Aug 29, 2018 | Pursuing Your Dreams, Recommendations, Speaker Tips
“I’m fixin’ to quit my day job and go on the speaking circuit.” A 23-year-old, single-mom led with this statement at the beginning of our consultation call, and I sat in stunned silence. How could I tell her the truth without deflating her...
Aug 24, 2018 | Blog, Creativity, Pursuing Your Dreams
Inside the heart of every Creative is a gift to be shared. In the mind of every communicator, a story waiting to be told. And in them both, you’ll find a longing, an outlandish dream, a deep hope — and a diabolical question that threatens to undo it all. What if no...
Jun 13, 2018 | Author Tips, Pursuing Your Dreams, Writing
TV has done us wrong… If you’ve watched any show featuring a writer in the last twenty years, all you have to do is put out a column once a week (I’m looking at you Carrie Bradshaw), and then hang out with your friends in bars or coffee shops talking about how the men...
Apr 4, 2018 | Platform, Pursuing Your Dreams, Recommendations
My tutelage under Communicator Academy began in 2007, when I first heard Kathi speak at a moms’ group. After a decade of consuming Kathi Lipp books, conferences, blog posts, podcasts, and Facebook exchanges, I was honored when she invited me to serve as a 2017...
Mar 21, 2018 | Communicator Academy, Platform, Pursuing Your Dreams, Speaker Tips
You have a message that is right in the crosshairs of what you are most passionate about and meets the felt needs of your audience. And, joy of joys, you have an event planner that wants YOU for their next speaking engagement. Woot-woot, let the celebrations begin!...
Jan 24, 2018 | Criticism, Overwhelmed, Pursuing Your Dreams
A communicator’s work can be rewarding and exhausting, fulfilling and demoralizing, full of accolades or the hollow sound of silence. There are times I sit in front of my screen thinking: No one is going to read this. Why write? I recently heard this from my pastor...
