by Michelle Barry Franco | Podcast
If you listen to The Thought Leadership School Podcast you've heard me talk about how I believe surrendered speaking is where I think our greatest impact lives. Because as speakers who are out to serve and share our curiosity, enthusiasm and passion with our...
by Michelle Barry Franco | Podcast
My heart was racing as kind people in the audience dug through their laptop bags, trying to find an adapter we needed to hook up my laptop. This had never happened before and I was at a loss for what to do to stop the mayhem. “It’s really fine,” I said. “I don’t need...
by Michelle Barry Franco | Podcast
Giving a TEDx Talk is a bucket list item for so many speakers, but how to land one feels like such a mystery. But here’s the thing: it works like pretty much everything else. People have to know about you, they have to trust you, they have to believe what you have to...
by Michelle Barry Franco | Podcast
Do you HAVE to think bigger in order to be successful as a speaker? And if so, where DOES thinking big fit into this whole speaking and business growth path we are on? Does it activate some kind of magic in the universe? And what happens when your big vision or...
by Michelle Barry Franco | Podcast
There’s a stat out there that says that 91% of people want to write a book. But did you know that there is a right way and a wrong way to write a book that makes a difference – and build a thriving mission along the way? The truth is that writing is an amazing...
by Michelle Barry Franco | Podcast
Do you wonder what it is about Brené Brown, Sir Ken Robinson and other relatively low key yet powerful speakers like them that makes their talks so captivating? It’s hard to analyze their talks to fully explain how they’re creating the kind of impact that makes...
