Phil Town
Phil Town is a self-made millionaire several times over and America’s most widely sought-after speaker on investing. In his first book, RULE #1, Phil Town describes the Rule #1 personal investing strategy in detail so that anyone, even first-time investors, can get—and stay—wealthy. Phil Town’s newest book is called PAYBACK TIME and is available now.
Phil Town is the classic Everyman, and one whose resources were more limited than most. An average student, he completed college on his 4th attempt. Phil Town spent four years in the Army, two of them as a trained Green Beret. He returned from the Vietnam War and found a job in the Midwest as a river tour guide.
In the early ‘80s, Town’s life changed for the better. He was guiding trustees from the educational program Outward Bound down a dangerous rapid on the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River, when his split-second decisions saved a boatload of people from a whitewater disaster. A grateful and financially astute client returned the favor by guiding Phil Town into serious, successful investing using the first rule of investing as ascribed to by Warren Buffett: Don’t lose money. Within five years, Town had built a borrowed $1,000 into $1 million. His fortunes improved radically, and rapidly, from then on.
Phil Town speaks on investing on the same stage as for Presidents Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton as part of the “Get Motivated” touring seminars. He speaks to more than 600,000 people annually about Rule #1 investing.
Phil Town lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Motivational Speakers tell Great Stories
Like any other skill, knowledge of how to be a motivational speaker and understanding the concept requires lots and lots of practice. I think I’m almost offended sometimes when people come at me after a speech and say boy your natural born storyteller, I wish I had that. It’s not the case.
It takes effort just like anything else, anybody listening to this must be really confident. The key to making a great speech as a motivational speaker is that you have to rehearse so that you can make it appear as if I’m just telling a story spontaneously, off top my head. I think there has to be some tension in the story that you are telling. There’s got to be some built-in tension, there’s a struggle. There’s got to be a reason for the listener to say my gosh how is this going to work out, what will happen here?When you get that going, now they’re listening and even pulling for you. One of the biggest things is to paint a picture as a motivational speaker.
If I can tell you a story and without even realizing it you are there, you are actually visualizing it. You’re walking with me on the side of the you’re watching the fire burn in that house, that’s the key. If you can get there, your stories will captivate. Ask yourself as a motivational speaker , ‘do I always have a story for every point’? Absolutely you should! I think people learn through stories. Whether or not you’re religious you have to accept this, Jesus Christ decided how can I get my message out to the whole world. He told stories. People relate to that and identify with them. I don’t know the cannot to many stories to be honest. In a 45 minute speech there’ll be one longer story, maybe a signature story, it’s can be five minutes long. But there are other stories that are 90 seconds long and there may be as many as eight or 10 of them in one keynote speech.
A signature story can be the one story that comes to everybody’s mind when you think of that speaker. Les Brown talks about the time that he became a DJ, as his all-time dream job of being a DJ. He tells us so wonderfully well, I’ve heard him tell it 10 times. What would really open up the hearts of listeners and they would relate to you and that would be the biggest part is that they would be pulling for you. If they’re pulling for you to succeed. Stories are what we want in our jokes, songs, movies and the books we read. The best motivational speakers are also the best story tellers.
Motivational Speaker Jobs
Motivational Speaker Jobs
As a motivational speaker you have to always be motivating yourself by reading motivational books and watching inspiring video. In a society where criticism and negativity reign, it’s vital to keep powerful
affirmations available in your flint pouch of motivational thinking. These are firey motivational quotes that help me keep me fired up in my job as a motivational speaker.
Following are several great quotations that I hope you’ll find motivational. Copy and print the ones that motivate you most. Laminate them. Use them as motivational bookmarks. Post
them up on your job. Tape them to the ceiling at home and work. Carry them in your notebooks, purses, wallets, and in your car. Also work them into speeches for your motivational speaker jobs.
- “We become what we habitually contemplate.” — George William Russell, Irish Poet
- “Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.” —Plato
- Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” Vonnegut “Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso“What we are is what we have thought for years.” Gautama the Buddha
