Backstage Pass: Ep. 10 - Ron White: Memory Mastery - The Key to Winning in Business and Life
Ron White bio
Ron White is, without question, one of the top memory experts in the world.
Ron White is a two-time national memory champion. He won the USA Memory Championship in 2009 and 2010. Ron held the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of shuffled cards in only 1 minute and 27 seconds. He held this record for two years and is a top memory expert.
Ron’s desire is not that you see him as the person with the best-trained memory, but that he teaches YOU to have the best-trained memory!
Ron speaks to audiences of all sizes around the world, including Singapore, Indonesia, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, England, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Canada, The Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and Belgium.
Ron has appeared on Good Morning America, Martha Stewart Show, FOX and Friends, the CBS Evening News, CBS Early Show, FOX, and NBC. He has also been written about in newspapers from the New York post to the Dallas Morning News.
Ron is a part of the History Channel show Stan Lee’s Super Humans as The Memory Expert. You also may have seen him on the National Geographic Channel show ‘Brain Games’ as their memory expert in season 1. He has been the guest on over 200 radio programs and is the author of over a dozen CD albums and books. In every talk, Ron shares that he is no different from anyone. He teaches that everyone can learn how to improve their memory.
Ron is an averaged-brained guy who loves baseball, country music, and Texas. And, he just so happens to have trained his memory to a freakishly good level to become a top worldwide memory expert.
Ron joined the US Navy as a reservist after September 11th and completed a tour in Afghanistan during 2007.
As a tribute to the fallen, Ron has memorized the names of more than 2,300 American service members killed in Afghanistan. He travels the USA writing the names on a 52-foot long wall from memory. It took 10 months to memorize the 7,000+ words.
show notes
Today we’re joined by two-time USA memory champion Ron White. His presentation addresses the skill of memorization and why it’s so important in business and in relationships. Not only that, but having a good memory can boost your confidence as well because it allows you to fortify what you know—whether that’s product knowledge, sales information, or a speech of your own. Being a great speaker is the sign of a great leader, and a great memory is where that begins.
Key topics in this episode include:
The events that fell together for Ron and Gail to meet.
The person Ron met who introduced him into the world of all things memory.
How Ron became a foremost memory expert and solidified it.
Why Ron is making a return to competing soon.
The many different situations that memorization can help you in.
How learning to remember things well fosters confidence in adults and children.
Why Ron is a great speaker for kicking off any event.
Ron’s service history and how he’s used his gifts to honor fallen soldiers.
The incredible connections he’s made through his speaking events.
The program his customers kept asking him for and how well it did when he delivered.
The biggest trick to remembering anything (with examples).
Why most people struggle with memorizing names, and what to do instead.
Ron’s interest outside of speaking and how it’s changed his life.
What Ron wants planners to know before they book him (and why they should).
What makes him different from other memory experts.