Speaking Tip: Gain Audience Interest WITHOUT Saying a Word

One of the most powerful speaking tools that can touch the heart of an audience has nothing to do with words. It sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s true. This strategy can take others deeper into your story and create more connection to your main character(s). What is...

How to Put Your Audience into Your Story

What makes a great story exceptional and memorable for years, versus an ordinary story which is quickly forgettable? There can be several reasons. I believe the most important is: bringing that story to life through dialogue. How do you do that? In previous articles,...

How to Bring Your Audience Into Your Story

Re-LIVE Your Story It was an unexpected moment. In front of 1,000 people, Anthony was giving the speech he’d been practicing for months.  At the end of a key story – about an experience in his apartment in college – he stopped. He took a couple of steps to...

Speak About the Future

 Bring the Future to Life When You Speak On September 12, 1962, President John F Kennedy stood before 35,000 people at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas, and presented a seemingly impossible vision to the nation: “…If I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we...