The Eloquent Woman's weekly speaker toolkit

I read a lot about women and public speaking, and post my finds first on The Eloquent Woman on Facebook. But I always collect them here for you on Mondays as well. Here's what I've been reading lately:

• Dear Brain, Please shut up: Tactics for conquering your critical inner voice.
• The power of story: Let's take down the patriarchy with storytelling is a seismic Teen Vogue idea in the wake of the sexual harassment news about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Women and girls being unafraid to share their stories--often, through public speaking--is the cure to this problem.
• A deeper dive on what your inner voice is saying to you, a big issue for public speakers: "Inner speech, Fernyhough writes, isn’t bound by many of the conventions of verbal speech. For one, we can produce it much faster when we don’t have to go at the pace required to use tongues and lips and voice boxes. One researcher the book cites clocks inner speech at an average pace of 4,000 words per minute—10 times faster than verbal speech. And it’s often more condensed—we don’t have to use full sentences to talk to ourselves, because we know what we mean."
• Did you miss? This week, the blog looked at Getting your audience physically involved in a speech or presentation, with examples on video, and Famous Speech Friday shared UK Prime Minister Theresa May's interrupted speech.
• About the quote: Never happened? I don't think so, eloquent women...Rebecca Solnit's quote is all the more apt in the wake of the Weinstein sexual harrassment scandal.

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