So you've been working hard and you've landed your first speaking engagement! You're so excited, but you're scared at the same time. Will you make a fool out of yourself? Will people like you? If you want to grow your speaking ministry, then you'll also want to make the most out of this speaking engagement, so that it will spread word of mouth Continue Reading
Use Your Words: Finding the Work/Life Balance
Well, somehow I got through another Use Your Words show with a throat that is absolutely killing me! So if I sounded funny, forgive me. But today's show was inspired by an email I received from Lisa, who said, "how do you find the time for everything? How do you balance your work and your family? How do you figure out how to find time to Continue Reading
Finding Partnerships to Grow Your Ministry
Let's say that you want to speak to teenage girls about anorexia. You put together a workshop that will last all day, and you look at how to market it. You can try to find a church to book it yourself, but it's unlikely one church will have enough people that would be interested to make it worthwhile. Or you could try to book it in a hotel and Continue Reading
Use Your Words: When Your Speaking Ministry Stresses You Out
Today on Use Your Words we talked stress. Usually I give you some pep talk about marketing, or planning a talk, but I thought it was important to touch on something all of us deal with, but rarely talk about: how draining ministry is. And speaking ministry has its own unique stresses! Every Tuesday I host a BlogTalkRadio show for 30 minutes, Continue Reading
How to Stop Nervousness When You Speak
Today on Use Your Words BlogTalkRadio, I talked about how to end nervousness! And you'll be happy to know I didn't say anything about picturing people in their underwear. Listen in to the show here for great tips! It's thirty minutes long, and well worth your time. But here are a few highlights: 1. Practice one talk really well You Continue Reading
Telling the Gospel to Those Who Haven’t Heard It
I'm sorry that my posts have been infrequent lately--I'm trying to take some time with family this summer, because my year coming up is going to be so busy! But I have some things on my mind that I thought I would share with you. One of the things that happens once a speaker has been speaking for a while is that we tend to get known outside of Continue Reading