Wedding toasts, as we’ve previously discussed, can be nerve wracking for the one expected to deliver this emotionally charged two minutes. The key issue is usually due to the pressure you put on yourself to perform perfectly and to summarize a lifetime of memories into less than 500 words. That’s when my clients turn to
A good speech is one that you deliver in your own voice. A good speechwriter can capture your voice, but only if: (a) We can hear you talk unscripted using the lingo you would use in the speech – i.e. I need to hear you in a meeting if it’s a work speech. I need
In the acknowledgments of The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry, author Kathleen Flinn thanks Gillian Kent who “eliminated my job in London, and I’d like to thank her for that. It’s one of the best thing that ever happened to me.” This book is written by Flinn, a journalist who was fired from
