The post #130 Part 1 The One Strategy That Will Completely Tame Your To Do List appeared first on Communicator Academy.

Do you use a calendar and a to do list?

Does your to do list take up two pages like Michele?  The chronic feeling of failure and physical exhaustion when there is not enough time to complete your list can be overwhelming.

Kathi and Michele share The One Strategy that will completely change how you organize your time. Are you like Kathi and Michele, who left to their own devices will say yes to all the things?  Learn today the first of many reasons why this strategy will make a difference in your relationships and self-care. 

• How a to do list is infinite, a calendar is finite. 
• How a calendar has natural barriers and push back
• What “scope-creep” means

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The post #129 Leadership Lessons From Dad’s Junkyard with Roy Goble appeared first on Communicator Academy.

Kathi is joined by Roy Goble, author of Salvaged: Leadership Lessons Pulled from the Junkyard.

Roy’s dad was an unlikely leader raised in the dust bowl era turned successful businessman.  Raised in his dad’s wrecking (junk) yards,  Roy shares how hard work has translated to leadership skills anyone can put into practice in your everyday life.

Join Kathi and Roy as they share what it looks like to be a good leader and to raise leaders in your sphere.

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• Leaders get grease under their fingernails
• How leaders bring others up to succeed
• Most effective leadership is pointing people towards Christ
• Leadership begins at the grassroots

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The post #128 What You Need to Know When Writing a Memoir with Lyneta Smith appeared first on Communicator Academy.

Kathi is joined today by Lyneta Smith. Her new book, Curtain Call, is a memoir that will take the reader through the journey of how she learned to trust God with her story. 

Kathi and Lyneta dive further into how to write a memoir in order to serve your audience. . 

• How memoir is like a platypus. 
• How to know when you are ready to write a memoir.
• What it looks like to frame a memoir. 
• How to protect your family and friends when telling the hard story. 

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The post #127 Memoirs for Writers – Part 2 with Susy Flory appeared first on Communicator Academy.

Kathi and Michele are together at The Red House with Susy Flory.  In this second part, Kathi, Michele, and Susy continue the discussion about six more memoirs that have impacted their writings.  

Explore how heroes and villains, mentors, and stunt memoirs can influence your experience as a writer. 

• The power of letting the readers see what you admire about the instigators of the story. 
• How honesty about your own flaws and what it looks like in everyday life is important in telling the hard truth in your writing. 
• How the animal memoir is not just about the animal. 

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Memoirs for Writers

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Kathi and Michele are together at The Red House with Susy Flory.  Today in the first of two parts they share one memoir that has impacted their writing.  Kathi, Michele and Susy discuss Educatedby Tara Westover, Lit  by Mary Karr, and Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien.

• How the hard story can impact you as a reader when the message is credible
• Why the opening scene is critical to tell the reader loads of information without writing loads of information
• The importance of creating a scene for the reader to step into

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• Educated by Tara Westover
• Lit by Mary Karr
• Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien
• The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
• The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
• The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery

Join us for next week’s episode (Part 2) when we talk more on using memoir techniques in your writing. You won’t want to miss it!