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Step Up to the Mic!
Welcome to Step Up the Mic! The podcast for aspiring and current speakers to help you get on stage and get paid to speak! I will introduce you, your topic and your mission... and you will actually PERFORM YOUR SIGNATURE SPEECH!!! Get yourself ready for your next TedX talk, presentation, seminar or keynote! Is your short speech ready? Then it's time to Step Up to the Mic!
Episodes
25 episodes
Step Up to the Mic! #25 - TedX Curator, Speaker, Author... Michael Ashford!!!
Michael Ashford helps people communicate in ways they were never taught in school, having spent years practicing leadership communication, conflict communication, and change activation as a marketing executive as well as a speaking and leadersh...
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Step Up to the Mic! #24 - Ceremonial speaker, Soreya James!!!
Soreya James is the voice behind Metamorphosis — a spiritual rebel, trauma thriver and truth-teller with over 25 years of deep, embodied experience. She doesn’t do surface. She speaks what most won’t and guides the kind of transformation you fe...
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32:07
Step Up to the Mic! #23 - "Unshakable Me!" with Heidi Blackie!!!
Heidi Blackie is a speaker, consultant, and creator of UnshakableMe®, a science-meets-soul program helping women dismantle limiting beliefs and reclaim their inner power. After chronic illness brought her to rock bottom, she made a rad...
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Step Up to the Mic! #22 - Sweepstakes Specialist & Author, Carolyn Wilman!!!
Carolyn Wilman (aka @ContestQueen) is a Digital Marketer that works with companies to create and viral market winning promotions and programs maximizing their ROI and loyal customers. Ms. Wilman is also the author of two best-selling books: You...
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Step Up to the Mic! #21 - "The Warrior Servant Leader Mindset," with Pat Welsh!
Author, Speaker, Trainer and Consultant on The Warrior, Servant, Leader Mindset... Pat Welsh joins us today on stage! From being left in an orphanage in Dublin, Ireland, at just three days old to being adopted by an American family 16 mon...
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21:24
Step Up to the Mic! #20 - CEO of "Carl Speaks," Carl Richards!!!
Carl Richards has spent more than 25 years behind the microphone, on radio and on stage, entertaining and influencing audiences world wide. He’s a 3x best selling author, TEDx Speaker and emcee, Podcast host and the founder and CEO of Carl Spea...
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42:46
Step Up To the Mic! #19 - Business Owner, Author, and Public Speaker, Bill Derrick!!!
Bill is a family business leader with over 50 years of experience in the construction industry. He helped lead his company through the trials of the Great Recession in the construction and real estate industry.Bill's book, "Restored by the ...
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43:50
Step Up to the Mic! #18 - Certified Grief Educator & Author, Lisa Rites!!!
Certified Grief Educator & Author, Lisa Rites joins us on the stage today. In her own words: "I am a Certified Grief Educator and Author. I transitioned into this role after working over 40 years as a Respiratory Therapist. ...
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23:11
Step Up to the Mic! #17 - Speaker, Trainer & Coach, Danny Brassell!!!
This is a rare interview format today so that our aspiring speakers listening can get some invaluable advice. A highly-sought after speaker, trainer and coach known as “Jim Carrey with a Ph.D.,” Dr. Danny Brassell has spoken to over 3,50...
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25:02
Step Up to the Mic! #16 - "The JOAT: Jill of All Trades" with Kristen Massey!
Kristin Massey is a former Mercury/Polygram recording artist, voiceover talent, and magazine recipe developer who advocates for listeners to combine their skills and abilities to create a personal superpower by becoming a JOAT (Jack or Jill of ...
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13:30
Step Up to the Mic! #15 - "A Spiritual Passage," with Rand Timmerman!!!
Rand Timmerman is a retired attorney who is a recovered alcoholic that hiked the Appalachian Trail at 72 years old with his younger brother (71). He then wrote a book with 500 pictures, called "A Spiritual Passage" describing the difficul...
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26:06
Step Up to the Mic! #14 - Podcaster/Life Coach, Teresa Blaes!
