August 2, 2025 • 27 mins
Caroline Biesalski welcomes G Wright to the episode, diving into his career transition to coaching. They discuss building confidence in public speaking and compare the nuances of in-person versus online presentations. G Wright shares insights on overcoming common public speaking challenges and highlights memorable moments from Behind the Mic Live. The conversation explores the importance of leveraging video to connect with audiences and emphasizes setting goals and intentions for the future. The episode concludes with an outro and a special offer, inviting listeners to further engage with the content and apply these lessons in their own journeys.
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Yes.
And when you present, regardless of if you'representing to 10,000 people, you present like
it's 10.
And if it's 10 people, you go up there withthat same energy that you're playing to an
arena of 10,000 people.
But I believe it all comes down to connectingwith one person, and that's your subconscious.
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Oh my goodness.
Yes.
Because at the end of the day, there's onlyone.
I'm talking to myself here, of course, mysubconscious.
Yes.
Welcome to Inspired Choice Today.
I'm your host, Caroline Biesalski, here tobring you authentic stories, surprising
lessons, and powerful takeaways to fuel yourjourney in business and life.
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In each episode, I'll take you from oneinspiring guest to the next, blending their
experiences with my expertise to uncoverpractical strategies you can use right away.
Whether you're starting out or stepping up,stay tuned for insights and actionable tips
that make a difference.
And stick around until the end for a specialfreebie just for our listeners.
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Hello, and welcome, inspired podcast community.
This is your new episode.
My name is Caroline, and my today's guest is GWright, and I'm so happy that he said yes to
our interview.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing great.
Thank you, Caroline.
Thanks for having me.
Oh, thank you.
And I would like to introduce you to theaudience.
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Of course.
Let's see.
You are a seasoned coach and producer with over25 years in the music industry, specializing in
helping visionaries and thought leaders amplifytheir voices through rock star speakers
coaching.
As the host of Behind the Mic Live, you shareinsights on speaking with confidence,
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connecting with audiences, and creating asignature sound.
Welcome to the Inspired podcast, G Wright.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Yes.
Yes.
You are amazing.
And we met before.
I told you on, I think, Facebook or LinkedIn.
You are everywhere, by the way, and we kept intouch, but we did not have our interview yet.
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Now's the time.
And my first question for you is what inspiredyou to transition from music production to
coaching, thought leaders, and visionaries?
So I started out ever since I was 5 years old.
I wanted to be a radio DJ.
So and then at 16, I became a commercial radioDJ on a Top 40 radio station.
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So I was going down that path of I was gonnafollow and become a radio DJ.
And then when I was on tour at 18, I ended upsneaking into a Whitney Houston concert,
meeting her tour manager, and meeting the soundengineer and hearing Whitney's vocals in the
headphones.
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So then I faced that fork in the road where Idecided, okay.
I'm going into touring.
This is what I'm gonna do.
So I put radio on the back burner even though Iworked with thousands of radio stations over my
career.
Well, then with touring, when the pandemichappened, that kind of created a fork in the
road whether we wanted it or not.
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So I decided to leave touring and come home,and then I was like, well, I spent 25 years on
the road with these bands, and I've seenfirsthand what they do and how they're able to
connect with their audience and present tolarge arenas and have people feel like they're
singing right to them.
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So then I started my coaching business.
And now, like you said, today, I show coachesand visionaries and thought leaders how to use
the same tips and techniques that your favoriterock stars use every time you go on camera.
Wow.
I love it.
I had lots of images and pictures in my mindwhile you were talking.
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Perfect.
With Whitney Houston.
Of course.
I I just, on on Saturday, I was on a in a itwas the Zoom call, but they played, you know,
they played 1 moment in time, and everyone hadto sing along with the with the lyrics.
I was reminded.
At the Olympic games.
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This was the song.
And, yeah, and what you do, you help people notnot yeah.
You help them going on stage and Mhmm.
Being an accident?
Yeah.
Going on stage.
See, when I say going on stage or going on ashow, I consider anytime you go on video on
LinkedIn or IG, anytime you go on a podcast oryou go on an actual stage, to me, that's a
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show.
So the more confident you feel even going onthat video talking to your audience on
LinkedIn, the more people are gonna connectwith that emotion.
The story that you're sharing, like you justsaid, the visual aspect of it where they can
see themselves working with you.
They can see themselves going through exactlywhat you're talking about.
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And I think, the best way to do that is to justhave that confidence that you know what you're
doing.
You're excited about what you're doing.
Your why is why you're doing it.
Right?
And then all you have to do is take yourmessage and present it to your audience, and
you will connect with others out there who areon the same frequency that get that feeling.
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You know?
Absolutely.
And you mentioned frequencies.
And especially in music, we have thosefrequencies.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
So when I talk about, your favorite rock starspresent at the rock star frequency.
This is a real frequency.
This is a frequency that is measurable justlike any other frequencies.
