LIVE: How to Become a Masterful Speaker on Any Stage

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Want to know where you guys are from Berlin, Germany, uk, Belgium, Puerto Rico. Oh, wow. Oh, this is flying fast. Brazil, India, Barcelona. Wow. Okay. There are people from all over the world. This is incredible. Netherlands, lots of people from the U.S. beautiful. Canada, Colombia. Amazing. Guys, this is going to be super fun. It's going to be super, super fun. One of the things I, I wanna, I wanna first let me introduce myself. My name is Gautam Khetrabad. You know I, I run a India's first transformational festival company called Life Plugin. I teach Buddhist psychology and relational mindfulness and all that kind of stuff. But one of the things you really need to know about me, why I'm here and why I'm hosting this is because, you know, 10 years ago mindvalley changed my life. That's the real reason that you need to know. It's been an incredible journey and when I say it, I really, really mean it. It's the way I think, the way I look, the way I have my relationships, the way I lead my teams and every single thing has been dramatically transformed ever since I was exposed to Mindvalley. I can spend the rest of my life saying thank you to Mindvalley and it's not enough. And so that's the reason why I'm here. And Vishen and Eric Edmids who you're about to hear from, these are the two, two most significant teachers in my journey and you know, the gifts that they have given me. It's, it's an incredible privilege that I get to do what I get to do. It's because of these two guys. So I am really, really, really excited to be here, you know and one of the, one of the things I want to, I want to talk about 10 years ago when I, when I met Vishen and you know, he guides us through this exercise called three most Important Questions. If you haven't checked that exercise out, it's 20 minutes life changing exercise. And one of the things that you get in people's, it gives you like a blueprint of your soul. Like what are your deepest loving aspirations about your, your life? And one of the biggest goals that people put over and over and over again in their three most important questions is to give a TED Talk is to speak on some of the largest platforms on the planet. That's been consistently the number One answer people respond to which speaks to, you know, first. Like the type of people that join in mindvalley that follow this space. They are people who are making a big difference in the world and want to expand their impact further. And this is the number one aspiration for all the people who are here, that mindvalley unites, you know. So this subject is what we're going to explore here, you know. So are you guys excited for that? All right, I want to read you. Amazing. Yes. I want to read you this, this quote by Eric. He told me this seven years ago, the first time. Well, one of the first times I was learning from him. He said, you are one talk away from the next massive breakthrough in your life. You're one talk away. And so that's when I, when I, when I was hearing this concept for the first time, I, I was inspired by it, but I was also like intimidated by it. But here's what happened. Three months after, after training with Eric, he, he was training me in a three in a five day intensive workshop. And three months after I trained with him, I got in, invited to speak on TED tedx and I gave a talk. And that Talk got over 5 million views. It just exploded my career. And you know, from that moment, this was seven years ago, I am still getting invites to this day because people are watching that talk. So when he speaks about, you are one talk away from your next massive breakthrough in your life. This, like, it's real and it's profound, it's intimidating. And once you go through this experience, you will see how much of transformation you can experience in your life. This subject is so, so, so meaningful. And as we're about to kick off this, this live webinar and this experience with Eric, I want to share one of the things I also learned from him. It's about how do you activate your learning, your, your learning in your brain? Because, you know, we are so conditioned to learn passively. You know, we're conditioned to learn scrolling through Instagram feeds and reels and stuff like that. And we just sit and the content comes through, passes away, comes through, passes away. Not much gets retained. And so one of the things is, is when we ask you to participate, when we ask you to, even as simple as raise your hand, put something in the chat, you know, every time you do that engagement, you do that active participation, that is a signal to your neurology that hey, this stuff is important, pay attention. And the depth of your learning just by doing that simple act deepens significantly. So when I ask you some things and Eric asks you some things. Make sure that you actively participating, actively engaging. And here's the question I want to start with. I give you about 30 seconds. But if you could think, if there's. If you could become the best speaker you can uniquely be, if you could become the best speaker you could uniquely be, how might your life transform? Put that in the chat and let's look through some answers. If you could become the best speaker you can be uniquely, how might your life transform? All right, let's see it. Massively. Okay. Living my dream. Massively, Massively. Purpose driven freedom exponentially Better connections. Change the world. More abundance. Wow. Okay, this is flying fast. Incredible. So this is the stuff that we're going to be talking about. Great. Wow. Okay, so I'm going to be introducing Eric to you. He doesn't really need any introduction on most stages in the world. You know, he's, he's been, he's spoken with some of the truly legendary speakers around the world. From Tony Robbins to Richard Branson to Jack Canfield, John Grave, President Bill Clinton. He is incredible. You know, he's the founder of Speaker Nation. It's a community where members can practice public speaking and presentation skills. You know, really, when I say safe environment, I've personally experienced it. It is incredible. Not just safe environment, but people elevate each other profoundly. Eric was awarded a medal by the speaker of the Canadian Senate for his work on improving the quality of people's life. That's the depth of impact this guy brings. He's the creator of behavioral chain dynamics. And you know, it's a process that harnesses psychology and transformative language patterns to permanently rewire the human mind for peak performance. This is the aspect that I want to talk about. This. Eric is one of those few people who has this ability. He will come and he will speak to you. That's it. He will come and he will speak to you and your life will be permanently different than it was before. That unique ability, that's a gift that he brings. I, I studied his wife program, Health transformation program in 2016. That's eight years ago. My health is permanently different. I never went back to my old health patterns after spending one, one program with him digitally. And then he transformed my speaking ability permanently. I've never been the same speaker ever again. And so that is a unique ability that very, very, very few people have in the world. And today we get to see how that might manifest for you. You know, how that you can express in a way that you can permanently shift Transform the people around you, the people that you speak with, your loved ones, your team and the world at large. So this is the stuff that we're going to be talking about. Are you guys excited? Okay. We're going to be talking about the stage effect. And you know Eric, he has been. Yeah. By the way, Eric has been one of the greatest speakers on mindvalley platform. I, I don't know, I think he, he gets bored by the amount of times he's, he's been rated the number one speaker at most of mindvalley events he's been speaking at. He's incredible. And so this is the time that we welcome him. Okay, we're going to welcome him. And the next two, roughly two hours, two to two and a half hours will be the most important time that you will spend for the rest of your life when it comes to your self expression. So good luck and please welcome Eric. Eric, come on up.

Hey, Gotham. Gotham. Thank you so very much. I am very, very. It's so good to see you by the way. It is so good to see you. And I really, I cherish the journey that you and I have been on now for almost a decade. That's pretty exciting. It's really nice to hear you talk about that. Welcome, everybody.

