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Trust Me, Four Steps To Authenticity And Charisma By Nick Morgan

Trust Me: Four Steps To Authenticity And Charisma

In this series of podcasts, based on the book Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma, Nick describes the 4-step process to mastery of your own communications, whether in conversations, meetings, or keynote speeches. He reveals the secret of charisma, and explains that it is not something only a lucky few are born with, but rather something that you can develop yourself. Every communication is two conversations, the content and the body language, and Nick describes the importance and the uses of both in this revealing set of podcasts.

Give Your Speech, Change The World

The Only Reason To Give A Speech Is To Change The World

In this free podcast series Nick summarizes the key points in his first book, Give Your Speech, Change the World, published by Harvard in 2005. Nick offers insights into dealing with fear, involving your audience, rehearsing productively, using stories powerfully, getting a standing ovation – and 10 quick tips to make your next speech wildly successful.

Connie Dieken

Mar 15, 2011

Dr. Nick Morgan on Authenticity and Charisma

Communications expert Connie Dieken interviews Nick Morgan. In this 30-minute podcast they discuss many subjects including how the latest brain research could transform the way you think about communicating and why adrenaline makes you robotic and monotonous.

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Dec 7, 2010

Meet the MasterMinds: Nick Morgan's 7 Steps to a Great Speech

Michael McLaughlin

Michael McLaughlin of Management Consulting News asked Nick for his best advice on preparing and delivering a great speech every time.

Tips from Nick include:

  • You have two jobs to do to win over any audience: Establish credibility and build trust.
  • The best speeches involve audiences from the start.
  • Audiences find lists irritating, but they love attitude and perspective.
  • A speech is not a data dump. It’s a decision-making journey on which you take your audience.

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Sept 13, 2010

Trust Me. Give Your Speech, Change the World by Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte is author of the classic book on slide design, slide:ology and the soon-to-be-released resonate. She runs Duarte Design and is the designer of, among many others, Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" PowerPoint deck and book. Nancy interviewed Nick recently, discussing how to create and deliver powerful speeches and presentations.

Visit Nancy's website to listen to this interview.

Sept 14, 2010

The Career Clinic with Maureen Anderson

Maureen Anderson

In this series of podcasts, I discuss a wide range of public speaking issues with Maureen Anderson of the Career Clinic, including:

  • How to begin a speech
  • The secret to always being interesting in front of an audience
  • How to interact with audiences
  • The secret of charisma
  • How to connect with your passion in speaking
  • How the 80-20 rule applies to public speaking

May 18, 2010

Phil Dobbie, BNET Australia — Can You Bluff Charisma?

BNET

In this interview BTalk's Phil Dobbie and Nick Morgan talk through the four steps that could make anyone charismatic. They also look at the differences between charisma and authenticity and see how these rules helped place Obama in the White House. Nick gives some useful advice on how to spot when the President is not necessarily telling the truth!

Visit the BTalk on BNET website to listen to this interview.

May 2010

William Arruda of Reach Personal Branding

Build Trust with Audiences of One to One Thousand: How to Communicate Authentically and Charismatically.

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February 25, 2010

Robin Heppell, Funeral Gurus

Dr. Nick Morgan talks about his presentation, Authentic Communication at the 2010 ICCFA Annual Convention. Interview by Funeral Marketing Consultant, Robin Heppell.

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November 5, 2009

John Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast Nick Morgan, author of Trust Me, talks about trust, authenticity and charisma and how anyone can use it to their advantage as a public speaker.

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February 20, 2009

Escape From Cubicle Nation, Pam Slim

In today’s conversation with Nick Morgan, I took my learning to a whole new level. His new book, Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma integrates a lot of new research about the brain to help speakers become truly masterful.

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January 20, 2009

Nick Morgan on Obama’s Big Speech, Tim Sanders

To figure out what went right, wrong and otherwise with Obama’s Inaugural address, I conducted a phone interview with Nick Morgan, my personal speech coach and author of the greatest book ever written on effective public speaking Give Your Speech, Change The World.

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RADIO INTERVIEWS

October 20, 2010

Mary van de Wiel interviews Nick on her NY Brand Lab radio show

Find out why every business leader needs authenticity more than ever before, why charisma is key to every business communication today, and why the art of decision making is largely an emotional process.

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January 5, 2010

Wayne Hurlbert, Blog Talk Radio

Author, leading communications and speech coach, and Founder of Public Words Inc., Nick Morgan shares his four step process to help you discover your own personal communications style to maximize your persuasiveness and presence.

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July 10, 2009

WBAI 99.5FM, Harry Allen

Look at this guy. Do you trust him?

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June 5, 2009

The Advertising Show, Brad Forsythe

Charismatic author Nick Morgan describes how trust and transparency lead the way to authenticity.

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February 20, 2009

President Obama and the Success of Communication, Dr. Howard Gluss

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