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You're sitting at your desk on a Tuesday afternoon. The inbox is quiet. The last three proposals you sent out got no response. The event you spoke at last month felt flat. And the voice in your head is getting louder: maybe this isn't for you. Maybe it's time to get a real job. Maybe God's moved on ...
He had been giving the same talk for three years. Audiences clapped. Event organisers smiled. Nobody complained. So he assumed it was good.
Then he joined a speaker peer group. At his first session, he delivered his talk and waited for the praise. Instead, a woman in the group said: "Your content i...
You've been on stage for 45 minutes. The content was strong. The audience was engaged. You told a great story in the middle that had the whole room leaning in. And then... you said "So, yeah. That's pretty much it. Thanks for having me." And it was over.
All that momentum. Gone. Because the close f...
A woman once approached a speaker after a corporate training event. She waited until the room had cleared. Then she said quietly, "You don't know this, but what you said about starting over? I was going to give up. On my business. On everything. I'm not going to now."
The speaker had no idea. She'd...
She almost didn't go. The conference was across the country, the ticket wasn't cheap, and she was convinced everyone else in the room would be further ahead than she was. But she went. And the speaker she sat next to at lunch - someone she had assumed was a competitor - ended up referring her for th...
You've been invited to speak at a corporate leadership conference. The topic is resilience. You know exactly what you want to say. But there's a voice in the back of your mind asking the question you've asked a dozen times before: how much of my faith do I bring into this?
Say too much and you risk...
You've just finished a talk. The event organiser shakes your hand and says, "That was incredible. What do you charge?" And your stomach drops.
You mumble something about being "flexible." You throw out a number that's half what you wanted to say. Or worse, you say "Whatever you think is fair." You ...
You've watched TED talks. You've probably watched dozens. And if you're honest, some of those 18-minute presentations stuck with you longer than sermons you've heard over the past year.
That's not a criticism of sermons. It's an observation about craft. TED speakers are trained to communicate with ...