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It's just we don't hear it.
It's kinda way, way up there.
Right?
But they present at such a high level that theaudience then has to work to match that
frequency.
And when it clicks and it locks, and we say,like, in the pocket or in the groove or just,
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you know, where time stands still, and theyconnect with you at a subconscious level, they
may not remember what you say word for word.
They may not remember what's on yourPowerPoint, but they remember that one story
that you shared that really connected withthem, and they go, wow.
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How does she know me so well?
That's incredible.
So when you learn how to present like this,it's the same whether you're on video, whether
you're on a podcast, or whether you're on astage.
You're able to connect with your audience.
Yes.
That's so true.
Thank you for reminding me.
I differentiate between, you know, in-personevents and online because there's a screen in
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between,
but the
frequency stays the same wherever we are.
Why do you think it's that?
I mean, would you rather present here's anidea.
Would you rather present to a room of onehundred people in person or a thousand people
on Zoom?
Oh, what a great question.
I would always prefer the online because thisis my, you know, I train this now by doing the
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podcast.
But my next step is, of course, going outthere, and it can be two people.
I would die, you know, because I'm not used to.
Well, see, you just answered it.
You said the training.
And that's the thing.
Because of the pandemic, we are now before thepandemic, let's really think about if you
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wanted to get your message out on video, youhad to be on TV or you had to rent a studio and
hire a crew and have a director and an editorand all that just to get your message out on
video.
But due to the necessity of us communicatingand business continuing, during the pandemic,
everybody is now comfortable on Zoom whenbefore that, they may not have been comfortable
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on video.
So it's the same thing.
If you're nervous about going on video topresent on LinkedIn, just a minute-and-a-half
video talking about what you do, who you help,why you do that, you know, it takes practice.
It's just like the favorite rock stars.
They spend weeks and months, even years,rehearsing and writing songs and creating that
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story that means so much to them that when theywalk out on stage, the audience feels it.
The audience will never understand, and you asa podcast host understand this as well.
The audience will never understand all thebehind-the-scenes work that's done to make
something that looks like it's simple and it'seasy and you do this every day.
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The, you know, the more you practice, thebetter you get at it.
Yes.
And the better become the guest, if I may say,because because I always see the quality of the
guest, you know, is like, like, it depends onmy frequency.
You said it.
When I am ready to hold the space, we can talkabout that also.
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You have to hold the space whether it's for 100people or 1,000 or 1, which is you today, and
it makes a difference.
I'm thinking about it a lot.
Yes.
And when you present just like regardless of ifyou're presenting to 10,000 people, you present
like it's 10.
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And if it's 10 people, you go up there withthat same energy that you're playing to an
arena of 10,000 people.
But it all I believe it all comes down toconnecting with one person, and that's your
subconscious.
Oh my goodness.
Yes.
Because at the end of the day, there's onlyone.
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I'm talking to myself here, of course, mysubconscious.
Yes.
You can talk about that.
So you made a great connection here.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
Because think about, like, you know, if people,like, are nervous about going on camera or
going on stage or how many people or whatever,what I believe you're doing is you're going
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into your subconscious.
You're going into the time machine, which is anexercise that I go over in my coaching, and
you're going back in time to some time when youwere nervous, somebody laughed at you, maybe in
primary, secondary school.
You had to do the book report, and somebody inthe class laughed at you.
And you bring that from whatever happened backin that time.
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You bring it with you to the present.
And if we can learn how to eliminate that,remove that, realize that, okay, that was back
in primary, secondary school, the book report,or had to get up in front of the boardroom and
make a presentation, and the CEO was looking athis phone the whole time or whatever it is.
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If we can remove that and focus on the presentwhere we are now and understand that you have a
voice and it deserves to be heard.
And there's somebody out there that needs tohear your message.
Yes.
So important.
So I thought about and I told it in the podcastinterview before, so I don't want to repeat,
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but I do it in two sentences.
When I, so I took piano lessons for, I don'tknow, 10 or doesn't matter when I was a kid.
And then I had to perform, like, it was like aChristmas concert or so.
You know?
I had to do this, and I hated it.
And on the day it was the day when my parentsdivorced, and I had to go out there and, you
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know, I was, like, holding my tears back orsomething.
I don't know.
I think this was kind of traumatizing.
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's those moments, and then we hide.
We don't want to do this anymore.
I stopped piano playing and all that.
Do you miss
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it?
Yes.
Of course.
I want to start all over again.
I want to play at, let's say, Madison Square
No.
The other one.
Carnegie Hall.
Is it Carnegie Hall?
Yes.
Yeah.
Why not?
Why not?
Anything is possible, right?
Absolutely.
Yes.
Coach like you, for example.
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So tell us, and of course, I have anotherquestion.
Let me see if this fits in.
Can you share a standout moment from hostingBehind the Mic Live that reinforced your
mission to amplify voices?
Yes.
What I love about Behind the Mic Live is thatit is live on LinkedIn.
