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🎤 Want to land your first paid speaking gig? Join my live How to Land Your First Paid Talk   masterclass on November 11 - here. You might be closer to getting paid to speak than you think. The problem isn't necessarily your experience, credentials or confidence. It might be that you're overlooking the expertise you already demonstrate every day. I share what event organizers actually lo...

🎤Claim you seat - How to Land Your First Paid Talk: https://lovekindcure.kit.com/8b86f85d8e I'm 44 and wasted years waiting for permission, believing I had to be a certain kind of speaker, and mistaking exposure for opportunity. In this episode of Madame Speaker Says , I’m sharing the three mistakes I’d avoid if I were starting again—and what I wish I’d known sooner about turning my expertis...

🎤Claim your seat: Land Your First Paid Talk →  https://calendly.com/love-kind-cure/new-meeting-1 The professional voice you're reaching for is a made-up rule, borrowed from people who never sounded like you in the first place — and the accent, energy, and volume you were taught to mute are exactly what make you sound like the expert you are.  YOU'LL LEARN — Why "sounding profession...

📩 DOWNLOAD free guide to Sound Like the Expert You Are when Speaking to a new High-Stakes Audience: https://lovekindcure.kit.com/a01edf3c35 The Truth? Thought I’d be further along by 44. I thought I’d have more money, a retirement plan, more figured out. Instead, I’m building again — raising a toddler, running a business, and honestly, feeling scared shitless. And as if that's not enough...j...

English gave me a passport to rooms I couldn't have imagined as a kid growing up under apartheid in South Africa. It's also, quietly, the language that's been costing me the one I was born speaking — and now that I'm watching my own toddler acquire language in real time, I can't stop thinking about what that trade actually cost, and what it's still costing. This one&a...

I was auditioning to host a live TV show at HuffPost — dressed for it, feeling powerful, killing the segment — when my body decided to remind me I'm human, live, on camera, on a white couch. This is the story of the most mortifying thing that's ever happened to me in a professional setting, and why, looking back, I refuse to call it embarrassing. We talk about confidence like it's a...

🗓️ BOOK One-hour Working Session — Let's unpack how you can speak up and get that intimidating opportunity, before creating another credential roadblock:  https://calendly.com/love-kind-cure/speak-up-for-your-excellence-clone Credentials don't give you permission to speak up for what you want; you do. I have two master's degrees from top universities PLUS I'm a published author...

🗓️ BOOK One-hour Working Session —Turn that criticism into your superpower : https://calendly.com/love-kind-cure/speak-up-for-your-excellence-clone Workplace feedback will tell you to tone down whatever makes you "too much" — too direct, too intense, too blunt. But the exact trait you've been criticized for at work is very often the thing that makes people remember you, trust you, a...

Why fear never disappears, and what actually separates speakers who improve from speakers who quit. Manifestation coaches will tell you the fix for stage fright is to visualize success until the fear disappears. It doesn't. Even Michelle Obama says she still gets nervous before a talk. What actually separates the people who keep improving in front of high-stakes audiences from the people who...

🎤💥 Learn how to Speak up for Your Excellence: [Kit link — evergreen] Sales coaches will tell you the money is in the follow-up. Wrong 🙄...The money is in the ROOM — and you're leaving it there. If your presentations, panel appearances, talks, keynotes and pitches end in big applause instead of clients, watch this before your next event and  when you open your mouth again, you'll be re...

🎙️ 💥 Learn how to Speak up for Your Excellence: https://lovekindcure.kit.com/b80a66aa37 You're invisible for months, nobody remembers your name — and then somebody needs to win, and suddenly your phone won't stop ringing. And by Friday...girl explain how you're a stranger again? I've been watching The FIFA World Cup and Girl, they're running the same exact playbook as you...

Learn how to Speak up for Your Excellence: https://lovekindcure.kit.com/b80a66aa37 You don’t need to bounce back — you need your voice back. That’s not a discipline problem and it’s not unique to whatever knocked you flat. This is the story of the year that took my identity, my title, and my ability to talk about either one and the two years it actually took to rebuild all three. 🌿YOU'LL GET...

