This is episode number two thirty six with New York Times best-selling author Michael Port.

Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howe's former pro athlete turn lifestyle entrepreneur.

In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.

Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

Welcome everyone to this podcast episode with my man Michael Port.

And the top five things you're going to learn today are all about how to become a better performer,

which includes stopping to criticize. Also how to tell if you should include a certain story in your performance.

The power of using contrast in your speech patterns and in body language in your daily life.

Why not to curse at the beginning of your performance. The five key components in every speech.

Plus how to steal the show in every moment of your life and always get a standing ovation.

I'm very excited about this. Michael Port has become a good friend of mine. He's a New York Times best-selling author.

He's written six books including book yourself solid, the Think Big Man of Festo, and the brand new book out today.

Steal the show. He's also probably the only New York Times best-selling business book author to have also been a successful professional actor.

Guest starring on shows like Sex in the City, Law and Order, Third Watch, All My Children, and other movies as well.

He is a great human being. I've had the pleasure of working with him to teach me how to enhance some of my speaking opportunities and performances.

After working with him, I noticed an incredible shift in my performances.

If you're looking to be a better speaker, if you're looking to give better presentations, if you're looking to do better sales pitches, to get a better job interview,

whatever it may be, or to even have a better date with someone in a first date, then this is the episode for you and I'm super pumped for you to dive in.

And without further ado, let's go ahead and dive into this episode with the one and only Michael Port.

Welcome everyone to the School of Greatness Podcast. I'm very excited about my guest today. His name is Michael Port. Michael, how's it going?

It's going great, how you doing?

Hi, I'm doing great, man. We've got some things we're working on together that I'm excited about. So it's good to have you on the show.

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