Presentation Hell

Episode #21 featuring Siomara Bridges-Mata - Siomara Bridges-Mata is an emotional intelligence skill builder (EQ) and a youth development advocate for the Frameworks of Tampa Bay. Siomara is constantly developing new and creative ways to provide educators and young people with opportunities to reflect, grow, and become the best version of themselves. Because of her passionate work, she has been recognized for her impact on the community with features on news outlets like FOX 13, Bay News 9, and Tampa Bay Time’s Everyday Tampa Bay series.

Listen to her and Alex breakdown emotional intelligence and its significance towards nailing your presentation.

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Episode #20 featuring Veronica Watson - Listen to Senior Vice President at Siemens EDA Veronica Watson talk about presentations and their significance towards achieving goals. With over 20 years of experience leading worldwide sales teams, Veronica knows what it takes to execute short and long range plans and how to achieve revenue and profitability goals.

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Episode #19 featuring Amy Millman - After founding Springboard Enterprises, Amy was able to make an impact on over 800 successful companies. Over the span of her 21 years running the company, she was able to help raise over 36 billion dollars in value for companies like Irobot, ZipCar, Canvas etc. Listen to what she has to say about what made that possible.

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Episode #18 featuring Johnny Crowder - Johnny Crowder is the Founder and CEO of Cope Notes®. He shared his story on stage at the Orlando 2018 show. As a suicide/abuse survivor, he spent his formative years searching for resources to help him cope with his mental health issues, ranging from OCD and bipolar disorder to schizophrenia.

Listen to Johnny Crowder and James Ontra talk about what it took for Cope Notes® to make it to the next level and how it is helping people all over the world.

Want to know what to do when your presentation sucks and you have to turn it from bad to badass? Tune in to Presentation Hell

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Episode #17 featuring Debra Mcnulty - Debra has a BS in Electrical Engineering, minor in Computer Science from Cal Poly Pomona University. She worked as a Software Engineer up until 2016 when she decided to change her career path to Technical Writing and Project Management. She Currently works as a Documentation Manager for Hine Automation in St. Petersburg, Florida. Hine Automation specializes in the manufacture of the robotics used in the semiconductor industry.

For almost 20 years, She has been active in the community service organization,Kiwanis International, where I have served as the Leadership Education Coordinator for the Florida District and currently volunteer as a Club Leadership Education trainer for the Kiwanis clubs in the Manatee County area. 

Debra gave presentation guidelines for making a zoom presentation amidst the pandemic, she has not only created but has coached people as well. “Creating training material and presenting have long been passions of mine. Perhaps I was a teacher in a previous life!”For the past 10+ years, Debra’s management roles in the Kiwanis International organization have given her invaluable experience in public speaking, seminar presentations and team leadership.

Presentations included Leadership Best Practices , Presenting Effective Virtual Meetings, Electronic Newsletter Publication (Constant Contact and MailChimp) and detailed training on Kiwanis' Web-based Reporting applications. 

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Episode #16 featuring Deborah Torres Patel - Your success or failure is directly linked to your ability to communicate. No matter what you want to achieve, you must convince people of your value. How you do that is through your communication.

Deborah Torres Patel is back to coach Presentation Hell Hosts, James Ontra and AlexAnndra Ontra on how to master speaking with confidence and influence.

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Episode #15 featuring Deborah Torres Patel - Listen to the presentation & speaking expert Deborah Torres Patel and learn how to perfect the art of public speaking alongside our hosts Alex Ontra & James Ontra. Deborah has been a voice presentation and speaking expert for over 30 years in 82 different countries and 6 different continents.

Deborah has helped hundreds of 1000s of people find their voice so they can deliver powerful presentations and increase their influence.

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Episode #14 featuring Wendy Stevens - In this episode, the Presentation Hell Hosts, James and AlexAnndra are interviewed by Wendy Stevens.

James & AlexAnndra opens up about what it's like to do business with their sibling.

The duo co-founded Shufflrr,  the brother-sister team have worked together since 2000, developing and marketing presentation software.  They founded their own company, Ontra Presentations, in 2002 with a borrowed desk, two phones and licensing rights to the Iguana Presentation system, which James swapped his employment contract to obtain. 

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Episode #13 featuring Kurt Dupont - Kurt is the founder of PresentationPoint, a company that provides world leading software for data-driven presentations, digital signage and live, real-time dashboards. 20 years after its beginning, PresentationPoint has more than 10,000 customers worldwide, including some of the most well-known companies in the world such as NASA, SpaceX, IBM, Coca-Cola, eBay, Airbus, Siemens, and many others.

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Episode #12 featuring David McClymont - David is the Chief Executive Officer of the non-profit Palm Beach Symphony, combines bold innovation with strategic business insight that results in transformational change.

With a solid reputation for helping guide small-to-medium size businesses in creating cultures that provide high levels of productivity and profitability, David took the helm at the Palm Beach Symphony in 2014 and erased its existing deficit in only one year. He then proceeded to deliver a yearly positive balance sheet and a 100% increase in revenue in five years. 

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