Eps. #87: Tame Your Calendar: How to Prep and Plan Your Week to Actually Get All the Things Done
Kathi and Michele get together to talk about taming your calendar. Kathi offers up 6 tips on how to stay on top of things and says, "When we do hard things, we need to reward ourselves." One of Kathi's most important tips is getting in the mindset that your Monday...
Eps: #86 The Communicator’s Ultimate Guide to Social Media: 4 Rules on How to Influence, Serve and Love Your Audience Well In a Very Noisy World
Kathi interviews Dr. Jen Bennett, author of Be Worth Following: How to Be Different and Influence People In a Crowded Social World about how people have lost their etiquette on social media. "Social media got noisy," says Dr. Bennett. "We’re seeing a lot of people...
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...
#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...
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...
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...
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...
#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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Eps #74: 3 Strategies For Finding Powerful Speaking and Writing Illustrations
Life has a great way of handing us the perfect illustrations for speaking and writing. If we aren't paying attention we can miss the tie in to our own stories. How do we look for material in our everyday lives and in the world do we keep all these great moments in a...
Eps #73: 3 Insider Secrets to Responding to Endorsement Requests Part 2
Kathi and Michele meet up to talk endorsements. During this episode they cover 3 secrets to responding to endorsement requests. This can get sticky, especially when all your friends are authors! Kathi shares her tips on putting a cap on how many endorsements to commit...
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