Inspire, Achieve, Repeat: A Grab Bag of Killer Motivational Speakers

Motivational speakers started really gaining popularity in the 70s
and 80s, the golden age of “self-help.” And in recent years,
they’ve been even more in-demand, especially in the business world.
You can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting some
self-proclaimed entrepreneurial guru who claims to have the formula
for success and would be happy to share it with you, if you sign up
for their seminar for the low-low price of thousands of dollars. Or
buy their TikTok course. But you don’t have to get certified or
trained to be a motivational speaker, and their industry is almost
totally unregulated—meaning, anybody with a megawatt smile and a
catchphrase can do it. And according to a Harvard study, most of
these guys focus more on entertaining you than teaching you the way
to win. It all makes you wonder—are the ones who claim to have all
the answers really so enlightened? Well, today we’re gonna tell you
about two who most definitely weren’t.

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Sources:
True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, S3E4, “Chosen to Kill”
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/nyregion/25speaker.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/nyregion/man-seeks-plea-deal-at-retrial-in-assisted-suicide-of-long-island-counselor.html?searchResultPosition=2
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/nyregion/new-trial-for-man-who-helped-motivational-speaker-kill-himself.html?searchResultPosition=3
https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/killer-of-l-i-motivational-speaker-is-sentenced/?searchResultPosition=6

CNBC's American Greed, Episode "Making a Killing"
Court papers:
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914e231add7b049348ef740/amp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/national/2009/08/02/several-questions-remain-in-investors-disappearance/2a3002f5-3c83-4c8d-8e1a-c0f115273394/

https://patch.com/california/sanclemente/shawkey-admits-his-stories-sound-unbelievable


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