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🎧 Benjamin Loh: Public Speaking Disaster, Fear of Judgement & Never Say No

Benjamin Loh is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and Professional #Millennial Speaker. As the youngest Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) in Asia, an accolade accorded to top 12% of professional speakers globally, an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), Benjamin has empowered over 120 senior leaders individually in topics like strategic communications, public speaking and presentation skills as their Executive Presenting Coach etc.

🎧 The Lonely Extrovert, The Risk Of Relevance, And Change-Proofing The Speaking Industry With Dr. Nick Morgan

The speaking industry evolves as the world evolves. Speakers every day face a risk of relevance – a need to change with the times and make their message resonate with people. Dr. Nick Morgan, communications and public speaking expert at Public Words, has a great quote from someone he spoke with on his show, a piece of wisdom that teaches us how exactly speakers, or anyone for that matter, can adapt to and deal with a new situation where everything has to be started from scratch.

🎧 Make money on the small stuff: Tom talks Small Sales

Let’s talk about small sales. These types of sales can be used to lead to bigger, more expensive items you may be offering to your customers. Whether in the physical or digital world, small sales can lead to big sales. Screw The Commute Podcast Show Notes Episode 590 How To Automate Your Business –

🎧 How Humorous Storytelling Connects Us

I’m working with a new client on a high-stakes speech about an unprecedented business idea. As we’re working together, I show him how he can use storytelling to help his idea come to life and connect to his audience. So he sends me his first draft… and boy, is it a surprise! In our sessions, he is always direct and to the point.

🎧 172 Anastasia Lipske: How to Grow Your Brand with Podcast Guesting

We learn how to grow your brand with podcast guesting from Anastasia Lipske on this episode of the Learning from Smart People Podcast with Rob Oliver. Anastasia founded a full-service speaking and podcast Guest booking company. Our organization helps clients find the right audience where they can share their expertise.

🎧 [Insights] Using Your Voice in Public Speaking with Jay Miller, Helen Langford, Kristin Linklater and Sarah Archer – 217

Your voice is one of the most neglected, yet most important tools you have as a public speaker.  Your ability to be heard clearly, to last out the talk energetically, and to connect powerfully with the emotions of your audience are all reliant on your voice. That’s why for the first of the insights episodes, I have pulled together highlights from some of the best voice artists and teachers to help you ensure that you are looking after and fully utilising this incredible instrument.

🎧 #141 Mindful Speaking – Alan Carroll

About my Guest: Alan Carroll & Associates is an international training organization specializing in transforming participants from being an automatic, amateur looking, nervous, unconscious, ego focused, speaker who is not in control of their delivery to a professional speaker who is conscious, relaxed, balanced, grounded and who can control the timing of the words they speak.

🎧 How do you hook prospects to stay, listen, then tell their story?

In this episode, John Asher is joined by the author of “Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell”, Mike Adams. One of the best ways to get someone, specifically a business prospect, to pay attention to you is by being a great storyteller. And who better to explain this than a best-selling author? Mike and John are here to explain the difference a great story can make, and the effects storytelling has on the brain.

🎧 How to Create a Killer PowerPoint Presentation – Emily Hall, e+m Creative

ep 66- Have you ever been shown how to actually create a good ppt presentation at work?  Presentation design expert, Emily Hall, joins Sarah to share how to create presentations that have your audience at the edge of their seats (and help get your message across better).    VIEW SHOW NOTES: 

🎧 How to use storytelling in podcasts to easily drive revenue growth fast

Prarthana Sibal is the Head of Client Services at award-winning B2B Podcast Agency Pikkal & Co. Prarthana has managed over 1,000 Podcast Episodes from idea to launch including branding, public relations, corporate communications, brand reputation, and podcasting for brands.  In this episode Prarthana shares how to use storytelling in podcasts to easily drive revenue growth fast.

🎧 Successful Presentation Thinking with Michael Mioduski

Michael Mioduski is the founder and CEO of a fellow boutique presentation agency located in the US. His company is called GhostRanch Communications and their Technical Director, Steve Sheets, is one of the speakers at Present to Succeed 2022, which is in 1 day! Michael and his team, work with brands like DocuSign, Oracle, and one of the cutest Scandinavian brands out there, Fjällräven, among others.

🎧 Storytelling in B2B – How boring is your ‘About’ page?

When was the last time you updated your about page on your website? This week, which is National Storytelling Week, is an excellent opportunity to think about how to incorporate storytelling into your business strategy. Storytelling is an essential part of modern business strategy. The human brain processes stories much deeper than facts and figures, making them a powerful tool for communicating complex ideas and building customer trust.