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Welcome everybody. I am Eric Edmeads. I am absolutely excited to be here with you right now. This is one of my favorite topics in the world. And if any of you have been following me for a little while or if you know me through the mindvalley platform, you'll know that I quite often speak on health, you know, relative to WildFit, and I quite often speak on entrepreneurship and business. And of course I really love to speak about speaking and communication. And the reason those are my three topics is that those are the three gifts I gave myself that changed my life so much. I mean, like I think about, if you were to look at me at the age of 20 and plot the direction my life was going in, it was ending up in a very different place than I than I am today. And I'm very grateful for those shifts. And one of the, one of the, one of these gifts, this gift of overcoming my fear of public speaking and then developing the skills involved in being able to tell stories and communicate and coach people and transform people, well, it's completely changed my life and opened opportunities to me that I can't even begin to imagine. So I saw some of you speculating in the, in the comments. Maybe you've heard some rumors, maybe you've heard Some rumors that it's time for Eric to have a quest on speaking at mindvalley. Who thinks that we should do that? I'm just curious. Who of you think that we should take all this information and turn it into a quest so that all the mindvalley members around the world and all the new members that are joining all the time time can. Can learn about this? You guys think we should do it? Well, if we agreed to do it now. If we agreed to do it now, I'd have to go to the studio, I'd have to go and record it, then they'd have to edit it, then they'd have to brand it, then they'd have to promote it, and it would probably be out about a year from now. Who's willing to wait a year? I just. Who's willing. Who's willing to wait a year? Luckily for you, we made this decision a couple of months ago. We made this decision about a year ago, in fact. And I've already been in the studio and the editing's already been done. And. And so I want to talk to you a little bit about this quest that's coming up. And don't worry, I am really here to share with you guys practical strategies and skills that you can use. And I want to share them in a way that if you then go on and do the quest, the quest will be even more meaningful you. Because. Meaningful for you. The quest, the stage effect is launching very soon, and we're going to talk about that a little bit later on. But I want you to know why it's there. I want you to know why we chose to do it. You'll notice that on mindvalley, very often authors that have quests, they. They're focused on a particular area. They're focused on a particular area of expertise that they're in. And when I first joined mindvalley, that's how it was. I brought Wildfit, and Wildfit was. By the way, any of you who have done Wildfit or you're doing Wildfit, if it's been great for you, just let me know in the chat. I love what you know. Mindvalley has helped me to expose Wildfit to like, tens of thousands of people, probably over 100,000 people around the world. There you go. Lots of you. Lots of you. And so you know what what happened was, is that within the mindvalley community, I very quickly got kind of branded as the health guy, which was appropriate because we were transforming health all over the world. We were transforming health inside the mindvalley team. I mean, it was magical. It was magical. But then people started asking some questions, and one of the questions they're asking is, how is it that I can watch this quest? And I want to keep watching it every single day. That I want to keep watching it every single day. What. What is it that keeps drawing me back? And then why is it that a month after it's over, two months after over, I'm still thinking about it, I'm still thinking about the stories? And then why is it that people walk up to me two or three years after they've done the program, and then they can tell me back the stories that. That they heard? Right. Like, that's fascinating. Right? And so Vishen and I got talking a little bit about that and about the way we designed, you know, the way we designed Wildfit and the way we design our programs and that kind of stuff. And we. We've really collaborated on a lot of things that way. And so one day we had this conversation about storytelling and the power of it. And I mentioned something to Vishen. I said, well, you know, one of the reasons that speaking is so very powerful is because there's something called the stage effect. There's something called the stage effect. And the stage effect is an unfair competitive advantage. That's what the stage effect is. It's an unfair competitive advantage. Now, unfair isn't really fair, because the truth of the matter is, is if you've invested in yourself and you've become comfortable and confident with presenting your information, you've become a good storyteller, you've worked on it, you've practiced it, then it's not an unfair competitive advantage. It's just a competitive advantage, and maybe the most powerful competitive advantage that exists. And here's how it works. When you stand in front of an audience or in front of a camera and you put yourself at risk, you know, you stand there and you share authentically from your heart, and you share your life experiences, your perspectives, your thoughts. When you do that, you. You create an interesting magnetic attraction from the audience. And there's a formula that can kind of help you to understand this. The formula works like this. It's the size of the audience times the quality of your presentation. Right? The size of the audience times the quality of your presentation. So if you give an outstanding presentation for 100 people, then that's going to create a very high degree of attraction among those hundred people. But if you give an outstanding presentation in front of 10,000 people, then the attraction factor is multiplied dramatically. This is basically how celebrity works. And why this is so powerful is that one way to compare it is imagine that you have two business consultants, right? Two business coaches, business consultants. And they both go to the same event. They both go to the same networking event. And maybe they're buddy coaching each other, and they're saying, hey, you know what? Let's see who can meet the most people. Let's see who can meet the most people. So they go there with their business cards in their pocket and their freshly polished elevator pitch. Elevator pitch? Really? Like elevator pitch? Like one pitch you can use on every single person? I don't think so, but that's what a lot of people do. And they go. The first consultant goes to the event and uses his or her elevator pitch and gets all these business cards, changes business cards with all these people. Then the other one, about a month before the conference, contacted the conference organizers and said, hey, I'd love to come and speak at your event. Here's my bio, here's the book I wrote, or here's the business I started, or here's the accomplishments I've had in my life, and here's the value that I'm going to create for your audience. And so the second consultant goes to the event, stands on stage in front of everybody and shares valuable information in an engaging, entertaining way. So who's going to meet the most people? Consultant A with the elevator pitch or consultant B with a stage effect? Tell me in the chat who's going to meet more people? Okay, it's pretty obvious, right? But, but wait a second now. Maybe, maybe it's not that obvious. So let's, let's try. That's test one, but let's try test two. Test two is consultant A, a week after the conference starts, going through the business cards and calling the people they met. You know, the people they met for 30 seconds at this display and for 38 seconds over here with their elevator pitch. And the four people they actually did meet in the elevator with their elevator pitch. And they start calling the people. And the calls are going to be pretty much like this. Yeah, hi, it's consultant A. You remember we met at the conference. No, we were over by the Starbucks. The blue shirt, like it's going to be like that. They're, they're not necessarily going to remember you because, well, they met a lot of people that day. And if you only had an elevator pitch and you didn't have the stage effect. But now I want you to imagine that you were at that conference. And I was consultant B. All right? And then a week after the conference, I got your business card at the conference because you came and gave to me. And then I called you. Now I was on stage and I shared valuable information that you've been using ever since. And you've been thinking about it and then all of a sudden your phone rings and you hear me going, hey, it's Eric, consultant B from the conference. Tell me the emotional reaction you're going to have to consultant be calling you. What's the emotional reaction? Are you going to remember them? And what's your, what's your reaction going to be? Because what I'm thinking is you're going to be blown away. You're going to be blown away. The guy from the stage called me. This is the unfair competitive advantage that the stage effect is. And so when Vishen and I were talking about the stage effect and the transformative power of storytelling, again, for those of you who've done Wildfit, you know what I'm talking about. Is it possible, have any of you had this experience with me or anybody else, but with me, if you've done Wildfit where I've shared a story with you and that story's made you think and it's made you maybe laugh and it's made you pause, and then a week later you were in a restaurant or in a grocery store and you were about to make, say, a low quality decision, and that my story popped up into your head and helped you make a good quality decision. Who's had that experience? Who's had that, that, that epiphany moment where I've. There it is. We call it a Frankl moment. It's named after Viktor Frankl. And it's a moment where you get to choose your destiny. And my job as a speaker, as a trainer, as a coach, as a mentor is to create for you as many moments to alter your destiny as possible. And how do I do that? Well, I do that through transformative storytelling and through the use of the stage effect. And when Vishen and I had that conversation, it became really, really clear that the mindvalley community needs and wants the stage effect. And I'm going to tell you a little bit why. Have any of you felt like some of the people in positions of power, in, say, political power around the world might be the wrong people? Has anybody felt that there's some of that going on in the world? Just some of the people might not be the best people at the moment? Yeah, no kidding. No kidding. And you know what the crazy thing is? You know what? Most of them have a platform and they learn how to speak. And you know why they did that? Because they watched what happened with John F. Kennedy. John F. Kennedy was a terrible speaker. He was a terrible speaker. Even his own relatives said to him, dude, give up on that. But he worked on it and he worked on it and then he changed the world. Winston Churchill before like. No, it's same thing. Like before he, he also, he had a speech impediment that was so bad that when he, when he escaped the police in South Africa, he was a reporter and he got caught by the police and then he escaped from the prison and he was running across the country to escape and they issued a bulletin that said we're hunting down this guy Winston Churchill. Of course they didn't know he was going to be the Prime Minister of England one day. He was just some reporter reporting on things they didn't want reported. And in the wanted poster it spoke about his speech impediment. That's how you could recognize the guy. He was not good at public speaking. And many of you have seen the movie the King's Speech. The reality is, is that it is absolutely worth overcoming any hesitation, any concern, any lack of confidence that you have in your own ability to project. Because when you do, you magnify your influence in a major way. And as far as I can tell, and I've been hanging around the mindvalley community for a very long time, I went to my first A fest back in Mykonos, Greece a long time ago. And I've met mindvalley people all over the world. And my feeling is, is if the mindvalley community had let's say 10 times the influence that it does right now for like each person had 10 times influence, I feel like that might make a measurable impact on the planet. Who's with me on that? You guys? Are you with me? Like if the Mind Valley people, the people that are here devoting to their education, devoting to their self development, had 10 times the influence, I think we would have a measurable impact on the planet. And so with all that said, Vishen and I came together and said it's time for the stage effect to come to Mindvalley. And so yes, there is a quest coming. We'll talk a little bit more about that later on. Now I want to give you some powerful strategies for how you can use the stage effect in your life. So first thing, in order to use something you have to Understand the why of it. You have to understand why it works properly. Like, you know, if you really understand the why, it helps you to really, like, use that tool in a powerful way. So here's ultimately the why. There was a time. And I know for some of you that are a little younger, this might be frightening, what I'm about to say. It's a trauma warning. Trauma warning. There was a time before Netflix and, and, and, and there was also a time before even television. And do you know what people did before television? No kidding. What people did. Families would sit around and listen to the radio together. Can you imagine? Can you imagine going out to any family, going now and saying, hey, guys, would you guys like to sit in a circle and listen to the radio? Anybody think that that's going to fly? No, not at all. But, but wait a second. There was. There was a time before the radio. There was a time before the radio. And, and that time was a lot longer than the time after the radio. I mean, we've had the radio and television and Netflix for about five seconds of human history. For the other hundreds of thousands of years, we had fire. And we sat around the fire and we spoke and we shared stories. And those stories became our primary learning mechanism outside of actually doing things. And so you would hear stories around the fire and they would get embedded into your mind and they would become the lessons that would guide your survival. And so here's an example. Again, let's imagine that consultant A had a great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather, and consultant B also had one. And you're at fire A. And at fire A, the guy managing fire A, he's just not that good a storyteller. His stories are boring. They're kind of drawn out. You know, he misses the punch lines. He uses no tone of voice. There's no logic to the story. But at fire B, that guy. That guy is like, super entertaining. But more than super entertaining. There was the one time when he told you a story about how he got cornered by a pack of hyenas. And he tells you how he got away from them, what noises he made, how he picked up sticks and made himself look really tall and he faced them down and they backed off. And. And you heard that story and you thought, wow, now I know what to do if I'm in that situation. Well, let me ask you a question for the rest of your life. Which fire are you going to choose to sit around? Which fire are you going to sit at? Fire A with the lackluster. Boring. I mean, it's obviously very clear. You're going to sit at Fire B. And the equivalent of that today is the subscribe button on YouTube or the follow button on Instagram. You see, if you come to my Instagram channel, for example, and one day I share a perspective with you about business or health or public speaking or just life in general, and you go, you know, that just might change some things for me. That. That's a perspective that I really needed. That's a different way I've thought about relationships, or that's a different angle on parenting, and I'll never make that mistake again. The minute you have that feeling that my life might be better as a result of this story, you hit subscribe, or you buy the ticket, or you go to the retreat, or you sign up for the seminar, or you buy the book or you engage in the program. Are you guys with me on this? Does it make sense? So, so then how do we be Fire B? How do we be consultant B? How do we be engaging, attractive? How do we tell stories in a way that's unforgettable, that's transformative? Okay, so here are some tips. I want you in the chat to tell me what the ratio should be between lecture, which is, like, valuable information, right? Lecture, and story, which is a journey that you're taking people on. So you can't be all story, right? Because you got to teach them. You got to give them some knowledge. So what do you guys think? What percentage? Tell me lecture versus story. What do you guys think? I'm seeing 20 to 80? I'm seeing 50. 50. Wow. You guys have a lot of answers here. 70, 70, 30. Wow. Okay, so there's a variety of thoughts about this. And by the way, there's no distinctly right answer as long as story is equal to or greater than lecture. That's. That's the deal. And. And so here's a little metaphor I have for you. How many of you guys played that game when you were a kid? You know, where if the balloon touches the ground, it explodes? And kids are morbid. I. I caught my daughter playing this game the other day. I go, what are you doing at the balloon? She goes, it's a bomb. What do you mean it's a bomb? She goes, I have to keep it from touching the floor. If it touches the floor, then we all blow up. I'm like, where? How do I help? How do I. And of course, I remember that I played that game as a kid. But as you think about that game, how many of you guys played this Game, you know, you keep the, Keep the balloon in the air. It can't touch the ground. So here's the thing. I want you to think of a talk being a bit like that, that the audience's engagement and their energy is the. Is the balloon. And you need to keep it up. You need to keep it up and keep it going. And when you start to lecture, it might start to fall down a little. It might start to come down a bit. And so if you notice the audience is starting to come down a little because you've been lecturing, then you need to jump in with a little joke or with a little story or something that lifts them back up again. And so if you watch any of my talks on YouTube, you'll see that I'm trying to balance between lifting the audience up with engagement and storytelling and humor and then teaching them really important points. And if you get that formula right, you're taking them on this emotional roller coaster that will create real transformation. The next piece to understand about this that's so vitally important is that what is it that creates a memory? Like, why do people remember some things and forget the others? Like, why is it that last week you couldn't find your keys or your cell phone or your glasses or whatever? I was looking for my. I was looking for my sunglasses the other day and I looked bloody everywhere and then they were on my head. Who's had this experience? I don't admit it. Don't. Don't admit it out loud. But the point is, is that our memory is kind of funny, right? Like, some things we remember vividly, clearly. Some things, they just, they're just gone. And then some things we remember them in a foggy way or we get them wrong. Like, how many of you have had the conversation with a friend? We're like, you remember that time we were in Toronto? No, that wasn't in Toronto. It was in Vancouver, you know, and. And you both have the memory, but you remember it differently. Memory is a really funny thing. But here's the deal about memory. Emotion is both the anchor that sets a memory and the indexing system by which you can access that memory. Emotion locks in the memory and indexes the memory. So what I mean by that is that if you have a day where you don't really have much in the way of. You don't really have much in the way of emotional response, then that day is likely to just disappear into the banks of non memory. It's a non memorable day. You know, it's. That's It. But if something that day happens, like something really significant, then you're going to remember at least that part of the day. And the more significant it is, the locked. The more locked that memory is going to become. So, you know, some of you, if you follow me on Instagram or if you know me, you, you, you'll know that my. My girlfriend and one of our daughters and I were on a plane a couple years ago, about a year and a half ago, and suddenly, suddenly we heard this alarm bell. And the cabin crew went running through. And then the plane went into a steep dive directly at the planet. And the captain came on and made an announcement. And he shouted the announcement so loudly and he was so scared that we couldn't even hear what he said. And then oxygen masks dropped out of the plane and we really thought we were. It was over. And by the way, we survived and everything was fine, but we plunged like that for six minutes. It was pretty terrifying, I can tell you. I remember the slightest details about that day. I remember the people that were sitting beside me. I remember the family that was in front of me. I remember watching the father put his own mask on and then wrestle with his son to put his mask on because the son didn't want the mask. And I remember thinking, wow, that whole put the auction mask on first thing is real. Like, very real. And I remember that day vividly, vividly. Why? Because the emotional intensity was so incredibly strong. So here's the thing. Once you recognize that emotions are absolutely key to locking in memorable presentations, then again, that comes back to the metaphor of keeping the balloon in the air. What that means is that you want to do a presentation, you want to deliver a presentation that is going to keep people having emotional experiences. Those emotional experiences can be up, like happiness, joy, humor, or sometimes they can be down. How many of you have been to a talk where the speaker shared a story that made you cry and you were grateful for the lesson that you got from feeling that. That heavy emotion? Who's. Who's had an experience like that? Right? So it's not all about making people feel good. It's about making people feel. It's about making people feel. And so again, making sure that stories are a key component now. And this is really going to help you when you do the stage effect. So listen very carefully to this. Well, let me ask a question before that. I'm going to ask the question and take a drink while you answer. Are you ready? Here's the question. How many of you feel like you probably don't really have, you know, great stories like you can understand. Other people have great stories, but you, you. You're. You're. You. Maybe you don't really. You don't know. You don't think you do. Okay, Yeah, I can see it. I see that a lot of you feel that way. I want you to really hear me. If you are alive right now and you have ever been in pain, if you have ever triumphed over adversity, if you have ever celebrated joyously, if you have ever been in deep love, if you have ever been betrayed, if you've ever had any of these experiences of peak emotional intensity, any of them, then there's absolutely no question that you have stories that are incredibly and deeply valuable to the right audience. Of this there is no question. Now, I want to introduce you guys to a concept that we talk a lot about at Speaker Nation, and it's the concept of Rembrandts in the Attic. Rembrandts in the attic. It's an old real estate metaphor, and the metaphor works like this, that you're looking at an old farmhouse that you've been thinking about buying as an investment property. And the. The couple that has the house, they. They're asking like 180, 000 for the house. And you've looked around and it's quite nice, and you decided to take a look out into the old barn. And then you, you know, you walk along and you come into the house, you go up to the attic, and you're looking around. And while you're up there in the attic, you see there's a bunch of old, you know, art stacked up against the wall. And you start moving through it just. Just out of idle curiosity. I mean, it's a full estate sale. So the house comes with everything that's in it, and. And all of a sudden you look down and you recognize one of the paintings. It's covered in dust and the frame's a little banged up, but it's a Rembrandt. It's a Rembrandt that's worth about $6 million. Why is it the old couple doesn't realize this? Because the Rembrandt's been sitting there for so long, it's lost value to them. They never understood. Your life experience feels like that to you. Your life experience feels like just the last logical thing that happened to you. Like, of course that happened. Of course I started this business, or of course I went through that divorce, or of course I had these children. Of course. Of course I did those things that's my life, you know, that doesn't make me special. Yeah, it does. Because I can guarantee you that there are things that you have come over in your life that other people need help getting over. There's no question about that. And I can tell you right now that I know a huge number of the most famous speakers and authors in the personal development space. In fact, many of them are very, very good friends of mine. And one joke that we have amongst a bunch of us that kind of hang out quite regularly is that we've all just found a way to create a career, to create a profitable career out of our biggest dysfunctions. Like, look, I had a major problem with food. I managed to turn that around. I was terrified of public speaking. I managed to fix that one up pretty good. It's worked out fairly well for me so far. The fact of the matter is, is that your life has involved life experiences that are like Rembrandts in the attic. You can't necessarily see the value of them. You can't necessarily see the value of them, but somebody else could. And by the way, how many of you ever had the experience where you're kind of sharing a story and it's not that, you know, to you, oh, yeah, this happened to me. And then somebody goes, really? You went through that? My God, I'm going through something really similar and you sharing that. How many of you had something like that? There you go. You found a Rembrandt like you found one in five seconds. Here's what you really need to know. You don't have only one Rembrandt in the attic. You have a collection of them. You have a collection of them. And so I'm going to give you a homework assignment. Are you guys up for a homework assignment? Are you guys actually. Are you guys just here to watch this like it's a Netflix special? Or are you here to do. Is anybody here to do you actually want to do and make change? So if you're here to take action, if you're really here to take action and make measurable change so that you, you, you. You really start to have the impact you on the world. Here's your homework assignment. If you don't already have. Otter. AI. Otter. AI. OtTER. Somebody type it in the chat for me. Somebody who knows what I'm talking about. Otter. AI. Here's the thing. Otter is a transcription tool. So basically you turn it on and it listens to what you're saying and records the audio of what you're saying. And then, and then it transcribes it for you. So in Otter, I have one called Personal Journal. Personal stories. And when something happens to me that I know might be valuable, I can't see right now why it's going to be valuable, but I know one day it is. I just know one day it is. You know how I know? Because I had an intense emotional response to it. So that means it's valuable. Then I take out Otter, and I go story entry. And I just tell Otter what happened. I don't tell it full story. I don't have to do the full story. I just go, hey, I. I was on the plane. This happened. Here's some details that I want to remember, and so on. And then I put it in Otter and I get the transcription of it. And that is how I now build story journals. Look, when I first started speaking, there was no Otter. How did I build story journals? I took out a pen and paper and wrote them down, and I filled journals full of them. Journals full of them. Hey, and if you're old school and you want to do it on paper and pen, go for it. But I got to tell you, it's so easy. Now. You just. You just. Matter of fact, let's say you're about to tell a story to your friends that you think is kind of a funny story. Next time you're about to do that, take out your phone, open up Otter, throw it on the table. Tell the story. Tell the story. Now, I want you to imagine something, because right now, you kind of. You kind of understand a little bit why I'm saying this to you. A little bit. But I don't think you understand the magic yet. Here's where we start moving toward the magic. I want you to imagine that you're at a mindvalley event. You're at Mind Value, okay? You're at Mind Value. And all of a sudden, somebody from the mindvalley team walks up to you and they go, hey, listen. Hey, Cheryl. Hey. Hey, Harry. Hey. Hey, Ray. I see you guys there. Hey, Marco. Listen, something's happened. And the speaker that was about to go and do the breakout session in this room over there, they missed their connection at the airport, and we only just found out in 15 minutes. Could you give a presentation on this topic? Now, I'm just curious, before I continue with this, how many of you would be terrified when that happened? Like, they came, you'd be like, why are you talking to me? How many of you would be freaking out, terrified? I get it. I totally get it. I really, really get it? That was me in the old days. I might actually have vomited. I might have actually vomited if somebody said that to me. But here's the deal. One of the reasons that you're terrified is, is that you wouldn't necessarily know what to say because nobody's taught you really effective speech writing. Nobody's really taught you how to build a presentation. And I can tell you, in the Stage Effect Quest, we go through my entire speechwriting format so that you really understand how to do that, so that you can design a talk and never, ever need notes again. How about that? How about do a talk where you never need slides. You can use them, but you don't need them. This is magical. So now let me show you how I'm going to make you feel instantly better. Now imagine that the mindvalley person came up to you and said, could you please do a talk in 15 minutes? And I'd like you to speak about customer service, just about how to improve customer service. And you're like, I'm not an expert in that. But you open up your story journal and you do a search on quotes Customer service. And you notice that over the last year, you've collected eight funny, good, interesting stories on customer service. They're right there in front of you. And as you read them, you go, oh, yeah, there was that time with United Airlines where this woman was just amazing and she took care of everything. Oh, but there was that other time when I was at Starbucks and that barista was just. And she did this and that. And this is what she. Now, suddenly, now that you've been reminded that you have five really interesting stories about customer service, how many of you would feel infinitely better about going and helping mindvalley out and speaking at the event just because you had that? Just with that, how many of you feel instantly better? There you go. This is a game changer. Right here, right now. You start collecting the Rembrandts. Whether you do it on paper or whether you do it on Otter, or you do it in your Evernote or you do it in Google Docs, I don't care. What I do care about is that. And this is. This is the. I'm going to ask you to make a pledge. I know a lot of you are going to want to do the Stage Effect quest when it comes out in the first intake, and that's going to be amazing. But here's my undertaking to you. I want you to commit that you're going to capture at least 10 stories that between now and when you do that quest, you're going to capture at least 10 stories. Capture doesn't mean perfect them. It doesn't mean that you're going to write them out perfectly with your great prose. It just means that you're going to capture them in one way or another. So how many of you absolutely commit that you're going to capture at least 10 stories between now and then? All right, that's excellent. That's excellent, guys. I'm so excited by that because it means you're action takers, and that's really inspiring to me. All right, so now let's talk a little bit about how you deliver those stories. Because, okay, how many of you have that friend that you're out for dinner with them or you're at an event with them, and then they go, oh, yeah, that reminds me about this time. And as. As they start saying that, you start thinking, oh, my God, I wish I'd already gotten up from the table, because I know this is going to go on for entirely too long. Has anybody been at that dinner table by chance? Anybody? Yeah. It's not nice, is it? Now, now, now, I have a really. Now I have a really difficult question for you. How many of you are a little bit afraid that you're the friend that makes people feel like that? Is anybody a little worried, a little worried that it might be you? You know, it might be you? All right, all right, all right, all right. So here's. Here's. Here's what I'm going to suggest to you is that. And this is a very important thing for you to hear from me, you. I'm talking to you right now.

You.

You specifically you, singularly, you that I'm looking at right now, were a natural born communicator and storyteller. You were. You were born that way. You were absolutely born that way. Now listen, and I'm gonna explain it to you so you understand me, and I'm talking to you. You were born that way. Now here's the deal. Right now, in your life, you've probably seen some people, they go speak at an event or they tell a story at the table, and then you think, oh, look, they're a natural born storyteller. How many of you have ever seen somebody and thought, oh, my gosh, they're just a natural born storyteller. That's amazing. How many of you have seen that? Right? Yeah, I mean, no question, lots of you. But what you really need to understand is that everyone was born that way and then it was trained out of Them. Do you understand? It was trained out of them. And the reason that that's very exciting. The reason that that's very exciting is that it means that you don't have that much to learn. You have some things to release. Okay, let me explain. And, guys, if you really get what I'm about to say, you'll realize that this conversation that you and I are now having, please mark the date. Honestly, circle it in your calendar. Mark the date. Because I think there's a very good chance that you're going to think about your life as the day before this webinar and how you acted after this webinar. I mean, it. I. I know because it happened to me. So here's the thing. How many of you have had the experience that you've either had this personal experience or you've witnessed it, where somebody who's not normally that good, a storyteller has, like, two glasses of wine and then they become quite a good storyteller. Their humor gets better, they become funnier, they use more volume, they move their body more. Okay, Okay. I. I think this is a consistent thing. We've all either experienced it or we've witnessed it, or most of us, both of it. Right? Okay. Now, the problem is, is that great way to become a good storyteller. I mean, it's a hack, and you could try it. But I can tell you what happened to my dad is my dad was made a law professor when he was, like, 23 years old, and he was terrified of public speaking, and he found that just one beer made him a great professor until he blew up his entire career with alcoholism. Right? Like, yeah, that's not a good way to become a good speaker. I can tell you right now. It works in the short term, devastating results in the long term. But it proves something, though, because. Hold on. How many of you become a better driver after two or three glasses of wine? How many of you become a better golfer after two or three glasses of wine? How many of you become a better parent after two or three. No, no, no. So how is it that you become a better speaker with two glasses of wine? Because it's depressing your inhibitions. It's removing the fake human shield of ego that was installed upon you by overbearing parents and teachers and other people. And so you drink that one or two glasses, and it allows the real you to kind of come out a little. Now, the problem is, is that if you go to the third or fourth glass line, then another version of you comes out that nobody wants to know, right? How many of you guys have seen that somebody you. How many of you have a friend who. You actually prefer them after two glasses of wine, but after four glasses of wine, you're out of the room. You're gone. Anybody have that friend? I have a few of them. I have a few. So. So now that we understand that it's something that was already always trapped inside you, now we have to talk about how do we let it out. And that's a. That's a tough thing, and it's a tough thing for us to achieve here on a webinar. It's something a lot easier to achieve when we get to work, like, directly together and coach together. But we can make headway right now. So tell me right now in the chat, I want you to imagine that I've just shared a story with you, and I've told you that you have to tell that story to 10 people, and you have to tell it to them like it happened to you. You have to tell it to them like it happened to you. And if all 10 of them believe that it was your story, and I'm going to give you $10,000. If all 10 of them believe it was your story, then I'm going to give you $10,000. Okay. So that would mean I tell you a story, and then you have to tell the story again as though it happened to you. So now tell me in the chat, what are some of the things you would do to make you believable? What are some of the things you would do to make you believable? So that as the audience was listening to you, they would think, oh, yeah, that's totally their story. I mean, I can tell. Let's see here. Emotion, details. Wow. I can't even keep up with the speed of that. Hold on. Where's my mouse?

