I believe with all of my heart that we are all presenters some of us are presenters here at tedx Sarasota some of us are presenting in a business meeting where that presentation your story is going to get you from here to here and that company from here to here you may be presenting as a high school English teacher and those kids are leaning on every word you say you may be presenting at your first job in interview and you're going to get from here to here you may be presenting as a volunteer soccer coach for
10-year-old girls they don't know the rules you do they lean on your words you may be presenting on a first date where the stakes are high and the anxiety is high you may be presenting On Bended Knee asking that first date to spend their rest of their lives with you don't do that on the first date and there are ingredients that make our presentation all of ours our story resonate honesty humility and humor in that order the honesty is not hey man you you lost your wallet that's a cool deed but that's expected honest Y
is about all of us being able to get up with our voice the voice that was gifted to us and be accessible and vulner vulnerable enough to be here humility humility is not the astronaut who says uh I do a little traveling yeah no dude you went to the moon man dude you went to the moon and that's awesome humility is about taking that ego and that pride and those endorphins that do come in when you're presenting and keeping them at Bay because it's not about you it's about serving and humor ah humor is about
laughing with not laughing at no one wakes up in the morning and says I cannot wait to be made fun of and right now at this moment I want to invite laughter in the room it's been here before and I'm inviting it right back it's been here this morning so has honesty humility and humor when you find something that moves you and you want laugh laugh with not at with honesty humility and humor you can serve your story and I use the word serve specifically knowing that it has two meanings to serve to support your
story and to serve to deliver your story you can tell people what to do and you could tell people your story I've heard it I've heard it from coaches when I was a kid let me tell you a little story everyone good I didn't hear you everyone good all right no we're not good I don't dig that let me tell you your story I don't want to your story I'm 10 you can show people your story we're doing it right now me Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Pinterest and I'm sure we created something out
there in the Wonder Zone that I don't even know about but we are showing our story but I challenge every one of us to use our story to move people that's what we're starving for to move and we've done it this morning through music and through silence and through laughter and through imagery but let's move let's put honesty and humility to the test I'm going to do something I'm going to say it's risky but if you follow follow these ingredients it will be a really cool experience I'm going to bring someone up and we're going
to put this to the test sir I've never met you I promise you I will make you look like a hero I know you didn't show up go on I can't wait to be on stage can I work with you up here for about four minutes is that okay awesome dude give me a hand come up here what's your name Joe Joe Joe come walk this way because you're going to be Mike you're going to come this way so we're both at the same volume so Joe give Joe a hand this is a big deal
Joe the mic's right there that's the first step is Buy in so Joe if you could just clip that to kind of your button there and then you can just put the other one the other part yeah there you go awesome and then put that in your pocket Joe you want to just say something so I can hear your voice hello awesome Joe get up here come up here thanks I've never met this man this is not a a a a someone that's been planted right absolutely aw I'm I'm terrified and you're human Joe this
is a game called expert speaker and just listen to the title of the game expert speaker you are an expert and so am I and this is how it works there are three rules by the way as I explain this right at this moment audience presenters are you rooting for him you are you are and and that's sweet that's nice now but some of you are rooting for him because you're like I'm glad he didn't pick me I know it but this is a moment that is not scripted none of this is where you have
to understand as presenters We are rooting if you're in your right mind you are rooting for this person Joe everything you say in this interview is correct and I will agree with you so if you say Steve I built this theater I will say I was there with you Joe that's why it says Joe's theater you got it sounds good see that's pretty good everything I say is correct Joe and you will agree with me so if I say Joe I'm a carpet salesman and I sell Circle carpets you're buying and absolutely awes I'm with
you I'm telling you is he says absolutely I'm going from here to here to here there's a third rule not just for Joe for all of us I got to take care of him he's got to take care of me don't be inappropriate and we are not that wasn't even supposed to get a laugh but laugh with and Joe you and I are both too funny and too smart to get a joke at each other's expense you ready Joe you're going to step off the carpet for a second audience I would like to hear a
