If you are an entrepreneur, professional or innovator, you live in the deep waters of your ideas, vision, and details. When someone asks, “what do you do?” – do you find yourself at a loss for words? Add an audience – whether it’s a job interview, investors, or a potential client considering your company for their project, and your tongue …
Are you a glib-wiz or a preparer?
Sam walked into our session with positive energy radiating from every core of his being: enthusiasm, readiness and a big smile to match. I watched two of his videos where he demonstrated that same energy. Sam’s a glib-wiz – those folks who know their business or their products so well – they can speak about it in a moment’s notice. …
What Is Full Spectrum Speaking?
“…stories are the single best inspirational, motivational, and instructional tool that we have.” ~ Richard Krevolin Imagine, making $55,000 per minute the next time you give a speech? In March 2012, Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative raised 1 million dollars after his 18-minute TED Talk, We Need to Talk about Injustice. Bryan Stevenson delivers a cadre …
After her 3rd TEDx Talk draft….
I asked – “what do you do?” Up to this point, Ginger’s speech drafts used vague and abstract language and overly repeated phrases. Here’s the problem: Ginger knows exactly what she does and why, but to articulate it into language, messaging and voice is challenging her. I’ll raise my hand on this one too! Maybe you can relate? I’m an …
Words Make Worlds
My mother wrote in my baby book, “De De” as my first uttered words. For those of you who are parents, hearing your child’s first word is a momentous occasion. By the time we’re adults, 20,000 to 30,000 words fill our vocabulary cadre. “Words make worlds,” writes Krista Tippett in Becoming Wise. Words heal, hurt, illuminate and affirm. Words describe, …