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Niching & Pitching for Business Success with Edie Berg [Coaching]: Podcast Ep. 005
Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts. It seems counter-intuitive, but it’s true: the narrower the niche for your business (or podcast), the more successful it will be. In this episode, I talk with my guest Edie Berg about her shift in focus from strong women to strong Jewish women, some of her concerns in…
Read MoreHow I Created My Podfest Presentation [Pecha Kucha]: Podcast Ep. 003
Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts. In this episode of the Speaking Your Brand podcast, I’m taking you behind the scenes as I deconstruct the key elements of the presentation I recently gave at Podfest Multimedia Expo, which is a podcasting conference. I’ll do the speech for you (it’s less than 7 minutes) and then I’ll deep…
Read MoreGetting Paid Speaking Gigs with Heather Ryan [Coaching]: Podcast Ep. 001
Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Heather Ryan looks like an elementary school teacher, but for 14 years she served as a Special Agent with NCIS (no wonder she was so effective under cover and as an interrogator!). Now, she teaches effective safety techniques for women and offers innovative prevention education for men, from…
Read MoreInterview with A Well-Designed Business 140: Today We Celebrate the 1st Birthday of A Well-Designed Business! Carol Cox of Speaking Your Brand Interviews LuAnn!
Today I have been invited to interview LuAnn Nigara, host of the podcast A Well-Designed Business, which is celebrating its one year birthday! LuAnn Nigara is an award-winning window treatment authority, author, host of one of the most popular podcasts for the design industry, and overall business dynamo. Find the show notes and listen to the…
Read MoreAre you a chameleon or a peacock?
Chameleons seem pretty cool. They’re brightly colored, adaptable, able to go with the flow and fit in regardless of the environment. I identify a lot with being a chameleon: I can jump from group to group and converse on any number of topics, from code and artificial intelligence to history and politics to business and…
Read MoreBig Changes + Announcement
I made a pretty big decision a couple of weeks ago about my business. (Tbh, I’m hesitant to write and send this email because I don’t want it to come across as self-indulgent. The reason I’m sharing this with you is because seeing behind the scenes in someone else’s business has proven useful to me,…
Read MoreThis will set you apart as a speaker
I’ve been listening to TEDx talks by women to find potential guests for my new podcast. Their talks are well done – good delivery on important topics in women and leadership. But most of them are missing that X factor that makes them intriguing and memorable. They haven’t moved beyond the WHAT into the WHY,…
Read MoreStepping Stones to Get You to a Keynote or TEDx Stage
If you’re reading this, I know you’re interested in upleveling your speaking. You imagine yourself as the keynote speaker at an important conference in your industry or you’re standing on a stage giving a TEDx talk that blows the audience away. I know you’re fully capable of doing this. But, here’s the thing: to get…
Read More3 Stages We Go Through as Entrepreneurs and Speakers
There are three stages we go through as entrepreneurs and even as speakers: Experimentation, Intention, and Growth. Because my business was still new in 2016, I was all about Stage 1 – Experimentation: trying different things to see what worked and what didn’t, what I liked doing and what I didn’t, which kinds of clients…
Read MoreInterview with Women Taking the Lead 189: Carol Cox on When it’s Okay Not to Smile
In this interview with Women Taking the Lead I discuss when it’s ok to not smile. I believe that as high-performing women we change the paradigm, the perception of ambitious women, by more of us actively and visibly pursuing bigger, audacious goals, raising our voices and sharing our stories about what really matters – on…
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