In this episode, I sit down with David Richards to discuss how to achieve success through mastering your mind and overcoming the obstacles that are holding you back.

In this episode, I talk about my podcast journey as well as your IELTS journey.

“I brainstorm but then when I’m writing, I start to have different ideas coming from different parts of my mind and then I start to mix things up. " This is how one of my students explained the experience of sitting down to write the IELTS essay.  This week, we discuss how to avoid this feeling of being all mixed up when it comes to the IELTS essay.

Sometimes you have a conversation with a student that is GOLD and you just know you have to share it. One of my biggest strategies for helping my students get a 7+ band score is working on brainstorming. This week, as I was giving feedback on an essay to a student, we got into a discussion about how helpful brainstorming is to getting a 7 and I just had to share.

One trick I teach my students is to really work on support.  This will help you get a 7 in both writing and speaking.  To do this really well, you have to know how to talk about facts and stats.  So, this week on the podcast, I give some of my favorite tips for adding support to help you inch up to a 7 band score in IELTS writing and speaking skills.

I had a podcast listener reach out to me a few weeks ago.  He had prepared for IELTS on his own and using my podcast and wanted to share some tips with my audience.  I thought this was such a fun thing to do, so I invited him on to the podcast.

Ok, so today we are going to go behind the scenes and look at what you need to do to assess your own learning needs. If you don’t do this, you are going to miss out on maximizing your IELTS study plan because you won’t be able to target the areas to work on and you’ll slow down your process. Let’s jump in!

In this episode, I do a review of 3 apps for your preparation for writing and speaking for IELTS.

In this episode, we talk about how to optimize your time when it comes to your IELTS prep so that you can walk into the exam feeling confident and prepared on exam day.

This week, I interview two of my best students to have them share how they use their friendship to increase their preparation for the IELTS exam.

In this episode, I sit down with one of my start students, Gabriela from Brazil.  She talks about her experience taking the exam and shares some of her best tips.

In this episode, I give some language tips for giving your opinion on your writing and speaking tasks.

It’s easy to get a 6.5 in IELTS writing, in my opinion...But it’s MUCH harder to get a 7.  In order to help my students get a 7, I work on a lot of little extra tips.  Little nuances to add. Better ways to introduce and sequence their arguments.  One thing I do is add development and depth of thought through using these two grammar tricks.

In this episode, I answer a follower's question and show you how it can help you improve your score and your vocabulary.

In this episode, I look at the questions you are asking and the questions you SHOULD be asking when it comes to your IELTS prep.

Here is an important point in your IELTS prep that MOST people are skipping.

I'm doing a quick bonus episode because I had SOOOO many listeners asking for some examples of how vocabulary can level up your IELTS speaking response.

Often I hear students give me a lot of reasons about why they aren’t ready to start preparing for IELTS. I actually have a lot of followers that I think, know they need to prepare for IELTS, but aren’t actually doing it yet. It’s like they are pre-preparing, but with no goal in mind.  Let's dive into what's behind that today.

This has been a crazy year.  More anxiety than usual.  I can only imagine how I would feel if I had to prepare for an important exam that had the potential to change my life. For this reason, I wanted to talk about what you might be feeling right now in regards to your IELTS prep.

One of the most important things to understand about the IELTS speaking (and writing ) test, is that you are essentially being asking to give your opinion...but in an academic way.  Does this mean you can lie on the IELTS exam when giving your opinion? Short answer >> yes.  But, I believe there is a better way.   Listen to this week’s episode to get my best tips on this topic.

When it comes to getting a 7 band score in IELTS writing, most people think that just writing an essay is enough. But it’s much better if you develop it further by adding depth to your ideas. Showing relationships between ideas. Connecting ideas. One way you can do this is with cause and effect connectors.

I feel that every stage in life has a word that you can attach to it. So today, since I’m your host, I’m going to tell you one of my most important words and why it has been so important to me in my life.    I thought I’d share something about my life, so you know more about me.  And this week, there will DEFINITELY be some surprises!!!

What would you say is your biggest issue when it comes to writing your IELTS essay?  You might say it’s something like not having the right ideas, running out of time, or you just plain don’t know.  But I would argue it’s something else, and you may be surprised by what that is.

In English, we have a limited range of structures that we use in reference to sentence structure - not grammar.  These sentence structures are basically the only way you should be writing sentences in English and especially for the IELTS essay. In this week’s podcast episode, we are going to dive into one specific part of those structures, and I’m sure this is something that will immediately transform your writing.