Masterclass
Public Speaking Natural, Fast

We try our best to be supportive of her.

But it’s just so awkward.

Watching her up there…

Her best friend has been imagining this day her entire life.

They’ve perfectly prepared every detail of the wedding, including Michelle’s bridesmaid speech.

She’s written and re-written every word.

Read and re-read it hundreds of times, and now she stands up to read it for the last time.

Hands shaking, even after the obligatory handful of drinks.

Voice quivering, she begins awkwardly reading—

So, I’ve known Carol since I was 11…

And who would have thought that girl chasing boys around the school yard would be here today having caught her man….

Hehhehehehhe.

We try our best, don’t we?

To support the Michelles and Michaels we see reading nervously at most weddings, right?

We do the same in the workplace, encouraging people uncomfortably boring us on stage.

And just about everywhere else where people are forcing themselves to speak unnaturally in public.

But it’s often hard, isn’t it?

Certainly in business where you’re forced to listen to tiring speakers.

But also at celebratory events like weddings where the speech they’re reading is laced with wonderful emotions and sentiment…

Somehow falls flat when it’s read like a boring earnings report.

Not to be critical…

I don’t write this to mock all of us who struggle with public speaking because…

I’ve most certainly been here too.

In business and life I’ve done plenty of awkward speaking.

And even when standing in public became my career, I had no clue how to do it well.

At the first live training I did for public speaking…

The teacher went around the room and asked, “How many of you are nervous about public speaking?”

In a room of hundreds, only a small number of hands went up.

Partly I learned because many of the participants had done plenty of public speaking, and some others were still too nervous to even put up their hands!

I put my hand half up.

The straight-to-the-point teacher asked me, “Why is your hand only half up? You either are or you aren’t nervous about public speaking?”

I said, “Well it’s because I don’t know…

I’ve never really done any public speaking, so I don’t know how hard it will be for me.”

Chuckling to himself and the room he said…

“Well you’re either incredibly stupid or brave showing up to an advanced training having never done it before.”

Perhaps stupid, certainly impatient.

Brave I am not.

But moreso I was there because I wanted to get good at public speaking, FAST.

Here I was having never written anything of substance, now writing a book.

I was already recording video programs and starting to line up public speaking without any clue what I was doing.

And I needed to learn fast.

Not over two years.

Not from showing up doing fake speeches to fake audiences like Toastmasters.

I was already taking it live and I needed to learn how to do it well, fast.

Get good, FAST!

I only jump in the deep end which means I must learn to swim fast.

Before I’d ever trained MMA I was standing in a gym full of UFC fighters, and I’ve learned most things the same way.

The same is true for most of my clients.

Anyone with serious goals wants to get moving now, well, actually yesterday, so if you can’t get the skills you need fast you’re already behind.

But it’s not just about speed either.

It’s about precision, and skill.

Often in life we think that it takes time to get good at things, that learning is simply a matter of experience…

Whereas we can get as good as we choose at things as fast as we want, so long as we’re willing to dedicate ourselves to learn.

Often necessity is the mother of learning and forcing ourselves to do something demands we learn fast.

It’s like AOC.

Whatever you think of her politics, this young woman was thrust onto the world stage somewhat overnight.

It’s too late then to spend years learning to publicly speak.

By the time you must get up and speak, it’s often all on the line, and to do it well…

To do it fast…

Do it naturally.

See, one thing that is very strange in this fear worse than death of public speaking is…

We’ve all been speaking in public most of our lives!

It’s just our brains are led to believe that doing this thing called public speaking is some special type of speaking.

When we can train ourselves to see it as natural as any conversation.

This was one of the most massive evolutions for me.

Not just that when you see it the same as any conversation you never need or want to see your audience naked.

When you can simply public speak naturally, you can do it naked!

Meaning, without the usual type of preparation.

Like needing hours or days or weeks to write a script.

That you best try to memorize.

That you best try to stand up there and regurgitate.

Here we’re learning to do it naturally.

This was the biggest challenge I found.

Even after I had read perhaps hundreds of books on communications and influence, trained in public speaking, and been doing some speaking and video programs.

There was still something massive missing.

I’d done all that training, had a good grasp on the many nuances of public speaking.

Yet, I still didn’t know—

How do you best prepare your materials to speak?

Back then I was still doing the best I knew, which was writing up a script to memorize and try to regurgitate.

That approach was a whole lot better than poor Michelle awkwardly reading her bridesmaid script.

But it was still massively lacking.

And when it came to a much harder form of public speaking, doing live TV, I knew it would be a total failure.

Taking it live.

On live TV, you don’t even know what questions you’re getting, let alone your best answers.

And, by the time I was lining up to do live TV, I’d still done little public speaking, and I was showing up to talk about a very challenging topic…

My book on how Trump won.

I knew it was an inflammatory topic, people would try to pull me into politics, when I was only there to talk about how he used influence to win.

So I needed to prepare myself for battlefield conditions, having never done any TV!

At this point I was natural with all the topics on public speaking we discuss in this program.

Getting your mind into the right place.

The principles of public speaking, and so on.

I’d modeled TV presenters and trained.

But it was the work I did on bringing together your messaging that capped off this program for me.

Prepare for public speaking natural, FAST.

I needed to bring together the best I had studied and trained on public speaking with what you need to well deliver a message live.

Not reading a script. Not even knowing what you might be asked.

But to have a method for “loading up” your best ideas in your mind so you can confidently just…

Well, speak naturally.

Just like you would in any regular conversation.

You don’t call up your Mom and read a script, and don’t we want to publicly speak the same way?

Isn’t that what we want?

So if someone asks you to stand up and say a few words right now, do you want to tell them you need a couple of weeks to prepare?

To write up your script, memorize it, Thomas The Tank Engine yourself into it—

I think I can, I think I can…

Of course not.

When it comes to public speaking naturally, well, you want to learn and do this FAST.

Hence, what we’re doing here is the opposite of public speaking unnaturally, slow…

In this program you’re learning to become a Public Speaking Natural, FAST!

By working through a powerful method to:

Prepare yourself to engage your audience.
Seeing speaking as about your audience, you free yourself to deliver your best performance for them.

Quickly master the principles of public speaking.
Not a bunch of long-winded ideas on how you master public speaking, but the principles you can learn and use right away.

How you deliver for your audience.
How do you best load up your ideas in your mind? And have a method to move your audience from beginning to end?