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Ben McKinney is a B2B copywriter, content Strategist, and Superhero Window Cleaner. He makes your business look great, just with words not shiny windows. Ben uses pugnacious, punchy business writing that shows off your personality and pulls in your ideal clients. 💥 You can probably tell these are his words not mine! 😊 Along with The Word Man, Dave Harland, Ben founded Copy Or Die, a copywriting...

How do you get from fear to excitement and become a confident communicator? How do you transform from a gibbering speaking mess to a super speaker, oozing confidence? In this previously live episode of Speaking About Speaking, I share my insights, experience and top tips with you. What is fear? What is excitement? And how can a little bit of both help you to speak with confidence? To find out more...

How Do You Write a Talk That Inspires and Speak It with Confidence? In this previously live solo episode, I talk you through creating an inspiring talk that fulfils the brief, engages the audience and leaves them wanting more! I talk about my own experience of creating and performing a talk with the instruction to be 'inspirational' for 20 minutes! 😱 (and YES, I was nervous!) I guide you through...

In this previously live episode, I speak with international award-winning keynote speaker, strategist and author of the world-famous Newsjacking, Jon Burkhart. I know Jon as part of the You Are The Media community. He was the first person I ever interviewed in person for my podcast. A firecracker when it comes to speaking, his energy onstage and off is frenetic and infectious. As a professional sp...

In this previously live episode, social media and LinkedIn expert, Ella Orr and I discuss how you use your voice on social media. We talk about the platform you use, the content you create and the risk to your Personal Brand and status when you show up in front of an audience. So... Do you Speak up or shut up? ❓ Do you consider the risks to your personal brand when you put yourself in front of an...

Welcome to Part 2 of my conversation with Mark masters. There was some weird mix-up with Streamyard and/or Linkedin messing up the timing of the live stream, which goes out at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday. For some reason (maybe the algorithm got confused over BST, British Summer Time or that fact I was streaming from SWINDON!? 🤷🏼‍♀️) it scheduled it for 5 PM. SO, my fabulous guest Mark Masters agreed no...

PART 1. There was some weird mix-up with Streamyard and/or Linkedin messing up the timing of the live stream, which goes out at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday. For some reason (maybe the algorithm got confused over BST, British Summer Time or that fact I was streaming from SWINDON!? 🤷🏼‍♀️) it scheduled it for 5 PM. SO, my fabulous guest Mark Masters agreed not only to spend 4 - 4.30 live with me but again...

My guest for this previously live episode of Speaking About Speaking was the marketing legend, Mark Schaefer. I first became aware of Mark through the marketing-based community You Are The Media when during lockdown and with Covid he spoke at one of their Zoom events. He likes to say he was a Covid early adopter. I feel incredibly fortunate that he agreed to come on my little ol’ podcast as not on...

In this previously LIVE episode, I speak with public speaking coach and mentor, Adrienne Saunders. Adrienne is the Founder and Director of Yes You Can Training which provides learner-based and practical public speaking and confidence training programmes to small and medium-sized companies. The first line of her website says it all... ‘Every time you speak and there is someone listening, it's publi...

Yay! School's out for summer so I celebrated with a panel of 3 lovely rays of speaking sunshine! 🤩  Trisha Lewis, chief unsquasher, communication skills expert, author, podcast host, TEDx speaker and **rock climber. And Sarah Townsend, copywriter, best-selling author, keynote speaker and **obsessive birder and all-round nerd.  Plus, Ella Orr, Personal brand and social media specialist, former tea...

My guest is Vanda Varga, the Tour Guide to Your Mind! Vanda is an accredited trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), hypnotherapy and a Silva Method practitioner. As a tour guide to your mind, Vanda can help you explore, uncover and re-map your map of the world. I have recently been a student of Vanda's and what a fabulous experience it was. I took the NLP practition...

The one that should have been Jackie speaking about speaking with Vanda Varga but... 😱 I made a huge BOO BOO and got the day wrong!! Apologies. So, I spoke about speaking with myself. I answered some questions that I'd asked myself but have answers that are relevant to anyone that needs to raise their confidence to speak to their audience. These include: * What can you learn from being on stage?...

For this episode, I spoke about speaking with Anna Bravington, marketing strategist and co-founder of Those That Dare. Anna has 24 years of experience across digital and marketing and has worked on some crazy campaigns in partnership with brands like Microsoft and PlayStation whilst heading up digital marketing at GAME. In 2022 she was named one of the NatWest Telegraph 100 Female Entrepreneurs to...

