Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style
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E 203 Toot Your Horn in a Fun Way for Massive Executive Presence, Beat Imposter Syndrome and Zero Imposter Syndrome
12 september 2023 · 33 min
Talking to Peggy was so much fun, Laura is planning to visit her next time she’s in New Mexico. Lees meer
The problem with “tooting your own horn” is that smart people tend to
remember only the painful examples and develop fear of coming across as boring and/or annoying.
There are actually delightful ways to talk about your accomplishments that provoke authentic and rich conversations.
These have the bonus of letting people know who you really are. (Which many people will find encouraging, btw.)
Being able to talk about yourself in an interesting way brings a boatload of benefits, which include helping others to do the same.
People want to know about you, without the tsunami of self-revelation that traps so many.
Laura and Peggy cover small talk, networking conversations, conversation tools you can use on zoom, and many other tips including these:
💎How to know which of your life experiences are the most interesting to others
✅Why sharing your “brag” stories makes the world a better place
🔑Craft your “flyby” that makes you the most interesting person in any meeting
🦏What to do if you’re not asked the question you’re prepared to answer
🎯The 3 key ingredients that make any of your stories come to life
📣Reasons you want to obliterate any mental stigma around bragging
ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:
Peggy Klaus, former Warner Bros producer, is the best-selling author of "The Hard Truth About Soft Skills" (Collins, 2008) and "Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It" (Warner, 2003).
A regular contributor to a number of major media outlets, Peggy reaches thousands of professionals each year through her
communication and leadership training programs, keynotes, and executive coaching at leading corporations and organizations worldwide.
Not only is Peggy a major player in corporate communications but she also consults for communication and messaging for political candidates at the local, state and federal level.
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E 202 Stories That Sell and Get You the Promotion and the Corner Office To Beat Imposter Syndrome
5 september 2023 · 30 min
Along the path of his eclectic career, Tom Jackobs picked out the high-payoff tidbits you need to craft a story that moves people to action. Lees meer
That’s charisma in a nutshell, and being an extrovert is NOT required.
It’s about creating a teaching moment, a pitch that doesn’t sound like a pitch (because no one likes being sold to!)
What you are really going to love about this episode, and I’m speaking to those whose work is related to technology and or engineering, is that Tom has a PROCESS for crafting a story that sells.
What Laura and Tom really focus on is “selling” your solutions/proposals to senior leadership, how to find that story that sells the value you offer.
(You should probably listen to this episode twice, just saying.)
🧩What specifically makes a lot of stories boring
🛟 What goes into a speaker kit and why you should create one
💰The Hollywood story structure that you can adapt for your presentations
🎤The best starting point for creating a new presentation (aka a “phone drop moment”)
🏆 Tips for coordinating your body language to your talk delivery
🔥The question you WANT your audience to ask at the end of your talk
ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:
Tom Jackobs, now living in Taiwan, has been an entrepreneur for 30+ years.
He sold his fitness business which he owned for 9 years to become the Impact Pilot, helping entrepreneurs generate more income through better sales strategy and using stories to sell.
Tom has been a contributor to CBS Radio in Houston, a guest on Great Day Houston television show, Univision Television, Fox 26 News, KPRC Channel 2 and CW Houston.
He is also a presenter at the Small Business Development Centre (SBDC) in Houston.
Tom loves to create highly impactful stories which can move the listener to take action.
Primarily to buy the product or service of the speaker.
Tom helps his clients craft their impactful stories so they can grow their business.
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E 201 Why Excellent Work Isn’t Enough and What the Best Leaders Do About It To Gain Executive Presence
30 augustus 2023 · 56 min
Bonus Episode 201 Replay Laura Camacho interviewed by Laura Cox Kaplan Lees meer
This is for you if you ever feel like your hard work is insufficiently recognized, and/or compensated.
This is also for you if you are looking for a new role and you need to speak the language that gets you hired and valued.
More than ever career success comes down to how effectively you communicate not just about the work itself, the deliverables, but also the value you and your team are providing and the impact of that work on other parts of the organization.
In this episode, Laura shares the secrets you need to communicate the value of your work in a way that builds visibility, influence, and impact.
This episode was originally recorded for the She Said/She Said Podcast and we found so much value in this conversation we are posting it especially for the Speak Up with Laura Camacho posse!
Takeaways from this chat include:
🧩The kind of communication that builds influence
🎤How to increase your visibility at work and why that matters
🏆How different words leave different forms of impact and how to avoid the language of self sabotage
🧠How introverts and extroverts process information differently
🙄Why the advice to just “speak up more” isn’t particularly useful for building influence
📣Beware “overthinking” when someone asks for your point of view
Get Laura Camacho’s book, The Practical Guide to Effective Communication on Amazon.
EDITORIAL NOTE: Episode 201 is the repost of She Said/She Said episode hosted by Laura Cox Kaplan.
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CELEBRATING 200 EPISODES WITH AUDIENCE Q & A
23 augustus 2023 · 25 min
Holy Mackerel! 🐟🐟🐟 We made it to Episode 200!! Lees meer
What can I say? THANK YOU THANK YOU MERCI GRACIAS.
To celebrate this blue whale sized accomplishment, I’m answering ALL your questions.
You don’t want to miss this one-time opportunity to learn what it takes to start a business in a brand-new category, how to have a flourishing career with 3 kids + step-daughter, how to bounce back when your most-feared event happens to you, and how I learned all these communication jewels (hint: not in PhD school!)
Join the fun! 💃🏼💎⭐️♥️
I also spill the tea on some of my favorite coaching sessions.
Sharpen your pencils ✏️ and take down these life-altering insights:
🔥What it’s like to have a coaching business
💎 Advantages and disadvantages of working with family members
✅ Highlights and lowlights of having your own business
🔑 Most common communication problems and how to solve them
🦏 What Laura wishes most people knew
🎯Required actions to bounce back from things you wished had never happened
FOR YOU: This episode is brought to you by the FREE Polish Your Pitch training. Winging 🦋 it works well when chatting with your Boykin Spaniel.
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WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audience…
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Encore E 199: Habits and Stories that Build Influence & Executive Presence with Laura Cox Kaplan
15 augustus 2023 · 48 min
This encore conversation spotlights influencer and She Said/She Said podcaster Laura Cox Kaplan (@lauracoxkaplan), who shares the EXACT small habits and stories that build influence, wins over those frozen granite hearts and scalpel sharp minds, and even the steps to get a role on corporate or nonprofit boards. Lees meer
Laura Cox Kaplan has forgotten more about influence than most people ever learn. Snag her proprietary influence framework and to help you navigate and better utilize whatever life throws your way!
Expand your influence using these habits and story structures:
🔥 How to prepare if you want to leave corporate for something more creative
💎 Tales from the trenches on getting more women elected to public office
✅ A useful thread to tell your story when you feel like you should be bragging on yourself (btw this means you are normal!)
🔑 The word to use instead of “failure” to help you learn from it (LIFE CHANGING!)
🦏 What to do if you’re ready for a board position (corporate or nonprofit)
🎯 3 keys to grow influence when you don’t have a trust fund or big personality
📣 Energize yourself and stand out with dopamine dressing
EDITORIAL NOTE: Episode 199 is an encore episode about influence and part of a podcast exchange with fellow podcast host Laura Cox Kaplan.
ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST: Laura Cox Kaplan, host of the She Said/She Said podcast, is also a corporate and non-profit board member and adviser, has more than two decades of executive experience in public policy, communications, corporate governance, and stakeholder engagement in the public, private and non-profit sectors.
As the Principal-in-Charge of Government, Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Laura spent a decade on the executive management team of PwC and almost 12 years managing PwC’s public policy engagement strategy, which coordinates public policy strategies across 150+ countries.
