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Overcome Self-Doubt, Communicate Clearly, and Inspire Your Audience
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In Speak with Confidence: Overcome Self-Doubt, Communicate Clearly, and Inspire Your Audience, keynote speaker, author, and executive communication coach Mike Acker delivers a practical and hands-on playbook to building the confidence you need to nail your next presentation, speech, virtual talk, or social media post. In this proven pathway to becoming a capable and confident speaker, you'll discover how to combine your identity, message, and skills into one persuasive package.
The author explains how to uncover your identity, define your message, and develop your skills and techniques to become a master communicator. From overcoming imposter syndrome to eliminating a victim mentality, you'll explore concrete methods for improving your presence and ability to take command of a room. You'll also find: the elements of a confident message, including a personal investment in the topic you're discussing; strategies for overcoming limiting beliefs that hold you back and artificially reduce your ability to lead; and ways to understand your audience and learn to hone in on the place where your purpose intersects with your audience's needs.
An essential new strategy guide for anyone seeking to improve their ability to speak to a group, Speak with Confidence is the public speaking blueprint you've been waiting for.
©2023 Mike Acker (P)2023 Ascent AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have
- By: John Gray
- Narrated by: John Gray
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Here's the audiobook to help you get what you want, and be happy with what you have. John Gray, the man responsible for helping millions of people improve their relationships in his bestselling Mars and Venus books, has written the essential guide to personal success.
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Didn't Get What I Wanted
- By Charles James on 12-07-06
By: John Gray
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Help Me! Special Edition
- One Woman's Quest to Find Out If Self-Help Really Can Change Your Life
- By: Marianne Power
- Narrated by: Marianne Power, Mary Power
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Marianne decided to finally find out if her elusive "perfect existence" - the one without debt, anxiety, or hangover Netflix marathons, the one where she healthily bounced around town and met the cashmere-sweater-wearing man of her dreams - really did lie in the pages of our best-known and acclaimed self-help books. She vowed to test a book a month for one year, following its advice to the letter, taking what she hoped would be the surest path to a flawless new her. But as the months passed, Marianne’s reality was turned upside down.
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Cute Story, good performance.
- By Ken on 10-10-19
By: Marianne Power
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It's Never Too Late to Begin Again
- Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond
- By: Julia Cameron, Emma Lively - contributor
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Julia Cameron has inspired millions with her bestseller on creativity, The Artist’s Way. In It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again, she turns her eye to a segment of the population that, ironically, while they have more time to be creative, are often reluctant or intimidated by the creative process. Cameron shows listeners that retirement can, in fact, be the most rich, fulfilling, and creative time of their lives.
By: Julia Cameron, and others
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How to Work for an Idiot (Revised and Expanded with More Idiots, More Insanity, and More Incompetency)
- Survive and Thrive Without Killing Your Boss
- By: John Hoover
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Was it a typo when the CEO mandated that the organization "institutionalize incompetents"? If not, how did the company wind up institutionalizing incompetence instead? How to Work for an Idiot is still the confessions of a recovering Idiot Boss. After decades of writing and consulting, Dr. Hoover finally realized that many of the people he kept trying to "energize" and "enlighten" were, well, idiots. More importantly, he was an idiot for thinking he could change them. This new edition is bigger and better - and filled with even more idiots - than before.
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Expected Better
- By bmalenius on 11-01-17
By: John Hoover
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Public Speaking: How to Speak Effectively without Fear
- By: Derek Borthwick
- Narrated by: Derek Borthwick
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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This book is not just another public speaking and presenting skills book. It is not just a book of tips. This is the ultimate system for public speaking and presenting, whatever the situation.
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Relax - Be playful, informative and entertaining
- By Alaine King on 02-22-23
By: Derek Borthwick
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Enough About Me
- The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
- By: Richard Lui
- Narrated by: Richard Lui
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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When his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Richard Lui made a tough decision. The award-winning news anchor decided to set aside his growing career to care for his family. At first, this new caregiving lifestyle did not come easily for Lui, and what followed was a seven-year exercise in what it really means to be selfless.
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Not what I expected..
- By Danica Anderson on 04-05-21
By: Richard Lui
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Stop Talking, Start Doing
- A Kick in the Pants in Six Parts
- By: Richard Newton - contributor, Shaa Wasmund
- Narrated by: Richard Newton, Shaa Wasmund
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Have you got an itch to start your own business, go to the North Pole, retrain, lose weight, get promoted, learn to play the ukulele? Or do you just have a nagging sense that there must be more to life? If there is something you really want to do, but secretly fear you'll never do it, then you need this. This is your kick in the pants! To make your thing happen, you have to climb into the ring. You have to face your fears and move from talking to doing.
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The push
- By Rigoberto Tinajera on 06-03-24
By: Richard Newton - contributor, and others
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
- By: Tristan Gooley
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal - when you know what to look for. Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs. This top 10 best seller is the result of Tristan Gooley's two decades of pioneering outdoors experience and six years of instructing, researching and writing. It includes lots of outdoor clues and signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.
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not quite
- By Paul in Tucson on 01-21-20
By: Tristan Gooley
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Die Empty
- Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
- By: Todd Henry
- Narrated by: Todd Henry
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow to do our most important and valuable work. We fill our days with frantic activity, bouncing from task to task, scrambling to make deadlines and chase the next promotion. But by the end of each day we're often left asking ourselves "did the work I do today really matter?" We feel the ticking of the clock, but we're stuck in first gear, unsure of the path forward and without a road map to guide us.
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Deeeeep sigh. And a tired one at that.
- By Oliver Nielsen on 12-25-13
By: Todd Henry
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Speak Like a Leader
- The Definitve Guide to Mastering the Art of Conversation and Becoming a Great Speaker
- By: Andrian
- Narrated by: Gregory Diehl
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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The great secret of our time is that you can actually reach a very competent level at any skill just by harnessing the power of your most important asset - your brain. In Speak Like a Leader, self-growth pioneer and social chameleon Andrian focuses on fundamental principles that define our speaking ability and presents the most impactful but extremely attainable ways to improve dramatically this inherited but quite neglected skill.
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Some good info here
- By Pam on 04-21-15
By: Andrian
Game Changing for Public Speaking
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If you're into public speaking, this is an amazing book. Some books, you feel like you only get one or two tidbits. With this book, not only is it well-written, but it literally tells you everything you could ever want to know about public speaking. Acker does a good job of coloring in just enough back story from his life and his coaching business without making it all about him. He does reference his website and coaching business sometimes, but this doesn't bother me. I listen to this book frequently, it's that good. And it's much shorter than Dale Carnegie's book on public speaking.
Narration and content can't be beat
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