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

* 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,