The Eloquent Woman's weekly speaker toolkit

Fans of The Eloquent Woman on Facebook see links to good reads, resources and ideas from other sources there, in addition to posts from the blog. But you won't miss a thing, since I'm summarizing that extra content and putting it here on the blog for all readers to see. Here's what I shared in the week just past:

• Look at it this way: Meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg reframes fear in a way I think is useful for public speakers. Try her method and see whether it works for you.
• Lots of eloquent women: InspireFest 2015 had 75 percent women speakers. Find out what that was like. It's a great model for your next conference, and they set their intention early.
• Did you miss? Famous Speech Friday looked at Jimmy Carter's TEDWomen talk on discrimination of women in religion--a super-popular post, as was my musing about the number of TED speakers not speaking from memory this year, with tips on how you can memorize a talk. And on Ragan.com, my post You're losing the audience. Now what? appeared last week.
• About the quote: Don't let silence be your primary language, eloquent women. From our Pinterest board of quotes for public speakers.

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