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It has been said that children laugh an average of 450 times a day while adults laugh less than 20. It's no wonder adults in America are suffering with anxiety, worry, doubts and fear. As a motivational speaker, JL Glass knows the power of laughter and the positive impact he is privileged to have on his audiences. Some people often wonder what long-lasting effect could result from hearing a humorous motivational speaker. JL knows first hand of audience members whose lives have changed after hearing his stories. Testimonial: "No matter how much I've achieved in my life I've struggled because I keep believing I'm defective. Today you changed that belief." (Minnesota Medical Group Management Association - Statewide Conference) So you can see, words, stories and ideas can make a difference when delivered in the right manner.
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Research has shown that laughter can stimulate the immune system, increase natural painkillers in the blood, reduce stress, and even decrease systemic inflammation, (ouch!) something that is increasingly linked to many diseases. If that is true, sitting in an audience while listening to a motivational speaker such as JL Glass might be considered better than a visit to the doctor's office. In fact, from time to time, this motivational speaker may even ask audience members to don a hospital gown during his speech. (This keeps people from walking out in the middle of his presentation and greatly reduces standing ovations.)
What type of valuable information does this humorous motivational speaker offer?
Mostly garbled jabberwocky which sometimes isn't even that funny. On a more serious note, JL is one of the finest humorous motivational speakers in the country, JL uses his gift of humor to make learning fun. He says, "it's fun being paid for what they used to put me out in the hallway for." From a collection of topics on self improvement, customer service and marketing, JL never misses an opportunity to entertain with comedy while he delivers his motivational message. He is a favorite humorous motivational speaker for keynotes as well as a humorous motivational speaker for marketing workshops and corporate team building retreats. (Am I using the word "humorous" enough yet? Gotta get my rankings up on the search engines you know.)
What do people find so interesting about this funny motivational speaker?
People often enjoy laughing at JL's pathetic attempts to maintain his status as a humorous motivational speaker, (there's that word "humorous" again.) business owner, author, musician, son, husband, and father. They even laugh at his poor credit score which JL explains is his strategy for keeping people from stealing his identity.
It's not just laughter that you'll find in a Humorous Motivational Speaker but...
Humor is not all that this motivational speaker offers. JL’s philosophy is that a humorous motivational speaker needs to incorporate as many facets of creativity and genuine emotion as possible. Every speech and/or workshop includes stand-up comedy from start to finish as well as the use of object lessons from personal experience. JL says, “I figure if I get you to laugh while you learn when telling you how I've survived life, I can teach you anything.”
Besides the stand-up comedy, which he actually calls stand-up Power Point, JL may even include a card trick or two. In his effort to make people’s lives more interesting, he’ll often explain how the trick works so audience members may become entertainers and teachers or at minimum at least less boring to be around. “Life is too short to spend your time being boring,” JL says, "if you don’t have a little bag of fun to draw from, you will after I'm finished with you."
What is the score on this guy?
Professional speakers can be a dime a dozen. A humorous motivational speaker can be as much as fifty cents. Why? Because there are only a small percentage of them that meeting planners find worth inviting back sooner than they ordinarily expect to. JL consistently rates 4.3 - 4.8 on his speaker evaluations. (He's sure he'd rank a 5.0 if they'd let him take his shirt off.) Meeting planners have been known to break their own rules and invite JL back to speak the very next year. His diverse background offers many topics and stories that keep his material fresh.
The energy that JL communicates with is more than motivational, it's contagious! For a man nearing his 50th birthday, you’d think he was still a teenager with the way he laughs and enjoys some of life’s simplest experiences. “Keynote speakers have the toughest jobs. You’re either pumping the crowd up first thing in the morning or giving them one last shot before they leave,” says JL. It’s humorous motivational speakers like JL who have to be restrained from jumping into the audience and immediately getting people inspired to start their day with a more exciting way of viewing life. As soon as JL hits the stage you can tell he loves what he does and the crowd soon realizes they’re in for a ride.
No humorous motivational speaker is worth his pay without including an INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE. Even his workshops give people something deeper than a how-to list of secrets. The minute JL starts his story telling every audience member is anxious to find out what he’s going to say next. “I wouldn’t do this if I wasn’t able to include life changing stories.” says JL. “People need to know that I’ve been there - done that, it hurt but I've survived.” From near death experiences that both of his children have had to struggles in business and marriage, JL has had plenty of opportunity to become bitter about life. The truth is, life is what you make it and JL's stories often include both tears and laughter as he takes his audience on his journeys.
Motivational keynote speaker, humorous motivational speaker, comedian and inspirational story teller all describe the man you’re about to hire if what you’re looking for is an opportunity to... laugh while you learn!
A Chemist for Laughter
What is really, really, really happening when this humorous motivational speaker connects with each audience member?
The brain's right frontal lobe is the processing center that allows one to know when a motivational speaker is funny. This region of an audience member's brain integrates information that comes from the cognitive parts of the brain with the emotional parts of the brain. You could say a funny motivational speaker is like a chemist for laughter.
An audience member's brain has to complete two steps to comprehend humor. Step one requires that one is sensitive to the element of surprise in humor. Once one realizes that something unexpected has occurred, step two is that one has to go beyond the unexpected and look for something that makes sense. The challenge for JL is to find those unexpected left turns in life when his audience is expecting we all should have turned right.
In addition to the above-mentioned regions, there are structures in the brain's limbic system that seem to play a role in laughter. This system, consisting of the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, and hypothalamus, is a network of structures located beneath the cerebral cortex that plays a role in motivation and emotional behaviors. The amygdala and hippocampus are involved with emotions; the amygdala connects with the hippocampus as well as the medial dorsal nucleus of the thalamus. This neural circuitry enables these areas to play an important role in the mediation and control of major activities like friendship, love, affection, and one's mood. Importantly, the median part of the hypothalamus has been identified as a major contributor to the production of loud, uncontrollable laughter.
Bottom line is this: A humorous motivational speaker has the opportunity to not only get a good laugh from his or her audience but also inspire each listener to the possibility of changing their beliefs and behaviors for the better. Hopefully you can now see it's not just Jabberwocky being spewed from JL's lips when he performs as a motivational speaker. He's actually working very hard to connect with his audience in a way many are unable to. He genuinely wants to help people.
If you need a sure thing as a meeting planner, this motivational speaker is the speaker that won't let you down. He's a speaker who knows how important it is that he makes sure meeting planners look good and get plenty of kudos for their speaker selection.
(Forgive me for the repetition on the homepage. It's for ranking purposes only.)