Fearless Presentations
Episodes
Become a Certified Speaker for an Established Presentation Company
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are continuing our series on How to Start a Public Speaking Career, and in this session, we will show a shortcut by working for an organization tha...
Using a Speech to Promote a Product or Service-Use Public Speaking as Marketing
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part three of our sessions on How to Start a Public Speaking Career. In the last session, we talked about the easiest way to begin as a profes...
Become a Professional Public Speaker by Speaking within Your Current Industry
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the easiest ways to become a professional public speaker is by speaking to groups within your current industry. In this article, we will show y...
How To Start A Public Speaking Career
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Being a professional speaker is a very lucrative and rewarding profession. But, if you have never actually made money from speaking before, you may be...
How To Introduce Yourself Before any Presentation
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the more challenging parts of any presentation is the very first part. If you are wondering how to introduce yourself before starting your pres...
The 10 Deadly Sins That Turn Off Audiences
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Want to know what not to do during a presentation? (I know it isn't grammatically correct, but that is what people are typing into search engines...
How To Persuade An Audience In 5 Minutes Or Less
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I was doing article research this week, and I came across a statement by a world-renowned public speaking coach that made me stop dead in my tracks. T...
Group Presentation Guide - How To Get Your Group Presentation Team On The Same Page
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I spent years (the better part of a decade) studying everything I could about presentation skills and how to deliver powerful speeches. Years later, I...
Be a More Inspirational Speaker-7 Fantastic Tips from Top Motivational Speakers
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Okay, so you may not want to be a motivational speaker (and live in a van down by the river). However, all of us, at one time or another, will want to...
How to Stop Using Ers, Uhms, and Other Filler Words in Your Presentations
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Filler words are a natural part of everyday conversations, and in fact, if they aren’t there, you’ll actually sound strange (or even fake) to the ...
A Step-by-Step Way to Help ESL Presenters Give Confident Presentations in English
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I received a comment from a website visitor last week thanking me for the blog and asking if I would cover tips for ESL presenters (English as a Secon...
How to End Your Presentation with a Bang
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard a great speaker end an amazing talk with a lousy “Thank you,” or worse, “That’s all folks, any questions?” Such endings ...
7 Presentation Habits that Cause You to Become a More Nervous Speaker
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Quite often, when we are nervous speaking in front of a group, we do innocent-sounding things to help us be less nervous. However, many of the things ...
Empathetic Presentation Style Great for Teaching and Emotional Content
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This part five of a five-part series on the four main presentation styles. Last week, we covered the Authoritative Presentation Style which has the op...
Authoritative Presentation Style Great at Informative and Decision Making Presentations
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks back, I gave an overview of the four main presentation styles. Last week, we covered the Energetic Presentation Style. The week before, we...
Energetic Presentation Style-Great at Motivational and Inspirational Talks
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A couple of weeks ago, I gave an overview of the four main presentation styles. Last week, we covered the Analytical Presentation Style (Technical Pre...
Analytical Presentation Style-Great at Technical Presentations and Scientific Talks
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, I gave an overview of the four main presentation styles. This week, we will cover the strengths and weaknesses of the Analytical Presentati...
Presentation Styles-Choose a Presentation Style that Maximizes Your Strengths
03 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ask most presentation skill experts what the ideal presentation style is, and you will likely get a variety of answers. Am I supposed to start with a ...
Increase Security and Income with Presentation Skills Training
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I wrote an article back in 2013 called Increase Security and Income with Presentation Skills Training. I wrote it to tout the value of investing in yo...
5 Key Ideas for Great Train-the-Trainer Presentation Skills Sessions
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Many of you know my background. I didn't set out to be a presentation skills coach. I was just a guy who had a challenge with public speaking. I ...
Train-the-Trainer Presentations Skills Lessons
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Many of you know my background. I didn’t set out to be a presentation skills coach. I was just a guy who had a challenge with public speaking. I stu...
Nuts and Bolts About How to Deliver a Webinar
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This part three of a three-part series on webinars. In this episode, I’ll show you a few of the technical secrets about how I deliver the actual web...
How to Create Webinar Content to Maximize Audience Retention
06 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing in our three-part webinar series, in this episode, we cover how to create webinar content to help you maximize audience retention. In the l...
