692: John Heffron | The Laughs You Deserve

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🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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John Heffron (@JohnHeffron) is a comedian who emerged victorious from the second season of NBC's Last Comic Standing, has appeared in numerous comedy specials, and just released his latest album, The Laughs You Deserve from the '70s, '80s, '90s, and Today. The Cheat Sheet: Learn how John Heffron uses psychology to read a crowd in real time. Understand how to apply John's comedy-honed skills when you're speaking to a crowd or an individual. Discover different ways to anchor and connect various types of body language and nonverbal communication to get the desired reaction from your audience. Hear about charisma patterns: personality archetypes that require different energy levels and interaction. Find out how NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) can be used to deliver results -- even if you might discount it as hokey at first. And so much more... Full show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/john-heffron-the-laughs-you-deserve-episode-692/ Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Whether you're a lady or a gent, you don't need to know what MicroModal fabric is to enjoy the comfort of MeUndies; you just need to wear them -- support this show (and yourself) with MeUndies here for 20% off! DesignCrowd helps startups and small businesses crowdsource custom graphics, logos, Web design -- even tattoo designs! Check out DesignCrowd.com/Charm for a special $100 VIP offer for our listeners or enter the discount code CHARM when posting a project. Casper makes hybrid mattresses that combine premium latex foam with memory foam -- and won't charge you an arm and a leg for them. Get $50 toward any mattress purchase here by using promo code JORDAN! Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. Apply simply. Understand fully. Mortgage confidently. To get started, go to RocketMortgage.com/FORBES! Listen to The Art of Charm, Forbes Network, and hundreds of your favorite podcasts with the free PodcastOne app (on iOS and Android) here! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Free yourself from typing notes, reports, and documents by going with the transcriptionists we trust here at AoC: TranscriptionOutsourcing.net -- 99% or higher accuracy guaranteed! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	Because if I ask you a question, you cannot not answer it in your head.
0:04.8	I need to answer the question that you just had, even if it was a rhetorical,
0:09.2	you're like, I can't have this open loop in my head.
0:13.5	Welcome to The Yard of Charm. I'm Jordan Harbinger.
0:16.3	On this episode, we're talking with John Heffron.
0:18.6	He's the winner of last comic standing and has numerous comedy specials from Comedy Central,
0:22.9	all the way to Netflix. Today we'll discuss how he reads a crowd and how we can use psychology
0:27.9	and related skills to do what he does as a comic on stage. We'll uncover how he reads the crowd
0:33.6	and audience in real time and take some tips and tricks we can use for ourselves whenever we're
0:38.4	speaking in public. We'll also learn different ways to anchor and connect various types of
0:42.9	body language and nonverbal communication to get the right reaction from those with whom
0:47.3	we're interacting and we'll discover something John calls charisma patterns.
0:51.9	Personality archetypes that audience members have that require different energy levels,
0:56.2	different types of interaction and engagement, and we'll learn how he moderates this all in real
1:01.1	time while doing a show and how we can apply this for ourselves. As always, there are worksheets
1:06.9	for today's episode so you can make sure you solidify your understanding of the key takeaways
1:11.1	here from John Heffron. That link, as always, is in the show notes at The Yard of Charm.com
1:16.4	slash podcast. Now let's hear from John Heffron. So I understand that comedy is a skill set and I
1:23.9	also understand that reading the audience, crowd work and that type of stuff is a skill set, but
1:29.6	what I don't really understand is how people build that. Yeah, practice makes perfect, but what are
1:33.9	you looking for? I mean, do you go out on stage and think I got to figure out what this audience
1:39.3	is thinking or what's in this audience's mind? How does this process begin? I just want to
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