24/7 Speech Hotline:
(800) 950-6893
Choose from four speech packages depending on your stress level, needs, goals and speaking experience.
BOOK EARLY — Already receiving bookings for events as far out as April 2025.
This is a highly personal, one-to-one service. Each speech is custom written and I work directly with you without staff. Book early.
1) HOME STRETCH PACKAGE
Speech Punch & Polish
If you have already written your speech
Home Stretch Package Includes:
• Everything you need to get your speech… and you… ready to nail it without nervousness.
• You and I will work together to rev up, smooth out, clean up, tighten, trim and warm your speech to perfection line by line.
• We’ll also talk about delivery to eliminate nervousness as you head down the home stretch and make this one of the best experiences of your life.
• I’ll send the revised speech we finalize together formatted on note cards you can have printed at your local print shop to make it easy to deliver.
HOME STRETCH PACKAGE
Speech Punch & Polish to Perfection
2) ESSENTIAL PACKAGE
Speech
For great speakers
Essential Package Includes:
• A fun, easy process to focus the years of thoughts, memories and feelings you have bouncing around in your head right now that prevent you from gaining the perspective you need to write this speech.
• A fun, warm, 100% original 7- to 9-minute speech written in your voice and personality.
• No canned jokes, tired clichés, empty praise or phony B.S. you hear in every other speech.
• Unlimited editing to ensure every word is exactly what you want to say.
• Formatted on 5” x 8” note cards you can have printed at your local print shop.
ESSENTIAL PACKAGE
Original Speech
3) REFINED PACKAGE
Speech + Coaching
If you’re nervous
Refined Package Includes:
• Everything in the Essential Package PLUS performance coaching to eliminate nervousness and ensure you’re cool, comfortable and ready to crush it on the day of the event.
• Includes the best-kept secret in public speaking (if you're nervous, this alone will be a game changer for you not only for this speech but every presentation for the rest of your life).
• Includes The Field Guide to Nailing Your Speech, a straightforward, 15-page book with valuable tips and strategies for reducing fear, using microphones and other important issues to ensure you knock your speech out of the park with ease in your voice, personality and sense of humor.
REFINED PACKAGE
Speech + Coaching
4) LEGACY PACKAGE
Speech, Coaching, Book
Ideal speech + luxury gift
Legacy Package Includes:
• Everything in the Refined Package PLUS a 7”x 7”, four-color, hardcover gift book with the full text of your speech plus up to 12 four-color photos printed on archival-quality Mohawk Proline Paper with an eggshell-textured uncoated finish (see book)
• Includes an inscription page for you to write a short personal note that will make it a beautiful, thoughtful, instant family heirloom to be cherished forever. Book arrives with a special pen that uses archival-quality pigment ink that dries to a neutral pH that won’t fade. So the book will have your inscription forever.
• Presented in a high-quality, custom-made black box with red looped ribbon to help lift book from box.
LEGACY PACKAGE
Speech, Coaching + Book
“Thankfully Den Pope has stepped in to disrupt the process to ghostwrite an impressive, heartfelt and professional-sounding speech.”
Luke Winkie, Columnist, Vox Media (more)
“Den was incredible from start to finish. I had never spoken in front of a large group before and he helped me ease all of my anxieties and deliver a perfect speech.”
Michelle, Connecticut (more)
“This was the 2nd time I relied on Den to prepare a speech for me and I was again, extremely impressed with the entire process and the final product.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
What happens after I book my speech?
After booking you immediately receive an order confirmation then a separate email from me same day with a few questions to get started. Be sure to check your SPAM folder. This is a fast, easy process for you to get a funny, warm, killer original speech.
What information do you need to write the speech?
I’ve used The Nail Your Speech Process for more than 20 years to gather a combination of facts, feelings and experiences. First you’ll answer a few simple but thought-provoking questions. Then I’ll call you to go deeper on some of the information. I also want to get to know you and your values, character, personality and sense of humor—all of which factor heavily into the voice and personality of your speech.
What types of speeches do you write?
All of them—father/mother of the bride and groom, maid of honor, bar/bat mitzvah, birthday, best man, bride, groomsman, bridesmaid and officiant. Each speech is different but I use the same meticulous research process to uncover and organize your thoughts, feelings and experiences. That means a speech 100% aligned with your values, personality and sense of humor. This is a speech only one person in the world can deliver—you.
Is our work together confidential?
Yes. You're in complete control. Some clients mention our work together to others, some don't. It's up to you. Regardless, I'm always working behind the scenes to help you nail your speech.
Where are you based?
I'm completely digital and work with clients around the world. My home base is Chicago. I'm easy to reach day and night through email or telephone. And I promptly return emails and messages.
Do I really need this? It probably won't work for me anyway.
This is a highly personalized service that will ensure your speech is the best speech of the event. If you're struggling with what to say or are an inexperienced speaker, this is for you. You don't have to continue wrestling with this alone or resort to using the same dull, generic lines and phony B.S. off Google you hear at every wedding or other event.
I've written speeches and coached thousands of speakers at all age and experience levels for more than 20 years. This process will work for you, too.
Giving a wedding, bar mitzvah or other speech is, for most of us, a once-in-a-lifetime honor. I will help make sure it’s one of the best experiences of your life.
What's your background?
After earning a B.A. in communication studies and an M.A. in journalism on scholarship, I began my career in marketing agencies creating strategy and writing ads, films, speeches, books, websites and other materials for Fortune 500 companies and global nonprofits.
CEOs and other executives at client companies would often ask me to write a wedding, eulogy or other speech. These execs were also typically nervous about delivering their speech.
And there is a strong emotional component to social speeches where, for example, a father is speaking to his daughter or a maid of honor is honoring her big sister.
I enjoy helping people who are under pressure, short of time or doubting their abilities nail their wedding and other social speeches.
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