E157: The Art of Speaking the Language of Your Audience and Great Storytelling with Pat Quinn

<p><strong>Pat Quinn is a consultant and a keynote speaker. He has stood on the biggest stages and conferences and spoken to some of the largest audiences all around the globe. Pat started as a professional magician and worked magic for 10 years professionally until he decided to teach math in high school for 10 years. Speaking and changing lives, Pat is now teaching as head coach for </strong><a href="https://advanceyourreach.com/"><u><strong>Advance Your Reach</strong></u></a><strong> in the last five years.</strong></p> <p><strong>Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The 2 words that are most misunderstood<br> </li> <li>The common mistakes entrepreneurs make<br> </li> <li>How to communicate consistently well to your customers<br> </li> <li>The elements that make up great stories<br> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Episode Highlights:</strong></p> <p><strong>The 2 Words Most Misunderstood: Speaker and Stage</strong></p> <p>The two words that are most misunderstood are probably speaker and stage. Everybody who owns a business – or who works for a nonprofit or has a cause or a message that they believe in – speaks about it and communicates about it. And you're either doing it intentionally well or you're doing it accidentally very poorly.</p> <p>A lot of people are also scared of speaking on a stage. But you're on the stage every single day – whenever you call someone or speak to someone at Starbucks, or on your kid's soccer field talking to other parents – that's a stage.</p> <p>You can accidentally stumble your way through it and get no new customers out of it. Or you can intentionally improve that communication and turn every conversation and every opportunity to talk to someone to impact the lives of someone else with your business, and with how you help people every single day.</p> <p><strong>The Common Things Entrepreneurs Struggle With</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Lack of clarity<br> </strong></li> </ul> <p>The biggest mistake that people make is they don't have cl