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🎤 **Feeling Nervous About Networking? You're Not Alone!**

At its core, networking is about making that first connection and seeing if there's a vibe, mutual interest, or curiosity. But what if you don't feel confident? What if you're in your head about it? 🤔

Here's a truth: everyone feels awkward sometimes. I've been the confident networker and the one wanting to go home.

Recently I found a way to go from nervous-wallflower to networker-extraordinaire. Here's a story about an initial moment of honesty that led to a meaningful connection.

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You will never more of your audience's attention than you do in the first 30 seconds. There are all kinds of fun and creative things you can do to hook them immediately, keep them engaged, and get them to say Yes. Unfortunately, the real-life tips in this video things are NOT intuitive, NO ONE does them automatically, and they take a little bit of creativity. The great news? They WILL increase your rate of success in pitches, presentations and conversations with clients.The Golden Window concept comes from "Go Big or Go Home: 5 Ways to Create a Customer Experience That Will Close the Deal" by Diana Kander and Tucker Trotter."

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You're about to learn one of my favorite $10.00 words/phrases: Choice Architecture.

This is the overlooked key to inspiring, motivating, and influencing your people to take action.

Whether it's your team, an individual, a potential client or partner, this will definitely help you like it's helped me!

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Think about the bad listeners in your life. Picturing them? **If you can't picture one, it's you ;)

Now think about the good listeners in your life. They have your respect, your appreciation, your trust.

They have influence! They lead through their ability to listen!

Here is a fun way to be one of those influential listeners in someone else's life.

There is no better feeling than when someone takes the time to truly listen to us.

I get it - public speaking is uncomfortable.

But have you ever turned down speaking opportunities you know would be good for you to take?

It might be because you've put that audience on a pedestal.

No matter how impressive or intimidating the people in your audience are, they shouldn't be on a pedestal.

They don't belong there!

Here is: a funny story about a shirt that doesn't fit, and a great exercise to calm your nerves and speak more effectively.

Happy new year!

Welcome to hustle month, where we refocus on getting our message out there and showing up in-person and online for our people.

Is there something you want to share in a talk or post on social media but your inner critic / perfectionist / impostor is getting in your way?

I was coaching a comedian turned speaker who is create his story-rich, humorous mental health keynote, when we came up with this amazing this amazing mental trick for dealing with a negative self-talk.

He has so many great stories they don't all fit in his keynote, but that little voice in his head is telling him not to share the extra stories with the world via social media in case they aren't "perfect yet."

I've been there! Have you? If you can you relate (or know someone who will), then try this!

When I did a training for 13 peer financial counselors (students who provide financial counseling through one-on-one sessions and workshop presentations), I sent them a pre-training survey and almost every single student shared some version of "ENGAGING the audience is my biggest public speaking challenge right now."

Here's a great way to do it - use humor.

It'll engage your listeners.

It'll enhance your message.

And it's so much easier than you think!

Here is a simple trick to weave humor into your conversation and your presentations.... without sounding forced at all.

Enjoy!

Lynn had 10 minutes to speak during a 3-day learning and development conference for her entire faculty at her school.

It was a tiny window in order to recruit the faculty to be MAVENS who recommended students utilize her financial literacy resources.

Any speaking opportunity has high stakes because being forgotten is a huge missed opportunity.

So how do you stand out, be memorable, and convince your listeners so effectively that they utilize your solution AND recommend it to others?

By telling a CLIENT TRANSFORMATION STORY that sells your program for you, makes an emotional connection, and sticks in their minds long after they hear it.

Here is how created a story that did that in just one hour.

I can't wait for you to meet the main character of her pitch: Maria!

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She was 4'9", she spoke 5 languages, and she was my grandma!

And she taught me two lessons that have shaped me both as a person and as a speaker.

These two lessons will show you, like they have for me, how to become a far more confident and compelling communicator and relationship-builder.

You will love these 2 hilarious stories (with a bit of heart thrown in there too)!

I hope you enjoy getting to know Edmay Henwood!

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What if you dreamed of speaking in front of people, but were terrified of public speaking?

What if you had a vision of impact, a powerful message to share and a business ready to scale, but you were blocked by your dread at facing an audience?

When I met Michele several years ago, she was courageously told me of the extent this fear was interfering with her career. 

Believe it or not, her voice shook so badly she struggled to speak up even in a Zoom meeting!

With that as our starting point, we could only go up!

After working with Michele and designing a plan for Michele to turn this key weakness into a key strength, she did the hard work and the results are truly astounding!

Michele is the founder of Cloud 9 Life Coaching. She is a Certified Intuitive Relationship Coach & Spiritual Mentor, and thanks to her hard work, she is now a confident, powerful and in-demand public speaker at conferences across the country.

Public speaking nervousness, fear of rejection, impostor syndrome, fear of failure... all aspiring speakers and leaders wrestle with these. Which is why I'm lucky to have Michele share with you exactly what she did to go from stage fright to stage fearless.

***We geek out on Michele's coaching work till minute 13, and that's where her incredible public speaking story starts!***

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