speechwriting

Tell Your Story About the Audience

Do you have a powerful story? Great! That’s an advantage. Now tell your story about the audience! What does that…

10 months ago

Storytelling Mistakes: Poor Me Stories

Never play the victim card, on stage or in life. Don’t use your audience as a therapist. Your triumph over…

10 months ago

Storytelling Mistakes: “You Guys” and “You All”

How many of you have heard speakers address the audience as a group? Is it okay to do that? What…

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Storytelling Mistakes: Pit of Despair Stories

Here’s a simple rule: If you bring your audience into darkness, bring them back into the light. Not every story…

10 months ago

Stories to Never Tell: The Starfish Story

Like the Chauffeur story, here’s a tale that thousands of speakers love to tell but shouldn’t: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=speaker+telling+the+starfish+story A man walking…

10 months ago

Stories to Never Tell: The Chauffeur Story

Like the Starfish story, the Chauffeur story get recycled over and over. In the story, Max Planck, the famous physicist,…

10 months ago

Store Your Beads in Your Jewelry Box

Like many speakers, I have many more hours of material ready than I could ever share in a single keynote—stories,…

10 months ago

Speechwriting: Rhyme

Many of us can recite poems and lyrics we first heard when we were children. Rhythm and rhyme are beyond…

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Speechwriting: Anaphora

Anaphora is the repetition of a phrase to drive home the impact of a speech. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…

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Speechwriting: Alliteration

Alliteration perpetually positions presenters to produce powerful programs that inspire professionals to make progress on their paths toward prosperity. Repetitive…

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