TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

Question about how to become a motivational speaker. What are the educational requirements? Now, this is tricky. You look at some of the most famous motivational speakers in the world. Brian Tracy, for example, high school dropout, Anthony Robbins, no college whatsoever. Les Brown, not exactly a PhD, although he's a fantastic motivational speaker. And yet, Dr. Covey of the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, Stephen Covey professor and PhD so the educational span can be all across the spectrum from high school dropout to PhD. What's more important is your life education. Have you overcome tremendous adversity? The number one thing all great motivational speakers have is they have a great personal story about how they overcame adversity. And they have something other people could say, well, if he could do it, or she can do it, I can too. So that's the traditional way. The other thing that people find so compelling these days is someone who is wildly successful in one arena then talking about what they did in other arenas. So if you're Gary Vaynerchuk and you took a liquor store from $4 million a year to $60 million a year, and you did all through innovative YouTube video, that makes him a compelling motivational speaker. Even though he never went to school to be a motivational speaker. As far as I know, he's never taken a course in his life, public speaking. And by his own admission, he got C's and D's in high school and college. So it's not his formal education that's made him a compelling motivational speaker. It is what he's actually doing with his life and what he's overcome. That's what's most important when it comes to being a motivational speaker.