As a first timer at the Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking in Vancouver, Canada in August 2017, I had a feast of fantastic speakers to watch and analyze. Here are six of the many[…]
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Category: rainbow
Green on video
Summer and the world is green! Well, perhaps not all of the world. The beautiful Buttes-Chaumont park in Paris where I shot this video was certainly green. The wind and light rain could not stop[…]
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Every rainbow plants a seed
Video and vlogging are coming to my blog. In the next few months I will make short videos to present and describe each of the seven Speak-the-Rainbow colors. I shot the first one about green yesterday[…]
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What is the Speak the Rainbow?
Rainbows are rare. Rainbows are beautiful. Rainbows excite people enough to take photos and share them. The one below was sent to my son’s phone while we were also admiring the same rainbow from our[…]
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Use red cues to create red hues
Red cues create the valuable red hues a speech needs to stand out in a speech contest. At our Divison A Toastmasters Conference yesterday I heard nine speakers deliver their best speeches and 5[…]
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Rainbow Shine
I apologize for letting my blogging slip and not keeping as regular in my posts. Oddly, it is the fault of the rainbow which keeps bringing me good things like books to read, shows to[…]
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Rainbow Example 6 – Richard Turere
This weekend I will be doing my Speak-the-Rainbow workshop for the eleven amazing speakers lined up for TEDxIHEParis. Editing my ideas, I realized I needed an example of Green. Then I recalled one of my[…]
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Rainbow Example 5 – Jill Bolte Taylor
I discovered the colors of my Speak-the-Rainbow theory could be linked to differences in how our left brain and right brain process information when I watched Jill Bolte Taylor‘s amazingly colorful TED talk: My stroke of insight.[…]
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Story Synchronicities
Synchronicities are purple. They creatively connect us with universal energies, myths, and themes our audience can also sense. They are messages to listen to and expand. They add magic to our lives and stories.[…]
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Rainbow Example 4 – Barack Obama
When a friend suggested I write a rainbow review of President Obama’s farewell speech, I took the excellent book Power in Words down from my bookshelf and flipped through the pages. Published in[…]
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