Find Laura Cox Kaplan on LinkedIn and her website.
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E 198 Exorcise Your Insecurity & Imposter Syndrome with More Resilience with Russell Harvey
8 augustus 2023 · 26 min
It sure feels like there are unprecedented levels of turmoil on the economic/social/political landscape, with potentially legitimate concerns of how AI will change our work. Resilience is your fast track ticket to facing adversity, working with annoying people, and pivoting with finesse in your career. Lees meer
If you haven’t already, it’s so important for you to know what your strengths are so you can lean on them to work with more energy. You not only want to leverage your own strengths, but help those around you to know and use their strengths, to build the entire team’s engagement and performance. Russell goes through the Resilience Wheel to deconstruct this key concept into its component parts.
Of course your communication skill level mirrors your current level of resilience. If you look carefully into any conversation, you can pretty accurately assess their level of resilience and respond accordingly.
Fortify your leadership with resilience, using these life-altering insights:
🔥The reasons you need more resilience right now (i.e. what you’re up against!)
💎 The connection between your strengths and your level of resilience
✅ How to look at working with your strengths against banking the money you want
🔑 Your reality-based purpose goes beyond your goals and is another big source of resilience
🦏 Exorcize your Imposter Syndrome by leaning into your strengths
🎯 Realize that the way you get promoted affects your confidence in the role
📣 Identify the strengths of each team member without the use of psychometrics.
ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST: Russell Harvey is THE Resilience Coach, based in the UK. He supports leaders who are “wading through treacle” (aka slogging through) to rediscover their mojo in 6 months.
Russell is an approachable and open minded executive coach specializing in helping senior leaders. Russell's approach empowers individuals to reflect on their own behaviors and assumed ways of working to achieve positive changes at both strategic and personal le…
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E 197 Succeed Without Knowing it All! Build Executive Presence with Wanda Wallace
1 augustus 2023 · 33 min
An accomplished keynote speaker and Managing Partner of Leadership Forum, LLC, Wanda Wallace’s work focuses on improving leadership by improving the quality of conversations. Lees meer
She helps women and men advance, stick and thrive.
After 10 years at the helm of Duke's Fuqua School of Business executive education program, her most recent work helps managers break out of being the expert and build truly inclusive cultures.
This work is captured in her latest book "You Can’t Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise."
Laura and Wanda chat up ways leaders add value to their teams WITHOUT knowing all the technical details -> that becomes mission impossible once you reach senior leadership and can actually happen at any time.
They chat up a mini-tsunami of practical tips to be a better public speaker and how to get other people on board with your brilliant ideas.
Reach your stakeholders in their comfort zone, not yours.
Everything that happens in business happens in a conversation.
Catch these titanium diamond-studded insights including:
🔥Where to find your confidence when you don’t have all the answers
💎The point where your domain learning journey slows down
✅How to lead people who know more about the content than you do
🔑Ways you can add value when you’re not the one who knows the most about the domain (hint: it’s all about conversations)
🦏The key difference between a expertise leader and a spanning leader
🎯A “rinse and repeat” question you can use to add value at the enterprise level
📣Laura’s favorite communication tool that makes you unstoppable with any audience at any level
🚀Two proven tools to uplevel your public speaking
This episode is brought to you by the FREE Polish Your Pitch training. Winging 🦋 it works well when chatting with your pet chihuahua. Or ranting about your literally insane boss with your BFF.
Not a good idea for executive meetings, job interviews, a press conference, television show appearance, meeting the Pope, or ANY sort o…
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E 195 Nail Your Look for the Career You Crave & Leadership with Angela Foster
25 juli 2023 · 33 min
Today Laura chats with Angela Foster, the person high-achieving women leaders seek to help them put together a closet full of clothes they love to wear. Lees meer
She was an executive in the fashion and beauty industry for 20 years.
Today she specializes in ambitious petite executives and this particular conversation will help ALL women dress for the success they want.
We go into all the details about how what you wear affects your confidence and shapes how others perceive you.
It’s all about small tweaks that can elevate your executive presence.
If you have BIG goals you want to accomplish, do not miss this opportunity to get insider insight on looking perfect for the part.
Be cautious about Influencers who are pushing sponsored products!
There’s more!! Angela is offering an exclusive FREE Fall Fashion gift for YOU here! (www.angelastylecoach.com/laura)
Catch these executive style curated insights including:
🔥How to think about your body through life changes (like having a bebe)
💎The starting point for putting together a wardrobe that propels you forward
✅The item most women LACK in their closet
🔑A helpful structure that helps you organize your closet
🦏Nail your executive look on Zoom, including your background
🎯Beware of the downside to virtual backgrounds for video meetings
📣Common dressing mistakes women make that sabotage their presence
🚀Know the connection between polished presence and compensation
This episode is brought to you by the FREE Polish Your Pitch training. Winging 🦋 it works well when chatting with your pet chihuahua. Or ranting about your literally insane boss with your BFF.
Not a good idea for executive meetings, job interviews, a press conference, television show appearance, meeting the Pope, or ANY sort of pitch.
Pitching an idea, a collaboration, or investment is the ultimate communication skill. Invest 30 minutes of your time in this curated training, Polish Your Pitch.
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E 196 - The Power of Style for Men's Careers & Leadership with Dwayne Williams
25 juli 2023 · 34 min
Catch this bracing conversation with men’s executive style coach, Dwayne Lees meer
Williams, based in Dallas.
Dwayne leans on his 20+ years of fashion and style experience (that began when he learned from his father, a tailor) to get men where they want to be with the power of style.
He helps ambitious corporate men achieve their signature style by transforming the way they dress.
Dwayne’s clients who are new to style enjoy getting more compliments, confidence, and opportunities.
Dwayne’s lengthy experience in men's fashion with Fortune 500 companies has
equipped him with the expertise to identify what’s missing in your closet and
help you find your signature style.
He’s managed the wardrobes of hundreds of successful professionals, providing a luxury level of service, helping them get new jobs, promotions, and even married. 💍
Catch these MEN’s executive style curated insights including:
🔥Exactly where to start leveling up your wardrobe
💎What you need to know about men’s clothing labels
✅How men’s clothing has adapted to higher expectations for comfort
🔑Ways you can incorporate your personality into your look
🦏Key details in what to wear to look GREAT in summer heat
🎯The skinny on bow tie vs. long tie
📣Make sure you dress to represent your industry
🚀Steps to develop your Signature Look
(Profound apologies for Laura’s poor sound quality; Dwayne sounds fantastic..
Technical issues plagued this particular episode.)
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E 194 Show Up with Confidence & Executive Presence with Mike Acker
18 juli 2023 · 33 min
Today’s riveting guest on the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is Mike Acker, communication and public speaking coach. Lees meer
Mike had to overcome his own communication challenges growing up such as a speech impediment and moving to Mexico at the age of 10, where he didn’t speak the language.
These challenges spurred him to find how he could show up with CONFIDENCE in the workplace, public speaking engagements, and beyond.
Mike has divulged his hard-earned wisdom in 17 different books and workbooks including his most recent one: Speak with Confidence: Overcome Self-Doubt, Communicate Clearly, and Inspire Your Audience.
If you know you are competent but have a hard time feeling cool, calm and collected, this episode is for you.
Mike breaks down confidence so that it becomes attainable to even the most nervous Nancy.
Learn how to SPEAK with confidence and navigate self-doubt (aka imposter syndrome!!!) with ease.