7 Important Things that You Need to Know about Webinars
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most common questions that we receive in our public speaking classes is, "Do the things that you are teaching us about in-person prese...
Make Your Presentation Handouts Look Professional without a Graphic Designer
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last week was part one of How to Create the Perfect Presentation Handout. In that article and podcast, I gave you three easy ways to create helpful ha...
How to Create the Perfect Presentation Handout
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how to create the perfect presentation handout? You’ve been asked to give a speech, and you’re excited to give the best pre...
Use Gestures and Movement to Look More Poised and Confident when You Present
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you are brand new to speaking or you have been presenting for years, you will want to look confident when you stand up to speak. This can be a...
How to Recover from a Terrible Speech (Bombing on Stage)
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It happens to all of us sooner or later. We prepare well. We practice over and over. But then, something happens that is totally out of our control, a...
The Special Sauce for Your Presentation Masterpiece (Comparisons)
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I like to think of myself as a pretty good speaker and writer. I always hated English class in high school and college, though. So, I always got confu...
7 Stellar Presentation Enhancers that Add Impact to Any Speech
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
So you have written a great presentation, but now you want to make it phenomenal. These 9 stellar presentation enhancers will add impact to any speech...
9 Reliable Ways to Add Audience Participation to Your Presentation
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Audience Participation is one of the most effective ways to make a good presentation into a stellar presentation. However, it also has a lot of danger...
People Judge Your Competence Based on Your Confidence
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Importance of Self-Confidence People will judge our COMPETENCE by the CONFIDENCE that we show. For example, let’s say that you are going in for ...
Complacent: 7 Surprising Ways Your Past Successes Limit Future Success
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The word complacent may just be the biggest enemy of success. In fact, I’ve noticed that, if you look at history as well as the current business cli...
7 Foolproof Ways to Start a Presentation and 1 Way that Works on Occasion
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all been there as a speaker. You walk out onto a stage or into the front of the room, and the audience is staring at you with skepticism writt...
How a Shy, Trailer Park Kid Became a World Class Speaker - Part 2
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 2 of a 2 part inspirational story about Doug Staneart — President and CEO of The Leader’s Institute ® and Creator of the Fearless Pr...
How a Shy, Trailer Park Kid Became a World Class Speaker (And How You Can Too!)
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Staneart — President and CEO of The Leader’s Institute ® and Creator of the Fearless Presentations ® Public Speaking Training Programs. Thi...
How to Make a Fortune Speaking for a Living
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Want to actually make money from speaking? Doug Staneart shares some incites from his 20+ years as a professional speaker and trainer about how you ca...
How to Design Killer Content for Blogs and Motivational Speeches
08 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Use This Step-by-Step Process to Create Content (Blog posts, motivational speeches, keynotes, etc.) Start by determining what your audience wants and ...
Top Five (5) Biggest Myths about Public Speaking Fear and Stage Fright
01 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to set the record straight. ANYONE can be a fantastic, world-class speaker with a little bit of training, a little bit of coaching, and...
How to Scare the Gooey Out of a Nervouse Speaker (And How to Avoid It Happening to You)
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Are you a nervous public speaker? A majority of the population has some type of fear of public speaking. Ironically, a great deal of this nervousness ...
The Public Speaking Secret that Every Professional Speaker Knows that Will Make You a Better Speaker
18 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast 28 The Secret to Great Presentations: ENTHUSIASMIf you take only one piece of advice about public speaking, make sure that it is this pearl of...
How a Mathematical Breakthrough from Pixar Can Help You Design Better Presentations
11 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A few days ago, I started watching a Netflix documentary on how fractal mathematics helped start Pixar. (Yes, I watch really boring stuff on Netflix, ...
Stage Fight-How to Punch Public Speaking Fears in the Face with Cody Smith
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the podcast this week, I interview Cody Smith who is the author of the book Stage Fight — How to Punch Public Speaking Fears in the Face. It is a...
Persuasive Communication in Normal Everyday Business Conversations
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, I got invited to deliver a presentation for a convention in Orlando, Florida. The session that they had me design was about how to help the...
