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Should You Rehearse in Front of a Mirror?

I’ve often had clients and others tell me that they’ll rehearse in front of a mirror in order to practice a speech or some important part of a speech.  It seems like a good idea in principal, doesn’t it?  You can try out various expressions, gestures, and stances and see what works.  You can test […]

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Should You Fake It Until You Make It?

We’ve all heard the advice, usually at some low points in our lives, from a well-meaning friend:  just fake it until you make it, Nick!  Meaning, just pin that sh*t-eating grin on your face and go do the job you were hired to do, or the speech you were brought in to give, or the […]

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Can your Ideas Be Translated into other Languages?

Have you ever wondered whether the meanings of concepts behind words are similar from one culture to another?  In other words, do “love” and its apparent equivalents in other languages mean the same thing in all languages? You’d be pardoned, perhaps, for thinking “of course – what else could ‘love’ mean?”  Surprisingly, that’s not the […]

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How Helpful Is Failure Really?

Failure is fashionable.  At least to judge from the public speaking world, where it is a popular topic and where it’s a poor conference or meeting that doesn’t have someone celebrating the delights of failure and its improving lessons.  Fail Fast is a popular business mantra, and many a startup CEO, or high-tech wunderkind routinely […]

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My Public Speaking New Year’s Resolutions for 2020

Happy New Year 2020!  I’ve waited a few days on my New Year’s resolutions, hiding under a news-free rock, in the vain hope that a miracle would suddenly set the world right, we’d all start thinking and behaving reasonably, politicians would start talking to one another again, and the royal family would be OK. Didn’t […]

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Are You Building a Fanocracy? A Q and A with David Meerman Scott

David Meerman Scott is a long-time friend and I’ve had the distinct pleasure of coaching him from time to time, too.  His perennial bestseller, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, launched his career over a decade ago, and he’s coming out with a 7th edition of that classic this spring.  David has spoken about […]

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The Reduced-Field Democratic Debate Offers Some Surprises

Something extraordinary happened at the Democratic debate last night:  it got interesting.  With a mere seven candidates on stage, the debate got to go more deeply into the issues, and to hear more from each of the people on stage.  What happened when we saw and learned more about these candidates? What did they do […]

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What’s the Future of Hybrid Publishing? A Q and A with Jesse Finkelstein of Page Two

In the bad old days, a decade or more ago, would-be authors only had one real choice about where to publish.  In the US, that meant going to one of the traditional half-dozen big publishing companies (think Simon and Schuster).  Because the traditional book system has gatekeepers at every step of the way in order […]

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Public Speaking and the Imposter Syndrome – what can you do about it?

Most of the successful public speakers I know suffer from some form of the imposter syndrome.  It’s often not something that they feel comfortable talking about, but it’s there, lurking in the wings as they wait to go onstage.  Or it sits with them after the speech in the hotel room as they wait for […]

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Karen Gross, Singer-Speechwriter

Regular readers of this blog will know that I believe the essence of successful speaking resides in the voice.  Without a voice, literally speaking, you don’t have a speaker.  But speakers depend upon their voices for far more than that obvious minimal requirement.  Voices inspire, reveal, connect, power and persuade and more.  The strength or […]

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