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Speaker Reel Strategist. Emmy-Winning Editor.

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Emmy Award

Bearing Witness, Anthem Multimedia
15 Million

Raised From a Single Film
One Week

Typical Reel Turnaround
90 Minutes

Typical Client Involvement Time

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Most speakers are better on stage than their reel makes them look.

Event planners watch your reel like someone who could get fired for picking the wrong speaker. They make up their mind in 30 seconds. They almost never decide alone. Your reel gets forwarded to people who have never heard of you.

If it does not quickly answer what you talk about, whether you are worth the fee, and whether they can picture you at their event, they close the tab. You never know they were there.

If you speak 15 times a year at $10,000 per talk, your reel is touching $150,000 in decisions.

A weak reel that costs you two bookings is $20,000 gone. Not because you were not good enough. Because your reel did not make the planner feel safe.

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Max scores every reel against the three questions planners are actually asking.

Do I get it? Do I believe it? Do I see it?

He calls it the 3-Pillar Framework. He measures where your reel stands before he starts and after he delivers. If the scores do not go up, you do not pay.