How Speech Spelunking Leads To Clarity

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 …

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 …

How To Make A Speech, Order Your Book Now!

From discovering your message to speaking on a virtual platform, How To Make A Speech is an easy to use book that offers insightful advice and practical steps to transforming your ideas to stand and deliver speeches. Purchase Your Copy Now! Twice Five Mile Amazon “Barrie is an incredible speech coach, with an articulate and succinct way of teaching that …

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, …