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Eps: #85 Why Communicators Must Lavishly Serve and Fiercely Protect their Online Audience Every Single Day
Kathi and Michele talk about your email lists and how to protect them, what to send them, and who to share them with. Michele suggests knowing yourself and knowing your people as two ways to take care of your audience every single day. Knowing what your audience has...
Are You Waiting for an Invitation? Here It Is…
I was wondering… Would it be okay… What do you think… Could I please… A lot of phrases in my mind start out like this. I hear them often in conversations between my head and my heart. And they keep me stuck. Waiting for permission. It is like I am waiting for a...
#84 How to Wake Up and Write 500 Words Every Single Day
Kathi and Michele open up their podcast today with talking about what their morning routines look like. Kathi shares six tips on how to help you write 500 words each day while sharing a little bit of her story on how she was able to complete her first four books. "I...
The One Thing You Need to Know About Your Book Proposal
I used to hate book proposals. They felt like such a colossal waste of time—especially when all I wanted to do was write! But over the last year, I’ve had a complete change of heart. In the process of helping clients create strong book proposals, as well as developing...
Eps #83: The Smart Communicators Guide to Avoiding Burnout and Falling in Love with your Work (all over again…)
When you cannot function, when you are so overwhelmed, when you are emotionally, spiritually and physically shutdown, you're probably in burnout. Whether you come to a point where you don't have the energy to care, or you care so much you feel like a failure, this is...
What’s the Hardest Element of a Book Proposal? An Agent Explains How to Find Comps
When you're trying to interest an agent or publisher in your book, you're often asked to provide "comps"—other books that could be compared to yours, or books that might compete with yours. A good book proposal always has a "Competition" or "Comparable Books" section,...
Eps. #82: 6 Tips on Learning When to Say Yes and When to Say No: Creating Healthy Boundaries for Speakers So You Keep On Speaking
In this episode, Kathi and Michele talk about creating healthy boundaries when it comes to speaking. Michele provides six tips on how to clearly communicate what you need before accepting a speaking gig and says, "boundaries provide clarity, respect and protection for...
Looking for the Positive
Welcome to The Mom Project. For the next few weeks, we’ll be launching my book The Mom Project by hosting several mom friends who have tried it out for themselves. They read the book, completed a project from the book with their kids, and wrote all about it. And these...
How to Follow God’s Highest Calling for Your Life
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...
Eps. #81 Overwhelmed by All That Email? 7 Tricks and Tools to Tame Your Inbox
In this episode, Kathi and Michele talk about how to tame your email inbox. They offer 7 simple tips to get you organized and ready to start each week feeling more in control of what's coming in and what's going out from your email account. Michele talks about a hot...
I Always Do These 5 Things When I Speak In Front of a Group of Women
I get so excited and feel honored whenever a group of women ask me to speak at one of their meetings. It might be a presentation at a Mothers of Preschoolers’ (MOPS) meeting or leading a conversation at a Junior League meeting. Both might ask me to share the same...
#80 Caring for the Creative Soul: Daily Self-Care for every Writer and Speaker
Kathi and Michele get together to give you practical tips on daily self-care for your creative self. We aren't talking about getting a massage and lighting some candles here my friends. Speakers and authors have a unique set of circumstances on when, how and where...
5 Rules Every Beginning Speaker Needs to Know
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!...
Eps. #79 Creating Great Speaking Topic Descriptions That Event Planners Want to Book
Kathi and Michele talk about how to create speaking topics and how hard it can be to come up with the descriptions of your speaking topics. As Kathi says, "It's not supposed to be easy or everybody would be doing it." There are three key tips that Kathi and Michele...
How To Build Your Social Media Audience – Sincerely
People are longing for connection. We live in the most connected time in history, but we have more lonely people than ever before. Sometimes, social media loses the social part, and it becomes just another avenue for marketing. And people sense insincerity and will...