🎧 060 Why that story got a laugh but not a sale (and surprisingly easy fix)

A lot of business owners have been told, “Stories entertain and captivate your audience.”   If you buy that, you’re not getting the full power of storytelling. Stories can support for your strategy and simplify your marketing. That’s the big difference between personal and business stories. Personal stories might get an appreciative laugh, but business stories can do so much more.

🎧 192: With over 20 years of experience in media, now helping entrepreneurs become more profitable through Public Relations, Media & Public Speaking Tra

In this episode, I interview Jaimie Abbott, the CEO, PR, and Communication Specialist at Jaimie Abbott Communications based in Newcastle, Australia. Jaimie has set up her own presentation skills training company to help entrepreneurs and small business owners become more profitable through Public Relations, Media, and Public Speaking training.

🎧 379 Get Your Startup Story Straight by David Riemer

Get Your Startup Story Straight: The Definitive Storytelling Framework for Innovators and Entrepreneurs by David Riemer About the Book: In a world that’s been turned upside down by a pandemic, social upheavals, environmental disasters, and economic disruptions, the need for reinvention is paramount.

🎧 Politics and Ideology (Character Case Study)

A couple of months ago, I read the book – The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life by Noah Lukeman. In it, I found a comprehensive list of character traits. I asked myself, “Do my favourite characters have all these traits?”. I choose Lord John Grey from Outlander to find out. I now challenge you to pick a character or two and discover how they were brought to life.

🎧 The Way to Gender Equality is through Public Speaking with Carol Cox (#IWD)

Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is Break the Bias.  I appreciate that on the IWD website, they write, “Celebrating women’s achievements and increasing visibility, while calling out inequality, is key.” In this episode, I share the premise of the book I’m working on around the importance of women being public speakers as a way to advance women in leadership and gender equality and a new model of public speaking.

🎧 How Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Income by Public Speaking with Odell Bizzell

Odell Bizzell has published 10 books, partnered with over 240 organizations and teaches entrepreneurs how to double their income with public speaking. He has been featured in over 200 media outlets. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. We don’t forget experiences we’ve had, especially those we’ve never had before.

🎧 PR’s Top Pros Talk… Connecting with Reporters

How can communicators connect with reporters in a meaningful way? Curtis Sparrer, Principal of Bospar and Eric Chemi, SVP of Broadcast Strategies at Bospar, discuss best practices for pitching a story to top tier reporters without wasting their time. Curtis and Eric also share why brands need to take a stand on social issues early and decisively. To share your feedback, contact: Doug Simon: dougs@dssimonmedia.com  or news@dssimonmedia.com – 212.736.2727 For more info go to:

🎧 Storytelling in a Data-Driven World – Frank Rose

In this episode, we had the pleasure to interview Frank Rose, digital anthropologist and author of the book “The Sea We Swim In: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World”. Throughout the episode, Frank shares his expert knowledge on this topic and explains how it is essential to consider the power of stories, especially for marketers out there.

🎧 Public speaking resolutions for beginners – 083

So it’s the start of another year. Have you set any public speaking goals that you want to achieve this year? Whether you’re starting out in your public speaking career or a seasoned professional. It’s good to set some speaking goals that you can aim for. To help you to become a more confident and compelling public speaker.

🎧 Heather Maio-Smith – Award-Winning Interactive Storytelling Pioneer – Brilliance Business

Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display.

🎧 85 – You Gotta Stir Up Emotions By Sharing Your Experience (Matthieu Silberstein, VP of Creative Marketing at Lili)

We talk about how important storytelling and emotional connection is for really great marketing. But can banking be emotional?  You betcha.  I brought on a creative leader to talk about how and why it’s important to nail this. Matthieu Silberstein is VP of Creative Marketing at Lili. Matt works on commercials, PR, influencers, podcasts, social, content, media partnerships, OOH, and creative writing including voice and storytelling.

🎧 [Top Women Leaders] Speak Great, Sell Globally With Kerri Garbis of Ovation and Wendy Pease of Rapport International

Kerri Garbis is the CEO and Founder of Ovation, a go-to resource for professional presence and speaker development training. Through Ovation, Kerri has trained thousands of business professionals from companies such as Walt Disney and Mastercard. She helps them with presentation skills, storytelling, etiquette, and emotional intelligence.

🎧 Feel Like Your Presentation Is Boring? Here’s What to Do About It.

In today’s episode, we’re talking with presentation and speaking skills expert Ivan Wanis-Ruiz. Ivan is an expert in presentation skills and is ridding of the world one boring presentation at a time. He believes at the center of any good presentation is charisma, confidence, and having an executive presence.

