Alison Young is a professional speaker, writer and host of Blissful Hiker™ Podcast, which has over 66,000 downloads. An award-winning flutist and syndicated American Public Media radio host, she is the “solo, female, middle-aged, titanium-reinforced, long-distance backpacker” Blissful Hiker logging over 12,000 miles on six continents.

She brings her extensive artistic training, communication skills, lessons from the trail, as well as research-based practices, tools, and techniques to her role as professional speaker to challenge, inspire and teach audiences to be creative and more effective in their personal and work lives.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

📣 Her background and success story

😩 Alison’s rules for giving up

🥇 Successful tips for podcasting

Resources:

https://blissfulhiker.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-young-blissful-productions/

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Lux Narayan believes that "So, what do you do?" is a tough question to answer and should certainly not be answered with the current title on your LinkedIn profile.

In 2021, he published "Name, Place, Animal, Thing", an Amazon bestseller- to help people answer this dreaded question. He enjoys mining the intersections of various spheres of life and work, speaking of which... He is the CEO and a co-founder at StreamAlive, a category-defining, fun and engaging web application that helps livestreams and live events on Zoom, YouTube Live, in-person, and everything in between literally come alive.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🔥 Tips to bring your live streams, team meetings, and webinars to life

🏆 Best success stories of StreamAlive

🚀 What is the future of virtual

Resources:

http://Linktr.ee/StreamAlive

http://StreamAlive.com

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Toni Guffei is an accomplished speaker, author and educator with an extensive track record as a marketing strategist working with and speaking to a range of business owners in North America. She has taken on a number of leadership roles from managing a consulting practice to directing the marketing for 13 airports. She offers a wealth of marketing expertise in both traditional and digital marketing.

After an 8 year career in transportation, Toni launched her own practice while teaching part-time to make ends meet. Currently, she successfully strategizes and implements marketing for growth businesses looking to accelerate their brand in global markets. She still teaches in post-secondary as it is a passion of hers to inspire up and coming entrepreneurs and marketers. As a plus, becoming an exceptional educator has been what launched her into a speaking career.

To date, she has spoken at many industry events and customized relevant digital marketing talks where attendees gain expert advice on what works in today’s online world.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🤖 How will AI change virtual meetings

👩‍🏫 Use of AI in academia

💻 Best virtual meeting Toni attended

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Eric Girard is a highly experienced and accomplished learning and development professional who specializes in management and employee development. He has over 30 years of experience helping improve the performance of managers and employees. His specific focus is on new managers and helping them transition successfully to their new role and make their teams as effective as possible while also maintaining high engagement.

He’s known for his high-energy, engaging facilitation style.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

✅ Utilize Zoom tech to have an engaging meeting

📈 Managers' common trends and requests in their virtual meetings

🌠 Virtual meetings in the next 5-10 years

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Bernie DeSantis is a proven leader with more than two decades of experience in facilitation, instructional design, sales and virtual production. In particular, he specialize in consultative sales, customer service leadership and professional development, and virtual meeting production.

As the owner of Insignia Training Partners, his goal is to align the right learning resource to provide maximum value to your learning project.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🥴 Top 3 worst things of a virtual meeting

👍 Qualities of an effective presenter

💭 Is there enough value for virtual to continue in 2023

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As a top-rated professional speaker, facilitator, program designer, and consultant, Lena Scullard is on a mission to help individuals and teams improve their confidence and sense of capability for achieving success.

With this in mind, she produces live and virtual programs that inspire others to expand their awareness and take strategic action in order to improve their results.

Lena masterfully blends performance and conversational delivery with interaction and audience engagement to create lasting impact.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🔎 What is zoom immersive mode, and how it works

🎧 Why you need a producer in your presentation

🤝 Building community virtually

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Master engager John Chen will share secrets about how to create meaningful relationships - even in a virtual environment.

🌎 Connection and engagement is everything in our video-zoom-remote world

🫶 Create Impact, find clients and make a real difference in the world.

🙏 You matter, You can't make the difference you want unless you engage the world in your message.

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Marilyn Barefoot’s unique ability to reinvigorate, revitalize, and problem-solve in business helps a broad spectrum of companies jump over their biggest hurdles. As a speaker, coach, and ideator, Marilyn’s innovative approach humanizes commerce in order to connect with the people behind the business and synthesize their objectives.

This empowers organizations to reconnect the dots and find the missing links they need to re-energize their approach, overcome their biggest challenges and outshine their competitors.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

👩‍💻 Innovate or die

🎙️ Why start a podcast

🥰 Her most engaging virtual meeting

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