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PAGEANT PHONE COACHING | INTERVIEW HELP | PRACTICE QUESTIONS

 
   
 

ARE YOU READY TO WIN?

g I want this Web site to be a valuable tool for teens and adults who are preparing for pageants. Whether you are getting ready to compete at the local, state or national level, we wish you the best of luck in your preparations.

Sincerely, Justin!

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1,001 QUESTIONS REVIEW
by Pageant News Bureau
CAPTURE THE CROWN
A Winning Pageant Interview
IN THE NEWS
What the Media is saying
MY PAGEANT STORY
Share your Story
SUCCESS STORIES
What Mrs. America 2006 and others are saying about 1,001 Questions and Justin Rudd's pageeant coaching
PAGEANT COACHING
All areas of Competition
FREE FIVE-A-WEEK CLUB
Practice interview questions e-mailed every week
MORE FREE PREP TIPS
Pageants@YahooGroups
Q&A'S
Frequently Asked Questions
ABOUT JUSTIN RUDD!
A Pageant Expert
Private Coaching
Phone Coaching

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JUSTIN RUDD, THE PAGEANT EXPERT
COACHING WINNERS SINCE 1989

JUSTIN RUDD is a 38-year-old native of south Alabama who grew up fascinated with televised pageants.  He also watched his two older sisters find success in pageants.  While in college in Birmingham he served on the committee for a local Miss America preliminary. After graduation, Rudd co-produced the Miss Southeast Alabama USA & Miss North Alabama USA pageants where both Teen and Miss winners went on to capture the State titles and competed in the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants. While helping to prepare his local titleholders, he realized his talent for helping young women to achieve success.

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RUDD HAS JUDGED, coached and/or directed pageants across the country in the Miss America, Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, America's Junior Miss, Miss America's Outstanding Teen, Miss Young America, Miss United States Woman, National Mrs., Mrs. International, Mrs. America, Mrs. World, Miss Universe, Galaxy International, Beauties of America, Mrs. United States, National American Miss, and Miss Plus America systems, as well as many other local and regional programs.

HIS PAGEANT SERVICES range from intensive one-on-one interview coaching and fitness training to bio/fact sheet critiquing and offering clients his collection of 1,001 pageant interview practice questions. He also coordinates the FREE Five-A-Week Club, whereby pageant hopefuls are sent five practice interview questions in their weekly e-mail. He has produced numerous local and regional pageants and has served as a judge and board member of various pageants since 1989.

Justin Rudd coaches pageant contestants, specializing in interview skills and techniques for older teens and adults.  He works with approx. 15 women each week in one-hour private interview sessions, both by phone and in his home.  He also sends free pageant practice questions each week by e-mail -- to almost 3,500 pageant contestants, coaches, directors and judges around the world -- through his free Five-A-Week Club program. 

Some of his most current successful clients include Mrs. America 2006 (top-10 at Mrs. World), and Miss Calif. USA 2006 (1st Runner-up to Miss USA)

HE EVEN COACHES other pageant coaches.

Years ago he compiled "Justin Rudd’s 1,001 Pageant Questions" that are sold online at his www.PageantStar.com site for $24.95.  The Questions are used by pageant contestants, judges, directors and coaches around the world. 

He currently moderates six online pageant message boards that he started in 1999. 

In pageant interview coaching with Justin, CONTESTANTS WILL LEARN:

  • What to do and exactly when to get ready for a pageant.
  • What a bio sheet should (and should not) say about a contestant.
  • When to (and when not to) shake a judge's hand.
  • The questions you're most likely to hear from the judges. 
  • What not to say to a judge.
  • What judges want to know about you.
  • The #1 most-asked pageant interview questions and great answers for them.
  • The topics that make judges like you.
  • How long your interview answers should be.
  • What to do right before entering the judges' interview room.
  • How to handle a judges panel and who to look at.
  • The million dollar answer to: "What's the biggest problem facing us today?"
  • What to say when you don't know the answer to a judge's question.
  • Key tips every winner knows before her pageant day.
  • How to present dynamic opening and closing statements.
  • Common mistakes and pitfalls on bio/info sheets.
  • What to say when you don't know the answer.
  • Where to go for help with public speaking.
  • Recovery techniques when you think you've screwed up the interview.
  • Ways to calm your nerves before the interview.
  • Techniques for at-your-home pageant practice.
  • The importance and necessity of a pageant coach.
  • What to say in conclusion before leaving the judges.
  • Controversial topics that a contestant should avoid.
  • What judges are looking for and what they don't care about.
  • Current events that you should have opinions about.
  • The importance of first impressions.
  • Much more.
    E-mail JustinRudd@yahoo.com or call 562/439-3316 to set up a coaching appointment. $60/hour.

When Justin moved to Southern California in 1995 he sang at the televised world premiere for the Hunchback of Notre Dame and at the Hollywood world premiere of Mulan. He has sung with Disney Special Events in Las Vegas, New Orleans, Hollywood and at Disneyland. He was the hand double for Jim Carrey in the movie Liar, Liar.

Currently, he lives in Long Beach, CA and is the executive director of a nonprofit organization and a fitness instructor. His charitable organization, Community Action Team, includes work and fundraisers for local environmental, youth education, and animal causes. Justin enjoys foreign and domestic travel, homemade chocolate chip cookies, fitness, going to the beach and spending time with his nine-year-old English bulldog named Rosie. Justin and Rosie appeared on the Animal Planet's game show, You Lie Like a Dog. They also filmed an episode for HGTV's Going Home.

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