Holy.

Okay. Perspective, imagination. Visualization. Making them feel it. Pretend that you're actually me. Like, pretend that you're somebody else. Yeah. Really good eye contact. Yeah. You'd have to make some changes to it to tailor it to you. Because if the story was from a man and it was a woman telling it, there might be detail, little details that you'd have to change to make it real. Let's see here. You'd actually have to step into the reality that it happened to you. Oh. You'd have to drop in little details. You'd have to laugh. You'd have to look like you were remembering it. That's important. You'd have to look like you're remembering it. Now, guys, somebody should just save that chat, because right there, you guys just wrote a book on authentic storytelling. And weirdly, you wrote it about lying. Now, the reason I like to do that exercise is, is that what's really crazy is that if you do an exercise with people and we do these exercises at our live events, then what happens is, is that people are really willing to put on the extra stuff to lie a story. They're willing to do that, but the minute you ask them to tell one of their own stories, they become rather robotic about the entire process. They want to deliver a perfect story with perfect cadence, and so that they don't want to mess anything up because they suddenly have this desire to have perfection. Whereas when they're telling a story that somebody else's and they're trying to make you believe it, their ego seems to slip away. And so that list that you guys just created, that list should be used for all of your own stories. You should be using those same things for telling your own stories. So let's talk a little bit about some of the things we saw there. Here's one of them. Vocal range. Vocal range. In your audience, you have people that have different levels of comfort around the way they get information. Okay, so I'm gonna. I'm gonna. Let's see here. How many of you have ever had a conversation with somebody who talks so quietly that you. You're leaning in, you're like, you're like, you're leaning in, you're listening, you can't hear what they're saying. Pretty soon you're just nodding and hoping they'll stop. Has anybody had that? Yeah. Well, let me tell you about the conversation they were having. They were having a conversation. Conversation with somebody who shouts at them. They were having the conversation. You felt that they were so quiet you couldn't hear them, but when you spoke, they thought you were shouting at them. How about this? How many of you have had that conversation with somebody who maintains entirely too much eye contact? It's like the entire time they're talking to you, they're just looking at you the whole time. It's like they're reptilian. They don't even blink. They just keep staring at you. They stare at you the whole time, and you're thinking, oh, my God, I'm being hunted right now. Anybody had that conversation? I have, but they were having a conversation with somebody who was evasive and always looking around and wouldn't make end time eye contact. Do you understand that what we're really talking about Here is a lack of rapport that you simply have different values. Here's my favorite one. How many of you have had that contact, that conversation with somebody who stands too close? You know the one I'm talking about, right. They like, they come and they stand up like they just want to be like mega close in the whole conversation. They're always standing way too close and you're like backing away, trying to get away from them. And they're getting closer and closer, right? All right, all right. They were having a conversation with somebody who was evasive and, and always trying to break connection. And in each of these examples what you're seeing is that people like people that they're like people have a hard time connecting with people that they're different from, that they're different to like they don't. It's a different, it's. If somebody talks at a different volume than you, it's not so comfortable. If somebody makes more eye contact than you, then it's not as comfortable. This is a very important thing to understand in one on one communication. In fact, if any of you guys have done any training in neuro linguistic programming or even just advanced psychology, you'll hear about this being talked about as rapport skills or matching and mirroring where when you want to create a really good connection with somebody, you pay attention to their vocal qualities, you pay attention to their cadence, you pay attention to their eye, eye contact, even their head tilt. You pay attention to them and you feed them back more of them. And because you're like them, they'll like you more. You'll get a stronger connection. This is a very powerful technique by the way, for any of you guys want to rapidly increase your sales skills. That's one of the most powerful things you can do in a one on one conversation. But wait a minute. What if it's 10 people? Or what if it's 50 people? Or what if it's 5,000 people? You can't really do that, can you? You can't, you can't necessarily, you can't necessarily like gauge them and respond back because they're all different. But here's what you need to know is that in your audience people are on a communication spectrum. And on that communication spectrum some of them prefer very soft, quiet, slowly delivered content. These people are often referred to as being more kinesthetic or feeling based. And, and, and, and when they talk, they, they talk quietly and, and often they have these long pauses and, and you're often tempted to like finish their, you know, you're sometimes feeling like you should finish their. Somebody did finish the sentence for me. I can't believe it.

How rude.

How rude that you finished my sentence. All right, all right, now, but bear in mind that those people are in your audience. Then you've got another group of people in the audience, and they're more. They're. They're really interested in clarity, and they really like predictable cadence. And so a presentation that they would enjoy is marked by clearly demarcated sentences and clear, structured speaking. They like a moderate tone of voice that you might find on the radio. Right. Like this is their cadence and so on. And by the way, when they talk, they say things like, yeah, that really resonates with me. That sounds good. That matches my frequency. Whereas the quieter people that are more feeling based, they'll often say things like, that just doesn't feel quite right to me. It doesn't feel good in my gut. Or I get a really warm sensation about that person. Now, we can all use this language, but typically where people are on the spectrum is going to guide which language they use. And of course, there's now another group of people. And the other group of people are people who. Well, they like the information to come loud and fast, right? They like it to come loud and fast. We're going to talk about destiny. If you want to completely change your environment, if you want to make sure that you've been reality, what you have to do is make a decision about what it is that you want in your life. And then you got to make that decision crystal clear and create a vision that you can see with such clarity that nothing could stop you from achieving it. And then your destiny will be yours. Yeah. Those people are very often at Tony's seminars. That's true. And they're very often at Mind Valley events. That's true. Now, here's the thing. Once you realize that your audience has all of those people in it, now you have a challenge. How do you please all of them? How do you please all of them? Because, you know, if I were to talk like this the whole time, just like this, then some of you would like me better. I know. I know that I'm too loud for some of you. I know that I get the feedback. I understand. But the challenge is, is that if I spoke like this the whole time, the people who liked it even, they would eventually fall asleep. Like, that's the truth. Right. Like, they would eventually they would fall asleep. And. And there are some people that would prefer that I really took my time and connected with Each thought so that they could hear it again in their head, so they could really feel how they felt about what I said. And they would like it if I spoke like that. But they too, would slowly, quickly, and easily, without hesitation or delay, drift off into a hypnotic trance if I spoke like that the whole time. But equally, if I talk like this the entire time, if I push the whole time, if I was shouting, if I was loud the whole time, there are some people who would really like that and there are other people who would leave the room. Does this make sense? Are you guys with me on this? Yes. All right, so what you want to create as a speaker is something that at Speaker Nation, we refer to as broad spectrum appeal. Broad spectrum appeal. This is a very important skill to have as a speaker, because very often when you are invited to speak at a networking event, at a conference on YouTube, it doesn't matter where you're speaking on a podcast on mainstream media. The fact of the matter is, is that not everyone in the audience is going to be immediately interested in what you're speaking about. Therefore, you need to make it engaging and interesting for them. So a few years ago, I was invited to Headline, to speak at this incredible event in Sweden. And the event was all about stock trading and investments and entrepreneurship. And where I do speak on those topics very often. In this case, the promoter wanted me to come in and speak about nutrition and health. And frankly, I wasn't very excited about that. And neither was the audience. They were there to learn how to make more money. They were there to learn how to build their businesses. They. They were there to learn trading secrets. They were there for that. But the promoter knew me really well, and they wanted me to lift the energy and improve the health of their community because, well, their community was growing, but not just in membership, but in size, and they wanted me to help with that. And so I had to do a talk that was off topic. Now, can you see that if my talk is going to be off topic, that some people at the conference are probably going to go, you know, I don't really need this session. This is my time to go to Starbucks. How many of you, honestly, you've been at a conference, you've taken a look, you've said, that session, not for me, and you've walked out. And you, you, you, you, you just. Okay, there you go. It is going to happen, right? So what that means is. What that means is that as a speaker, you want to create something called broad spectrum appeal, so that even if your topic isn't necessarily a direct match with everybody's immediate curiosity that your delivery is engaging, entertaining, and keeping them in the room. And so I walked out on the stage. First of all, in the manual of the event, in the program of the event, I titled my talk the number one secret to massive profitability in life.

Right?

I mean, what if I Entitled My Talk 8 Nutritional Ideas that are going to help you have more energy for a bunch of investing traders. Like, they don't care. They're eating Cheetos out of their desk drawers until, until the trading window is done. They, they don't want to hear nutritional concepts. They don't want to hear about meditating. They want to hear how to make money. So the title of the talk was, hey, the number one. The number one secret for increased profitability or making money. Then I walked out on a stage and I made sure that my bio that they introduced me with talked about my background in business. I started my first business in mobile computing when I was 27 years old. I sold it nine years later in a for enough money to never work again. And then, and then I bought a Hollywood special effects company and I worked on Pirates of the Caribbean and Avatar and Transformers. Then I started a military research and development company and then I started a medical simulation company. I've had an incredibly varied business background. I've had business successes in a wide variety of industries and in multiple countries, which makes me just about unique as a business coach and teacher. And so I want to know how many of you want to know my number one secret for massively increased profitability in your business? How many people want to know about that? Yeah, that's what they said. Nobody left the room, nobody walked away, nobody looked at their phone, nobody was scanning the wall, nobody's thumb was moving up and down the screen. They were in. They were in. Why? First of all, broad spectrum appeal requires finding a way to marry your content, your content to what they want. That's what I did. Then I used tone of voice to create tons of excitement about what I was going to teach. And then I jumped in and I said, the number one thing that you need for increased profitability, for increased profits in your life is energy. You need your mind and your body to be working optimally, the same way that an athlete tunes their body in to compete in the Olympics or in the World cup or anything like that. You need to be thinking like that. If you're going to be the top level trader, if you're going to be the top level entrepreneur, you need to treat Your body and mind the same way that a professional athlete's going to, without question. Do you think I got their attention? Yeah, I got their attention and I delivered the rest of my talk and nobody left the room. And it was one of the highest rated talks at the entire event and it wasn't even a match for the event. So broad spectrum appeal. First thing about that is know what your audience wants and then find a way to connect your message with their wants. It's not all about you. It's all about them. It's not all about you, it's all about them. And marrying your message to their desire. And then from there, using your vocal range to tell stories in a way that keep them engaged, that make them laugh. And then when you've got them all excited, then you drop down and say, and that's why I really want you to check the ingredients on all the little snacks that your company keeps. Because I'm going to tell you, there's sugar in the top three ingredients of most of them. And every single time you put one of those in your mouth, you slow your mind down and you make fear based decisions. You spike your blood sugar for a moment, you feel good, you make irrational decisions, then your blood sugar crashes and you make even more rational decisions. Come on. Now, how many of you have had the experience where your blood sugar has gotten so low that you're saying nasty things to your husband or your wife or even snapping at your kids? We all know that it's true. Now can you see the tone of voice changes that message so dramatically, so powerfully, it changes everything. It's. It changes everything. And so you use these vocal changes throughout your roller coaster of experience and you create this concept of broad spectrum appeal. And you keep people very, very much hooked in. Now, another very important part of storytelling, remember, you're going to do your homework and you're going to collect your stories. I want you to hear what I'm about to say. Never, ever, ever write your speeches out. Don't, don't do that. Don't, don't, don't write them out. Don't, don't write them out. I know how many of you have done it. Come on, let's be honest. How many of you have done it? You've written it all out. You've written it all out. Yeah, you've done it. I know you have. And you know what? If I was at your talk, I would know that you wrote it all out. I would know that from the way you spoke. Because once you'd written it all out. This is roughly how you would speak something like this. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Jack Smith, and I wrote my talk out word for word today, and I've read it several times. I have memorized the words that I chose and the sentence structure. And that's why the way I'm speaking seems kind of artificial to you, because in truth, nobody speaks in proper, complete sentences with perfect punctuation. But I'm going to continue to speak that way now because this is how I remembered it. Unless, of course, somehow I forget one of my sentences, because if I forget that sentence, I'll never find the next sentence because I'm using a terrible form of memory called chained memory, which means that I am riding a roller coaster of terror and fear at the moment. Because I keep wondering if I'm going to remember the next word that I'm about to say, and I don't think I'm going to. And then I'm going to blank out and I'm going to freeze and I'm going to need to look at my notes. No, no, no, no. When you're telling stories and, and, and this is one of the most major points I really want you to get from me. What people want from you is your authentic self. What they want from you is to not have to guess who you are and why you're there. Now, let's just back up for a moment. How many of you have been at a conference or seminar and there's a speaker on the stage and you just have the distinct impression that they're there to take? They're just, you just have a feeling. They're just there to take. They're there for their own ego. They're there just to sell you something. They're there to take in some way. You just can feel it. You just can feel it.

Yeah.

No question. We've all had that experience. But how many of you have also had the other feeling where you've walked into a conference or an event and the speaker got on stage and you got the distinct feeling that the speaker being there was a gift, that it was a gift that they love to give, that they had passion, that they, they, they absolutely wanted you to have the information that they were committed to giving it to you and making it memorable. And, and. Well, now let me ask you something. Let's again call them A and B. Which one are you more likely to follow to join their membership, to sign up for their program, to buy their book? B. In every case, there's no Question about it. Now, one of the reasons for this is that human beings have this very powerful instinct. And the instinct is you would rather have an authentic enemy than an inauthentic friend. You would rather have an authentic enemy than an inauthentic friend. I'm going to break one of the rules of public speaking right now. I'm going to mention politics, but I'm not taking any sides in this. I just want to make an observation. Many years ago, I was on tour, traveling around Europe. I am Canadian, but my accent sometimes sounds a little American to some people. And so because the American election was, like, heating up at that point between Hillary and Donald, everybody wanted to know my opinion, like, just because of my accent, maybe I have an opinion on the American election. And so I started sharing my opinion. And my opinion was that Donald Trump was going to win. And this was before he even got the Republican nomination. It was before he got it, but my opinion was that he was going to win. And people asked me, why? Why do you think he's going to win? And I said, well, remember, I'm not voting for him to win. I'm not advocating for him. I'm not taking sides. In fact, in my general opinion, I think America could have chosen two better candidates. Maybe, I guess. But that's not the point. The point is that I had a reason for thinking that he was going to win. And here's what it was. Donald Trump was the authentic enemy, and Hillary Clinton was the inauthentic friend. And there was a big reason for this. Donald Trump generally refused to use teleprompters. He just spoke, and he might have said things that you didn't like. You might have. He might have said things that you didn't agree with, but you didn't have to guess about it. He was just saying it. He was predictable. You go, you know, he. It's just off the cuff where Hillary would go out and she would say the right things that the Democratic Party told her to say, but she was reading them off a teleprompter.

And.

