How To Become A Master In The Art of Public Speaking (Part 1 of 2) | Eric Edmeades

- I want to tell you something real quick before we jump in.

A friend of mine called me in the middle

of a speaking tour that I was doing in Europe,

and said, "Eric, you need to come to Poland.

"There's a big marketing conference,

"and they need you to come and speak as a favor."

And I said, "I'm on a tour, I don't have any time at all."

And they said, "Well, do you have any days off?"

And I said, "Well I have one day off just to recharge

"my batteries, but I'm speaking every single day."

And they said, "Well, what's the day off you have?"

And I said, "It's this day."

And they go, "Well, that's the day they want you to come."

And I said, "No."

I said, "No, problem."

"It's a problem, I'm not doing it."

And then another friend of mine called me,

and he turned out to be doing some consulting work

for the same marketing company.

And he called me and said, "Eric, they really need you

"to be there, would you do it as a personal favor to me?"

So now I have two of my friends asking me

to do them a favor to go to this event in Poland,

and I'm not interested in doing it.

But now two friends have asked me, I agree to do it.

So I fly off to Poland, I get to the airport.

I get to my hotel, and they tell me that a car

is going to come pick me up at my hotel.

And when the car picks me up at the hotel,

it'll take me to the conference center.

I'm supposed to be on stage at 12:00,

and they tell me the car's going to pick me up at 11:00.

That's not ideal.

It's not ideal, but look, they're running the show,

I do what they tell me.

The car comes to pick me up at 11:00,

but they don't send a car, you understand.

They don't send like a car, they send a taxi.

Now, I'm not snobby, I'm okay to go in a taxi,