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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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,…

9 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,…

9 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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