There’s no place in the world like New York City to deliver a speech or be interviewed on television. New Yorkers are outspoken, direct, and fearless in asking questions that make most people blush. I’ve given speeches and interviews in NYC for years, but I have to admit that my interview today on FOX New York shocked me. I guess the lesson for all of us as speakers is to be prepared for anything, especially in the BIG APPLE! Check it out and see what you think. Steve Siebold
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This to me was the strongest interview so far on this book. And the one most helpful to viewers too.
Like you say, only in New York. I think you were prodded a lot further in this one than by previous show hosts or reporters, and you handled it with the grace and finesse of a guy confident of his premise. Nice going, Steve.
Hi Steve
I think you handled a tough interview situation well. I have a sneaking suspicion that many will be still asking the “HOW” question, which you kind of skirted around, but as there is nothing new under the sun it’s probably the same solutions that we’ve had at our finger tips for decades.
At the end of the day, money is made by people who see the opportunity and take it and I think that was a key sub message from your message.
Hayley
Great Steve. The questioning was really tough! But as a mental toughness coach you obviously made your way out!
It’s amazing how people’s minds are steeped into the lack of opportunity consciousness.
It’s only mental toughness that can break that.
Stay tough!
I wanna be just like Mike!!! I mean Steve!!!
You rock Siebold. I watched both interviews and even if the interviewers weren’t believers at the start, they were when you’d finished with them.
I’m glad to be learning my trade from someone who knows how to market both himself and his product the way you do.
Keep up the great examples you’re setting for us sardines (whale – minnow – sardine).
Regards
Rocky Warren
Steve:
You did great! What’s interesting is, in my opinion, the talk show hosts were middle class thinkers…the people they interviewed on camera were middle class thinkers.
You held your ground and they were enrolled! Congratulations.
It’s phenomenal in that your message was aired…I think in the past it wouldn’t have made it to air. Middle Class thinkers are the target market of the media, so this is meaningful in the evolution of mass consciousness that you were given the airtime that you are being given.
I’m grateful for your work!
Thank you and Many Blessings as you continue.
Deborah
Sad to say the Host seemed more interesting in making jokes versus using time to ask serious questions. Also one interviewer is hard enough to concentrate on, much less two firing questions at you. Therefore you get an A+ from me for how you handled the interview. Looking forward to sharing a stage with you real soon.
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Coach Jay
Great job. Most of your interviews are done by people who think middle class, it is very clear as I listen to them.
Steve: Nice job with the interview. You really stayed on message! Can’t wait to read the book. Sounds fascinating and very timely given the economic mood right now. I have a tagline in my personal empowerment and speech coaching programs: Success is an inside job! That dovetails nicely with your point about creating the right mindset about money. Love the line you mentioned: “Consciousness is contagious.” That fits in with what I say in my book (The Real F Word) about one of the habits of FAILURE — Aligning with Turkeys versus the SUCCESS habit of Uniting with Eagles. It’s critical to unite with people who have a positive, wealth-conscious mindset. Very good stuff Steve. Thanks. And hey being a rich minnow among super-rich whales ain’t so bad! At least you’re going to the right “school.”
You deserve a Standing O for your new book!
Best,
Matthew
(aka The Podium Pro)
Great job, Steve. You held your own. I wish that when the interviewers asked a question, they would let you answer it; in this case, what type of problems (give examples). Then the interview would have some meat to it.
Steve, I feel your interview was one of the very best I have seen you do! You hit it out of the park and hit a home run for our Mental Tough World Class partners! I must say you made me very proud that we have joined our energy together to help make a major difference in the world with our Mental Toughness World Class message! GREAT JOB! Tony Treece, President of Treece International, LLC , Pinnacle Capital Management, LLC , Preservation Financial Partners, Inc, Treece International Mental Toughness University
Always amazing to me that people who lack substantial experience in what you have mastered (such as these reporters) feel a sense of accomplishment and obligation to the poor and middle class viewers to try and tear your philosophy apart. Personally I would have soaked it all in rather than try and pick apart your statements. I suspect guys like Rich DeVoss don’t watch morning news programs such as this!
Steve,
Critical Thinking Question: “Why did you refer to yourself as a minnow?” And not getting your advice from minnows like yourself, but from the whales?
Coach and Partner: Is that what we all should always remember to do? “Throw ourselves up under the bus at all times?”
Critical Thinking Question: Are people not starving for a strong leaders now? …..
Please give me some words of wisdom…….
Please keep up the great work! Great job again!
All The Best,
Tony Treece
Great interview Steve! If you can make it there… I love to hear you talk about the tremendous opportunities today when most of the world is hunkering down and the BHL press is thrilled to expound on negativity. Bravo! I’m enjoying the book! Stay mentally tough!
You were humble with the minnow analogy. You also maintained your privacy, and didn’t tell them your net worth. I thought you were awesome. They were skeptical, but you were believable.
Denise Fowble, Tailored Mgt.
Steve,
“Bold as a lion and humble as a lamb.” Great job and know you could have taken the interviewers out at any given moment. Great job on you control!
Tony Treece, Mental Toughness Partner
Steve,
Lions are called the King of Beasts and are noted for their grace and power. They fear no other beasts and walk with confidence and boldness. The Bible speaks of lions in various ways, often referring to the righteous, but not always.
Proverbs 30:29, 30 “There are three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;”
Proverbs 28:1 ” The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as the lion.”
