Episode 079 — Know You Can Do It and Meet Dr. Denise Vaughan

2-Minute Tip — Know You can do It   The first thing to know about a talk is that this IS something you can do. You can get out on stage. You can move around deliberately to make the points that you want to make. If you’re not comfortable with eye contact, that’s fine. You can come up with a solution.   But regardless of the challenges, go into it…

Episode 078 — Focus on Feeling and Meet Hilary Billings

2-Minute Tip: Focus on how you make your audience feel     Hilary tells us about her experience interviewing mega-star interviewer, host, and generally larger-than-life character Ryan Seacrest. It’s intimidating to talk to someone that big for the first time. An experience like that can overwhelm the content of the actual conversation. But when she described her experience, the main thing Ryan did was help her feel at ease. He…

Episode 077 — Influence One Person and Meet Patricia Missakian

2-Minute Tip   Influencing dozens or hundreds or thousands of people can be intimidating. That’s a lot of work, and it’s a lot of minds to change. So how do you do that when the public speaking jitters start rattling your stomach? Don’t.   Think about influencing one person in your audience, instead. Then that person can influence others and help spread your message.   The interesting thing about this…

Episode 076 — Make Eye Contact and Meet Social Media Consultant Louise Brogan

  2-Minute Tip: Make Eye Contact   Making eye contact with your audience is a great way to show them that you care and are interested in their success. It’s much more effective than looking down and a script or shuffling note cards around.   Bonus Tip: Watch the Air Quality   Before you go someplace to speak, check the air quality in the city. A simple web search should…

Episode 074 — Use a Checklist and Thoughts on Crowd Size

2-Minute Tip: Use a Checklist Everyday, thousands of airline pilots around the world pull out the same task list them read hundred or thousands of times and it out loud to their colleague. Even though they have the whole thing memorized by now, they still refer back to that list to nearly guarantee they don’t forget anything. The consequences of failure are huge. Forgetting one thing can cost hundreds of…

Episode 073 — Connect with your Audience and Meet NursePreneur Catie Harris

  2-Minute Tip: Connect with your Audience Often you don’t need to adopt a high energy approach and dance around the stage. Focus instead on making a connection with your audience. Share stories. Help them see the things they have in common with you. That makes your presentation more credible and memorable.   Post Tip Discussion: Meet NursePreneur Catie Harris   I connected initially with Catie Harris through the work…

Episode 072 — Use a Big Face and How to Memorize a Speech

  2-Minute Tip   Much of the communication we have with folks is non-verbal, and facial expressions play a big part in that.   When we conduct a presentation, though, we lose much of that subtlety because we are further from our audience. Instead of 2 feet away we are 10 or 20 feet away. To make up for that, we need to use much bigger and more dramatic facial…

Episode 070 — Speak about your Fire and Meet Dr. Melissa Bird

    2-Minute Tip — Know the thing that lights you on fire   Melissa Bird explains that the key to success is to know what lights you on fire. When you know that fire and can speak to your passion, it becomes so much easier to let your voice through regardless of the audience size.     But how do you figure out what your fire is if you…