Mike Domitrz coaches speakers to stop imitating others and bring their real personality to the stage. He watches rehearsal footage with speakers the night before, helping them find their authentic self. Speakers who do this say they finally felt free to be themselves.
If you're silly and fun with your friends, find a way to be silly and fun on stage. If you are more stoic as a person, be stoic on stage. Just know how to bring it out of others, right? And so be you. I have coached many speakers and literally hung out with them the night before and the next morning watched their video and said, where were you in the video? And the people are honest. They're like, Mike, thank you, 'cause I felt that for a while, but I didn't know if I could be me. And one of the travesties of our industry is us trying to be other speakers. Be you. You got it all. You have everything you need to light up a room being who you are exactly as you are. We love you for who you are, not for being somebody else. I'd rather be with that person then, honestly, right? So I want you to be you.