Some of the wisdom bombs dropped in this episode are:
😅 Why some nervousness is GOOD
🤔 Why confidence and competence don’t always travel together
🏆 What executive presence really is
👎 How low levels of confidence impacts your perceived leadership
💡The difference between internal vs external confidence
🥸 What is at the heart of imposter syndrom and the right way to respond
💸 Ideas for increasing your perceived value
💣 Practical ways to speak with more IMPACT
🌟 Why you need to lean into the certainty of what you KNOW about yourself
Today’s episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 193 Harness the Power of Positive Influence & Executive Presence with Brian Smith
11 juli 2023 · 35 min
This episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast features influence expert and positivity PRO Brian Smith, PhD. Lees meer
Brian is Founder of IA Business Advisors, The “I” in Team
Series and more than FIFTY successful companies.
He most recently authored: Positive Influence: Be the I in Team with his daughter, Mary Griffin.
Brian began his career in the military where he learned about the importance of structure.
He then went to school for accounting, ending up in the tech & computer systems world where he became fascinated with how people influence each other and the role of positive influence in the workplace.
If you want to make changes, increase your visibility and be recognized as the invaluable asset that you are, this episode is for you.
You will learn to harness the power of positivity to influence others as well as these priceless takeaways:
🤝 Ways to build TRUST
🤔 Whether influence is learned or born
🤍 Why integrity is extra important in any leadership role
⚠️ The most common pitfalls to exercising influence
💸 How to influence above your paygrade
🚀 The power of being a broken record + positive action
😤 WHY we overreact and how to avoid it
This episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 192 Successful Change Management & Leadership with Tim Creasey
4 juli 2023 · 37 min
In today’s groundbreaking episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast, host Laura interviews Tim Creasey. Lees meer
Tim is the Chief Innovation Officer at Prosci where he strives to empower teams to more successfully manage change.
He is also the author of: Change Management: The People Side of Change.
If the fast-paced changes happening in the post-pandemic, AI-saturated workplace are catching you and/or your team off guard, this episode is for you.
Tim has researched and documented the best ways to maximize the discipline of change management.
In this gripping episode, these are some of the transformative takeaways you can expect:
🏆 How to put yourself in a position to succeed in the context of change
🤔 What it really means when companies claim: “our workers are our most valuable asset”
✅ Distinguishing change leadership vs change management
⚠️ The principle reasons projects fail
📷 Why you need to ‘widen your lens’
🏢 How to be intentional about the time spent in person in the office
💡 Understanding individual vs organizational change management
This episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 191 Engage Your Distracted Audience With Leadership Communication Skills with Gabe ZIchermann
27 juni 2023 · 38 min
Today’s guest on the Speak Up with Laura podcast is Gabe Zichermann, and we are talking about ENGAGING your audience. Lees meer
His book, The A-Ha! Method: Communicating Powerfully in a
Time of Distraction addresses the challenges that arise with public speaking and communication in general in our high tech era.
If you struggle with anxiety about presentations, or wonder if your audience or team is actually paying ANY attention to you, this episode is for you!
Gabe and host Laura Camacho cover best practices to be a MASTER communicator in all of your meetings, presentations, and
pitches—regardless of how many iPhones are in the room.
In this wildly informative and uber helpful episode you will learn:
🗺 Where to start so you can get your point across at your next presentation
🤌 Why ALL communication is persuasive communication
📣 The importance of finding YOUR voice
💡How to use your accent to your advantage in public speaking
❤️ Impressing vs CONNECTING in public speaking
👏 The three touchstones for reaching your audience
🌟 The mindset you need to embody on the day of your big pitch or presentation
👍 The importance of getting high quality FEEDBACK before a presentation
This phenomenal episode of the Speak Up with Laura podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 190 Be a Super Connector With Executive Presence with Sarah Sofia Knepp
20 juni 2023 · 42 min
Our fabulously creative guest today is Sarah Sofia Knepp, EXPERT content creator and event designer. Lees meer
Sarah pivoted from politics to event design after planning her own wedding.
She decided to start her own event-planning business and—starting from scratch in Charlotte, NC—soon learned the value and necessity of having a strong network.
Twelve years ago she stretched into content marketing and has been helping people get connected virtually and in-person ever since.
If you want to have a STRONG network and ADVANCE in your career, this episode is for you.
Sarah drops some serious wisdom about meeting others, building relationships, and making the absolute most of the contacts you make.
Some of the PRICELESS takeaways are:
🔥Why LinkedIn is a great tool to foster relationships and build your professional network
🎤Pro tips to improve your LinkedIn bio
🔎How the pandemic made clear the value of staying connected
😀The BASICS of networking (don’t forget to SMILE)
💡The best types of questions to ask at networking events
🌊Maximize your follow-up
🎈Ensure a successful offsite team meeting
🎯Tips and tricks to increase your creativity in the workplace
Follow Sarah Sofia Knepp on LinkedIn or check out her website.
This episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 189 Navigating Physical Touch at Work Post Lockdown with Michael Banissy
13 juni 2023 · 37 min
Dr. Michael Banissy recently wrote the HIGHLY relevant and timely book, Touch Matters: Hugs, Handshakes, and the New Science on How Touch Can Enhance You Well-Being. Lees meer
Dr. Banissy was fascinated with the human person and was a self-professed people-watcher for many years.
His interest in the biology behind psychology led him to research physical touch—one of the first senses we develop.
If you have struggled with how to use physical touch in a professional setting, this episode will DECODE the language of touch and give you the basics for how to incorporate it.
We all know that physical touch seems taboo post-pandemic.
But in this captivating episode Dr. Banissy shares with us why physical touch is so ESSENTIAL and how we can use it to our
advantage.Some solid gold takeaways include:
🐉 How different customs affect how we approach physical touch
🤗 The surprising health benefits of hugging
😩 How physical touch can reduce anxiety, even before public speaking events
🏆 How positive touch can affect team building and performance
😀 How touch can help convey powerful emotion and why that is helpful in the workplace
❓ Why conversations about touch are needed in the workplace
💎 How tactile communication translates to more success
🐥 The first steps in managing tactical communication in the post-pandemic era
This episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 188 Innovation and Mastering the Decision-Making Process With Executive Presence with Atif Rafiq
6 juni 2023 · 37 min
Today’s VIP guest on Speak Up with Laura Camacho is the hyper-successful Atif Rafiq. Lees meer
Atif worked as the global CDO of McDonald’s and Volvo before becoming president of MGM Resorts Intl.
Now he advises on the board of Clearcover and Flutter Entertainment.
He is author of Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the
Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action.
With the rapidly changing working environment due to AI and a plethora of other factors, we must master innovation strategy and perfect the decision-making process.
In this episode, Atif gives you the secret know-how he learned to implement a decision-making process that works and strategies that will nurture innovation as much as possible.
Here are some of the mind-blowing takeaways you can expect from these 45 minutes:
- Fallacies that surround the decision-making process
- The importance of an ‘exploration phase’ to come to a high quality decision
- What you need to tackle new spaces even when there is a lot of ambiguity
- The importance of being inclusive when it comes to getting input about company decisions
- How to encourage innovation from all members of an organization
- Why asking questions is a form of contribution and brings meeting value
- How to come to a decision without the drama and make decision points painless
- What workflow is and how it expresses culture
- Advice for those who are knocking on the door of the senior leadership suite
- How AI is going to affect and is already changing the decision-making process
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E 187 Become Someone WORTH Listening to With Executive Presence with AJ Vassar
30 mei 2023 · 41 min
Our guest today is the vibrant and engaging AJ Vassar, international business coach and speaker. Lees meer
AJ comes from an underprivileged background being the eldest of 8 in a single-parent household.
As he grew up, he realized that, regardless of finances, everyone has their struggles.
Now he coaches individuals to sell and/or become professional speakers.
