasters and count your umms and ahhhhs. You don’t need to read from a perfectly crafted script and tell the same canned stories every time you talk.

Your message has to come from your heart, your soul, your experience. And when it does, and you share that with the world, it will resonate deeply with exactly the right people.

That’s what the Foo Fighters did, its why they won, and Dave Grohl summed it all up perfectly. Please watch the whole speech, listen, and hear what he’s saying. He’s speaking to you!

THE GRAMMY PEOPLE PULLED VIDEO, so let’s hear a resounding BOOOOOOO! Here is Dave’s speech:

 

“This is a great honour, because this record was a special record for our band. Rather than go to the best studio in the world down the street in Hollywood and rather than use all of the fanciest computers that money can buy, we made this one in my garage with some microphones and a tape machine…

 

“To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what’s important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do.

 

“It’s not about being perfect, it’s not about sounding absolutely correct, it’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].”

This Sennheiser Wireless Mic

Have a program, tool, or trick you love to use? Give me a shout so that I can include it next time!

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I’m going to share a story on the call today about a time I was getting ready to go speak at a pretty high-power office meeting, for a swanky commercial real estate firm downtown. (this was before the market tanked)

Mind you, I’m about 7 months pregnant at the time and still somewhat new to speaking.

And while I’m waiting to go in and speak to this group and try to sell tickets to a workshop coming up, a lady sits next to me in the lobby.

She turns to me and says, “just to warn you…. those guys in there” (pointing to the sharp-suited men, behind the glass wall conference room to our right)

“They will walk out out on you,
right in the middle of your talk if its not really, really good.
They don’t care. They don’t have the time to sit and listen
to someone for an hour.”

Greeeeat.

So now I’m pretty sure I want to leave. Or cry.
Or leave while crying.

I’m not going to tell you what happened next or it will ruin it for tomorrow’s call, but its important to remember that when you’re stepping up and putting yourself out there, there’s only one thing you can count on.

Anything can happen!

So you’ve got have a plan and some strategies to rely on.

Someone or something can throw you off your game in at a moment’s notice, and a plan of action can help you stay calm.

Here are a few helpful tips for you in case you get knocked off balance before an important phone call, sales presentation, or group presentation.

1. Have a GREAT MOOD playlist you can listen to whenever you need a boost. Mine includes: BLOW! by Kesha, Who Runs the World by Beyonce, I Gotta Feelin by the Black Eyed Peas, Be Somebody by Kings of Leon, and lots of other high energy power tunes.

2. Keep a success journal or “money list” where you keep a list of top successes, the big wins, and pictures and testimonials from your most raving fans!

3. Have a go to friend or colleague that you can call, and count on, to remind you stay in your power.

4. Move your body! Change your physical body and you’ll help change your state.

Have a few “power moves” to help you get pumped up if you’re feeling down (like clapping, dancing, or jumping jacks).

Plus a move or to that will help you get calm and centered too (like deep breathing exercises, Tai Chi, a Yoga pose or two)

These all may sound overly simplistic. However do not overlook their power. Small shifts in your tone, energy and outlook have a big impact on your ability to attract and close new clients!

Put these tips to use and let us know what happens! Hope to see you on the call!

Until we meet again…

Remember to speak your message and your mission in a way that converts more paying clients.
Serve your purpose in a bigger, brighter way.
Grow your business, do what you love ,and make more money!

Be well!

Kristin Thompson
Founder – Speaker – Coach

In the past week, from top selling Speak-to-Sell coaches to speaking tele-summits, everybody is out telling you to use speaking to grow your business!  (and they are right!)

But some are telling you….

• you don’t need “those fancy presentation skills”.
• just channel a higher power and let it “flow” through you.
• Forget about memorizing your talk!

And today, I’m calling everyone on their B.S. because it doesn’t serve you.

1. You don’t need fancy presentation skills, that’s true, but you will be more comfortable and confident, and you’ll appear more comfortable and confident when you have a little strategy behind what you do so well naturally.

A super, simple strategy for eye contact for instance, can help you connect faster, break down barriers, and close more of the room.

It will also make you appear more professional and more relaxed.

For instance scanning the room with your eyes, will make you look nervous and novice– even if you feel relaxed.

Whereas looking at one person at a time, talking to one person at any given moment, will give you a calm, confident, more trustworthy look and feel.

Which person do you think will close more business?

2. You can let a higher power flow through you if you want to, but winging it will NOT win you more clients. Any speaker who’s closing lots of business at the back of the room, and says they just wing it, simply isn’t telling you the truth.

Why? Creating a talk that builds momentum and creates a craving for people to want more of what you offer, isn’t an accident, or a miracle, or magic.

Its structure.

Structure sells. So be sure you know how to package your talk in way that really sets up the sale and leads people to the next step with you.

Within that structure you can totally let it rip! Be yourself, let your energy and personality shine, let spontaneous moments, happen, all of that is great!

However that spontaneity and “flow” needs to happen in way that still supports your greater goal of profitability and purpose!

3. Don’t memorize your talk, just be natural!  Well I’m straddling the middle road here because I don’t suggest you memorize every word of your talk. I don’t think its necessary and it can bog you down.

However memorizing the roadmap of your talk will help you:

• stay on time (critical to making money by the way)
• build momentum (also super important to your profitability)
• & lead you into your close properly (a must!)

When you know that you know your talk, you can relax, you can focus on connecting, and you can focus on the energy in the room. Its hard to give on a high level, when you’re distracted by trying to remember what you’re supposed to cover next!

I love that so many people want you to start speaking, and obviously my name is at the top of that list too! But you also know I will always tell it like it really is, from real-life experience selling one-on-one, and from the stage.

When is your next speaking gig? Remember you don’t have to do it perfectly— at all! But you will want to do a little planning first!

Let me know how I can help!

Until we meet again…

Remember to speak your message and your mission in a way that converts more paying clients.
Serve your purpose in a bigger, brighter way.
Grow your business, do what you love ,and make more money!

Be well!

Kristin Thompson
Founder – Speaker – Coach