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Hate your speaking voice? Here’s why. Have you ever heard a recording of your voice and thought, “I hate the way that sounds. It doesn’t really [...]
Deliver Your Message with Power and Panache I had dinner last night with some employees of a company with whom I was engaged for presentation skills training, [...]
Exclaim Yourself! “Your excessive use of exclamation points in this email makes you appear overly anxious to get our business.” This was [...]
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What People Who Stutter Have Taught Me Through my clinical experience as a speech pathologist, I have been blessed to spend 25 years getting to know and [...]
Be Yourself—And No One Else Sometimes, there’s nothing tougher than being the real you. Maybe it’s fun for actors to play a character role on [...]
Don’t let TED standards scare you off the stage! Don’t get me wrong. I am a huge fan of the TED Talks. Our city has a TEDx program and [...]