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Getting onto a stage is one thing. Being memorable and impactful is a completely different kettle of fish. In todays episode Kenyon Salo talks about his transition from starting out as a speaker to doing what he loves (both on and off stage) full time. As one of only five members on the Denver Broncos Thunderstorm Skydive Team, Kenyon is seen each week flying into Broncos Stadium at 60+mph, ending with a soft tip-toe landing on the ten yard line. With over 6000 skydives under his belt and travels that have taken him all around the world, he’s determined to live life to the fullest and help others do the same. Through his passions for adventure, storytelling, and connecting with people, he found a simple process to guide others on a path to what most of us crave – living a more fulfilled life. For those aspiring speakers or anyone looking to level up this episode is an absolute must. Connect with Kenyon Salo Facebook Instagram Twitter Website Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation. Welcome to another episode of public speaking secrets. Super excited to take you massively behind the scenes today at to the dark arts with uh, of public speaking with Kenyaon Salo. He’s our guest today. He is the James Bond of public speaking. I’m going to link a video to his speaker reel on our website@publicspeakingblueprint.com later on because you need to see this is super high energy and I’m super excited to be able to get an insight on how he created his message and so much more today. So welcome to the show Kenyon. Kenyon Salo: Victor is so wonderful to be here. Thank you so much for having me. I’m fired up and you know, I love that it’s such a global world where you can be on one side of the world. I’m on the other and we’re able to have this conversation and be able to share any tips or bits of information or storylines that might be able to help some people along the way. Victor Ahipene: Super excited and yeah, exactly. It’s a, I was talking with someone on this side of the world a few hours ago and then someone on the other side of the world and then, uh, yeah, it’s, it just makes it, makes it awesome because yeah, the skills that we have with public speaking, they’re so transferable in the lessons are very similar. But to dive into that, like how did you get into the, the world of public speaking? Yeah, the keynote presentation space. How did that all kind of come about for you? Kenyon Salo: Well, for me, I am horrendous at dancing, drawing, doing any type of art or along those lines. But if I look back through my entire life, one of the key things through my entire life is that I’ve been pretty solid at communication. And even 20 years ago, I would look at some of the greats like Tony Robbins and I would see him on stage and I would say one day I want to be able to do that. And it was a process because everything I did in my life was geared around that communication side of things, that leadership side of things. And what I realized is that no matter what job I did, the most favorite part of my job was teaching, training, facilitating, speaking in front of others. And it wasn’t until 2015 when I finally had my message and then that’s when it was like, you know what? I’m going to do public speaking, I’m going to be a keynote speaker. I’m going to push this for full time and let’s make a career out of it. So an overnight success in 20 years kind of thing. Victor Ahipene: Nice. It’s, it’s really interesting you say that because I know a lot of having been to like Tony Robbins events, uh, everyone, no, not everyone, but a lot of people leave it and they decide I’m going to be a life coach or I’m going to have as big an impact as what Tony Robbins does or, yeah, I’m going to end up what, what tends to happen is a lot of people just try and