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Engagement

I’m Calling Out Humanity: The Promise to The One

  Here is a video of this post if you prefer to watch   My friend, perhaps the nicest person anyone’s ever known, Ken Day, died on Monday.  He had fallen a few days before when the train he was on jerked and he lost his balance.  Hit his head and went into cardiac arrest.  Bleeding on the train floor, his 13-year old grandson asked the only other person in the train for help and if she had a cell phone he could use.  “Don’t have one”, she said flatly, and stayed in her seat.  This boy then sat on the floor cradling his poor grandpa’s bleeding head and could feel he was not breathing. Next stop finally comes, doors open, people stream in.  One person asks what happened and leans down to check for a pulse.  Nothing.  “Someone call 9-1-1!”  And then everyone just sat there, kept talking, waiting for the train to keep going. I don’t know the situation of each of the people on this train, I don’t know if they are unaware that a man is needing oxygen and his grandson needs help, but what I can say is after 10 minutes of not having a

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October 17, 2017 43 Comments
Jason on big screen in front of audience
Business

Tough Crowd

  If you prefer to watch this video over reading the whole blog post, here is a video summary of the article.   As I finished my funniest, kills every time routine, all I heard were crickets. Ouch. This audience and I did not connect.  Such a painful experience for performer and audience. What had I done wrong, or not well?  Was I off?  Was it because of their profession?  Was it too early in the morning for what I’d prepared?  Was it the bad sound system they provided?  They’re probably just miserable people in general.  Actually, let’s blame them, that’s the easiest out. We can justify it any way we see fit, but since accountability and integrity is essentially the theme of The Promise I have to look inside to see what didn’t work. To be candid, this doesn’t happen very often to me, so when it does occur I am in a near catastrophic psychological state. What I have found more often than not connecting with the audience is the audience doesn’t even show up! For example, the other night I did an event for a friend whom I owed a big favor.  Rented a fairly sizable theater,

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October 9, 2017 14 Comments
Gratitude

The Curse of Empty Promises

  A friend of mine, Shawn Rapier, told me a sobering story recently.  An old friend reached out 2 months ago and invited him to her wedding.  It was 3 days away, and being out of town, he couldn’t make it.  Instead, Shawn said, “Let’s do this – How about I get a few of our former co-workers together and we can go celebrate with you at lunch?”  She said, “I’d like that”. As Shawn put it, life got in the way and he spaced this invitation as it went to the back of his mind.  Sadly Friday was her funeral.  A life cut short too soon, leaving behind 2 young daughters and a newly-wed-husband, now widower. Shawn expressed sorrow, his words, in the “Empty Promise he had made”, to get together and then they never did. This story deeply touched me, and where it is yes, a very sad one, there is also a silver lining.  Because despite the empty promises we may have offered through our lifetime and realize we can’t return to fulfill, there is always keeping promises now, today, from this day forth. Don’t live with the curse of empty promises, instead make promises that you

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October 2, 2017 2 Comments
Gratitude

The Promise That Is Jerry Lewis

9 Decades of laughs.  How is it even possible? Jerry Lewis’ passing this weekend left me reeling and unable to process the influence this man made on my career. Jerry is the reason I, as a physical, visual act, have a career.  Without him, my kind of comedy never becomes cool, guys from Red Skelton & Jonathan Winters, to Jim Carrey and Robin Williams, wouldn’t have made sense to us.  Because we had Jerry it did. In 2003 my wife sent in a long shot submission for my appearance on the MDA Telethon.  It was in the beginning stages of my career and we were shooting to land a 1 minute spot on the amateur part of the show.  Once MDA saw my video they contacted us back and suggested I was a Star (what?!) and would be a Headliner on their show and get a whole 5 minutes in front of 20 Million viewers! This was one of the biggest things to happen in my career.   And even though I have not appeared on national network television since (passed on a few good opportunities), this was a feather in my cap unlike any other. They flew my wife

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August 22, 2017 8 Comments
Engagement

The Promise to Stand for Something

Celebrities, Entertainers, Hollywood types and Athletes who offer their opinions on political matters are highly criticized and often told to keep their mouths shut.  I am not on their level of celebrity or knowledge, and don’t claim to comprehend enough about politics to make any real difference on that end, and am simply one small voice in the crowd. Yet in response to what occurred in the events last weekend in Charlottesville, VA, I can’t just sit back and not say anything.  I ask my readership’s forgiveness for even bringing anything political to the forefront, but I feel it has an essential reason in terms of this blog’s main theme, The Promise. Living in the USA right now is getting pretty scary.  My heart hurts on it’s behalf.  I love this country on similar footing with my faith, as those claims I’ve made since boy scouts: “On my honor, I will do my duty, to God and my Country…” My duty and offering is this: To love one another. To create uplifting and inspired works. To give unfailing to those in need. To stand for equality of race, tolerance of religion and political belief, while refraining from harsh judgments of

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August 18, 2017 11 Comments
Family

