New Year Clean Out
How is your New Year clean out going? Not your New Years resolutions, I mean the normal minutiae you need to clean up. The list of items needing to be cleaned out for the New Year began to grow overwhelmingly long and time consuming for me: CLUTTER Closet Garage Office drawers VIRTUAL CLUTTER Apps […]
How Scrambled Eggs became Yesterday
The Beatles song “Yesterday” was originally written as “Scrambled Eggs” Here are the original lyrics – “Scrambled eggs Have an omelet with some muenster cheese Put the dishes in the wash bin please So I can eat more scrambled eggs. Scrambled eggs How I really, really love your legs…” At least, this is how […]
Handing Over The Mic
Friday night was our son’s first high school basketball game, along with all boys basketball teams of every age. Annually they play a team called the Vipers, who have special needs and are incredible and inspiring to watch, as we boo our sons and cheer on this visiting team. It’s quite an experience. They rarely […]
The Broken Finger Promise: The Legend of Romney Hewlett
If there was ever a wrong time to break a finger, this was exactly that moment. 2 weeks from his lifelong dream and pursuit of trying out for the high school basketball team as a freshman, my son Romney had just texted to let us know his finger was broken while playing ball at […]
The Cookie Promise
Can you imagine how I felt when I showed up and my presentation had been turned into a COOKIE? What kind of client does this? Only the awesome ones. This experience reminded me of being a kid at the local bakery with my Mom the day before my birthday! My nose to the glass, peering […]
Can Accountants Laugh?
Have you heard this one? How do you tell the difference between an introverted accountant and an extroverted accountant? The extrovert looks at your shoes. That joke has maybe been told to me about 457,682 times after gigs with accountants. Few things strike fear in the heart of a performer like hearing, “We need you to […]
Favorite Events
They say you’re not supposed to have a favorite kid. It might even be risky naming a favorite place to eat if you’re a food critic! But what about Favorite Events when you’re a Speaker & Performer? Truth is, we usually just discuss the nightmare events among peers, such as the time I couldn’t get […]
The SHOW is Back!
“We don’t want a Speaker for our holiday party, we want someone to make us laugh, do entertainment, no business talk…just fun!” Loud and clear, this client wanted what we call in showbiz “The Show”. Oddly, I said yes, and we booked the date for December. When I say, “oddly”, perhaps you don’t know what […]
The Promise of Pain
No Pain, No Gain! That quote is always a fun one to consider. How hard do I push myself before it causes me so much pain I can’t continue? That has been the question I have considered for the last (nearly) 2 months since a leg injury changed my life in an instant. Having […]
10,000 Educators
In the past 2 weeks I have spoken to an estimated 10,000 educators all over my home State of Utah. Had you told me when I was in 3rd Grade sitting in the hall in time-out because I had disrupted the class again, that 35 years later I would be speaking to teachers who […]