Speaking at Events: Hosting Your Own Client Gathering

One of the easiest ways to get started in your speaking career is to create your own opportunities by hosting an event yourself. Unless event planning is your speciality you’ll probably want to keep things simple at this stage. Why not host a VIP gathering for your clients and their contacts? Giving your event a […]

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Or in other words, Happy Chinese New Year! January 23rd marked the year of the dragon and with the dragon comes lots and lots of babies. Why? Because children born in dragon years are supposed to be particularly lucky. In fact, in previous dragon years, countries like China and Hong Kong […]

How to Fill a Room…

I recently got this comment from an extremely frustrated speaker: “Dear Joey, The more I listen to you talk about how successful your 1-day speaking events are, the more incapable I feel. You get hundreds of people in your room but when I recently ran a preview night for my 1-day workshop only 12 people […]

The Truth About Those New Year Goals . . .

It’s the start of a new year and time to dust off our new year’s resolutions for yet another year… Or is it? I don’t know about you, but I’ve read countless articles and emails in the past week all advising me how to create the perfect new year goals and yet none of them […]

Happy Christmas!!

Happy Christmas! It’s that time of the year when unless we bring ourselves back to the present, it’s easy to get swept away in the busy-ness and the planning of the perfect holiday season.  Remember – this is a perfect opportunity to be present to what’s occurring in your life- and grateful.  So as you’re […]

Tips On Public Speaking – How To Break The Ice!

In any form of public speaking at a live event you will want to spend time warming up the room. These are what we commonly call ‘icebreaker activities’. There are various reasons for icebreakers but the most obvious is because you want to get the audience on your side and loosen them up a bit. […]