Utterance Public Speaking

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03/09/2026

The reason someone keeps repeating themselves to you isn’t stubbornness. It’s because they don’t think you’ve understood them yet.

And here’s the uncomfortable part — they might be right.

Most of us are taught to respond. To counter, to solve, to move things forward. Nobody teaches us to simply prove we heard. So we skip straight to the answer, and the other person — still feeling unseen — just says it again. Louder.

The Reflection Tool sounds almost too simple to work. It isn’t a technique so much as a decision: to make understanding visible before you do anything else.

What changes when you use it isn’t just the conversation. It’s the relationship. People remember who made them feel genuinely heard. In a world full of half-listeners, that makes you unforgettable.

Try it this week — especially in the conversation you’ve been dreading. Tell me what happens.

Ready to build a full toolkit for difficult conversations? Book a free strategy call — link in bio. 🔗

31/08/2026

🎭 “They’re just naturally good at speaking.”

Are they?

We’re very good at seeing the finished product and completely forgetting the thousands of invisible hours that came before it.

The rehearsals.
The terrible first attempts.
The coaching.
The awkward experiments.
The mistakes.
The moments where they thought, “I’m never going to be good at this.”

What looks like effortless charisma is very often well-practised skill.

So if you’re watching someone who seems completely at ease and thinking, “I could never do that”…

Be careful.

You’re comparing your behind-the-scenes with their highlight reel.

Speaking brilliantly isn’t something you have to be born with. It’s something you can build.

📩 Want help building yours? DM me “SPEAK” to find out about 1:1 coaching and workshops.

24/08/2026

The goal isn’t to love public speaking. It’s to stop being run by the fear of it.

Most people come to me wanting to feel confident. What they actually want — when we dig into it — is to feel free.

Free to say yes without the week of dread beforehand. Free to walk out of a presentation and just get on with their day. Free to have their ability match their reputation.

That’s not a personality transplant. That’s a skill set. A specific, learnable, very unsexy set of skills that changes everything once you have them.

Save this for when you need the reminder that it’s possible.

When you’re ready to build it: book a free strategy call. Link in bio. 🔗

17/08/2026

🎯 You don’t need to say something brilliant. You just need to say something.

Following my Tiny Tip about speaking within the first 5 minutes of a meeting, lots of you asked:

“But WHAT should I actually say?!”

So here are some ideas. 👇
💡Ask a question.
💡Agree with someone.
💡Add a small example.
💡Make an observation.
💡Summarise a point.
💡Or simply say, “That’s an interesting point…”

The content matters far less than breaking the silence.

Because once you’ve spoken, your brain has evidence: I can do this.

Try it in your next meeting and see what happens.

📩 Want more practical tools for speaking with confidence? DM me “SPEAK” or book a call via the link in my bio.

10/08/2026

The belief that you either have it or you don’t has kept more talented people stuck than fear ever has.

The reason this myth is so damaging isn’t just that it’s wrong. It’s that it removes agency.
If presence is innate, there’s nothing to do. No point trying. Just accept your lot and hope nobody asks you to present.

But if it’s a skill — which it is, provably, demonstrably, after twenty years of watching people build it — then everything changes. You have something to work on. A direction. A method.
That’s not a small shift. For a lot of people it’s the shift that changes everything.

Drop a 🔁 if you’re done with the myth.

And when you’re ready to start building: book a free strategy call. Link in bio. 🔗

03/08/2026

The part of public speaking nobody warns you about…
…is how different you can become under pressure.
You rehearse something perfectly alone.
Then suddenly people are watching and:
your mouth dries up
your thoughts disappear
your pacing changes completely
And you start wondering:
“Why can’t I do what I literally did yesterday?”
That doesn’t mean you’re incapable.
It means pressure changes access to your skills.
And that’s something you can actually train for.
If this is you, drop a 🙋‍♀️

27/07/2026

Most people wait to feel ready before they start. But readiness isn’t a feeling that arrives — it’s a decision you make before the feeling catches up.

The annoyance? The impatience? The “I’m done with this”? That’s not negativity. That’s activation energy. Use it.

The people who make the biggest changes aren’t the ones who finally stopped being scared. They’re the ones who got bored of waiting for that to happen.

How many did you tick? Drop it below.

And if your number was high: book a free strategy call. That energy is exactly what we need to work with. Link in bio. 🔗

The most dangerous moment in any meeting isn’t conflict. It’s when people stop listening and start winning.You’ve seen i...
23/07/2026

The most dangerous moment in any meeting isn’t conflict. It’s when people stop listening and start winning.

You’ve seen it. The room splits. Both sides get louder. Someone pulls out the “as I said earlier.” And the actual decision? Nowhere in sight.

Here’s what nobody tells you: you don’t need to pick a side to break the deadlock. You just need to name both sides out loud.

That’s it. No authority. No mediation skills. No awkward intervention. Just proof that you heard both things — and suddenly the room can move again.

The strongest communicators aren’t the ones who win the argument. They’re the ones who make the argument unnecessary.

Part three of my communication tools series. Save it for the next time a room goes sideways.
Want to become the person everyone wants in the room?
Book a free call. Link in bio. 🔗

22/07/2026

Someone else took the opportunity you didn’t. Not because they were better. Because they were louder.

While you were in your head calculating the risk, they were already talking. And the room moved on.

Here’s the part nobody says out loud: you probably don’t even know what you’ve missed. Missed opportunities don’t send a goodbye email. They just quietly go to whoever showed up.

That person wasn’t necessarily smarter. Better prepared. More qualified. They just said the thing out loud. Volunteered. Stepped forward. Looked like they meant it.

You were so focused on the fear, you didn’t even see what it was costing you.
Too harsh? Or exactly what you needed to hear? Drop your answer below — I read every comment.

And if this hit a nerve: I work with professionals who are done letting fear make career decisions for them. Book a free strategy call — link in bio. 🔗

Reassurance doesn’t calm an anxious room. Structure does.I’ve watched really smart, well-meaning leaders try to settle a...
20/07/2026

Reassurance doesn’t calm an anxious room. Structure does.

I’ve watched really smart, well-meaning leaders try to settle a spiralling conversation with “don’t worry, we’ll figure it out” — and watched the room get more anxious, not less.

Because anxiety doesn’t need soothing. It needs somewhere to go.

Give the conversation a simple frame — out loud, before you dive in — and something shifts. People stop bracing. They start thinking.

That’s The Structure Tool. One sentence. Remarkable results.

This is part two of my communication tools series. Save it, try it, and tag someone who’d find it useful.

Ready to build skills like this into your everyday communication? Book a free call — link in bio. 🔗

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