Your child already has something worth saying.
In six months, they'll know how to say it — live, in front of you, at their Ultimate Speaker Showcase.
You've seen the idea they had at dinner that was better than anyone else's at the table. You've heard the opinion they'll defend for twenty minutes in the car and won't repeat in a classroom.
That's not their personality. That's a skill nobody taught them.
A real class in session — not a recorded course.
Faces and names have been blurred to protect student privacy.
You already know exactly which moment this is.
Maybe it was the group project. They did most of the work and let someone else present it.
Maybe it was the teacher who said "they're so bright — I just wish they'd participate more." And you nodded, because you knew. And you didn't know what to do about it.
Or maybe it's simpler than that. Maybe you've just watched your child become a completely different person the second a room turns to look at them.
Loud at home. Gone in public.
You've probably told yourself it's a phase. That they'll grow out of it. That you were shy too, and you turned out fine.
Here's the harder thing to say out loud:
Not because anything is wrong with them. Because of how the loop works.
The loop nobody warns you about.
It doesn't start with fear. It starts with one moment. A stumble. A laugh. A blank stare from the back row.
So next time, they don't raise their hand.
And because they don't raise their hand, they never get better at it. And because they never get better at it, the fear collects a little more evidence. And that evidence justifies staying quiet the next time.
Round and round. Quietly. For years.
What makes it dangerous is that it's invisible. There's no report card for it. No teacher calls home about it. Nothing looks wrong. Your child just gradually becomes someone who doesn't speak up — until everyone, including them, starts calling that their personality.
Then one day it's a job interview. A pitch. A room full of people who needed to hear what they thought, and never did.
And the world got a lot less forgiving about this.
The skill is becoming more valuable at the exact moment it's becoming harder to build.
Of employers say communication is very or extremely important — but only 55.4% think new graduates actually have it.
Of employers using skills-based hiring apply it during the interview — in a room, out loud, with no resume to hide behind.
Less in-person social interaction with friends for ages 15–24 than two decades ago.
Of teens say smartphones made it harder to learn good social skills. That's teenagers saying it about themselves.
Your child isn't behind because they're missing something.
They're behind because almost nobody teaches this.
There's a shift most speakers discover late. You start with it.
Much of the advice young people hear is about delivery. Stand like this. Breathe like that. Slow down.
It's useful advice — and it points in one direction: at the speaker. Which tends to be where a nervous child is already looking. How do I look? What are they thinking? Am I messing this up?
Joel Weldon's System starts by turning the camera around.
It's about the people listening.
It is called the Audience Mindset, and the entire program swings on it.
The moment a young person stops asking "How am I doing?" and starts asking "What do they need from me?" — the nerves have a job. The self-consciousness has somewhere to go. Fear becomes focus.
You can't talk a child out of being nervous. But you can give them something more interesting to think about than themselves.
That isn't a mindset trick. It's a system — and it's often the difference between a child who gets through a presentation and one who connects with the room.
The man who was told he was the worst speaker in the room.
At 28, Joel Weldon gave his first talk. Afterward, a man walked up and told him he was the worst speaker he had ever heard in his entire life.
He didn't quit. He built a system.
Ten years later, he was inducted into the National Speakers Association's CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame. Over the next four decades, he delivered more than 3,000 paid speaking engagements and coached more than 10,000 speakers. His business card is an eight-ounce can that reads "Success Comes in Cans, not in Cannots." Half a million people keep one on their desk.
Joel is living proof this is not a gift you're born with. He wasn't born with it. That's the entire point.
Joel delivers fifteen minutes at the start of each class — his own teaching, anchored in a story from his own life.
And the young man who already ran the system.
Here's what makes this different from every other youth speaking program.
Your child won't only be taught by a legend seventy years older than them. They'll be hosted, live, every single class, by Coach Everett Aberle — who learned this exact system as a student, applied it to his own life, and now runs the room himself.
Joel and Everett share the same birthday — exactly 70 years apart, to the day.
Everett opens every session. He leads the discussion and the exercises. And he takes feedback in front of the room before any student is ever asked to.
