Author: jeff noel

When I told the director how little I knew about public speaking, he said something unexpected and enlightening, “We don’t want you for your speaking credentials, we want you because of your in-depth operational knowledge of, and your from-the-heart passion for, our product”.

He said speaking techniques could be taught, and that what I had, couldn’t.

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When I told Carol she had the wrong person, she said, “You’re jeff noel, right?” Of course, I said. And asked her to figure out how she got my name and call back, because none of this interviewing for a professional speaker thing was making sense.

Long story short, my first Disney supervisor floated my name during a luncheon, and the rest, as they say, is history. I’m going somewhere with this….and it has to do with spirituality.

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The phone rang one crazy busy day (1998) when I was a Concierge Manager at Orlando’s finest Resort property. Carol, the caller, wanted to set up my interview with the director of a world class benchmarking and professional development operation. I told Carol she had the wrong person.

Professional speaker? Me? Why? Why now? After serious thought it came down to a crazy notion in the back of jeff noel’s head, “God must want me to be a preacher or a comedian, so I’ll need this public speaking experience”.

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