Category " Aspiring speakers"

What does it feel like, as a speaker, to be pushed beyond your comfort zone and arrive at your dream destination? I have been confident delivering presentations to healthcare professionals for many years now. Increasingly I have been invited to speak to a wider, generic audience, e.g. a multi-national bank in London. Last week I […]

Ask any professional speaker about their ‘oops’ moments as they have presented and most will name at least one! I’d like to share mine with you from yesterday. I was speaking to midwives and student midwives at a study afternoon for Hull Midwifery Society on perinatal mental health. We heard from Laura first from the […]

One of my favourite programmes in recent years has been ‘Call the Midwife‘. I have every episode saved! Often I need a tissue because a story has touched me.  I love spotting some items I recognise from my childhood days from my grandparents. Two weeks ago, when the main character lost her boyfriend following an […]

One of Clive’s many passions was to inspire and encourage others who want to join the speaking profession. It was yet another thing we shared. A few weeks after he died I continued with a day that had been planned to do just that. It was a tall order so early after losing him but […]

I arrived at Leeds Bradford airport on Thursday evening to be met in arrivals by a cheery wave from Elaine. We had only met once before, at a conference run by the IAPH in May. At this conference we had chatted over lunch and having explained to Elaine that I would be really interested to […]