Have you ever been called at the last minute to cover a presentation for another speaker?
Do you wish the time you spend to prepare a message could be minimized?
This episode was tailor-made for you! Hosts Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt, who have prepared hundreds of messages themselves, uncover some of the tenants of being well-prepared and the shortcuts to success. They look at the anchors of your message: your purpose, audience, and voice, and illustrate how we might use these anchors to enable ourselves to craft a great message in a fraction of the time.
Meet Your Hosts
Kathi Lipp
Author, Speaker, Communicator Academy Creator and CEO
Communicator Academy founder, Leverage: The Speaker Conference creator and master instructor Kathi Lipp, is a national speaker and author of 16 books including “Clutter Free,” “The Get Yourself Organized Project,” and “The Husband Project.”
She is a frequent guest on radio and TV, and has been named Focus on the Family radio’s “Best of Broadcast.”
She is the host of the popular podcast “Clutter Free Academy with Kathi Lipp.”
Over the past 10 years, Kathi has helped hundreds of people increase their platform through teaching and coaching. She is a frequent teacher at writer’ s conferences and has helped countless authors and speakers find their audiences.
Kathi’s desire to help fellow speakers and authors avoid the mistakes she made, increase their confidence and be the person God made them to be, inspired her creation of Communicator Academy. The podcast as an extension of Communicator Academy is just another way Kathi wants to serve her audience.
Michele Cushatt
Author, Speaker, Mastermind Coach
As an experiened keynote speaker and emcee, Michele Cushatt’s speaking experience includes Women of Faith, Compassion International, and various retreats, conferences and events held across the country. She has also led radio, video and audio recording projects.
She co-hosted with Michael Hyatt on the popular This Is Your Life podcast. In addition, Michele serves as part of the Dynamic Communicators International leadership team, led by best-selling author and sought-after speaker Ken Davis.
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This was so helpful and informative! Thank you!
I’ve heard you mention podcast notes in this podcast and some of your others. Can you tell me where I can find them?
Kathi and Michele, I cannot even tell you how helpful this episode was for me! I recently said yes to my first “big” speaking gig and I was hanging on every word listening to this podcast. Purpose? I’m on it. Audience? Yes, going to work on that. Voice? I can do that. But then, Michele, you mentioned being faithful and going for the base hit. And I got teary. Because I’ve been feeling like I need to bring my A game…and I don’t even know if I have an A game! I just have this one thing I’m trying to do well for God’s glory. And these thoughts that I’m under-qualified and that the other speakers at this conference are WAY more experienced than I am are raging loud. But a base hit? A humble and solid work, an act of of faithful obedience planned well, delivered well, and done bravely? I can do that! Thanks so much for the encouragement and for mentoring me from afar. <3
Wow! You two have the ability to get right to the heart of the matter! I am a beginning speaker and thirsty for knowledge.
Today’s Podcast filled in the missing gaps.
Thanks for the reminder to not imitate other good speakers but to use ‘my voice’.
Thanks for what you do to further God’s servants in their quest to serve Him better!