The first Speaking Out took place on Wednesday 10 February and it was a great success. There were 52 attendees, mainly women from a range of professions, and the speakers were inspiring with lots of practical tips. Read more about it here.

I don’t like public speaking. I think I first started hating public speaking when I was about 13. I used to do some acting when I was little, ranging from being a rat in a pantomime to a frog in the school play. But I was in a school play and I suddenly became acutely [...]

In order to find out what was out there about public speaking,  I bought up all the books I could find on Amazon Marketplace that looked at it from a woman’s point of view,. This was one A Woman’s Voice – A Handbook to Successful Private and Public Speaking by Dorothy Uris. The copy I [...]