Get Yourself Optimized® 562. Speak to Sell Your Ideas with Majeed Mogharreban
Apr 23, 2026
Majeed Mogharreban, founder of Expert Speaker and author who helps coaches and thought leaders craft stories into speeches. He reveals storytelling frameworks like Pain Island to Pleasure Island, the three pre-speech questions, peacocking and visual hooks, and how he uses AI workflows to write deeply personal talks in minutes.
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Most Speaker Income Comes After The Stage
- Highest-paid speakers earn most revenue from post-speech opportunities, not fees from the speech itself.
- Majeed studied top speakers and shifted to selling from stage and positioning to generate downstream revenue like clients and partnerships.
Plan Every Speech With Feel Know Do
- Before any speech, answer: What do I want them to feel, know, and do.
- Use those three strategic outcomes to pick the story, emotional beats, and a clear call to action for the talk.
Bombed Pitch To $250K Comeback
- Majeed bombed a pitch in New Orleans: an animated $4,997 slide exploded into awkward laughter and zero sales.
- He later contrasted that with making $250,000 from a stage three years later, using the experience to build his selling framework.
