Jim Cathcart

What you might want to share with the audience who just met you is why you're talking about this and why it matters to you, because they want to know that you care not just about them, but also about the topic that you're sharing with them.

That came from Jim Cathcart, by the way, who is a CSP at National Speakers Association.

So thank you, Jim, for expanding some of the different pieces of your event that you could tailor.

as part of your presentation.

Thank you, Max.

My name is Jim Cathcart, C-A-T-H-C-A-R-T, and I'm a mentor to experts, people who are like coaches and speakers and authors and specialists, advisors, consultants in particular fields, not one only, but in across a broad variety of fields, and my company, Cathcart Institute, certifies people as a certified professional expert.

I've been a professional speaker for 50 years.

Full-time, I've delivered 3,500 paid convention speeches all over the world, 25 major cities in China, most of the countries in South America, 10 times to Australia, all over Europe, and every state in the United States.

But if you say I'm having barbecue tonight, that first taste wasn't particularly good.

Let's put some extra sauce on there and let's, you know, and all of a sudden it tastes good.

When I got to Malaysia, my client, there was a whole bunch of them, like 12 people that met me with a big banner, welcome Jim Cathcart and had my picture on it and all that had it in Chinese and in English.

And, um, they had a big bouquet of flowers and it was amazing.

And oftentimes the brand has nothing to do with your product or service.

I was talking to Jim Cathcart, love just him recently.

And he uses a acorn as a metaphor.

That acorn is something he uses all the time because it represents potential growth.

This is a gathering of leaders from a variety of industries, and our role here is to help you reach the top 1% of your field of choice.

I'm Jim Cathcart, so come with me and let's discover how much more successful you could be.

Hey, folks.

Welcome.

This is the Professional Experts podcast, and I am the lesser of two participants today.

I'm your host, Jim Cathcart, and this podcast is designed for people who are making a living by being the product of their business, s- professional speakers, authors, coaches, consultants, advisors, fractional executives, anyone who's selling the, the application of their specialty to try to help make life better for someone else or some company.

Um, so it's, it's professional experts, and boy, do we have one today.

Sonny Melendrez and I have known each other at arm's length basically for a couple of years through the National Speakers Association, but you have known him for many years and didn't even realize it.

Let's go.

Today we have a living legend, Jim Cathcart in the house, author of 28 books and a guy that I recently met at a conference, but a guy that when everybody was around him only said the best of things.

So Jim, welcome to the show.

Happy to have you.

I can do it in small groups and I can talk about it to large crowds.

Great.

So now I'm no longer Jim Cathcart, the motivator, the sales expert.

I'm Jim Cathcart, the mentor.

And I have to say, too, is that we fell forward.

I think it was Jim Cathcart who wrote my forward of my book.

It was either him or...

Mark Victor Hansen, I can't remember.

Look at the version of who I want to become.

And there's this quote from Jim Cathcart, who's written, I think, tons of books on personal development.

He gave a TED talk on this.

And it was how would the quote is, how would the person I'd like to be do the thing that I'm about to do?