Turn Up the YOU!

Here are 10 Top MC Tips for your end of year party, or upcoming event if you’ve got the task of MC’ing it. I recently had the privilege of MC'ing Carolyn Rohm's very first book launch! In this fabulous online event, we had people from all over the world joining us. Most of them, analysts. So I knew that there would probably be a number of more introverted audience members, who’d probably quite happily sit back and simply watch. But my client didn't want that. She wanted an in

* No time to read it? Listen to the audio version instead. (Click on this link to Part 1 if you've missed it.) How to Become a more Confident Presenter, and Leader As I mentioned in my previous article, self-confidence and self-esteem are very different. Self-esteem is the value or worth we hold as true about ourselves and is unconditional. Self-confidence is our ability to do something, and it is conditional. It goes up or down, depending on whether we believe we can do s

🎵 🎶 Now I've, had, the time of my life, and I owe it all to Turning Up the YOU! 🎵 🎶 This week I had the honour of sharing time and space with some amazing women in leadership in my 2-hour Masterclass Workshop - Turn Up the YOU. Immersing them in a high-energy, practical and interactive leadership game, using evidence-based content, they were guided in an exciting exploration of truth, gently challenged to move beyond their current beliefs and invited to take inspired a

It almost feels counter intuitive to say that. To CONNECT, implies taking action, plugging in, or DO-ing something. But recently, after being kicked to the curb by Covid, preceded by a gnarly cocktail of winter bugs that plugged and ploughed into me for a total of 5 weeks, I realised that to CONNECT, is the opposite of DO-ing anything. It took me 2 weeks to fully surrender, to let go and to BE sick, so I could recover and reconnect. I realised once again, that I got caught up

* Click on the image below to listen to the audio version of the blog if you prefer. Everyone thinks that their company has an important story to tell. But do they? Storytelling is all the rage, but if your company's story isn't told right, it could be more harmful than edifying. Also, whether your leadership team and staff are willing to tell your story, or not, and how they tell it - determines whether it'll be heard, well received, and have the intended effect, or not. Th

* Here's the audio version of the Blog if you prefer listening to it. I hate the words "public speaking". 🤢 They're boring. They've become so loaded over the years. Fraught with fear, they're cloaked in quotation marks that threaten an even worse encounter than the promise of Dementors from Harry Potter. 👻 I wish I could divorce myself from them permanently, because it's still such a scary business for 90% of the world. But alas, I cannot. They're stuck together, and to us

One of my favourite sayings. Right? True Story. P!nk's powerful new music video for "Irrelevant" is a brilliant example of how we can use our voice to bring about positive change, to give a voice to those who need it, and to speak up for truth. But first, what is truth? In NLP we say, there is a measure of truth in every perspective. There has to be - someone believes it to be true, so in their world, and in their life - that is "their" truth, even if it is the only droplet

"When I was growing up... there weren’t any female role models", Jane Goodall gets her own Barbie doll.* I remember Barbie as a kid but I wasn't much of a doll person. I actually couldn't be bothered with them. Lol. I was more of a climbing trees, falling and scraping my knees while running through open fields, swinging on tyre swings over rivers kinda girl. Not sure much of that has changed, other than a bit of make up and heels. Adventure still courses through my veins and

* Click below to listen to the audio version of this blog if you'd prefer Labels Limit Us. Especially the lick it and stick it labels that get plastered across our foreheads. Being different isn't always a choice. It's simply how we show up in life. Then one day, being different to how we've always shown up happens, and it's not always easy for us to live true to that difference, nor may it be easy for others to accept - but like it or not, different, we are. The problem is,

𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙚 is a problem that most leaders face. At its core, one of the biggest reasons for it, is because we want to add 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲. True story. The problem is - "𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗖𝗨𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡" Do you want to add value to your Board Members? To the Conference Organisers, your Manager, your staff, the CEO? Do you see how the focus of 'adding value' holds a YOU focus? It can become about your value, your worth, your 'right'

Turn Up the YOU, means owning our choices. Have you ever heard someone say, "That person's a sh*t magnet"? Why does that happen, and how we can get out of a funk, to become a "happiness" magnet instead. 😉 While it's great seeing more easing of restrictions, so many people are still saying they're feeling feeling exhausted and "over it". Whether it's Covid, restrictions, or other challenges we've faced over the last few years. And I get it! I've said those exact words at som

Forget about getting your audience to like you, or approve of your presentation. Thing is, we absolutely no control over what they're going to think about us, feel about us, how they're going to behave during, or after our pres and especially - no control over what they're going to say. Yet this is the biggest challenge for so many presenters. And I totally get it!! I spent most of my life trying to 'win' over an audience. It doesn't work. The person you most need to win over

#Breakthebias. In my #IWD's deeply personal post, I was blown away by the care, support and even love that I received from hundreds of amazing people like you. ❤️ You also shared such profound wisdom in your comments. So I thought I'd share the 3 key things I learnt from your collective wisdom, and from my experience in this short video, that I believe are so critical to #breakingthebias, and why showing up more authentically is so important today. The parts of ourselves we c