🎙️ 💥 Learn how to Speak up for Your Excellence: https://lovekindcure.kit.com/b80a66aa37 They clapped. They cried. They told you it was the best thing they'd ever seen — and then nobody hired you. That's not a talent problem. It's not even a confidence problem. 👀 What's actually going on?  THIS VIDEO UNPACKS: -- Why your talk needs a "job" before you ever walk on sta...

Learn how to  Speak up for Your Excellence  - The Whole Damn Talk. We've told brilliant women one of the most expensive lies in the world--that if the work is good enough, it'll speak for itself. It won't. I just closed out a season of interviews with women whose work has shaped institutions, ideas, their communities and countries—Wanuri Kahiu, who became the first Kenyan director t...

Rachel Cargle on the quiet years behind "overnight" success — building The Loveland Foundation from one Instagram post, self-knowledge, and real thought leadership. You keep watching other people blow up overnight. Meanwhile you've got the idea, the skill, the whole thing — and it's still just sitting in your notes app. So what are they doing that you're not? "All I h...

What does it cost to keep waiting for the world to confirm what you already know about yourself? Djamila Ribeiro's answer will stop you: "People didn't give the opportunity to me, so I created the opportunity — because I knew my value." Djamila Ribeiro is one of the most important philosophers at work in the world right now. She coined a concept that gave Brazil new language fo...

What does it cost to let a machine make you sound smooth? Because the machine is trained for smooth. And smooth is forgettable. In this solo episode, Magogodi —host of Madame Speaker Says— goes deep on the move most people get exactly backwards. Feed AI "here's the assignment, just write it for me," and you'll sound like a corporate talking machine — forgettable, in a room you...

What does it cost to put something sacred on a term sheet? For women in leadership and impact investing, this question is everything. Alicia DeLia's answer will stop you: "I don't think there's a cost in putting it there. I think there's a cost in not putting it there. And that's what we've seen this world become." In Part 2 of this two-part conversation, Al...

What does it cost to spend 20 years raising money for other people's stories — and then decide your story is worth funding? Alicia DeLia has been in the impact investing sector since before it had a name. She worked at FINCA International when microlending was a radical idea. She raised capital for movements. She built a consulting firm. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, she watched...

You said yes to the keynote. The panic slammed into you, right after. Because yes, you have the expertise. You have the receipts. What you don't have is a way to turn twenty years of knowledge into a keynote that lands. Because knowing your field and knowing how to give a keynote are two completely different skills — and nobody told you that until right now. Your expertise won't give the...

You have been excellent your entire life. You did the work nobody else would do. You stayed late. You got the credentials. You built the thing — and then you kept quiet about it, because somewhere along the way someone told you that talking too much would make you look like you weren't serious. And so you stayed silent. And excellent. And invisible--This episode is your wake up call! Dr. Kemi...

You've spent years making other people powerful. You built the thing, ran the coalition, trained the leaders, held the room together. Somewhere in all of that — you stopped asking what you want. Not the organization. Not the mission. You. This episode is the intervention. Joan Godoy is the CEO of Radical Partners, co-founder of Fuckup Nights Miami, and one of the most quietly radical builders...

From Creative Vision to Cultural Movement: Wanuri Kahiu on Funding Bold Ideas and Building a Brand Bigger Than Your Work In this rich and unfiltered conversation, award-winning Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu — the director behind Rafiki and Hulu's Washington Black — gets radically honest about what it actually takes to bring a bold, unconventional creative vision to life. Because having the id...

From Body Shaming to Reclaiming Her Voice (Part 2): Lebo Mashile on Turning Pain Into Power In Part 2 of this raw and unfiltered conversation, Lebo moves beyond the origin story and into something even more powerful: what it actually takes to trust your voice, follow your calling, and bring a bold vision to life. Because the truth is, having the idea is one thing.  Having the courage to act on it?...

From Body Shaming to Reclaiming Her Voice: Lebo Mashile on Turning Pain Into Power Lebo Mashile was publicly shamed for her pregnant body. Instead of shrinking, she turned her fury into a groundbreaking play about Saartjie Baartman — and a five-year excavation of how the exploitation of Black women's bodies shapes our world today. In this raw, two-part conversation, the iconic South African p...