And so you knew that they weren't necessarily her words. So therefore, even though she said the right things, you had to ask yourself whether she really meant it or not. Does this make sense to you now? I know there's a million other things that went into the election, and I'm not. Again, I'm not making a judgment about who should have won or didn't win or stole elections or any kind of stuff. I don't care about that. What I care about though, is the observation that authenticity is such a powerful driver for an audience that you want to be delivering from your authentic self. And when you write out your speeches, you break that. When you write out your speeches, you force yourself to use the wrong kind of memory and you change the way you speak, because nobody speaks in complete written grammar like that. And immediately you break the connection with the audience. What the audience really wants from you. What the audience really wants from you is to be you. It's to understand you and to understand your motivations, to understand why you're there and. And why you're. Why you're giving to them, or are you taking from them. They're gonna. They're gonna make that guess. The minute you walk on the stage, they're going to look how you're dressed, they're going to look at your face. And by the way, if they're women, they're looking even closer. They're looking even closer. Like, you know, women are such good judges. They've got the. They've got the radar. Some men have it, too, don't get me wrong. But on the whole, my experience has been women have the radar. Anybody with me on this? Anybody agree? And so, yeah, I. They just do. And. And so. So that means that from the moment you walk out there, at least the women are taking a very close look at you, and the men are, too. And they're asking themselves, is this person safe or dangerous? Is this person giving or taking? And so it's very important that you make that right first impression and that you keep that impression. So I think to take us home with this and to set you up for the stage effect quest, what I think would be really great right now is I want to talk to you about how to make the right first impression with people the minute you walk on the stage, the minute you start a video. Okay, so let's just take a step back for a minute, because this applies to a live audience and it also applies to video. First of all, can anybody tell me what is the optimal amount of time for a video on social media? What is the optimal amount of time for a video on social media? Can anybody tell me? I'm gonna have a drink while you tell me. These are all good answers. 2 minutes, 10 minutes? 30 seconds? 30 minutes. They're all good answers. But what I'm going to tell you is that the idea that there's an optimal time is a flawed concept. It's a trick question. The optimal time of any video is the amount of time that the majority of people are willing to watch it for. Let me say it again. The optimal time of any video is the amount of time that the majority of people are willing to watch it for. So let me give you an example. There's a video of mine. I'm sure some of you have seen it. It's. It's on. It's on YouTube. My. It's on Mindvalley's YouTube channel. And I gave a talk at a mindvalley event years ago. I had no idea they were recording it. I wasn't dressed very well for it. I was wearing a shirt that didn't really fit. I didn't fix my hair. I just walked out. They said, hey, could you do a little talk on public speaking? And so I did it. And little did I know, they were going to put that thing up on YouTube. So one day I find out, and it's too long to be in one video. So it's like an hour and a half, and then another hour and a half. Anybody seen it? I can't remember what it's called right now, but you'll know the one I'm talking about. And I saw it pop up on YouTube, and I'm like, oh, my God. If somebody had told me, I would have, like, dressed for the. I mean, I'm in shorts. I'm wearing a shirt that doesn't fit. I'm like, I'm embarrassed. And the next thing I know, it's got, like, a hundred thousand views. A hundred thousand views. This is insane. I don't want that. I called a friend of mine in mindvalley and go, hey, guys, stop it. Look, if you want to put it on YouTube, that's fine, but you got to stop buying traffic for it. Because I thought it's getting all these views, they're probably buying traffic for it. He calls me back in 10 minutes. He goes, eric, we're not buying traffic for it. And by the time he called me back, it was up to 250,000 views. And I don't know what it is today. Maybe somebody can check and tell me, But I think it's over 2 million views. 2 million. Part one and part two is 1.5 million or something like that. But now, hold on a second. Now I want you to pay attention to something. It's an hour and a half. You understand what that means? The vast majority of those people are watching the whole thing and going on to part two. They're watching the whole thing, and they're going on to part two. I wasn't dressed for it. I wasn't professional for it. I was chilled, laid back. You know what I was for it, though? Authentic. I was just me. I was just me. And people loved it. And it's. It's. To this day, I get people calling me all the time about that video. Hey, can we get you to book to speak here? Can you teach a webinar for you? Come and do our podcast. That one video has been massive. So what I want to do is I want to share with you how to start your presentation in the most effective way. I'm aiming mostly at a live audience in this example, but I also want you to know that the core principles that work in front of a live audience also work on video. So here's the thing. The first is a little bit of a question, and that it goes like this. The question is, now that we know there are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic people in the room, where should we start the presentation? Where should we begin the presentation? Show me in the chat, where should we begin the presentation? Kinesthetic. Visual. Auditory. With the story. Loud audio. Okay. Okay. So there's a variety of answers. So let's try it out. A little thought experiment. If I start visually, if I walk out and I impersonate, you know, if I've got my Tony Robbins energy on. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm so incredibly excited you guys are going to hear. We're going to try to spend the next three days transforming lives. It's going to be amazing. And I'm like, full passion and all this energy. Well, the visual people are going to like that a lot, but the auditory people and the kinesthetic people are probably going to call 91 1. They're going to call the police. Like, what the hell is this guy doing? Yeah, it's too much. It's not going to work. So then you might think that the next best thing is to start in an auditory way in the middle. Not bad. But the very best way is to walk out and connect kinesthetically with a feeling, with everybody. And then once you've got that rapport, you can start warming up the energy, and then you can warm it up further. So you start quietly, and you warm up the volume and the speed in the language, and then you warm up all the way until you get to visual and you reach a crescendo. And this is not something I invented. It's something I observed. It's something I observed. I saw it because way back before there was YouTube, I used to go to the library and watch videos of some of the most incredible talks that were ever given. And so, you know, Martin Luther King comes to mind. But, you know, I can tell you something. He did not start his speech by walking out, tapping the microphone and going, I have a dream. Like, he didn't do that. He walked out and he connected with the audience. Why? Because he was an unbelievable preacher. He was a phenomenal speaker. He walked out and he connected with the audience, and then he started to share with them ideas of his dream. And he talked about the. The depth of his dream. And he talked about the vision that he held for little white kids and little black kids to be playing together on the street in perfect harmony without all this tension. And he built it, and he built it, and he built it, and he built it. And then he said, I have a dream. He earned the right. He earned the right to be powerful because he took that rapport and. And he built it all the way up. It's called the charisma pattern. And so when you're. When you're starting a presentation, it's really best to walk out, connect with the audience sometimes without even saying anything at all. Just look around and get to know them a little bit for a second, and then start gently, and then warm up and then take them on a journey. If you start your presentations like that, then you will keep engagement. You'll earn the right. Of course, there's a variety of more things that you can do. And I'll give you one more that's really powerful. It's called an icebreaker. An icebreaker is a way of introducing a little energy into your talk. It's like you tell a little story at the beginning of your talk. And if any of you guys have seen me speak live, maybe you've heard this one. But I'm going to give you this example just. Just for fun. So I was speaking at a conference in Mexico. The first time I did this. I've done it. I've used the same story many times since. But I was in Mexico and, and, and I was with a bunch of friends, and we're walking along and, and, and it was the. It was. It was the cutest thing. I was walking along, and all of a sudden this couple comes along and they recognize me from Wildfit. They did, like, in the middle of Mexico. They, oh, my God, it's Eric from Wildfit. And, you know, that was really sweet and stuff. And then as I went in to do the presentation, it reminded me of a story that I'd heard Once. And, and so I decided to tell the story as a continuation. So I said, yeah, and the couple came over and, and they said, oh, it's Eric from Wildfit. It was really sweet. And, and then we walked on a little further, and then we saw a little dog, little white dog, and very cute, very cute little thing. And it came running up and running up, and, you know, it jumped up. And, you know, normally you don't like when dogs jump up on you, but he couldn't even reach your knees. This little thing, just a little thing. And, and, and, and, but he was also barking. But the weird thing about the barking was that he, he couldn't bark. Like, it was like, like there's something wrong with the dog. Like, I've, I don't know if you've ever, I don't know if you've ever seen a dog lose its voice or get laryng, doggy laryngitis. You know, I, I don't know. And, you know, so, but whatever. And then this couple was coming along and, and the man was holding a leash, so I assumed it was his dog, their dog. And they came along and I was like, oh, what a cute little puppy. What a great little puppy. It's amazing. But what's going on with the voice? Is he sick? Is there something wrong? And the woman, she got all uppity. She's like, he's not sick. We had him debarked. You what? We had him debarked. What is. What is debarked? We had his bark box removed. He was barking all the time. And, and it was just disruptive and noisy and, and we, we, we had him debarked. Now, I love dogs. I'm quite a, I'm quite. I have a special connection with dogs. Most dogs love me, and I'm quite good at training dogs. And I know that, you know, you can train your dog not to bark like that. And, and I, I, I am completely against the idea that you cut your dog open and remove its bark box. I mean, I just, I, but, you know, look, it's their dog. It's their life. I don't, But I'm not against stirring a little trouble here and there. I turn to the husband and I go, were you, were you okay with this? And he says, I didn't have anything to say about it. Yeah, he was debarked as well. Now here, the funny thing is, I start with that story. It's cute and fun, but it always gets a laugh. And it breaks the tension with the audience. And that is the moment that the audience will actually relax. You know, laughter is like. It's very much like the orgasm of the brain. It's like this pleasurable flooding of the brain. And so you've got these people sitting in the audience. And I really want you to think about this, especially for some of you who are nervous of public speaking. And I'm going to finish on that. I'm going to talk about that in a minute. But for some of you who are nervous about public speaking, what I want you to think about is, should you be nervous of public speaking or should the audience be nervous of being trapped in the audience? Now, let's just check that out. How many of you have been sitting at a conference and you're in the middle of a row and it's horrible and you wish you could leave, but you don't want to disrupt the situation and you lose, like, an hour of your life? Who's had that? Yeah, yeah. Every audience is sitting there with a little fear. And by the way, by the way, how many of you have been to a conference where more than 70% of the speakers were bad quality? You've been to a conference where, like, more than 70% of them were boring? Maybe the information was important and you had to push your way through it, but it was bad, right? There you go. It's the audience that should be nervous, not you. And so if you walk out and you use the charisma pattern and you drop a really great little icebreaker in there and you get them to laugh, they're going to sit back in their chair, they're going to let go of their phone, and they're going to stay engaged with you. And so we call that the F15, the launch of your presentation. You run the charisma pattern and you drop in a little icebreaker and everything changes from then on. And one more magical thing happens. How many of you don't really consider yourselves super funny, but once you've got people laughing, once you become funny, has anybody ever had that experience? Like, you're not really that funny, but once you got them to laugh, it seems like. And you suddenly get brave and you're willing. There it is. So you see what happens when you get them to laugh is you. You've proven to yourself that they're capable of laughing, that it's going to be worth your effort to work with them because they're capable of laughing and they've given you permission to be funny. And so suddenly you're willing to take risks and it changes everything. Changes everything. Okay, now, one. One last thing that I want to finish on because. Well, first of all, I'm curious right now. What percentage chance is there that you're going to want to do the Stage Effect quest? What percentage chances that you're going to do the Stage Effect quest? I'm curious now that you know it's coming. All right, that's what I was expecting. Lots of hundreds, but you see, There's a few. 75. 70. 90. 80, 70, 90. Mostly hundreds, but there's a couple 70s, 80s. And here's what I want you to know. There are two reasons that you might be a 70 or 80 that I know of. Maybe you have another one. But there are two main reasons that you might not be a hundred. The one is that you're afraid of public speaking, or the second one is that you're concerned that your message doesn't have enough value to warrant it. So let me address both of those things right now. I really want you to understand that your life experience is, without question, absolutely valuable to the right audience. There's no question about it. You have perspectives and experiences and lessons that you've learned through your life so far that are infinitely valuable to other people. There is no question about that. The question is finding a way to marry those things, to find a way to marry your message to the right audience. And the beautiful thing is it's much easier to do that today than it ever was before because of things like social media and what have you. I just. I really want you to hear me that if you have ever been in pain, if you have ever overcome the odds, if you have ever succeeded at anything, if there's anything that you're able to create, like, great results on a consistent basis, that means you have a strategy. Like, you have valuable content. If you are breathing at the moment, you do. There's no question about that. So please, please let that go. You owe it to the world. And. And then the next piece is. And it's related. Is that. And I'm going to ask this question. I want to know where you are on a scale of. On a scale of 0 to 10. Zero is absolutely no nerves of any kind about any kind of public speaking, no matter who's in the audience. That's 0 and 10. Absolutely terrified. Petrified. No matter how big the audience or who's in the audience, where are you on the scale? Wow. 11, 23. 4. 2, 0. Nice. I saw one. All right, great. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. All right, here's what I want you to know by the time you've completed the stage effect quest, you will cut your nerves number in half. At least in half, at least. In fact, watch this. How many of you right now, just from the time that we've spent together so far, how many of you right now feel a little bit more brave, a little bit more inspired, like, yeah, maybe I could do this, maybe it's not that terrifying. How many are falling into that category already? Yeah, that's with you and me spending a short time together. Never mind you going through a carefully constructed quest with all the learning materials and the tribe around you to support you. So I'm telling you right now that by the time you're done, the stage effect, you will cut your fear numbers in at least half. Some of you will obliterate them completely. You will. And when you do, I want you to write me, tag me on Instagram and tell me how you let go of the fear forever, because it's one of the biggest gifts you'll ever give yourself. So I'm going to tell you a few things about stage nervousness and that you can put them into practice. One of the biggest things that you need to understand about being nervous, about being on stage is that it's fake, it's not real. It's a learned response. Somewhere along the line in your growing up process, some overbearing teachers or thoughtless teachers and parents, or just in a given moment, without thinking, people said to you things like, children should be seen and not heard. Use your indoor voice. Think before you speak. How many of you have heard stuff like that? If you have, tell me. And if you heard something else similar, write it in there, I want to see it. You know, women should be seen and not heard, or wait your turn or, you know, think before you speak, all that kind of stuff, right? And, and, and so first of all, you've got that programming pushing you down, pushing you down, pushing you down, pushing you down. But it's not holding you down, it just once pushed you down. You don't have to stay there. Now, here's the next thing. Imagine that you are in school and you're 12 years old and you're sitting in the auditorium for the general assembly and two kids are going to give presentations for the whole school and the parents and the brothers and sisters and the teachers and so on. And the one kid goes up and does a stellar performance. Perfected, like, great cadence, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, great slides and props. Just really nails it. Tell me, like, how, how many marks are you going to give this Kid out of 10. Out of 10. How many marks are you going to give this kid? Great voice. Great delivery. 10, 11. 10, 11, 10, 10. 9, 9, 10, 11, 11. Okay, great. Now the second kid goes up and he walks up there and in any. He looks around and you can see the terror. You can see the terror. He's looking out there, and he's looking. And he starts. And his mouth is dry and. And he's stuttering a little bit. And he. You can see he kind of forgot where he was going to go. And then he. He clicked for this slide that he wanted to bring up. And then slide projector didn't work, and he was just. But he kept going, man. He kept going. He pushed through and he got to the end. He suffered through it and he got to the end. He got to the end, everybody. How many. How many marks out of 10 are we giving this kid 220?

12.

20. 10. 10, 20? I didn't see any two hundreds for the other kid. I didn't see any twenties for the other kid. Why? Why are we giving this kid 200 points? Why are we giving this kid 20 points? I told you it was out of 10. Why are we doing that? And that's because we've all been conditioned to fall in love with and love the underdog. And so we tend to give 600 points. Somebody just said 500 points. We tend to give a lot more points if something looks really hard. By the way, husbands know this. Husbands know this. You see? And if wives could understand it, husbands and wives might get. Get a little bit more functional communication. Here's an example. Husband goes to take the garbage outside, but he doesn't do it, like, voluntarily. His wife has to say, honey, take out the garbage. And he goes over and he lifts up the garbage. And what does he do? Is it really that heavy? No, but he's acting like it's heavy. So his wife will say, thank you, honey. Those bags look so heavy. Right? We've all learned that if we make things look a little harder than they really are, we get more reward. And this is a fundamentally inauthentic approach to life. But we were all conditioned it for at least 12 years of school, and so many of you had to give presentations in school and to get fake extra points, you acted nervous. And you started acting nervous for so long that one day you forgot that it was an act, because nothing's actually going to happen to you up there ever. They don't throw tomatoes at the speakers anymore. They stopped doing that, like 200 years ago. You know, it's, it's. Nothing's going to happen. I want you to know something very, very important. And this here could be a game changer for you if you just hear me. Most emotional states are biochemically and physically distinct from each other. Anger, looks, feels, and biochemically represents differently than sadness. Jealousy, looks, feels, and is biochemically different than, say, joy. Right? They, they're distinct, but excitement and nervousness are identical. They're. They're the same. They aren't the same thing. They are the same thing. The only difference between them, the biochemistry is the same, the physiology is the same, the look on the face is the same. They're exactly the same. There's only one difference, and that is your expectation about the outcome. That's it. That's it. So. So if you're nervous, what that means is you're excited about something that you think is going to be shitty. That's the deal. And if you're excited, it means you're nervous about something you think is going to be amazing. So I can tell you right now that there are two things that you can do to completely change your life around speaking. And I want you to start thinking about it now, and I want you to put it into practice. As soon as you do the stage effect quest, I want you to start putting it into practice immediately. And here it is. The first thing is you take deep breaths and visualize it going well before you walk up in front of the stage. That's it. You take deep, calming breaths because I've seen you. I've seen you. I've seen it. I know how I was. Somebody goes, eric, your turn for public speaking now. One sharp breath and no more breathing. Come on, who's done it? One sharp breath and no more breathing. This is not useful. This starves the brain of the oxygen. And then you get more stress. So deep, calm breathing and you visualize it going well. I don't know who came up with this visualize the audience naked thing. Don't do that. I tried that once. Not a good. Don't do that, don't do that. Just. Just visualize it going well and breathe deeply. And then one more thing. Please hear me about this. Never, ever, ever tell, demonstrate, admit or show the audience that you're nervous. Never, ever do that. Now I know somebody out there is getting ready to write on the chat. Yeah, but Eric, you said we should be our authentic selves, and I'm authentically nervous. So I want to be authentically nervous in front of the audience nervousness is an inauthentic plea for sympathy. Stage nervousness is an inauthentic plea for sympathy. And, and here's the problem. If you go out there and you show your, your nervousness, you advertise your nervousness, if you do that, then when they give you a standing ovation, there's going to be a voice in the back of your head that's going to go, bullshit. It's not real. It's just sympathy. And when, when a hundred people line up to come and talk to you and they, you're gonna go, every single one of them is going to say, oh yeah, that was really great. And you're gonna know they just came to say that to you because you were in pain. But if you stand up and you walk out and you say, I am excited to be here, I am thrilled to be sharing with you today. Today I am going to share a talk with you that I think many of you are going to remember for years to come. You're going to catch their attention. Your confidence is going to be attractive. And at the end, when they stand up for you and they thunderously clap, you are going to know that it was real. When they walk up to you afterward and they line up for your selfies and your autographs and they tell you that your talk was life changing, you're going to know that it was real. And therefore, by your second or third authentically delivered non nervous acting talk, you will be done with stage fright. And so I suggest that you immediately go find places to practice. You go out to Toastmasters and practice. You go to speakernation.com and find practice clubs. Go to places where you get to practice. And never ever admit your nerves. You can feel them if you want, but don't ever admit them. Walk out there with confidence. Sure, you might not get as much praise, you might not get as much applause, but what you get will be genuine and real. It will not be watered down. It will be satisfying to your soul. So your action steps are very, very simple. And in a minute I think Gotham's going to join me. But I'm going to give you some action steps here. First action step is start looking for Rembrandts. Start looking for your Rembrandts, your little life experiences. I was teaching a speaking academy event once and this woman, she goes, I just don't know what to share with the world and blah, blah, blah. And then over lunch I heard her talking to some of the other people and she's from India and she says that in her family, in her tribe, they have this way of raising children where they never use diapers, where they say that every baby has a way of communicating when it needs to pee or poop or something. And as long as you learn how to do that, you can basically potty train them from the beginning and never use diapers. Sure, there's an accident here or there, but you never need to use diapers. I'm like, you know, you. You know how to do that? And she goes, yeah, yeah, I know how to do that. Like, and you don't know what to share with the world. I can tell you as a father, share that. Okay, I guess it's not that, but share that information with the world. Like, it's. By the way, I've now done some research about it. It's called elimination communication, and it's a very valuable thing. Watch this. How many of you that are mothers or planning to be mothers would be willing to pay, say, $300 for somebody to come and consult with you and teach you how to potty train your child so that you never have to use diapers?

