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What to Look for in a Motivational Speaker in 2026

Nailing the decision on what to look for in a motivational speaker is the massive difference between an event that sparks a genuine cultural shift and one that’s totally forgotten by Monday morning.  This guide digs deep into how you can vet speakers based on their lived experience, actual delivery skills, and audience alignment so

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February 21, 2026
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How to Book a Speaker?

Ever sat through a keynote that made you want to fake a medical emergency just to escape? Yeah, we all have. Some guy droning on about “synergy” and “paradigm shifts” while everyone’s checking how much phone battery they’ve got left. 78% of people come back to events specifically because of good speakers. But book the

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October 10, 2025
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What Makes a Good Public Speaker?

Public speaking terrifies most people. Studies put the number at around 75% of the population who’d rather do just about anything else than stand in front of a crowd and talk. Some surveys even rank it above the fear of dying.  Meanwhile, 92% of business professionals say strong presentation skills directly impact career success, and

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October 8, 2025
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How to Find a Keynote Speaker Who Won’t Put Your Audience to Sleep

Look, we’ve all sat through terrible keynote speeches. The kind where you’re checking your phone every five minutes, counting ceiling tiles, or planning your escape route. And if you’re the one responsible for booking that speaker? That’s a career-limiting move right there. 44% of executives say thought leadership from keynote speakers is the most effective

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October 3, 2025
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What Does a Motivational Speaker Cost in 2025?

When someone asks “what’s a motivational speaker cost?”, I tell them that’s like asking what a car costs. Could be $3,000, could be $300,000. More than half of professional speakers raised their fees in 2025 compared to what they charged before. Event planners are noticing. The average keynote speaker at an in-person corporate event is

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September 30, 2025
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How to Find a Speaker for an Event?

Event planners have horror stories. The motivational speaker who put half the audience to sleep. The $25,000 “expert” who delivered the same tired presentation from 2018. The perfectly planned corporate retreat that turned into a disaster when the speaker showed up unprepared and clearly didn’t care. These disasters happen because most advice about how to

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September 30, 2025
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Strength, Balance, and Resiliency – Part 1: Self-Leadership

Most people think leadership is about managing others. They’re wrong. Strength, balance, and resiliency start with one person – YOU. And if you can’t lead yourself, you sure as hell can’t lead anyone else. I learned this the hard way. As a young Navy SEAL officer, I thought leadership meant barking orders and looking tough.

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September 8, 2025
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Adapting Quickly as a Leadership Skill

I’ve spent most of my adult life in situations where the difference between rapid adaptation and hesitation was literally life or death. As a Navy SEAL for 21 years, I learned that adapting quickly is an essential leadership skill for survival and success. But the same principles that kept me alive in the streets of

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September 3, 2025
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Monday Muster: You’re the Problem and the Solution – Part 2

Jason Redman’s Monday Muster to start your week off right & crush those goals! It’s been 3 years since we’ve talked about the hard truth: YOU are the problem, but YOU are also the solution. This week, we’re diving deeper into what personal accountability actually looks like and how to develop the self-leadership skills that

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August 30, 2025
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How to Learn to Love Yourself Like a Warrior

There was a time in my life when I hated the man staring back at me in the mirror. I had just come out of surgery. My face was shredded. My confidence was shattered. My identity as a Navy SEAL, a leader, and a warrior felt like it had been ripped away in a split-second

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August 29, 2025

How to Find a Life Coach Who Actually Gets Results

When I was lying in a hospital bed in Bethesda, missing a third of my face and wondering if I’d ever lead again, I didn’t need a cheerleader. I didn’t need someone to tell me everything would be okay. I needed a battle-tested guide who could help me rebuild—not just my body, but my mindset.

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August 27, 2025
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How to Improve Public Speaking?

The company CEO looked me dead in the eye and said, “Jason, I need you to fix this. My executives can present numbers, but they can’t inspire action. They’ve got the technical skills, but when they get in front of people, they fall apart.” He was describing what I see in 90% of speakers: they

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August 26, 2025
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Confidence Training That Builds Leaders

I’ve led men through firefights in Iraq, survived being shot in the face at point-blank range, and rebuilt my life from a hospital bed when most people would have quit. None of that happened because I was fearless. It happened because I trained for it. And what I trained above all else was confidence. Most

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August 25, 2025
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How to Be Confident?

I’ve been shot in the face, blown up, and ambushed in Iraq. I’ve also stood in front of thousands of people wearing my scars like a badge and told them they could become more than what life tried to take from them. And let me tell you something—learning how to be confident was not about

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August 25, 2025
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My Best Public Speaking Tips 

I was sitting in a corporate boardroom last month, watching a brilliant engineer completely fall apart during what should have been a career-defining presentation. This guy had developed technology that could revolutionize his industry, but he was so paralyzed by his fear of public speaking that his groundbreaking ideas sounded like mumbled apologetic suggestions. After

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August 22, 2025
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Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking

Let me tell you about the time I almost chickened out of my first civilian speaking engagement. There I was, lying in my hospital bed at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, when a Fortune 500 company reached out asking me to speak at their annual leadership conference. Six months earlier, I’d been leading assault teams through

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August 19, 2025