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…
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All Public Speaking is NOT Created Equal
Five minutes is really not that long. It takes more than 5 minutes just to get my three daughters from the living room, up our short flight of stairs and into the bathroom to brush teeth at night (often 2X 5 minutes.) You can be five minutes late to a meeting or lunch date and…
3 Ways to Eliminate Public Speaking Anxiety (and other kinds of social anxiety)
My husband and I got married in our (very small) backyard, with forty of our closest friends and family. We wanted it small and intimate. The ceremony was co-created with our guests such that each was invited to bring a reading, item, book, reflection… anything they wanted (a joke began early about performing an interpretive…
Being on TV Causes Anxiety
Yesterday I posted about my interview about our upcoming E-Eloquence Workshop on KOHD’s Daybreak program. In that post, I talked about how fun it was and how cool Lauren Biskind is and generally rah-rah’d about the whole experience. I stand by that – it was all those things. When I read over that post last…
It's What You Know That Counts
Think about your favorite topic right now. The thing that makes you giddy, excited, totally engaged and immersed. Maybe it’s football. Or knitting. Or honey bees. Doesn’t matter. Now, tell me about it. Tell me a story about it. Then tell me how it works. Tell me what I can do with this information to…