The Virtuoso (ft. Felipe Gomez)

The Virtuoso (ft. Felipe Gomez)

Singing, laughing, and connecting your way to the big stage

OPENING QUOTE:

“I really thought about it, but when I was there on the stage, I said, what the hell? I'm going to sing. I'm going to make them sing.”

-Felipe Gomez

GUEST BIO:

Felipe Gomez is a multi multi hyphenate who has given over a thousand performances across 65 cities, 25 countries and 15 impactful years. He's an artist, humanitarian thought leader and keynote speaker. Felipe combines his unapologetically bold approach to leadership with an unforgettable keynote format, one that features a grand piano at center stage.

Links:

• Website
• LinkedIn

CORE TOPICS + DETAILS:

[5:16] - Music as an Impact Multiplier

From straightforward keynotes to musical extravaganzas

When Felipe first began delivering keynotes, they were much more traditional — standing up in front of the crowd and speaking. But he began thinking about his personal passion for music, and how it might be able to help augment his keynote message. It was then that he realized that while his message could speak to people’s minds, his music could speak to their heart. The result was greater impact — more memorable keynotes, more connection between ideas and emotions —  and he never looked back.

[7:44] - The Making of a Virtuoso

Method, Attitude, & Passion

What makes a virtuoso?

Felipe identifies a virtuoso as having three key traits — method, attitude, and passion.

Most individuals and organizations focus on method. They want to reach new levels of operational excellence, perfect processes, and cutting-edge technology.

But they also need attitude, their “onstage” persona. The attitudes we assume in our day-to-day jobs define whether we connect or disconnect with clients, customers, peers, and coworkers.

Finally, you need passion. It means putting your heart and soul into what you’re doing so that the ordinary ceases to happen and the extraordinary can take its place.

This is how a virtuoso is made, in life, in music, or in business.

[32:25] - Connecting to the One

A backstage ritual we can all learn from

Before each keynote, just before stepping on stage, Felipe takes a moment to consider his audience. Whether he’s about to speak to a hundred people, a thousand people, or 10 people, he reminds himself that if just one person in the room can watch his keynote and change a behavior, think differently, or break out of damaging habits, his work will have been worthwhile. When Felipe does this, it helps keep him focused on the individuals in the audience, not the overall size of the crowd. He forgets the numbers and just remembers the one.

RESOURCES:

• [1:25] Learn More About Felipe
• [12:16] Attitude-E, by Felipe Gomez

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ABOUT MIC DROP:

Hear from the world’s top thought leaders and experts, sharing tipping point moments, strategies, and approaches that led to their speaking career success. Throughout each episode, host Josh Linkner, #1 Innovation keynote speaker in the world, deconstructs guests’ Mic Drop moments and provides tactical tools and takeaways that can be applied to any speaking business, no matter it’s starting point. You'll enjoy hearing from some of the top keynote speakers in the industry including: Ryan Estis, Alison Levine, Peter Sheahan, Seth Mattison, Cassandra Worthy, and many more. Mic Drop is sponsored by ImpactEleven.

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ABOUT THE HOST:

Josh Linkner is a Creative Troublemaker. He believes passionately that all human beings have incredible creative capacity, and he’s on a mission to unlock inventive thinking and creative problem solving to help leaders, individuals, and communities soar. 

Josh has been the founder and CEO of five tech compa