Todays Guest

I’ve delighted to interview Aly Harrold who is an expert coach for Public Speaking. Aly has shared lots of great information on how to use public speaking effectively to promote your book and how to create a powerful and engaging Signature talk that is based on the content of your book.

About Aly Harrold

Aly has been involved with vocal stage performance and recording for most of her working life, singing professionally for many years and as a music publisher and songwriter. Her speaking career has been established over a number of years and she has won many awards including 2014 Kent Speaker of the Year, 2014 South East Speaker of the Year and 3rd Place National Speaker of the Year 2014. She is also President of the West Kent Speakers Club.

Aly has a real passion for enabling entrepreneurial business women to find their voice and deliver their message in an engaging empowering way through workshops and 1 to 1 coaching.

Shae Baxter provides entrepreneurs and bloggers with practical proven strategies to generate more search engine traffic so they can grow their business and to make it easier for clients, customers and fans to discover their work.

She graduated with a business degree from Monash University and then commenced a career working in various roles in not-for-profit, corporate, marketing, recruitment and disability services, both here in Australia and overseas.

Shae has a post-graduate certificate in Digital Marketing from the Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA).

Her tips on SEO, marketing and customer-attraction have been featured in publications like Marketing Land, BRW, Long Tail Pro, The Publicity Hound,  She Owns It, Tad Hargrave’s Niching Spiral, Simply Social Media, the Unemployable Woman and Small Business Victoria.

She’s also been an official supplier of keyword reports for Elto (now Pro Marketplace by GoDaddy), a leading online directory of web & social media experts, where her insights were shared with thousands of directory users.

If you’re ready to get seen by the people that you want to serve -- and make Google your Best Friend Forever – Shae is the lifesaver you’ve been praying for.

Holly started her career video production in 2008 as a Videographer, Producer, and Editor working with big industry names.  Her skills and experience run the full gamut from Producing and Directing to Shooting and Editing, and she has translated those skills into a range of educational courses and services to support entrepreneurs in their quest for video stardom. Holly believes that video isn’t “just” video; it’s your ticket to a more personalized brand, your secret weapon to cut through the static in your market, and your best opportunity to have a meaningful conversation with your clients and customers. 

Cathy Presland, a former economist, has over two decades of experience across government, international organisations, corporate, business, and non-profits.

Best-selling author, mentor and highly-regarded trainer, Cathy is widely published, has over 15,000 students in her online training courses, teaches writing for The Guardian Masterclasses series, and is an engaging and popular speaker.

In her career as an economist Cathy advised governments and organisations around the world. She set up a micro-credit fund for women, negotiated European regulations, managed multi-billion pound economic programmes, and designed and led global anti-poverty initiatives.

She now works with experts and professionals who want to be known and be well-rewarded for what they do. She helps you write and publish your expertise, share your vision and make an impact with what you know.