Amos 3:8 “The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”
A lion’s roar can be heard by humans up to 9 km or 5.6 miles away. It’s a warning before he goes to hunt in the evening, after a successful hunt, and again in the morning.
Great job Steve!
Tony Treece http://www.WorldClassSpeechWorkshop.com
Awesome job on the interview. You were poised and comfortable even with the couple of curveballs. Bill’s advice pays off again, be prepared for absolutely anything to happen.
I agree with everyone above… you did a great job on this interview! I especially like the way you deftly deflected the direct question about your net worth. After all, it’s really none of their business. I’ll have to remember “the minnow and the whale”.
However, I don’t believe that the interviewers are necessarily middle class thinkers themselves (esp Greg Kelly) but were playing devil’s advocate and taking on the role of “middle class thinker” as a base from which to question you. After all, “Good Day NY” is a mainstream, middleclass show.
I suspect that Greg Kelly has to come across as a “middle class” kind of guy so he’ll be accepted by the audience, the way you need to be a millionaire for people to listen to you about your book.
Greg Kelly’s father (Ray Kelly) is the current police commissioner of NYC. Ray Kelly is the only person ever to have served 2 separate tenures as NYC’s police commish. Commissioner Ray Kelly was formerly Senior Managing Director, Global Corporate Security, at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. He was also offered the position of FBI Director after 911, but turned it down.
With all his connections in the financial and political worlds; his salary, investments and speaking fees, I’m quite certain that Ray Kelly is a millionaire. I can’t imagine his son Greg (one of your interviewers) isn’t also a millionaire or well on the way to becoming one himself. You talk about what rich parents impart to their children in your book and I can’t imagine that Ray Kelly neglected that portion of his son’s education.
I’d love to see you interviewed by Neil Cavuto on the FOX Business Channel. That would be a great opportunity for both of you. Thanks for sharing this interview with us. I’m looking forward to seeing you at the Siebold Success Network in Atlanta in October.
Be Well, Jaroslav
Brilliant example, Steve! Still laughing!!! hahahaha
Jorge
http://obacard.me/jorge
Ecellent inteview. I ‘m going to buy your book. you had given hope to
millions by just change the way their think. Many many people did not
aware of their thinking. your answer is so simple and it work if we follow
thru. I love your blog about Mental toughness too.
Thanks a millions Steve,
Tina Shin
Another Great Job Steve……I am so impressed with the way you deflected that personal question and went on to something else. ONLY IN NEW YORK!!! Keep up the good work. Thanks.
It is obvious from the questions the interviewers were asking that they didn’t have a clue as to what you were talking about. When you aspire to nothing more than mediocrity, it is difficult to understand one who transcends that place in their thinking. You are no minnow – you are a whale and you did a ‘whale’ of a job. FOX isn’t known for its open-mindedness and this interview clearly shows that. They are classic examples of the old adage about eagles and turkeys.
Well said Joy. And Steve, I couldn’t agree more. You are no minnow. You ARE a whale. And I can’t tell you enough how grateful and blessed I am to be able to learn from you and Dawn.
Great job! Keep knocking ’em out of the park like that. You’re definately shaking up the masses!!
Strong interview, and actually, I applaud that your interviewers asked as many questions as they did! Anyone could see you as being valid, humble, and then perhaps the listener would take the next step and say “why can’t I do that?” Or at least go to buy your book!
Good job!
I can tell you had media training 🙂
Even though you did flinch an “inch” (just trying to ryme here), most people saw a smooth interview.
You did great! Now I have to get out there and buy the book…
You are so calm, cool and collected…I need your book…and definitely a refresher at your “Speaking Workshop”.
Hi Steve,
I thought the interviewers was so desperate for answers on how to make money that they asked way too personal questions. You might ‘feel’ that you were a bit uncomfortable, but it did not project. You were calm and to the point.
I don’t think I would have done any better. Hinesight is always best critic.
Love your posts and blogs.
Trevor Ambrose
Sydney Australia
I did a morning show in Philadephia on NBC yesterday and got the same question, although it was delivered much more smooothly. I guess people want to know if what I wrote about in the book worked for me. It worked, but my platform is not about being rich. If it was, I’d need to be a LOT RICHER! 🙂 My platform is mental toughness for success in business and life, and the media seems to want to make it about money. I guess I understand where they’re coming from. As speakers, I think we always have to try to keep the audience on message and focused on the path we’re are leading them down. I met 7 different hedge fund managers on Wall Street last week in the green room at Fox, NBC, CBS, the TheStreet.com. Amazing people. One guys publicist told me his client (hedge fund manager) made $800 million in 2009. Now THAT’s RICH! I told him I made slightly less than that as a speaker, and than I burst out laughing! It’s all relative, isn’t it? I still think speakers/authors have the greatest career in the world. How can you have more fun than we have and help people all over the world at the same time?! What a BLAST!
Hi Steve,
You handled the tough questions with poise and confidence. I agree with Hugh’s comment – I think your position would have been even stronger if you had given a specific example of a problem solved in the current economy and how the financial rewards came – maybe using your own mental toughness coaching. But, well done in the midst of rapid fire questions.
Laura
Tough, tough interview….But you nailed it! Congrats again!
Randall
so greg kelly obviously groans during the interview in disapproval of your message, yet he was recently accused of rape. i’d take the advice of an author over a rapist any day 🙂