How to Teach a Process with a Bunch of Steps and Not Bore the Heck Out of Your Audience
18 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, I helped a client re-design their medical training sessions so that they were more interesting and more interactive. As with many training...
Why Presentation Training is so Important to Success
10 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We have a great TechFind that is an Online Speech Creator. It is very helpful if you are trying to design a speech or presentation. On this episode, w...
How to Deliver a Eulogy
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A couple of months ago, my father passed away. Even though I'm the middle child, I'm the only sibling who is a professional speaker. So, my ...
Make Your Presentations Really Audience Focused-Get People to Want to Listen to Your Presentation
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Face it, most people hate meetings. Most people don't want to sit through boring presentations either. So, if you want to get your audience to wa...
Create Workshops and Seminars that Audiences Want to Attend
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the last few weeks, I had a number of clients come to me asking that we create truly customized workshops and seminars. This happens quite often, b...
I Want to Be Funny-How to Add Humor to Your Speech without being a Clown
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Quite often, when we are designing speeches and presentations for a professional audience, we discount the value of entertainment and humor. In realit...
Designing a Technical Presentation for a Non-Technical Audience
21 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you have to give technical presentations in your career, one of the most difficult challenges is to deliver the technical presentation to a non-tec...
Confidently Deliver Presentations that Someone Else Designed for You
15 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In past episodes, we've talked about how to better design presentations, and how if you design your presentations a little differently, you can r...
Use Public Speaking as a Way to Market Yourself and Your Company
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the last podcast, we spoke about venues where you can practice your public speaking skills. In this episode, I show you a few ways to use your publ...
How to Find Great Venues to Practice Your Presentations
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most common questions that participants in our 2-day presentation class ask us after completing the class is, “Now that I feel more confi...
Impromptu Speaking and How to Speak Confidently Off the Cuff
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Impromptu speaking or speaking off the cuff is one of the most challenging types of presentations for most speakers. This episode gives a number of ti...
Asesseing Your Strengths and Weaknesses as a Presenter
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I share a few public speaking secrets that I use as a presentation coach to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a presenter so tha...
Presentation Secrets for Attorneys and Other Professional Business People
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast interview with Susan Schoenfeld who explains a few of her public speaking secrets for attorneys and other professional business people (accoun...
Tom Antion Interview Build Your Personal Brand Using Public Speaking
18 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast interview with Tom Antion where he talks about how to design professional keynote speeches, how to create an additional revenue stream from sp...
Design Sales Presentations that Persuade Even the Toughest Audiences
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, we add a little more detail about how to make your presentation more persuasive. Although we focus a lot on how to design sales prese...
Eliminate Public Speaking Fear in Three Easy Steps
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We back up a little in this podcast to explain exactly where public speaking fear comes from and how to eliminate that stage fright in just three simp...
Presenting to International Audiences with Eric Molin
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Eric Molin of PresentationExpert.net who is an international expert in presentation design. He specializes in coaching present...
Public Speaking Storytelling Techniques to Engage Your Audience and Reduce Stage Fright
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Great presenters know that stories are the backbone of any speech. This episode reveals a few public speaking storytelling techniques that will help y...
Presentation Bullet Point Design | Avoid Death by PowerPoint
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to avoid Death by PowerPoint, make sure and listen to the Presentation Bullet Point Design podcast by Fearless Presentations. In this sess...
PowerPoint Slides that People want to See with Mike Vayda
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This session covers a way to professionally print any presentation handout and have it delivered to your presentation by 8 AM the following morning. W...
Start with a Great Title and the Presentation Writes Itself
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, we cover the importance of starting your presentation design with a great title. If you start with a narrow and "audience-focuse...
How to Design Presentations Quickly
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This session explains how to design entire presentations from start to finish in minutes versus hours or days. I'll explain the different types o...
10 Ways to Reduce Public Speaking Fear (Part 2)
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Both skills, the presentation tips, and the memory technique are invaluable to a speaker because a poised and confident speaker who can easily remembe...
10 Ways to Reduce Public Speaking Fear (Part 1)
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One of the fears of public speaking that comes up the most is, "I'm afraid I will lose my train of thought," or "I'm afraid I...