Being Your Own Life’s Lifeguard: Invest in Yourself

aurav: So John, I started reading about you. And the first thing that caught my attention, that you are known as a pitcher whisperer. How did you get this title pitch whisperer for yourself?

Livesay: So once Anthem Insurance was interviewing me to be a speaker at their annual meeting. I asked them a question: what would happen after I speak? They said, “Well, later in the day, we’re going to have an improvisation session.

I said, “What if I stayed on stage with those people and I could whisper in their ear something from my talk? Because improvisation is all about “Yes, And”, and keeping the conversation going. They love that idea so much. They hired me. Then people said, Oh my god, could you be in my ear all the time when I’m out in the sales field? ” And I told this story to the Ink magazine and Ink said, “Wow, you’re the pitch whisper.”