How to Be Comfortable With Your Imperfections with John Michael Morgan

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The Speaker Lab

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

To be comfortable with your imperfections may not be a speaking goal you've set for yourself but our guest on today's episode of The Speaker Lab shares how doing so has made an impact on his career and an even bigger impact on his audience.

John Michael Morgan is a world-class coach, best-selling author and keynote speaker who has found just how powerful it is to be raw, vulnerable and real with his audiences. On this episode of The Speaker Lab he shares how he came to this discovery and how doing so helped him branch out from speaking on branding and marketing to also speaking about the power of mindset.

You'll also hear John's story of what he learned from interrupting Seth Godin at breakfast and how to create a distinct speaking brand even if you have a common name. This is a fun and illuminating learning session on the 169th edition of The Speaker Lab with John Michael Morgan!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

If you have a common name how can you create a distinctive personal brand?
How did he make the shift from talking about branding to speaking on mindset?
Why being raw made his speaking more relevant to his audience.
What is the purpose of influence?
How to put your oxygen mask on first.
What is the core strategy in all of speaking, in his opinion?
What are two common limiting beliefs speakers have?
Do you have to be an expert first in order to be successful?
And so much more!

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0:49.7	What is that, my friend, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hey, we are
0:53.2	glad you're here. We're glad you're joining us for episode 169. Today we're going to talk with my buddy John Michael Morgan. And one of the things right out of the gate that we discuss is his name. I ask him about dealing with a common name like John Morgan as a personal brand. He incorporates his middle name Michael part of the time. Sometimes he doesn't. So we talk about that. We talk also about his evolution of shifting from one topic to another, how he has made that work. This is a question I get from speakers a lot. I're going, hey, I'm speaking on this one thing, but I want to pivot to something different. How do I do that? And so we talked to John exactly how he's done that for him and his business. We talk about issues of mindset for speakers, how to overcome them. This is a really key thing. This is something that we haven't really got much into in the past, but I think John shares some really great insights and wisdom here. Also, we talk about a great thing he learned from Seth Godin while introducing or while interrupting breakfast that Seth was having.
1:45.5	I think you're going to enjoy that story.
1:47.1	And then finally we're going to talk through about how he learned to be more vulnerable,
1:50.5	how he learned to be more comfortable in his own skin as a speaker and how you can do the same.
1:55.3	So let's not waste any more time.
1:57.0	Let's get right into this conversation with my buddy John Michael Morgan.
2:00.3	Enjoy.
2:08.7	What's on my friends? Grant Baldwin here. Hey, today I'm hanging out with my buddy John Morgan or John Michael Morgan. So which is it? Which do you prefer to go by? I don't really have a
2:14.3	preference, but in business, most people call me John Michael Morgan,
2:18.0	because you've got to have the unique brand.
2:20.2	And John Morgan is a ridiculously common name.
2:24.0	I graduated high school with three other John Morgan's.
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