Motivated Professional Speaker Jobs
What do you do to stay inspired in your professional speaking job? Becoming a professional speaker can be a great career but it is not an option for those already working in their professional speaking jobs. Please allow me to introduce to you the fascinating Marta Becket.
In the 1960s when Marta was in her mid-40s, she should have been making her final concert tour and concluding her dancing career. Instead, when she and her husband Tom had a flat tire near the ghost town of Death Valley Junction, California (population 10), she discovered an old abandoned
theatre and immediately became inspired. She never left. After years of renovating and rehearsing, the doors were opened. Marta committed to performing her show whether or not people attended. With the nearest town more than 25 miles away, some evenings the only admirers of her craft were the spectacular life-sized figures in the audience murals she had painted on the walls.
She kept dancing. A few years later, her husband left her to return to New York. She kept dancing.
At the time of this writing, Marta is 82 years old. She is still dancing. Nearly every show is a sellout. Talk about living your passion! I keep a picture of Marta in my office. Every glance brings
me a surge of passion. Who’s your inspirational speaker? IThis will set your soul on fire! Then you may become someone else’s inspiration! Now she restores in my speaking career!
“Long before anybody invented the term ‘performance art,’
Marta Becket was doing it, in an abandoned opera house in
Death Valley Junction. She restored it, and it restored her.
– Jay Carr