Today’s guest, Lisa B. Marshall, is probably best known as the host of the award-winning The Public Speaker’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Improving Your Communication Skills, a podcast that has seen over 10 million downloads since it’s debut in 2008.
She is a coach and consultant helping organizations build stronger teams, manage conflict, create stronger, more effective messages, and deliver better presentations. She’s been a keynote speaker and workshop leader for well over a dozen years.
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And she’s the author of Smart Talk: The Public Speaker’s Guide to Success in Every Situation
, a book considered the swiss-army knife of communication.
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It’s one of those, “Why in the world didn’t I think of that?” sort of apps.
Oyster Books offers you the opportunity to read all the books you want for just $9.95 a month. In other words, what Netflix did for movies and Spotify did for music, Oyster hopes to do for books. The company touts over 100,000 titles at launch.
The Oyster app is free to download but you’ll have to enter your credit card info before you can get access to actual books. Currently, the app is available for iPhone and iPod Touch only, but Oyster says it will be coming to the iPad soon. No word yet on when an Android tablet or phone version might be available.
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Jon Acuff is on my short list of those who helped inspire this podcast. At least now you know who to blame.
Coincidentally, my MasterMind group just finished reading through Jon’s latest book Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters
. In it Jon posits that, today, there are only two paths in life: average and awesome.
The former is easy and requires nothing. The latter is more challenging because, among other things, it brings out the haters in droves.
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Start will give you practical and actionable insights into how to be more awesome more often.
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I’ve been enjoying diving into the new Snippet App. Makes me want to purchase a new iPad since my first gen edition is not upgradable to iOS 6 (necessary to use Snippet). They’ve asked me to be one of their beta writers. Among the things I could write about, what would help you the most?
Today’s guest, Lisa B. Marshall, is probably best known as the host of the award-winning The Public Speaker’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Improving Your Communication Skills, a podcast that has seen over 10 million downloads since it’s debut in 2008.
