How to Add Value Like You’re Readhing Your Clients’ Minds Are you having trouble reaching out and adding value to your clients on social media? Imagine if you could answer your clients’ exact questions. What would it look like if you were their go-to person on what you do? Here’s how to do it. Read…
Does how your voice sounds mess with your head? Do you hear yourself and cringe? Even though many people tell us we shouldn’t care about that, lots of us still do. And that insecurity might be keeping you from putting out content and connecting with your audience. And if you have to speak to people…
My Speaking Lesson From Chatting With Laurie Anderson I promise you. I didn’t have a fangirl meltdown while I chatted with the great Laurie Anderson*. But I did get a great speaking lesson. After her talkback yesterday at the Museum Of Natural History, she and I talked about Einstein’s frustration that some of his theories weren’t beautiful. During the…
Queries, Pitches, and Earned Media – Give ‘Em Exactly What They Want A few months ago, I did a podcast episode on how to use “Help a Reporter Out (HARO).” I focused the ep on earned media and how to pitch your stories so reporters can’t live without them. This is a follow-up to that…
How we speak of our dead to ease the grieving process I’m thinking about death this morning. Or rather, I’m thinking about a convention we use to talk about someone who has died. After the person, or a beloved critter, dies we start referring to them in the past tense. More to the point, we…
Communication Expert and Avowed Space Geek, Beth Mund Beth Mund joins the Tell Your Story Better podcast today. Among other things, she revealed how she crafted stories as the communications officer for the International Space Station. A professional keynote speaker, writer, and space geek, she also hosts her own podcast called, Casual Space. (She honored…
Breathing Deep Dive Use this video to stay focused and achieve. Breathing correctly changes everything! This video takes you on a deep dive into your breath. If you have trouble figuring out how to breathe optimally, this is for you! It’s a super quick explanation on how to do it right. Using this tip, you’ll…
The “Intercourse” of Communication and How to do it Right Here’s a question that I’ve been pondering recently. How is communication just like intercourse? I know, right? But bear with me. Here’s the thing about this. Communication is a give-and-take some, but sometimes one person gets a little bit more and sometimes the other person…
Communicate with Kindness to Improve The World Kindness in language has been on my mind recently. Certain phrases and idiomatic expressions in languages are violent and horrifying. We communicate and use them and likely don’t give them a second thought. They are just things we say, but I have found them increasingly worrisome, especially in this…
Build the Confidence to Express Yourself This week on the Tell Your Story Better podcast, I explore how you build confidence. If you want to become more confident and less anxious, follow the techniques I lay out in the episode. Particularly, I pay attention to the butterflies in our bellies. I outline a technique to…