PUBLIC SPEAKING: Should You Outsource your Research? Today, I'm going to share a few reasons why you might want to seek help with your research when you're looking for public speaking opportunities. Last month I spoke at a big conference for a health association here in UK. After the event I held some private [...]
PUBLIC SPEAKING Why you need to DO YOUR AUDIENCE RESEARCH Today, I want to talk about something that's very important if you want your event to go right, and that's doing your audience research. I've been a professional performer for the last 15 years and 99.9% of my events go incredibly smoothly and I [...]
PUBLIC SPEAKING: An Easy Way to OVERCOME FEAR Today, let's talk about how to overcome your fear of public speaking. Public speaking fear is a huge issue. There are so many different reasons why people can be afraid of getting up and speaking in front of the group. One of the reasons why people [...]
Public Speaking: How To Make Your Stories More Engaging Recently, I was asked to put together a keynote talk on confidence for a corporate women's conference. While I was reviewing my stories and polishing them up a bit, it occurred to me how important it is not only to tell stories - because we [...]
Public Speaking Opportunities: The importance of follow-up Today, I want to chat about the importance of follow-up, not only in terms of securing public speaking opportunities but also in terms of your business overall. Recently, someone in my Facebook group asked a question about how to follow up and keep prospects warm so that somebody [...]
Public Speaking - is it helpful to have a book? Recently, a few people have asked me if I thought writing my book was worth the time and effort. I would say yes! And here are three reasons why: 1- Enhances your credibility as a speaker Having a book gives you cred. There have [...]
Hi! I'm a bit dolled up in today's video as I'm about to sing at a corporate event. There are, of course, vast amounts of overlap between performing and speaking and I love to speak about the business and voice-related aspects of both (as you may already know from my book 'How to be [...]
I'm currently in sunny Mallorca, Spain, celebrating my birthday and today, I want to talk about one of the hot topics in the business world which is Storytelling. There are people out there who aren't using a really powerful story to build their business and to share who they are and win more clients. [...]
Today, let's talk about business networking and why it's so important to stand out. Last week, I was chatting with the head of business development of a decent sized law firm here in London. We were talking about some potential training opportunities for their staff. He mentioned that some of their staff don't enjoy [...]
Today's blog is all about creating your own signature system and why it’s so important for your business. It may seem like a hassle to have to fit what you do into an easy to remember framework, especially if you're reverse-engineering it...ie, you already have your process and now you have to try to [...]
