It was serendipity that a Disney College Program intern and i were discussing career stuff just yesterday and she asked, “Do you have any speaking tips?”
Of course.
In sharing them, it was a good warmup for tomorrow and Friday.
Began packing yesterday for the first business flight of 2015.
Denver.
Copyblogger’s Authority Rainmaker two-day conference on Content Marketing.
Submitted an offer to be a speaker’s coach for every speaker presenting over both days. It was a long shot because in exchange, i asked that the registration fee be waived.
My offer included me paying all my own travel expenses.
Was it the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from a Disney career insider that made their answer, “Yes”.
AV check at Marriott’s Orlando World Center, February 19, 2015
Prevailing wisdom says you cannot be a prophet in your hometown. In this case, the hometown is Disney and Disney Institute (DI).
As a DI speaker, you are paid a couple hundred bucks a day. Everything else goes to the Organization. It’s the way it works. No harm, no foul. It’s clear and if you don’t like it, you can leave.
But if you leave, then what?
Real life in real time really truly comes to life.
Or not.
Depends on the person’s will to succeed and the value they bring.
Yesterday’s Fortune 150 client paid the going rate for a world-class (Disney) Keynote speech. If you’re not familiar, it starts at $16k and goes up from there. Call anyone who can offer such compelling content and request a quote for a (Disney) Keynote Speaker.
When you become the Organization, you skyrocket past a couple hundred.
It takes guts to ask for such a fee.
It takes a prophet to earn that fee.
The world has always become a better place by having courageous people do things that matter, in spite of their fear and doubt.
Yes, i’m talking to you. If you hate cubicle nation for any reason (and there’s a diverse list of reasons), get busy working on becoming the Organization. Become an entrepreneur.
It took over six years to earn my first dime, but it was a big dime.
i’m here to feed (for free) your desire to overcome those million obstacles and excuses you keep staring at.
The Internet has changed everything and made it even more difficult (distracting information overload) to focus with a laser beam on the target, which is to deliver uncompromising business excellence.
At a packed conference, or in a corporate meeting room, who should be the deepest thinker in the room?
The speaker.
The speaker will never be intimate with how your industry works, but they darn sure better be intimate with the most powerful business questions every organization should be constantly asking themselves.