So how'd you do? It's not as easy as it looks. I mean, let's face it. If you're watching TV a lot, and you see people host shows the easiest reaction is Oh, I could do that. The person is just talking. They're talking and they're laughing and they're making $20 million a year.

That seems easy. Well, now if you've taped to yourself and watched it, I'm hoping there's a lot you like, but I also am guessing you're seeing not everything is perfect. It's not easy to look natural, relax, comfortable, confident font in the moment, the whole time either. It is a skill now it is a skill that anyone can learn if you're willing to put the time into it, and you're willing to put the effort. So the first thing I want you to do is to look at that list of things you liked. Did you seem natural?

Did you seem like a real person who's just talking? Or did you seem like you are reading off Have a cue card and sort of stiff and unnatural. People can spot it like that. If you seem like you're doing some kind of phony infomercial stuff. So while it's okay to use a teleprompter or notes just at the beginning or to introduce someone, when you're in an actual conversation, you have to be in a conversation, you have to really be talking to people. And it can't be any kind of memorize script thing, even if you have talked about it in advance.

And even if you practice it can't seem memorized. So did you like how you came across? Did you sound natural? Did you look expressive? Or did your face just go flat the whole time? Did you look interested and interesting?

Did you sound interesting? So I want to know exactly what your strengths are. Let's write them down. Now. I also want to know what did you not like? Did you seem bored?

Were you boring? Did you say anything interesting? When you're watching the video? Did you say to yourself, you know, this person just sounds like they're spouting common sense that anyone on the street would say, I'm not suggesting that every single host has to be erudite or have completely stunningly original ideas. That's not it. But there needs to be some sort of Polish some sort of possess something that makes me think I'd rather watch this person either on TV or on the internet, than just talk to my friend here or just talk to someone on the street randomly.

What is that extra special thing you are bringing to it? So I need you to analyze very, very carefully scrutinize, figure out what do you like, what do you not like? And the things that you don't like most people don't like their voice. Get over it. You Your voice is probably much better than barbara walters voice. And she has a speech impediment.

And she was wildly successful for more than 50 years on television. So, in my experience, having a voice that isn't your classic, traditional, smooth, wonderful FM radio host is not a problem for being a host, if you have something interesting to say. The others arms aren't necessarily a problem. David Letterman says it all the time. And he's been a very successful host for 30 years. Martha Stewart says and she had a very successful run on TV for many, many years.

So I'm not so worried about the occasional or, or a voice that's less than greater Rachael Ray has a sort of a scratchy, scratchy voice and yet she's wildly successful on television. If you think that you're not good looking enough, if it bothers you, that somehow you don't look as good as you did when you were 20, or you want to lose weight or something, well, I wouldn't worry about that either. Because Dr. Phil is not exactly George Clooney, he's not anybody's idea of poster boy for Hollywood sex symbol. And yet, he's one of the most successful talk show host of the last decade. BDI bald and overweight and I say that as someone who's beady eyed and bald and a little overweight, too. So I'm not worried about the physical stuff as much.

But do you seem natural? Do you seem interesting you say interesting things do you make sense? Those are the things that are a lot more important when you're talking to your guessed? Do you seem like it's a real conversation? Or does it seem like you're kind of following a checklist and you're not even listening to what they said? Those are the things that are really important.

So I need you to record a segment if not a full show, I need you to record a segment of yourself doing an interview or a combination of your opening monologue, if you want to call it that, or your opening statements, and then an interview with a guest and I or a panel, you may have a panel discussion as a part of your format. I need you to record it again. I need you to watch it. And I need you to somehow increase the pile of stuff that you like about how you're coming across, and the pile of stuff you don't like I need you to decrease it. Ideally, I'd like you to focus on just one thing that you don't like reducing that. So if your questions were just way too long Long.

And now as you're watching it, you're feeling like, Oh, this guy's just trying to show how smart he is. He's not really asking me a question. And let's just focus on shortening the questions. If you're talking too softly the whole time and you seem low energy like you're bored, then let's boost the energy. Let's have a little more range in your voice a little more volume. So focus on one thing to try to improve, while continuing to do all the things you like, recorded.

Now, it may be just a five minute segment. If you don't want to do a full show, record it and review it again.