Because when a young person watches someone close to their own age do the hard thing first, something happens that no adult can manufacture:
The master who drew the map. The young man who just walked the road. Together, that's a guide.
Supporting every class is Coach Troy Aberle, Everett's dad and a certified coach whose career has been teaching people to communicate and lead, including working directly with Tony Robbins and Chet Holmes. He runs everything behind the scenes so no student gets overlooked, and he's the person your family can reach for anything.
Real words from a student and the parents who watched it happen.
“Before my son and daughter took this program, they were okay talking to people, but not at a level I'd call confident and engaging. After four classes, they were better communicators at home, at school and on their sports team!”
— Parent
“My son now commands the rooms he's in, and adults are shocked at how quickly he has advanced.”
— Parent
“Both of our kids' teachers told me they were very impressed by how much better they speak in front of the class this fall. When they learned both had taken a speaking program this summer, they could see it made a huge difference.”
— Parent
Individual results vary.
What makes a speaking program actually stick.
Speaking is a skill built through practice, feedback, and repetition. Here's how this program is set up to deliver all three.
12 students. That's the entire room.
Small enough that every student is known, coached, and given real time in front of the room.
They speak in every class.
From night one. On their feet, every class, putting the skill to work the same day they learn it.
Feedback is a gift, not a grade.
Strength named first. One thing to try next. Your child grows fastest in a room where feedback feels safe rather than scary.
Progress they can see and hold.
Five badges, earned one at a time as their talk comes together, tracked in their own student workbook — proof of growth they keep long after the program ends.
Homework is real life.
Family, friends, teachers, teammates. The skill leaves the classroom the same night they learn it.
Live, every two weeks, with coaches who know their name.
Coach Troy and Coach Everett host every single class live — and Joel Weldon is there too, teaching in his own words.
Before you decide, let's answer the real ones.
A practical, interactive program that helps youth ages 11–19 speak with confidence, organize their thoughts, and connect effectively with others — hosted live, every class, by Coach Troy Aberle and Coach Everett Aberle, featuring Hall of Fame Speaker Joel Weldon.
Participants become noticeably more comfortable expressing themselves, speaking under pressure, presenting ideas, and starting meaningful conversations — growth you'll see for yourself, side by side with their own before-and-after video, at the Ultimate Speaker Showcase.
At school, in class presentations, job and scholarship interviews, friendships, dating, workplace conversations, and eventually financial situations such as applying for credit. This is a life skill, not a stage skill — it shows up everywhere.
Not at all. The program supports quiet, nervous, and experienced speakers alike. Everyone begins at their own level, starting with a private baseline video only the coaches see, and builds from there at their own pace.
Smaller groups give everyone ample time to speak, practice, receive personal feedback, and form genuine connections with their peers. A room of 12 stays a room of 12, because that's how real coaching happens.
They will practice public speaking, storytelling, presentations, active listening, body language, quick thinking, conversation, and leadership — the full toolkit behind genuine confidence, not just a script for the stage.
It is highly interactive. Participants build confidence by speaking, practicing, listening, receiving feedback, and supporting one another — every single class, not just at the end of the program.
Yes. Cameras are expected to remain on so participants can practice eye contact, facial expressions, body language, and authentic audience connection — the exact conditions real speaking happens under.
Parents are always welcome to watch any class. Every class is led live by Coach Everett and Coach Troy, with Joel teaching at the start, so you always know exactly who is in the room with your child. Your child's first baseline video is private and seen only by the coaches, and on this website every student's face and name is blurred.
Then we want to know early. If after the first class you feel it isn't right for your child, tell us and we'll refund your payment in full.
Yes. Each participant is expected to attend every class unless illness or an unavoidable conflict prevents them. Consistency strengthens both individual progress and the class community — this program works because the group grows together.
Participants should arrive on time, engage fully, listen respectfully, and encourage others. When everyone commits, the class becomes a trusted community where young people feel supported enough to grow — and that trust is what makes the transformation possible.
One skill. Every room they'll ever walk into.
That's why this was never just a speaking course.
