This Moved Me

This Moved Me

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This Moved Me episodes

  • 201: The Magic is in the Every Day, Speakers

    Here's the truth: If you can't see the magic in the every day, you won't have a story to tell. But when we can see wonder and magic in the every day - and articulate its meaning - the stories will leap out at you, and those stories will move people.

    6 min
  • 200: Is Speaking Genetic?

    So, yesterday I got a message from a friend of mine showing me the results of his 23andMe report.... saying that he was genetically predisposed to a fear of public speaking. (And he speaks quite a bit.)

    Hmmm! Interesting!

    By the end of the day, another 3 people had reached out with their own results on this same thing. (23andMe - nice marketing!)

    So... I HAVE OPINIONS!

    11 min
  • 199: 3 Ways to Protect Your Presentation Prep Time

    People ask me all the time:

    How long should it take to prep for this big talk?

    My answer is typically: More than you think.

    With incredibly busy lives, juggling way more than one thing at a time - prepping for our talks often gets squeezed. Add onto that the mental and emotional challenge of developing a talk… well, avoidance and procrastination can take on a life of its own.

    I get it! It's not easy to create space when the more seemingly urgent can easily jump to the front of the line. But often the last few days and hours and moments before a talk, we are then faced with that moment of regret…

    I wish I would have taken more time for this. I wish I would have practiced this more. I wish I knew this better. I wish….

    No more wishing!

    It's 2019 - let's do things differently this year.
    15 min
  • 198: Why I'm Bringing More Joy to My Speaking - And You Should Too

    JOY.

    There were all kinds of signs pointing me to JOY: a journal that jumped out to me at the craft store; our Christmas card; a talk I heard; my latest Netflix craze watching Marie Kondo "spark joy"… The universe has been laying down little pebbles for me on this one.

    But what does JOY have to do with you - and what does JOY have to do with speaking?

    I think Joy is an essential element of speaking that MOVES people.

    Not convinced? Take a listen:

    24 min
  • 197: How do we tell our stories with authenticity? (The Speaking Story Course is open!)

    Movers, today is the final idea about how we can bring our idea to life through our Speaking Stories course that goes live Oct. 30th! If you are listening to this it means that the cart is open! After I talk with you about what it is - and why it is - I hope you'll join us over the next few weeks while we bring our stories more to life and to your audience so it's out there moving the world! Go to www.speakingstory.com to sign up!

    9 min
  • 196: Three Core Beliefs We Need to Speak With Authenticity

    Bringing your story to life…

    To do that, we need to believe some things - deep down - before we can take the stage with courage and authenticity. Last week I talked about Six Rookie Storytelling Mistakes (and what to do instead).

    But this week - in anticipation of the Speaking Story course that opens for enrollment this coming Friday - we are diving into three beliefs all of my speakers wrestle with to some level or another (and from one day to another)!

    22 min
  • 195: Outing the Story Behind My Speaking Superpower
    One of my favorite parts of doing workshops is when I help people discover the 'THING' that makes their voice unique. The thing that is essential to them. The thing that, despite our misguided efforts to polish up, layer up and perfect our role as "speaker" (whatever that means!)… well, it still eeks out. :) Which, honestly, is a wonderful wonderful thing, and the HEART of AUTHENTICITY! I call it your Speaking Superpower. If we can own it - it's powerful. Part of owning it is sharing it!…So here goes:
    13 min
  • 194: Discovering Your Speaking Superpower
    To my delight, authenticity has been a buzz word and goal of speakers for a long time. As "talks" have become a preferred and powerful platform for LEADERS (not just professional and motivational speakers), the door has opened to more and more people to share their stories in their own way. This, my friends/speakers/movers!, is a wonderful thing! As a presentation coach whose mission is to create talks that move the world (not to create talks that are perfect and overly polished and 'right but boring') - I LOVE that audiences want more than just the standard chicken-dinner presentation. They want REAL. They want BRAVE. They want… YOU. That's the good news. But it also means that more and more of us are finding ourselves up in front, and the bar is higher. Leading. Speaking. Daring. And in that big moment… sometimes WE DON'T FEEL LIKE OURSELVES. It can sometimes feel like we're playing a role, or being a "character" of a speaker. Who do you become up on stage? Hopefully, you are YOU…Your best friend should be able to recognize you on stage as the best and most daring version of yourself! Because there is something essential about you that is true across the board, whoever we are and whatever we're doing. An energy that flows from you, straight out into the world. And that energy is your speaking superpower. Defining, knowing and utilizing it can help you own the moment and bring your most free and authentic voice to the stage. So I'm going to walk you through a process by which you can DISCOVER Your Speaking Superpower!
    18 min
  • 193: Six Rookie Storytelling Mistakes (and what to do instead)
    What's the biggest mistakes people make?… This is one of those questions I get again and again! and well, if we're talking about Delivery or Preparation or Content development or Mindset - I answer them each differently. And today I want to answer it in the context of STORY… The 6 biggest rookie storytelling mistakes… so you won't make them, too! Let's dive in!
    23 min
  • 192: On Knowing When Your Story is Ready to Be Told

    I remember watching this really famous speaker once tell a story that I KNEW she wasn't ready to tell yet. It was too much - too powerful, still - still too emotionally raw…

    (And I've also seen speakers who are so far beyond their stories - that it doesn't have any emotional resonance left. They've told it too many times, it's lost its power for them… there's no emotive connection left. It's been used up. )

    What struck me was that she was telling the story because she NEEDED to. It was a part of HER healing. And that's not nothing.

    Would I recommend it? Nope….

    There are those stories that we're just not ready to tell yet because we ourselves aren't healed enough. Listen to that instinct. It may not be ready yet. It might be too raw.

    So how do we know when a story is ready to be told?
    9 min

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This Moved Me is a podcast on the art of public speaking for entrepreneurs and changemakers who want to move the world with their talks. Through casual conversation with famous TED speakers to…