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WTF??? Not swearing here, just shining a spotlight on our new video series We Try First, which Sue-Ann Cheow, Rosalind Ang and I have been working on as part of our HeadSTart newsletter revamp over the past nine months or so (I guess it's really become our baby). Join us as we test various concepts related to personal finance, careers and lifestyle. Adulting is hard but we hope the series will add some fun to it. Catch the videos over the next seven weeks in our weekly HeadSTart email newsletter, which you can sign up for in the link below. We launched our first ep on Tuesday! Full video here: https://str.sg/GSkT A teaser of what's to come in the next few eps: 📄🖊️ Yay or nay to using AI to write your CV? 👜👔 What's the best colour to wear to an important meeting? 🥃🃏 Investing in whisky and collectible cards #adulting #personalfinance #career #ai #investing

When it comes to chatting with journalists on the pod, this has got to be one of the most enjoyable. Euan Black is relaxed, unstructured, and yet, incredibly clever and clear in how he works, and what works best for his beat. In the most recent episode for Hack Your Own PR, I took a fun, uplifting and lovely meander around Euan's world of careers and workplace trends for the Australian Financial Review. The most surprising outtake for me - work from home and return to work stories are still getting us clicking! I thought we had read more than enough of these stories, but apparently not! If you've got your finger on the pulse of what is and isn't working in the corporate jungle of work - if you work for one of the big name brands, or if you have an interesting take on the way we work - this episode will be a useful leg up when it comes to pitching your knowledge, expertise and insights to Euan! Take a listen and let me know what you think! https://lnkd.in/gFS_uFmS

Desmond Guilfoyle in his book “The Charisma Effect” writes about how to captivate an audience and deliver a winning message on page (69) and tells the way of developing the trait by imagining being light-hearted in a future situation. Jumping in your body and noticing how it feels, observing the audience response, hear how your voice sounds, notice how your body moves and sense how you go about naturally being light-hearted. Now step out of your body and see how it all comes together. Look at yourself as you would if you were watching yourself on wide-screen television. See yourself standing in front of a group or audience and being appropriate light-hearted. Notice how your personify the things you saw, heard and felt when you were light-heartedness inside your body. He says people who have intensely clear representation of the traits they want to amplify or develop are much more like to achieve them. The more one visits the idealized trait or attribute (as in imagining what it is like) the more probable that one will generate the behaviours require to achieve it.

Desmond Guilfoyle in his book “The Charisma Effect” writes about how to captivate an audience and deliver a winning message on page (69) and tells the way of developing the trait by imagining being light-hearted in a future situation. Jumping in your body and noticing how it feels, observing the audience response, hear how your voice sounds, notice how your body moves and sense how you go about naturally being light-hearted. Now step out of your body and see how it all comes together. Look at yourself as you would if you were watching yourself on wide-screen television. See yourself standing in front of a group or audience and being appropriate light-hearted. Notice how your personify the things you saw, heard and felt when you were light-heartedness inside your body. He says people who have intensely clear representation of the traits they want to amplify or develop are much more like to achieve them. The more one visits the idealized trait or attribute (as in imagining what it is like) the more probable that one will generate the behaviours require to achieve it.

Q: Who are the better storytellers, Nigerians or Americans? In episode 169 (out now!) Zainab Olanrewaju (The Stolutionist) discusses how to tell brand stories like nobody else in the world. 🤣

🎙 New Episode of Notes from a Ghost 👻 with Lynnette René Doby, MFA 🎙 (Link in Comments) We talk about... 🎭 What ghosts can learn from acting. 🗺 How growing up around strong accents (in Georgia, Co. Cork, and Boston) has helped both of us develop an ear for our clients' voices. (For more on this, see Rachael Greene's episode). 💰 ✍ What authors can do when they can't afford to work with a ghost. 🎤 What makes a great speech and how to give the perfect maid of honor/ best man speech. ✊🏿 Diversity in ghostwriting and why our community is more inclusive and sincere about diversity than the corporate world. 🚩 LinkedIn cringe: Why people need to stop trying so hard on this platform and start writing from the heart, with realness and vulnerability.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Want to know how to make impact with your digital story-telling? The TopCast team is led by two former BBC journalists, who commissioned and produced stories from across the world for decades. Our TopTips short films will show YOU how to engage with your audience. Here's the first - Finding the Gold

As someone who has personally experienced the ups and downs of investing, I can't help but see the investment process as a joke. The process of making a good investment and telling a good joke share many similarities. - Develop a thesis. - Try it out, pitch it to colleagues, close clients, friends. - Refine it. Watch out for traps like endowment effect (don't fall in love with your own ideas and become blind to its weaknesses...said differently, don't drink too much of your own koolaid. - Try it out again, pitch it again, discuss the strengths and flaws again - Refine it some more. - Persistence. - Persevere. What are your thoughts? Leave me a comment.

What are dialogic questions? How can you use them to build individual and collective learning? In my conversation on The Art Engager Podcast with Linda Norris from International Coalition of Sites of Conscience she talks about her favourite dialogic start to an exhibition at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc, 'Have you ever broken the law?' Your answer to this question will determine your path in the exhibition. Dialogic questions are open-ended prompts that encourage discussion and critical thinking. They invite people to think critically and engage in dialogue, rather than just providing factual answers. Listen to Episode 133 to find out how you can use dialogic questions to explore complex topics, provoke thought, and facilitate connections between past and present issues. I'll put a link in the comments.

The new year is almost here! Do you still write resolutions? Well, after failing to actually do them (and you know we've all been there!), it will be very understandable if you already gave up on listing anything, but have you considered that maybe you're doing it wrong? Listen to my interview on KOGO Radio, San Diego as I talk about coming up with new year's resolutions that you can actually fulfill, and perhaps doing them whether or not it's the new year! #newyearsresolutions #happynewyear2024