Who.

Who would buy that program? Everybody. Why wouldn't you? You're spending that much on diapers in a few months. It's insane. And so I want you to look for your Rembrandts. Action step number one. Look for them and record them. Write them down. Record them in order, do whatever it is that you want to record them. Your next action step is I want you to find ways to practice. You can go to Toastmasters, go to Speaker Nation, Practice. Find places to tell stories. Another great place to practice is just tell stories around the table with your friends and just tell them, hey, guys, I want to share a story with you, and I'm going to tell it a little more animated than I normally will because I'm currently practicing my storytelling skills. Thank you. And then lastly, your homework is to practice without ever acknowledging, publicly, demonstrating or advertising your feelings of nervousness, keeping them inside so that you can get genuine feedback, and you can know for sure that you're blowing people's minds rather than getting fake sympathy. Have you guys had fun? Has this been valuable for you? Oh, I'm so glad, you guys. I really am. Gotham, are you with me?

Yes, sir, I am. All right, guys. Eric, first of all, thank you so much. You know, it's. I've seen you speak and teach for the last now, quite aggressively, I might add, learn from you. Like, I follow you, like, quite religiously. The way you teach, the way you offer Your wisdom with so much generosity and sincerity. It's an honor every time it's a pleasure to learn from you. You know, every time it feels fresh every time it inspires many new ideas, even from some of the lessons that you've taught me many times and thousands of people. So it's really an honor to learn from you. And the guys who are here, there's more than 2,000 of them who are so, so, so privileged to have this opportunity. And you know, I saw the answers when, when you were asking the question just by going through this webinar. So far it's not ended yet. But just until this moment has people's speaking ability, would that change? And the, the, the fast scrolling of the inspiring answers that I saw was incredible. So thank you so much for sharing your wisdom.

Thank you.

I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna share some stuff. How people can engage with you better and how they can take their speaking ability from wherever they are to becoming better than 90% of the speakers they will ever meet or becoming a world class speaker like you one day. So I'm gonna share that. And you know, Eric, you'll be around here as well and then I'll just pull you in for sharing some aspects of the curriculum, how you've envisioned it and the depth of transformation people can experience. So guys, there's. As the slides are loading, there are two primary ways that you can engage with with mindvalley and with Eric to become a masterful speaker. And I want to share that with you. The first way is what Eric mentioned is the Stage Effect quest. So if you can click on the next slide that's already included in the mindvalley membership. So if you're a part of Mind, if you already have a mindvalley membership, you have access to it already. I encourage you to go straight in. And all the benefits and all the, you know, the bonuses, everything is already included on your membership. And then there's another aspect which is what I did seven years ago, which is the Speaking Academy by Speaker Nation with Eric. It's five days. It's been so far, like might I say the most transformational program I've ever been a part of and it's been incredible. So I'm going to share information about both of these things. So if you can click next. Yeah, so the Stage Effect is this quest platform. You know, it's free for mindvalley members. It's pre recorded coaching with Eric, it's self guided. So you're going to be investing 20 minutes a day and it's self guided and all the homework that Eric will give you and in this inspiring way that he will offer it to you, it gets landed in your being already quite strongly. And by just doing this program, no kidding, I'll share some of the stories but you will be better than 90% of the speakers professionally speaking in your space. Even if you're beginning your career as a, as a public speaker. You know, so that's the first way. Let me go down a little bit. Yeah. And the second part, I will come back to it. But this is the speaking academy. This is super exclusive. So it will only be open to a very, very small set of people because Eric gets to work with you one on one. But I'll touch upon that in a minute. I'll go next about the quest program, you know, Click next. Yeah. So this is a program that is onlinevile membership. If you have the access, you already have the access within your platforms on all devices you can access it. Here's some statistics that might blow your mind. 90 of the students that have gone through this quest, they express they feel more confident on say 90, 75% of people said that they feel that they are way better in the communication and 85% said their delivery is, is significantly improved. And this is by looking at Eric self guided program while sitting in your comfort of your home and doing applying all those practices that effortlessly become a part of your life. So this is significant and what I'm going to do.

Great.

Yes. If you are interested, stick on. Eric, I'm going to ask you to just share a little bit of details about the curriculum and how you envisioned it so people get an idea of how they can because it's, it feels like a tall order. In 21 days you can become better than 90% of the speakers that you'll ever meet. You know, so I, I want to invite you in to just describe the curriculum. We'll have some slides also which are divided into three to four phases. And then, you know, would love to invite you in here.

Sure. I'll start with sort of the organizing principle is that because I started as a terrified speaker or somebody who didn't even want to be a speaker, I was really forced to go a long climb. Like I, I, I really had to go. There was no, there was no, I don't know how to put it, but there was nobody out there that could just get me there. And so I started reading all the books that I could find. I started watching all the videos that I could find. I went off to Toastmasters to get my practice. I and I probably attended something like a hundred thousand dollars worth of courses on communication, speech, writing and public speaking over, say, a 15 year period. And when it came time for me to start sharing this stuff with people, I didn't want them to have to spend $100,000 and I didn't want them to have to take a year and a half doing it. And I knew by that point what the key levers to turn were. I knew I knew how to get people there more quickly. And so when, when I created this quest, I created exactly the quest that I wish that I would have had when I was 25 years old and trying to break out of being afraid of public speaking and becoming comfortable and confident about it. And so through the course of this quest, you're learning the core foundational aspects of becoming a compelling speaker. Now, I'm going to share what some of those things are, but I want to say this. You guys asked, I asked you this earlier today. How many of you have been to a conference where say 70% of the speakers were bad, were low quality, were boring, and most of you said that you'd been to conferences like that. In fact, I would even say this. I'm a big fan of ted. I think TED has done a great job. But the truth of the matter is, is that ted, it's like ideas worth sharing is their slogan. But the truth of the matter is many of those talks, you kind of have to force yourself through them. How many of you have seen that there's a TED talk, somebody told you the information is really good, but it's like you kind of want to put it on two times speed because it's just not delivered all that well. Right. It's just too common. And so what I want you to know is that to elevate yourself above that low bar is actually really easy. You'd be amazed. In fact. Okay, here's a funny little joke. How many of you know that with just two glasses of wine you would already be one of the best speakers at the event? I've been kidding. Nobody should use that method. Nobody should use that method. But you understand, the point is that what holds people back from being really compelling on stage is that they've been taught an inauthentic model. They've been taught that they have to stand a certain way, that they have to, you know, script things a certain way, and so on. And so what we're going to be going through is how to lay the foundation for you to really be authentically you in front of that. In front of that audience. Which means things like how you design your presentation. This is a very important thing. You guys remember I told you not to. Not to ever write out your talks, right? Well, the challenge is a lot of people write out their talks, and then their memory gets funny about their talk. They're, like, not quite sure, sure where they were supposed to go. They lose their way and what have you. But also their tone of voice gets kind of broken. It's like. It's like you can hear that they're reading something, and then they've broken that authenticity. So instead, we're going to teach you something called speech mapping. We're going to show you how to design a talk that you will never need notes to remember that you will be able to flexibly change if you suddenly need to deliver it in 15 minutes or in 30 minutes. It's going to give you the flexibility to deliver talk without needing to depend upon slides. Matter of fact, great story about this. One day I started getting a bunch of text messages, and the text messages that I got were, hey, Vishen's doing a presentation right now, and his slides broke. And he had, like, 90 slides. And you know what was really incredible? He sailed right through it. And after the presentation, he immediately wrote to me and said, thank you so much because I used all the stuff you showed because I didn't need my slides. I guarantee you now, when you learn that method for how to design your talk, it's going to change everything. Also, we're going to talk about how to create the logical flow of the content so that you're putting the content in a way that makes it maximally memorable for people. We're going to. We're going to review things like the charisma pattern, the vocal ranges that you want to use, and we're going to do a much deeper dive. We've done a much deeper dive into effective storytelling. How to turn you into a truly effective storyteller so that your friends start saying, hey, hey, tell them about the one you know. Tell them about the time when that happened. And as soon as your friends start saying that, you're going to recognize you've made a big transition, especially when you become willing to do that in front of a camera or in front of an audience. I could go on and on Gotham, but I think that's basically what you needed.

All right, thanks, Eric. I'm back.

Great.

Yeah. And we'll just put the slides back on Because I want to, I want to show some aspects of the program because not only do you get this 21 day program right now, you also get some incredible bonuses. And this is the stuff, Eric, when I was learning from you, I didn't get these accesses. They were so incredible. And I only got my hands on it once. I got to spend like the, the one on one five day intensive with you. And this is super, super incredible. So there's going to be two bonuses. First is a speaker's state meditation. Eric, do you want to just touch upon a little bit like what is the speaker state meditation?

Yeah, this is so vital. This is so very important. And by the way, I'm a little scared to mention it because I know I've got a bunch of clients that are in the chat that have done the speaking academy with me and they've never got this. This is brand new. But it's something that I've been doing for myself for many, many years as a speaker. So we talk about something called speaker state. And speaker state is that flow state that you need to enter into before you watch walk onto the stage where you can trust yourself to say what needs to be said. It's almost like you've opened a channel and you know that the right information is going to pass through you and the structure you created for your talk. And that state is very similar to the state that Roger Federer has to get into before he plays a game or before, you know, Muhammad Ali got into before he went into a fight. It's, it's this flow state. And so what this meditation is going to do is get you into that flow state and let you anchor that flow state in so that you can access it again whenever you need it. So you can use it the night before a presentation to remind you of that state, or you can Even use it 10 minutes before your presentation to activate that flow state before you walk on stage. I am so, so excited to be sharing that with you guys. I think you're going to love it.

Amazing. And there's another one if you click on the next slide, this which is meet your pre meet your audience meditation. Eric, can you touch a little bit upon that as well?

I can, I can. This has been one of our most requested like people have been asking me for this for years because I do it live. I teach the concept at our live workshops, but I've never done a guided meditation on it. So pre meeting the audience is something that I developed. It's sort of a marriage of some things that I learned from different disciplines, one of them being Hawaiian huna. So in huna, they teach this idea that you have this energetic connection with everybody else on the planet, or at least everybody else in the planet that you are, you know, that, that you, that you've had a connection with. And, and so I started thinking about that whole akka connection. So many years ago. I started this practice of pre meeting people, you know, the day before or the night before. So I would go into a meditation and I would connect myself with the ether and I would ask that the connection would drop down and it would drop right down into the, the, the person that I was meeting with. And then I would communicate with them and I would tell them that they could trust me and I could tell them that we're going to have a great meeting. And it was so powerful. Like, so powerful. I'm going to give you an example of how powerful it is. I was getting ready to meet a senior director of a publicly traded company called Debenhams in the United Kingdom. Some of you guys know Debenhams, very prestigious department store. And we wanted to install brand new systems for them and maintain their systems for them and so on. And I was an underdog for sure. I was one of three bidders. The other two bidders were billion dollar companies and I was like a couple of million dollar company. So I was definitely the underdog. I did my pre meeting meditation the night before. I drove all the way into London. I parked in the center of London, which itself was a miracle. But I pre parked. That's another exercise that we can talk about another time. But I pre paved myself a parking spot. I got my parking and I went in when I walked into the building. Now I want you to remember, this is the United Kingdom. England, you know, people that are all warm and huggy, all, oh, no, no, it's England. It's United Kingdom, right? I walked in and my friend of mine was there who'd introduced me to the account. And, you know, we shook hands and said hi and stuff. And then he walked me into the boardroom where this senior director of a publicly traded company that I'd never met before was. And he walked up to me and he gave me a hug. And I'm not sure who was more surprised, him or me. Like, I don't know what happened, but I had created such a strong connection that the minute I walked in the room, I was recognized. And so this meditation is going to show you how to do that with your audience so that when you walk onto the stage. Even if you're not super famous yet, even if you're not super recognized yet, they're going to recognize you energetically because you pre connected to the night before. You're going to love this.

All right, Eric, thank you so much. What I want to share here is there's a couple of stories here as well of some of the students and as someone who's watching this, pay attention to how far and wide the people come from around the world and share these things. One of them is by this lady, Isabella. She says that I'm preparing two talks right now in two cities for the upcoming week and one of them is a first paid speaking event. This is after going through the stage effect quest and the things that you are sharing. Eric, this is incredible. The kind of stuff people can go through. And she's from Romania. And this next one is Faraz Ali. She's from Norway and she says only five days left until my TEDx stage appearance. I'm in an amazing state of mind, Confident, calm and ready to captivate my audience. This is incredible. The next one is Sophia. She talks about and she's from Portugal. Inspired by Eric's teaching, I'm. I confidently delivered a 20 minute talk to business owners without tension or apprehension. I cannot tell you to what degree this resonates with me, especially when I, you know, in my early days, right after, when I had finished my presentation and my, my experience with you, Eric, this, the amount of time this narrative shows up over and over again from the next day, for years later. It's profound. And then here's the next one you see. This is Faraz Ali. These tools are. Can you go back? Yeah. All right. Faraz Ali. Yeah. These tools are not just theoretical concepts. They are actionable strategies that one can seamlessly incorporate into their speaking. This is one of Eric's gift, the things that he speaks about. Somehow, whether you like it or not, they get stuck to you.

They get.

So it's a good thing that he's taking the right things, but you cannot shake them off. It's been seven years. I've been trying my best. It doesn't go away from you. So this is some of the stuff that you will learn from Eric. And he's also from Norway. And there's one more testimonial that I want to read out to you. This is Andra, also from Romania. She said, I'm game changer. For anyone looking to be an unforgettable speaker. This is the idea that Eric was speaking about like once you share something, people would come up to you weeks later, months later, sometimes years later, remembering the things that you shared with them and how deeply it has influenced you. So that's the stuff you can engage in right now. If you start the quest, the stage effect and it's a 21 day quest, you can click next, you can already begin now for Mindvalley members, it's already available to you. It's for 21 days, 20 minutes a day. That's your commitment to become better than 90% of the speakers professionally that you will ever come across. And it's profound. So I highly, highly encourage you to begin this quest right now. And if you click on the next slide, if you're not a mindvalley member, this is where you can get started. We'll also put the chat, the link in the chat as well, or you can just scan this QR code and you can engage in mindvalley membership. You get access to this quest and all the other quests by some of the most incredible teachers that Mindvalley brings together that bring transformative teachings from mind, body, career, spirituality, relationships, all these domains. So if you want to jump on, get full access, this is the link. So we'll just put the link in the chat as well, give you about 30 seconds. And while you are enrolling for this, you know, we want to touch upon something that you know, there's two aspects as I mentioned, that you can engage in. One is to become better than 90% of the speakers you will ever come across. That's the stage effect. But there's the other thing and I'm going to tell you, I'm not going to lie when I heard it on the receiving end that if you want to become a world class speaker, five days with Eric will get you there. My first reaction was yeah, for other people, not for me. And I want to share like I will also share my story, how it has deeply impacted me. But that's the Speaker Nations Speaking Academy. This is the greatest transformative program that you could go through. If you are in a space that you wanna and you have the aspiration to become one of the best speakers in the world and trans and transform the world, transform your community with your voice, with your messaging, with your unique self expression, this might be interesting for you, you know. So this is. If you click next. I want to share a little bit about this program. This is by Speaker Nation and Eric. I'm gonna share the details of the program and also share how it has personally impacted me and some of the Other people. But if I could ask you to just describe, how would you describe the five day intensive and what happens in those five days and what people leave with and just to introduce the idea to people because very exclusive, it may not be for everyone and you know, I just want to give a full idea to the participants who may be thinking about this to join you live work one on one with you in a small group setting. How does that look like if you could describe it?

Yeah, it's this simple. If you want to become a world class golfer, you're going to have to go hire a really great caddy and a trainer and you're going to have to go play four hours a day, six days a week for the next five years. And maybe, maybe if you've got some natural talent, you might become a world class golfer. But that's because golfing is an unnatural thing that you have to learn. Becoming a world class presenter, becoming a great speaker is something that you were born with. Ask any 2 year old on a plane, they're not afraid. They learn that fear. In other words, they lock it up inside. So I'm curious, in the chat, how many of you have often felt like that, like there's a voice in there, there's a message in there, there's a desire to be heard that's a little bit locked up inside, it's trapped in there. How many of you guys have felt like that? A little bit.

Right.

