Billie Shepard has been an actor and an acting coach for forty years. Twenty years ago she recognized business speakers have the same performance anxieties that actors deal with and so she founded the Billie Shepard and Associates Acting Academy. She uses acting techniques to transform all types of business speakers into powerful presenters. Now Billie is what with some amazing and super well-known clients like Facebook... READ MORE Find out more about Billie's work at billieshepard.com  Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and ..read more

Baljit Kaur is an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant. Listen to learn about how to foster inclusiveness in the workplace, applying transactional analysis principles for effective communication, the importance of understanding individuality and personal experiences in organisations to build a good culture... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech ..read more

Olivia James is a Harley Street Therapist who works with people suffering from fear of speaking and who have experienced trauma. Watch this interview to learn a simple technique Olivia has used to help her clients overcome speaking anxiety. WATCH THE INTERVIEW HERE Find out more about Olivia's work https://harleystreetcoach.com Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech ..read more

I am so excited today because I have a wonderful guest here with me on today’s show, who has helped me no end to bring the message of How to be a D.I.V.A. at Public Speaking to the masses.  A little while ago, I decided that I would find a wonderful voiceover or voice recording artists to help me to get the book... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech ..read more

Are you ready to be connected under any circumstances? If you are going to make a presentation, do you have what it takes to connect up your presentation with the AV at the venue under any circumstances? I’m sorry if you are listening to this on my podcast you cannot see this bunch of cables I have in my hand. I urge you to jump onto my website www.sholakaye.com/blog and check out this episode there because you will be able to watch it all in video format... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide&n ..read more

Do you ever feel that your voice doesn’t cut through? Perhaps because it’s too breathy?  One of the problems with a breathy voice is you don’t get very much volume when you’re speaking. Another problem with having a very breathy voice is that it can become fatiguing to listen to by the audience... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech ..read more

Is it time for you to tone it down a bit for your audience? Interesting question, right? I’m going to explain a little bit more what I mean in just a moment. Just recently an agency contacted me, they’re based in Miami, and they asked me if I was available to do a professional speaking gig. I was available so I said yes... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech ..read more

I want to ask you today have you eaten the food of champions before? If you haven’t then you need to stay tuned and watch the entire video. And I’m not talking about Atkins diet, or whether you’re a vegan, or whether you are… I don’t know there’s so many different diets out there… I’m not talking about dieting. I’m talking about the food of champions which is otherwise known as feedback... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech ..read more

When you speak and perhaps you forget a couple of words, or it doesn’t go as perfectly as you had hoped, do you beat yourself up? Do you sometimes find you are judging yourself while you’re speaking and you can’t be 100% present with the audience and focus because that little negative voice is chatting away? Today I want to share a tip that you can use. A little hack that will help you to stop judging yourself... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech ..read more

Do you need to speak slower when you are in front of an audience? That’s the question that I am sometimes asked so let’s have a chat about it today, shall we? A few years ago, I was participating in online dating and I went on a date with a guy who spoke really slowly. So slowly that after about five minutes on the date I was desperate to get away... READ MORE Go to www.sholakaye.com for useful freebies, tips and more. Create a speech stress-free and fast with my free guide 5 frameworks to ace a short speech ..read more