Swat up on public speaking skills
Read my public speaking skills blog and your brain will get very big and strong, I promise.
🐊 Your Alligator Brain & Influence
Your audience’s brain works like an alligator’s—instinctive, reactive, and focused on ease. Learn how to harness this primal decision-making process to improve persuasion, public speaking, and presentations. This blog post explores cognitive psychology, influence techniques, and how to craft messages that resonate. Perfect for business leaders, sales teams, and professionals looking to captivate and convince. #PublicSpeaking #Persuasion #Influence #PresentationSkills
Your 7 smiles and the signals they’re sending to your audience
The Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland sitting on a tree branch grinning.
3 mistakes you’re making in the first 15 seconds of your presentations (& how Tinder can help you fix them)
Your first utterances are like a movie trailer. You want your audience to be absolutely transfixed. Eyes wide and super glued to you. Handfuls of popcorn halfway to their agape mouths. Phones silently tucked in their pockets. Ready for the show.
Give presentations that are maps, not mazes. Here’s how.
Every Easter Sunday, the Easter bunny would leave a single clue on the kitchen counter. This clue led to a trail of other clues (and plenty of dead ends) as all scavenger hunts do. Sometimes way finding to the next slip of paper took (what felt like) hours to complete (exhausting for children and parents).
As the years progressed, so did the Easter bunny.
The scandalous underbelly of American Idol
June.
2019.
California.
I was sweating and standing in line, fingers crossed, to make the cut for admission as a live audience member of an American Idol episode.