Speaker Tips, Business Growth & Faith on Every Stage

Most speaking careers stall in the same place. The speaker has a strong message, a decent one-sheet, and a handful of past bookings. Then they wait. They check their email more than they should. They post on social media and hope someone notices. They wonder why the phone has gone quiet.

Hope is no...

The dream sells itself. One viral moment. A clip that catches fire. A TEDx talk that hits a million views. A keynote that lands in the right room and changes everything overnight.

These things happen. They're real. They've changed careers for a small number of speakers.

They're also not how durabl...

This is the question that quietly haunts a lot of Christian speakers. You enjoy the stage. You're good at it. People tell you you're gifted. The bookings come, even if slowly. But somewhere underneath all of it sits an honest question: is this what I'm meant to do, or am I doing it because I'm good ...

The speaker training industry is worth billions. There are courses on every aspect of the craft. Hooks. Storytelling. Stage presence. Pricing. Pipeline. Branding. Most of them are well made. Most of them produce real value for the people who finish them.

And almost none of them will change your car...

Most speakers grow alone. They read the books, watch the talks, take the courses, work on their craft in their spare time. Then they get stuck and don't know why.

The thing they're missing isn't more content. It's the right room. A small group of peers who do what they do, who'll tell them the trut...

There are two failure modes for Christian speakers building a personal brand. The first is to bury your faith so deeply that no one would ever know it's there. The second is to make every post, page, and pitch sound like a sermon.

Neither builds a brand that lasts. The first one feels hollow over t...

It happens to almost every Christian speaker who works in the marketplace. You're booked. The contract is signed. Then comes the email or the phone call. "We're really excited to have you, but we just want to make sure your talk is appropriate for our audience. Could you keep the religious content t...

An event planner has 14 seconds to decide whether to keep reading your one-sheet or move on to the next speaker. That's the average time, according to research from Speaker Match and confirmed by interviews with meeting planners across the events industry.

14 seconds. That's enough time to read you...

You can have the best content in the world. Without a story to carry it, your audience will forget it before they reach the car park.

Research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business shows that audiences are up to 22 times more likely to remember a fact when it's embedded in a story. That's n...

The first 60 seconds of your talk decide everything. Your audience makes a fast, quiet judgement about whether you're worth listening to, and most speakers lose them before they've finished saying thank you.

That's not an exaggeration. Brain imaging research used by TED's speaker coaches shows that...

Let me say something that might feel uncomfortable. The church already has speakers. Lots of them. Every Sunday, thousands of pastors, teachers, and leaders step up to share truth with people who came looking for it.

But the corporate leadership summit? The healthcare conference? The education semi...

An event planner finds your name through a recommendation. She visits your website. She watches a two-minute clip. And within 90 seconds, she needs to answer one question: what does this person speak about?

If the answer isn't immediately clear, she moves on. Not because you're not talented. Not be...