His work has been featured in Inc., Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Forbes, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times.

“One of the best speaking coaches out there” according to Forbes.com, David’s program with over 29,000 students has been featured by Prezi as one of the best training courses for presenters. His book remains one of the highest rated in the world on the (usually not so wildly exciting) topic of public speaking and his content has been read by over one million people.

Get in touch with David Nihill, click on the links below.

Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation, what’s happening? Welcome to a new episode of the public speaking secrets podcast. I’m your host, Victor. He Penny. And today I’ve got someone who, uh, I’ve, I’ve actually listened to read Rita’s book a few times now because it’s a very, very interesting in the sense that I’ve helped a lot of people would speaking, but I’ve always found the teaching of humor, one of the, the things that I’ve never really been able to grasp in a, in a true way. And I found this book probably the most easily, the most practical and logical assumption of, of how you can kind of keep being natural and yourself and also add humor until you kind of your business presentations you did talk to you. Yeah. Whatever, uh, yeah. Even you eulogies if need be. Um, and so I was super stoked to get them on the show and we’ll cut to the chase and welcome David Nihill. Who, who’s the author of. Do you talk? Funny and welcome to the show, man. Right.

David Nihill: Thanks.

Victor Ahipene: So give us, give us a bit of a background. Have you always been the, the, the humorous, the humorous man in the, in the conversations that you’ve been with friends and always been the guy who hopped up on stage and bust in and everybody would laugh?

David Nihill: Definitely not. I think them in Irish, it’s a bit ingrained th

Elliot has worked across the globe in the UK, Africa, USA and Europe. He has a combined seventeen years of experience in both training and coaching, having designed and delivered training for Sky Television, Talk Talk, the NHS and many more.

After almost losing everything, Elliot has turned around his businesses to form one of the leading strategy, training and coaching companies for both self-development and strategy in the UK – using his own experience to ensure others don’t make the same mistakes as him.

As part of giving back, Elliot has been a mentor for the Princes’ Trust for the last 5 years. Elliot has unlimited passion for results. His passion is to help business owners to live The Elite Business Lifestyle through strategy boardrooms, workshops and mentoring. Elliot is a certified coach, cognitive behavioral hypnotherapist and accredited strategist.

Get in touch with Elliot Kay, click on the links below.

Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation, what’s happening at welcome to another episode of public speaking secrets. I’m your host, victor, he penny, and as always, thank you for joining us as we take you on the journey to make your speeches and your talks more exciting and more impactful and more powerful to get out to a bigger audience and I’ve got just the persons who helped you with that to do. Got Elliot Kay and he is the lead trainer and founder of Speaker Express, which is one of the leading training organizations in London and even further so welcome to the show, Elliot.

Elliot Kay: Thank you for having me. What a pleasure.

Victor Ahipene: It’s a, it’s, it’s, it’s going to be great, but I’d love to get a bit of a background on you. I guess partly on what you do and the other part, how it kind of all came about. How did you build up to where you were, you had the j

With his incredible knowledge on brand growth, Troy has been known to have helped numerous entrepreneurs grow businesses that generate six figures per year and acquire time freedom for anything else that’s important.

Find out how to get the confidence that attracts the world’s best prospects and clients that are perfect for you. Get insights on how to build a public speaking brand to scale long term that will give you recognition internationally.

Get in touch with Troy Assoignon, click on the links below.

Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation, what’s happening, your host here, Victor Ahipene, thanks for joining us today. We’ve got Troy Assoignon and he is a positioning and marketing expert and the leader at Legacy and he’s going to really dive in into how you as a speaker, as an expert is even someone within your company can help position yourself for greater things. Welcome to the show, Troy.

Troy Assoignon: Thank you so much for having me. Victor. I’m glad to be here and I’m excited.

Victor Ahipene: And it’s, it’s something that I guess your, uh, other, other people that were interviewed on the show from, from speakers. They’ve all had to go through this kind of ladder of social proof. Like I spoke to Nick Bowditch and, and he, he leveraged off, uh, being the only, the only person in Asia Pacific to hate marketing for both Facebook and twitter. And he said, he said like, look, yeah, that’s the result that it got from everybody is he was able to leverage and position of that, uh, and then use it in his marketing for speaking side of things. But yeah, we kind of delved into a little bit on how, how speakers can do it, and I know this is something that we’ve been talking prior to the show for the, the, it was to start with like an hour and a half ago or som

His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Thrive Global, the Huffington Post, Globe and Mail, and elsewhere. Termuende was recognized as a Top 100 Emerging Innovator under 35 globally by American Express, is a TEDx speaker, and represented Canada at the G20 Summit.

