by Cheryl Chapman | Jul 23, 2021 | Blog, Self Development, Story Telling
How Do I Find My Story? Last week we talked about how people have difficulty creating a story out of their life experiences. They feel they have to tell it like a newsreader with all the exact facts, in the exact right order. If you didn’t see that blog you...
by Cheryl Chapman | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, Story Telling
Are You Telling Porkies or Stories? As a professional public speaker coach, I come across all sorts of objections from my clients. See if any of these are thoughts have popped into your head. “No-one is interested in what I have to say.” “I don’t have anything unique...
by Cheryl Chapman | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Story Telling
Let Me Tell You A Story Before I became a public speaker and global speaker coach, I didn’t really understand the power of stories. I mean – I guess I knew they were important, but I didn’t really relate them to public speaking. Most of the ‘public speaking’ I had...
by Cheryl Chapman | Apr 30, 2021 | Blog, Public Speaking, Standing Out, Story Telling
What Are You Talking About? Just the mention of Public Speaking can cause knees to tremble and hearts to beat fast. The thought of standing up in public to speak can make people feel quite sick. But here’s the thing. It is an ESSENTIAL skill for any business owner,...
by Cheryl Chapman | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog, Public Speaking, Story Telling
How Many Labels Do You Have? 🏷 Are you always busy, running around trying to be the perfect Mum or Dad, the perfect wife or husband, the perfect son or daughter, the perfect employee, the perfect boss. It’s perfectly normal! 🦸♀️️ But is it good for you, trying to...
by Cheryl Chapman | Nov 13, 2020 | Blog, Public Speaking, Story Telling
Have you ever thought you were going in one direction and ended up in another? You thought life was TELLING you that you were meant to be sat in a shipping container selling bathmats? Or maybe that was just me. This thought occurred to me the other night when I was –...