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7 Articles match "America","Circuit"
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
You can read her book Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America for more inspiration. Jeannette also gave "many, many thumbs up to Maya Angelou !" Check out these posts on how Angelou uses hope and humor on the college lecture circuit to customize her speeches, and on an hour-long interview she did about her inspirational book for women, Letter to My Daughter . Last year, another speaker coach asked me to help find video examples of today's top women speakers , because he was having trouble finding examples to share with trainees that were of current, rather than historic women speakers.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
0160; That means he will be invited to more media interviews and can hit the lecture circuit, selling his what-I-saw reflections.
0160; This is America. I was wrong. 0160; Andrew Young's Hail Mary pass to make a buck and find a fresh career path may pan out. 0160; His tell-all "The Politician" is holding steady at #50 on Amazon.com.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
0160; Currently, I am also preparing my own presentation materials for my booking agent so that eventually I can hit the speaking circuit. 0160; Analogy: Advertising a program by citing famous blacksmiths from colonial America.
Yeah, TRAILS pays $15 an article and Livestrong $30. 0160; That at least is payment, not an internship or material with which to build one's portfolio as a writer.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Wendy Koop of Teach for America fell into this trap. Her talk at Washington University offers a false promise by saying she’s there to “talk to you about your choices at this stage of your lives…” Then she delivers example after example culled from the Teach for America archive of marketing stories. It will do us little good, in other words, to wire the world, if we short-circuit our souls.
Commencement season has largely come and gone at universities and colleges around the nation. And, once again, we’re left with the remains of speeches that ran the gamut from wonderful
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
0160; That means he will be invited to more media interviews and can hit the lecture circuit, selling his what-I-saw reflections.
0160; This is America. I was wrong. 0160; Andrew Young's Hail Mary pass to make a buck and find a fresh career path may pan out. 0160; His tell-all "The Politician" is holding steady at #50 on Amazon.com.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
0160; Currently, I am also preparing my own presentation materials for my booking agent so that eventually I can hit the speaking circuit. 0160; Analogy: Advertising a program by citing famous blacksmiths from colonial America.
Yeah, TRAILS pays $15 an article and Livestrong $30. 0160; That at least is payment, not an internship or material with which to build one's portfolio as a writer.
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
He discovered that he could sing as well and spent the next 15 years travelling around America making his money on the corporate circuit, performing 125 nights a year. He said he polished his act in front of “middle America, people who read People magazine… They loved clean comics. I was surprised to hear of the passing of musical impressionist Danny Gans who was 52. While you may not have heard of Danny Gans his story is certainly fascinating.
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
He discovered that he could sing as well and spent the next 15 years travelling around America making his money on the corporate circuit, performing 125 nights a year. He said he polished his act in front of “middle America, people who read People magazine… They loved clean comics. I was surprised to hear of the passing of musical impressionist Danny Gans who was 52. While you may not have heard of Danny Gans his story is certainly fascinating.
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
You can read her book Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America for more inspiration. Jeannette also gave "many, many thumbs up to Maya Angelou !" Check out these posts on how Angelou uses hope and humor on the college lecture circuit to customize her speeches, and on an hour-long interview she did about her inspirational book for women, Letter to My Daughter . Last year, another speaker coach asked me to help find video examples of today's top women speakers , because he was having trouble finding examples to share with trainees that were of current, rather than historic women speakers.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
0160;In the 1960s, of course, America saw a number of heated interruptions in courtrooms and conventions to protest the Vietnam War, and this summer we’ve seen the well publicized brouhaha at Democrats’ town hall meetings on health care reform. 0160;If your research suggests controversy is likely, build in feedback circuits ahead of time by providing an e-mail address or Web site where people can send in comments and questions in advance.
Practice Any article written by my Fripp Associate Ian Griffin is worth reading or reposting. This was first published in a Ragan newsletter.
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