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Organizing Your Speech So Your Audience Can Actually Use the Information (Remarkable Speaking for Ordinary People Video Blog Series)

Today’s topic in the Remarkable Speaking for Ordinary People Video Blog Series is How to Organize Your Speech So Your Audience Can Actually Use the Information. This may seem totally elementary, but it is woefully disregarded way too often. I want to eliminate that possibility for you. Remarkable speeches are memorable because they have awesome…

Remarkable Speaking for Ordinary People Series – Type-style

I know that sometimes you just don’t want to watch a video. Maybe you’re at work and you don’t want others to hear that you are doing a little (educational!) blog-touring. Possibly you want to scan the info first, to see if it will be worth your time. So, I’ve asked the excellent David Merrick…

Freight Trains & the Drive for Self-Expression

I spent this past week on an unexpected trip to California. My mom was sick – she is on the upswing now – and I needed to be there to help figure out who could help her get better. I am pretty tapped out on hospitals, ERs and insurance company paperwork at this point. At…

Remarkable Speaking for Ordinary People Series Intro & Overview

If you are NOT a professional public speaker – maybe you’re just starting out in your public-speaking adventure, or you are just really nervous or want a refresher on the fundamentals of great presentations (with some truly new and different angles on powerful speaking at any level of experience), this series is created precisely for…

Public-Speaking Tips from Mike Arauz’s Design for Networks Talk

Mike Arauz of Undercurrent in New York gave a great talk today for our AdBite meeting today. Here are just a few of the things he did really well that we can learn from and use easily in our own talks: Public Speaking Tips: Thoughts on Mike Arauz of Undercurrent talk for Adbite, Bend, OR…

Launch Party Fun – Join in, even from afar!

Thanks to my brilliant friend, Joan Dudley of The Sol Center, today is Launch Party Day (woo hoo!) for Vision Into Action & Your Hello Intro Self-Guided Workshop. (Without her, I don’t think I’d have thought to throw a party – but I’m sure glad we are!) We’re calling our event Launching Soul because both…

Public-speaking Video Post: Abolish Impostor Syndrome

In case the thought that you need more experience, more training, more perfection, more [fill in your belief here]… here’s how you can provide real value – and attract real clients to your business as a result – in a public speaking presentation on your area of expertise, even if you don’t know every single…

The Mindful Use of Technology for Authentic Human Connection: Wisdom 2.0 Conference Reflections

A really important conversation began this weekend. It’s a conversation that we all, on some level, know has to happen. It’s one that’s happening in many of our hearts and minds as well as in our families, marriages, within our friendships – maybe even with work colleagues. Those personal conversations have been intense, conflicted, and…

Your Hello Intro Self-Guided Workshop Update

I’m at this amazing, soul-shaking conference this weekend called Wisdom 2.0, mesmerized by speakers and panelists who take soulful business to the edges of brilliance. I am both inspired and overwhelmed by the possibilities of this approach to life and business. Can’t wait to share my many learnings with you. But I can’t just ignore…

Wabi Sabi: The Art (& Bummer) of Imperfection

I just found a pretty obvious error in my main self-study program guidebook. It’s an error I should have seen. I know it wasn’t there in previous iterations that came from the interior book designer. I know because I looked those ones over really detailed-like. But those last few revisions, I was just checking the…