🎧 In The Clubhouse: Improve your Speaking Voice with Dan Friedman – Part 2

“You set the tone for your podcast by how you sound and how you interact with the audience. So there are a lot of elements to it, you know, obviously preparation and planning and practice, all those things.” — Dan Friedman This week continues our Clubhouse discussion as voiceover artist and sound engineer Dan Friedman answers questions about voice training, keeping listeners engaged, and overcoming stage fright.

🎧 Good leadership is connecting with stories, guest, avid storyteller Graham Brown

Good leadership is how you connect with people and one of the best ways to connect with people is through storytelling. Graham Brown that’s does brilliantly. A great communicator. He brings forth how storytelling aids leadership. In business storytelling is not about fairy tales. It’s about creating a connection using empathy.

🎧 31: The Secret to Making Your Podcast Unique and Stand Out with Michelle Abraham

Podcasts have skyrocketed in the past few years and are starting to change the way we consume information. It has now become a great way to grow an audience for your business too. With the number of podcasts increasing, aspiring podcasters sometimes wonder if there’s still space for them. Even though the audience of podcast listeners is growing exponentially, there are so many podcasts now that it is getting harder to grow an audience.

🎧 Use This Framework to Tell Stories That Connect (and Convert) with Marisa Corcoran

Episode #220. “Storytelling is our oldest form of communication. Studies show that parts of the brain literally light up when stories are being told and that people tend to absorb information better. With a story, it’s an easier pill to swallow.” So HOW do we tell stories that captivate and convert our communities.

🎧 Corporate Storytelling Masterclass with Donna Griffit

World renowned Corporate Storyteller and Pitch Alchemist Donna Griffit has helped over 1000 startups, corporates and investors raise hundreds of millions of dollars and accelerate their sales with a personal touch and unmatched messaging savvy, in any industry, at any phase. “The hardest thing for a company is to explain to people what they do and why it matters.

🎧 Priyanka Madnani, founder & CEO of Easy to Pitch. ​​On building India’s fastest-growing one-stop pitching platform for startup founders.

Make your startup investment ready! Today my guest is Priyanka Madnani, Founder & CEO of Easy to Pitch. Easy to Pitch is one of the fastest-growing one-stop pitching solutions for start-up founders & entrepreneurs looking to raise capital for their unique ideas. Since starting she now helps over 500 startups and reviewed over 5000 decks.

🎧 Strategies to Lead an Inspired Life

Welcome to Embers and Wind!   Guest Eric Feinendegen shares this about his new book, The FEIN-er Things: “The strategies and the philosophies, they’re for everybody, doesn’t matter race, creed, gender, identity, whatever it is. But, here’s where the rubber meets the road. It is not written for someone who wants a quick fix.

🎧 Find Your North Star – Martin Schilling, Techstars

Our guest today is passionate about enabling the next generation of entrepreneurs to build high-growth businesses. He believes they are more important than ever to create innovation, jobs and to keep Europe competitive. And there is nothing more powerful for a new business than to find its North Star and ensure that everybody can recite it in their sleep.

🎧 218: Kindra Hall, How to Control Your Life Through Storytelling

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 218, an episode with a sought-after keynote speaker and a National Champion storyteller, Kindra Hall. Get Kindra’s book here: In this episode, Kindra spoke about the importance of understanding the power of stories that an individual tells and believes and how it impacts our daily lives.

🎧 Media Pitching Preferences – Rapid Fire Round Up

We’re doing something a bit different this week on the Pitchin’ and Sippin’ podcast – we’re doing a round-up of 8 of our past media guest’s pitching preferences. SO, context, typically when I have a member of the media on the show, towards the end of the episode I ask them a series of Rapid fire questions about their personal preferences when being pitched.

🎧 How to master the Art of Public Speaking | Masterclass on Public Speaking & Communication Skills with Simerjeet Singh and Maz Ifzal

One of our most in-depth conversations on Public Speaking so far! Our guest, Maz Ifzal, is the founding Director of UK based Make a point and has spent the last several years training hundreds of participants to bring more authenticity into their communication and leadership roles. In this podcast, Maz shares inspiring, practical, actionable tips on a variety of Public Speaking issues such as overcoming stage fear, imposter syndrome and subconscious mindset blocks.

🎧 Leadership via storytelling in DAOs and traditional organizations :: with Jesse Bryan

In this episode of Ventures, my guest Jesse Bryan ( and I discuss the power of storytelling when leading an organization of people. This conversation dives into not only how a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) can reinforce vision and mission with story, but also how traditional corporations can (and should) conduct themselves when interacting with customers.

