Igniting Souls Podcast with Kary Oberbrunner

Dexter Godfrey and Kary talk about developing and refining your style as a speaker. Sometimes you have to break the rules, but before you break the rules, you have to know the rules.

Are you someone in life or business who puts too much stock in what the professionals say? If you're an entrepreneur, you should be by defintition someone who is pushing themselves outside the lines.

You can't book brain picking lunches with everybody, so how do you help people without lunching yourself to death?

Next time you meet an obstacle or face resistance, be like a mountain stream that WILL eventually find its destination, no matter what.

If you want to be a professional speaker, you have to learn how to get booked over and over again at the same places. A fantastic way to do this is to connect with the audience before you even show up. It is your job as a speaker or webinar host to set expectations ahead of time and start a relationship with your audience as early as possible. This sets you apart as an outlier by building engagement and ensures that clients will want to book you over and over again.

What are you spending your time and energy on? Think about dedicating it to the things you can have an influence and impact on.

Instead of engaging in relationships without evening thinking about it, I challenge you to create a filter for your relationships. What are those filters or what do you want them to be?

I believe the world is a pretty amazing place and people are awesome. But that's not at all what you see in the media and on the news. You control your outlook.

Here's a secret weapon for your business: generosity.

If you're going to be a successful cyclist, you have to plan that you're going to fail. I think the same is true for entrepreneurs.

If you want to be someone who stands out from the rest, do something different. Can it be as simple as showing up early?

If you believe you're lucky or unlucky, then that's what you will be. What is your brain looking for?

Here are the things I do to protect my confidence.

Every time you encounter someone, you're either a plus person that adds value to their day or a minus person that takes away energy. You have a choice with every action.

You say you want to increase your income, influence and impact, but are you ready to sign the contract?