Life Coach Reid Walley

Public speaking makes you a badass!

Work with me: 1st-place winner, 2013 District Toastmasters "International Speech" contest!

Life coach for startup founders who want to kick ass at public speaking. You're getting my experience as a speech contest winner and weekly Toastmasters club speaking coach, as well as my work with startup founders, business owners and political candidates.

Good public speaking skills give you the Screaming Confidence™ to move the hearts and minds of your employees, customers, investors, product launch press, conference attendees – and critics! Kung-fu strategies for speechwriting, rehearsing, eye contact, breathing and nervousness.

No matter what type of business you’re building, being a good public speaker has massive ROI.

"I encourage anyone who's starting a business to become a good public speaker. It's one of the best ways to get the word out about what you do."

–Jason Fried, founder 37Signals (creator of Basecamp, the world’s #1 project management app)

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Entrepreneurs experience 10x the stress of regular people!

Keeping your personal life on track means you can fully focus on your Lean Startup without the headache of returning home to a shitstorm!

A life coach specifically for startup founders understands what's at stake and fills a vital "Key Partner" role in your Business Model Canvas.

A life coach helps you navigate all the crazy bullshit that your business and your personal life will go through.

Add me as a Key Partner!

Shitstorm patrol for Lean Startup founders!

Be smarter!

In the Lean Startup movement, there has to be an Andon cord for when shit emotionally hits the fan - both at home and the startup! Personal and startup MUST be healthy enough to be supportive and complementary. Otherwise, you're running with one broken leg.

As a founder using Lean Startup, you want a healthy business AND a healthy personal life. When they're both kickin ass, you're running with enhanced capabilities. It gives you a huge unfair advantage over everything that's going on! Heck, when both sides of your life are complementary – you have superpowers!

There's a misconception that you should keep your personal life out of your startup. Why? Your users and customers don't! Your customers don't make a purely "logical" decision to use/buy your product. Life overlaps everything! Take advantage of the equity and support you're building at home to help navigate the rough waters of a startup.

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Sometimes you just need a place to blow off some steam! And a life coach helps turn that steam into productive forward motion. Just like pulling the rip cord on your parachute after jumping out of an airplane, your Business Model Canvas needs a “rip cord” at just the right times in your lean startup and your personal life. A life coach helps you and your team course-correct and land on target.

  • Startup life: Stay committed to Lean Startup principles.
  • Personal life: Produce a healthy personal life with a Lean Startup approach.
  • Public speaking: Required badassery for every founder who wants to deliver their message with confidence and impact.

Lean Startup would have saved my ass!

I did everything backwards in my failed clothing startup. Now there's a scientific method to follow. Yipee!