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It is not what you think!

Are you an actor or a speaker?

Every year around contest time, my fellow Champs and I get the same e-mails asking, “What is the ‘hot topic’ …or would _____ be a winning topic?”

We laugh. Though it is a fair question, it is the wrong perspective. Topics don’t win. Professional speakers don’t get paid for a topic. Original, personal stories presented with passion win and earn big pay checks.

There’s a show here in Vegas called Legends, featuring Madonna, Garth, Michael Jackson, and many more. Obviously, they’re not the actual Legends – they’re impersonators. A friend of mine mentioned that he had talked with one of the impersonators recently. The actor told him that she was barely earning enough money to pay her bills. The real Legend gets paid millions… but the impersonator barely makes enough to pay bills.

Why? Because here in Vegas, impersonators are plentiful. Actors are plentiful. So if she won’t do the job, there are a hundred people behind her ready to jump in and take the work.

“God has given you one face,
and you make yourself another.”
~ William Shakespeare

My topic for my winning World Championship speech was one of the oldest in the book. I told my story, my way. That’s what made it original.

What is your perspective on a topic? What is your story that will help us learn the lesson? What advice did you receive that transformed you?

That is what you should be talking about! Original is easier (it’s your story). Original is more transformational to your audience. Original pays more.

Will you be an actor or a Legend??

Stage time,

Darren LaCroix
2001 World Champion of Public Speaking

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