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I've had one show where the audio didn't work,and as soon as I knew that, we rescheduled
another interview.
But there's something about when you're talkinglive and the guest is, like, they know that
there's no retake.
And one of the signature questions that Ialways ask all my guests is how did you find
your voice?
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And what I love is that pause.
And that's what you can't get from a script.
You know?
You ask somebody a question, and they reallyhave to think about it, and they're like, wow.
And just to hear their stories, like, they do.
They do go back into the time machine.
A lot of them go back to a place when they weregrowing up.
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And they're like, well, I've always been onstage ever since I was 5 years old, or I used
to pretend I was, you know, Madonna in front ofthe mirror singing into the hairbrush or
whatever.
It's just like you get these really, like, verycool moments of people going back into, way
back in this folder, way back into that momentthat really was the fork in the road for them
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that decided and put them on the path thatthey're at today.
So it's really inspiring to hear their stories.
Wow.
I love that.
Thank you so much for sharing, of course.
And there's so much more to learn and to growas well when you think so it's only the
beginning.
Right?
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And when you step on stage also or you putyourself out there, and you mentioned the word
show, everything is a show.
It's about showing up.
Right?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Mhmm.
So you spent ten years rehearsing piano.
Yes.
Wow.
See, that's the dedication that I think ifpeople put that type of energy and that type of
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dedication and education and things intotraining into public speaking and when I I
mean, just even going on video, not just, youknow, hi.
Today, I had this for breakfast, and there's myvideo for the day.
It's, like, really the why the why you do whatyou do.
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You know, there I mean, maybe their parentswere, you know, presenting you to take piano,
but even now, you still have the love of piano.
So what's stopping you from getting back on thepiano?
I started I started I have this course.
You know?
I bought, like, an online course or something.
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Yep.
Because I still have the piano.
It's like my father gave me when he, he boughtit when he was 14 years old.
He worked very hard to have the piano.
Wow.
Yeah.
Mhmm.
Because I just think the piano is the mostbeautiful instrument because it covers every
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note, every chord, and you can take the mostpopular song that everybody knows.
You could take a Queen song.
You could take a Bowie song.
And when you break it down to just playing iton the piano and a vocal, it just has a whole
different feel to it.
Just how full piano sounds compared to just aguitar and vocal.
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I always love working with keyboardists,pianists, you know?
Yeah.
I love the piano.
I always wanted to learn piano.
I played trumpet back in high school.
My parents probably wish it was piano becausetrumpet was too loud.
But I always wanted to learn piano, but I knewthat it's, like, this is one of those things
you really have to every day, you have to justkeep practicing.
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So that's pretty cool.
Yeah.
You know what happened to me was, at the age of11, I think maybe this is tied to that, and I
discover now.
At the age of 11, my greatest birthday wish wasto have a typewriter.
And I always said and I learned this ten-fingerwriting, and I began writing novels, etcetera,
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etcetera.
And I always said years later, I said, it'slike piano playing but without music.
You know?
It's like because I didn't want to be heard.
Yeah.
It is.
That's a talent too.
That takes a lot.
I mean, I can see the correlation to pianobecause you have to read something or have
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something that you want, and then you have totransfer that to your fingers, and then you
have to remember which keys to, like yeah?
I was never good at typewriting in school.
I was always like this.
Yeah.
Searching for yeah.
And tell us where can we find you when peoplewant to reach out to you after listening to
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this episode.
The best way to connect with me is LinkedIn.
That's how we connected.
I'm just building a great network of incrediblerock stars that are ready to rock 2025.
I'm also on IG at, G Wright Coaching, and mywebsite is G Wright Coach.
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I love it.
Thank you so much.
I follow you now, if not already.
And what I really love is that you send littlevoice messages to people.
And as you said, yeah, it is special.
Not everyone is doing this, and then you standout with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That and I'm not very good at typing.
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I have too many typers.
I just I
I find that when I get a voice message fromsomebody, it just it I I'm more of a voice.
Maybe it's being an audio guy for so long.
I like it, and you don't have to sit down andthink about what you're gonna say.
And LinkedIn only gives you 60 seconds, so youhave to make it kinda quick.
But, yeah, I love sending voice messages andreceiving voice messages.
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It's just more personalized, I think, than atext message.
You know?
Yeah.
That's so true.
So thank you for encouraging me because I'malways texting us.
So, yeah, this would be next level as well forme to show up more often.
And LinkedIn, yes, it's a nice place to be.
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Yes.
Yep.
Thank you so much.
Okay.
I have another question about sure.
So you are a coach for other people.
You have coaches and mentors for yourself, andwho was the best coach you ever had?
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Now I gotta think.
Best coach I ever had.
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I worked with, when I was starting out doingsound, I worked with what we called old timers,
because these were guys that have been in themusic business for 25, 30 years.
And this one guy that I worked with inNashville told me something that just always
stuck with me.
