What are the benefits of sharing your personal experiences during a motivational speech?

People love to feel understood and to be able to relate to others. if you are making a speech and regurgitating facts, the audience will feel it, and some might immediately lose interest. If you open yourself up and make yourself relatable by sharing a personal story - it draws people in. The audience becomes interested in the rest of the speech and in YOU and want to know more. Making yourself a little vulnerable allows the audience to feel you as a human instead of a talking head and they are more likely to be invested in listening. They want to know more about how you overcame what you did and will take you more seriously because they know you have walked your talk and are using that experience to help others. It feels authentic.

Sharing your personal experiences of how you overcame a certain challenge or obstacles and what you learnt from it is a great way to inspire action into others . If you can showcase how you did it ,what steps you took to make such a wonderful change can also inspire other. Motivational speaking ,communication in general is how effectively you can move the ideas in your mind into the mind of your audience.

Be Relatable I've measured as an introvert or introspective on every assessment tool I've taken. Yet I make my living training coaching and working with groups. Sharing my background and my results have served as inspiration to prove that anyone can be an effective speaker. Including personal experience and sharing relevant stories when you're speaking makes you and your content relatable. As a speaker you need to get your audience to a place where they're connected emotionally to both you and your content. The right personal story or insight can pull back the red velvet rope and let them into the VIP sectio-- making it easier for them to receive and connect with your content.