'My Own Show' Idea Goes Online - Need Your Votes, Votes, Votes.

As you saw in my previous post, I went to Atlanta this weekend to audition for Oprah's Your Own Show contest. After seeing my perky and cheerful competition, I decided to join the other 9,000 hopefuls online by throwing my hat into the ring and uploading a video pitching my show idea. Click the link, watch the video (or don't) and send a few votes my way!

Here is my concept:

If you could get rid of one of life’s crippling habits, wouldn’t you? Poor communication is at the root of most of life’s failures: 80% of relationship failures, 95% of job discontent and 65% of emotional problems in children. Yet, we cannot NOT communicate. Every person at every minute of every day is communicating. Even when you are sleeping you are communicating! Research tells us that we are only 50% correct in knowing our own image. Said another way, you can’t be sure what you meant to communicate is really what is being picked up…HALF the time! Why leave life to chance?

My show would raise awareness of mediocre communication and help people improve what they say and how they say it to become more confident, more successful and more effective in all aspects of their lives. I’m funny; I’m brutally honest and armed with communication strategy. Watch the famous, the infamous and the ordinary folk solve their communication conundrums…for life.

I will blog more on my communication observations from this experience, but until then ... keep voting!

Color Me Jaded

There were a lot of very happy people in Atlanta Saturday at the Oprah “Your Own Show” auditions. Personally, I am not sure I want to turn on my TV and see someone that cheerful telling me how miserable my life is and how happy theirs is.

Each audition group had ten people vying for their own show in pitches of around 45 seconds each. In my group, I had a convicted felon who was just as pleased as he could be with the idea that he had a story to tell, a woman who was going to show us all how to be spiritual and a young man who by the sheer force of his personality would cheer all of us older energy less into a state of bliss. One woman was even going to teach us how to stay married by teaching the women how to cook and the men how to be handy and both to have good whoopee. As I said, color me jaded. More to come on my audition adventures later.