Ryan Foland speaks with Michelle Tillis Lederman, CEO of Executive Essentials. Michelle provides custom communication and leadership training and coaching programs and has been named one of Forbes Top 25 Networking Experts. The main focus of this talk is about building connections with your audience, whether you are on stage or networking. Learning how to deeply connect will help you positively impact your audience with your message, make a great impression on event planners, and get more speaking opportunities as a result. Listen to this podcast to find out: - How to build relationships with your audience, both on and off stage - Why you should repeating the same talk over and over, and how to avoid this be speaking authentically - How to know whether you are being authentic or not. [Spoiler: if you are thinking “I should…” you are probably not being authentic.] - A perspective switch that will help you change your nervousness into empowerment. - What to do when stuff goes wrong on stage, and how to handle it like a pro.

2. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"I am a natural extrovert and I know a lot of people
associate extrovert with networking. But I actually
had to unlearn some of that extroversion to be
more effective in connection."
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3. "If you are forcing yourself to do something that doesn't feel
right or feel authentic to you, then the connections that
you're going to make in these situations are not going to
actually click and they're not going to last."
-MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
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4. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"If you are just delivering words you
are not delivering the message.”
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5. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"Connect to your authentic style. Never
just repeat the same things in the same way."
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6. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"Don't worry about what everyone else
is doing, find your feel."
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7. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"I had to learn how to accept that there's always going to be
somebody in the audience that doesn't love me, that I didn't connect
with. Instead of hyper-focusing on the person that I've lost, focus on
all the people that are with you— it becomes a little less scary."
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8. "If you are comfortable with how you are
handling something, you make your
audience comfortable with it."
-MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
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9. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"Fake it until you make it real."
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10. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"It's owning our unique charms and accepting them.
Managing what we have to manage,
but embracing what we can embrace."
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11. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"Find the right kind of flow and ride the wave.
Knowing that there's a lot of different
platforms to explore."
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12. -MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN
"The first piece of advice was to start talking: tell
people what you're excited about, what you're
doing, what you're working on."
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13. EXPERT INSIGHTS ON
GROWING YOUR
SPEAKING BUSINESS
Listen to the World of Speakers Podcast Series on iTunes.
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