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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...
Eps #78: 7 Ways to Boost Your Back-of-the-room Product Profits
Events are a great place to make extra profit with items that only you can provide to potential buyers. But what should you sell and what about getting all the merchandise to your events? Last week Michele and Kathi talked about back of room sales for your speaking...
How To Give Event Planners the Information They Need
In order to get ready for a workshop I was teaching, I asked speaker friends to share creative ideas for adding value to our events. I got great feedback from them, but something was missing. Suddenly I realized I hadn't tapped into an important group for the...
Eps: #77 7 Items to Sell in the Back of the Room (Even before you get a book contract)
When you begin speaking, you often get paid in a hug and a mug. This is not the way to pay our bills. Kathi and Michele got creative early in their careers to generate income at their speaking events. And they still use these items to increase their profit at events...
4 Good Reasons for Moving Your Blog Off Your Home Page
Should your blog be the only content on your website’s Home page? Probably not. In this post, website specialist, Laura Christianson, makes a case for moving your blog to an interior page.
Esp: #76 8 Best Practices For Hosting Guest Bloggers
Almost everything we do as communicators is a partnership, so learning to be a good partner is vital to sharing our message. It's as important to be a good host to a guest blogger as it is to be a good guest blogger. Join Kathi and Michele as they chat about how to...
What You Need to Know About Audience Evaluations
She hated us. After the workshop Kathi and I co-presented, more than one hundred feedback forms had been turned in on the spot. 97% of the attendees loved our content, loved our takeaways, loved us. Ahhhh … so much fun! A few shared some concerns about whether or not...
Eps. #75: 3 Steps for Turning Everyday Experiences Into Usable Content
Last week we talked about how to capture illustrations from real life. This week we want to walk you through the process of how to use those illustrations to drive home the main points in our message and turn those illustrations into usable content. We want those...