Eric is a thought leader on optimizing workplace culture, the future of work, and engagement in the workplace. He provides key actionable takeaways on how companies can drive engagement through connection and trust. Eric dispels generational groupings to re-humanize and gain more out of the workforce. Having given nearly 200 presentations, he goes beyond diversity and inclusion to help audiences understand people and patterns in order to optimize the workplace. His new bestselling book, Rethink Work is available on Amazon.ca.

Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation, what’s out, what’s happening in welcome to another episode of the public speaking secrets podcast. I’m your host and today we are lucky enough some of you know, I used to run another podcast called the youngpreneurs podcasts and a couple of my guests, I have seen that a, yeah, that’s been really successful in the speaking industry or the been able to transition the expertise from that into, uh, you know, speaking in it, speaking kind of place, this nice ecosystem back into their business. And there was none bitter then one of my past gear. So we actually chatted a few times. Eric to mandates is the co-founder of now innovation, a bestselling author. He’s been featured in the Julian things and he is now really hitting up the speaking world. Welcome back. Also the catch up again, Eric. Yeah.

Together with his partner – industry leading digital marketer Levi Sanford; he has invested over $35US million online, filling over 1,000 events, registering in excess of 300,000 people in the process across 5 continents!

Get in touch with Josh Smith and We Fill Events, click on the links below.

Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation, what’s happening? Welcome to public speaking secrets. I’m your host, Victor Ahipene, thanks for joining us. We are on a mission to change the world of public speaking for the better. Make you more confident, charismatic, and engaging for your audiences and make you have the ability to be able to share your message with a bigger audience. And today we’ve got Josh Smith on who helps you do exactly that. Welcome to the show, Josh. So I’ve got. I’ve got your bio here that you see me and it’s pretty awesome when it comes to solving, I guess one of speakers biggest problems, uh, you know, coaches, entrepreneurs, business owners, tell us, kind of what you do and, and give us a bit of a background on that.

Josh Smith: Co founded a company called wave event and um, you can probably guess as to what we do, we just put it right there in the front of the tin and everything that we do is about supporting good ethical stake is, um, no matter where they are to be able to make the difference from stage bec

This is where storytelling comes in. Controlling the narrative and taking people on a journey is powerful. It creates more engagement, allows people to relate on a deeper level and best of all lets you impact more people when you are presenting.

Having watched 100’s of amazing speakers over the years one that has stuck with me due to both his storytelling and do it his way attitude is Nick Bowditch.

Nick is a successful (and unsuccessful) entrepreneur, a storyteller, a marketer, an addict, a mental health advocate, a sexual abuse victim, and someone who lives with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). 

Nick is also a survivor.  

As the only person in Asia-Pacific to have worked at both Facebook and Twitter, Nick is also a thought-leader in using social media as a storytelling tool for businesses and individuals alike, he is a sought-after keynote speaker, and travels nationally and internationally encouraging audiences to be the very best versions of themselves, to FINALLY start owning and telling their OWN story, to discover their resilience and their true voice, and to find their kindness. 

Social Media: @nickbowditch across most channels

www.nickbowditch.com.au 

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After 185 episodes of that show, I pulled the pin because I became inspired to create this show which literally came to me during a meditation.

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A Podcast helping break down the barriers stopping you from becoming a confident powerful public speaker. Learn how to eliminate your fear, land more speaking gigs, close more deals, get in front of more people and share your message with a bigger audience.

Join us each week as we go deep with the worlds leading speakers, trainers, coaches, YouTubers, influencers, TED speakers and more. Learn the inside secrets on what has allowed them to confidently share their message with the world. Fast Track Your Success and Learn from the best. Inspired by Brendon Burchard, Tony Robbins and Tim Ferriss.

Join The Free Speaker Nation Community On Facebook” Having been speaking and teaching others to effectively public speak for the last 18 years I am on a mission to help 10000 others over the next 3 years improve their speaking and share their message.

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The more confident you are in being ‘The expert’ the more others will believe it when you are speaking.

I find it helpful to reframe your mindset around it by applying the 80/20 rule.

That is what areas of life do you think you would know more than 8/10 people walking down the road.

Take a Doctor or Physio for example. People come to see them for their EXPERTISE….but when asked if they are an expert often they shy away from the term.

They think of the top 1% of people in their industry as experts. Even though they know more about their profession than likely 99% of the population who aren’t qualified.

Sure you can become an expert of the experts but if you wait for that you are potentially doing a disservice to those out there that you can benefit with your current level of skills.

I am not saying fake it and position yourself in something you have no right being in. Just don’t ever undersell yourself.

This idea is no different if you are a business owner, coach, digital marketer or employee.

Today’s episode will answer the question ‘How do I become an authority in my industry’, I will show you some ways to position yourself as the go-to authority and expert with ease.

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