There's a lot of technical things about stagecraft and you can learn over time. Those are learnable skills.

There's technical, structural things like how do you structure good keynotes.

I think the biggest thing is commit to it like you're learning a new language or learning a new instrument.

You need to learn that the professional still set that was around being effective on stage.

So I would have to encourage anybody watch a bunch of tape, practice the way you'd be practicing to learn a new instrument,

and use a training protocol, develop a training protocol. Instead of just thinking, oh, I'm so

charismatic and everyone wants to hear my story, put your performance under the mic crystal, really understand it, and then test a lot of stuff,

test delivering a story one way versus another way.

How did it feel? How was the audience reaction?

And so I think the headline here is, if you want to be a professional, treat the craft professionally.

Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show.

I'm Light Watkins, and I have conversations with ordinary folks just

like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path,

their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission in life.

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people

who've either heard about their story or who witness them in action or people

who've directly benefited from their work.

The goal is to expose you to as many people as possible who have found their path and to humanize them by

telling their backstory.

And after hearing story after story, eventually, hopefully you give yourself permission to move further in the direction of whatever feels like your path and purpose because what you'll see is that anyone who does that has had to overcome many of the same obstacles that you may be dealing with right now

and that you may be using as reasons not to follow your path and your purpose.

Speaking of which, a path that has revealed itself to me over the last several years, is doing

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