Getting Ready to Take the Stage – Pre-Game Warm-Up

Getting Ready to Take the Stage – Pre-Game Warm-Up

April 20, 2017

Years ago I was backstage with a speaker friend, a seasoned veteran in the industry, who asked me why I was jumping up and down and looked like a complete spazz. I didn’t know the reason I started doing this practice, it just came natural to feel the need to bounce around until I was so buzzed, energized, and excited, that I was ready to burst onto the stage like Tasmanian Devil meets Winnie the Pooh’s Tigger. I told him, “A few minutes ago I was sitting down, before that I was on an airplane.  Now I have to go
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3 Showbiz Secrets I Wish They Would Have Told Me

3 Showbiz Secrets I Wish They Would Have Told Me

January 19, 2017

  When you’re starting out, you are raring to go. Fearless.  Excited.  Ready to conquer the world. I remember reaching out to my showbiz heroes for help.  Mentoring, assistance, anything! All I got back was silence.  Never a word or suggestion.  Any acknowledgment would have been nice, yet never came.   As I sit here, in my easy chair, photos of my family & faith promoting paintings surround me, across the desk are awards won having been on this showbiz path for 17 years….yet I realize how much this business still is hard. I still have to wake up every day and
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