Michelle Mazur
In our look-at-me, everyone’s-a-winner, make 6-figures from speaking in 6-minutes, social media-crazed society, the easy way to attempt to grow your speaking business is to focus on what you can take from your audience and ignore the audience experience entirely. Everyone is doing it, right? Those ever popular selling from the stage formulas encourage you…
Read MoreSince coaches can help with your fitness goals, your golf swing and your kid’s baseball team, doesn’t it make sense to hire a speech coach to help you achieve the next level of speaking success? Yes, of course, but before you let your fingers Google “speech coach,” you need to get clarity on few things…
Read MoreIs vulnerability the silver bullet to speaking success? Not necessarily. A presentation infused with personal anecdotes can be powerful, but when you’re in the midst of a vulnerability hangover you’re just exposing yourself and giving your audience too much information, rather than leaving them changed. Every time you step on the stage, you must ask…
Read MoreJust like the Force that pulls Luke to the good side and Vader to the dark, persuasion is inherently neutral. It’s how a speaker uses a persuasive technique that makes it ethical (good) or manipulative (bad). When persuasion is used ethically, it is an amazing tool! Persuasion can create incredible results for your speaking and…
Read MoreSuccess is a journey. On those days we think we might never achieve the speaking success we strive for, we’d sell our soul for someone to dish out the recipe that results in the most amazing speech EVAH. The problem? That recipe will flop for you. Sad, but oh so true. There is no best…
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