A casual, recorded interview between Kenny Chapman (the "blue collar coach") and Larry Winget (described as the "pit bull of personal development") filmed over brunch in Phoenix. Kenny introduces Larry as an influence on his speaking career and opens a biographical discussion about how Larry began public speaking; the conversation will cover life, business, and speaking. (Recorded July 20, 2016.)
Chapters
Hey, my friends, Kenny Chapman here, the blue collar coach, alongside Larry Wingett, the pit bull of personal development. And thank you for joining us. Thanks for being here with us today. Larry and I are just having some brunch, cup of coffee together out here at his amazing place here in Phoenix, Arizona area. And he agreed to sit down and talk a little bit of life, talk a little business, talk, hopefully a little bit of trash here this morning. Thank you for being here, Larry. Oh, I'm glad to do it. I like talking trash, too. I'm good at this. You can do that a little. I'm super excited to share this time with all of you. And for me, selfishly, part of this is really about me because I came up as a desire or a speaker that wanted to speak more. And I always watched this guy and I would see him on stage as I saw him for the first time, I believe, in 2001, first time I ever saw you live from the stage. And it really stoked some things within me. And then all the books that you've written. And so you go from being like celebrity to mentor. You've coached me as a speaker. Now we've got to hang out a little bit. And now we're sharing a little bit of time together. And we all have these different paths now. You work with a lot of speakers, you help a lot of speakers in some of the things that you do. For Larry Wingett, what was kind of the background? Did you wake up one day and say, I'm going to go get in people's faces and become a public speaker? Or how? How did you decide I'm going to do this thing?
Get into speaking to begin with?
Yeah. Originally I had written a lot of.
Training material for AT&T, Southwestern Bell. I worked for AT and T. And when divestiture, remember, they broke the Bell system apart, I started my own telecommunications company, did real well, went to work one day, and the Corporation Commission in Oklahoma ruled that what I did in the telecommunications industry was no longer going to be legal. And they didn't grandfather me in. So I.
