Speaker 1Shut up and sit down. Welcome to Being On Stage, the only podcast that gives you motivation, inspiration, and confidence to be better on stage. No matter how you entertain, sing, dance, band, comedian, public speaking, MC, drag, burlesque, performance art, or street performer, this is the show for you. Hey, hey, rock stars, it is your boy Reggie Dawson, host of the Being On Stage podcast. Thank you for tuning in, welcome back, and of course, if you're listening for the first time, welcome to the madness, appreciate it, glad you're here. If you haven't done so already, hey, drop a five-star review and a comment in iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts, greatly appreciate it. Passion. Man, passion is something, isn't it? Like, you gotta passion for what you do, right? You gotta have a passion. You gotta have a passion for what you do. Otherwise, why are you doing it? That's the age-old question. If you're not passionate about it, why are you doing it? But when you step on stage, when you step on stage, it's a little bit different. So you can have a passion for playing guitar, dancing, singing, playing the oboe, telling jokes, magic, speaking. You can have a passion for all that stuff, but once you step on stage, your passion, you have to shift that passion a little bit, and where does it shift? Well, you're on stage. The purpose of being on stage is, yep, bingo, entertain an audience. So you have to shift your passion to your audience. You have to be passionate for your audience and passionate about your audience. So let me frame this out. Let me just paint this pretty little picture. I went to an art museum, by the way, with my daughter. She's getting into painting. So I'm all into, like, framing. So if I use a couple of painting references today, you know why. So let me just frame this picture for you, okay? When you go to a show, it doesn't matter what it is, just pick whatever last person you saw perform on stage. Pick that. When you went to a show, what were you expecting? Were you expecting to be entertained? Were you expecting engagement? Were you expecting excitement? Were you expecting maybe to feel something? Hmm? Likewise, your audience expects the same. So here's the other, let me keep framing this picture for you. As an audience member, why did you go to your show? Oh, yeah, I went to my show to be entertained. No, no, no, no. Why did you go to the show? To support somebody, to see something new, to see something talent. I got free tickets. I didn't even know there was a show. I just showed up. But no matter the reason, you're there. And you're there for a purpose. You're there to be entertained. You're there to support. You're there to support somebody. You're there to feel something. All that stuff I just mentioned. What else could you do instead of go to that show? I could name of about at least half a dozen things off the top of my head. I could clean my house. I could wash my car. I could meal plan for the week. I could podcast six or seven times. I could start building a new website. I could, you know, there's a list of things that people could do instead. I could stay home and watch Netflix instead of come out. And see you perform or scroll through YouTube. How about that? That's something I could do instead of come out and see you perform. The fact that your audience is there. The fact that your audience has made the decision. And this decision is crucial. The fact that your audience has made a decision individually and collectively to be in that location where you are meant to entertain them is incredible. I mean, think about that. Someone carved out time. Out of their day to witness your talent. Mind blowing, right? Right. So frame that out. Think about that for a minute. When you're on stage, those people out there, whether it's five people or 500 people, those people out there made a point to schedule time out of their lives and all the things that they could be doing. And then some cases spent money to be there, whether they spending money on drinks for a free event, or if they're spending money on food. They're spending some type of money and time to be there where you're entertaining. What are the two most important things to human beings? Side note. Yeah, time and money. And someone is taking both of those and spending it with you. The entertainer, the performer, the artist, the talent debonair. I wish you could see one of these days. I'm going to do a live podcast on Facebook because you guys have got to see some of the stuff. That I'm doing physically as I'm talking to you, but it's, that's the truth of the matter. Okay. They have taken the time out of their incredibly busy schedule to witness what you do when you're a talent. So listen, when you're on that stage, one of the things you had to keep in mind is you can't waste anybody's time. You can't waste time with, you know, complacency. You can't waste time with lack of energy. You can't waste time with lack of emotion. And most importantly, you have to respect the fact that you're not going to be able to take the time to be there by including them in the night and giving them an experience. I say this all the time. Like you guys are probably starting to realize that I do repeat some of the same stuff over and over and over again. And that's because that is at the core of my message is to give the audience an experience. That's what I help with. That's what this, this whole podcast was designed was to help you, the performer get to a place where you're giving your audience a better experience every single time you step on stage. I'd love to work with you and witness what you can do. By the way, if you're interested, hop on my calendar, being on stage.com slash calendar. I would love to jump on the phone with you for like 30 minutes and just chat about what you do and see where I can help. Truthfully. I just, I just want to see you crush through your barriers and accomplish your dreams. So back to, back to being passionate for your audience. One of the worst things you can do for your audience. And I've, I've done it. I've done it. Listen, everything that I tell you not to do, or everything I tell you to do is stuff that I've done. I've made the mistakes. I've made the stumbles. I've, I've learned the lessons. So I'm, this is me passing it on to you. One of the worst things you can do is wing it. That is complete disrespect for your audience's time, because when you wing it, you don't know what you're going to do. You don't know if in the middle of your show, you're just going to run out of stuff. You, you know what happens most of the time when you wing it, everything you do starts to become repetitive. Your movements on stage, your interactions with the audience, they start to become very, very, very repetitive and repetitive equals what? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Boring. Boring. When you become repetitive on stage, you become boring. You become predictable and predictable is a waste of time. I'm being real now. I'm like, I'm getting into it. You're my audience. I'm passionate for you. I have to give you something, right? I can't just be like, and then you got to jump in. Jump on stage and have a great time. No, I got to serve it up the same way you need to serve it up on that stage, friends. So rehearsal, rehearsal is a huge respect factor to your audience. The fact that you have taken time to hone in on your talent and the fact that you have taken time to work out certain things that you want to do to give them the experience that they came for. That's incredible. That is an incredible thing to say to your audience of, Hey, listen, I'm going to do this. Listen, since you're taking the time to be here for me, this is what I took the time to put together for you. Make your audience feel like you created that performance for them. They are spending the time and the money and their family's time and their friend's time and money to be there for you planned or unplanned. If they knew you were coming or not, if they're the only person in the audience, they carved out this little piece of their life that says, I'm going to see Steve. I'm going to see Steve at the bar. Doesn't that hit you? Doesn't that feel powerful to know that people are carving time out of their lives for you? There are tons of things that I sit there around. Oh, I don't have time to do that. I don't have time to do that. I don't have time to, I, I, I make excuses to do not have time to do dishes. I mean the most basic, I mean, I hate doing dishes. I hate cleaning in general, but my wife makes me love her to death. Mean it. But anyways, people make excuses to not have time to clean or to not have time to check out something that their friends sent them or to not have time to hang out with their friends or to not have time to scroll. No, everyone's got time to scroll Facebook, right? To not have time to, to people, people make excuses for not having time to spend with their families. I've, I've done it. I've made an excuse not to spend time with my family. Everyone's done it. People make time, make excuses. People make excuses for not having time to, you know, take a walk in the park and people are making time to come to your performance. Wow. Aren't you incredible? So what are you going to do in return? What are you going to take the time to make and to present to them, to prepare, to present to them in exchange for their time, in exchange for what they have done? That's that experience, you know? That's that taking that time to build the experience for them. That's what having a passion for your audience means. That's what makes a truly great performer. So take the time to create. Take the time to rehearse. Take the time to prepare your performance for your audience and show them that you're as passionate for them as they are, or at least you hope they are, for you. And of course, keep on shining.
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