He goes, every time you do a show, approach itas you only have one time to do that show.
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Now don't worry about if you mess it up.
That's a learning experience.
But take that same approach.
Take the same professionalism approach you dofor that one show in front of a hundred people
that you do in front of 10,000 people.
And if you do that, you'll go from mixing clubsat the time of a hundred people to doing arenas
of fifty, sixty thousand.
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And he and he was right.
He was right.
Yeah.
And I take that approach now, and I encouragemy clients to take that same approach when you
go on video.
If you think of it as if you think of everytime you go on a video on LinkedIn as
equivalent to walking into a convention centerwith a thousand people.
And if you went up and walked and shookeverybody's hand and gave them their elevator
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pitch and all that, how long would that take?
Right?
But if you walked on stage and you presentedyour message to a thousand people, as soon as
you walk off stage, they're gonna be walking upto you and wanting to know more about you.
Well, that's the power of video on LinkedIn andjust a ninety-second video consistently, not
just one every week, but consistently talkingto your audience like you're talking to that
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thousand people crowd, you get so many peoplethat now know who you are, what you do, why you
do what you do, that it's the equivalent ofgoing on stage in front of a thousand people.
So I just say take that professional approach.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is great that you tell us, tell me and theaudience because I think I never heard it
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before.
What I do is I post, but you talk about videos.
I post video clips from my podcast episodes onLinkedIn.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I think every podcast has because what you dois what is this?
A one-on-one conversation.
And now when you post a clip, now the audiencegets to be part of that conversation when they
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listen to it on the platforms, of course.
But just seeing that video and seeing theguests, seeing you, seeing the reaction, like,
it just feels like they're part of theconversation.
Because when they're watching that video, theyare.
Yes.
You are all invited.
Yes.
Yes.
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Feel because this is I was thinking about this.
I love being invited and welcomed as well andto belong to something or a group or whatever,
a person or a community.
Yes.
And this is the feeling I want to give theaudience as well.
Feel invited, not excluded.
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This would be the opposite.
Right?
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
My last question to you is about your goals.
Do you set goals for yourself or intentions,and what is one of your next projects?
I believe that if you visualize what you wantand you get that feeling that you already have
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it, then when you get to that point, that'swhat we do in a time machine, go into the
future, you take action like it's alreadyhappened.
So my goal for 2025 is to have 50 rock starspeakers out there on stage, on video, on
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camera, branded as rock star speakers in thesame way people associate themselves with TED
or TEDx.
That's my goal for 2025.
Out there just rocking rocking 2025.
I love it.
I absolutely love it.
I did not see the parallel to the TEDx talks,but it's true.
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You can create you have already your brand youcreated.
It's like a label, but in a good way, andpeople can say, I'm a rock star.
Yes.
This is also how you addressed me also.
You said, hey hey, Caroline, rock star.
It's in every of of your
I believe everybody's a rock star.
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Absolutely.
I believe everybody has it.
Deep down inside, that confidence, like, whenwe were kids and we didn't care about what
people thought, and we just played on theplayground, and we didn't really have all these
negative thoughts in our head that, you know,we have that deep down inside.
It's just over time, in a time machine andsubconscious, we've let all this build up to
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where there's a reason why we feel that we'renot confident.
It's all in the mindset.
When you change the mindset, everythingchanges.
That's so true.
And we talked about the subconscious.
We talked about the time machine.
I was thinking about the film Back to theFuture, of course.
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The DeLorean.
Yes.
Yeah.
And, yeah, the time machine.
And also I love to do this as well.
Like, you travel in time, then you feel thefeeling of the wish fulfilled.
It's already done, your goal.
Yeah.
And then you come back and you do the steps.
You take inspired action.
Right?
So it's all about what you said.
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Yeah.
The attitude you have towards yourself.
I want to mention this.
Yes.
Yes.
And it's all in the mind.
And I see you you're 50 plus because you canhave more.
So I see 50 plus rock stars for the Yes.
Twenty twenty five.
Thank you.
Of course.
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Thank you.
Thank you for our interview.
Now it's time for your final thoughts to theaudience, please.
My final thoughts to the audience are that youshould stop getting in your head and start
leading with your heart.
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Stop worrying about what people think andwatching a video playback and going, oh, that
didn't work or what it did, and get into yourheart.
There's a reason why you started your business.
There's a reason why you do what you do.
Just show your heart to your audience, and theywill connect with you.
Wow.
What a great message.
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I feel deeply connected now, and I'm so sorry.
I'm so
sorry.
Paralyzed.
Thank you.
We are connected.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Alright.
And I see you in the next episode.
Thank you for listening to Inspired ChoiceToday.
I'm thrilled to have you on this journey ofgrowth and transformation.
Don't forget to hit follow or subscribe to stayconnected and never miss an episode.
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Yes.
And when you present, regardless of if you'representing to 10,000 people, you present like
it's 10.
