A speaker shares his pre-talk mantra: "I'm here to serve." It shifts focus from pleasing everyone to helping the people who need your message. He and his partner took an improv class where she won best improviser among 30 people, learning to recover from mistakes and lean into unexpected moments on stage.
I'm just going to jump back to that prior. I do remember one turning point when I go to an audience before I go up, I try to look at the audience. This is before I'm on stage from the side.
Yeah.
And to say, I'm here to serve. I'm here to serve.
Ah, that's huge.
And that's maybe what's calmed my nerves because I repeat that a thousand times. I'm here to serve. And I also know I'm not here to serve everyone. I'm here to serve who needs to be served right now through this message.
Gotcha. I love that. And that takes a lot of— well, it doesn't take the pressure off, but it refocuses the purpose.
It refocuses it. Yeah. It refocuses it. And when I make mistakes and stuff, I can recover from it because I know my purpose is to serve. Right. Kristen and I took an improv class. Yeah.
Yes, I heard about that. I love that you guys did that.
Such a powerful tool. Whatever happens, it's a yes and.
Was she comfortable with that? Because she's not the showwoman in this marriage.
It's interesting. She— because I do public speaking, some people have asked her to speak. What's it like to be married to that weirdo?
Yeah.
So she's done one or two public speeches. She gets really nervous. She does not like doing it.
Yeah.
In improv, she won best improv. There were 30 people in this class. She won. She won it. Yeah, I love it. She just leaned into it. I remember the instructor, it was so funny. He's point center, he goes, Dracula reading Little Miss Muffet to kindergartners, go. And she's like, I don't know if I can. Welcome children. And she did this big gesture. And it was like, it was so funny. She's like, I can't, I got— She's in it.
She was in it. Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet. Tommy, sit down, listen.
It'll bite you. So she was amazing and funny. And so she won. She's so naturally funny. So naturally funny. And I would argue she could be a great actor. She doesn't have the desire.
Yeah.
But you could crush it on stage.
