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Elain Witt
Elain Witt discovered the power of her voice in first grade when she had to miss recess for talking in class. By age ten, she had magnified her vocal gift and found herself singing solos, giving presentations, performing in plays, and selling hundreds of boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Born and raised near Los Angeles, she grew up in a drug-infested neighborhood where her family was burglarized, threatened, shot at, and vandalized. Before escaping that environment, she outlived all four of her black cats, her angel fish, and her desert tortoise, who unexpectedly ran away from home. At 16, she earned a four-year academic scholarship and left for Chapman University to study American History and Folklore. Elain later earned a master’s degree in Mass Communication from Brigham Young University to prove she takes communication skills seriously, but not so seriously that she can’t laugh at some of the things that happen to her—like being shut down by a massive blackout, introduced as someone else, and interrupted by the President of the United States. Elain, who has spoken all over the country, teaches public speaking at BYU, coaches private clients, and has written a popular book on speaking skills. Elain’s life—on and off stage—is constant heart-pounding high adventure. She has survived an earthquake, tornado, lightning strike, hurricane, flood, and blizzard. She considers each close call a blessing from God and an indication that she still has important work to do. In her spare time, Elain has canoed with alligators, spotted a quetzal, stir-fried chicken on live TV, explored caves in the jungles of Jamaica, given birth at home, sung Beatles’ tunes at a café in Istanbul, performed CPR twice, floated in the Dead Sea, nearly burned her house down, conducted a kazoo choir, raised five fabulous children, hiked the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim, and jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. Up at dawn, she hikes a mountain above her Utah home every morning dodging tarantulas, scorpions, and rattlesnakes to keep up with her mountain-guide husband, Greg. You’ll be glad you invited this one-woman power station. To book Elain as a speaker, trainer, or coach contact: SPEAKERS TRAINING CENTER www.speakerstrainingcenter.comPH: 801.226.4180
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