Why I’m Leaving The Professional Speaking Industry | Author Jeff Davis

Jeff Davis
5 min readDec 20, 2021
Author Jeff Davis giving a speech in 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona to a group of youth leaders.
Author Jeff Davis Speaking in 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona to a Group of Youth Leaders (Photo Is Owned by Jeff)

Some truly mind-blowing realizations this past weekend in deep reflection.

Please allow me to explain why I’m not only stepping away from the speaking industry, but why the entire speaking industry is filled with narcissists, frauds, and liars.

Many of These Speakers Don’t Truly Care About Helping Others

Having been involved with the National Speakers Association in the past, it should actually be called the Narcissistic Speakers Association.

These people don’t truly care about helping others. They care about glorifying themselves.

The reason a good number of fellow speakers have rejected me and my message of suicide prevention is because I’m too real for them, and they don’t want to hear how suicide rates are on the rise and at an all-time high.

I’m a person of substance.

With most speakers, it’s all an act. It’s all fake.

They preach, “Be yourself!”

I am fully myself and then they judge me for doing the very thing they said to do.

It’s a total joke how hypocritical most of these professional speakers are.

Fake People Are Not a…

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Jeff Davis

Award-Winning author, blogger, world traveler, TEDx speaker — a.k.a. Mr. Mountaintop: https://jeffdspeaks.com/authentic-leadership-blog/