If you want to be someone worth listening to, this episode is for you.
AJ’s experience and wisdom will help you communicate your VALUE and SELL your ideas (even if you’re an introvert).
You will also learn the importance of MINDSET and how to take any situation and make it better.
Additionally, you will also get these golden, multi-million dollar takeaways:
● The benefits of going through difficult times and embracing them as part of your story
● Why you need to KNOW that what you have to say is important
● The one question people will always ask themselves as your audience
● Why you need to focus on contribution vs appreciation
● Learning to value YOURSELF instead of looking to others for affirmation
● How to evaluate yourself objectively
● Using proactive language instead of reactive
● A simple exercise to help you get out of your comfort zone
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E 186 What's Essential To Know About Maneuvering Risk and Changing Times
23 mei 2023 · 29 min
Today’s engaging guest on the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is President of Formfree, Eric Lapin. Lees meer
Formfree is an innovative company in the finance world which uses direct source data to accurately assess credit risk.
With a finance background, Eric has invaluable insight into managing risk-taking and innovation in the workplace and maneuvering times of change which we are all seeing at the moment—whether we like it or not!
If you want to make CHANGE HAPPEN but are risk-averse, or if you are facing difficult changes in the workplace that are outside of your CONTROL, this episode is for you.
In our jam-packed conversation, Eric and host Laura Camacho discuss:
● Communication pitfalls that can come with an innovative company or approach in the workplace
● How to handle resistance to change internally while building trust
● Why as a leader it’s essential to know your audience
● The reality of the velocity of change in our fast-paced world
● How to tolerate failure without letting it get out of hand or be detrimental to the company
● The importance of developing trust in a high-risk environment
● Why you should strive to be SUCCINCT and communicate often with your team
This episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 185 How Body Language Impacts Your Leadership & Executive Presence with Richard Newman
16 mei 2023 · 37 min
Today’s guest on Speak Up with Laura Camacho specializes in helping leaders leverage their body language for impact. Lees meer
Join Laura in this bracing conversation with speech-writing award
winner Richard Newman.
After high school, Richard wasn’t sure what career he wanted to pursue and ended with his spending time in a Tibetan monastery teaching the resident monks English.
This wildly unique experience taught Richard how to communicate with others beyond words and sparked his interest in authentic and effective communication principles.
While working as a professional actor, Richard started helping hairdressers with their communication.
His workshops were so successful that he founded UK Body Talk Ltd.
In 2014 he won the Cicero Grand Prize for Best Speechwriter of the Year.
His research with University of the City London highlights the immense impact of your body language on your leadership and influence, later published in You Were Born to Speak.
In this fascinating episode Richard and host Laura cover:
- The importance of congruence in communication
- Understanding and working through our protective mechanisms
- Why being too serious can undermine your message
- How to trust your instincts when it comes to body language
- How your nonverbal behavior can dramatically influence how others respond to you
- The most effective gestures that persuade
- The key to becoming a better story-teller
This episode of the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 184 The Power of "Like, Literally, Dude" In Leadership with Dr. Valerie Fridland
9 mei 2023 · 39 min
This fascinating episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho features the fabulous Dr. Valerie Fridland, sociolinguist and professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Lees meer
Her area of research is about the relationship between language and society.
She wrote a book to help educate us about her findings entitled: Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English.
Dr. Fridland grew up in Memphis, TN. Because her family was not native English speakers, they were treated as very exotic.
This helped her notice early in life how people responded to differences in language.
This enthralling episode is for anyone for whom English is a second language and/or wants to harness the power of language to improve their communication at work—so they can get their bottom line across.
It’s a key resource for anyone struggling with verbal fillers - uhs, ums, and so on.
In 45 action-packed minutes you will learn:
- The challenges that having an accent can present in the workplace
- The role women played in changing the English language into what we
are familiar with today
- Why women tend to be leaders in language change
- How fillers in conversation can be beneficial linguistically and socially
- How a compelling message always, always, always trumps delivery
issues
- Things to focus on if you want to improve your English if it is not your
first language
- Why using the word ‘like’ can help you come across as sociable and
agreeable
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E 183 Talk About Money In Leadership with Jenne Sevilla, CFP
2 mei 2023 · 41 min
In this episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho, Laura has a wonderfully candid conversation with Jenne Sevilla, a certified financial planner, about one of the trickiest topics: money. Lees meer
Jenne entered the field of life insurance sales after college. She found that it did not come naturally to her, her tendency was to educate and develop relationships as opposed to sell quickly.
After facing the same issue at a different firm, Jenne realized that insurance sales was not for her.
She decided to take a position in a support role in the finance industry instead.
During that time she educated herself thoroughly on the topic of personal finance and eventually became a certified financial planner.
It was after this that she created Money Moods, a personal finance program that focuses on behavior first and helps you build financial confidence.
In this episode, Jenne and Laura discuss the importance of addressing money openly in the workplace (and at home). Other wisdom bombs include:
- How emotions play a pivotal role in our money behaviors
- Signs you may be with the wrong financial advisor
- Whether or not we should be worried about the banking industry
- What is cash flow analysis and why it’s an essential part to financial health
- Why as investors it is essential we pursue financial education
- Why money has become a taboo topic
- The five money moods: guarded, dreamer, spontaneous, generous, and passive
Jenne’s strategies for bringing up money, even when it feels uber uncomfortable
You can learn more about Jenne and how she can help you on her website.
Brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.
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E 182 How to Build MASSIVE Social Capital Using Your Elevator Pitch & Executive Presence
25 april 2023 · 18 min
Influence starts with a first impression. Lees meer
This is a mini-episode that will tell you exactly what you need to know about improving your elevator pitch to build massive social capital.
In fifteen fast-paced minutes Laura will cover:
- The most important quality you bring to a conversation
- The number one tip for taking leadership of the conversation
- Some ways to talk about your work to communicate the value you
bring to the table
- How to OWN all that you have to offer
- The number one turn-off in introductory conversations
- Tips for maneuvering networking events as an introvert
This episode is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute
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E 181 Communicate with Courage In Leadership with Michelle Gladieux
18 april 2023 · 35 min
Michelle Gladiuex is founder of Gladieux Consulting, which helps organizations of all types and sizes use training and coaching to improve their workforce and workplace. Lees meer
Her approach to having courage at work includes learning how to manage risks, uncovering your blind spots, and getting an accurate perception of how others see you.
Michelle had a love for science as a student and dove into organizational psychology.
After 20+ years of working with many types of organizations and successfully implementing positive changes, she documented her expertise in her new book: Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges.
In this lively podcast episode, you will learn:
- How to take and manage calculated risks in communication
- Why you should embrace imperfection in the workplace (and in life)
- How to capitalize on and learn from your mistakes
- The importance of finding and working on your blind spots
- A powerful exercise to find out what people REALLY think about you
- What to do when the voice of fear interferes
- The power of following up
You can learn more about Michelle and her work at www.gladieuxconsulting.com.
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E 180: Side Hustle Essentials with Jenny Melrose
11 april 2023 · 40 min
A friend introduced Laura to Jenny Melrose, a teacher-turned-massively successful business-owner who now consults influencers. She’s the influencer to the influencers. 😎This timely conversation drops a number of influence tips but intel that’s even more scarce: the essentials you need to launch a successful side hustle. If you’ve ever had to deal with that dreaded icky feeling that your career is eating too much into your family life, Jenny’s dealt with that as well. Lees meer
Jenny’s also a major introvert and the most organized person I know (except for my sister). What this means for you the listener is that not one nanosecond of this interview is wasted - it’s all diamond-studded value.
