ST45: Stephen Interviews Chris Kai

Christopher Kai is an entrepreneur, global speaker, founder of the Gifted Professional Speaker Program – or GPS for short – and an Amazon #1 bestselling author of “Big Game Hunting: Networking with Billionaires, Executives and Celebrities.” He has given over 1,000 presentations to a global audience from 30 countries. His audiences include the U.S. Consulate and Fortune 500 companies like American Express, New York Life and Google. He has been featured on Forbes, ABC News, Fast Company, Huffington Post and Inc. Magazine has referred to him as “the billionaire networker.” He is a former business strategist at American Express. Featured in Forbes, his new GPS online program helps entrepreneurs become what he calls next level networkers. When you position yourself as a speaker you have the best opportunity to find more leads, clients, investors, business partners, and referrals at networking events. Learn about his GPS program or sign up for his newsletter here

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In this episode Stephen interviews Chris Kai. His journey began when he got fired for his first full time job after college, due to lack of motivation. Although his parents weren’t very entrepreneurial, he started at the young age of eight during the winter he would shovel snow for cash. He started to realize his potential in business school, where he also went premed. Chris was a student leader, and was told he had a lot of charisma. After school he came to California and wrote his first book, now he feels like he has the gift of speaking, so he should share it with the world. When speaking Chris focuses on making connections with people, mainly with influential people. He also focuses on making your specific brand that comes with speaking. One of the main challenges Chris has had was how young he looked, his mentor told him “Chris it helps to have a few grey hairs”. This really means that other then celebrities, it’s hard to convince people to hire you as an expert, when you look so young. The best advice Chris has to give for new speakers, is just to speak., don’t worry about if it’s perfect or not, just speak as much as you can. When you are practicing make sure to fill you speeches with content that the audience can take home and implement, because that is how you create your price point. Always remember when you’re speaking its about serving your audience, so look for new ways toserve your audience.