School
Presentations go from something to survive to something they volunteer for. Teachers notice when your child speaks up. So do scholarship committees.
Work
When most skills-based hiring happens in the interview itself, the child who can speak clearly under pressure walks in already ahead.
Leadership
Nobody follows the person with the best idea. They follow the person who can make them see it. Every team, club, and company runs on that.
Relationships
Saying the hard thing kindly. Disagreeing without damage. Being understood the first time.
Themselves
A child who knows they can stand in front of a room and be heard carries that everywhere. It changes what they think they're allowed to attempt.
The moment this is all built for.
Six months from now, at your child's Ultimate Speaker Showcase.
Your child stands up in front of an invited audience — family, friends, the people who matter to them. You're right there. They deliver the talk they've been building since week one — start to finish, live, in front of everyone.
Then the room goes quiet.
Then your child's video from before any of this began plays. The one from night one, before they knew anything, when it was rough and awkward.
This one at the front of the room.
Same person. Six months apart.
Nobody will need to tell you it worked. You'll be sitting right there.
Then the class votes — not on who was most polished. On who climbed the furthest. Any child can win that. Which is exactly the point.
Every family takes the video home. You'll still have it in twenty years.
And if schedules allow, a bonus in-person Stage Day may follow the Showcase — details announced during the program.
You can't do this for them. You can be the reason it happens.
Let's be honest about what your part in this actually is.
You can't give your child confidence. You can't buy it, and you can't talk them into it. You've probably already tried both.
They have to do this themselves. The reps are theirs. The Showcase is theirs. The win is theirs.
Your part is one decision — and it's the one nobody else in their life is going to make for them.
Most people don't fix this until it costs them something. A job they didn't get. A pitch they couldn't deliver. A room they sat silent in.
You will spend money on your child this year. Sports. Tutoring. A laptop. Braces. Almost all of it serves one season of their life.
This one serves every room they walk into for the next seventy years.
Your investment in your child's future is only
Founding-family rate open until Friday, Oct 30 at 11:59 PM Pacific. After that, the regular rate is $3,700.
- ✓12 live classes, every two weeks, hosted by Coach Troy & Coach Everett, with Hall of Fame Speaker Joel Weldon teaching at the start of every class
- ✓The student workbook, badges, and both personal coaching reviews
- ✓Goal Card exercise & a sealed before/after video
- ✓A capped, 12-student class
- ✓A virtual graduation event at the Ultimate Speaker Showcase, live online for your invited family and friends
Every group is capped at twelve, so every student speaks, gets feedback, and is known by name. Group 1 starts Thursday, Nov 5. Group 2 starts Thursday, Nov 12. Both meet every other Thursday at 4:00 PM Pacific · 7:00 PM Eastern.
Join the Youth EditionNot the right fit after the first class? Tell us and we'll refund your payment in full.
Questions? Talk to Coach Everett directly:
[email protected]
(587) 896-5806
Join the waitlist.
Not ready to apply today? Leave your name and email, and you'll be the first to know when the next group opens.
Join the WaitlistThey already have something worth saying.
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Privacy Policy
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The Ultimate Speaking System Youth Edition (the "Program," "we," "us," or "our") is operated jointly by Troy Aberle International Inc. and Joel Weldon's Ultimate Speaking System. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information through our website, applications, enrollment process, online classes, coaching, communications, and related Program activities.
1. Scope and territorial application
This Policy applies to parents, guardians, students, applicants, website visitors, and other individuals who interact with the Program, whether they are located in Canada, the United States, or another country.
Our website and Program are operated from Canada and the United States. This Policy is our worldwide notice of our privacy practices. The fact that a purchase is made from, processed through, or supplied by a Canadian or United States organization does not remove privacy rights that cannot legally be waived in the country, province, territory, or state where an individual lives. Where applicable law provides stronger or additional mandatory rights, we will respect those rights. This Policy governs privacy practices only; contractual terms of purchase, participation, governing law, and dispute resolution belong in the Program Terms or Enrollment Agreement.
