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You are one of the amazing ones who did it, you wrote a book! Now you need to know how to take your great work and distill it into a 40-minute speech. A speech that serves your audience well, creates value and naturally increases your sales. So, how do you do that? Authors, speakers, and entrepreneurs Kathi Lipp and Michelle Cushatt share their top three tips and give some bonus do’s and don’ts for authors-turned-speakers or speakers-turned-authors.

• How to decide your #1 takeaway
• Creating universal applications for every audience
• Creating the right amount of tension
• How to balance serving and selling
• Bonus: Do’s and Don’ts for every author-turned-speaker

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The post 160 What Do You Do When Your Ministry or Business Isn’t Growing? Pt 2 appeared first on Communicator Academy.

Kathi and Michele continue their conversation about business and ministry and what to do when you feel stuck. If you've ever found yourself disconnecting from or discouraged in your business or ministry, then this is the episode for you. Learn to push through and find the joy in your ministry and business once again.

• What things you can do to spark joy again
• What are the benefits of conferences and masterminds
• One easy win you can do right now to get out of your slump
• Why you should invest in yourself with a business coach or other specialist
• Do your homework - get inspired
• Whether or not you should let go of something and launch something new or stay the course

Michele and Kathi love their pups! Check out those adorable lovies down below!

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Kathi with Moose, and Michelle's dogs, Nika (deceased) and Vesper.

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Join us for next week’s episode. You won’t want to miss it!

Do you have a business or ministry you are completely passionate about, but is not thriving? Are you growing discouraged or frustrated by slow growth or a recent downturn? You are not alone. These things happen to us all at one point or another. Writers, speakers, ministers, and entrepreneurs, Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt know a thing or two about business and ministry. Today the ladies discuss 5 steps you need to take when your business or ministry is in a slump. 

Episode 159: What do you do when your ministry isn’t growing. Part 1 

Hosts – Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt 

• How to recognize the seasons of business and ministry.
• The 5 steps to take to quell the panic.
• How to get your heart in the right place.
• How to focus on what matters and not on what distracts.

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Join us for next week’s episode (Part 2) when we talk about the next steps you can take to get your head in the game and get through any slow season.

The post Episode 158: Your Book Launch Checklist with Michelle Ule appeared first on Communicator Academy.

Join Kathi today with her friend and guest, Michelle Ule, as they talk about preparations for a successful book launch!

The motto for today’s podcast is be prepared.  Michelle shares the tasks to be completed in advance in order to be prepared for a successful book launch, even in the midst of a natural disaster!  Michelle’s book, Mrs. Oswald Chambers: The Woman Behind the World’s Bestselling Devotional, launched in the middle of the 2017 Sonoma County fires.

Learn the key to using the cloud, a fact sheet, and much more.  

Leave a comment or your questions on your ideas for book launch and be entered to win a copy of Michelle’s book!

Find out more about all of Michelle’s books here. 

• How to set up a fact sheet. 
• The importance of preparing in advance. 
• How you are the important key to a book launch. 

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The post Episode 157: How to be a Great Podcast Guest Part 2 with Cheri Gregory appeared first on Communicator Academy.

Welcome Back to part two on how to be the best podcast guest you can be!  

Join Kathi today with guest, Cheri Gregory, as they continue their discussion on how to be a great podcast guest.Looking to become a better speaker on stage or on a podcast?  Don’t miss out on Leverage Conference.  Register today!  Learn more about mastering podcasts as a guest and a host at Leverage. 

Today, Kathi and Cheri will cover the next 5 ways to prepare a podcast as a guest.  If you missed last week, go back and review the first five ways here.  

How can you get to that great conversation?  What does hurt, hope, and heeling and manuscript development teams have to do with learning to be a great guest?   These are important strategies and tips Kathi and Cheri share from their experiences in building their own podcasts as well as being guests. 

• What you want is to have a great conversation not a memorized fact review. 
• The importance of manuscript development teams
• How hurt, hope, and heeling will help you in your guest podcast

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Thank you to our friend Susy Flory with Everything Memoir for sponsoring this episode!