Billie Shepard has been an actor and an acting coach for forty years. Twenty years ago she recognized business speakers have the same performance anxieties that actors deal with and so she founded the Billie Shepard and Associates Acting Academy. She uses acting techniques to transform all types of business speakers into powerful presenters. Now Billie is what with some amazing and super well-known clients like Facebook... READ MORE Find out more about Billie's work at...

Baljit Kaur is an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant. Listen to learn about how to foster inclusiveness in the workplace, applying transactional analysis principles for effective communication, the importance of understanding individuality and personal experiences in organisations to build a good culture... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Olivia James is a Harley Street Therapist who works with people suffering from fear of speaking and who have experienced trauma. Watch this interview to learn a simple technique Olivia has used to help her clients overcome speaking anxiety. WATCH THE INTERVIEW HERE Find out more about Olivia's work https://harleystreetcoach.com Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

I am so excited today because I have a wonderful guest here with me on today’s show, who has helped me no end to bring the message of How to be a D.I.V.A. at Public Speaking to the masses.  A little while ago, I decided that I would find a wonderful voiceover or voice recording artists to help me to get the book... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Are you ready to be connected under any circumstances? If you are going to make a presentation, do you have what it takes to connect up your presentation with the AV at the venue under any circumstances? I’m sorry if you are listening to this on my podcast you cannot see this bunch of cables I have in my hand. I urge you to jump onto my website www.sholakaye.com/blog and check out this episode there because you will be able to watch it all in video format... READ MORE Go...

Do you ever feel that your voice doesn’t cut through? Perhaps because it’s too breathy?  One of the problems with a breathy voice is you don’t get very much volume when you’re speaking. Another problem with having a very breathy voice is that it can become fatiguing to listen to by the audience... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Is it time for you to tone it down a bit for your audience? Interesting question, right? I’m going to explain a little bit more what I mean in just a moment. Just recently an agency contacted me, they’re based in Miami, and they asked me if I was available to do a professional speaking gig. I was available so I said yes... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

I want to ask you today have you eaten the food of champions before? If you haven’t then you need to stay tuned and watch the entire video. And I’m not talking about Atkins diet, or whether you’re a vegan, or whether you are… I don’t know there’s so many different diets out there… I’m not talking about dieting. I’m talking about the food of champions which is otherwise known as feedback... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and...

When you speak and perhaps you forget a couple of words, or it doesn’t go as perfectly as you had hoped, do you beat yourself up? Do you sometimes find you are judging yourself while you’re speaking and you can’t be 100% present with the audience and focus because that little negative voice is chatting away? Today I want to share a tip that you can use. A little hack that will help you to stop judging yourself... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a...

Do you need to speak slower when you are in front of an audience? That’s the question that I am sometimes asked so let’s have a chat about it today, shall we? A few years ago, I was participating in online dating and I went on a date with a guy who spoke really slowly. So slowly that after about five minutes on the date I was desperate to get away... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to...

Are you through a person that continually wants to improve at whatever it is that you do, speaking being one of those things? If so, then I’m going to share a little step by step process you can use to regularly improve your public speaking... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Have you been asked to speak on a panel? I know some people love speaking on panels and they like that group aspect to it. Others, like me, prefer to have a more conventional speaking format and just speak on my own to the entire audience. There are different reasons why we like one or the other. Typically, if you’re on a panel there are a few different things to look out for... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my...

Do you have a deadline for improving your speaking? I have a few tips for you coming up if you’re under a bit of pressure to improve your communication in your public speaking. What we’re going to talk about today are some of the areas that you may want to look into if you are under pressure to improve your communication ready for a big moment, a big event, or a high-stakes meeting or high-stakes conference... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a...

Are you adding the human touch to your speeches? Now, we all know that the robots are here. There’re here and there are going to be more of them coming, but you don’t need to be one. What do I mean by that? Well, one of the things that makes us as speakers different than perhaps using Siri or Alexa is... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Are you the world’s pre-eminent expert on widgets and you have a speaking opportunity coming up and you want to share everything you know? EVERYTHING! Well in today’s video podcast I want to share why that may not be the best thing for your audience... READ MORE  Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

How do you make your talks more engaging and more interactive? That’s what we’re going to look at today. If you have a formal topic and you're finding it hard to plan in some interactive activities, what’s an easy way that you can use to get people involved throughout?... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Are you struggling a bit with your public speaking? You are struggling with your public speaking. What’s the difference between those two? Well, in the first situation, of course, I asked. And in the second situation I told. We’re going to look today at the difference between asking and telling your audience and the impact that this has upon them... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace...

When you stand up to do a bit of public speaking, do you ever feel like “oh, I don’t have the confidence to do this… I’m not good enough… I shouldn’t be here…”. Well, today I want to share a tip with you, a little hack if you like, that will hopefully diminish and reduce those feelings of lack of confidence. So if you bear with me for just a moment I’m going to share that hack with you... READ MORE. Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and...

When you create a speech or write presentation, do you know what the purpose of it is and you know which of the five categories of speech that it falls into? That’s what I get to discuss today... READ MORE. Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Olivia James is a Harley Street Therapist who works with people suffering from fear of speaking and who have experienced trauma. Watch this interview to learn a simple technique Olivia has used to help her clients overcome speaking anxiety. READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Just say yes. But make sure you know what you’re saying yes to! In this particular case I think you should just say yes to public speaking opportunities because it’s not only an opportunity to speak but it’s an opportunity to grow... READ MORE. Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

Today let’s explore whether you should use bullets to practise your speech or go for learning every word! I’m often asked which approach is better so let’s take a look... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech.

When you write a speech, presentation or a talk, do you practice it silently in your head? Or do you practice it out loud? Because it can make all the difference!... READ MORE Watch the FREE on-demand training for ambitious coaches, consultants and small business owners who want to get on stages and make an impact! https://sholakaye.com/masterclass Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Get my FREE GUIDE – 27 places to find speaking opportunities.

Have you ever thought of employing a coach to work with you to help you get to the next level? This is not going to be me selling myself as a coach, no. I want to share with you some considerations that you might want to put into practice before you choose the next coaching professional to work with you because I had an experience recently that I think is useful to share with you... READ MORE  Watch the FREE on-demand training for ambitious coaches, consultants and small business owners who...