topic that Joe and I are both experts on Joe when you hear it own it and I will own it and it may be something we have no idea and then I will introduce you and we will interview is that cool sounds good thank you brother and inside you might be like ah but I don't see a bubble above your head so we're good what's a topic that jok I heard whammer first whammers oh no that's a little inappropriate because it Go weird way that's okay though what is it Nuclear Physics is fantastic ladies and
gentlemen ladies and gentlemen I am thrilled as a semi-expert but this gentleman really like like he's really topped it off he is a nuclear physicist who works with both men and women and he is won the 2012 Sarasota manate championship for nuclear physiology and it's exactly pronounced that way he won't say it again he has a Blog and he has a MySpace account and a Facebook please put your hands together for Dr nuclear physicist come on in Joe come on in thank you everything you say oh give him a love okay thank you yeah let
me start Joe nuclear you're like a rock star how does that feel I feels really good yeah let's start let's back up Joe you became a nuclear physicist at a very young age can you share your story on how you were the youngest nuclear physicist you tell them you tell them go ahead how old were you uh luckily I was I was about 17 17 years old and you're 17 you're in your senior year in high scho School you created a star in a jar a star in a jar a star in a jar it
sounds unique I don't think it's ever been done before you're 17 you created a star in a jar absolutely in my garage Y in a garage sounds so familiar Joe you wrote a you wrote a book called creating Stars I am a star yes I did and that became a number one bestseller when you go to young nuclear physicist what do you share with them some words of wisdom you guys write this down go ahead you know luckily I got a lot of good material to work off of somebody picked this great topic that that
kids can do things too and and kids need to be empowered because that's how the world goes around it starts with the kids it can be dangerous nuclear physiology absolutely yeah just saying it can be dangerous Joe how do you say it with Grace and expertise go ahead nuclear physiology and it's got to be hushed Joey wrote another book called whisper while you invent now it's not a question that's just a statement Joe you go around the country you tell people to reach for their Stars where is nuclear physiology going wow that's a great question
I know I know where is it heading what can we look for share us just a just a morsel if you will I'm thinking it's heading to a new frontier a new frontier new man stay up here justay a second stay that's the beautiful thing of taking a risk and getting a reward Joe I'll just tell you I'll let you sit in a second you can take the mic off and put it right there were you nervous yes I was that's human every presenter needs to acknowledge that it's also humble um thank you for agreeing
did you feel laughing with yeah laughing with it was great it was all part of the experience cool thank you for speaking up thank you for smiling thank you when I said here's a question that you answered it thank you for having my back thanks for laughing with let's give Joe a hand good job you can just take that off and put that right there I really appreciate [Applause] that that was a great recall on the 17-year-old it was Joe as you take your seat I want to share some things that you earned up here
but it's really for all of us Joe you're an expert speaker you're not really a nuclear physic physiologist I'm making those words up I'm doing that purposefully but you did it with honesty I love that you sat down with the person next to you and she went good job that's what we need you did it with honesty you're not a hologram I hope your name's Joe and you didn't lie this is what you wore you didn't plan this and that to me is honest not returning the wallet that's expected humility you didn't come up guns
a blaze and boom boom by the way no one should do that no one should do that ever you did it by not upstaging me you follow the rules you also participated though you could have sabotaged it you did it without Pride you did it without ego and in doing that you moved the room and you did it with humor because in that order the result will be humor but it's not debasing humor and it's not poisonous humor and it's not that type of humor that's gotten away from us but it's the humor where we're
laughing with and moving people and you did it with the 17-year-old call back from that video we saw in the morning correct but you honored him without being snarky honesty humility and humor this is where we want to be these are the ingredients that serve our story and this is where we want to be in the move position but something pulls us away and it's called fear and where there is fear there is no faith and the fear sounds like this to me and you could not nod your head if youve ever heard these thoughts
