Synopsis
Do you want to improve your public speaking ability?
** Top 5 Bestseller in Public Speaking, Business Life and Business Communications categories **
As creatives in a crowded world, we can no longer sit in our rooms, creating alone, if we want a viable income. Increasingly, we have to be out there in the world, sharing our knowledge and being visible in order to have a successful career.
Public speaking can be an extra income stream, or can form an integral part of your marketing. It's also a good idea to plan for success and authors/creatives often have to speak when they become well-known, so it's best to start practicing earlier.
This book is a starter pack and an easy reference guide with the information that you need the most to speak confidently and professionally in public. And, although some chapters have specific tips for introverts, much of this information will be useful for anyone who is interested in public speaking, regardless of their personality type.
In this book, I'll share everything that I know as a professional speaker and introverted author-entrepreneur.
The book contains lots of tips about public speaking in general, based on my own experience over the last five years. In addition, I cover some specific points that creative introverts need to consider as speakers.
You can read this book from start to finish, but you can also dip in and out, as each chapter contains succinct tips that you'll need at different times on your journey.
In this book, you will find:
- Part 1 goes into the practicalities of speaking: types of speaking, preparation, your actual talk, and what happens afterwards.
- Part 2 is about some of the psychological aspects of speaking: your mindset, authenticity, confidence, and tackling the inevitable anxiety, which we all feel.
- Part 3 discusses the business side of speaking: financials, marketing, and how to create multiple streams of income.
- Part 4 contains interviews with three fantastic professional speakers, each from a different market, to give you a variation in perspective. Mark McGuinness is an introvert, Clare Edwards is an extrovert and Alastair Humphreys sits somewhere in the middle. There are also videos, audio and extra image-formatted transcripts, so you can experience this information in other modes if you prefer.
- The Appendices contain resources that may be useful in your speaking journey, including my own speaking checklist and booking form, example sales page and a series of questions for you to answer that will kickstart your public speaking.
˃˃˃ I’m an author and professional speaker, and I’m also an introvert.
I often get asked how I do what I do, when our natural tendency is to relish being alone and creative, not standing in front of a crowd.
In this book, I share everything I’ve learned about being a speaker and creative over the last 5 years of speaking internationally, in front of large and small audiences.
I also dispel some of the myths around being a speaker. You don’t have to be Tony Robbins, bouncing around on stage with a booming voice and larger than life persona.
You just have to be you, and tell your stories.
˃˃˃ Praise for 'Public Speaking'
“I bought your new book on public speaking today, and does it ever speak to me! Your description of yourself as an introvert describes me perfectly, and the best part is it makes me feel that finally it’s okay to be an introvert, and I don’t need to apologize for leaving events early or slipping away from a writers’ conference for an hour or two to grab a nap! What a wonderful feeling of self-affirmation!”
Jodie Renner, Author and Editor.
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About the Author
Joanna Penn is an author, international speaker and entrepreneur based in London, England. She was voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013.
She was an IT consultant for 13 years, working in large corporates across Europe and Asia Pacific. In 2011, she became a full-time author/entrepreneur. Her journey and lessons learned are documented in her book "Career Change: Stop hating your job, find out what you really want to do, and start doing it."
Joanna's site, TheCreativePenn.com helps authors with writing and creative entrepreneurship. She has a popular podcast on iTunes and a YouTube Channel.
Her other non-fiction books are on public speaking and book marketing.
Joanna also writes fiction under J.F.Penn: Thrillers on the edge. JFPenn.com
- ARKANE action-adventure thrillers: Pentecost, Prophecy, Exodus and One Day In Budapest
- Dark crime thriller: Desecration
- Short story series based on Dante's Inferno: A Thousand Fiendish Angels
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