Get Your Message Heard With Michael Hudson

Chris  Widener has been named one of the top 50 speakers in the world and one of Inc Magazine's top 100 speakers. He is the author of 20 books that have sold 3 million copies in 13 languages. He's a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His book, The Art of Influence, has taken him all over the world speaking to groups as large as 25,000 people, teaching them how to gain trust, respect, admiration, and loyalty.  Today, he’s going to have a chat with us not only to share how he managed to clinch these spots, he’s also here to tell us the obstacles that he had to overcome to get his speaking business off the ground, the mistakes he made along the way, the people who helped him get back on the right track, and the lessons that he learned.  No Cinderella Story  Chris Widener minces no words when describing his childhood, saying “I had a really rotten upbringing.”   He grew up in a single parent household, switched schools 11 times in a span of 28 months, started using drugs during si