And if it's 10 people, you go up there withthat same energy that you're playing to an
arena of 10,000 people.
But I believe it all comes down to connectingwith one person, and that's your subconscious.
(00:23):
Oh my goodness.
Yes.
Because at the end of the day, there's onlyone.
I'm talking to myself here, of course, mysubconscious.
Yes.
Welcome to Inspired Choice Today.
I'm your host, Caroline Biesalski, here tobring you authentic stories, surprising
lessons, and powerful takeaways to fuel yourjourney in business and life.
(00:47):
In each episode, I'll take you from oneinspiring guest to the next, blending their
experiences with my expertise to uncoverpractical strategies you can use right away.
Whether you're starting out or stepping up,stay tuned for insights and actionable tips
that make a difference.
And stick around until the end for a specialfreebie just for our listeners.
(01:14):
Hello, and welcome, inspired podcast community.
This is your new episode.
My name is Caroline, and my today's guest is GWright, and I'm so happy that he said yes to
our interview.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing great.
Thank you, Caroline.
Thanks for having me.
Oh, thank you.
And I would like to introduce you to theaudience.
(01:37):
Of course.
Let's see.
You are a seasoned coach and producer with over25 years in the music industry, specializing in
helping visionaries and thought leaders amplifytheir voices through rock star speakers
coaching.
As the host of Behind the Mic Live, you shareinsights on speaking with confidence,
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connecting with audiences, and creating asignature sound.
Welcome to the Inspired podcast, G Wright.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Yes.
Yes.
You are amazing.
And we met before.
I told you on, I think, Facebook or LinkedIn.
You are everywhere, by the way, and we kept intouch, but we did not have our interview yet.
(02:22):
Now's the time.
And my first question for you is what inspiredyou to transition from music production to
coaching, thought leaders, and visionaries?
So I started out ever since I was 5 years old.
I wanted to be a radio DJ.
So and then at 16, I became a commercial radioDJ on a Top 40 radio station.
(02:45):
So I was going down that path of I was gonnafollow and become a radio DJ.
And then when I was on tour at 18, I ended upsneaking into a Whitney Houston concert,
meeting her tour manager, and meeting the soundengineer and hearing Whitney's vocals in the
headphones.
(03:05):
So then I faced that fork in the road where Idecided, okay.
I'm going into touring.
This is what I'm gonna do.
So I put radio on the back burner even though Iworked with thousands of radio stations over my
career.
Well, then with touring, when the pandemichappened, that kind of created a fork in the
road whether we wanted it or not.
(03:25):
So I decided to leave touring and come home,and then I was like, well, I spent 25 years on
the road with these bands, and I've seenfirsthand what they do and how they're able to
connect with their audience and present tolarge arenas and have people feel like they're
singing right to them.
(03:45):
So then I started my coaching business.
And now, like you said, today, I show coachesand visionaries and thought leaders how to use
the same tips and techniques that your favoriterock stars use every time you go on camera.
Wow.
I love it.
I had lots of images and pictures in my mindwhile you were talking.
(04:06):
Perfect.
With Whitney Houston.
Of course.
I I just, on on Saturday, I was on a in a itwas the Zoom call, but they played, you know,
they played 1 moment in time, and everyone hadto sing along with the with the lyrics.
I was reminded.
At the Olympic games.
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This was the song.
And, yeah, and what you do, you help people notnot yeah.
You help them going on stage and Mhmm.
Being an accident?
Yeah.
Going on stage.
See, when I say going on stage or going on ashow, I consider anytime you go on video on
LinkedIn or IG, anytime you go on a podcast oryou go on an actual stage, to me, that's a
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show.
So the more confident you feel even going onthat video talking to your audience on
LinkedIn, the more people are gonna connectwith that emotion.
The story that you're sharing, like you justsaid, the visual aspect of it where they can
see themselves working with you.
They can see themselves going through exactlywhat you're talking about.
(05:16):
And I think, the best way to do that is to justhave that confidence that you know what you're
doing.
You're excited about what you're doing.
Your why is why you're doing it.
Right?
And then all you have to do is take yourmessage and present it to your audience, and
you will connect with others out there who areon the same frequency that get that feeling.
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You know?
Absolutely.
And you mentioned frequencies.
And especially in music, we have thosefrequencies.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
So when I talk about, your favorite rock starspresent at the rock star frequency.
This is a real frequency.
This is a frequency that is measurable justlike any other frequencies.
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It's just we don't hear it.
It's kinda way, way up there.
Right?
But they present at such a high level that theaudience then has to work to match that
frequency.
And when it clicks and it locks, and we say,like, in the pocket or in the groove or just,
(06:27):
you know, where time stands still, and theyconnect with you at a subconscious level, they
may not remember what you say word for word.
They may not remember what's on yourPowerPoint, but they remember that one story
that you shared that really connected withthem, and they go, wow.
(06:48):
How does she know me so well?
