20 Minutes with Bronwyn

Coaches need coaching, people. In this episode I talk to one of my all time favorite humans—Ben Kiker—is a business coach, an executive coach, and ... wait for it ... a recovery coach. One of my favorite conversations yet.

Season 1 finale, my fine friends. What's your message? What's your bottle?

Negotiation. Just the word causes a lot of us to tense up and gird our loins for battle. That reaction, it turns out, is at the heart of some of the greatest misconceptions about negotiating. In this week's episode, I talk with the woman who literally wrote the book on negotiating, one of the most popular professors at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

It's all an energy game, y'all. Audiences can feel your vibes the minute you walk on stage, or enter the room. In today's episode, I'll share my favorite pre-game rituals for making sure vibes are high.

Ok, so you're talk is ready. Are you? In this week's episode, I'll give you my favorite tips and techniques for shining on stage ... it's such a big conversation, I had to break it up into two episodes!

If the numbers are to be believed, one in four of us women has experienced sexual assault. This is my story.

This, my friends, is the third of a four part series on how to give a kick ass talk. Perfectionism is the great enemy of creativity. In this episode, I show you the life changing power of working with a "Shitty First Draft" (props to Anne Lamott) rather than a serious draft as you put together a talk.

Great communicators know how to take an audience on a journey. In this episode, I'll show you how to map out a narrative that not only entertains your audience, but ensures that they'll remember what you've told them long after they've left the room.

We've talked a lot about authenticity, integrity and courage ... which are all vitally important for us as communicators. But all the authenticity, integrity and courage in the world won't help you with this one little problem: the Goldfish problem. In today's episode, you'll learn what the heck I'm talking about, and how to move past it.

Ever feel like you're living in a washing machine? Like every day is another spin on the hamster wheel of never ending assignments? Enter The Life Brief. Developed by Bonnie Wan, the Life Brief is a "tool for creative living and a practice of aligning who you are and what you believe with what you do." Creative living and alignment ... sounds a helluva lot more appealing than the hamster wheel/washing machine. Bonnie gives us the scoop on where the idea came from, and how it can bring sanity and meaning to our lives.