The Program is intended for students ages 11 through 19. Students under the age of majority must participate with the involvement and authorization of a parent or legal guardian. Students who have reached the age of majority exercise their own privacy rights, unless they authorize another person to act for them.
2. Information we collect
- Identity and contact information, including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, mailing address, country, province or state, and parent or guardian contact details.
- Application and enrollment information, including the student’s age or date of birth, goals, interests, speaking experience, scheduling information, and responses voluntarily provided in forms.
- Program content and participation information, including assignments, speeches, written submissions, video or audio submissions, coaching feedback, attendance, progress, live-session recordings, showcase recordings, photographs, and testimonials where separately authorized.
- Transaction information, including purchase, invoice, and payment status. Full payment-card details are generally collected and processed by our payment provider rather than stored by us.
- Communications, including email, text, telephone, support requests, survey responses, and other correspondence with us.
- Website and device information, including IP address, browser and device type, pages viewed, referring page, approximate location derived from IP address, date and time of access, and cookie or similar technology identifiers.
- Safety and accommodation information that a parent, guardian, or adult student chooses to provide and that is reasonably necessary to support safe participation. Please do not send medical, identity-document, or other highly sensitive information unless we specifically request it through an approved secure method.
3. How we collect information
We collect information directly from parents, guardians, adult students, and students participating with appropriate authorization. We may also collect information automatically through our website and from service providers that help us operate registration, payment, communications, virtual classes, analytics, and other Program functions.
4. Why we use information
- To respond to inquiries and manage waitlists, applications, enrollment, payment, scheduling, attendance, and customer support.
- To deliver classes, coaching, assignments, feedback, showcases, certificates, and other Program services.
- To communicate with parents, guardians, and students about Program administration, class reminders, assignments, schedule changes, safety, and coaching feedback.
- To maintain appropriate records, protect students and the Program, prevent misuse, enforce Program rules, and meet legal, accounting, insurance, and safety obligations.
- To understand and improve the website and Program through limited analytics and operational reporting.
- To send marketing communications only as permitted by applicable law and with any consent required. Every electronic marketing message will include an available unsubscribe or opt-out method.
- To use a student’s or family’s name, image, voice, recording, story, or testimonial in public marketing only under a separate, explicit written media release. Declining marketing permission will not prevent participation in the core Program.
We will not require more personal information from a child than is reasonably necessary to participate in the relevant activity.
5. Children and youth
We treat information about children and youth as sensitive and apply heightened safeguards.
Students under 13. Before knowingly collecting personal information online from a student under 13, we will provide the parent or legal guardian with direct notice and obtain verifiable parental consent, except where a narrow legal exception applies. A parent or guardian may consent to collection and internal use without consenting to optional public marketing or other nonessential disclosure.
Students ages 13 to the age of majority. We involve a parent or legal guardian in enrollment and use notices and consent processes suited to the student’s age and maturity. Where the law recognizes a capable youth’s independent privacy rights, we will also respect those rights.
Adult students. A student who is 18 or 19 may already be an adult depending on the applicable jurisdiction. Adult students provide their own consent and control their own privacy requests, unless they give written authorization for a parent, guardian, or another representative to act for them.
Direct communications. A parent or guardian may authorize us through the enrollment process to contact a minor student directly by email, text message, telephone, or an approved Program platform for class reminders, assignments, scheduling, safety, and coaching feedback. Direct communication with a minor will be limited to Program purposes and will not include marketing unless separate legally valid consent is obtained.
6. Recordings and public media
Live classes or showcases may be recorded for delivery, quality, safety, coaching, or internal training purposes. We will notify participants when recording is active and limit access to authorized participants, staff, coaches, and service providers as appropriate. Participants must not record, copy, or publish another student’s image, voice, submission, or personal information without authorization.
Internal participation consent is separate from public promotional consent. We will not publish a student’s photograph, video, voice, speech, testimonial, or identifying story for advertising or public promotion without the separate written permissions required by applicable law and our Enrollment Agreement and Media Release.