That's incredible.
So when you learn how to present like this,it's the same whether you're on video, whether
you're on a podcast, or whether you're on astage.
You're able to connect with your audience.
Yes.
That's so true.
Thank you for reminding me.
I differentiate between, you know, in-personevents and online because there's a screen in
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between,
but the
frequency stays the same wherever we are.
Why do you think it's that?
I mean, would you rather present here's anidea.
Would you rather present to a room of onehundred people in person or a thousand people
on Zoom?
Oh, what a great question.
I would always prefer the online because thisis my, you know, I train this now by doing the
(07:42):
podcast.
But my next step is, of course, going outthere, and it can be two people.
I would die, you know, because I'm not used to.
Well, see, you just answered it.
You said the training.
And that's the thing.
Because of the pandemic, we are now before thepandemic, let's really think about if you
(08:04):
wanted to get your message out on video, youhad to be on TV or you had to rent a studio and
hire a crew and have a director and an editorand all that just to get your message out on
video.
But due to the necessity of us communicatingand business continuing, during the pandemic,
everybody is now comfortable on Zoom whenbefore that, they may not have been comfortable
(08:29):
on video.
So it's the same thing.
If you're nervous about going on video topresent on LinkedIn, just a minute-and-a-half
video talking about what you do, who you help,why you do that, you know, it takes practice.
It's just like the favorite rock stars.
They spend weeks and months, even years,rehearsing and writing songs and creating that
(08:52):
story that means so much to them that when theywalk out on stage, the audience feels it.
The audience will never understand, and you asa podcast host understand this as well.
The audience will never understand all thebehind-the-scenes work that's done to make
something that looks like it's simple and it'seasy and you do this every day.
(09:16):
The, you know, the more you practice, thebetter you get at it.
Yes.
And the better become the guest, if I may say,because because I always see the quality of the
guest, you know, is like, like, it depends onmy frequency.
You said it.
When I am ready to hold the space, we can talkabout that also.
(09:39):
You have to hold the space whether it's for 100people or 1,000 or 1, which is you today, and
it makes a difference.
I'm thinking about it a lot.
Yes.
And when you present just like regardless of ifyou're presenting to 10,000 people, you present
like it's 10.
(10:00):
And if it's 10 people, you go up there withthat same energy that you're playing to an
arena of 10,000 people.
But it all I believe it all comes down toconnecting with one person, and that's your
subconscious.
Oh my goodness.
Yes.
Because at the end of the day, there's onlyone.
(10:20):
I'm talking to myself here, of course, mysubconscious.
Yes.
You can talk about that.
So you made a great connection here.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
Because think about, like, you know, if people,like, are nervous about going on camera or
going on stage or how many people or whatever,what I believe you're doing is you're going
(10:44):
into your subconscious.
You're going into the time machine, which is anexercise that I go over in my coaching, and
you're going back in time to some time when youwere nervous, somebody laughed at you, maybe in
primary, secondary school.
You had to do the book report, and somebody inthe class laughed at you.
And you bring that from whatever happened backin that time.
(11:07):
You bring it with you to the present.
And if we can learn how to eliminate that,remove that, realize that, okay, that was back
in primary, secondary school, the book report,or had to get up in front of the boardroom and
make a presentation, and the CEO was looking athis phone the whole time or whatever it is.
(11:29):
If we can remove that and focus on the presentwhere we are now and understand that you have a
voice and it deserves to be heard.
And there's somebody out there that needs tohear your message.
Yes.
So important.
So I thought about and I told it in the podcastinterview before, so I don't want to repeat,
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but I do it in two sentences.
When I, so I took piano lessons for, I don'tknow, 10 or doesn't matter when I was a kid.
And then I had to perform, like, it was like aChristmas concert or so.
You know?
I had to do this, and I hated it.
And on the day it was the day when my parentsdivorced, and I had to go out there and, you
(12:18):
know, I was, like, holding my tears back orsomething.
I don't know.
I think this was kind of traumatizing.
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's those moments, and then we hide.
We don't want to do this anymore.
I stopped piano playing and all that.
Do you miss
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it?
Yes.
Of course.
I want to start all over again.
I want to play at, let's say, Madison Square
No.
The other one.
Carnegie Hall.
Is it Carnegie Hall?
Yes.
Yeah.
Why not?
Why not?
Anything is possible, right?
Absolutely.
Yes.
Coach like you, for example.
(13:00):
So tell us, and of course, I have anotherquestion.
Let me see if this fits in.
Can you share a standout moment from hostingBehind the Mic Live that reinforced your
mission to amplify voices?
Yes.
What I love about Behind the Mic Live is thatit is live on LinkedIn.
(13:20):
I've had one show where the audio didn't work,and as soon as I knew that, we rescheduled
another interview.
But there's something about when you're talkinglive and the guest is, like, they know that
there's no retake.
And one of the signature questions that Ialways ask all my guests is how did you find
your voice?
