When my daughters were teenagers, they would say, “You’re using your speaker voice again.”

The first time they said it, I asked, “What does that mean?”

My 15-year-old daughter explained, “It’s the voice you use when you’re saying something to motivate us. You like the voice; but, you don’t want to argue with it.”

Can you relate? It’s been a stressful time. Sometimes how you’re feeling is reflected in your voice.

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Can you guess which questions I’m most frequently asked through social media and after giving keynotes, seminars, and online training?

1. How did you become a professional speaker?

2. How did you get your books published?

3. Are you always this positive?

Here are the answers to those three FAQs:

1. How did you become a professional speaker?

The entire story about how I became a professional speaker is interesting and funny, but it’s… Read More

Give this sixty-second video a quick watch and tell me . . .

Do you think this could possibly be the world’s strangest pick-up line?

I’m quite certain that if someone had asked me the question my friend had been asked, I would not have assumed I was being hit on! I would have taken it personally because I was teased about my weight when I was a kid.

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When my daughter Lindsay was a little girl, she was looking through some black and white baby pictures of her dad. She asked, “Daddy, was everything black and white in the old days?”

“Yes,” he said.

She looked puzzled and asked, “When did the new days start?”

He quickly replied, “When your mom was born.”

Change is happening all of the time. We often don’t notice the little or unexpected changes until we look back and see how far we’ve… Read More