In this intense conversation we share:
- Take the very first step to see if your proposed side hustle is marketable
- Jenny’s organized slide preparation process to save you time
- A different perspective on confidence and how to grow it
- What you need to know about social media algorithms
- Analyze the risks involved in your potential side hustle
Be sure to follow Jenny on Instagram or check out her website for more information about her consulting business.
This episode brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.
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E 179 Expand Your Influence & Executive Presence Using Stories With Laura Cox Kaplan
4 april 2023 · 53 min
Welcome to episode #3 in the Supper Club Series! Lees meer
This conversation spotlights influencer and leading She Said/She Said podcaster Laura Cox Kaplan (@lauracoxkaplan), who spills the tea on building influence, winning over hard hearts and sharp minds, and even the steps to get a role on corporate or nonprofit boards.
A corporate and non-profit board member and adviser, Laura has more than two decades of executive experience in public policy, communications, corporate governance, and stakeholder engagement in the public, private and non-profit sectors.
As the Principal-in-Charge of Government, Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Laura spent a decade on the executive management team of PwC and almost 12 years managing PwC’s public policy engagement strategy, which coordinates public policy strategies across 150+ countries.
She also advises a broad range of c-suite level clients, and has significant experience building coalitions and partnerships to advance issues and policies.
In this high-energy, 100% transparent conversation enjoy the insider influence tips like:
- How to prepare if you want to leave corporate for something more creative
- Tales from the trenches on getting more women elected to public office
- A useful thread to tell your story when you feel like you should be bragging on yourself (btw this means you are normal!)
- The word to use instead of “failure” to help you learn from it
- What to do if you’re ready for a board position (corporate or nonprofit)
- 3 keys to grow influence when you don’t have a trust fund or big personality
- Energize yourself and stand out with dopamine dressing
Follow Laura Cox Kaplan on Instagram or check out her podcast to keep updated on how to build and sustain influence.
This episode brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.
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E 178: Craft Your Compelling Story & Overcome Imposter Syndrome With Donna Griffit
28 maart 2023 · 40 min
Here at Speak Up with Laura Camacho, we’re all about influencing the c-suite and BECOMING the c-suite. In this episode, Laura introduces you to her colleague, Donna Griffit, a Corporate Storyteller who has worked globally for over 18 years with Fortune 500 companies and Startups. Leveraging her early days in theater, Donna developed the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive results and now she’s sharing that with us. Lees meer
Donna’s book, Sticking To My Story - The Alchemy Of Storytelling For Startups, is not just for start-ups, any high performing professional needs to ace the storytelling skill set. Laura was particularly impressed with her technique of preparing presentations and for nailing the Q&A. You’ll love our discussion around why so many corporate presentations bring us to “suislide”.
Whether you’re a technical leader or not, Donna shares super helpful tips to use data to craft compelling stories.
In this lively conversation, pick up some tips to give yourself an unfair advantage at work:
- The real reason behind TMI in our presentations and what to do about it
- Where to position your recommendation to beat competing solutions
- What you want to collect that makes your presentation bullet proof
- How technical presentations can leverage emotional connection to persuade
- The questions you need to answer before creating the first slide
- Make your presentation a conversation, not a tsunami of facts
- Specifically word your question to the audience for the best result
- The underlying role of slides in supporting your presentation
This episode brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.
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E 177: Using Successful Communication Skills In Enterprise Or Startup With Jason Andree
22 maart 2023 · 37 min
Episode 177 Successfully Communicate in Enterprise or Startup with Jason Andree Lees meer
Laura met Jason through a mutual friend and he turned out to be a model communicator for an authentic, not puffed-up leader. He was living in Switzerland working at GSK when he got the opportunity to take the CMO role of US-based Nufabrx. This startup is one of the fastest growing companies in the country and offers patients an innovative pain relief through specially-treated fabrics.
Jason takes us on the journey of building your personal brand based on being your authentic self, not knowing all the answers, and speaking up. Jason believes the key to his career success has been building strong, mutually beneficial relationships.
In this powerful but low-key conversation, pick up proven tips for leadership excellence including:
- What is the top consumer priority when interacting with brands
- Role of authenticity in building a personal brand
- What’s more powerful than words in a meeting
- Making the career pivot from enterprise to startup
- Prioritize your most important audience
- Great way to prepare yourself for a contentious conversation
- How humility fastracks trust building
Connect with Jason Andree on LinkedIn. Find out more about an innovative path to pain-relief through special fabrics developed by Nufabrx. Nufabrx is the #1 fastest-growing company in the region as named by Charlotte Business Journal, the Deloitte Fast 500 #2 Fastest Growing Pharmaceutical Company in North America, and INC. 5000 #50 Fastest Growing Company in America.
This episode brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.
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E176: Make a Positive Impression With Executive Presence with Patricia Mae Olson
4 maart 2023 · 39 min
Welcome to episode #2 in the Supper Club Series! This conversation spotlights publicist Patricia Mae Olson (@patricia_mae_olson), an influencer, owner of Piqued PR, podcaster, and member of the Supper Club, a group of high-end lifestyle business owners. Lees meer
Patricia’s PR firm, Piqued PR operates in the suburbs of Philadelphia and offers public relations, social media management, influencer marketing, events for fashion and lifestyle brands. Patricia Mae believes in decorating colorfully, entertaining in style, and dressing preppy with a twist.
The way you present yourself communicates to your audience, even before you open your mouth. Learn about the connection between appearance and perception, and some high ROI tips to look your best.
In this chic and chatty episode we share some lovely jewels for you:
- How Instagram changed advertising and its audiences
- The Instagram mindset that can propel your career and/or business growth
- Introverts and others! Use social media to build your professional network
- Clothing makes you feel a certain way, leverage that strategically
- First impressions are largely shaped by the way you dress
- Whether male or female, choose accessories to elevate your look
- Nail that meeting with an intimidating audience (or television appearance)
Follow Patricia Mae Olson on Instagram or check out her website for more information about her Preppy Podcast, her styling and PR work.
This episode brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.
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E175: Cookies and Communication Skills with Cheerful Baker Lauren Jacob
21 februari 2023 · 40 min
Welcome to episode #1 in the Supper Club Series! Lauren Jacobs (@thecheerfulbaker), is an influencer, a gourmet cookie baker, and member of the Supper Club, a group of high-end lifestyle business owners. Lees meer
Lauren worked in retail after college and then became a Sales Rep for American Greetings. After her first child was born she decided to stay home. Fast forward to 2015, she took up baking. After multiple cookie decorating classes, she got hooked and began to decorate cookies for retail as well as hosting some of her own classes. When professional cookie decorating took off, she decided to make it her full-time career.
During the pandemic Lauren asked herself: “What do I want to take away from this experience?”
She realized the joy that came from her faith was a central part of herself and so rebranded as The Cheerful Baker.
This forms an integral part of her work as a cookie decorator and Instagram influencer. Her social media following led her to working with the Food Network for their 2022 Christmas Cookie Challenge.
In this fun and delicious episode we chat about:
- The journey from never speaking up to being a flaming extrovert
- Communication determines confidence
- How she landed her a spot in the Food Network’s Christmas Cookie Challenge
- How asking questions can help with intimidating audiences
- How to be personable with people you don’t know
- How curiosity becomes an effective sales tactic
You can follow Lauren on Instagram or check out her website https://cheerfulbaker.com/ for more information about her cookie decorating courses.
This episode brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.
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E 174: Time For A Career Upgrade & To Overcome Imposter Syndrome With Sonja Price
6 februari 2023 · 44 min
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It’s a great day to listen to Laura’s juicy conversation with Sonja "Dynamo" Price.