🎧 RECORD EVERYTHING…

A lesson that I learned from John Childers almost 20 years ago that is changing my life today. Hit me up on IG! @russellbrunson Text Me! 208-231-3797 Join my newsletter at marketingsecrets.com ClubHouseWithRussell.com Magnetic Marketing —Transcript— What’s up, everybody? This is Russell Brunson.

🎧 Frank Rose

Writer and digital anthropologist Frank Rose shares his insights about how the art of storytelling shapes our world, changes with new technology, and is wired into our brains.

🎧 Hip Hop Can Save America: SquadCast Podcast Spotlight

Feed drop time! We’re on a break from the show as we prepare for v5 of SquadCast and work on revamping the SquadCast podcast. So, we’re bringing you carefully curated feed drops from some of our favorite SquadCasters. This week, we’re spotlighting the work of Manny Faces, who’s been a SquadPodder for a while now.

🎧 How We Can Craft More Purpose into Our Work, with John Coleman

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with John Coleman about how we can craft more purpose into our work. See the video here: John Coleman ( is an investor, writer, and public speaker. A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, John and his work have been featured in Forbes, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the LA Times among other publications.

🎧 484: How to build diverse content teams

Diverse Marketing Consultant Michelle Ngome returns to the Business Storytelling Show to discuss how we can build diverse teams and how the last two years of more remote work have changed the landscape to accomplish that goal. Learn more about Michelle here: Join us. To read more about this topic on my blog: — Send in a voice message: Support this podcast:

🎧 Art and Science of Storytelling with Anjali Sharma

Storytelling has gained spotlight in many a business conversation recently and that is because stories are able to attract attention and motivate its listeners to take action.  Storytelling is an acquired skill and to understand what it looks like when implemented, press that play button to hear Anjali Sharma from Narrative, a multinational storytelling agency.

🎧 How to Successfully Pitch Your Business Using Behavioral Economics

A company’s success nowadays is so reliant upon pitching and getting media coverage. Having a credible source say positive things about you and your company can be pivotal when it comes to whether your brand is going to be seen or not. That is exactly why this episode of The Brainy Business is dedicated to giving you some concise tips on how to use behavioral economics to pitch your brand.

🎧 Create an Informational Speech that Makes Your Audience Want to Pay Attention Part 2 of 2

In this episode, we continue our master class about presentation skills. This is week 2 of a two-part series on how to design a talk to inform your audience. Here, I cover how to design an entire presentation. Last week, we covered how many bullet points should you create for your presentation. The answer by the way is that it depends on the type of speech.

🎧 #396 – Tom Geary gets REAL about Creative content & storytelling

Founder, School of Thought | Creative content & storytelling | Make Them Care   Sustainability means nothing to some, and everything to others. We view the term more broadly: practices that are (wait for it) sustainable for the planet—but also for your team. So solar fits, but so too does aiming for an inclusive, positive culture.

🎧 How can Brands Develop Metaverse Experiences on Their Own Platforms?

In this episode of the Visual Storytelling Today podcast, I chat with Ida Kymmer, a Strategic Business Development Manager with Journee – a Berlin-based Metaverse Company. They are the team that developed the metaverse experience for Vogue Business. BMW, Adidas, Siemens and more. We talked about her unique journey entering the metaverse field, benefits for hosting vs.

🎧 Communicate and Present Better with Laurie Gilbertson

Laurie Gilbertson is a speaker, coach, entrepreneur, trial lawyer and the founder of Tribeca Blue Consulting Laurie helps professionals communicate with clarity, confidence and creativity when public speaking, presenting, making media appearances or being involved in trial work. In this episode Laurie shares tips and advice for those looking to deliver their first presentation as well as for experienced presenters and business leaders who want and potentially need to ensure that they understand the benefits of preparation and practice.

🎧 Storytelling Across the World Using Visuals with Peter Barker

In this week’s episode, Peter Barker, director of Orinoco Communications, a digital communications and content creation agency that combines storytelling and strategy to give research the reach it deserves, discusses key topics of storytelling, including: How developing communications in the visual, aural, and text media are similar similar and different How his perspective and experience in one medium informs how he approaches the others Favorite stories from his own experience crafting projects for companies such as the BBC, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel.

🎧 Succeed Through Speaking – Tom Bailey 11-13-21

One of the most effective ways to promote yourself and your business is through public speaking. And public speaking also promotes more fearfulness in businesspeople than any other means of communication. In fact, it’s been said that the fear of public speaking is second only to the fear of death.