"How do I give a 30 min talk without being boring?" Here's the secret. New speakers struggle to keep people engaged, because they don't realize this: Engaging talks follow a rigid structure the same way engaging songs follow a rigid structure. Learn the structure and you'll write engaging talks. In my 20s, I joined a band with a major record deal. The dude who signed Nelly signed our band. (Don't bother googling it; we broke up before the album dropped). When we were in the studio recording pop rock for the radio we never talked about how to structure our songs. You know why? Because every song for the masses follows the same rules & the same rigid structure. 🎵 Verse 🎵 Chorus 🎵 Verse 🎵 Chorus 🎵 Bridge 🎵 Chorus That's a pop song framework. Break those rules and you won't have a hit. Whether it's... → Pop → Rock → Metal → Grunge → Country → Boyband ...every big song sounds different... but every big song has the same structure. Speaking works the same way. There is a smash-hit-TALK framework. Every great talk feels different. But engaging talks follow the same structure. Most speakers are boring because they write talks WITHOUT pop-talk structure. (Once you learn it, you'll see it everywhere.) Half of the battle of public speaking is learning to take your idea and carefully craft it using a pop-talk framework. The graphic is everything you need to get started. Write some pop talks friends. You've got this! ____ Got a big talk coming up? Let’s do a 4-week 1:1 sprint. Fall special offer. Details in my banner. DM “Talk” to start.