One idea a week to help you teach and present with more clarity, confidence, and calm. No fluff. No scripts. Just practical tools that land.
No slides. No problem.
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We spend so much time making things look polished - obsessing over slides, animations, transitions. But sometimes, clarity comes from stripping things away. 💡 ONE IDEA WELLWhen the projector failed, everything worked better. I was mid-way through an ALS course, ready to deliver the “Cardiac Arrest in Special Circumstances” lecture. I’d done it many times. The generic slide deck was burned into my brain - blue background, yellow Comic Sans, and all. But then the slide projector failed. No visuals. No bullet points. No fallback. So I just… talked. I told stories. I leaned on experience. I brought the nuances to life - the little things that don’t fit neatly on a slide but do stick in people’s memories. And it flowed. When the tech was stripped away, the connection came through. The session landed more deeply than any previous one. It taught me something: sometimes the best slides are the ones that never show up. 🧰 LESS MESS, MORE MESSAGEHere’s a challenge: If the answer is no, try this:
🧭 ASK YOURSELF THISIf your slides disappeared, would your audience still understand the key takeaways? |
TEACHING ISN’T A SCRIPT. NEITHER IS THIS.
One idea a week to help you teach and present with more clarity, confidence, and calm. No fluff. No scripts. Just practical tools that land.
Bond Never Starts at the Beginning The first thing James Bond does is move. He doesn’t explain the mission.He doesn’t introduce himself.He doesn’t tell you what’s about to happen. He drops you straight into motion - skis already carving, breath already shallow, the ground already falling away. By the time the title sequence rolls, your brain has already decided: this matters. Bond doesn’t ask for attention.He demands it. 💡 ONE IDEA WELL Starting in medias res — in the middle of things — works...
Silence feels longer from the inside. Especially when you’re the one standing at the front of the room. You’re mid-talk.You’ve just finished saying something that matters.And for a moment, the next thought doesn’t arrive. It’s not that you don’t know what comes next.It’s that stress has briefly made the path harder to find. Your heart pounds.Time stretches.The pause feels exposed—like everyone can see it happening. That happened to me when I spoke at Compassion Revolution last year. I’d...
You can feel the moment it changes. You’re ten minutes in.The audience is with you. Heads up, nodding along. That sense that you’ve got them. Then something shifts. A glance at a watch.A phone lights up briefly, face down again.A small, collective exhale you can’t quite hear—but you know it’s there. Not because the talk is bad.Because it’s running over. Nobody ever tells you off for finishing early.Nobody thanks you for using every second of your slot. But everyone notices when you go long. 💡...