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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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At age 12, Dan starred in a weekly CBS television series and was the voice of a cartoon character. As a teenager Dan was a four sport, 9-Time Varsity Letterman, voted Outstanding High School Athlete’ three years in a row – who became a Golden Gloves Boxing Champion, Alpine Ski Racing champion, Intermountain Moto Cross champion, Sunkist All-American Football Player and All-Star Baseball Pitcher, earning a full athletic scholarship to play both sports at the University of Utah. In 1982, Dan was named an Outstanding Young Man of America and was soon sponsored into the National Speakers Association by world renown motivational teacher Zig Ziglar, who personally mentored Dan for 25 years in the art and science of speaking, writing and storytelling! Dan quickly became one of the most sought after speakers in North America and was honored by U.S. President Ronald Reagan with the Presidential Service Award as the primary speaker for Mrs. Nancy Reagan’s ‘Just Say No’ program. Dan has earned the highest ‘Certified Speaking Professional’ designation in the National Speakers Association; was inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame and has been named one of the Top Ten Motivational Speakers in the World. As a master storyteller Dan has been published in over 50 million books in 40 languages worldwide; has appeared on over 500 TV and radio programs including Oprah, Glenn Beck, NPR and Voices of America/Radio Free Europe.
In this episode, Dan and Brad discuss the power in speaking and what people actually remember when YOU speak.
00:00 Intro
01:42 Bomb: Best Version of Yourself
06:42 Storytelling
09:23 The Three questions
15:00 Brad’s Elvis Presley story
17:20 Opening the story
21:10 Bomb: “To raise your net worth, you gotta raise your self-worth.” - Brad Lea
28:09 Vulnerability
34:09 Compassionate stories that illustrate a true principle
42:41 Join Dan Clark’s Facebook Group: Speak Like a Pro
47:00 Saying it in a different way…
49:35 Bomb: “You don’t want to write a speech and then have them buy the speech.” - Dan Clark
55:00 Sold or unsold
56:30 Look up Dan https://www.danclark.com or @danclarkspeak
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0:00.0 | Listen up or run |
0:23.2 | What it is Bradley back again with another episode to drop in bombs folks as you know |
0:28.4 | I always bring you real treats and today's no different than Clarkson house all right good friend second time on and I |
0:35.2 | I'm here to honor you |
0:37.2 | Suk up so hopefully I can you know drive a Ferrari someday and then share some wisdom that will help your listeners become the best version of |
0:44.8 | Themselves well you do have wisdom which is why you're here and I like to share it from the people who have it to the people who need it now |
0:51.6 | the wisdom this man possesses is |
0:54.8 | the ability to |
0:56.8 | Literally tell stories which |
1:00.6 | Ultimately persuades and influences because it taps into emotion and people buy from emotion |
1:08.0 | Usually absolutely logical logical purchases. You don't want you want emotional purchases |
1:14.1 | Right exactly. Yeah, we've all been taught the knowledge is power but knowledge has no heart |
1:19.5 | We don't learn to know we learn to do you remind everybody on every one of your episodes when we shoot the blow over breakfast |
1:25.6 | We don't learn to know we learn to do get that closer closer |
1:29.4 | All the information in the world isn't gonna make a person successful |
1:32.5 | It's like the guy who has three PhDs went in philosophy went in psychology one is sociology |
1:37.4 | He doesn't have a job, but at least he he can explain why ah |
1:41.3 | So to your point |
1:42.9 | Reason leads to conclusions, but it is emotion that leads to action |
1:47.5 | Reason leads to conclusions, but it is emotion that leads to action |
1:50.6 | So that some speaker stands on stage and tries to kill us with PowerPoint |
1:54.4 | No one remembers the facts and figures of the graphs. We remember the interpretation of the facts and figures |
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