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Let Loose and Clown Around to Become a Better Speaker and Communicator with Don Colliver
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Today's guest on Your Purposeful Life with Adrian Starks is Former Blue Man and Professional Clown turned Communication Trainer and Pro Speaker, Don Colliver.
Join us on this episode as I speak with guest Don Colliver who shares his journey of becoming a blue man and professional clown and then reshaping his purpose to now being a communication trainer and pro speaker helping companies such as Google.
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Show Notes and Key takeaways on this episode:
- Don's journey from former blue man and professional clown
- Life turning moment for Don that reshaped his purpose.
- Challenges he faced in the profession of being a clown
- How the clown presence relates to public speaking
- Don's take on WHY people have such a fear for public speaking and HOW to change that fear
- Recommendations for nervous speakers
- How to add a little humor to better engage the audience
- Practicing presentations: how much is enough?
Bio:
Don Colliver teaches popular public speaking courses internally at Google and around the world; leads improv, clown, and sketch comedy classes for the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre; and speaks professionally for Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, Cisco, and Medtronic. Don has performed with the Blue Man Group, toured internationally as a theatrical Clown for contemporary circus Spiegelworld, and is listed in the Cirque du Soleil performer database.
Don’s mission is to help every communicator profoundly impact their audience through the power of authenticity, listening, and play: the Secrets of Clown!
He recently released a #1 Bestselling Amazon book entitled "Wink: Transforming Public Speaking with Clown Presence" to help anxious speakers and organizational teams everywhere connect more deeply when they communicate.
Resources
Guest: Don Colliver
Guest reference: Prattfall effect study done in 1966 by social psychologist Elliot Aronson
Free exercise/gift from Don: https://www.doncolliver.com/engage
Website: https://www.doncolliver.com/wink-public-speaking
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