Confessions of a Pageant King

Have you heard of cross-pollination? Not the bee kind, the kind where you take an idea from one field and use it to level up something completely different. Think of people like Leonardo da Vinci or Steve Jobs. They were masters at it. Da Vinci blended art with anatomy. Jobs fused engineering with storytelling and taste. Their biggest breakthroughs came from mixing disciplines, not staying in thei...

Next mock interview is on Thursday 27th November at 8pm EST. Sign up at pageantmock.com (4 spots left). I don’t know about you, but for the past couple of weeks, every time I opened my phone, there seemed to be a fresh Miss Universe drama waiting for me. And whilst the pageant fans and “experts” are still critiquing and breaking down what happened, I’m more interested in the practical lessons we c...

A very well known and well respected US pageant titleholder once gave me the title of “The Pageant Shrink” after a long and emotional conversation about a deeply disappointing episode she’d experienced in the pageant industry. Conversations like this aren’t rare for me. I’ve been called on to act as everything from legal counsel to pageant confidante and everything in between. Part of that is my e...

To join our next mock interview or view upcoming dates, click the button below or go to pageantmock.com : Welcome to the replay of our first ever pageant mock interview session. In Tuesday’s email I mentioned that we would be experimenting with weekly mock interview sessions. You can join in two ways: * Pay $19.99 for a single session * Become a monthly subscriber for $19.99 and attend every weekl...

If you’re a paid member, you should have already received early access to our new weekly live mock interviews (together with your complimentary spot and coupon code). If you’re one of our regular readers, good news — you can now join too. Each live session gives you the chance to: * Practice real interview questions under pressure * Watch other contestants’ answers in real time * Learn exactly wha...

In Tuesday’s email , I shared my plans for a free pageant interview training built from the nearly 400 interviews I’ve done over the past decade. If you haven’t already, take two minutes to help shape that training by completing this short survey: 👉 pageantmock.com Introducing Weekly Mock Interview Practice (Paid Members Only) The free training will cover interview fundamentals, but many of you h...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe --- (TL:DR—visit pageantmock.com and tell me YOUR biggest frustrations with pageant interview). I got quite frustrated last week. I’ve be...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Zoe Zoe McGrady is an engineer, professional model, content creator and youth mentor based in New York City. Zoe attended Du...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe --- When Did Mature Become a Bad Thing? I was working with a new pageant interview client today. She had just aged out of Teen and was ab...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Nicole Nicole Taylor, Miss Illinois Volunteer 2026, is a conservation major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign a...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe If you ever want to guarantee chaos, try filming a serious video with a cat in the room. Mine decided the exact moment I hit record was t...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Christell Pageant queen turned entrepreneur, you may know Christell Foote as 3rd runner up to Miss USA or 1st runner up to M...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Kelsey Kelsey Craft is a board-certified Physician Assistant with a passion for aesthetics and wellness, currently serving a...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe There’s no disputing the fact that social media and pageantry have become intricately intertwined over the last twenty years. Being able...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Mina Founder of Love Your Neighbor VT Inc (a 501c3 nonprofit) helping youth coping with family/friends struggling with alcoh...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe Every year I watch contestants obsess over gowns, walks, platforms, and paperwork, yet the one thing that determines everything else gets...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Nikolina Nikolina Vujcic was born and raised in Des Plaines, Illinois, and is a proud first-generation Serbian-American. Tri...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Elle Elle Hinojosa is a proud Hispanic-American entrepreneur whose journey has been defined by resilience, creativity, and p...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Sanne-Esmee Sanne-Esmee Walstra is Miss Earth Netherlands 2025. Her love for nature began in childhood, spending summers cam...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe I see it all the time. You’re putting in the hours, you’re grinding, you’re doing “practice” for interview… but you’re not actually getti...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Rebecca Rebecca West is a senior at Frostburg State University, where she proudly serves as a cheerleader and an advocate fo...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe Quick update before we get into it: The Beginner’s Guide to Pageantry is still on track for a mid-October launch. More details soon. I am...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe 👑 About Peyton Meet Peyton Christen, your reigning Miss Georgia Volunteer! A speed painter, performer, advocate, and proud chicken l...

Each week, I share no-fluff pageant coaching that helps you win. Both on stage and off. After coaching titleholders in Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss America, and 350+ pageant interviews, this isn’t theory. It’s what works. https://thepageantproject.com/subscribe Miss USA: Ownership Drama and Dates Finally Drop If you’ve been following the Miss USA saga, you know it’s been… messy. Thom Brodeur popp...

Normally, I’d be using Thursdays to answer questions from our paid subscribers in our weekly Q&A video. But unless you’ve been living under a rock, you no doubt have heard or read about the assassination of conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk, as well as the brutal murder of young Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska on a light rail service in North Carolina. By the way, if you haven’t been t...