Tampa, FL · November 4-6, 2026 · Application only, seats are limited
3-Day Boot Camp · November 4-6, 2026 · Tampa
Walk on any stage.
A 3-day boot camp for speakers, trainers and change-makers, with Dave VanHoose at The Westin Hotel, Tampa. You compress years of trial and error into one weekend and leave with a story written, drilled and tested on stage. Application only, no payment is taken on the form.
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- Minutes
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- 3,000+ stage talks
- Speaker Trainer of the Year
- Platform Closer of the Year, NSA
- Inc. 500 founder, #35
Somewhere today, someone with half your knowledge and half your story is walking onto a stage, and walking off with the client, the standing ovation and the movement.
The difference is not talent and it is not luck. They were trained to run a room. Most speakers never are.
Your message is not the problem. Neither is your fear. Everyone who has ever moved a room from a stage felt that too. The problem is that nobody ever taught you the mechanics, or drilled you until the words stopped being something you had to think about, or handed you a close that gets a room to actually decide.
So you wing it. You write the talk the night before. You get on stage and you are good, good enough for polite applause, and you walk off knowing you left something in the room.
That gap costs you the client who almost bought and the room that almost stood up. Three days closes it.
What it looks like
Imagine walking onto a stage and holding the room. You have their attention. You light up the imagination. You move people all the way to a decision.
Not walk. Not run.
Now imagine having the skill, the confidence and the certainty to do that on command. What that does for your business. What it does for the rest of your life.
The proof
Russell Brunson on
Inside the room
This is not a seminar.
You will not sit at the back taking notes. You will be on your feet in front of your peers, rewriting how you use your voice and your body to move people, while Dave works the room and corrects your mechanics in real time.
By the end of day three you will have written your story, delivered it, competed with it on stage, and installed a close built to move a room to a decision. Not someday. That weekend.
Dates
Venue
Format
Access
What you master
Eleven sessions.
Every one of these is drilled on your feet, not watched from a chair.
Stage confidence and certainty
The state work and physical anchoring that lets you walk onto any stage, in front of any size of room, and feel at home in it.
Fear, at the root
Live Timeline Therapy to find and release the blockages driving stage fright and hesitation, so they stop running your performance from behind the curtain.
Your authentic power voice
The version of your voice and presence that is unmistakably yours, instead of a careful copy of someone else's stage persona.
The Pied Piper Close
An ethical process for moving a room from attention to decision, so your message still does something after the applause stops.
Mechanics and live drilling
Pacing, tonality, pause, physiology and command presence, drilled until you stop having to think about any of them.
Write and deliver your signature story
You leave with a written, rehearsed story built on a proven structure, ready to open any talk you give next.
Transformational Linguistics and NLP
The language patterns that get past the analytical mind and land with the part of your audience that actually makes the decision.
The Permission Approach
How you get past the subconscious gatekeeper. You hand the room choice instead of instruction, so the guard comes down and the decision to change their life stays theirs to make.
Conversational hypnosis and non-resistance language
Advanced influence, plus the Non-Resistance Sales System, so the room arrives at the decision itself instead of bracing against a pitch.
The Speaking Contest
You put all of it to the test live, in front of the room, with real feedback and something on the line.
The Fire Ceremony
A guided live experience in certainty, run to prove to your nervous system that the fear is no longer the one in charge.
The result
What that actually
- ◆You compress years of trial, error and quiet stage embarrassment into one guided weekend.
- ◆You work directly with someone who has spent 15 years coaching speakers on how to earn from a stage.
- ◆You learn the actual structural and physical mechanics professional speakers use, drilled until they are automatic.
- ◆You practise live with real-time correction instead of guessing whether what you are doing works.
- ◆You find the version of your voice that does not need a script to hold a room.
- ◆You leave with a written, rehearsed story. An asset, not a feeling that fades by Monday.
Is this you
Who it is for,
This is deliberately not for everyone. It is built for people ready to be corrected in public.
