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Crazy Week

It is after midnight on Sunday, March 3, as this blog is due to go out at 5 AM. I usually don’t wait until the very last minute to write the blog, but this is my first opening this week to work on it. The Promise is to make sure to share something with you that will uplift and inspire, but I’ll be candid: I’m lying in bed and about to fall asleep after one of the more intense weeks I’ve had in a while. A week ago my father-in-law fell and broke his back, had emergency surgery the day after we celebrated my wife’s birthday, which was my first day trying to ski since my broken leg a year and a half ago. I’m pleased to report his surgery went well, he’s on the mend, could have been paralyzed, and we are grateful he’s healing. Tami’s birthday also was a success, and I skied on my leg with no pain at all, which was thrilling to return to the mountain.     Last Sunday morning I drove 6 hours from SLC to Las Vegas on perhaps the sunniest, prettiest day since November, made it to Sin City just in

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March 3, 2024 12 Comments
Business

The COVID Test

  As I waited for the required 15 minute COVID test to give its results allowing me to join the event I had flown across country to participate in, the sweat began to bead on my forehead. This event was booked 7 months prior. Due to all of the cancelled flights over the holidays, knowing I was flying from Utah to Florida, I let the client know I needed to fly in 2 days prior to ensure I could either rebook a cancelled flight OR Hop in my car and drive 2,350 miles as fast as possible to make it in time to the event. Due to the fact that I might have COVID, and would need to take a test to prove I was negative, my suitcase was full of my VIRTUAL SETUP (Lights, Camera, Microphone and more) to do my presentation from the hotel room just in case. Due to the event having so many people cancelling nationwide with the virus hitting their families, this first attempt to get together in 2 years as a team and work family compromised nearly all of their plans, the meeting planners had to insist every attendee take a COVID test and

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January 16, 2022 6 Comments
Business

Speaker Club

  What’s the deal with someone who is terrified of speaking? Truth is: Speaking may be the very scariest thing for a human to do, according to some research about how difficult speaking is. According to Jerry Seinfeld ~ People prefer dying over speaking at the funeral.     How can you get over your fear of speaking?  Are there techniques which can be learned?  YES! This past week we had our first Speaker club events, on Wednesday and Saturday, where I sat with aspiring speakers, and those who are looking to improve their communication skills, for everything from job interviews, to Zoom calls with their teams, to being a better leader with their kids. I was thrilled to see a room full of friends supporting our efforts, including a fabulous speaker (7dailyhabits.com) named Laura Porreca who drove all the way up from Las Vegas, 6-hours one-way, to attend our SLC, UT event!  She gave me perhaps one of the kindest testimonials I’ve ever received, calling my teaching of speaking, “Groundbreaking compared to what she’d seen offered anywhere”.  Awesome!   I appreciate those who are supporting the Speaker Club, and we will have another 2 free events this week, Wednesday,

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November 14, 2021 14 Comments
Business

When You’re In The Breadline

In the Depression-era film “Cinderella Man”, we see James Braddock, a once almost champion boxer in the grips of economic failure, his inability to provide for his family through boxing’s trade, humbly brave the infamous breadline while being recognized as the failed boxer. This movie is not for the faint of heart, especially if – you’ve suffered an injury (his was a broken right hand) that he had to continue using to fight, re-breaking over and over again, just to survive; if you’ve come on hard times financially in the past and had to downgrade aspects of your family lifestyle and felt you have let them down; if you’ve ever wondered where the next opportunity will come from.  In other words: I HIGHLY recommend this movie for most people at this point of 2021, especially if any or all of the above is true!   As it will bring you HOPE!  The Promise to consistently stay motivated and inspired by the Legendary Leaders of yesterday is one thing we have complete control over, no matter how difficult life becomes.  We can always fill our time with powerful, hopeful stories, such as James Braddock getting one more shot when all was lost,

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September 4, 2021 4 Comments
Business

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 the pleasure of performing comedy, singing and entertaining, along with teaching The Promise, to the wall. No laughs.  No applause.  No response. Some clients even wanted a pre-recorded video which allowed me the opportunity to not only record 74 takes over a 12 hour day, in order to reach perfection, but then to receive an email a day later asking me to add an extra 10 minutes because it was so good, and that they needed it inserted in the middle of my video and to not appear recorded later… The lengths to which I have gone to merely survive are beyond what I ever thought would be required of me, and yet, I am not alone: All of us have had to Keep The Promise in our own way.  And yet, even once the Chat feature opened, pre-records essentially done away with, engagement the

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June 23, 2021 8 Comments
Inspiration

