Speaking Your Brand: A Public Speaking Podcast

Have you thought about hosting your own virtual summit? My guest in this episode, Dr. Holly Tucker, decided to experiment and put together a virtual summit just a couple of weeks ago - and she did it all in less than 30 days. Holly enjoyed it so much that she’s doing one again! Holly and I talk about: Why she decided to do a virtual summit The business goals she had for the summit How she selected her speakers The logistics of putting it all together Lessons she learned for the next time

What happens when your entire business is in person, from meeting with clients to speaking, and the pandemic hits and that’s no longer possible? My guest is Dr. Bibi Pirayesh, who is an educational therapist in the Los Angeles area. Bibi faced this in mid-March when California closed the schools and issued their stay-at-home order. We cover: How she came up with her webinar topic (that’s different from her signature talk) Doing a webinar for the 1st time The challenges running her biz virtually

Get ready to be inspired to get past perfection and throw out the script you may *think* you should be using in your career, business, and life. My guest is Joy Spencer, who works as an organizational development consultant and is a certified professional coach. We talk about lessons from converting her signature talk into a webinar; what it means to throw out the script and how that showed up for her in her career; why your goal shouldn’t be productivity; and much more.

Do you have a strategy for your webinars? Do you know whether you should make a direct sales pitch on your webinar - or use it to build brand awareness and visibility? We covered these questions and more on the live webinar we did last week on the 5 Types of Webinars You Can Do to Grow Your Business and Visibility. This episode is the audio from that very fun and fast-paced webinar. See the video here: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/webinar/

Have you been wanting to add a new offering to your business but haven’t had a chance to yet? As my guest Amanda J. Hill says in our conversation, the current crisis has accelerated her action, from *thinking* for the past year about adding a new offering to *doing* it. This episode is a case study and on-air coaching call on how to quickly pivot and take action to be of service to your clients.

A question I get asked a lot is: How can I get paid to speak? One of the best ways is to speak and present for free. This goes for both in-person and online presentations and trainings. My guest today is Angela Hosking, who is a dynamic speaker and founder of Her One Tribe. We talk about strategies she used to get her first free speaking engagements (that you can use too), how she used online summits and webinars to build her email list, and opportunities that have come from the speaking she’s done.

How do your values show up in your work, whether it’s interacting with clients or employees, presenting to an audience, appearing on a podcast, or creating marketing materials? Patti Perez is the founder of a consulting firm that’s dedicated to teaching leaders and teams how to create and sustain healthy, inclusive and profitable workplace cultures that included, truth telling, curiosity, and radical fairness.

Whether you’re presenting online or in person, to any size audience, creating a sense of belonging with your audience builds trust and contributes to their learning experience. My guest Traci Baxley, Ed.D. calls herself a “belonging advocate” and she walks her talk. Learn strategies you can use and why your vulnerability is key.

Join me and Diane Diaz for an honest and real conversation about: *How the pandemic will impact Speaking Your Brand’s business, offerings, marketing, and sales *The future of public speaking and events *Reimagining our business and industry, even society and government *Exercises for how you can reimagine your business and industry *How we can innovate with online events to make them more useful and interesting *The revenue model around webinars and virtual events (can you charge for webinars?)

Have you attended a boring or poorly done webinar? This episode is the audio from a webinar we did last week. With many of us having speaking engagements and in-person workshops postponed or canceled because of Covid-19, offering webinars or virtual workshops is an excellent way to provide value to your audience. Tune into this episode to learn key strategies and to hear webinar audience engagement in action!

Amidst all the uncertainty around COVID-19 (coronavirus), I invited my friend Puja Madan, who is an expert on mindful leadership for entrepreneurs and business executives for an impromptu conversation to discuss: - Being mindful of and reducing emotional contagion and herd mentality - As speakers, specific strategies you can use when events you’re speaking at have been canceled - How to use this time for curiosity and creativity and being careful not to feel like you have to be productive / efficient

As I’ve worked with nearly 200 women, I’ve seen how the same things trip us up (self-doubt, imposter syndrome), as well as what liberates us as women - our voices and our stories. Until recently, I haven’t seen how feminism applies to how we show up as speakers. Being a feminist speaker has nothing to do with your content - you don’t have to be talking about feminist theory or only to women. Listen in to hear 3 ways you can start adopting a feminist approach to your speaking now.

What’s just as important as visibility is our actual voices as women and what we’re saying: “If you can see it *and* hear it, you can be it.” In this episode, Diane Diaz and I talk about the history and current state of women speaking out in public, along with what we can do by being more intentional with the voices we choose, unsilencing ourselves, and developing the confidence to do so.

Join me for an insightful conversation with my guest Latesha Byrd as we talk about mindset and negotiation strategies, including figuring out what you want to be known for, how to respond to requests for free speaking engagements, how she prices her speaking packages, and more.

How would you like a bucket of leads at your business doorstep every day? Sounds great, right? Well, maybe not. This conversation with sales expert Reena Philpot is going to revolutionize the way you look at sales. I’ve gotten to know Reena over the past 2 years, and we worked together a few months ago to create her signature talk. The sales insights and approaches she shared with me while we created her talk were so profound that I started using them myself - and have seen the results.