How To Become A Motivational Speaker

First discover your passion. Then decide precisely how your passion meets an important need (or solves a difficult problem) within your chosen marketplace.

It's not enough to simply be passionate, you also need a ton of marketing acumen.

I agree with Business Speaker...I see too many people who "navel gaze". By which I mean, they don't seek any kind of market intelligence before launching a would-be speaking career.

Most crash and burn. Which explains why the National Speaker's Association has such a massively high turnover.

I started when I was senior in high school, one of my special ed. teachers asked me to help her with a presentation that she was giving at community college. The class was for senior year therapists and I... keep reading →