Music, Comedy, Parodies! "A Nerd Like Me" CD is here!!!

I’m totally excited!  My new CD is here.  It’s called “A Nerd Like Me” which is my parody of Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me.”  Please watch the funny song video below.  I recorded this in Nashville with the best studio players in the world!  It even features John Oates (from Hall and Oates)  and […]

Succeed Anyway

Shortly after I became a professional speaker in 2001, one of my first speaking opportunities was doing a keynote and breakout session for a special group of high school technology students in Georgia. The interesting thing is the racial balance of the group. The largest group was African-American students, followed by hispanic, then white, and […]

Stick It To "Em Without Saying A Word!

I have learned that if you’re motivated, ambitious for good things, and willing to do what it takes to get there, at some point people will try to bring you down. This is something all virtuosos, those desiring to be as good as possible at what they do and to achieve something in life, will […]

Financial Health… Take Your Medicine

Financial Health… Take Your Medicine I’ve noticed something about this country… we have a serious health problem. My wife, Tara Rayburn http://www.thehealthyhabitcoach.com/blog is far more the expert on physical health than me so you need to read her blog for those solutions. But I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about our financial health and there […]

Your awesome new life…

So, though a bit out of order, I spoke a few posts ago the coolest, awesomest, most life-changing decision you could make, the excellence decision, the choice as I say in my keynote, “Become a Virtuoso.” Virtuoso is a musical term for someone who’s reached the top of their art-form, someone who pursues excellence to […]

Taking Chances

Going with my “Break a Leg” theme, taking chances, smart chances, calculated risks is one of the fundamental hallmarks of high achievers. But if you’re one of them you know this, right? My point in writing about it now is to ask you, are you still doing it? Are you maintaining your edge? In my […]

Break A Leg! Literally…

In show biz, particularly theater they always say “break a leg,” which means, “good luck.” The origins of the phrase are not certain. However, this week for the first time in my life I figured out perhaps a new reason that “break a leg” is truly a wish for success. And to found out I […]

The What If…? Keynote Entertainment blog

Lead by example… We are all capable of far more than we ever knew was possible. Most of us know that, but few know how to access that unrealized potential. I can teach anyone how to do that. That’s not the hard part. The hard part is doing that in front of 5000 people – […]