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Tony Brazelton is a biochemist, a manager of projects, a manager of people, a process improvement consultant, a change  management consultant, and now a corporate trainer and management and leadership consultant.

He loves to design and deliver learning experiences to help people be excellent—to each other. 

In our conversation this week, he shares an introvert’s perspective on facilitation (as well as some smart workarounds for small talk!).  We also discuss his pre-workshop preparation and how important it is to get centred.  During this time, Tony has also been helping his colleagues feel comfortable with online meetings, and in this conversation he shares how he’s assisting them with jumping over those online engagement barriers.

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Specialising in neuro linguistic programming, Yoke van Dam trains and coaches business leaders, executives, sales teams and individual staff members the tangible skills that can deliver the outcomes they want. She also presents keynotes in corporate and other settings to bring about positive change.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why language and how we phrase things is so important (in terms of what the brain taps into and what words we hear, what words we tend to discard as well)
• How we can get PR opportunities to build our brand and business
• Yoke's story on how she used her NLP superpower to save a team building event

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For this special episode, I sent out a request to a number of my facilitation, training and Learning and Development business owner friends and a bunch of them graciously agreed to help out.

I asked them, “What’s the one thing you wish you knew when you started your facilitation business?”

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A big THANK YOU to everyone who contributed this show (in order of appearance)

Dr Annette Coy, Cameron Fee, Jane Anderson, Tom Scantlebury, Nadja Petranovskaja, Chris Huet, Murray Guest, Kirsty Lewis, Mel Kettle, Michael Bungay Stanier, Jason Knight, Ingrid Thompson, Sarah McVanel, Bill Jarrard, Petra Zink, Jenny Blake, Nikki McMurray, Angela Henderson, Michael J Conseulos, Christine Burych and Myriam Hadnes.

Your name can feature on Leanne's Wall of Work Fame.

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For the next 7 days, in the lead-up to an epic podcast collaboration episode, I’m releasing a tip every day on the podcast, sharing with you things I wish I knew before I started my facilitation business.

This is also your invitation to join as a founding member of my private community, Show.Up (doors open for a week). Show.Up is a  community for consultants, facilitators and trainers who want to score amazing opportunities (but don’t know how to market themselves with ease...yet!)

Find out more about Show.Up

Your name can feature on Leanne's Wall of Work Fame.

Just pre-order her book by 30 Sep 2026; and follow the details to claim your star.

Also, there are a ton of bulk order incentives as well!

Support the show

Send Leanne a message

For the next 7 days, in the lead-up to an epic podcast collaboration episode, I’m releasing a tip every day on the podcast, sharing with you things I wish I knew before I started my facilitation business.

This is also your invitation to join as a founding member of my private community, Show.Up (doors open for a week). Show.Up is a  community for consultants, facilitators and trainers who want to score amazing opportunities (but don’t know how to market themselves with ease...yet!)

Find out more about Show.Up

Your name can feature on Leanne's Wall of Work Fame.

Just pre-order her book by 30 Sep 2026; and follow the details to claim your star.

Also, there are a ton of bulk order incentives as well!

Support the show

Send Leanne a message

For the next 7 days, in the lead-up to an epic podcast collaboration episode, I’m releasing a tip every day on the podcast, sharing with you things I wish I knew before I started my facilitation business.

This is also your invitation to join as a founding member of my private community, Show.Up (doors open for a week). Show.Up is a  community for consultants, facilitators and trainers who want to score amazing opportunities (but don’t know how to market themselves with ease...yet!)

Find out more about Show.Up

Your name can feature on Leanne's Wall of Work Fame.

Just pre-order her book by 30 Sep 2026; and follow the details to claim your star.

Also, there are a ton of bulk order incentives as well!

Support the show

Send Leanne a message

For the next 7 days, in the lead-up to an epic podcast collaboration episode, I’m releasing a tip every day on the podcast, sharing with you things I wish I knew before I started my facilitation business.

This is also your invitation to join as a founding member of my private community, Show.Up (doors open for a week). Show.Up is a  community for consultants, facilitators and trainers who want to score amazing opportunities (but don’t know how to market themselves with ease...yet!)

Find out more about Show.Up

Your name can feature on Leanne's Wall of Work Fame.

Just pre-order her book by 30 Sep 2026; and follow the details to claim your star.

Also, there are a ton of bulk order incentives as well!

Support the show

Send Leanne a message

For the next 7 days, in the lead-up to an epic podcast collaboration episode, I’m releasing a tip every day on the podcast, sharing with you things I wish I knew before I started my facilitation business.

This is also your invitation to join as a founding member of my private community, Show.Up (doors open for a week). Show.Up is a  community for consultants, facilitators and trainers who want to score amazing opportunities (but don’t know how to market themselves with ease...yet!)

Find out more about Show.Up

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Your name can feature on Leanne's Wall of Work Fame.

Just pre-order her book by 30 Sep 2026; and follow the details to claim your star.

Also, there are a ton of bulk order incentives as well!

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Send Leanne a message

For the next 7 days, in the lead-up to an epic podcast collaboration episode, I’m releasing a tip every day on the podcast, sharing with you things I wish I knew before I started my facilitation business.

This is also your invitation to join as a founding member of my private community, Show.Up (doors open for a week). Show.Up is a  community for consultants, facilitators and trainers who want to score amazing opportunities (but don’t know how to market themselves with ease...yet!)

Find out more about Show.Up

Make sure you subscribe to get the episodes delivered to your podcast app, as soon as they’re released!

Your name can feature on Leanne's Wall of Work Fame.

Just pre-order her book by 30 Sep 2026; and follow the details to claim your star.

Also, there are a ton of bulk order incentives as well!

Support the show

Send Leanne a message

For the next 7 days, in the lead-up to an epic podcast collaboration episode, I’m releasing a tip every day on the podcast, sharing with you things I wish I knew before I started my facilitation business.

This is also your invitation to join as a founding member of my private community, Show.Up (doors open for a week). Show.Up is a  community for consultants, facilitators and trainers who want to score amazing opportunities (but don’t know how to market themselves with ease...yet!)

Find out more about Show.Up

Make sure you subscribe to get the episodes delivered to your podcast app, as soon as they’re released!

Your name can feature on Leanne's Wall of Work Fame.

Just pre-order her book by 30 Sep 2026; and follow the details to claim your star.

Also, there are a ton of bulk order incentives as well!

Support the show