In February World Champions Edge (my public speaking coaching community) held our convention Lady and the Champs. Five keynote speeches and fifteen breakout sessions delivered by four World Champion speakers and yours truly Patricia Fripp. Each presentation can help you improve your presentations. By Saturday, April 30, 2011 you can invest in the downloads for $147. You owe it to yourself to at least click the link!

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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!

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Lessons that Help Public Speakers from Justin Bieber and Darren LaCroix.

Lessons from Justin Bieber… a Teenager!

My partner in the April Story and Structure Speaking School and Two-Day Coaching Camp Darren LaCroix wrote a great article in his Punchline newsletter. I thought you would enjoy.

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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,

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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. 

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