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E43 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick talks to the Founder and CEO of Amplify Publishing Group Naren Aryal

Naren Aryal is the Founder and CEO of Amplify Publishing Group, one of the pioneers of the industry and a twenty-year veteran of the fast-changing book publishing world.

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A Tribute to Maria Popova and the Marginalian – Part 2

The second of three articles inspired by The Marginalian. One of the glories of the Internet is Maria Popova’s The Marginalian.  If you don’t know it, click on the link, sign up, and start having your soul fed every week in unexpected, thought-provoking, and beautiful ways.  Recently, she wrote about the sixteen things she has learned ...

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E42 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick talks to the Founder and manager of Blackview Capital Advisors Jay Freeman

Jay Freeman is the Founder and manager of Blackview Capital Advisors, a private equity firm focusing on mid-sized companies. He has more than a decade of experience in the capital markets, and in management consulting.

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A Tribute to Maria Popova and the Marginalian

One of the glories of the Internet is Maria Popova’s The Marginalian.  If you don’t know it, click on the link, sign up, and start having your soul fed every week in unexpected, thought-provoking, and beautiful ways.  Recently, she wrote about the sixteen things she has learned from sixteen years of doing her blog.  I ...

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E41 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick catches up with award-winning author, speaker and business coach Pam Slim

Pamela Slim is an award-winner author, speaker and business coach who works with small business owners ready to scale their businesses and IP. She is the author of Escape from Cubicle Nation (Penguin Portfolio, 2009), Body of Work (Penguin Portfolio, 2014) and The Widest Net (McGraw Hill, November, 2021) ...

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How Does Your Voice Measure Up?

One of the most neglected areas of potential improvement for speakers and executives who want to up their game is the strategic use of the voice.  Perhaps because, as people so often report, no one likes the sound of their own voice, few of these leaders invest the time in working on improving their voices.  ...

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What Do Your Audiences Remember?

How can you, a keynote speaker or perhaps a more humble everyday presenter, increase what your audience retains of your speech or presentation?  After all, whether you are grand or humble, you put a lot of work into the talk, most likely sweating the details, and surviving the nerves, in order to deliver the goods ...

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E40 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick chats to founder of Yoodli, and a former employee of GoogleX Varun Puri

Varun Puri is the founder of Yoodli, and a former employee of GoogleX. Varun is on a mission to democratize access to speech coaching and make it accessible to everyone. Yoodli is using AI to improve public speaking. Watch the full episode to learn more. ...

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What About That Hybrid Workplace?

As the pandemic has worked its dreary, disastrous way with us over the past couple of years, the talk in communication circles has been about the new hybrid nature of the workplace.  Meaning, of course, that we can now handle a mix of in-person and virtual interactions, from one day to the next, and even ...

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How Hard Is It to Change, Really?

A study I saw recently from a few years back brought into question my long-held assumption that most people find change difficult and resist it mightily.  More on the study in a moment. First, as I’ve quoted my grandmother saying before, “the only people who crave change are wet babies.”  And it’s not just me:  ...

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