(13:40):
And what I love is that pause.
And that's what you can't get from a script.
You know?
You ask somebody a question, and they reallyhave to think about it, and they're like, wow.
And just to hear their stories, like, they do.
They do go back into the time machine.
A lot of them go back to a place when they weregrowing up.
(14:01):
And they're like, well, I've always been onstage ever since I was 5 years old, or I used
to pretend I was, you know, Madonna in front ofthe mirror singing into the hairbrush or
whatever.
It's just like you get these really, like, verycool moments of people going back into, way
back in this folder, way back into that momentthat really was the fork in the road for them
(14:26):
that decided and put them on the path thatthey're at today.
So it's really inspiring to hear their stories.
Wow.
I love that.
Thank you so much for sharing, of course.
And there's so much more to learn and to growas well when you think so it's only the
beginning.
Right?
(14:47):
And when you step on stage also or you putyourself out there, and you mentioned the word
show, everything is a show.
It's about showing up.
Right?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Mhmm.
So you spent ten years rehearsing piano.
Yes.
Wow.
See, that's the dedication that I think ifpeople put that type of energy and that type of
(15:11):
dedication and education and things intotraining into public speaking and when I I
mean, just even going on video, not just, youknow, hi.
Today, I had this for breakfast, and there's myvideo for the day.
It's, like, really the why the why you do whatyou do.
(15:31):
You know, there I mean, maybe their parentswere, you know, presenting you to take piano,
but even now, you still have the love of piano.
So what's stopping you from getting back on thepiano?
I started I started I have this course.
You know?
I bought, like, an online course or something.
(15:52):
Yep.
Because I still have the piano.
It's like my father gave me when he, he boughtit when he was 14 years old.
He worked very hard to have the piano.
Wow.
Yeah.
Mhmm.
Because I just think the piano is the mostbeautiful instrument because it covers every
(16:13):
note, every chord, and you can take the mostpopular song that everybody knows.
You could take a Queen song.
You could take a Bowie song.
And when you break it down to just playing iton the piano and a vocal, it just has a whole
different feel to it.
Just how full piano sounds compared to just aguitar and vocal.
(16:38):
I always love working with keyboardists,pianists, you know?
Yeah.
I love the piano.
I always wanted to learn piano.
I played trumpet back in high school.
My parents probably wish it was piano becausetrumpet was too loud.
But I always wanted to learn piano, but I knewthat it's, like, this is one of those things
you really have to every day, you have to justkeep practicing.
(16:59):
So that's pretty cool.
Yeah.
You know what happened to me was, at the age of11, I think maybe this is tied to that, and I
discover now.
At the age of 11, my greatest birthday wish wasto have a typewriter.
And I always said and I learned this ten-fingerwriting, and I began writing novels, etcetera,
(17:23):
etcetera.
And I always said years later, I said, it'slike piano playing but without music.
You know?
It's like because I didn't want to be heard.
Yeah.
It is.
That's a talent too.
That takes a lot.
I mean, I can see the correlation to pianobecause you have to read something or have
(17:44):
something that you want, and then you have totransfer that to your fingers, and then you
have to remember which keys to, like yeah?
I was never good at typewriting in school.
I was always like this.
Yeah.
Searching for yeah.
And tell us where can we find you when peoplewant to reach out to you after listening to
(18:05):
this episode.
The best way to connect with me is LinkedIn.
That's how we connected.
I'm just building a great network of incrediblerock stars that are ready to rock 2025.
I'm also on IG at, G Wright Coaching, and mywebsite is G Wright Coach.
(18:28):
I love it.
Thank you so much.
I follow you now, if not already.
And what I really love is that you send littlevoice messages to people.
And as you said, yeah, it is special.
Not everyone is doing this, and then you standout with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That and I'm not very good at typing.
(18:50):
I have too many typers.
I just I
I find that when I get a voice message fromsomebody, it just it I I'm more of a voice.
Maybe it's being an audio guy for so long.
I like it, and you don't have to sit down andthink about what you're gonna say.
And LinkedIn only gives you 60 seconds, so youhave to make it kinda quick.
But, yeah, I love sending voice messages andreceiving voice messages.
(19:13):
It's just more personalized, I think, than atext message.
You know?
Yeah.
That's so true.
So thank you for encouraging me because I'malways texting us.
So, yeah, this would be next level as well forme to show up more often.
And LinkedIn, yes, it's a nice place to be.
(19:33):
Yes.
Yep.
Thank you so much.
Okay.
I have another question about sure.
So you are a coach for other people.
You have coaches and mentors for yourself, andwho was the best coach you ever had?
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Now I gotta think.
Best coach I ever had.
(19:54):
I worked with, when I was starting out doingsound, I worked with what we called old timers,
because these were guys that have been in themusic business for 25, 30 years.
And this one guy that I worked with inNashville told me something that just always
stuck with me.
He goes, every time you do a show, approach itas you only have one time to do that show.
