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Speakipedia Podcast #31: Tamsen Webster

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Speakipedia Podcast 30: Patricia Fripp

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Speakipedia Podcast #29: Susan Ford Collins

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Speakipedia Podcast #28: Rich Hopkins

Transcript:  Dave Bricker (00:02) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence? This is Speakipedia Media…

2 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #27: Marilyn August

 Transcript  Dave Bricker (00:05) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

Register for Say H.I. to A.I.—The Human Intelligence Factor

Here's the replay! Explore new tools for speakers, authors, influencers, and visionaries. These powerful resources were created to empower thought…

2 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #24: Captain Gene Flipse

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:03) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

3 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #22: Paula Rizzo

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

3 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 20: Mark Entrekin

Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence? This is Speakipedia Media brought…

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Speakipedia Podcast #19: Humphrey Bower

Dave Bricker (00:00) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media…

4 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #18: Pauline Butcher Bird

Dave Bricker: Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought…

4 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 15:<br>Simone Vincenzi

  Transcript Dave Bricker: Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

5 months ago

Influencer Dashboard Support

The Speakipedia Influencer Tools run in your web browser. Before you assume they're broken and submit a support request: Clear…

5 months ago

About The Influencer Tools (Members Only)

The Speakipedia Influencer Tools are based on careful study of story structures. It's easy to ask AI to "write a…

5 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 16:<br>CJ Singh

 Transcript Dave Bricker (00:09) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is…

5 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #14:<br>Andrea Gold

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5 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 13:<br>Rick Lozano

Transcription Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speekipedia…

6 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #12:<br>Errol Leandre

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:06) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

6 months ago

About The Influencer Tools

The Speakipedia Influencer Tools are based on careful study of story structures. It's easy to ask AI to "write a…

6 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 11:<br>Will Bowen

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6 months ago

Storytelling Wizard (Demo)

by Dave BrickerLoad a demo and view the AI-generated results. Intro Setup Protagonist Transformation Conflict Steps Characters The Story Introduction…

6 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #10:<br> Johann Callaghan

Dave Bricker (00:01) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media…

6 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 9:<br>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…

6 months ago

Elevator Pitch Witch (Demo)

by Dave Bricker Load a demo and experience the AI-generated results. Get Started Opening Prompt Intro Call to Action Pitch!…

6 months ago

Audience Inspector (Demo)

by Dave Bricker Load a demo and experience the AI-generated results. Get access to work with your own content. Intro…

6 months ago

Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing can appear in subtle clues or explicit warnings within a dialogue, setting descriptions, or through a character’s thoughts or…

6 months ago

Publishing Straight Talk

There are plenty of good reasons to self-publish, but not all are profit-oriented or even rational. Before you invest in…

6 months ago

Verbs: Spice Up Your Writing with Verbs that Rock

Verbs are the engines that move your writing and your readers, but many authors don’t spend enough time choosing the…

6 months ago

Rethinking Book Cover Design

Book cover design tells the story of the story. It must convey the spirit and intentions of the author authentically,…

6 months ago

Essay Writing and The Art of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

The principles behind the simple art of essay writing can be applied to most any kind of written work. Even…

6 months ago

Want a Traditional Publishing Contract? Do Your Homework

This article discusses the pros and cons of traditional publishing. Abandon your biases, study the business of publishing, and choose…

6 months ago

Writing is Design: Two-Word Writing Clichés

Two-word clichés are perhaps the least obvious kind. Unless we’re vigilant, they sneak into our prose, steal color, mask our…

6 months ago

Book Giveaways: Are They Worth it?

Should you give away books for free? The value of book giveaways can't be assessed by formula. The prevailing mythology…

6 months ago

How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX

This article explains how to produce and market a professional quality audiobook using Amazon ACX. Through ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange),…

6 months ago

Fine Control Over Justified Text

Page layout programs like Adobe Indesign and Quark, allow typographers to exert fine control over justified text to remove gaps…

6 months ago

Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, and the Nature of Truth

A few years ago, I attended a nonfiction-writing workshop where I was told by the instructor that to qualify as…

6 months ago

Not Selling Books? Did you do the Math?

