The Sage Sayers

My guest this week, Dr. Sergey Sikora, has learned rich life lessons about entrepreneurship from launching five successful ventures, including Releviate Therapeutics.

He launched this most recent bio-pharmaceutical company, which develops therapies to target (and relieve) neuropathic pain, right within the thick of the Pandemic—a perfect environment for any startup, he says. This (milestone 10th) episode of the Sage Sayers offers insight into the bravery and agility required for startup owners and business-builders everywhere. 

You can learn more about Releviate Therapeutics here. Track down Coach Debbi for a complimentary narrative or executive communications coaching and/or training session by clicking here.

In this week's Sage Sayer's podcast, we tackle an age-old vocal pattern getting in our way of connecting with and retaining our audience: Flat, lifeless, and monotone vocal delivery.

Coach Debbi offers ten coaching and business reporter tips to add warmth, vocal variety, and passion to your next high-stakes presentation.  Visit Hanging Rock Coaching for Coach Debbi's coaching and training services or schedule a complimentary coaching session. 

My guest this week is Dr. Linda Przybyszewski, a historian and associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. How I came to know Linda’s work is through her beautiful, NY-Times bestselling book: The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish. (As someone who loves fashion and a daughter of a mother who enjoyed sewing, this book delighted and taught me a lot.) 

The Lost Art of Dress (published with Basic in 2014) remains relevant. Linda documents the rise of Dress Doctors in the early 20th century and their demise in the 60s. Dress Doctors, Linda explains, were women working as teachers, writers, retailers, and designers who advised women how to dress well, how to choose clothing which suits us at different times of the day, life stages, and ages.

Within our interview, Linda guides us through the thrill of research, dressing well, our heritage, and how to still look (and feel) chic, even when busy and even when working from home. You can read Linda's delightful blogging on fashion via Tumblr and find her book on Amazon here.

Find information on me and my coaching and training services via my website. 

Note to my listeners: Please forgive the occasional audio distortion this week as we find our way as a startup podcast. 

If excessive filler words take over your presentation, you're signaling to your audience your discomfort, disinterest, and/or that you're not feeling prepared.
 
In this week's Sage Sayers podcast, Coach Debbi offers five tips to managing verbal filler (words like: “um,” “uh,” “like,” “you know”) so the vocal pattern doesn't overwhelm you—or lose your audience. (Incorporating PQ reps, a powerful and succinct technique for quieting your Survivor brain and activating your PQ Sage region in your brain, becomes part of this week’s offering. You’ll notice powerful shifts as you present!)

For  information on Debbi and her coaching and training services, visit: www.hangingrockcoaching.com Interested in Positive Intelligence? Visit: www.positiveintelligence.com

Singer, song writer, social worker, and activist Emily Cavanagh discovered a gift through COVID: Writing (and gifting) personalized songs to those feeling sad, lost, scared, and isolated.

Her initiative: "A Song For You" has now hit 100 songs which go to front-line workers, COVID patients, and their families in hospitals and hospice centers across the US. Famed singers, including Sophie B Hawkins, have shared and written songs for A Song For You, too.

In this interview, Cavanagh shares how she found social work, activism, and song writing provided the perfect tapestry of her Chicago Irish heritage, passions, and skills. And how grieving for what she lost through COVID inspired her newest passion: "A Song for You."

You can find Emily's music through:  www.emilycavanaghmusic.com and www.hereisasongforyou.org becomes live soon.  

This week, we chat with veteran podcaster, Marc Lee, an award-winning  executive producer with IBM.TV and host of multiple podcasts, often back-to-back within the one day. (He's a machine!) 

Lee, based in North Carolina, learned some fundamentals of effective audio storytelling through his parents who ran their own radio station during his boyhood. 

Lee offers us tips, strategies, and insight into how to last the homeward stretch, avoid fadeout, and stand out among the 850,000 - 1,175,000 podcasts (depending on the data source) engaging podcast listeners today. 

Visit Coach Debbi, your show host, at www.hangingrockcoaching.com or [email protected] and Marc Lee at: https://linktr.ee/leeentertainment62

This week, we interview Carmela O’Flaherty, an executive leadership and business communication coach helping non-native speakers of English thrive within corporate America. Coach Carmela (who's also a classical pianist and linguist) shares her stories and tips on how to stay grounded, calm, and confident, even when the language and customs around you seem new and unfamiliar. 

An epic meltdown amidst a Covid-19 quarantine reminded me of a vital lesson: Always take time to become mindful, no matter how busy and overwhelmed we feel. Not only do we become more grounded and efficient, we perform better—and our life perspective improves, too. 

We all want to captivate our audience; but in meetings, many simply want to feel they're listened to.  In this podcast, Coach Debbi offers tips to listening in ways that others notice—and respond well to.

For more insights and tips on business communication or for team or individual coaching and training, visit: Hanging Rock, LLC (hangingrockcoaching.com)

In our debut podcast, we interview Richard (Rick) Phillips, a bestselling sci-fi author, who wrote his first book (The Second Ship) with a publishing via Amazon in 2006. A million of sold copies (and multiple editions)  later, he's also published eight books in the Rho Agenda series. Rick's self taught. His books have sold so well, he's left his day job as a corporate executive and now writes full time. 

Our interview:

• Explores the gifts, opportunities, and knowledge Rick gathered throughout his first careers (including time serving with the US army) and incorporates into his writing today. 
• Shares writing and self-publishing tips from a writer who knows the business.
• Inspires others to start their own book(s) now, the best time ever, during the Pandemic.