Sonja is a top Career Strategist, Salary Advisor, and Leadership Coach with. Her mission is to support professionals to enjoy greater meaning, better work-life balance, and significantly higher pay. She has worked directly with Tony Robbins, trained with Al Gore to become a Climate Reality Leader, and won an Honorable Award from the Women’s Economic Forum. In this episode, Sonja drops any number of excellent techniques to accelerate your career success and help you earn significantly more money!!
We get right into how to plan and strategize your next career move, how to build your arsenal of internal allies, and how to find out if your compensation is appropriate for all the things you do!!
We all agree that money isn’t everything, but these nuggets can help you earn more:
- Where to look to see if you are currently compensated appropriately
- What to say in a job interview if they ask you what you want to earn
- How to uplevel your career right now
- Get started on building your internal network
- What to ask your boss if you want more visibility
Learn more about Sonja Price at https://dynamocareers.com/
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E173: Engage Your Audience With Executive Presence With Don Colliver
16 januari 2023 · 44 min
Laura’s guest is Don Colliver, public speaking internal expert at Google and around the world; leads improv, clown, and sketch comedy classes for the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre. Lees meer
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Don’s mission is to help every communicator profoundly impact their audience through the power of authenticity, listening, and play. He recently released a #1 Bestselling Amazon book entitled "Wink: Transforming Public Speaking with Clown Presence" to help anxious speakers and organizational teams everywhere connect more deeply when they communicate.
Laura and Don bring you all kinds of practical wisdom pearls so that you can engage even the toughest of audiences. Takeaways include:
- Research actually proves that competent leaders are better perceived when they share certain imperfections
- 3 specific ways to increase engagement with your very next presentation (in person or virtual)
- The kind of humor that helps you and the kind to avoid
- What your audience secretly craves from any speaker
- The ingredient that makes people laugh is what drives connection to a speaker (meaning you can connect without being funny!
This episode brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.
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E171: Holding The Calm- Resolve Conflict And Defuse Tension Using Communication Skills With Hesha Abrams
2 januari 2023 · 42 min
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Hesha Abrams is an internationally renowned mediator from Dallas, TX. With over 30 years of resolving intense conflict and difficult problems, Hesha comes to us as an expert in addressing conflict with pragmatic approaches.
Hesha’s innovative approach and thought-provoking solutions obtain favorable outcomes for even the most complex conflicts.
From a young age, Hesha had a strong sense of justice. In her years of work as an attorney she came to understand how to end conflict and successfully defuse the tension - outside the courtroom. She saw that many people feared and avoided conflict, which led her to writing the book, Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension
This episode gives you the roadmap to:
- Use the ‘sandwich’ technique to deal with people who dominate meetings
- Why stories are most effective to make your point stick
- Leverage affirmation in the midst of conflict
- Untangle major misconceptions surrounding conflict and communication
- Accept people as they are
- Navigate things when Fight Flight Freeze instinct kicks in
Learn more about Hesha and her work on her website http://holdingthecalm.com/
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E 172: Use The Power Of Scarcity To Market Yourself & Break Into Leadership With Mindy Weinstein
2 januari 2023 · 37 min
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Dr. Mindy Weinstein is a marketing expert and author from Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the founder and CEO of Market MindShift, specializing in high-level powerful tips to use scarcity to create more interest in you and your ideas.
After a career in marketing, she decided to do a deep-dive into persuasion. She realized that out of all the factors that influence us, scarcity is the most powerful. This led her to doing her own research into the topic of scarcity and eventually writing her book: The Power of Scarcity: Leveraging Urgency and Demand to Influence Customer Decisions.
In this fascinating and compelling episode discover these powerful tools:
- How scarcity affects us on a neurobiological level
- Why we value what is scarce more than everything else
- How fear of missing out (FOMO) plays into marketing and our day-to-day decision making
- Why the concept of ‘playing hard to get’ works in the business world
- Use the concept of exclusivity in a beneficial way for team-building
- How scarcity influences our purchasing habits (and how to work against that)
- Better manage your own scarcity of attention
Connect with Dr. Mindy on her website https://www.marketmindshift.com/team/mindy-weinstein/ or follow her on LinkedIn.
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E170: 10 Easy Tools To Grow Your Influence & Executive Presence
2 januari 2023 · 17 min
Why improve your communication skills at work? What's the value in having more executive presence? Or feeling more comfortable with intimidating audiences? Lees meer
It comes down to having more influence. Influence means people know you, like you, and trust you and you get to shape the decisions that affect you. It means people think of you, they remember you and what it is you bring to the table.
In this quick, intense episode, Laura shares a quick introduction to what it means to have influence at work and how you need to think about the way you interact with others, if you want to have more influence.
Her diamond-studded takeaways include:
- When is the best time to speak up in a meeting
- Why loudmouths have more influence
- How the power to influence in the virtual context helps introverts
- Word choices that boost influence
- Easy options to make you more memorable
Today’s episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 169: Civility Rules In Communication Styles With Shelby Scarbrough At Harvard
12 december 2022 · 52 min
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Today’s fascinating guest on the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is Shelby Scarbrough: entrepreneur, author, and speaker associated with Harvard School of Entrepreneurial Studies.
Shelby started off as a political appointee organizing trips for the Reagan and Bush administrations. She has also worked with Pope John Paul II, Presidents Reagan, Bush, Carter, Nixon, Lech Walesa of Poland, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, and Queen Elizabeth II.
Shelby started right out of college working in the White House planning events for President Reagan. She went from the White House to the State Department before getting out of government work and starting her own business, Practical Protocol. She worked traveling around the world setting up trips and planning events for high-level dignitaries. After years of running her business, she decided to put what she learned about being courteous into her book: Civility Rules: Creating a Purposeful Practice of Civility.
In this stimulating episode you will learn:
- How you define civility
- How civility can help navigate social situations especially after pandemic lockdowns
- The fundamentals of courtesy
- The relationship between joy and civility
- How to navigate difficult or “hot button” topics and keep your cool
- The impact social media has on civility
- Practical ways to be more civil
- The potential whip lash that results from “cancel culture”
You can learn more about Shelby on her website Shelbyjoyscarbrough.com
Shelby Scarbrough
Shelby Joy Scarbrough - Practical Protocol
While society continues to make exponential and historic advances in technology, and we have elevated our overall sophistication in every way, we seem to be missing something vital to the health of our society – our ability to be civil to each other.
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E 168: Everything You Need to Know about Working with Millennials and Gen-Z In Leadership with Vivek Iyyani
1 december 2022 · 43 min
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The guest on today’s episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho is Millennial and Gen-Z expert Vivek Iyyani.
While Vivek was freelancing as a facilitator and youth coach, he participated in various enrichment programs in different schools working with teens on confidence, leadership, and team bonding. Along the way he realized this was the group that would soon be entering the workforce, and noticed a shift in their priorities compared to his peers and co-workers.
When Vivek began looking at the research regarding Millennials, he saw that many of them struggle with a quarter-life crisis. This finding led to Vivek writing his first book: Empowering Millennials: The 5 Step Sequence to Design a Life of Fun, Freedom and Fortune.
As he continued to interact with Millennials and Gen-Z in the workforce, Vivek noticed some difficulty in the relationship between older generations and Millennials and Gen-Zers. After doing a deep dive into what causes this tension he published his second book: Engaging Millennials: 7 Fundamentals to Recruit, Reward and Retain the Largest Generation in the Workplace.
In this fascinating episode we discuss:
-Three major cultural differences between Millennials and other generations
-Commonly held misconceptions about Millennials
-‘Blue tick anxiety’ and why Millennials and Gen-Zers are obsessed with it
-Social skill discrepancies Millennials have compared to other generations
-How to step up as the five-generation leader
-How to improve relationships between Millennials, Gen-Zers and the older generations
You can learn more about Vivek and how to work with him on his website. Or connect with him on Instagram or LinkedIn.
