Hello Taletellers, Talkers, Storytellers and Speakers
I will dig into some essential tips and ideas for you to consider when creating your next talk or presentation.
Videos 🎞
👂 How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure 🧸❌
🧪 The 3 Magic Ingredients of Amazing Presentations | Phil Waknell 🧸❌
😰 How I Overcame My Fear of Public Speaking | Danish Dhamani 🧸❌
My YOUTUBE playlist includes excellent advice on creating your next presentation. How to speak!
Blogs 📝
I've included below some of my previous blog posts, and some I have researched online, which will help you get started in planning your talk.
🙌 Best Public Speaking Books - BLOG
👩🏫 Learn from the best - check out some of my favourite TEDx speakers - BLOG
👀 This short blog post looks at how you can become a TEDx Speaker - BLOG
😨 Afraid of public speaking? 7 strategies to help you get over it | Martha Payne BLOG
Resources 🚏
Resources you can use to create your presentation.
🖼 Unsplash - Free images and photos that you can download and use for any project
✋ One of my favourite TED rules - you can't speak for more than eighteen minutes. There is a good reason for this, which you can read about in their guidelines.
👨💻 I use PREZI to create all my presentations. This app is a powerful tool I use regularly, PREZI has helped me become better at communicating more effectively.
Podcasts 🎧
📣 6 Public Speaking Podcasts To Listen To This Year. I found this article from SPEAKERFLOW, which I bookmarked for reference; they have done the work for me in finding some of the best podcasts out there.
🍻 You can't go wrong with the Toastmasters podcast, can you?
Can you recommend any other podcasts? Leave a comment below!
Lastly...
Please indulge me in a tiny bit of self-promotion. I've included the two TEDx talks I enjoyed speaking at; I hope you find them useful. You'll also find a playlist of some of my previous talks too!
🤔 Making memories, what's the point? | TEDx Winchester
🙏 I Try to Live My Life as a Thank You | TEDx Royal Tunbridge Wells
📺 Youtube Playlist - Topics include resilience, adapting to change and recovering from life changing events.