“lifelong learners are leaders, most people if they are willing to commit to life long learning will rise to the top or become a better version of themselves"
Corey Poirier is a multiple-time TEDx, and sought-after Keynote, Speaker. He has spoken on MoMonday’s and PMx stages, has shared the bill with everyone from John C. Maxwell to Deepak Chopra to Stephen MR Covey to General Hillier and has presented to hundreds of thousands of attendees since he began his speaking journey.
Host of the top rated ‘Conversations with PASSION’ and Lets do Influencing podcasts, For The Love Of Speaking Show, and the founder of The Speaking Program, he has been featured in multiple television specials, and he has been featured in/on CBS, CTV, NBC, ABC, and is one of the few leaders featured twice on the popular Entrepreneur on Fire show.
A columnist with Entrepreneur and Forbes, he has also interviewed over 5,000 of the world’s top leaders.
One of his most recent talks took him to New York City where he had the extreme pleasure of speaking to At-Risk Youth at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Boys & Girls Club.
A father to his young son Sebastian, boyfriend to Shelley and a father to 3 fur-babies, Corey is also a practicing Yogi and Rock Recording of the Year Nominee.
Talking points as Corey joins Ed Andrew on human impact.
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discovering his passion in his mid 20’s - "purpose for me was to create positive ripples in other peoples lives" (3)
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his book "the book of why and how" comparing it to Simon Sinek
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on his newest book - teaching timeless secrets after 5,000 interviews, idea of mission passion and purpose, his name change for his podcast - passion is what you do and purpose is why you are doing it, changing and adding to passions (7)
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"some people don’t want their passion to be paid as would ruin them, it is not binary, on monetising your passion" (12)
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discussing Zig Ziglar, he is trying to reach the 1% who want to help others reach the top enlightened superachievers (16)
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discussing the 3rd most common trait of leaders - the power of No "the highest achievers know how and when to say no" (15)
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the 2nd trait "lifelong learners are leaders, most people if they are willing to commit to life long learning will rise to the top or become a better version of themselves"
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discussing complacency - most great leaders or coaches have great coaches - as long a you are coachable, you should have a learning plan and reward yourself and need someone to keep you accountable - on Geoff Bezon saying Amazon will eventually fail (22)
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what is a true No and what is a true yes - on how he quantifies a no or a yes (24)
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is curiosity a learned skill? passion is inside some of you somewhere, passion is not a learned skill but you need to exercise skills to uncover it and you need to apply that to curiosity as well (26)
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the No 1 trait - 97% of 5,000 high achievers, they have found their passion and they are living on purpose every day - Bib Dylan quote "A man is a success if they get up and got to bed at night and in between they only do what they love” and usually in service to others ....
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on speaking and paid gigs - no fee bookings, paying for speaking and paid for speakers - place some value for yourself whatever size, - if looking to get out to speaking - the earlier you can put a value on your time, learn the craft of speaking, a. don’t stuff slides with words use visual, storytelling and 3 major parts if under 45 mins, use an evaluation form that asks questions, testimonials, referrers, stay on time, be passionate (35)
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the best speeches of all time like Martin Luther King never had powerpoint, most clients want powerpoint but just use a visual
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on podcasting, most people want to know how to monetise it, now done 5,000 interviews, Harv Eker, Tony Horton, Jack Canfield don’t really do podcasts but we have them - took me years to learn, power of positioning but don’t lie. lot easier to leverage and monetise podcast and business (45)
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podcasts and writing a book for credibility, suggest writing a book, very easy to write it and self publishing over major publisher - the differences, studied all the top leaders, common trait is that have at least one book with a published author (53)
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on getting a TedX - unless you know someone you will go through the application process, how to get in front of them 4 or 5 little hacks, best way to increase odd is to get to know more than one organiser (56)
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