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Speakipedia Podcast #34: Allison Shapira

Speakipedia Posted on January 7, 2025 by juanJanuary 15, 2025
Speakipedia Podcast #34: Allison Shapira

Transcript:  Dave Bricker (00:01) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from visionary … More ☛

The Music Industry’s $50-Billion/Year Storytelling Fumble

Speakipedia Posted on October 30, 2024 by juanOctober 29, 2024

  For decades, FM radio stations served as the primary outlet for major record labels to promote their artists. Radio listeners visited brick-and-mortar music stores to purchase records, tapes, and CDs. For a while, M-TV joined the party. Then the … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast #26: David Murray

Speakipedia Posted on October 21, 2024 by juanNovember 6, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #26: David Murray

Transcript Dave Bricker  (00:05) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakepedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker , bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast #25: Rob Shanahan

Speakipedia Posted on October 10, 2024 by juanOctober 30, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #25:Rob Shanahan

Transcript:  Dave Bricker (00:07) This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by Speakipedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and amazing stories from visionary speakers and thought leaders. From the heart of small town … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast #19: Humphrey Bower

Speakipedia Posted on August 26, 2024 by juanSeptember 18, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #19: Humphery Bower

Dave Bricker (00:00) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and amazing stories … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast #18: Pauline Butcher Bird

Speakipedia Posted on August 22, 2024 by juanSeptember 11, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #19: Pauline Butcher Bird

Dave Bricker: Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, strategies, and amazing stories from visionary … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast # 13:
Rick Lozano

Speakipedia Posted on July 5, 2024 by juanAugust 7, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast # 13:Rick Lozano

Transcription Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speekipedia Media, brought to you by speakipedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from visionary … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast # 11:
Will Bowen

Speakipedia Posted on June 25, 2024 by juanJuly 23, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast # 11:Will Bowen

Transcription Dave Bricker (00:06) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media, brought to you by Speakipedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from visionary … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast # 9:
David H. Lawrence the XVII

Speakipedia Posted on June 21, 2024 by juanJuly 10, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast # 9:David H., Lawrence the XVII

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:01) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakypedia Media brought to you by Speakypedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from … More ☛

M&Ms, Rock Stars, and Divas

Speakipedia Posted on March 26, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

  What of M&Ms, rock stars, and divas? The rock band Van Halen had an infamous clause in their contract saying there could be no brown M&Ms backstage, or the promoter would forfeit the entire show at full price. It … More ☛

Protect Your Ideas: Copyright

Speakipedia Posted on February 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 25, 2024
Protect Your Ideas: Copyright

Ideas are “intellectual property.” I.P. includes print-based material like books and articles and scripts, music and video, and also logos and names. As authors, speakers, and thought leaders, we make our living from our intellectual property, and we rely on … More ☛

Punch Up the Quality of Recorded Voiceovers with AI

Speakipedia Posted on January 22, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 25, 2024
Punch Up the Quality of Recorded Voiceovers with AI

Have you ever recorded a testimonial video in a crowded space with lots of people chattering in the background? Or maybe you’re just not happy with an audio track—the voice just has no presence or punch. Adobe has introduced a … More ☛

Pump Up Your Presentation with Sound Effects

Speakipedia Posted on January 8, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 25, 2024
Pump Up Your Presenting with Sound Effects

Sound Effects The human voice is an amazingly versatile instrument. It can not only speak, it can sing, and imitate a variety of sounds. Here’s an excerpt from a story I’ve shared many times. As I made that quick turn … More ☛

‘Twas the Month Before Christmas

Speakipedia Posted on December 5, 2023 by Dave BrickerDecember 10, 2024

  Here’s a little holiday fun. Thanks for reading my storytelling posts. Have a safe, happy, and prosperous season. ‘Twas a month before Christmas, when all through the land Every forklift was stirring, precisely as planned Products were lined on … More ☛

Thoughts on Thanksgiving

Speakipedia Posted on November 21, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

When the urge to gripe arises, consider that no matter what dark clouds may loom on the horizon, you threaded the needle of human history. Imagine what life would have been like had you been born not so many years … More ☛

Jazz and Musical Storytelling

Speakipedia Posted on October 16, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

What is musical storytelling? Many of our favorite storytellers rely on music to help them deliver their messages with impact. Depending on what’s happening in the story, they use specific techniques and strategies. For example, when there’s a dream sequence, … More ☛

Survive and Thrive in the Land of Clocks & Calendars

Speakipedia Posted on June 27, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Is your digital calendar robbing you of the time you need to be productive? Maybe the problem isn’t your calendar. Back in my carefree boat bum days, my course was governed by the world’s natural rhythms. I rose and retired … More ☛

Jazz and the Dangerous Magic of Creative Flow

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Perhaps you’ve experienced flow writing. You sit down, watch your fingers tap away at the keyboard, and wonder, Where did that come from? Did I write that? That’s really good!  Sometimes the experience of flow can be as simple and … More ☛

What is “Dynamic Speaking?”

