I Want My Own TED Talk

I Want My Own

TED TalkJames M. Lynch

www.JamesLynchCoach.com

I want my TED!

I am a normal guy but I

love TED Talks

and think I should

have one!

I can share evocative data!

50% of statistics are made up!

(20% of you have to think about that!)

I have a great personal

‘secret’ to share

I’m the 13th born in a family of 14!

10 girls, 4 boys.

Call me ‘Lucky 13’.

I can be vulnerable

My dad died when I was 11 and there were still 7

children living at home!

I own a dog.

I have an idea to solve a problem

The (Make Believe) Land of 100% Responsibility*

takes back power where power has been lost.

In brief: You are the source of all that happens in

your life and, if you take responsibility, you can

restore your power. Change the words ‘fault’ and

‘blame’ into sources of opportunity, not guilt.

*See ‘The Hamlet Secret’ by James M. Lynch

I have another idea to solve a problem

Islands of Safety

Create and catalogue all of the ‘safe harbors’ in your life,

places where you can go to recharge and be inspired.

Since the world is mostly ‘watery’/fluid- the ‘Inconsistent Sea’

- you can map out your ‘travel’ from one island to another,

spending less time in ‘over your head’ or ‘treading water’ - if

not ‘drowning’.

I have yet another idea to solve a problem

Solve Global Warming!

If we all observed one day ‘off’, like a personal Shabbat, each week

where we drove no cars, used no unnecessary lights, watched no TV

and just went ‘off the grid’, just for 24 hours, ONE day each week, the

harmful effects of global warming would by decreased by 1/7 per

living person!

See ‘Shabbat Around the World’, James M. Lynch on Huffington Post

I am credible

• I’ve been coaching for 15 years

• I have my own coaching business with families in

generational transition. I’ve ‘saved’ over 30 million

dollars of family businesses.

• I work with billion dollar multi-nationals as part of

a larger corporate coaching team

I am even more credible

I have 6 years worth of blogs on The Huffington

Post

I wrote a book based on the ‘positive coaching

model’ of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Shakespeare?

Ooh, class!)

I have hundreds of people on my newsletter!

I have a great ‘back story’

I started off as a second generation Irish Catholic

and am now a North Shore Chicago area Orthodox

Jew

I was 50 pounds overweight and am now VERY fit

(through the very trendy Cross Fit and Paleo Diet

plans - Caveman Diet!)

I am comfortable in front of

an audience

• 18 years leading and facilitation group trainings and seminars

• 20 years as an actor

• MFA in Directing from DePaul’s prestigious Theatre School

• I studied Improv and know ‘yes, and . . .’

• People say: ‘Wow, you’re such a great speaker’ (I killed it for

my children’s bat and bar mitzvot!)

I can be funny in a ‘smart’ way

“So the square says to the

triangle: ‘Don’t be obtuse’!”

I’m political in a ‘safe way’

• I’m on the local arts council in my town

• I’ve founded a sort of ‘chamber of commerce for

not for profits’ to support local arts groups

• I wouldn’t watch FOX News* on a bet!

*News? Hah!

I’m connected to

a superb

international not

for profit

Bookwallah* provides libraries

and volunteer readers to

children in orphanages

throughout the world!

*I may be having fun with this

presentation but I’m serious

about the good Bookwallah

does!

I’m sort of

handsome in a

‘non threatening’

way

Come on, I look like a nice

guy, don’t I?

Did I mention I’m now

Jewish?

MORE shocking back story: I had a very ‘personal’

operation in order to convert to Judaism!

TMI?

Not for this audience!

I’ve done my research

• I’ve seen every TED talk mentioned in ‘Talk Like

TED’ - even before I read the book*

*OK, I listened to the audio book.

Nominate me for a TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/nominate/speaker

And I did it in less than 22 slides that you can

read in less than 15 minutes!

OOPS, Almost forgot a really dramatic chart with some numbers!

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Nominate me for a TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/nominate/speaker

I mean come on, you let Ben Affleck have

a shot at it!

And that was before ‘Gone Girl’

Nominate me for a TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/nominate/speaker