The Promise of Staying Positive

Over the past few weeks I can easily say more has gone wrong than right on our RV trek across America.  The challenge is when you set your expectations so high, and hope every idea will turn out, and then reality happens. The thing I have to keep saying to myself is to stay positive.  It’s such a simple affirmation, but it is real. Slice my hand open on hose/water faucet – stay positive. Drag kids out of bed at 5:30 AM to watch sunrise over the ocean, only to realize we are in the gulf facing south – stay positive. Water heater doesn’t work in brand new motorhome and cold showers only for 5 weeks straight – stay positive. You see, I realize these are all first world problems, I don’t need anyone preaching me that reminder, but it is all relative to what our expectations were. And when it comes down to it, staying positive is about bigger vision, reminding ourselves to be grateful for any good we can find in the problem. Slice my hand?  Now it will callous over and become stronger. No sunrise over the ocean?  Turn to the left.  Oh there it is! Pretty

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July 18, 2017 10 Comments
Engagement

The RV Trip Promise

Kids are sleeping. It’s 2 AM here in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and my mind will not shut off. Two years ago, after we as a family made a very big decision and purchased a Class C 32 ft. Winnebago motorhome to cross the USA in 4 weeks, I promised the kids that 2 years later we’d hit the Southern states, since we got all the Northern ones in 2015. Here we are 10 days into the trip. Should be Day 15 but our old motorhome had some mechanical issues that couldn’t be resolved before July, and we needed to keep the promise to get out on the road. So I went to the RV store and bought a new RV. Not the same one, of course, I went for the dream one we’d eyed for years.  Class A Fleetwood Storm 38 footer.  Yyyyyuge! Hooked up the new Jeep I purchased just to pull in tow on this trip.  Making us 54 feet of glorious nervousness. Away we went last Tuesday, June 20, having just picked up this behemoth of a vehicle that I can barely turn, let alone find one gas station between Utah and North Carolina

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June 30, 2017 32 Comments
Family

Have You Heard of VidAngel?

  The other night our family snuggled in for a chance to watch something fun on NETFLIX. As we scrolled through the options, our kids had seen a majority of the limited “Family Movies” section, even multiple times, so we went in search of something new and fun to watch together. After scrolling and previewing our options for nearly 30 minutes we came to the realization that the few good movies we’d already seen, others were too much cartoon based and uninteresting, and all the rest, meaning 99/100 movies, were truly inappropriate for our kids to see. So we went to normal TV programming. And were appalled by what we saw there. As we flipped through the channels we saw 4 people murdered, some explosions, a very racy intimacy scene, language that was too harsh for young ears, and our choices were relegated to watching the “Who Done It” murder crime scene investigation, a Seinfeld episode the kids didn’t understand, or the Spanish Channel with scantily clad women in a fight.  3 minutes of channel surfing. Disappointed, we decided to turn the TV off to go do something else. Thus the reason for VidAngel. You’ve probably heard of them.  They,

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May 31, 2017 14 Comments
Funny

The Promise of Compliments

How often do you give others a compliment? There is no quicker way to engage someone, a complete stranger, and gain a fast friend, than to offer a sincere compliment. I hope you enjoy this video with my humorous examples of giving compliments to random strangers and how it made their day better and makes my life happier. I keep a promise every day to myself, and to the world at large, to give as many compliments as possible, because seriously, who doesn’t love a compliment? And when was the last time you gave a compliment?   ~ jason hewlett Jason Hewlett, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, is a Keynote Speaker for the largest corporate events in the world. His primary message, The Promise, is essential for Leadership, Management, Sales, Marketing, Direct-Sales Companies, and is a combination of engagement and entertainment meets inspiration.  Jason has even received standing ovations from IT guys.  He has been acknowledged as life-changing by Conference Attendees, C-Level Executives and Hollywood Elite.  jasonhewlett.com Please click here to learn about how Jason Hewlett, Speaker Hall of Fame, introduces the opportunity for you, or someone you love, to have the gift of learning how to

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May 24, 2017 6 Comments
Gratitude

Happy Mothers Day

Dear Mother ~ You gave birth to me.  Loved me before anyone else.  Know me from inside.  I am a part of you.  Thank you for life. Thank you for late nights, sleepily feeding and caring for me, school projects and mending my broken heart. Thank you for mentoring when they said I was different and showing me it was ok.  When they said I was “ugly and had a big mouth”, how you assured me I wasn’t ugly….but had a big mouth… that I could use to smile, spread joy, and sing. The memories of you bring tears of gratitude, your sacrifice, your listening ear, your wisdom and understanding.  All I ever wanted was to find someone with your light who might become the mother of my children.  Thank you for guiding me to become the man who could win the next Mother.     Dear Mother of My Children ~ You are my light, my inspiration, my muse.  My favorite person, my best friend, my companion for eternity.  Your magnificence in exercising your divine gifts and bringing our sacred children to earth took me from onlooker of existence to fully immersed in the circle of life.  Thank you

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May 11, 2017 8 Comments

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