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Is Venting a Good Thing to Do?

We humans are simple in some big, basic neuroscientific ways.  Two of them are that we are far more tribal than we are aware of, and that we spend far more of our brain keeping track of where we are in space than we know.  Put those two ideas together, and you have an interesting ...

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Does Your Voice Belong to You?

Once again, I welcome the inimitable Jessica Cooper, who has a fascinating insight to share on the role of our voices in our lives. This post comes from work we are doing together on a new book about the voice.   We tend to think of our voices as ours alone -- belonging to us, like a ...

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What’s Your Motivational Speech?

Every time you speak, you’re not just informing — you’re persuading, nudging, inspiring – changing the audience, changing the world. So whether you like the title or not, you are a motivational speaker. Now, motivational speakers sometimes get a bad name for capitalizing on a handicap or a life trauma – and for shaming their ...

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How to Cure an Audience’s Loneliness

Something like a third of humanity reports feeling lonely in the last week, globally, as has been widely reported, probably by lonely journalists.  In spite, perhaps, of all the press reports about an epidemic of loneliness in recent years, the number seems to be holding roughly steady over the past couple of decades.  The one ...

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The Voice Is More Than Sound: How Your Whole Body Shapes What We Hear

For this week’s blog post I’m delighted to welcome back our PW voice coach, Jessica Cooper, as author, for a science-based assessment of how you produce your voice. Hint:  it's not what you think.   The voice is more than just sound.  It is the mouth, hands, face, nasal passages, and the auditory system.  And this ...

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How Much Should You Charge for a Speech?

We have a complicated relationship with money, especially when it comes to getting paid for the work we do.  More money makes us happier – but only up to a point, according to research from 2018.  (https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...).  Now, new research says that rich people are getting happier, and poor people unhappier – in the West.  ...

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Why You Should Hum Before You Speak

For this week’s blog post I’m delighted to welcome back our PW voice coach, Jessica Cooper, as author, for the second of two articles on care of the voice. Whether you're preparing to speak in front of a crowd or simply trying to ground yourself in a moment of anxiety, humming might just be the ...

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Conquer Anxiety & Master Your Voice

Nick chats to fellow coach Jimmy Cannon about how conquering anxiety will help you master your voice. As a public speaking coach specialising in voice pedagogy and performance anxiety, Jimmy Cannon helps business leaders, entrepreneurs, and teams find and master their unique voice. His goal is simple: to help clients communicate with clarity, ...

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The 15 Forces that Motivate Us Humans

Humans are beautifully, gorgeously complex, and that means that communicating with them is perennially challenging.  But every now and then along comes research that helps us get a clearer picture on their motivations, and that aids us to zero in on how to connect best with our often-mysterious fellow beings. The study in this case ...

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Practicing DEI with a Yoda Mindset

In this episode of Just One Question Nick talks to Dr Eden Reneé Hayes about her latest TEDx talk, where she explains the link between Yoda and DEI. Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes has built a career in diversity, equity, and inclusion. She shepherds individuals and organizations toward sustainable DEI solutions. Her areas of expertise are ...

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