Fireside with Voxgig

Freddy Freundlich is a colourful character. He trained as a nurse and was ordained as a rabbi, but he is first and foremost a salesman. He’s the author of two books, Born on the Right Side of the Tracks and The One-Call Close. And he’s a straight talker, as you’ll hear for yourself when you listen to his Fireside Chat with Richard.

His advice to wannabe speakers and salespeople is simple. Great public speaking and sales are all about great conversation. Find one person in your audience and deliver your talk to them. That’s how you make a connection with your audience. Freddy also shows you how to add sizzle to your steak – in other words, it’s not enough just to have a quality product. You’ve got be able to tell people about it too.

You’ll find out more about Freddy on his Rabbi Freddy website. Or you can just email [email protected] and he’ll be delighted to answer your questions.

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Danielle Krage is the power behind The Remote Speaker Coach, a company which nurtures new speaking talent. Her warmth and empathy shone through in her Fireside Chat with Richard, as she encouraged wannabe speakers to take the fear out of public speaking by breaking down their talks into bitesize parts. She’s also passionate about diversity and calls on conference organisers to make room for new and exciting voices in their conference lineups.

You’ll find out more about Danielle on her Remote Speaker Coach website and on LinkedIn.

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For this podcast, we’re delighted to welcome back actor and performance coach Bonnie Williams. This time, she’s talking about how to make killer pitches to investors. In a highly insightful Fireside chat, she reveals that great pitching is not like Dragon’s Den. It’s all about pitching to the right people. Bonnie and Richard also chatted about virtual conferencing and how to make a connection with the audience when they’re not in the room with you.

You can check Bonnie out here

And here.

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Roger Edwards is a high-impact public speaker on all things marketing. He’s also a blogger, a vlogger, a podcaster and a fitness instructor. He’s a man who’s full of energy, and he knows how to fill his audiences with energy too. During his Fireside Chat with Richard, Roger revealed his secret for grabbing and holding an audience’s attention – he gets them to shout, ‘The cat sat on the mat.’ In other words, keep it simple.

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In this Fireside with Voxgig podcast, Richard talks to Andrew Davis, owner of a fantastic bow-tie, who has gone from working with the Muppets to building and selling his own marketing agency fuelled by the power of speaking. Being a keynote speaker is now his main job, and in this podcast, he shares his secret weapon when selling products – giving speeches.

You’ll find out more about Andrew Davis at AKA Drew Davis.

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Sandy Dunlop is a global branding expert who draws on the world of myth to tell compelling stories about the brands he represents. In an intellectually stimulating Fireside Chat with Richard, Sandy inspires listeners to trust in storytelling as a tool for getting your message across. He encourages aspiring speakers to distinguish between what he calls the ‘blue rhetoric’ of facts and the ‘red rhetoric’ of storytelling. Sandy’s ultimate message is that it is feelings that win audiences over, not facts.

Take a look at Sandy Dunlop’s branding consultancy to find out more about his storytelling genius.  

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We’re always interested here at Voxgig in how people get into public speaking in their careers. Lesley Tully started off studying Film. She tells us how this training gave her an understanding of visuals, which turned out to be a great asset in her subsequent career and in the role she is now in: an expert on Design Thinking.

Orla and Lesley get into the subject of evangelizing for your own job; in other words, how to convince sometimes sceptical colleagues - who may be in the organization a lot longer than you - that your role and your expertise can enhance their work and output. This takes persistence, belief in what you’re doing, and a good dose of authenticity. If you’re authentically passionate about what you do, people eventually will be won over by what you have to say.

Using a great mortgage analogy based on her days as Head of Design Thinking in Bank of Ireland, Lesley reveals how putting the human being at the center of everything is the key to good business. This applies across all industries and sectors, including the world of tech startups. 

Learn more about Lesley here.

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Allan Kelly is a conference organiser, speaker, author and a coder who’s on a mission to help other coders get in touch with the world around them. His Fireside Chat with Richard had a wonderfully warming feel, just like his Agile on the Beach conference in Cornwall. He began by revealing that he actually apologised for giving a new talk at a conference, He believes strongly that repurposing conference talks helps you reach new audiences and reach existing audiences in new ways. He also revealed how he spread rumours of Russian cargo ships landing on a Cornwall beach to attract people to Agile on the Beach

If you’d like to find out more about Allan Kelly and his agile approach to technology and to life, check him out at Agile on the Beach.

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Onyi Anyado is a global leadership speaker from Hackney in East London, and he’s on a mission to achieve distinction, for himself and for wannabe public speakers. He’s written two books and delivered a powerful TEDx Talk called From Detention to Distinction. His Fireside Chat with Richard crackled with dynamism and passion. He revealed that he feels divinely inspired to help people find their own distinctive voice as speakers. He talks about how he developed his own distinct message as a speaker. He also tells us why he stopped going to his barber, and how he turned that to his advantage.

You’ll find out more about Onyi’s quest to achieve distinction at Onyi Anyado Media House.

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John Collins is Director of Content with Intercom, the customer messaging platform. He’s a man who knows how to spread a message effectively, having worked as a tech journalist for more than 20 years. He’s now responsible for producing the award-winning content at Intercom, including the blog, the podcasts, the books and the social media communications.

In our Fireside Chat, John talks about how Intercom has introduced a silent podcast disco to keep conferences fresh for audiences. He also shares a great analogy that Intercom came up with to help people learn to speak – that brilliant public speaking starts with a cupcake. When you’re learning to bake, you don’t plunge into making a wedding cake. You start with a cupcake and you perfect your skills. Similarly, in public speaking, when you start small, you achieve great things.

Find out more about Intercom’s cupcake-centric philosophy of developing skills, products and services here.

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