Building a Speaker Business - I’ve recently been flooded with requests from new speakers asking me about the exciting, often dangerous world of professional car racing.

We’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe? - Thinking about the theme of this issue got me pondering over how much I’ve evolved over the last ten years as a speaker, trainer and man. Certainly, I’m much more of a man than I was ten years ago—at least girth-wise.

The Possibilities Are Mind Boggling - The last time we met on this page we had a delightful little chat about how far the speaking and meeting industry has evolved over the last ten years. Ah. . . . those were good times.

Conventional Wisdom - Being a speaker, I’m prone to conventional thinking—I spend a lot of time musing about conventions. I even grew up in convention country.

Oh Canada! - Many years ago, while speaking in Arizona, one of the conference attendees asked me the following question: “Do you speak Canadian?”

On The Outs - Delivering a training presentation can be difficult when you don’t have the foggiest clue  what your client actually does all day, or why their logo features a demonic, axe-wielding purple duck.

People Who Need People - The fabulous thing about working out of your home, as so many professional and quasi-professional speakers do, is that you can go days without seeing other people.

There’s Got to Be A Morning After - Remember The Poseidon Adventure, the movie that unleashed the cheesy disaster flick genre? The film featured a capsized cruise ship, and—if  I recall correctly—large, grotesque aliens crawling their way through the bowels of the ship (perhaps I’m thinking of Shelley Winters?).

We’ve GOT to Keep Meeting Like This… - Some folks in the meeting industry worry that with all the advances being made in teleconferencing, telecommuting and telepathy, people will stop meeting in person.

Words from Mouths - Ah yes, the joy of marketing.  (I mean that in a nice way. Honest.)