If we wanted to drone on, we’d buy one and fly it. Don’t be a drone. As speakers, we do not want to come across as emotionless. Not showing emotion or feeling when speaking limits your ability to be authentic. My job as a speaker coach is to help you Read more…
If you’re frozen with fear before speaking, you need to let it go. When the panic sets in before you are about to speak and you feel yourself not being able to cope, and let’s face it we have all been there. Anyone who tells you that they haven’t are Read more…
Why do certain songs, once we’ve heard them, get stuck in our head? We’ve all got those ‘earworms’ those ones we can’t stop thinking about or singing to ourselves. Why do ear worms stay in our brain? Earworm songs make use of melodic patterns, along with a dash of surprise.In Read more…
It’s an oldie but a goodie. Don’t sell the sausage, sell the sizzle! Coke would never sell based on the taste. Coke sells on the feeling you get when you drink it. The feeling of refreshment of spending time with friends, of good times. Even if your speech has the Read more…
How often do I need to practise my speech before I deliver it? I have always used the advice from two very skilled artists to answer this question. The first is the singer /songwriter Bryan Adams and second is perhaps the world’s greatest actor, Sir Lawrence Olivier. Bryan Adams once Read more…
I know that in my business there will be peaks and there will be troughs. Even though the troughs may at times feel like the deepest of trenches, it is these peaks that keep me going and reaffirm for me that my message is right, my message is strong, people want to hear my message and the giving back to the community pays itself forward, back to me in the long run.