And so one of the most common pieces of feedback that we get from people coming out of this speaking academy program over the last 10 years I've been teaching it is that it is the most transformative personal development program they've ever attended, disguised as a speaking workshop. That's a bit of a joke, but there's a huge amount of truth in it because in order to get you to the place where I believe that you want to be, and that is a phenomenal world class, authentic, attractive, charismatic, memorable speaker, then there's two things to work on. There's, there are skills, there are things you need to learn about how to master the stage and how to work with a camera and how to work with your voice. But there's a bigger thing that you want to work on and that is how to let you out, how to really let you out to play so that you can be heard, so that you can get your message out into the world. And I want to share something with you about this. Many of you don't know this yet because it's a Rembrandt for you still, you have ideas and perspectives and strategies about the way your life has worked and that could help other people so dramatically. And if you think about it, many of you feel held back about sharing that wisdom because of a little bit of a fear of public speaking. I want you to imagine for a minute how selfish that is because you have stories that could literally end pain for people. You have stories that could improve their profitability, make them better parents. I don't know your life experience, but you definitely have those. And this program is going to give you the combination of releasing that inner talent that is already in there and then refining it with the skills that are transition you to world class delivery. I can tell you as one example, just one example, we routinely have people come to this program who range from phobic novices to professional grade speakers and they're all in the same room together. They're all in the same room to get the same things. But what's always a miracle, what's always amazing is when there are people there on day one who are so afraid that if you hand the microphone to them, they, they start hyperventilating or often even crying. And by 3:47 on the fourth day of the event, you can drop a microphone in their lap, they will walk up on stage and they will deliver a world class presentation. And I am not exaggerating, that is exactly what will happen. And it'll happen for you.

Eric, I want to, this is so profound. I'm going to, you know, here's what happened. I'm currently in Costa Rica and right now, by the way, for, for a full introduction, like, my name is Gautam Ketrapal. I run a transformational festival company in India. You know, it's the coolest transformational festival companies and today I get to, you know, go around the world and share the messages that I'm deeply, deeply passionate about. I've given two TEDx talks. One of them has had over 5 million views. And the reason why I'm telling you this is because every single thing that I've mentioned, none of it would have been possible had I not attended the speaking academy. That's a, that's a huge testimonial to you, Eric. And that's why I keep sending people to Eric. I asked no affiliate code, nothing. I just tell him, just keep, just tell him that Gautam sent me and the amount of time and it's, it's just my way of saying thank you to you. And you know, the truth is I did the Speaking Academy in June 2017, one week later, I. I finally had the courage to start my dream company. I called it Life Plugin. Three months after that, I was invited to speak on Ted Tedx for the first time. Got over 5 million views. Six months later, I got. I became one of the youngest speakers at a UNESCO conference with 3,000 people. And here's, here's something I want to tell you about the compounding of these skills. One year later, I got invited to speak in the US somewhere for one hour keynote speech that covered the fee for the entire workshop that I had done a year ago. And it's just been compounding. This is just the first year time frame that has been profound. And some of the things that you mentioned here, you know, ambitions, losing his slides or becoming the most flexible speaker, getting rebooked over and over again. These things are. When Eric was speaking and teaching us this stuff, he said that, yeah, you will lose your slides, but you'll still become the most, you know, you'll still become an unforgettable speaker. I, I went on that first dead stage very early on in my speaking career. I went on that stage and they lost my slides. And so I, I gave the presentation, my talk, the most important talk of my life that got over 5 million views because. And they lost my slides. If, if you guys go through the video, you can see that the slides are messed up behind. And then Eric, you also mentioned you. I remember it so clearly that there will come a point where wherever you're going, people will start organizing their schedule just so that you can speak there. You know, universities have done that. Years later, I'm traveling there for two days. They saw it on social media, ended up creating a massive event just so that I can speak in two days. And currently I'm in, I'm in Costa Rica. I was speaking at Esther Perel's, you know, workshop private retreat. And she is like one of the most incredible teachers I've had the pleasure to learn from. And I was teaching there and naturally some of the big shots are there, people from all over the world in blue spirit Costa Rica. And Esther was not there, right? It was in the middle of the retreat. I gave my talk, I gave my workshop. And people started going up to Esther and saying, hey, how it deeply touched them. So the next day, Eric, Esther came to me and said, hey, Gautam, would you mind if I create more space in the schedule? I want to attend your workshop again. Could you do that again? This happened to me last week. And so I was not Supposed to be here. I just finished another one week long event and the only reason I said yes to to Mindvalley team when they asked me to host this is because the depth of transformation I've experienced in my life, it's, it's been incredible. So it's, it's a big thank you to you and you know, if in any way I can invite people to, to get exposed to this idea, it's been absolutely life transformational. So I wanted to come here, say first thank you to you and also give an opportunity to people to see the depth of transformation they can experience. And I want to introduce this program to you. You know, also I would like to now invite Jackie Dumain. You know, she's, she was also one of the, one of the clients of Eric before. Now she's part of the speaker niche team and then she, she leads incredible coaching teams and she coaches people now on public speaking. And so I want to invite her to share her story and also introduce the program, the details of the program, how people can enroll in it and we facilitate this space together. So if Jackie can come on would be really, really cool. But this is an incredible space to be in guys. So if you are seeing this and if it touches you, this is one of the most incredible opportunities. And I don't think Eric will do this for long because he's been doing it for very long and it only happens once or twice a year for 20 to 30 people maximum. And the amount of love, sincerity and focus that you get from Eric, it's, it's a permanent shift. So I cannot recommend this enough. You know, and by the way Eric, the, the other thing that blew me. You wanted to say something.

I was just gonna say before you do it, bring Jackie on, I want to just point something out. You know, one of my favorite expressions is that you are only ever one well delivered talk away from the next big breakthrough of your life. And you are such an example of that. You know, you're talking about a week after the event, you're already beginning to deliver that talk. And I have, you know, there are countless examples of people who have like finally said I'm willing to be heard. They go deliver that one talk and then there's a book deal or then there's a Netflix special or then there's raising money for their company or then there's a political campaign that was launched so before Jackie. Jackie, so nice to see you. Well, here's what I would like everybody to tell me in the chat. What is it? If you allow yourself to dream. If you allow yourself to peek through the veil into the alternate bent reality universe that of. Of your full magnificence, what is it that you might now what that you right now might be one talk away from? If you delivered that one talk in front of the right audience or it went online and it. And it was seen by the right people, what are you potentially one talk away from right now? Tell me in the chat and got them back over to you.

All right, let's look through the chat. And Jackie, while you're here, you are, by the way, I'm introducing Jackie while Eric, you read through the, read through the answer this, these answers, by the way. Wow. Okay. Would you like me to read through the answers or Eric, or should we continue?

Let's go to Jackie. But can somebody from Mindvalley capture those for me? I want those. I want to read them. I'm really passionately. I want to read them and then I want to check in with people to make sure they made it happen.

Beautiful. Okay, so we take that on Mindvalley team and then we saved the chat for you. Eric, Jackie, over to you.

Hello. I, you know, I can repeat everything that Gautam said about what the Speaking Academy does. And for context, I was one of the facilitators at the Speaking Academy in Tallinn a couple of years ago. So I have firsthand seen the transformation that happens. And someone asked in the chat, can you learn charisma? And I'm going to get to that in a moment. I'm going to tell you that I have proof that this is something that can be learned. I'm going to share my experience of the Speaking Academy from my own perspective of participating in it as a speaker. I'm going to ask in the chat, as you post all your inspiring topics of what you want to change the world with, how many people in the audience are already speakers, meaning you've already done a talk. Just curious. Okay. And you think you're a pretty good speaker? Do you think you're a pretty good speaker? I thought I was too. The first time that I participated in Speaking Academy, I was already a speaker and I thought I'm a pretty good speaker. And I found out that I wasn't that great and that I had so much to learn to become a phenomenal speaker. I was a speaker who wrote out my talks, who tried to memorize my talks, which I'm telling you, makes you feel super jittery because if you forget one thing, it throws you completely off. And what speaking Academy did for me. Once I got past my ego of thinking I was a great speaker, it made me realize that I didn't really know anything about speaking. And I finally learned how to deliver a talk that was truly from the heart. Based on stories, based on feeling the energy of the room, based on tapping into intuition, which is so important as a speaker. Can we all agree with that? You have to tap into the intuition of the room. And it completely changed the way I deliver talks, the way I facilitate groups. It's helped me as a podcaster because I'm a better listener, I'm a better communicator, and it's also helped me in my relationships as well, because speaking is communicating. Speaking is communicating. Whether you want to be a speaker or not. If you're a manager, if you're a CEO, having speaking skills is going to change the game for you. And the experience I wanted to share was at One Speaking Academy there was one participant. So that's my personal share. Now I'll share what I witnessed. Her name was Georgia. Do you remember Georgia, Eric? And the first time Georgia stepped on stage, I thought we might have to call 911. I really thought we might have to call 911. And I'm not joking, she went ghost white and was having a panic attack. Literally, you could see her shaking and she was having a panic attack. I get goosebumps thinking about it because I can still visualize her there and I could feel her fear. I think it was by day two, Georgia was like grabbing the mic and walking on stage with it. And by the end of the five days, she had us all laughing. And what I know to be true about Georgia, she then went on and took these skills as the CEO in her business. So she was, she's an entrepreneur who owns a business, a candle making business. And she started doing something called ladder talks. Now Georgia's tiny and she didn't have a stage in the staff room for her team. So she would climb up on a ladder so she had some height and she would deliver ladder talks to her team and her company's revenue, I think it was they three times their revenue within a year. And was it because Georgia became a speaker? Perhaps. But her speaking turned her into a leader. So she was not just the boss of a company, she was now a leader because she had the confidence to communicate with her team, which then grew her business. And so back to the question of can you learn charisma? Yes, you can, because I saw it with Georgia, I saw it with Vicky and Talon. Who was bugged her whole life for stuttering. And she would walk on stage and day one, couldn't even look at us in the eyes. Literally couldn't look at us in the eyes. Would pace. Remember that, Eric? She would pace back and forth. And by the finals, she was addressing us all as an audience. And so I'm telling you, there's miracles that happen within these five days. And if you think, well, not me, I'm like, there's no way that can happen to me. I promise you it can. I promise you it can happen. And you know, the quest will be phenomenal for you. We'll go into some of the bonuses that will also be phenomenal for you. But I'm the mother of a grown son who played basketball. And if any of you have, you know, children who are in sports or perhaps you are as well, you know that you can watch a lot of basketball videos. And if you watch a lot of basketball videos, you're going to be good at playing basketball or learning about basketball. Basketball. And you'll know some basketball. But if you want to be a speaker who is on a stage, on a stage, a real life stage in front of people, there's nothing quite like practicing on stage. And that's what Speaking Academy does for you and how it changed my life. So I want to thank you for that, Eric.

Oh, you're very welcome, Jackie. And it's funny, as you say, the stories, it actually raises emotion for me. Like when I. When we see that and you know how Thursday is for me, like day four, it's like that transformation day where the Vickies and those people come out like that. There was a. In my very first Speaking Academy, there was one guy who came in and he would have been the perfect spy because he could walk into a room and nobody would even know he was there. Speaking of charisma. And he just, he was the perfect spy because you wouldn't even see him. But by the end of the fifth day, he was rocking the room. And over the next two years, he won three or four national comedy championships at Toastmasters. And as you were telling us, sorry about Vicki. It brought that back for me. So I'm so glad to have enjoyed having had you to enjoy those journeys with me. So thanks for the reminders.

It was a ton of fun. It was really fun watching people literally transform. They looked like different people at the end of five days. So we'll tell you a little bit about Speaking Academy.

Jackie, if I could just say one thing, I see a lot of you Guys posting questions. And if you can move your questions to the Q and A area, I will answer as many questions as we can get done today. I absolutely will take care of that. Sorry, Jackie, back over to you.

Yeah, no problem, no problem. I'm just reading some of the chat as well here. So what is Speaking Academy? So it's your opportunity to spend five days with Eric in person. And I'm telling you, Eric is not. If you've ever been to an event where, you know, you're kind of sold that the celebrity will be there and then you go to the event and they kind of pop in a little bit and they're maybe there for an hour a day and then they leave and then they have some of their team doing the rest of the event. That's not the case here. Eric is extremely hands on. He is there all day with you, sometimes all night, sometimes into the wee hours of the morning. But he is there and committed to your success. I have never, and I've been at doing events and transformational experiences for 25 years. I've never seen such a hand, hands on facilitator that is so committed to the success of the participants. You will, as I shared, witness and experience the power of speaking and delivering talks and what you'll learn. So Eric, I'm going to kind of leave it, like let you to share in your own words the broad spectrum appeal.

Yeah, broad spectrum appeal.

We found Framework for Speaking Academy.

We've touched on that a little bit today in our workshop. But the idea of broad spectrum appeal is that you can speak at any conference or any event and appeal to the vast majority to appeal to the 99%. You can't please all the people all the time, but you can definitely get to the 99%. I have the privilege distinction of very often, almost always being voted the number one speaker at conferences that I've been at. Sometimes I'm at that conference to speak about a topic that's not even a match for the conference. I've been brought there for entertainment purposes and still managed to make that happen. And that's about broad spectrum appeal. So we'll be showing you how to design your talk so they're appealing to everybody, how to deliver your talks so that they're appealing everybody. And that way, like I'll give you a really great example, I got invited to go and speak at a women's conference. I was the only male speaker at this entire women's conference in, in, in Las Vegas. So I'm not immediately a natural match for this very feminine event. But I used all the things that we're going to talk about here in the broad spectrum appeal area, and it went unbelievably well. So again, you want the skill to be able to appeal to 99% of the audience, even if they're not immediately curious about or interested in your topic. And that's what broad spectrum, Broad spectrum appeal is all about, by the way. Why do you want it? You want it because broad spectrum appeal is what gets you invited back again and again. For those of you who've been to a fest, you probably noticed the normal tradition at a fest is that generally speaking, speakers are brought in to speak at Mindvalley's a fest sort of, you know, once, maybe again, four or five years later, with the exception of Lisa Nichols, who spoke at the very first one and is a phenomenal broad spectrum speaker. And she spoke at many of them. And then I did my first. I did my very first aphas in Mykonos and my first invitation to come back and speak speak at a fest again was at the same a fest the next day and then at the next one and then again at the next one. And I think I spoke at six of the next seven or something like that. And that's that concept of broad spectrum appeal. It's what gets you booked and rebooked and rebooked again. A big part of that, of course, is learning how to design powerful presentations. And there's an exercise that we're going to run you through where you will be empowered to be able to design a presentation on the back of a napkin and walk on stage and deliver it in 15 minutes. And I'll tell you why I developed this. I already mentioned to you I was speaking at a fest. I did my first talk. Vishen came up to me that night and he said, eric, we've had a complaint from the audience. I was like, holy. I want to know immediately what it was because I always am seeking to improve. No matter how good I feel I am, I always want to get better. So Vishen, tell me, what was the negative feedback? He goes, well, it wasn't negative feedback, it was a complaint. I go, okay, what was the complaint? He goes, the complaint was that we didn't give you enough time and that the audience felt they needed more. Could you do another presentation tomorrow? Like, I didn't prepare anything. Like, I didn't. A 20 minute presentation takes some effort. You got to. I didn't prepare anything, but I had a formula. And so I sat down and by the way, it's not like I had all night to prepare it. We had a dinner, we had a speaker dinner, then we had a party to go to, and the party went on until three o' clock in the morning, and then I had to speak the next morning. So when was I going to design the damn thing? I used the exact system that you're going to become a pro at, and I design it on a napkin and I delivered it the next morning. And I can tell you that Vishen called me about three weeks later and he says, eric, I want to congratulate you. Your talk was the second highest rated talk of the entire Athos conference. And by the way, I can tell you there were amazing speakers there at that event. And then I tried to say thank you to him and he said, wait. I go, okay, what? And he goes, your second talk, the bonus talk you did on the last day, that was the highest rated. You were one and two. And I'm telling you right now, when you learn how to create a presentation like this, it means that you become the person that they jump to. One last quick story about that. I was in Miami at the Manifestation Summit. How many of you guys watched that online? Was that ever amazing? Maybe some of you there. Well, here's what happened. Some of you probably know a part of this story if you were watching online or if you were in Miami. But when Neil Donald Walsh was on stage, there was some problem with Zoom and the technology and it just wasn't working. Now, I was not there at that event. You notice I was not speaking at that event. I was not there. I was there on vacation. My partner Kirsty was shooting the event and I just came to say hi to her, and there I was at the event. And then Neil's sound goes off and it's not syncing up and all these people are sitting in the audience and it's not working. I jump backstage. Vishen looks up at me, I look at him and I go, you want me to fill? And he goes, bam, go. And I put on a mic and I walked up on the stage and I stood there ready to go in case they couldn't get the sound to happen. Luckily, they managed to get Neil reconnected for the audience. But the point was I was ready and able to do it because I know how to design these presentations and it can be done in 30 seconds. And I want you to be able to do it too. Of course, Jackie. We're going to talk about storytelling. I mean, by the way, what an interesting example. Did you guys like the Neil Dolan Walsh story? Is that kind of cool? It's kind of a cool story, right? Guess what? Everything that happens to you is a great story. You just have to find where to put it. I've never told that story before. I've never used it before because it only happened about a week ago. But it fit exactly well in this situation. So what you're going to learn, what you're going to experience is how to catalog your stories so that you have an inventory of Rembrandts. Not one Rembrandt. An inventory of Rembrandts. And then you're going to know how to pull the right one out at the right moment for the right memorable moment that you're trying to create. And you're going to be able to deliver it with deep authenticity from inside yourself, with real, genuine human charisma. Because we're going to go after, we're going to go through storytelling workshop after workshop after workshop, and you're going to be so talented within about three days.

Can I add one thing to the storytelling, Eric?

Yes.

For those of you who use Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, who use social media to promote your business or want to use it to promote your message, all of this is applicable to doing lives, to doing stories, to recording videos. Everything you learn is applicable to all of this. And, you know, so really the whole world is your stage. You're going to get an opportunity to practice all these skills every day from your phone and really make an impact on your audience.

