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I recently interviewed Grant Baldwin of The Speakers Lab about how to find public speaking gigs and get paid to speak. The interview was fascinating. Grant gives five simple steps for booking public speaking gigs and getting paid to speak. He also talks a lot about how to build your […]
Congratulations! You’ve been invited to give a TED talk. This non-profit talk series is the gold standard of speeches, so you should be honored to be on the event’s roster. Not to mention, how great it will look on your resume and website. You’ve undoubtedly been chosen because you’re an
What better way to honor and celebrate the holiday than by critiquing one of the greatest, well-known speeches. Before we begin analyzing The Gettsyburg Address, let’s dive into the history and math to put it into context. David Wills invited Abraham Lincoln to give this speech as a way to
I have to admit, I was a bit nostalgic in Cincinnati this week. For the first time since the pandemic hit, we taught a presentation class in Cincinnati, Ohio. Granted, this was a fairly small class. But the folks who attended were so fun to work with, I had an
I had a lot of fun leading a custom public speaking class for a team from Blue Marble toys this week. Although the company is based in Oregon, we met in Las Vegas, Nevada. The group gathered from various cities all over the US, though. So, Las Vegas was an
If you improve your storytelling, you can easily improve your stature as a speaker. In our technology-centered world, information moves very quickly. We are constantly bombarded with so much information that out of necessity, we disregard much of what we are exposed to. Psychologists fifty years ago determined that the
