Born and raised in South Africa during the apartheid years, Bruce Muzik spent 6 months living in a local township (ghetto) as the only white man in a community of 100,000 black Africans. This experience touched him profoundly and inspired him to dedicate his life to teaching. He is a best selling author, seminar leader and coach with more than 20 years experience. He has built a reputation as the guy marriage therapists refer their toughest clients to and is sometimes even referred to as “The Couples Whisperer”. Bruce is convinced that even the toughest relationship problems can be fixed with the right help. His TEDx talk has more than 1 and a half million views and his work has been featured on the BBC and Financial Times to name just a few.
“I’m being the person I want to be, that’s where I think happiness comes from”
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A tale goes, that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged in a bar bet to write a story using only six words, what he wrote was “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” Larry Smith adapted this idea to be a memoir. The concept is simple: tell the story of your life in exactly six words. Since launching this project in November 2006 it has received HUGE attention and Larry has collected more than 1 million six-word memoirs from people all around the globe. He has since published, 10 books, done a TEDx talk and spoken at some of the worlds top companies such as Google, ESPN, Levi’s, Twitter and Dell on topics such as; ‘the power of personal storytelling’ and ‘how a simple idea can make a big difference’.
Really love this video, think it’s amazing.
All credit goes to Kyle Cease, who wrote and narrated it.
The Sentence: “You Are What You Love, Not What Loves You” is from Charlie Kaufman’s Film “Adaptation”
Idriz Zogaj is a memory athlete and brain personal trainer. Who was Sweden’s best memory for 5 consecutive years and has recently captained the Swedish national team to a Memory World Championship Gold medal in 2014. He was the first Swedish person to memorise more than 1,000 binary numbers (ones and zeroes) in 30 minutes. Was the first Swede to memorise an entire deck of cards in 5 minutes, then the first to do it in 4 minutes and then first to do so in just 3 minutes. He is the founder and chairman of the Swedish Memory Association and has trained anyone from 3 years olds upto to 93 year olds, top executives to world-class and elite athletes, so when it comes to memory we’d struggle to find a better source to talk to.
Dr Ivan Joseph is an award winning performance coach, leadership and transformation expert and his TEDx talk entitled ‘The Skill of Self Confidence’ is one of the most watched of all time. While serving as a professor and soccer coach at Graceland University, Dr. Joseph developed the school’s soccer program from the ground up, leading both the men’s and women’s teams to a #1 national ranking and the men’s team to a national championship, in just five years, and he’s been presented with the National Coach of the Year Award as well as many other accolades. He is currently Director of Athletics at Ryerson University in Toronto where he is guiding transformation, raising the academic average of his athletes and increasing team performance. He also recently completed a $100 million dollar renovation of historic Maple Leaf Gardens, a project so big and inspiring that the Prime Minister showed up to turn on the lights.
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When Leif Harum was just 16 years old he ran away from home without a cent to his name and went to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, often going hungry for days, sleeping under countless cold down pours, falling victim to drugs and spending weeks in solitude not talking or seeing a single soul. During this time he suffered a great deal, but he also grew and has now been on the road for 10 years and traveled to 74 different countries. During this time he’s dabbled in Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism. He’s discovered unique places, met eccentric and enlightening people and undertaken many life-altering adventures.
Chen Lizra is a successful entrepreneur, keynote speaker and international bestselling author of the book ‘My Seductive Cuba’, she is also a professional dancer specialising in Cuban dance with extensive knowledge of sensuality. Her TED Talk entitled: ‘The Power Of Seduction In Our Everyday Lives’ has been viewed more than 4.5 million times and is 12th most watched TEDx talk of all time.
Dr. Nick Morgan is one of America’s top communication theorists and coaches. He is the author of multiple titles including: ‘Power Cues’, ‘Trust Me’ and ‘Give Your Speech, Change The World’. He is an expert on non-verbal communications skills and has coached and written extensively on this topic and is frequently asked to critique speeches of high profile people such as the campaign speeches of Barack Obama and the first official speech of Catherine Duchess of Cambridge. His motto is “I believe that the only reason to give a speech is to change the world.”