Voice Acting – Telling Someone Else’s Story with Heart and Soul Have you always wanted to do voiceover work? Do you dream of creating characters and stories with your voice? Are you a huge Bugs Bunny fan? Join me as I detail how to start on this magical aspect of the business of storytelling. I…
A Wedding Toast: Lovely Tradition or Nervewrecker? Your best friends are getting married. They ask you to be the best man/maid of honor. Yay! You’d be thrilled. And then they say, “Would you give a toast at the wedding?” Uh oh! Now, what? What do you do? What do you say? How do you do…
Giving “Bad News:” How to do it effectively and compassionately Episode 142 In this episode, I explore giving challenging news. I discuss my 35-year consulting practice and the strategies I’ve developed and still follow when I have to have a tough talk with my clients. It’s not easy to do because it’s tempting to fall…
Spend even a few minutes a day being creative, and you will be amazed at how much you can achieve. In this episode, I explore creativity, careers, and how we can all express ourselves creatively. You might be a creative with a day job or a careerist with artistic hobbies. Either path can lead to…
Overcoming abuse to succeed anyway! We can learn to persevere and thrive despite the special challenges created by surviving a childhood of abuse. This podcast episode begins the story. Tonight, I’m doing something frightening on my podcast. I’m debuting my latest, in-process book. Every Friday evening I will be reading a chapter of what I…
Do you sometimes feel like we are living in a hyper-stimulated world? Like focusing is almost impossible? I get that feeling once in a while, and I get to a place where I have trouble seeing the forest for the trees. As a way handling this issue, I have developed a simple trick. It takes…
Want to Fan that Creative Flame? You Need the Fire Energy to Do It! In order to get stuff done, we need the energy to do it. If we want to be creative on top of that, we need to fan that flame. We need an extra boost. This is especially true if we happen to…
Public Speaking – Never be nervous again! I do a lot of public speaking and performing. Whether as an educator, workshop facilitator, or performer, I connect with, excite, and inspire my audiences every time. People ask me how I seem so comfortable on stage. “Don’t you get nervous?” They ask. I used to be terrified….
If you do what you love, will the money follow? In today’s podcast, I discuss the idea of doing what you love. The thing you do can be your hobby, or it can be how you make your money. This concerns how you spend your time and energy. Motivational speakers, pundits, self-help authors and others…
Clarity: The need for inner focus in a noisy world The cacophony of everyday life can deafen us to our inner voice. In order to focus and gain clarity, we need to go into the quiet, into the stillness. Imagine being a bird high in the sky. The noise of the down-to-earth is silenced when you ride…