Her unique methodology is loved by a range of corporations including Facebook, Uber, Intuit, Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, as well as thousands of actors.  Sharing secrets from her bestselling book, The Billie Shepard Presentation Method she shares her key methods so that after a short entertaining listen you too can hold that stage like a pro!

I was delighted to be joined by Billie for my latest episode and we discuss topics including:

· Her background in TV, theatre and training including a Masters of Theatre Arts and how her M.A. thesis, entitled The Actor Within led her to offer the key techniques of acting and stage presence to corporate clients

· Why most people fear public speaking and what to do about it

· Why presenting in present moment awareness is a game-changer

· If appearance is important on virtual presentations and meetings

· Using your Zoom camera like a pro!

· How to be concise and eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak

· Knowing your intention

· How to answer impromptu questions

· Techniques to assure your audience understands your message correctly and

· Participant success stories

Plus, why we discovered that we are only 1 degree of separation, who we know in common and what books and shows we ended up recommending to each other!

Find out more at: www.billieshepard.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billie-shepard-59b3534/   

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084WZZMNM

The conversation that turned into a webinar!  So much to say to a man with a unique name, and maverick coaching views!

Dax Moy is an incredible coach who positions himself as ‘not for everyone’ and he is certainly not for the fainthearted.  

He works with royalty, CEOs, elite sports people, celebrities, and yet has a CV that starts with how at, 15, he stabbed his father and then joined the Armed Forces.

We discuss topics including:

· Formative years with a violent, alcoholic, Glaswegian gangster for a father. Waking up to his mother screaming, Dax ended up stabbing him through the heart but also was the one to keep him alive before the paramedics arrived.

· Dropping out of school early before running up and down mountains in Wales for six months to get fit and ready to join The Parachute regiment.

· The Armed Forces, with time with the Marines and then the Reservists before becoming a personal trainer.

· Achieving the glory of being the UK's highest paid personal trainer led to, in his words, him becoming a ‘bit of a dick’.  We both share our ‘being a dick’ moments!

· Realising that his great training results often didn’t last led him to investigate the psychology of training and with the added ‘gift’ of PTSD from being in the Tsunami in Thailand he went down the rabbit hole of all things mindset. Going from a guy with everything to a guy who felt like he couldn’t leave his room, Dax had to resist the urge to ‘come out fighting’ and instead go within.

· Digging deeper into the neuroscience of mindset and overcoming his PTSD gave him clarity and purpose.  This is reflected in his work today where clients attest to him changing their lives in one call.  How does Dax do this?  “I ignore most of the things they think they're on the call for. Then deconstruct what is really going on and design a system that is true to them”.

· How it is different coaching Royalty and celebrities to other coaches

· Coaching secrets - including how he has helped coaches make a lot of money by a focus on them, not their businesses. He is not a saviour coach. Nor a sales coach.  Dax is the third type: a servant coach.  The one that says: ‘You tell me what you want, and I'll help you to get it.’.

· Finally, he shares how he has evolved over 20 years yet taken many with him along the way.  Resisting the urge to jump on the trendy bandwagons along the way and staying true to himself and his values.

Dax can be contacted at -

Website - https://daxmoy.com/

My guest on this episode is Gemma Went: introvert, deep thinker, sage, and maverick. She is an award-winning online business mentor, certified mindset coach, hypnotherapist, and founder of the Lighthouse Business Academy. And behind that are over two decades of very high-level business experience in PR and branding and marketing.

We discuss topics including:

· How she loves the online world, creating courses, scaling with programmes etc. A world that gives us so many opportunities and - especially for women - to grow, to make money, to break down paradigms around wealth.

· Yet it is a world that can pull you into what she calls ‘the online race’. And it's a race that you don't really want to be in. As women get dragged into it and it makes them come from a place of comparison that triggers unhealthy thoughts and imposter syndrome.

· That in 2019 she got caught up in this race and nothing was ever enough. This constant pressure took its toll on her nervous system, resulting in stress and feeling ‘out of sorts’. So, she cancelled her profitable revenue streams, took time, stepped back, and worked out what was right for her. Then the pandemic hit so she dived even deeper via journaling, working with therapists and nutritionists to get back in balance.

· Gemma’s big realisation was that she was the boss. That what she had learned was expected from the boss – from her high adrenalin agency days – wasn’t how she wanted her life to look anymore. So, she set about redesigning her business to give her joy and to help other women who fall into the same trap.

· Why two of her core values are integrity and intimacy and what this means in business.

· We look back nine years to the start of her business when she had nothing, was pregnant, jobless, and working from a friend’s kitchen table and the lessons learned along the way.

· What success on her terms today, drawing on her spiritual side and using self-compassion as her guide, looks like and also why the spirited and rebellious side of her personality means that she gives herself permission to do other things or make mistakes without guilt.

· That a ‘six-month bucket’ spreadsheet allows her to capture her maverick ideas without losing focus, becoming overwhelmed or fearful that the fun and spontaneity will go out of her work.

· To end the interview, we look at why there is often so much negative and toxic messaging on social media, especially from women to women, and how this could be healed for all our good.

· Finally, Gemma leaves us with this gem of advice: That the only mentor you really need to really help you navigate this online world is you. If you start with you for everything and drown out all the other noise that surrounds you, get to know your own inner wisdom and make decisions from that space then everything changes for the best.

Gemma Went - https://gemmawent.co.uk

Instagram - https://instagram.com/gemmawent 

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/gemmacwent