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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:Ā  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 ā˜›

Speakipedia Podcast #33: Lucille Ossai

Speakipedia Posted on January 3, 2025 by juanJanuary 8, 2025
Speakipedia Podcast #33: Lucille Ossai

Transcript:Ā  Dave Bricker (00:02) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence? 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 … More ā˜›

Speakipedia Podcast #31: Tamsen Webster

Speakipedia Posted on December 4, 2024 by juanDecember 11, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #31: Tamsen Webster

  Transcript 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 speakepedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from … More ā˜›

Speakipedia Podcast 30: Patricia Fripp

Speakipedia Posted on November 24, 2024 by juanDecember 4, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast 30: Patricia Fripp

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) 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 and smart strategies from visionary … More ā˜›

Speakipedia Podcast #26: David Murray

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

Transcript Dave BrickerĀ  (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 ā˜›

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 ā˜›

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 ā˜›

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

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
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 if you never write an academic paper again, these techniques will help you write more focused and powerful prose. Time … More ā˜›

How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 14, 2024
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), I was able to audition voiceover talent, choose a professional producer, review the work in progress, and make my audiobook … More ā˜›

Page Layout: Illustrated Books and the Rule of Thirds

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Page Layout: Illustrated Books and the Rule of Thirds

This article exploresĀ page layout strategies for books based on the Rule of Thirds. A grid system based on traditionalĀ guidelines ensuresĀ harmonious proportions and placement of objects on a page. Page layout for books is governed by a range of factors. Trade … More ā˜›

Book Distributors: What’s in it for Publishers?

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
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 services they provide to publishers and readers. Publishers are best served to ally themselves with book distributors that do the … More ā˜›

Hyperbaton

Speakipedia Posted on June 12, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 28, 2024
Hyperbaton

Hyperbaton—a literary device that involves altering the normal order of words in a sentence for emphasis, to create a dramatic effect, or to make the sentence sound more poetic. ā€œYoda speakā€ is classic hyperbaton. In ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ Edgar Allan … More ā˜›

Monomyth

Speakipedia Posted on June 12, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 28, 2024
Monomyth

The monomyth, or the hero’s journey, is a common narrative archetype that involves a hero who goes on an adventure, faces a decisive crisis, and comes back changed or transformed. This concept was popularized by Joseph Campbell in his book, … More ā˜›

Tricolon

Speakipedia Posted on June 12, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 28, 2024
Tricolon

Tricolon is a rhetorical device that involves the use of three parallel clauses, phrases, or words, which happen to increase in power and intensity. A famous example is Julius Caesar’s ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici,’ which translates to ‘I came, I saw, … More ā˜›

Scansion

Speakipedia Posted on June 12, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 28, 2024
Scansion

Scansion is the process of analyzing a poem’s meter by marking the stresses in each line and determining the metrical pattern. This technique is essential for understanding the rhythmic structure of verse and enhancing poetic expression. For example, in analyzing … More ā˜›

Speakipedia Podcast #7:
Kelly Swanson

Speakipedia Posted on May 28, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 26, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #7: Kelly Swanson

Transcript Dave BrickerĀ (00:07) 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 ā˜›

Speakipedia Podcast # 4:
Rosemary Ravinal

Speakipedia Posted on May 9, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 26, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast # 4:Rosemary Ravinal

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) 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 MC, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from … More ā˜›

How to Structure a Speech Part 4: Final Details.

Speakipedia Posted on April 12, 2024 by Dave BrickerApril 26, 2024
How to Structure a Speech Part 4: Final Details.

In part one, you define the outcome, the transformation. In part two, you mapped out the road to get there. In part three, you crafted opening lines that inspired your audience to pay attention to you and your message. What’s … More ā˜›

Famous Speeches: Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”

Speakipedia Posted on January 22, 2024 by Dave BrickerJanuary 22, 2024
Famous Speeches: Abraham Lincoln’s ā€œGettysburg Addressā€

Abraham Lincoln‘s famous Gettysburg address has been recorded by numerous orators over the years, including Orson Welles, but few of these works suggest that the speakers did anything more than read with conviction. How do you reconstruct a speech that … More ā˜›

Speechwriting: Structure vs. Flow

Speakipedia Posted on January 10, 2024 by Dave BrickerMay 16, 2024
Speechwriting: Structure vs. Flow

Just sit down and write! Let the ideas flow! For many of us, they do—and it’s easy to become enamored with that feeling that we are channeling ideas from some sort of mystical ā€œsource.ā€ Flow–writing is a marvelous feeling but … More ā˜›

Impromptu Speaking

Speakipedia Posted on January 10, 2024 by Dave BrickerMay 16, 2024
Impromptu Speaking

It’s interesting that speaking ā€œoff the cuffā€ is such a terrifying proposition for so many people. If you and I were having a conversation, neither one of us would have any idea what was going to come out of our … More ā˜›

The Three Circles of Storytelling

Speakipedia Posted on January 8, 2024 by Dave BrickerApril 12, 2024
The Three Circles of Storytelling

You may already have explored the golden rule of storytelling: Stories are always about people. The StorySailingĀ® model breaks story structure into four elements. The CAST Call formula helps with creating stories that influence and persuade. The Three Circles of … More ā˜›

Speaking and the Hero’s Journey

Speakipedia Posted on January 8, 2024 by Dave BrickerApril 12, 2024
Speaking and the Hero’s Journey

Joseph Campbell’s ā€œHero’s Journeyā€ model offers a story structure that’s been used to create many successful narratives. Star Wars is a classic Hero’s Journey. Here’s how it works: Introduce the hero living in their Ordinary World. They hear a call … More ā˜›

How to Structure a Speech Part 3: Create the Opening

Speakipedia Posted on January 4, 2024 by Dave BrickerApril 29, 2024
How to Structure a Speech Part 3: Create the Opening

In part 1 we defined the transformation. By knowing how we want our audience to think, feel, or act differently after they’ve seen our presentation, we can tailor our content to helping them achieve those goals. In part 2, we … More ā˜›

How to Structure a Speech Part 2: Map Out the Journey

Speakipedia Posted on January 4, 2024 by Dave BrickerApril 29, 2024
How to Structure a Speech Part 2: Map Out the Journey

Once you have the transformation defined, map out the steps to get there. Let’s say the transformation is that we want our listeners to appreciate the peanut butter and jelly sandwich as a nutritious and healthy meal, and not as … More ā˜›

How to Structure a Speech Part 1: Start with the Transformation

Speakipedia Posted on January 4, 2024 by Dave BrickerApril 12, 2024
How to Structure a Speech Part 1: Start with the Transformation

Lecturers deliver information; speakers deliver transformation. You may talk about finance, artificial intelligence, or real estate—and that information may be valuable—but if you just want to share data, a printed article is faster to consume and your audience can take … More ā˜›

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!Ā  Sometimes the experience of flow can be as simple and … More ā˜›

How Good is AI at Writing Stories?

Speakipedia Posted on May 30, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

  AI Storytelling – Is it any good? I entered a simple prompt into ChatGPT. Yes, I could have been more specific about what I wanted—better prompts make for better output from the AI—but my intention was to analyze the … More ā˜›

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 ā€œavant garde.ā€ To his ears, … More ā˜›

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