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E167: A Forensic Interviewer Unlocks the Hidden Value in Conversations & Communication Skillswith Michael Reddington
14 november 2022 · 52 min
The hyper-interesting guest on today’s episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho is Michael Reddington, CFI (Certified Forensic Interviewer). He wrote the book, The Disciplined Listening Method: How A Certified Forensic Interviewer Unlocks Hidden Value in Every Conversation. Lees meer
As a Certified Forensic Interviewer, Michael traveled all over not only conducting interrogations, but also teaching professional investigators how to get to the truth using non-confrontational techniques. His experience in the interrogation room helped him see the persuasion techniques that help to actually influence others. Now, he coaches leaders working to build relationships and make their mark.
The takeaways from this fascination conversation include:
The importance of intentionally slowing down (internally and externally)
Why you should listen to your body during your conversations
Limit variables during virtual meetings to improve your focus
The importance of self-image in regards to persuasion
The most important questions to ask if you want buy-in
Why you need lead to your expertise, not with it
How listening = learning
You can connect with Michael on Linked-In or visit his website for more information.
Today’s episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E166: Communication Skills and Wellness in the Post-Pandemic Workplace
1 november 2022 · 41 min
Today’s delightful guest on the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is health and wellness coach, Lisa Burbage. Lees meer
Lisa began her wellness journey after her battle with breast cancer, which served as a wake-up call to her regarding the importance of physical and mental health. She realized she had many aspects of her health that needed improvement and began making serious changes. This led Lisa to want to empower others to avoid the pain and difficulty she went through on her own. After getting her health coaching certificate from Duke University she became a health and wellness coach and has been helping others take good care of themselves ever since.
In this fun and informative episode, we cover:
The top trends regarding health and wellness in the workplace
The effects of the lockdown on physical and mental health and wellness
How to stay well if you WFH (and sit through 73 virtual meetings a day)
How wellness-oriented team-building can help build work culture
How Lisa gets everyone engaged in group Zoom meetings
Why health in the workplace goes deeper than paying for a gym membership or providing healthy snacks
You can connect with Lisa Burbage on LinkedIn or learn more about her offerings on her website.
This podcast episode is sponsored by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E165: Lessons In Leadership from an Artful Attorney on Negotiating
16 oktober 2022 · 47 min
Today’s fabulous guest on the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is intellectual property attorney and personal friend, Angie Avard Turner. Lees meer
Angie knew she wanted to be an attorney since she was very young, but also had a creative side she wasn’t sure what to do with. As a young adult she attended law school in Michigan, moving back to Georgia after graduation.
It was then that Angie began learning and exploring her creative side, especially through learning Adobe and working in design of paper products and other home goods. She started a company in the field which, to her surprise, completely took off. After 10 years she made the pivot back into law, helping those creatives she had gotten to know during her career in the industry protect their hard-earned work.
In this fabulous and fun-filled 45 minutes, you will learn:
The biggest mistakes made in the art of negotiation
Why you need to be SPECIFIC and CONCISE in your negotiations
The implications of more collaboration taking place across the business world
How to represent yourself well in conversations
The importance of being relational (regardless of your field or expertise)
You can follow Angie on Instagram or LinkedIn.
This episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute
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E164: STOP Chasing Squirrels: Find and Live Your Purpose With Executive Presence with Ted Bradshaw
10 oktober 2022 · 47 min
Today’s guest is on the Speak Up with Laura Camacho is the wonderful and charming Ted Bradshaw! He is an Expert EOS implementor (Entrepreneur Operating System) which is used in small and large companies to help get the right people in the right seats. Lees meer
After graduating from school and sending out hundreds of resumes, Ted landed his first job making 100% commission selling alarm systems. Following a short stint in this position, he eventually found his way into some of the big players in corporate America Including Xerox and IBM. After success in the corporate world, Ted felt the need to move to something different.
Some years later, Ted became a serial entrepreneur, starting five companies in the past twenty years. Seven years ago he began coaching EOS. His admirable passion is to help those who have a desire to achieve do so through purpose. This led him to write his book, Stop Chasing Squirrels: 6 Essentials to Find Your Purpose, Focus, and Flow
In this wisdom-imbued episode, Ted shares:
How a breakdown in communication often leads to failure
The importance of asking yourself the question: What are you prepared to go to war with?
How the drive to succeed can lead to burnout
How to understand what is behind your drive to succeed (it might be worse than you think)
Why you need to choose to be guided by purpose
How ‘the TEMP’ exercise works and how it can help you find your purpose and make your mark
How the ‘six essentials’ will change the way you approach your career.
You can connect with him on his website, LinkedIn, or follow him on social media @tedbradshaw.
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E 163: Behind the Scenes of Charisma & Executive Presence
8 september 2022 · 16 min
For those who have always wanted to be more charismatic, this is the episode for you. In only 15 minutes, Laura breaks down what exactly is this quality we call "charisma", what behaviors are anti-charismatic, and the 3 components of charisma. She also offers a warning that charisma does not always travel in the same suitcase as the character. Caveat emptor! Lees meer
Other takeaways include:
- What kind of clothing can keep you from being charismatic
- How charisma and likability have so much in common
- How you can be perceived as more powerful
This episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 162: From Conflict to Courage in the Workplace & Leadership with Marlene Chism
2 september 2022 · 47 min
Today’s marvelous guest on the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is Marlene Chism, public speaker and author of From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading. Lees meer
After 20 years as a blue-collar factory worker, Marlene knew she wanted more but wasn’t sure what it was. Her path eventually led her to be a consultant and public speaker.
After a few very difficult years as a motivational speaker, she went back to school to get her Masters. As the pandemic began, she saw an opportunity for a book about improving relationships at work. She published her findings in: From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading.
In this extremely relevant episode we discuss:
-Why conflict is not the problem, but the way we manage it is
-The three primary forms of avoidance
-The three parts of emotional integrity
-What you can do as a team leader when reports are in conflict
-Her process for breaking down an interpersonal conflict at work
-The three parts that expand your conflict capacity
-Why the person who has clarity “navigates the ship”
-What to do when the culture at work is not conducive to honest and open conversations
This episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute.
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E 161: The Ultimate Guide to Gain Visibility, Build Authentic Confidence & Overcome Imposter Syndrome with Gina London
21 augustus 2022 · 46 min
In this phenomenal episode of Speak of with Laura Camacho, Dr. Camacho has a crucial conversation with global expert on leadership communications, Gina London. Lees meer
Gina is CEO of a global consulting firm called Language of Leadership. She is an Emmy Award-winning former CNN correspondent and TedEx speaker based in Ireland. She now teaches members of the workforce worldwide to gain visibility and authentic confidence. Her work helps people to connect with themselves and others more comfortably and effectively.
This insanely relevant conversation covers topics such as:
The authenticity conundrum: what it is and why it’s a problem
A better definition for authenticity (it’s all about values)
The glory of self-acceptance and self-improvement
Why communications aka “the human stuff” is everything
How to be kind with under-performers while getting them to step UP
A step-by-step process for communicating at a higher level
Why people zone out in your meetings and how to fix it
What working visibly really means and how to do it
The power of inserting personal anecdotes into your presentations
This helpful episode is brought to you by “The Practical Guide to Effective Communication” by Laura Camacho, PhD. It’s available on Amazon in paperback and digital format and has everything you need to be recognized for the value you already contribute.