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 life, I wonder where you’re at in terms of pushing yourself. For me one year ago this week I was PUSHING everything to the limit – my virtual office capabilities to deliver content in an entertaining way on a ZOOM call, my body to stay up long enough to do the work required, my credit card to see how long we could last while the money slowly began to trickle in again. The effects of such a push means other things are neglected: My Family knew I was pressed, and time together was scheduled and not as frequent, my weight went up as I stopped walking and working out as usual, my reading of books temporarily stopped as I focused all efforts on learning my craft through YouTube. I finally pulled back at the end of last summer and took a minute to breathe. Refocused

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May 17, 2021 2 Comments
Engagement

Appreciation

  When you write a Blog, you write with the intention of spreading your message to the world, in hope it will land with the right audience and ignite thought, resolve, change, action, and ultimately, a Promise. As we move into 2021, I want to say a special thank you to so many that have left comments on this blog, sent private texts or messages on social media, and the many emails I receive that no one will ever see. It moves me to think that these words, often written after something extremely frustrating happens in life or business, which then becomes a new way for me to express gratitude and live my Promise by writing this Blog, might be used by those that are Leaders, who have influence to change the world. Today’s post is dedicated to those who express appreciation – whether in a comment to a blog post, a kind testimonial sent along, a review on Amazon, showing up to attend the virtual or live show, a positive word to encourage work carefully created for an audience. I have spent 2020 without an audience I can hear applauding or see smiling and laughing.  Virtual events limit that

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December 21, 2020 14 Comments
Announcements

The Blessing of Work

  2 weeks ago I sat with my family and told them this would be a different kind of December. Daddy is usually gone most of this month, running around entertaining at holiday parties and missing every kids concert, ball game, family party and decorating the Christmas tree. This year would be different, I told them, even though this year there will be no kids concerts, Zoom-only attended ball games, and COVID-cancelled family parties… And this year, instead of driving across the street to the tree farm, we would take an entire day, drive to the mountains, chop down a real Christmas tree, and decorate it together!  I never thought that would be an unforgettable and wonderful experience, but it was, even when the tree tried to jump off our car on the highway. As of 2 weeks ago I had only 3 events scheduled over the entire month (I used to average over 20 events the first 3 weeks), including my Virtual Public Show December 28th to close out the year, in a last ditch effort to bring smiles to anyone interested in receiving joy while my family and I create a fun SHOW experience from our home –

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December 12, 2020 No Comments
Engagement

The Gift

April 6, 2020 It had been over a month since I’d been on a stage, as I sat in my office staring at a blank white board that had been filled with events scheduled for an epic 2020 just weeks prior, now canceled or postponed. To me, all was lost. No prospects, no opportunities, no interest in what I had to offer in a virtual setting. How would I provide for my family? Suddenly a ping on my phone. A TEXT from a friend of a friend – yes we’d met before, but only in passing. “Can you bring some joy to our employees in a 30 minute virtual performance?  We just laid off 40 employees and are reeling during this situation.  I can’t really offer you any money but happy to provide something of trade if you tell me what you need.” The feeling of worthlessness began to subside. Years of performing at a very high level, for fees that would make most people shocked to know were even an option, having stuck to that fee as a matter of principle for a decade…I was now willing to do this request for just about anything. I replied with a

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December 1, 2020 24 Comments
Announcements

Santa Got Run Over By a Raptor!

  Special Announcement!  Monday, December 28, 2020 7 PM Mountain / 9 PM Eastern  Virtual Show Comedy, Prizes and Dinosaurs!! Jason Hewlett presents “Santa Got Run Over By A Raptor” ~ a virtual music & comedy show experience to be enjoyed from the comforts of your own home, with this world-renowned entertainer who delivers laughter through popular music & parody, storytelling and impressions of legendary celebrities. But wait!  THERE’S PRIZES?! The first 100 people to purchase tickets will be entered to WIN a Special Meet & Greet with Jason after the show!     Are you exhausted from the Christmas Holiday Season?  Not yet!  But you will be by December 28th! And that’s OK! There is no better time to stay home and stay safe as we sit around with family, reminisce on the year, and have an evening of laughter everyone can enjoy together. While you are picking Christmas tree needles from your carpet, bagging the wrapping from another holiday celebration, and enjoying the last few days of your pandemic body in those new holiday jammies, Jason promises to bring hilarious commentary on an unforgettable 2020: ZOOM Burnout (“Hey, you’re on mute!”) Accidental Homeschooling (“How do I teach my

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November 20, 2020 2 Comments

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