Keynote
Don’t Be a Chicken!
A talk about courage, and about the conversation your audience is avoiding right now.
What it’s about
Courage isn’t a feeling you wait for.
On a speaking tour in Ecuador, a shaman handed me a tiny rubber chicken and told me not to be one. He was killed a year after that trip, because a group of people didn’t communicate clearly enough.
That story is where the keynote starts, and where the name comes from. What follows is about the moment before you speak — the one where most of us choose silence, and what it costs when we do.
What audiences take with them
Everyone in the room leaves with a tiny rubber chicken and a reminder attached to it: the thing you’ve been meaning to say.
1,703 chickens given away so far.
Where he’s been heard
- The Morning Blend
- WGN 720
- Corebrain Journal
- Career Energizer
Where this goes next
What your audience does after the applause.
The talk plants something. The twelve-week group program is where people pick it up and act on it — a small group, on video, working on the one conversation they’ve been putting off.
Event planners book the keynote. Individuals join the group. Both are the same idea, delivered at different depths.