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July 19, 2022
How to Talk about Change
How should speakers, writers, and other communicators talk about change most effectively? Not the way we’ve been doing it. Not with all the moral outpourings that usually go with the change imperative. How else? To understand the answer, it’s important to think about how we deal with change. Not well. We beat ourselves up over ...
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July 15, 2022
E28 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick talks to former lawyer and keynote speaker Heather Hansen
Heather Hansen is a former courtroom lawyer who now divides her time amongst keynote speaking, training, and coaching.
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July 12, 2022
What the Next 15 Years Will Be Like
I began this blog 15 years ago, with a post about the ancient Greeks and Romans – specifically about an amphitheater I had visited in Fiesole, a tiny town in the Tuscan hills of Italy which nonetheless supports some very respectable Roman ruins, including a substantial baths, Etruscan villas, and the aforesaid amphitheater. This summer, ...
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July 8, 2022
E27 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Catches up with Stacey Copas Founder of the Academy of Resilience
Stacey is the Author of How to Be Resilient, a professional speaker, and Founder of the Academy of Resilience.
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July 1, 2022
E26 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick talks to Leadership expert and Co-author of You’re It – Eric McNulty
Eric McNulty is the Co-author of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most. Eric is the Associate Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard.
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June 24, 2022
E25 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan catches up with psychotherapist and professional speaker Amy Morin
Amy Morin is the author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do and 3 other books. A fifth book is planned for publication next year. She is a wildly successful speaker: her TED talk has over 20 million views. And she is the Editor in Chief of The Verywell Mind podcast. ...
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June 17, 2022
E24 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan checks in with classical guitarist and composer Aaron Larget-Caplan
Aaron Larget-Caplan is a classical guitarist, composer, and teacher. His newest work is a collection of his own pieces, Honey Cadence, available in the usual places where music is sold. You can visit him at https://www.alcguitar.com/
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June 14, 2022
Four Commitments Audiences Want from their Speakers
In my ongoing occasional series on the persona that a speaker presents to the audiences she addresses, I’ve talked about finding the right balance of warmth and expertise, as well as a touch of humor. Those attributes, in the right mix for each individual, form an excellent basis for the beginning of a strong, unique ...
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June 10, 2022
E23 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan catches up with Author and Leadership Speaker Glenn Llopis
Glenn Llopis rose up through the ranks in the corporate world, holding executive positions at Coca Cola, and other Fortune 500 firms, as well as participating in various start-ups as an entrepreneur. Currently, he is President of GLLG, a consulting firm, and founder of the Age of Personalization Movement. He is the author ...
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June 7, 2022
Why We Get Defensive, in Neuroscientific Terms
We are still in the early days of understanding how our brains work. Neuroscience adds to our bank of knowledge at a steady clip, but there is so much we don’t understand – and that contradicts our common-sense guesswork on how the brain might work – that we do well to recognize that we are ...
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