Absolutely. This fourth thing at Speaking Academy, it is a total game changer. When you go and do a presentation, you generally have a main objective for doing that. You know, you're being paid to do it or you're trying to sell something, you're trying to get value votes or sell your book or, I don't know. Like, you usually have one main reason. And the average speaker walks on stage with one reason for being there. By the way, how many of you have seen a speaker go on stage and their only goal seems to be to get to the end of the talk? Anybody been to that presentation? Like, it happens quite often that people are, you know, they've got that like one primary goal or you've been and you've seen somebody speak who. Their only goal is, you know, one thing to get you to buy their book or whatever. What you're going to learn is a system of strategic objectives that's going to help you to look at every single presentation you do with a mini business plan so that you know exactly why you're giving the talk. There are too many examples for me to share with you right now. But here's one great example. I understand that every time that I walk on stage, I am capturing video and photography that might be useful for me on social media. It might be useful for me for demo reels and show reels. So as an example, because I know that one of my strategic objectives is to get good video and photography, I walk into the venue, I walk straight to the video crew. No other speaker does this. I've never seen it. I walk straight to the video crew and I ask them where their light windows are. I ask them where I can walk and stay well lit. I tell them that I'm likely to walk down into the audience because I like to connect with the audience and I ask them where they will keep the light so that the video quality will stay good. Then I go over to the photographer and I say to the photographer, you cannot disturb me. I am undisturbable. You can stand in my face and take any picture you want. You can stand on stage behind me, you can flash me. I am completely undisturbable. And that gives the photographer the permission to get the best ever photographs ever. And so this is one little example of how I'm going to show you to make sure that every single time you walk on stage, you literally 10 to 20x the return that comes back to you. There's little ways to tell stories that get people to follow you. There's little ways to drop in information that makes people rebook you. And every one of those things is going to maximize your return on effort. So that every talk you do is not achieving just that one thing for you, but it's achieving 20 things. You want me to jump in on that one, Jackie? Oh, I've lost. Jackie. This, this getting booked and rebooked. I want you to think about something. Getting booked is the hard part. Like, you know, getting your first booking at a conference or getting your first booking at a, at a, you know, at a company, that's really the hard part. And, and many speakers build their entire career on doing one talk at one conference one time and doing one talk at one company one time. That's a lot of work. It means you constantly have to be selling, you constantly have to be paying finders fees in commissions and all that kind of stuff, which is fine. But when you figure out the science behind getting rebooked and rebooked again and rebooked again, then, well, you change everything. I already gave you the example from a fest. I think I've spoken at every mindvalley university that's happened. But then equally I did one fill in talk for Tony Robbins as a favor once, one time they had an emergency, they needed somebody to come and fill in and I went and did a fill in speech and I got to do this event with Tony Robbins. It was a complete honor and a privilege. And that talk, I used the exact system that I'm going to be showing you to do this. That talk got Tony to invite me to his house in Fiji for lunch and sit and talk for about three and a half, four hours. And then he asked me what my availability was like for the rest of the year and he booked me for a year worth of events. So I'm going to show you what exactly needs to happen for you to be booked and then rebooked and rebooked so that you're not having to constantly make the first sale that every client you get is potentially a lifelong client.

That's the snowball effect. Once you get booked once it, it really can be a snowball effect of continuing to get booked. So you got to be prepared and always say yes. Always say yes. Magnetic attraction.

You know, we touched on this in the workshop and magnetic attraction is a very, very powerful thing. It's so powerful that it can almost be dangerous. Once you become a speaker, like, you know, a world class speaker, not just a speaker speaker, but like a world class speaker and people start like recognizing you in airports and what have you, it can become so powerful that you have people that follow you more closely than you might even like, like it's such a powerful force. But the reality is, is that if you have a message that you want to get out into the world, if you want to have a positive impact, whether you want to do that in the political arena or in the business arena or in the social, social consciousness arena, if you want to help improve environmental conditions or conditions for children, conditions for people involved in sex slavery, if you want to go out there and create a massive impact in any area of your life, you need people to be attracted to you. And of course I'm not talking sexual attraction, I'm talking energetic attraction. And so in the workshop you're going to release a charisma that somebody taught you to lock up a long time ago. You're going to release it and it's going to feel amazing. And for many of you it's going to be like welcoming yourself back and you might even Cry when it happens. It's an incredibly powerful experience. But when the real you starts to shine, you're going to tap into one of the most powerful principles of attraction there is, and I'm going to share it with you. That you guys have all seen, like the Secret or you've seen this kind of concept of Law of attraction. They all talk about you need to vibrate and you need to focus and you need all this stuff, but there's one thing that they don't really talk about, and I want you to hear it from me. It's so powerful. When you are authentically, passionately enjoying yourself, you are fundamentally attractive. When you are authentically, passionately enjoying yourself, people want to join you, they want to follow you, they want to engage with you, they want to buy from you, they want to invest in you, they want to invest with you. And so this skill of releasing that trapped in charisma and letting you out properly, it will change everything for you. And it will allow you to get to your potential. It'll allow you to have the impact that there's a part of you inside that knows you should be having and feels responsible to have. So this is a very powerful part of the program.

I want to add to that, Eric and I'd like to ask those listening, how many of you were ever told that you talk too much in school, or you were told you talk too much, etc. And this is rolling right off of what Eric said about when you connect with that part of you, I knew there'd be a lot of yeses. Chances are, if that's what you were told, you've lost that part of you. That part of you is actually a little bit scared to come out because of those messages. And when you learn to tap into that magnetic attraction again, that part of you that liked to share your voice, that wanted to share your voice, and your own personal expression comes back, and that's the part that rolls into instant engagement here. It makes you unforgettable.

Yeah, it really does. It really does. This is a really big one. And, and, and it's a really important thing to understand. There is no more powerful money multiplier than speaking. There isn't. I, I don't, I don't care. Like, I'm, I'm telling you right now, nothing has the power to increase your market value, your profit potential, your attraction to money than becoming a great presenter. And I don't care if you're an orthopedic surgeon or you're a life coach or you're a massage therapist or a school teacher. Nothing has a greater impact on your capacity for increasing your attraction on money than becoming a great speaker. And that's because for millions of years, the members of our tribes that had the greatest power and influence were the ones that were great speakers, that were great storytellers. And so our DNA is attracted to that in a really powerful way. So let's imagine that you're an orthopedic surgeon and you're afraid of public speaking. Well, you probably make a good living. You're an orthopedic surgeon, after all, and you're kind of in demand. But what if one day you get over yourself and you recognize that you have phenomenal stories to tell? You know, like my grandfather, he was an orthopedic surgeon and he traveled the world as a speaker. I remember him telling a story once about being in medical school and. And they were cutting a cadaver with their scalpels. And this one student, he kept doing the cut wrong. And the professor used the back of the scalpel across his knuckles. Bam. To punish him for doing it wrong. And he hit him again, and he hit him again. And this old professor was one of those guys that could make or break your entire career, like you wanted to pass his class. And he wrapped the kid across the knuckles again. And his knuckles are turning red and there's a little blood, like. And he's trying to do it, and he wraps him again. And then in a blinding moment of insanity, the medical school student flips his scalpel over and smacks the professor across the knuckles. And in a blinding moment, he ruins his entire medical career for life. Only the professor had a sense of humor, and he simply turned to him and he goes, well, I never hit you that hard. It's a true story and it's super fun. And my grandfather was great at telling stories. So he got invited to travel all over the world as a speaker, which meant access to the market in a much bigger way than he could as a little orthopedic surgeon operating out of his own practice. One more quick example about this just to A friend of mine invited me to go on a private tour of Industrial Light and Magic. Now, for those of you who don't know Industrial Light and Magic, we're talking about the. The. The. The special effects shop that made Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, many of those movies. Many of the special effects for those movies. He invited me on a tour, and while I was there, they were raising money for the studio, and I watched them do A pitch. I was in the theater watching them do. And it was. Guys, it was diabolical. You remember we said, like, sometimes you're at a conference and 70% of the speakers were bad. This was diabolically bad. And so I said to my buddy Gavin, I said, we're walking. I go, they're never going to raise money like that. And he goes, what? I go, they're never going to raise money like that. It's never going to work. He goes, well, what would you do differently? I'm like, this, this, this, this, this. And he goes, well, would you tell the studio owners about that? No, I won't. I'm on a tour. I'm not. I'm not. No, I'm not doing that. Cut to. He talks me into going to the boarding room, to the boardroom. And I'm sitting in this boardroom where God knows what movies have been designed in here. And I'm looking at the studio owners, and Gavin says, eric, tell the boys here what you said about the presentation. I said, well, it could have been better. It could have been better. And they asked me how it could have been better. I started telling them ways it could have been better. And then one of the guy goes, well, we've got a group of investors coming in this afternoon. Would you mind doing the pitch for us? What? I am totally on a tour. Like, I am. I'm on a tour. This must be a gag. This can't be real. It was totally real. The next thing you know, I'm not kidding, you guys, this is an absolutely true story. I'm standing in the George Lucas Theater looking up at a group of investors doing a presentation for a studio that I walked into for the first time six hours ago. It was. It was like. It was mind blowing. I did the presentation, and at the end, the. The investors are asking questions, and I knew some of the answers just because I paid attention in the first presentation. And then the lead investor, he goes, eric, if we do invest in the studio, will you be staying on to manage the studio?

What?

I'm on a tour. Like, this really happened. And of course I said, no, I'm not staying on to manage the. You know. And I left. And I'm not kidding you, about a week and a half later, the partners called me and asked me if I was interested in coming in to acquire the studio. And I did. And I ended up working on Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean and doing the most incredible movie projects. Amazing. And what I want you to know is that when you open the door to speaking, there are countless ways to make it pay you financially. You can get speaking fees, you can earn commissions, you can get finder's fees, affiliate fees, but you can also get consulting jobs. And so a big part of the speaking academy is going to be to explore the monetization path for your speaking career. It's going to be powerful. Vicky.

Yeah, that was Vicki. Are we. Are Gautam. Are we playing Vicki's testimonial?

Yeah, let's. Let's go back and let's see if we can play it. Yeah, I just have the team.

Okay.

Cued in. Yeah, there you go.

No sound on my side.

As context. This is Vicki, who was deathly afraid to get on stage and always looked down and paced the stage and grew up bullied her whole life because she stuttered.

Yeah, let's pass it. It's not working.

Okay, so the transformation process that you take people through, Eric, it works. I can attest to you that it works. And so if you are looking for not only becoming a speaker, whether you've never spoken before and you're like Vicki or like Georgia, and you're deathly afraid of going on stage, the transformation process works. If you're already an existing speaker and you think you're a great speaker and you want to be a phenomenal speaker, the transformation process is the same and it still works on a new level. Like your skills just developed. And that's what I thought was so phenomenal, is that you have speakers of different capacities in the room together live, spending five days together, learning from each other. And in fact, the seasoned speakers learn from the new speakers and vice versa, because you go back to that beginner mentality, which is so amazing to see. So I've had some people ask about the dates, when is this? And I've actually saw people ask, is this in person? It is absolutely in person. You are there in real time. You are in the speaking academy bubble for five days, and it really is a bubble. You want to tell your family and friends that you are going to be in the speaking academy bubble from June 9th to 13th in Toronto, Canada, and November 6th to 10th in Tallinn, Estonia. And if anyone from Canada or North America here on the call listening to this, if you're in Canada, you might be tempted to go to the Canadian one. I would actually do both. But if for some reason those dates don't work for you, Tallinn is incredible. Tallinn is beautiful. And for those of you that are in Europe, Toronto was amazing in June as well. So you can't go wrong. These are both phenomenal locations with plenty to do and plenty to see if you add a couple days on so great locations. The time commitment, what kind of time commitment is it? Five full days and they are full 10 hour days, very full 10 hour days that fly by. I can tell you. They fly by. And how does this training work? Well, as I shared, you get 5 days of training with Eric. Eric went through all the points already of the magnetic attraction, everything that you're going to learn there and then some. And being a part of a community, I mean, you guys are all in mindvalley here, right? Many of you are mindvalley members already. You know the value of being part of a community. And, and one thing that I've witnessed, because I'm still part of the WhatsApp group from the Speaking Academy in Tallinn. You make friends for life. They have gone on to do Oxford talks together, some are doing TED talks, they're encouraging each other all the time. They're still posting two years later their updates on their speaking gigs that they're getting requesting feedback on their talks two years later, which I think is so incredibly phenomenal. And it shows just how tight that community is built. In five days, what do you get? Of course, five days of full training. You get access to the Speaker Nation exclusive community, which again is a community of people who all have the common goal of using their voice to create an impact in the world. You are going to get a bonus, which is a huge, huge bonus. And it's to the One Talk workshop where for those of you who want to craft your talk, right, that that signature talk and learn how to use it to go on to sell books, or perhaps you want to create a talk that's going to help you with a fundraiser or some kind of philanthropic endeavor. You're going to learn how to put together your talk in three days and this is done online and that's given to you as a bonus with your Speaking Academy ticket.

Jackie, can I just jump in? I just want to jump in, say this. It's really important. Guys, this is a mindvalley only thing. This is not what we offer the public outside. And the One Talk workshop, I know that some of you have seen, like, oh, you get a bonus and the bonus is just some bonus. No, this is a genuine event. We run it maybe twice a year. It sells out every time. The value of this workshop cannot be understated. While you will learn many of these things at the Speaking Academy relative to speechwriting, what this workshop is going to do is actually have you and me and, and the whole group work together on designing a signature talk. And you will be left with two things. One, a signature talk that you can use on stage. You can Deliver it in 15 minutes or 45 minutes like it will you. You'll be able to take that talk and sell it. And secondly, you will have fully integrated my speechwriting process so that you'll be able to write your talks again out in the future. So that event is a definite, definite event you want to be at. And we're giving it to you as part of mindvalley as a bonus for joining the Speaking Academy now.

Thank you. There's one other bonus as well. If you go back to the previous slide, and that was three months free of Speaker Nation membership. This is your opportunity to have practice sessions every week, connect with guest speakers who will continue to enhance your speaking skills. The opportunity for you to connect with speakers from around the world and really get the tools to not only build your repertoire and your tools as a speaker, but how to build your business as a speaker as well. And I did see a question that if Speaking Academy is for English as a. English is your second or third language? Yes, absolutely.

Yeah. In fact, I have. I've only done Speaking Academy in North America once before. All of them have done in Europe, and there's Never less than 5, 6, 7 countries represented in the room. And by the way, you. You can do the various practice sessions in whatever language you want, because some of the sessions that we're doing aren't so much about the words you're using, but how you're using them. So we've had people speaking just about every language you could imagine in there. Obviously, if you have an. If you can understand me well enough to follow the instructions in English, that's helpful, but you can definitely be in English as a second or third language person. No, no problem at all.

Now, your investment for Mind Valley members only is $9,979,997. And this is for MindValley members only, for Speaking Academy, for the One Talk Workshop, and for the Speaker Nation membership. I did have someone ask how many people are in the room. There's only 20 spots available for Mindvalley members. This is an exclusive price and we want to ensure that you have something special, something available for you as Mindvalley members. And so the price has been reduced from 15,000 to 9,997.

I just, I want to add something about that, too, relative to this, is that tickets actually go on sale for this event on April 15th. They're not available yet. You can't go to Speaker Nation and get tickets to this. When. When Vishen asked me to come and do this workshop and he asked me to open up some tickets for Mindvalley particularly, we haggled and we negotiated and he pushed and he twisted and, and, and so we created these spots specifically for mindvalley. So the event. The event tickets won't officially go on sale until April 15th. But you here, as part of the Mindvalley community, get access to early bird tickets. And you get them at a discount that isn't offered to the public. And you get the One Talk workshop as a bonus for that. So this is a very special mindvalley thing. I'm asking you, please do not take the URL that we are sharing with you and post it anywhere. This is for you guys that are here with me now or the people that are, you know, that are in the mindvalley community. So I just want to be really clear about that.

Thank you. Okay, the slides are moving very quickly. Do we have any questions? Those slides just went through the bonuses again for the One Talk workshop, which is designing your talk, not writing it out. You're not like writing a speech that you're going to rehearse on stage. You're designing and crafting. And once you have the framework to design your signature talk, you can go on to create many signature talks. Okay, some of the questions, we've shared the dates already. So. June 9th to the 13th in Toronto, November 6th to the 10th in Tallinn, Estonia. Again, how many hours per day? About 10 hours a day. It's a full, full day with Eric and the entire community. Just skip that slide. Now the. For those of you who might be wondering where you stay, accommodations will be released later once they're confirmed. But if you know Toronto and you know Tallinn, there's several, several, several locations where you can find great accommodations.

Yeah. Once you get yourself registered, we will be getting in touch with you with all the details, advice on venues, all that kind of stuff. So we'll support you in making sure that you get those things taken care of. Absolutely.

And can you transfer your spot to someone else? So life happens, Right. Can we all agree that sometimes life just happens? So, yes, if you secure a ticket for yourself, you will be able to transfer this to another person. Just get a hold of the Speaking Academy team and they'll be able to support you. Can I bring along a spouse or family member? This is a great question. If they are participating. They would need to have their own ticket, of course. Can you bring a friend or family member or spouse with you to the event? Absolutely. However, you may want to let them know that you are going to be busy during the time of the training. But, wow, you are going to have someone there to witness your transformation and celebrate your transformation. And how powerful is that going to be?

