Ep. 116 Finding The Punch Lines In Your Pain With Stephanie McHugh What’s a great career move when your children grow up and move out? Leave your corporate career and become a stand-up comedian! Stephanie McHugh explains her choice to Mark and Darren, and shares the lessons she learned about uncovering the humor in our…
FYI, This is a classic article of mine written in 2008. A NEW OUCH! = A NEW STORY I’m was trying to smile. Just not so easy when you had food poisoning. If you sent me an e-mail that week, may have been a while before you get a response. I ate dinner at 5:30…
“OUCH!” Winning Speech, One Box at a Time Too many people, when putting a presentation together, try to write the whole thing out. If you use slide presentations, you know the crutch of creating a slideshow by taking an old one, and just “tweaking” it. Guilty? I know I am. A brilliant presentation is clean,…
Do you enjoy behind-the-scenes interviews and documentaries? I do! One of my favorite comedians is Ron White. He’s one of the Blue-Collar Comedy guys. Though he is a little rough around the edges for some, he cracks me up. In one of Ron’s specials, they showed an interview with Jeff Foxworthy. Jeff was actually in the audience…
Have you ever felt like you were hit squarely in the face by a lesson from an unexpected mentor? When they’re absolutely right…it usually hurts more, doesn’t it? But after the pain we are never the same. A while back in Bel Air, CA, I was attending a casino night fundraiser for a friend-of-a-friend’s theater…
Do you realize that every presentation is different, even though you are the same person? Even if your words are exactly the same and you have the same intention, it’s still slightly different each time. Do you know why? Do you see them? I mean, like Avatar’s message, “I see you?” During my 14 hour…
Ever seen something that’s just brilliant? As you may know, I’m a huge fan of Dunkin’ Donuts. If you had been sitting next to me in my car with the top down, you would have felt the warm Vegas sun, smelled the fresh-brewed coffee, and heard me laugh out loud as we pulled through and…
Are you a presenter? Give sales presentations? Got humor? One of the major problems of speakers is they “step” on their laughs, hence making them smaller. Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking, Darren LaCroix, will teach you on this video, exactly what happens, and how you can fix it! Want more humor in your speech?…
Want to know how to give funny speeches? Learn from a former stand-up comedian who learned how to do it the hard way and now gives funny speeches everyday in the corporate and convention world. Why did Darren LaCroix become a comedian and professional Speaker? Hear the story when he had his ah ha and…
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