In this episode of the Speaking About Speaking live stream, I speak about speaking with Maureen McCowen. Public speaking coach and founder of Soft Skills Success, Maureen works with teams and individuals to unlock their speaking confidence. With 30 years experience of in presenting, teaching, and connecting, she’s on a mission to take the fear out of speaking in public. She believes there’s no rea...

In the latest of the Speaking About Speaking live streams, I speak about speaking with Gus Bhandal, a highly experienced marketing professional and go-to guru on all things LinkedIn! He specialises in social media, events, and communications across a range of industries. He loves orange and is the founder of ‘The M Guru’ – a digital marketing agency, where the M stands for marketing and also for m...

In this episode of Speaking About Speaking, I spoke with Master Practitioner in Mindful Eating, author of Boosting Breakfasts, podcaster, online course creator and speaker, Lori Weber. As well as running the Mindful Eating Clinic, Lori, founded Perfect Pitch in October 2003 and works with leading associate companies in the training and development arenas. Her dual background in performing arts &am...

For this episode of Speaking About Speaking, I'm flying solo! Just me, Jackie Goddard giving advice on how you can speak confidently in a presentation and in front of any audience by using the 3 B's that underline public speaking training - believe, breathe and be prepared. I also answer questions from the audience. Such as, what is the benefit of public speaking to your business and where can you...

S.A.S (Speaking About Speaking) LIVE is a weekly opportunity for me and another fabulous speaker or speaker coach to discuss all things speaking. For this episode, I was joined by the fabulous, Sarah Townsend. Sarah is a copywriter, speaker and best-selling author who loves language. Which is handy as we’re speaking about speaking. 😊 She has over 30 years of experience in marketing and publishing...

For this previous LIVE stream, I was joined by Ted Talk Coach and Speaker, Catherine Sandland. Catherine's a speaker coach working with people who are ready to stand up and be heard. She's coached hundreds of people including TEDx speakers so that they can share their message. Helping them look, sound and feel supremely confident. Catherine is a TEDx event organiser and our conversation contains l...

I have followed Lucy since I was recommended and bought her Confidence on Camera digital course back at the beginning of the lockdown (as did thousands of others). I took on her challenges and tuned into her 'how to create a course' webinars, filmed in her spare room once her son was in bed and whilst wearing some very comical hats! I've been inspired by her journey and success and am SO chuffed t...

S.A.S (Speaking About Speaking) LIVE is a weekly opportunity for me and another fabulous speaker or speaker coach to discuss all things speaking. On this previously LIVE episode, I was joined by communication coach and TEDx speaker, Jon Torrens. A self-confessed introvert, Jon uses his experience as a stand-up comic and video games designer, to deliver fun and effective. His aim? To create success...

Speaking About Speaking Meets Digital Circus LIVE The first ever S.A.S. as a panel discussion. And thank you to all the guests that popped in for a chat on my live stream which I re-titled for the day. They were Tour Guide to Your Mind, Vanda Varga , Queen of Calm, Louise Miller and Web3 guru, Steen Stones . It was my first attempt at a round table discussion and I think it worked bloomin' well! W...

S.A.S (Speaking About Speaking) LIVE is a weekly opportunity for me and another fabulous speaker or speaker coach to discuss all things speaking. For this previous LIVE stream, I was joined by musical keynote speaker, communication coach and networking rock star, Stephanie Bonte-Lebair. Stephanie works with Creatives and Service Based Entrepreneurs who are spinning their wheels at networking event...

Speaking About Speaking (S.A.S.) is a weekly opportunity for me and another fabulous speaker or speaker coach to discuss all things speaking. With me for this previous LIVE stream is Speaker, LinkedIn guru and founder of Much MoreSocial, Ella Orr. Ella, a former teacher of 30 years, retrained as a social media marketer and personal brand specialist. As part of her own personal brand journey, she d...

Speaking About Speaking (S.A.S.) is a weekly opportunity for me and another fabulous speaker or speaker coach to discuss all things speaking. Except for this previously LIVE episode, it was just ME, Jackie Goddard. I decided that at the end of every 6-week block of LIVES, I would take over the 30-minute slot to answer questions from anyone out there that would like like to know my take on speakers...