Teresa Blaes has been an entrepreneur and ministry leader for a combined 20 years along with her husband Michael. Her passion is content creation and helping others bring their God-given message to the mic, through their media production compan...
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15:38
Step Up to the Mic! #13 - Spiritual Healer, Licensed Therapist, Viral Healer... Sarah Asha Rose!
Sarah is a licensed therapist, author, spiritual channel and viral healer who practices "Sound Healing" and multi-dimensional energy work. Sarah has a message for all of us that we are more than we believe we are, that we are already who ...
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34:27
Step Up to the Mic! #12 - "Uplift 360," with Wes Towers!!!
Wes Towers runs Uplift 360, a digital agency for builders and trades. His focus is simple: smarter websites, practical SEO, and growth you can measure. He earned his playbook on real jobs, not in theory, and now helps others skip the painful le...
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Step Up to the Mic! #11 - Author/ Artist/ Speaker. Dave Letterfly Knoderer!
Playfulness is the reason for the unusual aptitude that began long ago during his teenage years on the circus. Later, over three decades, he understudied the best of the best upper-level horse trainers including those in the circus cultur...
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34:12
Step Up to the Mic! #10 - Author Brian Gorman!
Through decades of experience in guiding organizations through change, Brian has learned that it isn't organizations that change. It's people. His understanding of the change journey and how to move through it has successfully served glob...
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36:34
Step Up to the Mic! #009 - Certified High-Performance Career Coach | Keynote Speaker, Rosie Zilinskas
If you're a corporate woman feeling undervalued at work, this conversation is for you. Today’s guest, Rosie Zilinskas, is a Certified High-Performance Career Coach and former Fortune 500 executive with over 30 years of experience. She kno...
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38:12
Step Up to the Mic! #008 - "Showman to Speaker," with Tom Elliott!!!
Today’s guest is Tom Elliott – a corporate event host, comedy magician, and public speaking coach. Through his coaching program, 'From Showman to Speaker', Tom helps leaders, founders and entrepreneurs build confidence on stage and commun...
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31:38
Step Up to the Mic! #007 - Journalist/ Novelist/ Writing Coach, John Dedakis
Joining us now is journalist, novelist, and writing coach John DeDakis [deh-DAY-kiss]. John is a former editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." During John's 45-year career in journalism, he was a White House correspond...
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31:41
Step Up to the Mic! #006 - Author of "The Kloaked Signal," Rose G. Loops!!!
Meet Rose G Loops— a writer, researcher, and advocate working at the frontier of artificial intelligence and human experience. Known for weaving together technology, myth, and lived testimony, Rose brings a rare perspective as both a witness to...
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27:28
Step Up to the Mic! #005 - "The Dyslexia Professor," Russell Van Brocklen!
Dyslexia touches as many as 15–20 % of all learners, yet most families still hear “wait and see.” I flip that script. As the Dyslexia Professor, I translate structured-literacy methods proven most effective for struggling readers into bite-size...
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Step Up to the Mic! #004 - Master of Astrology/Martial Arts/Hermetic Philosophy, Aleksandra Ceho!!!
Aleksandra is a Master of Astrology, Martial Arts, and Hermetic Philosophy, with a focus on helping entrepreneurs and business executives foresee and prepare for imminent events. Historically, royalty and prominent people consulted astrologers....
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40:04
Step Up to the Mic! #003 - Author, Barbara Ann Mojica!!!
Author, educator, and parent, Barbara Ann Mojica provides tools to inspire, entertain and educate youth. History is the key to solving today’s problems. Tired of being bombarded by social media noise? Accept the challenge. Be a trut...
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26:59
Step Up to the Mic! #002 - Speaker/Author, Ivan Wanis Ruiz!!!
According to Ivan, Bio’s are boring so... here are some fun facts instead:-He is the author the Amazon best seller "End Boring: A Tactical Approach to Communication”.-He is a top-rated instructor on Coursera (Course-ERA) with over 200,0...
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