Any comparison shown at a student's own graduation or showcase — such as an early video shown alongside a later presentation — is shared only privately with that student's own invited family and guests, and is never published publicly or made available outside that private audience.
7. When we disclose information
We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising as those terms are defined by applicable United States state privacy laws. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 18 for advertising.
- Coaches, staff, and contractors who need the information to deliver or administer the Program and who are required to protect it.
- Service providers supporting hosting, forms, scheduling, payments, email or text delivery, virtual meetings, file storage, analytics, security, accounting, and customer support. They may use information only to provide contracted services or as otherwise permitted by law.
- Professional advisers, insurers, auditors, or legal authorities where reasonably necessary to obtain advice, protect safety or legal rights, investigate misuse, respond to lawful process, or comply with law.
- A buyer, successor, or other party involved in a proposed or completed merger, financing, reorganization, sale, or transfer of all or part of the Program, subject to appropriate confidentiality and notice where required.
We do not permit third parties to use student information for their own marketing.
8. Cookies, analytics, and privacy signals
Our website may use essential cookies and limited analytics technologies to operate, secure, and understand use of the site. Where required, nonessential cookies will not be used until consent is obtained. Available browser or cookie controls may be used to withdraw consent. If we engage in a practice that applicable law requires us to honor through a recognized universal opt-out signal, such as Global Privacy Control, we will process that signal as required.
Third-party websites and services linked from our site have their own privacy practices. We are not responsible for their independent practices, but we choose Program service providers with privacy and security in mind.
9. International processing
We and our service providers may process or store information in Canada, the United States, or other countries. Information processed outside the individual’s home jurisdiction may be subject to the laws of that location and may be accessible to courts, law enforcement, or national-security authorities there. We remain responsible for personal information transferred to service providers for processing and use contractual or other reasonable safeguards appropriate to the information and applicable law.
10. Retention, security, and incidents
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including delivery of the Program, protection of students, maintenance of business and consent records, resolution of disputes, and compliance with legal, tax, insurance, and accounting obligations. Retention periods vary by record type. Coaching recordings and student submissions will be deleted or de-identified when no longer reasonably needed, unless a longer period is separately authorized or legally required.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, including limiting access to people who need it. No storage or transmission method is completely secure. If a privacy or security incident creates a legal duty to notify affected individuals or a regulator, we will provide notice as required by applicable law.
11. Your privacy choices and rights
Depending on applicable law, an individual may have the right to request access to personal information, correction of inaccurate information, deletion, withdrawal of consent, restriction of certain uses, data portability, information about disclosures, or review of a decision on a privacy request. United States residents may also have rights to opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising and to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information. Because we state that we do not engage in those practices, no separate sale or targeted-advertising opt-out is currently necessary.
We will not discriminate against anyone for exercising a privacy right. We may need to verify identity and authority before acting. A parent or guardian may make a request for a minor where permitted; a legally authorized agent may also submit a request. We will respond within the period required by applicable law. If we deny a request, we will explain the reason and any available appeal or complaint process.
Consent may be withdrawn, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. Withdrawal may affect our ability to provide a feature or the Program where the information is necessary for that purpose. Optional marketing and public-media consent can be refused or withdrawn without losing access to the core Program, subject to uses already lawfully made under the applicable release.
12. How to make a request or complaint
Send privacy questions, requests, consent withdrawals, or complaints to our Privacy Officer using the contact information below. Please describe the request and the person whose information is involved. Do not send identity documents unless we ask for them through a secure method.
If a privacy concern is not resolved, an individual may contact the privacy or consumer-protection regulator with authority in their jurisdiction, including the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or an applicable provincial, territorial, federal, or state regulator.
13. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy to reflect changes in the Program, our service providers, or applicable law. We will post the revised version with a new effective date. If a change materially affects how we use information already collected, we will provide additional notice and obtain consent where required.
14. Contact information
Privacy Officer
Troy Aberle International Inc. & Joel Weldon's Ultimate Speaking System
Box 787, Bragg Creek, AB T0L 0K0, Canada
[email protected]
(587) 896-5806
Effective date: October 18, 2026
Last updated: October 18, 2026