Are you operating at your full potential as a leader and storyteller? Today's guest will challenge you to step up, embrace your potential, and choose to be powerful as a leader and speaker.

As a #1 bestselling author, highly sought-after speaker, and elite high-performance executive coach, Dr. Wayne Pernell has spent the last three-and-a-half decades bringing leaders on a breakthrough journey to their next level of having more and being more. He is known as "The Leaders' Leader" for good reason.

At its core, storytelling and leadership are not about you. They are all about impacting and serving your audience, team, or followers. Today's guest will help every leader and storyteller check their ego at the door and risk the edge of their own vulnerability in order to become more effective.

Patty is a keynote speaker and best-selling author who inspires audiences to lead with passion and purpose. She is an expert business coach that believes our businesses are not only a way to make money and contribute to our fellow humans but are also a conduit for our soul's evolution.

"A great speaker is like a surgeon: they can cut you open and then sew you back up." That is one of the many amazing insights you'll hear from today's guest, who shares his powerful journey from a scarred past to taking big stages and impacting countless lives today.

As a leader and a storyteller, the temptation is to project yourself as strong and invulnerable. Today's guest reveals the power of speaking and leading from the heart. You'll learn how to inject fun and creativity into your speaking and better connect with others as a human being.

Robin Gelfenbien is a NYC-based storyteller, writer and comedian whose told stories alongside luminaries like Hannah Gadsby and Trevor Noah. She's also a two-time Moth StorySLAM winner who has performed on PBS, RISK! and Mortified.

Storytelling and leadership are all about sharing—not only our stories, but who we are at our core. Today's guest shares why this simple concept of generosity is so critical to great leadership and storytelling, and how to share more of yourself and your experiences with your audience.

Antesa Jensen is an emotional intelligence and human-centric innovation expert, specializing in evoking and conjuring the genius in others, potentiating personal and cultural entropy in organizations, and teaching leaders how to create brilliant teams through keynote speeches, bespoke transformational experiences, and 1:1 coaching.

Storytelling is not one-way communication. Instead, it involves a great deal of listening, whether you are telling a story on a stage or with your team in the workplace. On this episode, our guest reveals why listening is such a vital part of storytelling, and how to use it as a tool to invite people into powerful stories.

Our stories and speaking begin with us, but they end with the audience. On this episode, we'll explore how to powerfully impact audiences by focusing on their needs. You'll also learn about the connection between storytelling and the right side of the brain, story archetypes, vulnerability, and much more.

Bill Carmody is the founder and CEO of Trepoint, a 22-year digital marketing veteran and TEDx speaker. His purpose in life is to be an inspirational leader who enjoys solving problems and creating breakthroughs for those brave enough to build a better future.

As a speaker, you have an amazing tool at your disposal. This tool can create community, inspire new ways of thinking, and help you make a powerful impact on your audience. On this season of The Big Talk, we'll look at the power of storytelling and how it is an indispensable tool for leadership. In this episode, Tricia shares her story of taking stages, and why storytelling and leadership are one and the same.

What truly moves people to action, the head or the heart? While information and content is vital, today's guest reminds us that storytelling and connecting with people's hearts through vulnerability is the most powerful way to impact them.

Jason Harris is the president and CEO of the award-winning creative agency Mekanism and works closely with brands through a blend of soul and science to create shareable and provocative campaigns that engage audiences. Jason's passion for leveraging the power of storytelling to humanize brands and establish an emotional connection with consumers as people rather than mere transactions has revolutionized the role and impact of modern marketing. Jason's innovative methods are currently studied at Harvard Business School through the case study "Mekanism: Engineering Viral Marketing."

We'll explore:

• A bit about Jason's current speaking platform.
• Why Jason is so passionate about storytelling.
• Why storytelling can be more powerful than focusing on just teaching content.
• How body language and movement play a critical role in effective speaking.
• The framework Jason used in his talk: personal to broad to urgent.
• The most surprising things Jason learned from Speakers Who Dare.
• How speaking has impacted Jason personally and professionally.
• Jason's tips for becoming a more effective speaker.

It's easy to let fear hold you back as a speaker. What if you forget your script? What if people don't like your talk? What if the unexpected happens? Today's guest shares a powerful technique for dealing with fear, as well as offering many other tips for becoming a more effective speaker.

Tonya Harris is an award-winning toxin expert, childhood cancer survivor, and mother of three. She is the founder of Slightly Greener, offering busy Moms simple solutions for reducing toxins in their home. Tonya is also the founder of the Happy Child Project, a movement to de-stigmatize learning disabilities and mental health challenges in children.

We'll explore:

• A bit about Tonya's current platform.
• What Tonya learned about herself in the Speakers Who Dare process.
• The importance of being vulnerable in your talk.
• The value of having immediate feedback when you speak in front of a live audience.
• The "What If" technique and how it can help you.
• How speaking has impacted Tonya personally and professionally.
• Practical tips for becoming a more effective speaker.