This is for you if
- ◆You want to build real skill as a communicator, not collect another certificate.
- ◆You know a stage is how you reach the people you are trying to reach.
- ◆You want to sell and serve one to many, instead of one at a time forever.
- ◆You want to speak internationally and lead something bigger than yourself.
- ◆You want to find your power voice and step all the way into it.
This is not for you if
- ✕You already think you are perfect from stage.
- ✕You are not willing to be corrected in front of other people.
- ✕You would rather wing it and write the talk the night before.
- ✕You are content being an average speaker.
Archetype
The Winger
Talented, untrained, leaving results in the room every single time.
Archetype
The Dabbler
Collected the tips, never drilled them, never installed a system.
Built for
The High Achiever
Ready to do the internal and mechanical work to close the gap for good.
Built for
The Master
Refining what already works into a signature, unmistakable presence.
The three days
Your Speak to Change
Day themes. Session times go out once you are accepted.
Day one, Nov 4
Break the ceiling
- ◆Stage confidence and certainty foundations
- ◆Timeline Therapy, clearing what sits underneath the fear
- ◆Core mechanics and your first live drills
- ◆Begin writing your signature story
Day two, Nov 5
Install the system
- ◆Transformational Linguistics and NLP patterns
- ◆The Permission Approach, past the subconscious gatekeeper
- ◆Conversational hypnosis and non-resistance language
- ◆The Pied Piper Close, taught and drilled
- ◆The Fire Ceremony
Day three, Nov 6
Prove it on stage
- ◆Final story delivery with live correction
- ◆The Speaking Contest
- ◆Power voice, final installation
- ◆Your next stage, and what you commit to
Your trainer
Led personally by
Dave VanHoose has spent 15 years coaching speakers, trainers and founders on how to hold a room and earn from a stage. He built an Inc. 500 company, ranked #35, before turning full time to the platform.
He is a Speaker Trainer of the Year and Platform Closer of the Year honoree with the NSA, and co-author of Sell More.
At Speak to Change he works the room himself. He corrects mechanics live, runs the Timeline Therapy sessions, and installs the same system he teaches platform closers.
How you get in
Three steps,
Apply
A short form. Two minutes, no payment, no card.
We talk
A qualifying conversation about where you are and what you are trying to build. Investment is covered here.
You are in
If it fits both ways, you get your seat, the logistics and the pre-work.
No payment is taken on the application form. Investment and access are discussed on the qualifying conversation. Seats are limited, apply through the form or call (813) 334-9993 and we'll talk it through.
Questions
Before you
I have never spoken on stage. Is this for me?+
Yes. The three days are built to take you from wherever you are starting to a confident speaker by the end of day three, as long as you are willing to do the work in front of other people.
I already speak professionally. Will I get anything from it?+
Most of the room is experienced. They come to sharpen mechanics, install a real close, and clear blocks that years of stage time never resolved on their own.
What is the Fire Ceremony?+
A guided, supervised live experience in certainty, run on the second day. Participation in the physical elements is voluntary.
What should I bring?+
Clothes you can move in, something to write with, and a story you are ready to tell. Full logistics go out once you are accepted.
What does it cost?+
No payment is taken on the application form. Investment and terms are covered on the qualifying call, once we both know it is a fit.
Where is it held?+
The Westin Hotel, Tampa, Florida. Hotel and travel details go out on acceptance.
The room is already
The only question is whether it gets filled by you, or by the peer who decided to stop winging it first.
Three days, one decision, and a stage waiting for the version of you who was always meant to be on it.
November 4-6 · The Westin Hotel, Tampa, FL
P.S. Every seat gets personal correction from Dave, live. That is the whole reason the room stays small. If you have been waiting for a someday that keeps sliding to next quarter, November 4 is someday.
P.P.S. This is not a sit and watch seminar. You will write, drill, speak, compete and work through real fear in front of a real room. If you only want to take notes from the back row, this is not your room.
Dave VanHoose
Founder, VanHoose Academy
Nov 4-6 · Tampa · Application only
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