National Speakers Association’s Northern California Chapter

The best place to learn public speaking skills for professional speakers is NSANC or Northern California Speakers Association National Speakers Association. The programs are very professional and especially good this year. This year is our 30th anniversary. I had to miss the September meeting, however I was there in spirit and cardboard. I was the founding president.

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Professional Speaking Giant’s Brush with Fame: A Tall Tale

Danny Cox, CPAE is a giant in the professional speaker world. Author of Leadership When the Heat’s On and known as the Sonic Boom Salesman. Danny has the ability to attract interesting friends. On Danny’s left is with Big Dave Mattey who is an actor and stuntman who works in a lot of science fiction and monster movies. However, check his website he has been in major movies including The Spy Next Door with Jackie Chan. He’s 6′ 10″ tall. On Danny’s right is Sidney Wicks. Sidney is 6’8″ and is in the UCLA basketball Hall of Fame and was an All-American. In Sidney’s career he played with the Portland Trail Blazers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and spent most of his career with the Boston Celtics.

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Carol Channing, Rich Little, Steve Rossi. Conversation at its best!

What an afternoon! San Francisco’s Carol Channing, internationally acclaimed star of stage and screen, joins inimitable entertainer Rich Little, and hilarious stand-up comic and actor Steve Rossi. Wow…what a show. They were all so happy to be together they were interviewing each other. Robert Strong who is a star in his own right is the […]

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MOVIES AREN’T NOVELS by Michael Hauge

Before you can adapt a novel into screenplay form, you must accept the fact that, no matter how much you love the original work, YOU MUST ELIMINATE ALL THOSE ELEMENTS WHICH DO NOT CONFORM TO THE RULES OF SCREENWRITING. This can be painfully hard, but the process is essential to creating a movie that will reach a mass audience.

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Watch Alfie G. Fripp On BBC “This Morning”

Alfie Fripp, a former squadron leader from Bournemouth, is is the oldest surviving and longest serving British POW. Held during World War II in the Nazi prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III, Alfie Fripp is a Veteran of the Great Escape. He is “Uncle Bill” to Robert Fripp and Patricia Fripp.

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