You threw a grand party but nobody came. Your novel is so good but you're not selling books. What happened?…

6 months ago

Writing is Design – Writing Dialogue: He Said. She Said.

Dialogue presents challenges for writers. Some prefer to simply declare what was “said.” Many authors feel that “said” is both…

6 months ago

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 3

This third installment of Judging a Book by its Cover looks at great book cover designs that won the 2012…

6 months ago

Blogging to Build a Speaker or Author Platform

How can speakers, indie writers, and self-publishers use a blog to build a platform? This article explains how to publish…

6 months ago

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 2

Part 1 of Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover critiqued "professional" covers taken from Amazon's Editor's choice…

6 months ago

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by Its Cover – Part 1

Nothing screams “amateur” like a poorly crafted book cover. The standards for book design aspired to by trade publishers are…

6 months ago

Why You Need a Professional Editor

After completing the final draft of a manuscript for my fifth book, I wanted a reality check. I hired a…

6 months ago

Straight Talk About Book Reviews

Book  reviews are critically important. Have you ever read a book hoping it would get better, only to find that…

6 months ago

Self-Publishing: Art or Business?

The very idea of "book marketing" is vague. It's like subsuming advertising and fine art sales into a single realm…

6 months ago

The Single Most Important Contribution to Publishing

Many readers still love to feel the subtle emboss of letters stamped on paper with metal type. I was rummaging…

6 months ago

Book Design Basics Part 2: Optical Margins, Indents and Periods

Part 2 of Fundamentals of Book Design explores optical margins, paragraph formatting and spaces. Read about margins, layout and leading…

6 months ago

Self-Publishers Should Not Be Self-Editors

Editing is one of the first hurdles you’ll encounter as an independent writer. Your fan club is your enemy. Encouraging…

6 months ago

Book Distributors: What’s in it for Publishers?

There is a direct relationship between the number of sales you can expect from a book distributor and the value-added…

6 months ago

Self-Publishing? Get Real(istic)!

There are plenty of good reasons to self-publish, but not all are profit-oriented or even rational. Before you invest in…

6 months ago

Anecdote

Anecdote. Technically, an anecdote is a short narrative about a real incident or person, usually intended to illustrate or support…

6 months ago

Exordium

Exordium—the introductory part of a speech, where you set the stage and prepare your audience for what’s to come. The…

6 months ago

Epistrophe

Epistrophe is used to emphasize a point and create a memorable rhythm in speech. A classic example comes from Abraham…

6 months ago

Climax

Climax. Yeah, we all know what that is … but in the context of storytelling and public speaking, a climax…

6 months ago

Anaphora

Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. It's a powerful tool used…

6 months ago

Monomyth

The monomyth, or the hero's journey, is a common narrative archetype that involves a hero who goes on an adventure,…

6 months ago

Allegory

Allegory is a narrative technique in which characters and events represent broader themes and ideas. Through allegory, storytellers explore complex…

6 months ago

Metaphor

Metaphor—a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain…

6 months ago

Pacing

Pacing is the speed at which a story unfolds or information is delivered. It plays a crucial role in maintaining…

6 months ago

Narrative Hook

Narrative Hook—an opening to a story that grabs the audience's attention so that they want to keep reading or listening.…

6 months ago

Verisimilitude

Verisimilitude is the appearance of being true or real in a literary work. It helps in making a story or…

6 months ago

Soliloquy

A soliloquy is a speech delivered by a character in a play or other literary work, who is alone on…

6 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #8: Maureen Mahoney

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7 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #7: <br>Kelly Swanson

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7 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #6 <br> Fabio Marques

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Speakipedia Podcast #5:<br>Neal Petersen

Transcript Dave Bricker   (00:06) This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by Speakipedia .com. Want to expand your speaking and storytelling…

