Jan 25, 2017 | Pursuing Your Dreams, Speaker Tips
When Leverage boasts that it is “the speaker conference for you,” they mean every word of that statement. I have never attended a conference in which I felt sincerely cared for by each of the speakers and my amazing coach. Leverage changed my ministry by...
Jan 19, 2017 | Blog, Marketing
The other day, after a speaking engagement, a dear friend who’s heard me speak more than anyone else asked me: “How do you do that, win over your audience? I have watched you and it’s like you read the women and are able to respond to them organically and the...
Jan 17, 2017 | Pursuing Your Dreams, Speaker Tips
I packed my bag and jumped in my car for the six-hour drive to the Leverage conference. I love long drives because it gives me time to think, and I had plenty on my mind at this point in my career. As a professional comedian and television host, I have enjoyed an...
Jan 11, 2017 | Speaker Tips
When I started speaking regularly more than a decade ago, I only had one criterion for saying “yes” to a speaking engagement: an invitation. I was so thrilled to be wanted that my knee-jerk response to every request was an automatic, over-eager, “Yes!” My first...