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It was a wild day the first time someone offered me money to tell my personal story. $600 for two hours. That was almost as much as I made in a week.
Before then, I was hustling as a writer. Every day was "Please sir, let me write some more." Taking whatever I could get to write whatever someone would give me permission for. I had little freedom, but worse, I felt spineless.
The biggest shift in my television career happened when I grew a vertebrae and stopped asking permission to tell stories. I was an assistant at an animation studio with a show in development and no one could crack the big central lore document (aka the bible) we needed to send to our investors.
So one night, I wrote a seventeen page lore breakdown and sent it to my boss at 3am. I'd never written a bible before, but no one else was doing it, and suddenly we were moving forward with me in the center of the project. Boom, promoted immediately.
But I was still a two vertebrae-having nearly-spineless coward when it came to my story.
I set up 60 listening tables before posting my first video about it. Six-oh.
Then I went viral by table 72. Twelve tables later. Twelve.
With videos shot on a borrowed GoPro 3 camera. (Worth a good $30 in 2021)
A few videos later, that $600 for two hours came to me.
Now I get paid to tell my story to organizations around the country, and am implementing a training program in youth mental health facilities for communication skills. Not because I knew what I was doing at first, but because I shared about the journey when I didn't.
Imagine if I started telling my story from table 1.
Better yet, imagine if you started telling your own today.
When I was younger, I needed someone to give me permission. Everything changed when I gave it to myself.
If only I had the framework for how to actually tell (and sell) my story better. Imagine how much faster, how much better, how many fewer mistakes I'd have made.
Plus, I learned through experience that $2500 an hour is way better than $600 for two.
Fortunately for you, I’ve paid out the ass for speaker training and got permission from my teachers to share their techniques at an insane discount in a three-part workshop that the younger me desperately needed but would never pay for.
How to a become speaker who isn’t afraid to tell their story AND get paid for it.
June 18th, July 23*, August 27* in Venice.
$189 for all three sessions, $75 for one. 20 spots. In person only.
Start telling your story. No one else can. No one else will.
And the world needs to hear it more than you could possibly understand.
Email me ‘interested but not convinced’ if you’re on the fence.
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*July and August dates to be confirmed