What is your actual job as a speaker and as a brand? To educate? To inform? To entertain? To make the audience feel good? Or, is it to make the audience feel good about themselves?

Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker, author, and acclaimed branding expert Bruce Turkel would probably say the latter, and he tells a story on stage to back it up. Like all good stories, this one raises the stakes, because it involves Bruce’s wife!

Bruce Turkel is a master at telling stories and observing the truisms of life and business and tying them back to his audience. You’ll hear this signature story and gain lots of great insights into the life of a Keynote Speaker on this episode of Standing Ovation.

Find out about:

• Bruce shares his signature story that teaches a valuable lesson for brands and speakers alike
• How Bruce develops the on-stage structure of his stories
• How to put the audience at ease
• Bruce shares his opinion on stories in books vs stories on stage
• How Bruce uses sequences of his stories for his presentations
• Why it’s important to find a way to keep track of the stories you share with different audiences
• How Bruce started ‘The Marketing Minute’ on Instagram
• Bruce shares how he stores ideas and moments of inspiration for great stories

Connect with Bruce

• Website
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Instagram
• YouTube

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