Speaking Busybird Publishing Open Mic Night #103
By Laurie Smale
On Wednesday 21 August 2024, I attended the Busybird Publishing Open Mic Night #103 and shared some information from my book, ‘How to take the panic out of public speaking.’
Special thanks to Kev Howlett for the use of this Live Video Footage from Facebook and Les Zig for being the Facilitator of the Open Mic Night.
Transcript
Laurie who made his debut last month very impressively everyone please welcome Laurie who’s got a reading and it’s called It’s all in the Title
Hello.
This is my book it is called ‘How to take the panic out of public speaking’ and I wrote this because I found that a lot of the public speaking books I came across tended to be a bit staid and they didn’t sort of inspire me so I wrote it myself and um it’s interesting, it’s exciting, it’s a paradigm shift that shifts your thinking from I can’t to I now can.
Why? Because it’s full of the stories I used to feel like that and I was one of them.
Now I’d like to read you a little excerpt from this book and it’s called, ‘It’s all in the title.’
Reg Lipson certainly knew how to wow an audience. A marine biologist and general scientist, he specialized in the underwater exploration and the breeding of fish. With his clever use of images and audience participation and an infectious personality he’d have his students in the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in stitches. Joan Saxton a very famous speaker agent saw the value in Reg and made him one of her elite stable of speakers.
But beyond the theater lecture room, the breeding habits of fish weren’t didn’t generate a lot of interest in the general public. So something had to be done. When they revised the title to the ‘Exotica and erotica of the deep,’ something magic happened.
Overnight, Reg Lipson was in great demand as a speaker and intrigued by the title, radio and television personalities clamored to interview him. One group of female football supporters at a club luncheon eagerly awaited a male stripper. Reg was horrified to learn of this on his arrival in the foyer, because he knew his subject so he didn’t mind at all and they loved him for it.
So my friends, it’s all in the title. So whatever your work is whether it’s a work of art whether it’s an anthology or whether it’s a book give some careful thought to your title and go through it a few times, give it a few drafts until you say yes, that’s it, because believe me the title of your work is the gateway to what’s behind it. Thank you.
Thank you for that Laurie. Can’t agree with your more. Yeah the original title of the Mona Lisa was the Mary.
SPEAKING // I recently spoke at the 🕊️ Busybird Publishing Open Mic Night #103 🎤 about my book 📘’How to take the panic out of public speaking.’ I talked about ‘It’s all in the title’ and Reg Lipson who changed the title of his keynote presentation to ‘Exotica and erotica of the deep’ and was picked up by the elite speaker agent, Joan Saxton.
Watch now at https://lauriesmale.com/blog/speaking-busybird-publishing-open-mic-night-103
Special thanks to Kev Howlett for the use of the Live Video Footage and Les Zig for being the Facilitator of the Open Mic Night.
I will be at the next Open Mic Night #104 this Wednesday 18 September – hope to see you there!
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