Speakipedia Posted on May 16, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

We often hear about “dynamic speaking,” but what does that mean? The dictionary defines “dynamics” as “the forces or properties which stimulate growth, development, or change within a system or process.” Essentially, “dynamics” means “change,” and if you want your … More ☛

Shared Stories and The Next Generation

Speakipedia Posted on December 6, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Hooray for Hollywood! Well … maybe; maybe not. Movies about rock stars’ journeys and superheroes (Is there really a difference?) may amount to no more than the latest money grab by motion picture studios and music labels (Is there really … More ☛

Hobbyist or Professional? Be the Best in the World.

Speakipedia Posted on July 12, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Hobbyist or professional? True professionals dedicate their lives to being the best in the world at whatever they do—not some day, but today—every day. Not try, do. I have played guitar almost every day for almost forty years. I play … More ☛

Reading Aloud Doesn’t Have to Be Boring

Speakipedia Posted on April 5, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Keep your lis­ten­ers’ at­ten­tion while read­ing aloud. The host an­nounces the next au­thor. She walks to the lectern, of­fers a syn­op­sis, and be­gins read­ing aloud. It’s not bad prose—and I can’t say that for every writer here—but after three pages … More ☛

The Virtuoso, the Teacher, & the Centipede

Speakipedia Posted on January 18, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

One Sunday morning not long after I had been introduced to sailing, I was enjoying a cup of coffee in the cockpit of my friend Strider’s boat. The sounds of rustling canvas alerted me to watch a bronzed man on … More ☛

Storytelling Tips: The Rush of Discovery

Speakipedia Posted on January 4, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Storytelling tips: You’re walking along and you happen to look down. “Hey, that’s not a scrap of paper; that’s a $20 bill!” Isn’t it a rush when something we thought was useless turns out to be meaningful. Stories—whether they’re truth … More ☛

Phil Woods: Is Your Work Beneath You?

Speakipedia Posted on September 14, 2021 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

I was frustrated the other day, thinking about how I need a better computer. Some of my software is out of date and my machine just doesn’t have the speed and the memory to support some of the the new … More ☛

Be an Effective Storyteller. Try Story Listening

Speakipedia Posted on August 17, 2021 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Storytelling is a powerful tool, but no one ever talks about story listening. Have you ever been with a friend, family member, client, or colleague and assumed they were thinking and feeling something completely different from what they actually were? … More ☛

Problem-Solving & Storytelling: Understand Their Story

Speakipedia Posted on April 27, 2021 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Use storytelling for problem-solving. Think about the various stories involved in a conflict and plot a course for resolution. Seen through the StorySailing™ spyglass, a story is analogous to the voyage of a sailboat across the rocky, stormy seas of … More ☛

Tempest in the Lizard Kingdom: A True Christmas Tale

Speakipedia Posted on December 21, 2020 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

In 1989, as a 25-year-old sailing solo on a 26-foot sailboat, I spent a surreal Christmas weathering a North Atlantic gale, at anchor in a not-so-sheltered place in the central Bahamas. This piece was originally published in my sailing memoir, … More ☛

Potent Verbs Spice Up Your Storytelling

Speakipedia Posted on August 18, 2020 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Verbs are the engines that move your writing, your speaking, your readers, and your audiences but many authors ands presenters don’t spend enough time choosing the right ones. If your writing was an electric guitar, your verbs would be the volume, … More ☛

If I Can Do It, You Can Do It Stories: Speaking Mistakes

Speakipedia Posted on July 21, 2020 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

If I can do it, you can do it! Well … maybe. Is your story about your extraordinary personal journey? Talking about yourself for your own sake will be perceived by listeners as narcissism or seeking validation. Stories of dramatic … More ☛

Storytelling and The Avant Garde

Speakipedia Posted on December 9, 2019 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

An accomplished jazz musician, educator, and friend pointed out that too many virtuosic young players blow a lot of noisy notes with fire and conviction, ignore the structure of the music, and brand themselves as “avant garde.” To his ears, … More ☛

The Time and Tempo of Storytelling

Speakipedia Posted on October 1, 2019 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Great storytellers are masters of time and tempo. What is this mysterious thing called “time?” Does it flow at the same speed for everyone? If we encounter a life-threatening situation, time is a stream of cold honey. If we’re nervous … More ☛

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