Sekou Andrews

Typically, what are they doing before they get on stage?

sitting, hobnobbing with other executives, the CEO, drinking ice water, possibly reviewing some of their notes, practicing, memorizing, content, content, content.

You go backstage at a ballet.

What do you expect to see?

Dancers warming up, engaging their full body, right?

Making sure they understand how to engage the emotions with their physicality.

You go backstage at a theater event, you're going to see actors warming up all of their vocal instruments.

You're going to see them getting in the zone.

They're warming up their entire instrument, mental, physical, spiritual, emotional.

It's a completely different approach, right?

Because the speaker goes out and says, my biggest hope is that they don't fall asleep.

and maybe hopefully they applaud afterwards.

The singer goes out and says, my biggest hope is that when I stage dive, they will catch me.

So it's two different expectations for your audience, right?

And so when I go out for a public speaking event, I go out with that stage dive mentality.

I'm gonna completely raise the expectation, raise the level, and that is teachable for whoever it is, that's teachable.

You wanna engage yourself fully so that you can engage your audience fully, right?

So my goal is for myself or for the folks that I train, it's to put your message, not just into your audience's mind, you wanna put the message into their hearts, you wanna put it into their muscles, you wanna put it into their hands, you wanna put it into their voices, right?

You wanna put it into their emotions.

So you're looking to engage them mentally and emotionally and physically, and I would even add spiritually.