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Do You Want the Bad News or the Good News First? How Neuroscience Can Help Us Be Better Speakers

Neuroscientists are now able to tell us startlingly specific things about how our brains work.  Recent research details ways to use our brains to improve our lot in life, whether it’s thinking happy thoughts or getting rid of negative ones.  It turns out that we don’t have to passively accept what our brains think about.  […]

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Just One Question Episode 51: Nick talks to global speaker management expert Tony D’Amelio

Tony D’Amelio is a veteran of the business of bringing talent and audiences together since 1969. He started in the music business and then switched to speakers, where he has remained ever since. Podcast Available Here:

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How’s Your Empathy Holding Up?

Public Words has been running an empathy quiz for the past 2 years, and we now have 2,000 responses.  So it’s time to check in with the numbers and see what kind of empathy scores we’ve been getting as a human race, or at least the part of it that responds to questionnaires. And, naturally […]

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Just One Question Episode 50: Nick chats with author Mitch Joel founder of Six Pixels Group.

Mitch Joel is Founder of Six Pixels Group – an advisory, investing and content producing company that is focused on brands, commerce, community and what’s next.  Mitch is also a bestselling business book author.  His first book, Six Pixels of Separation (Grand Central Publishing – Hachette Book Group), named after his successful blog and podcast […]

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Is Pausing Dangerous for Public Speaking?

I’ve written a number of times about the power of the pause in public speaking – pausing before you start in order to build suspense, pausing at key moments to let your point land, pausing to control the pace of your talk.  Pausing also shows respect to your listeners by indicating that you care what […]

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Just One Question Episode 49: Nick talks to mountain climber and professional speaker Sue Ershler

Sue Ershler started climbing mountains as a hobby, something to do on her holidays, and ended up becoming, with her husband Phil, the first couple to climb the highest mountains on each of the seven continents, culminating in Mount Everest, and their book, Together on Top of the World. Her career as an IT sales […]

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Public Words are delighted to join with the world and celebrate World Speech Day 2021.

Simon Gibson launched World Speech Day in 2015.  As founder, he says of the origin of the organization, “I am a writer and speech writer and the idea for World Speech Day came from my work in setting up a database for speeches. Reading and listening to speeches every day, it just became clear to […]

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What’s happened to our attention spans during the pandemic?

Attention spans are widely misapplied, misused, and misunderstood.  The classic attention span research established that college students could pay attention for about 21-22 minutes.  At minute 22, their brains would suddenly turn to jello, leak out of their heads, and disappear into their uncomfortable lecture-hall chairs, never to return.  But other studies have found that […]

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Just One Question Episode 48: Nick chats to legendary professional speaker and author Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte is one of the legends in our field of presenting and public speaking. She’s the CEO of Duarte and the author several extraordinary books on presentation, storytelling and design. Podcast Available Here:

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Is the Pandemic Too Serious for Humor?

Tammy Miller is a Past International Director and Accredited Speaker of Toastmasters International and a member of the PA Auctioneers Association and National Auctioneers Association.  In 2015, Tammy was chosen by the Huffington Post as one of the “15 Women Over 50” in the United States to watch. As a speech coach, she has helped […]

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