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E 160: The Power of Silence In Executive Presence with Leigh Marz
12 augustus 2022 · 40 min
This episode of Speak Up with Laura Camacho is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute. Lees meer
In this much-needed episode of Speak Up, host and communication expert, Laura Camacho, chats with Leigh Marz from Berkley California and co-author of the book Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise. (Her co-author is Justin Talbot.)
Working as a consultant for a wide variety of companies, including many Fortune 500 businesses, Leigh realized the tendency to pack meetings with strategies, data, and information wasn't leading to desired results.
In her own life as a mother and wife, she and her husband were completely overwhelmed with the demands of everyday life when they came to the realization that they wouldn't find peace through more thinking or more doing.
Their intuition led them to a place of silence. After this breakthrough, they wrote an article about the importance of silence which was met with huge success and led them on a journey of interviewing executives, neuroscientists, artists, and many others about their deepest experiences of silence for their new book.
In these mind-blowing 40 minutes, we discuss:
- the distinction between noise and sound
- an interesting definition of silence
- what the state of flow has to do with our experience of silence
- how to incorporate silence into the workplace, including meetings
- the importance of working 10% slower
- Leigh's go-to ways of bringing silence into her life
For more ground-breaking wisdom about how silence can improve your life, check out her book Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise.
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E 158: Make New Friends Even If You're Awkward With Communication Skills with Nick Gray
28 juli 2022 · 51 min
Nick Gray is an interesting man. He built his first company, Museum Hack, by offering non-traditional tours of museums, starting with the MET, when he lived in NYC. By "nontraditional art tour" I mean showing the most expensive art piece, or the most controversial, or the least commercially successful artist. It was not about teaching Art History 101 but giving people a memorable experience in a great location. Lees meer
He's taken this expertise and applied it to networking. Best of all, he shares it all with me in this podcast episode on making new friends, aka networking now. By creating your own 2-hour event, a 2-hour cocktail party, even if you don't drink, you can meet interesting new people, have REAL conversations, make connections and help others to do the same. His book is called The 2-hour Cocktail Party: build big relationships with small gatherings. It's so introvert friendly!
This is your opportunity to learn a fresh way to build relationships and as a result, build your career. In this high-energy conversation, take away prime assets like these:
- Why you need this new way to network
- What to do if your house is small or shabby and you don't know anybody
- Get everyone out of the awkward zone and the best ice breakers
- A step-by-step on creating social proof
- Special touches that ensure your event's success
- Nick offers to coach you for free!
This fun and fascinating episode is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication available on Amazon in paperback and digital format. It's got everything you need to be recognized for the value you already contribute.
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E 157: Personal Branding for Emerging Executives In Leadership with Brenda Bence
20 juli 2022 · 45 min
Learn the latest on executive personal branding with our guest, internationally acclaimed coach, Brenda Bence. Based in Singapore, Brenda has coached 1,000 senior leaders from 60 nationalities across 70 industries and is recognized by Thinkers50 as a World Leader in Coaching. Lees meer
In this practical episode, Brenda and Laura dive into the nuts and bolts of managing outside perceptions of senior leaders and why it matters so much. Turns out, you already have a personal brand, even if you didn't realize it. What you want to do is enjoy a personal brand that reflects your true values, instead of giving up on the development of that precious reputation.
A few of the take-aways you can put into practice right away include:
- Why even high-performers need to take charge of their personal brand
- All of your stakeholders have 2 levels of needs, know which is most important to address
- How branding has changed since Covid
- The ideal distance between you and your laptop camera (I had to move mine!)
- The truth about hybrid meetings and what to do about it (!!!)
- A 5-word exercise to find out how others perceive you right now
This juicy episode is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication available on Amazon in paperback and digital format. It's got everything you need to be recognized for the value you already contribute.
Find more about Brenda at https://brendabence.com/
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E 156: Be the Boss Slay the Q & A With Executive Presence
14 juli 2022 · 17 min
In this special MINI episode (15 minutes) of the Speak Up podcast, Laura Camacho gives you everything you need to Slay that Q&A after your very next presentation. Use her process to demonstrate supreme executive presence. Lees meer
After a few thousand coaching sessions Laura learned what actually causes breath-stopping dread to newish and/or introvertish leaders. Giving constructive feedback is seldom fun. Asking for a raise can make your knees wobble. Even giving presentations can set off the fluttering of two thousand butterflies. But the scariest situation of all is the dreaded Q&A.
- Uncover the hidden opportunity in each question you're asked
- What's worse than not knowing the answer to the question
- The 4-A process that adds tremendous value to your answer
- Why partial answers are better than saying "I don't know"
- How answering questions can build your visibility
This special mini-episode of the Speak Up Podcast is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication by Laura Camacho, PhD. Now available on Amazon in paperback and e-book.
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E 155: Fresh Ideas to Build Your Culture and Attract Top Talent In Leadership with Marc Reifenrath
16 juni 2022 · 47 min
This episode is all about culture building and communication. Marc, CEO of the digital marketing agency, Spinutech, has built up the company with minimal turnover despite massive growth over the last 22 years. Lees meer
Marc shares the great communication practices he uses to build culture, motivate talent, give (and receive effective feedback), interview, and develop people. Listen to Laura and Marc chat up all the working pieces that go into building a great company (or team) culture that produces happy high performers. The juicy takeaways include these and more:
- How to decide which are the best core values for your company and what to do if the values are already set in stone
- The key interview question that brings to light the candidate being arrogant or secretly an egomaniac
- Why everyone is talking about culture and how to talk about it every day
- Why his company has a Director of Culture, what she does, and why you should stop having virtual happy hours right now
- How individual contributors actually add tremendous value as "silent leaders"
- Things you can do to leverage the first day of work for new team members so they never want to leave your team
- A key insight on giving feedback without hurting anyone's feelings
Check out Laura's book, The Practical Guide to Effective Communication on Amazon! To see the Mixonian Institute collection of communication and culture-building content please visit www.mixonian.com. Engage her to help your teams communicate more effectively.
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E 154: The Power in Facing the Truth & Improving Communication Styles with Paul Glover
9 juni 2022 · 42 min
This episode of SPEAK UP is filled with entertaining wisdom from former lawyer and ex-convict Paul Glover. He gives us the intel from his experience as a No BS Coach on how to make your story more persuasive and how to give the gift of truth for you to leave a more meaningful legacy. Lees meer
Paul believes that coaching is an exchange of energy and his goal is to help people de-stress and lead with curiosity. (Laura found him quite chatty and entertaining!) He is author of Work Quake: Making the Seismic Shift to a "Knowledge Economy." Eavesdrop on this lively conversation and learn communication and leadership nuggets to make you graphene-level strong at work:
- The difference between transactional communication vs relationship-building
- How to have the courage to stand up for your team (even when they're out to get you!)
- Why you should make others a part of your journey (even if you're an introvert)
- The importance of showing appreciation more often than you think
- Empathetic listening and showing compassion in the workplace (it's good for YOU!)
To see Laura's collection of communication and culture-building content please visit www.mixonian.com. Engage her to help your teams communicate more effectively.
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E 153: The 5 Things that Make You Sound Confident & Beat Imposter Syndrome
2 juni 2022 · 14 min
I talk to people every single day about how to sound confident. Confidence is not the same as competence and my work is helping supremely competent leaders sound more confident when they speak up. Confidence shortens the path to implementing your fantastic ideas, getting the resources you need, nailing the interview, and getting recognized for the value your team already contributes. Lees meer
In this mini episode, you'll step up your game after learning diamond-studded hacks like these:
- What sales people learn Day One that will help you be more successful already
- Technical aspects of communication that signal confidence
- How to start any message that's important to you
To see Laura's collection of communication content please visit www.mixonian.com. Bring her to help your teams communicate more effectively by contacting her at info@ mixonian.com