(20:17):
Now don't worry about if you mess it up.
That's a learning experience.
But take that same approach.
Take the same professionalism approach you dofor that one show in front of a hundred people
that you do in front of 10,000 people.
And if you do that, you'll go from mixing clubsat the time of a hundred people to doing arenas
of fifty, sixty thousand.
(20:38):
And he and he was right.
He was right.
Yeah.
And I take that approach now, and I encouragemy clients to take that same approach when you
go on video.
If you think of it as if you think of everytime you go on a video on LinkedIn as
equivalent to walking into a convention centerwith a thousand people.
And if you went up and walked and shookeverybody's hand and gave them their elevator
(20:59):
pitch and all that, how long would that take?
Right?
But if you walked on stage and you presentedyour message to a thousand people, as soon as
you walk off stage, they're gonna be walking upto you and wanting to know more about you.
Well, that's the power of video on LinkedIn andjust a ninety-second video consistently, not
just one every week, but consistently talkingto your audience like you're talking to that
(21:25):
thousand people crowd, you get so many peoplethat now know who you are, what you do, why you
do what you do, that it's the equivalent ofgoing on stage in front of a thousand people.
So I just say take that professional approach.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is great that you tell us, tell me and theaudience because I think I never heard it
(21:45):
before.
What I do is I post, but you talk about videos.
I post video clips from my podcast episodes onLinkedIn.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I think every podcast has because what you dois what is this?
A one-on-one conversation.
And now when you post a clip, now the audiencegets to be part of that conversation when they
(22:09):
listen to it on the platforms, of course.
But just seeing that video and seeing theguests, seeing you, seeing the reaction, like,
it just feels like they're part of theconversation.
Because when they're watching that video, theyare.
Yes.
You are all invited.
Yes.
Yes.
(22:29):
Feel because this is I was thinking about this.
I love being invited and welcomed as well andto belong to something or a group or whatever,
a person or a community.
Yes.
And this is the feeling I want to give theaudience as well.
Feel invited, not excluded.
(22:50):
This would be the opposite.
Right?
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
My last question to you is about your goals.
Do you set goals for yourself or intentions,and what is one of your next projects?
I believe that if you visualize what you wantand you get that feeling that you already have
(23:13):
it, then when you get to that point, that'swhat we do in a time machine, go into the
future, you take action like it's alreadyhappened.
So my goal for 2025 is to have 50 rock starspeakers out there on stage, on video, on
(23:33):
camera, branded as rock star speakers in thesame way people associate themselves with TED
or TEDx.
That's my goal for 2025.
Out there just rocking rocking 2025.
I love it.
I absolutely love it.
I did not see the parallel to the TEDx talks,but it's true.
(23:58):
You can create you have already your brand youcreated.
It's like a label, but in a good way, andpeople can say, I'm a rock star.
Yes.
This is also how you addressed me also.
You said, hey hey, Caroline, rock star.
It's in every of of your
I believe everybody's a rock star.
(24:18):
Absolutely.
I believe everybody has it.
Deep down inside, that confidence, like, whenwe were kids and we didn't care about what
people thought, and we just played on theplayground, and we didn't really have all these
negative thoughts in our head that, you know,we have that deep down inside.
It's just over time, in a time machine andsubconscious, we've let all this build up to
(24:44):
where there's a reason why we feel that we'renot confident.
It's all in the mindset.
When you change the mindset, everythingchanges.
That's so true.
And we talked about the subconscious.
We talked about the time machine.
I was thinking about the film Back to theFuture, of course.
(25:04):
The DeLorean.
Yes.
Yeah.
And, yeah, the time machine.
And also I love to do this as well.
Like, you travel in time, then you feel thefeeling of the wish fulfilled.
It's already done, your goal.
Yeah.
And then you come back and you do the steps.
You take inspired action.
Right?
So it's all about what you said.
(25:25):
Yeah.
The attitude you have towards yourself.
I want to mention this.
Yes.
Yes.
And it's all in the mind.
And I see you you're 50 plus because you canhave more.
So I see 50 plus rock stars for the Yes.
Twenty twenty five.
Thank you.
Of course.
(25:45):
Thank you.
Thank you for our interview.
Now it's time for your final thoughts to theaudience, please.
My final thoughts to the audience are that youshould stop getting in your head and start
leading with your heart.
(26:06):
Stop worrying about what people think andwatching a video playback and going, oh, that
didn't work or what it did, and get into yourheart.
There's a reason why you started your business.
There's a reason why you do what you do.
Just show your heart to your audience, and theywill connect with you.
Wow.
What a great message.
(26:28):
I feel deeply connected now, and I'm so sorry.
I'm so
sorry.
Paralyzed.
Thank you.
We are connected.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Alright.
And I see you in the next episode.
Thank you for listening to Inspired ChoiceToday.
I'm thrilled to have you on this journey ofgrowth and transformation.
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