Yeah, I can tell you we've had some, like, husbands and wives come and do the event together, and it's really fascinating. And I'll tell you that it's. It adds a layer of challenge, but it's a layer of challenge you want, because the last thing you want to do is go through this whole process and then you. You go to do an event and then your wife's in the audience and you haven't dealt with that. So it's actually really cool when husbands and wives, and we've even had parents and their kids come. So, yeah, family is definitely welcome.

All right, we have the comeback of the QR code. And so if you would like to learn more about this opportunity to spend five days with Eric learning and enhancing your speaking capabilities, of course, point your phone to the screen here and you'll get all the details and be sent directly to. To that link.

If there's payment plans. If you go through to the link, it'll offer you. It'll offer you the payment plans right on that page. So just go to the link and you can see the payment plans there. And the link should take you to either event. If I understand correctly, the link should show you the page for either event. And yeah, it should show you for either event. But if you register now and it puts you in the wrong event, don't worry, we'll reassign it for you. Everything will be fine.

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Eric and Jackie. I also want to mention there's something specific that I only saw you, Eric, propose it, and it's. It blows my mind. And anyone who's in the transformational teaching space, this, the, the guarantee of this event is something unheard of. And when I heard Eric, when I saw you do that seven years ago, I said, nah, like, what are you doing? And this is what Eric, when I first saw him, this is what he said. He said, hey, you can go through this entire program. Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, all of it. And by the end of the day, if you don't feel that your life has permanently shifted, you can ask for a total refund. And as I, as I understand it, it's been 12 years you've been doing it. Not a single refund. That's the depth of commitment that he shows up with. The whole team shows up with. And you know, not a single person I've ever met, not a single attendee that I've ever met who's ever said anything except like a life transformation story from this experience. So if this is available to you, there will never be a better opportunity to, for you to participate. And it has literally no risk. Absolutely no risk. You can go through the entire program and then decide. So I would highly, highly encourage you guys. We'll, we'll post the link. It's already there in the chat. And you'll also, you know, we'll put the QR code as well. And you know, we'll take a, we'll take a few questions. Eric? Yeah, let's 10 minutes. I put some questions together that people were putting in the chat. You know, one is very interesting. It is about the limited time. You know, do you have, Sherry asked this question. Do you have any recommendations on tackling a 10 minute presentation about a certain topic? How can I tell a story if it's time limited? What do you have to say about that, Eric?

You know, that's a very interesting thing about the speaking academy is that we really work hard on perfecting what we call the three minute story. And the ability to be able to tell an engaging minute in three story in three minutes. And Gotham and Jackie, you guys will both remember that probably you had the same reaction as many other people and it was like this, it was like three minutes. That, that, that's not long enough. And yet other people have the reaction of three minutes as an eternity. And what happens over the course of the program is that you begin to recognize that once you've understood how to do three minutes, you can do any time frame. Ten minutes, three hours. The key is, you see, if I spent five days teaching you how to do a one hour keynote and then somebody said, could you do a 20 minute talk? You'd be lost. But if I lock you in so that you fully understand how to deliver a three minute story really powerfully, then you now can do a presentation of any length with very high level of engagement and interest. And your talks become very flexible because if suddenly the announcer, if suddenly the showrunner or what have you, the producer says, hey, could you fill an extra 10 minutes? You know exactly how to do that. And the average speaker can't do that. They, they, they don't have that skill. You will have that Skill.

Thanks, Eric. There's an anonymous question. Will the stage effect or these trainings, both of them, help me in interpersonal communication in relationship to speak up with my needs and resolve conflicts without question.

And that's one of the biggest side effects, by the way. Check this out. For those of you who have done Wildfit, I'm just curious for those of you who did Wildfit and you learned about your internal dialogue about food and all that kind of stuff, how many of you found that going through that process made you generally a better communicator with yourself about other things? Like it made you better communicating with yourself about procrastination, work, fitness. It made you better at communicating generally. So, and you'll see, you know, people are definitely confirming that. And so what's going to happen is that as you become comfortable with your own voice, you're going to be in that situation where you have the difficult conversation that needs to happen. You're going to be willing to have it. You will no longer walk away and go, oh, I wish I would have said this because you're going to have that like speech engine ready to go. This will not only help you in front of a thousand people or 100 people or 10 people, but it'll help you in front of one person or for that matter a camera.

Amazing. There's two technical questions. One by Nancy. So we have 11 hours to, for, for the 9997 program. No, it's actually 10 to 11 some days people volunteer even way more hours every single day for five days. So it's a deep intensive program.

It's very intensive. And I would say this, get yourself registered and like, let's say you've never been to Tallinn before. Do not contact your friends in Thailand and say, hey, I can actually have dinner with you one night. Because you're going to be very involved in the program and doing practice and working with your team. You really like think of it as like an intensive retreat. We're going to be together for five days and it's, it's, it's going to, it's going to be amazing.

Amazing. Thank you, Eric. And how often do the three payments get paid in the payments? When people are interested.

I, let me see here. There's the options that I understand is there's obviously the single payment, then there's a two payment option and there's a three free payment option. I don't know the schedule but I think if they go to registration, it's listed right there.

Got it. I'll get the answer. Come back to this question in the end. Okay, the next.

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Eric, how do you use storytelling in a training? Talking about technical procedures in healthcare? This was from Natalie.

Oh, I mean, let me give you a great example. Imagine that you're the chief financial officer of a company and you have to, like, give the shareholder report. You're going to be like, here's how they normally do it. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this morning I received the numbers from the accounting firm and where we projected 18% growth on the quarter. I'm very pleased to announce that we actually achieved 21%. Right. Like technical, boring, rubbish communication. But what if I deliver it just a little bit differently? I go, so this morning I got up and I went down to the hotel breakfast. And I was sitting there wondering, you know, I knew I was getting the numbers in, and I knew I was going to have to present it to you guys today. And I. I was wondering. I was thinking back at the last quarterly meeting, we projected 18% growth. And frankly, I thought. I thought that was a bit bullish. Like, I thought that was a little optimistic. But, you know, anyway, I finished up my breakfast, went up to my room, and the envelope was there, and I opened it up and I took a look and I was. Well, I'm going to say I was shocked. I mean, we had projected 18%. I thought that was aggressive. And congratulations, everybody, we actually achieved 21%. So you see, like, I just turned it into a story. The second way is memorable. The second way is engaging. The second way is interesting. So the same thing, if you're talking about, like, say, technical medical stuff, you want to figure out a way to storify it. If you. If you. If you turn it into an experience, it'll become memorable. If you turn into a lecture, it becomes forgettable.

Amazing. Do we have time for one more question? Eric, Keep going.

I'm fine.

Okay, so, Tsui, hey, hang on.

I just saw one. I saw one I like. Here's one. It's. If you're talking about something that is controversial, how do you get past the fear of not being welcomed, saying something stupid as perceived by the audience? Stephen, I think, said that I'm going to tell you that you have to judge every audience for who they are and what velocity they're at relative to your content. So you want to be, like, really. You really want to be mindful of who it is that you're addressing. You want to be mindful of that. And. And you want to be mindful of the rapport that you have with them. So for example, if I'm doing like a large scale event for some business that I've like, you know, I, I did an event in, in, in Germany about a year and a half ago for 10,000 people. So I, I've never spoken for that audience before. So I want to be a little gentle if I'm going to bring up some, something controversial. But as it turned out in that talk, I did want to bring up something controversial. I was speaking about one of my books called the Evolution Gap and I was talking about how racism is like an evolved response and we have to bring our consciousness to stop that evolved response. And this is an important distinction because really different people used to be very scary, they used to be very dangerous. And in some cases now you might still feel they are that way. But what was interesting about the way I brought the topic up is I didn't bring it up like I am pro or against. I just brought it up from a scientific perspective. And by the way, I got a spontaneous applause from 10,000 people in the middle of my talk for the way I presented it. So you want to figure out who your audience is and figure out what you think you can share with them and then typically don't share things from a hard fast position, share things from an exploratory position. And I'll give you one principle and we do a really powerful exercise on this during the speaking academy. It's game changing, it's life changing. But here, here is the basic principle. Do not wade in or weigh in on any topic. Do not enter a debate or an argument on any topic that you cannot argue both sides with equal effectiveness. If you can argue both sides equally, then you can wade in and then that's going to empower you to be in a situation to manage an audience if you are having a controversial conversation. Great question, Stephen. Got them back to you.

Okay, there's two more I think we can do. Shivi asks, do you at the end become a, in quotes, natural speaker?

Yes. Yeah, that's exactly what will happen. That's such a great question. Look, I, I'm a big fan of Toastmasters. I don't think it's where you want to go in terms of your maximum learning. It's where you want to go to train. I mean you can get your practicing there, you can do practicing at speaker nation clubs, but, but you want a place to practice. But the challenge is, is that if you go and do all of your learning there, then I and anybody who knows Anything is going to be able to recognize on stage where you learn to speak because you are following a formula. And so it's going to be a little bit like this. You've all seen it. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and fellow members of the Mindvalley community. Today I'm going to be giving a carefully crafted presentation. I have learned to use my voice in this particular manner. It means that I have followed the instructions. I am learning to turn my head from side to side in order to make sure that I can connect with everybody in the audience. I'm going to use my hands quite deliberately at particular moments where people have taught me that that's appropriate. And I'm going to leave pauses in exactly the right moment. Like, it becomes formulaic. Right. And. And by the way, it's fun when I do it. It's fun, but you all can feel it's different, right? It's not me. And so one of the things that I love is that nobody ever can say to say to one of my students or one of my clients, oh, oh, you worked with Eric. Oh, how can you tell? Well, because of this. They go up to them and say, oh, you worked with Eric. How can you tell? Because you were phenomenal, because you were you, because you shone through. That's the feedback our people get. So that's a great question. You will not become a formulaic clone of me. You will be unleashed, and you will become the authentic, charismatic, charismatic version of you that needs to be heard. There's another point that I want to make about this, and, Gautam, it kind of goes to your point of, I also am not sure how much longer that I will do this program. I've been teaching it for, like, over a decade, and I love teaching it, but it takes a lot out of me. I am on, on, on the entire time. You will have never. One of my very dearest friends is a guy named David Wood, one of the best speaker trainers in the world as well. Very good guy. And he came out to watch one of these events, and he walked up to me, and he's worked with the best in the world. And he walked up to me and he said, eric, I have literally never seen anybody work that hard for their audience, give that much love and attention to them. And so I want you to know that the reason that I might not do it for that much longer is that the truth of the matter is, is that, you know, 40 or 50 people, events for an entire week of my life, when there are other people asking me to do thousand person events. But this event cannot be done this way. This event cannot be done for a thousand people as a rah rah session. This event means that I need to be with you. I need to get to know you, you need to get to know me. And we need to work in an interim environment. And that's why this event is so limited and so unique and so powerful.

Eric. Yeah, it's, you know, but when I think about you doing these trainings and when you say it, it takes all out of you. I've seen it over and over again. You're like the. And the reason why this can't be done over like 40 people is because you're, you're not a teacher, that you're like a shaman for them, you know, creating. That's what you're doing. That people are having like ceremonies. Literally what happens in ceremonies, people breaking down, crying spontaneously, laughing spontaneously, running out of joy spontaneously and never returning back. And so there's so much time, attention, and energy takes out of you. So it's, it's really, it's very, very special. I would. Yeah, I cannot. I get goosebumps just where you were describing how much it takes out of you. It's, it's really true. Can we take one last question?

So, so it's good. I just saw a question here from. Let's see here from Miriam says, can you do it in the USA? I have great news for you. In 1812, America tried to invade Canada at Detroit and, and they were trying to take Canada and it didn't work out. But as a consequence of all that stuff, the 49th parallel separates our two countries. And we're doing the event in Toronto, which is actually below the 49th parallel. So it's more or less in the United States. It's basically like in Detroit. So you could just come to Toronto. It'd be perfect. Great.

Okay, Eric, one last question. If you're talking about something highly sensitive like overcoming childhood abuse as an adult, which people don't often like to talk about, how do you connect with the audience? How do you connect with them to allow them to feel their vulnerability?

You know, it's a little bit similar to the controversial. You know, it's a little bit similar to that. But let me say this, that the more rapport you have with your audience, the more connection you have with the audience, the more permission you have to do the deep conversations. So many of the people here that are. That have done wildfit, if you did wildfit on classes that I was teaching. And I don't know how many of you will have actually been on ones that I was teaching or sharing. I don't do that many of them anymore. But if you were on one that I was teaching, it's likely that at some point in time I went a little off track and I talked about controversial things. I might have talked a little bit about, you know, women going through the menopause process, or I might have talked a little bit about fertility treatment, or I talked about parenting techniques, or I talked about the dynamics between men and women and the way they communicate. Now, if you were on one of those classes in Wildfit where I went off piste and I talked about that stuff, sometimes a little edgy, did that add value to the program? Well, of course it did. But would I do that, Would I do that if I didn't have rapport and connection with the audience? No. And so one of the things that you'll really get at this event at the speaking academy is you'll get a gauge of when you've earned the connection. So. So if you think about it like this, your first job is to get their. Their attention. And then it's to go from the attention you caught to the. To developing their interest. They need to be interested and curious. If you can get them interested and curious, then you're going to be able to share enough information with them that you're going to move up to the level of authority. They're going to start to see you as an authority. Once they see you as an authority, they'll actually take your advice and they're willing to let you speak on wider topics, then if you've used your position and authority honorably and ethically, and you've transformed their life and their business in some way, and you guys have seen the people writing in the comments, what I've done for them in the past, what Wildfit has done for them, then what I've done is trans. Trans, transponded or transported, I should say, from authority to a next level above authority. And I don't know what we would name that level, but that level is where people are not simply open to your advice, but they're seeking it, they're looking for it. And once you've achieved that level, you'd be amazed at the unbelievably difficult conversations you can have with people. And you'll see it happen at the speaking academy. Because here's the thing. In order to release the truly authentic you, in order to do that, then what's going to have to happen is you're going to have to clear some of the blocks that were installed by the overbearing, maybe even abusive adult that was somewhere in your life. And then the thing that happened over there and this other thing that happened when you're 12. And in order for me to help you with that, I need to have that level of authority with you. And so you're going to see exactly how that works. Great question.

Right? Eric, thank you so much for this remarkable, transformative insights that you've shared with everyone. It's always a pleasure and honor to be to be witnessing you teaching life and for however long it happens, I will always be there. I'll do my best to always be there. Is there. I'm just gonna close this and also invite people in. Is there anything that you would like to say in closing before I close the webinar for everyone?

Yeah, I'm just gonna say this. You really truly are one talk away from the next big upgrade in your life. The next big upgrade in your business. The. The next big upgrade you want to have in terms of the influence you want to have to make the world a better place. And the truth of the matter is that, and I want you to hear me about this, the world is in the best condition that it's ever been in right now in terms of the day to day life of the average human being. And I know the media doesn't represent it that way, but that is the truth. That said, there are some major trials that we as a population are going through at the moment. There's some major political trials, environmental trials. And the fact of the matter is, is that you're either a consumer of the content or you're steering the ship. And what I want to say to you is that every single one of you have definite Rembrandts and perspective strategies, keys and ideas. And the world needs to hear them. They need to hear them and they're trapped inside you. Or hopefully you're beginning to let them out. I want to support you in making that transition. I want to support you in having the maximum possible influence you can. So I want to suggest to you, first of all, you guys, all of you that are mindvalley members, super easy go do the quest. If you're not a MindValley member, you should be one. Get your membership and do the quest. Then what I also want to say to you is that this is a very unique opportunity that mindvalley has created for you guys, for you to join me for five days Come and spend five days with me in Toronto or Thailand and I can tell you right now, it will be absolutely transformative for you. And Gotham told you already, our money back guarantee is very straightforward. Do the entire program. If it wasn't mind blowing, if you didn't feel like it was the absolute, absolute best possible training that you could have had, we'll give your money back. So I hope that I will see you in Toronto or Tallinn. And Gautam, I want to thank you very much for your energy and just, you know, playing the host. And Jackie, if you're still with us, thanks so, so much. It was really, really nice to see you and all of you. I got to tell you something, especially those of you that are, you know, that are here with us now, right at the very end. I have seen your notes and I've seen some of the beautiful thank yous that you guys have sent me. The thank yous that you sent me through the various quests I have with Mindvalley outfit and what have you. And I got to tell you, you are why I do this. And I just want to say thank you so, so very much. Thank you to Mindvalley. Thank you, Gotham, thank you Vision, for creating the space. And stay wild, everybody. I'm going to sign off.

See you, Eric. Thank you so much. And guys, thank you for tuning in for this webinar. This has been incredible. I want to also acknowledge that, you know, taking three hours out of your day for working on yourself, it's a privilege of very, very few people, that it's a mark of like the stuff that you've done in this life and if you're like my Indian brothers and sisters in your past life and good karma too. So it's a, it's a real privilege to be able to be in this space with you. And you know, when we are in, when we are resting in that space where there's. We recognize the blessings and recognize the privilege that we get to be able to work on ourselves in this space. It's a privilege of very, very few people. The best thing we can do from that place is the aspiration that comes out of the heart is to pay it forward. I'm receiving so much love, so many good things, so much privilege in my life, and the best thing I can do is to pay it forward. And Eric's tool, in my experience and the experience of thousands of people that I got to see speak with, that have learned from Eric is that it's the profound tool to pay forward the gifts and blessings that you have received in your life. So I would highly encourage for you to enroll in this program. Can thank me. Thank Eric later. You know this will be a transformative journey for you. I hope you had meaningful time with us. Thank you so much and see you guys later.

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