How I Created My Podfest Presentation [Pecha Kucha]: Podcast Ep. 003

Deconstructing My Podfest Presentation on the Speaking Your Brand podcast

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…

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Interview 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!

Interview 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…

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Are you a chameleon or a peacock?

Chameleon vs. 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…

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Big 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,…

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This will set you apart as a speaker

Rumi quote

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,…

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Stepping Stones to Get You to a Keynote or TEDx Stage

Stepping 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…

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3 Stages We Go Through as Entrepreneurs and Speakers

3 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…

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