8 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast # 4:<br>Rosemary Ravinal

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

8 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #3: <br>Scott Lesnick

 Transcript Dave Bricker (00:06) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

8 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #2:<br>Kay Allison

 Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia…

8 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #1: <br>Bruce Turkel

 Transcript Dave Bricker (00:06) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is…

8 months ago

Storytelling Mistakes: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

We've all heard that speaker, the one with a particular type of poor me story that can actually be dangerous.…

9 months ago

Elevator Pitch Witch

by Dave Bricker Get Started Opening Prompt Intro Call to Action Pitch! We've all suffered through the round-robin ramble—where meeting…

10 months ago

AI Storytelling Wizard

by Dave Bricker Intro Setup Protagonist Transformation Conflict Steps Characters The Story Introduction If you have zero carpentry skills and…

11 months ago

Free E-Books by Dave Bricker

Effective speakers wrap their messages in stories—but few understand what stories are and how they work. This brief guide explores…

11 months ago

Stay Relevant with “I Know What You’re Thinking!”

How do you turn your me story into a you story? As engaging and interesting as the tale of your…

11 months ago

Famous Speeches: Lou Gehrig “Farewell to Baseball”

(272 words) The New York Yankees honored Lou Gehrig two months after the great first baseman found out that ALS…

11 months ago

Stage Lighting and House Lighting

True story: Joe was hired to keynote at a huge conference—you know—a fancy stage with multiple iMag screens and colorful…

11 months ago

Speaking Vocabulary

Words and Terms related to speaking and speechwriting: Adynaton [ad-uh-NAY-ton]: A form of hyperbole in which the exaggeration is so…

11 months ago

Is Your Story Big Enough?

Is your story big enough? What a sad question! Too many meaningful stories go untold because we fear they’re not…

11 months ago

Technical Issues? Keep the Room Engaged!

My client wanted to broadcast my presentation to a satellite office and to some of their team members who were…

11 months ago

Speechwriting: Come to Your Senses

Writing teachers encourage us to engage the mind and senses. Describe sights, smells, tastes, sounds, feelings, thoughts, and tactile experiences…

11 months ago

Speechwriting: Start an End to Beginnings

Many write and speak absently about “starts” and “beginnings.” John started to talk about his feelings for Vera. Ed began…

11 months ago

Dialogue or Die a Log!

Dialogue… So many speakers miss this fantastic opportunity to engage the audience. When it’s time for dialogue, they narrate it.…

11 months ago

Murphy Was an Optimist! Prepare for Disaster

My friend Kelly Swanson fell off the stage! She picked herself up, looked at the audience, and said, “I will…

11 months ago

News Flash! Virtual Backgrounds Don’t Work

Virtual backgrounds for on-screen meetings are very popular. Why not hide that messy bedroom and look like you’re in a…

12 months ago

Get to the Gig … and Have a Backup Plan!

True story: Gayle’s connecting flight from Atlanta was canceled and she had to be on the stage at a conference…

12 months ago

Don’t Let the Truth Ruin a Good Story

If we’re honest and authentic, we often feel compelled to fill in every detail of a story as it actually…

12 months ago

The Three Circles of Storytelling

You may already have explored the golden rule of storytelling: Stories are always about people. The StorySailing® model breaks story…

12 months ago

The One-Sided Phone Call

Sometimes you can get a lot of mileage on stage when you leave half the conversation to the audience’s imagination.…

12 months ago

The Call to Action

So many speakers offer wonderful advice … And then they forget to Kick ASK! What is it we’re supposed to…

12 months ago

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…

12 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…

12 months ago

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…

12 months ago

Storytelling Mistakes: The Data Dump

WordPress is a content-management platform used to drive over 455 million websites. Written with open-source technologies like PHP and MySQL,…

12 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…

12 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,…

12 months ago

Stories Are Everywhere!

Many speakers tell stories of adventure, of tragedy, of fall, and redemption. But what if you’ve lived a fairly uneventful…

12 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,…

12 months ago

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