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Patricia Fripp quoted in New York Times!

This article was written by Hillary Chura and first ran in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2007 – Um, Uh, Like Call in the Speech Coach. Although Patricia Fripp was quoted, David Freeman, Michael Sipe, and Donna Gadient who were my clients gave great interviews and their comments were not attributed to my executive speech coaching and sales presentation skills training. However, how often do you get mentioned in the New York Times? In my Executive Speech Coach blog version I make it obvious they worked with me!

Lady & the Champs Speaking Conference a few marvellous memories!

Next Patricia Fripp and Darren LaCroix Coaching Camp is in Las Vegas 8-10. The first day is the Story and Structure class.

Action star everyman Harrison Ford was honored with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award, for “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field”-or more specifically, 35 movies over four decades, including Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Witness, The Fugitive, and Patriot Games. He said,

My associate Rebecca Linquist is delivering a program that could be of interest to many in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Academy awards speeches inspire if good.

Most of course are not! However, if you have to give a speech this one may inspire you. I helped one of my clients prepare it. Look for good descriptive words, modesty, giving credit to those who came before.

SpeakerMatch is a great service for anyone looking for more bookings. On a regular basis they offer FREE TeleSeminars with interviews with thought leaders and experts. Then they house the recording. This week Nancy Juetten had a terrific interview.

In 1991 in a small English village in Dorset, 3 young men from Belgium, Japan, Salt Lake City met in retreat with legendry rock guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson. (Excuse a proud sister) Robert considers his life work teaching. Not just guitar playing, more about the discipline of how to live one’s life.

Reviews of Robert Fripp… Unplugged

Review by Lindsay Planner—All Music Guide Expert Review
Jeff Duke of Krimson News reviews Robert Fripp… Unplugged
AMG Expert Review of Robert Fripp… Unplugged
All Music Guide review: “Innovation and Robert Fripp once again go hand in hand…”

Articles on Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp Links

Discipline Global Mobile
This is Robert Fripp’s personal company. A small, mobile and independent music company.
Elephant Talk
Home of the Internet newsletter for Robert Fripp and King Crimson enthusiasts!
Elephant Talk Discography: Robert Fripp
A discography of: Robert Fripp including the works of King Crimson, The League of Gentlemen, and The League of Crafty Guitarists, et al.
Guitar Craft
Guitar Craft came into being in March 1985 as the result of a request for Robert Fripp to present a short series of residential seminars at Claymont Court near Charles Town, West Virginia. The response and demand was such that from 1985 until this day, over a hundred courses and projects ranging from three days to three years have taken place all over the world.
Krimson News
Your up to the moment King Crimson and related news source.
California Guitar Trio
With a whirlwind of instrumental styles fusing classical, rock, blues, jazz, world music bluegrass, as well as the quintessential California musical genre surf music, the California Guitar Trio’s stunning virtuosity and sly sense of humor have earned them a rabid following.

CGT music was featured in the television coverage of the 1998 and 2000 Olympics, and on CBS, NBC, CNN World Beat, and ESPN TV programs. The CGT performed on the 2003 Grammy Awards nominated track Apollo from Tony Levin’s CD Pieces of the Sun; and CGT music was sent into outer space as wake up music for the crew aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Paul Richards of Salt Lake City, Utah, Bert Lams of Brussels, Belgium, and Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo first met in England at one of Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft Courses in 1987.

More on Robert Fripp

Brother learned this when he was in retreat with JG Bennet:

All life is one and everything that lives is holy.

Plants, animals and people all must eat to live and nourish one another.

We bless the life that has died to give us food.

Let us eat consciously, resolving by our labors to pay the debt of our existence.

“AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Innovation and Robert Fripp once again go hand in hand. Considered to be one of rock’s more enigmatic figures, Fripp has authorized this series of cassette tapes containing over eight hours of live and spontaneous questions and answers featuring Fripp interacting with 11 different audiences who initially had come only to hear a solo instrumental Sound Scapes performance.

Expert Advice about Presentation Skills
from Patricia Fripp

Um, Uh, Like Call in The Speech Coach Patricia Fripp

Patricia Fripp’s Horray for Hollywood Speech

How Long Should An Acceptance Speech Be?

American Accent Specialist Can Improve Your Spoken English

Academy Awards Speeches Inspire If Good

Transform Your Boring Bio from Wallpaper to Wow

Sister Fripp introduces the California Guitar Trio