Ron White the memory speaker shares how he became just that a MEMORY SPEAKER!!

I am typing this blog from my hotel room in Singapore. Yesterday I stayed in Indonesia and tomorrow will be Malaysia. This entire week I am traveling through Asia teaching memory training seminars a a memory speaker. By the way, I love staying in the USA as well If you have an organization looking for a memory speaker I would be thrilled to stay on my own continent But I am enjoying this trip. Here in Singapore I am staying at the Marina Bay Sands hotel. Google it…wow..is all I have to say. It is 3 buildings with a boat on top and the boat has a swimming pool! A swimming pool 57 stories up!! Check this out!

This year it will be 20 years that I have been a memory speaker. Frankly, I can hardly believe that. I started when I was 18 (I really did that isn’t a joke). The year was 1991 and I was a telemarketer for a company that cleaned chimneys. I called a guy and he said, ‘We don’t want our chimney cleaned we are trying to sell our house!’ I replied, ‘If you are trying to sell your house you need a clean chimney!’ He laughed and hired me on the spot to be a salesman for memory seminars. I was 6 weeks out of high school and I had a new job…the memory man.

Eventually I was mentored by a man named Harold Mangum, who is still a friend today and he still teaches memory seminars. Harold taught me the core of the presentation that I still use today and even stuck with me when I wasn’t very good…frankly I was aweful. I owe a bit of thanks to Harold for believing in me. I recently found this video of Harold on Youtube talking about how the brain works :

I first started out as a memory speaker speaking at businesses for free as long as I could mention my 2 day memory training seminar. That is a tough way to make a living. If I didn’t sell anything I didn’t make any money. Today many speakers ask me how I get booked to speak on stages with such big name speakers. The answer is simple. #1 my talk is good #2 I learned how to sell when I was 18 years old and 20 years later I have perfected it and seminar promoters like it when you can sell CDs in your speech

This ability has given me the good fortune to speak in Malaysia, Singapore, Bangkok, Australia, Canada, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mauritius and Kenya just in the last 10 weeks!! And YES I would LOVE to come speak for your group as the memory speaker.

There you have it. That is how I became a memory speaker. I was a telemarketer at the age of 18 and just happened to call the right person at the right time and 20 years later I am sitting in a hotel room 44 floors up in a Singapore hotel room. Amazing how one small moment can change the course of your life forever.

If you are looking for a speaker, I sure do hope you consider me as your memory speaker. Here are some evualations from a recent memory speech I gave in Austin, Texas (See I do speak in the US)