I was listening to a podcast recently and, of all things, the guest was a media trainer. You would think this would go beautifully, but life is filled with surprises. The host asked a question,
There is a moment I see fairly often in media training. It is subtle, but it can make a smart, credible person sound less confident than they are. An author/expert is asked a good question.
A while back, I watched an interview where the host got a key fact wrong about the guest’s work. Not maliciously. Not even carelessly. It was just one of those normal human moments where a
I was watching an interview recently and noticed the host hit the guest with the triple question, and I swear I could hear time stand still. It sounded like this: “So tell us why you
A few months ago, I clicked on a podcast interview with an author I genuinely wanted to hear. The host asked a friendly, normal question, “What led you to write this book?” And the guest
Remember Marie Kondo? She was everywhere, teaching the world to tidy up and keep only what “sparks joy,” beginning around 2014 in the U.S. At one point, I heard an interview where she said something
Back in the day, Oprah was the holy grail of media “gets.” You could meet someone at a networking event, talk to a fiction or nonfiction author, and within 60 seconds they would say her
Last week, I did a tiny experiment that turned into a full-body lesson. I opened an AI search and typed in the name of an expert I know well. She is someone with a strong
A few years ago, I was standing in a hotel lobby waiting for an elevator with a group that had just left a conference. Someone asked a woman, “So what do you do?” And you