in your voice by the way these thoughts I'm sharing with you I've heard today in me I've heard them 12 minutes ago I heard them when I was bringing you up but I try to turn the volume down some of these thoughts of fear is I don't want to sound dumb who wakes up in the morning and says I can't wait to sound dumb and I want to do it early so I can bask in it all day I don't want to be misunderstood in this day and age for all of us man you put
that wrong update that Facebook other than deleting it those 12200 see it then those 1200 see it you it's a train that you can't slow down on Twitter and it's not just the young kids all of us we don't want to be misunderstood because now it's out there and you can't take it back I don't want to get rejected I was single till I was 40 and no one wants to go to that social event and go up to that beautiful person that says you want to dance no that felt good all right no not
done no no again yeah let's stay here we're staying at this place this bar called rejection no and then with that fear we're not in the move we're not in the show we're not in the tell we're off stage we're off the red carpet where there is fear there is no faith but where there is Faith there cannot exist fear how do I get through that fear I challenge all of us to think of things that light us up they are called coins they are values and they're things that you value coins are not things
that do you do what you do for a living or the obvious coins are things that light you up that make you shine coins are things that that put a smile to your face and when you think about them and when you talk about them and when you share them it completes your entire picture my honesty coins are that I'm from West Cina California that be a I'm uh live in Bradenton with my wife now I uh I love to travel I love warm weather I have a father who owned his own men's clothing store
for 38 years in Arcadia California my mom's an artist my brother won the medal of valor for the second time two weeks ago he's a firefighter he has three girls the oldest one Sarah made me an uncle my humility coins my faith makes me humble every day my wife makes me humble every day and my one-year-old daughter Blake makes me humble every day and my humorous coins whoa I love In-N-Out Burger Wes Cina I love that that gets more claps in faith that's interesting but nonetheless nevertheless but it can get me to talk about my
faith my humorous coins is I love old school hip hop I wanted to be a DJ growing up I still do I love Run DMC De La Soul dougy fresh when I heard douge fresh beatbox for the first time I was like I want to be that guy I didn't look like that guy but I want to be like that guy through a colleague of mine I have to give him credit my wife and I last week watched four episodes in the road of Duck Dynasty these are some of my humorous coins and these are
the things that light me up because we are born to be in the move position and if we want to get back to that place place of faith we have to think of things that light us up that give us value that put a genuine smile on our face we were born here and I'm not saying that because I'm an expert in being born I don't remember that moment we were all born but I will tell you what I do remember is a year ago last week two miles away at Sarasota Memorial Hospital my daughter
Blake was born and when she entered this world she didn't come out telling us her story could you imagine like that was a long nine months that's that's uh I'm glad I'm here man welcome I'm I'm I'm Blake no I know I'm your I'm your father she didn't tell us her story CU she couldn't talk and she didn't show us her story because she doesn't have Instagram she doesn't have a cell phone yet okay could you imagine though just got born update but what my daughter did my wife and my daughter did is she came
into this world and she moved us because she was moving and she was vulnerable and not only did she move my wife literally and and and and emotionally and metaphorically she moved the nurses and she moved me and she moved my two sister-in-laws and she moved my mother-in-law in the room and she moved that entire room with her spirit without words without showing just by being and she did it with honesty humility and humor honesty she just showed up there's no mirror there's no clothes here I am am that is honest as honest can be
and her humility she didn't come out and be like I'll I'll cut this I'm good I'm good doc I got this no she did the opposite she said I need you I need you there's no ego and pride it's just helped me survive and she did it with humor have you ever seen a baby born they're like funny looking they're like blue and there was laughter in the room there was laughter for Relief laughter through Spirit laughter through we're tired laughter through exhaustion just pure laugh with my daughter was born with honesty humility and humor
and so were we and I challenge all of us to figure out what lights us up what makes us shine what allows us to be an expert Joe and own that own it with all your heart and all your being and when you own that presentation when you own your story I want you to deliver it with honesty humility and humor and I want us all to move people we are starving for it it is time let's move people thank you
