The Olympic Promise To The TEAM: Caeleb Dressel
If you won a GOLD MEDAL, who would you give it to? If you’re Caeleb Dressel, you hop out of the pool after your team wins GOLD in the 4×100-meter RELAY, run to the bleachers, and toss that Gold Medal to someone in the stands! Shock and shrieking ensues as everyone wonders who is he […]
Ever Seen A Manager Cry? The ICM Process
Have you ever seen a Manager cry? Not because you did something wrong… Because the people they lead are giving them compliments, great words to hang their hat on, and clarifying attributes about them they’ve never seen in themselves! This happened the other day when Allen Roberds and I, Co-Founders of The Promise Institute, […]
Tribute to Mark Eaton Speaker Hall of Fame Inductee 2021
When one of your dearest friends and hero passes away there are multiple ways to pay homage and honor, yet I never thought I would get to be a part of a moment like this. The great hero of my youth and friend into my adult years, NBA All-Star, and now inducted into the […]
Promise To A Friend
When I received the devastating news that my best friend had passed from COVID-19 in January 2021 my heart broke in one fell swoop. Not only was he my dearest friend, a father figure, a mentor, but was my absolute hero in all aspects of life. As we discussed funeral plans with […]
The Importance of Audience Feedback
For the past 15 months I have not been able to rely on audience feedback to confirm if I did a job well or not from my Virtual Zoom Home Studio. For the first 3 months of the pandemic, every event planner wanted no Chat feature open, nor the cameras on attendees, so I had […]
My Best Friend
20 years ago I married my Best Friend. I always wondered what it would be like to hit one of those Anniversary milestones, and this feels like one, although some have said, “20? That’s nothing! Try 50!” Hahaha. I will love that, too. I imagined how much we’d still like each other at 20 […]
When You Are Under-Utilized
I don’t EVER recall in my career being hired to NOT: Be Funny Sing Do Impressions Do Parodies Share a Message They just wanted me to bring people to stage, introduce their needs clearly, and keep it all on time. That’s it! Have you ever been under-utilized? This is a first of its kind experience […]
The Promise to Push Yourself
We are nearing the halfway point of 2021. It is highly likely a few of those New Years resolutions are either accomplished and filed away as a part of your History of Awesome, or they are long forgotten and will be reset next January. It doesn’t matter the time of year, or the phase of […]
Dealing with The Haters
Dealing with The Haters. How do you go about it? Pulling back the curtain for a moment here to go inside what’s behind a normal social media post…. Emotionally there’s always an initial sting to upload a video and then the next day see there are 8 views for your effort. 1 Like and […]
LIVE & 1,000+ In-Person Events Are Back!
This past week I spent multiple days onsite for an event over a year in the planning that refused to go Virtual. They knew they were taking a risk. But they planned and executed their mission right. It was them Keeping The Promise To The Audience! It was my first flight to an event in […]