Happy Monday! It’s a great day to have a great day. It’s also a great day to announce that this week I will fail on stage. Yes, you read that right. This Wednesday evening, I’m honored to be the guest star of Boom Chicago’s new Musical Improv show. It’s the kickoff for something totally cool. […]
PERFECTION. KILLS. PROGRESS. Stop holding on to it. I had this talk with a client recently about why she should stop beating herself up by comparing herself to others she felt were ‘perfect’. Let me break it down for you. Perfection is self-sabotage. Perfection kills progress. Perfection stops creativity. Perfection limits risk-taking. Perfection is you holding […]
Maybe this is something that has happened to you. It’s something I see this so often in my work. You’re speaking, cruising along, everything is going swimmingly…. ….and then it happens. THE. WORD. That one difficult word that throws you off. You hesitate. You try to say the first part of it. You struggle. You […]
Happy Friday! I just wanted to jump into your mailbox to share my WHY with you. WHY I am an expert when it comes to confidence in communication and WHY I designed my Rock That Mouth program. I designed this fun, innovatie, and effective program for 2 reasons: To help you feel confident and comfortable speaking […]
HER VOICE, MY WORDS A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call. ‘Hey, Buffi….this is A Big Famous TV Producer and I really need your help. We’re creating a new format for a TV show, yes, it’s the most popular commercial channel, and it’s primetime….and our Big Famous TV Host is stuck. Can […]
3 TIPS TO SOUND MORE NATIVE IN ENGLISH What do native speakers do in English that non-native speakers have to learn? And are often not taught? I’m going to go through 3 of them right here. 1: LINKING: Native speakers almost never speak word for word. We speak in phrases. We link the ending of one word with […]
EUROVISION! As one of the biggest Song Festival fans on the planet, I so enjoyed watching S10 take the stage and sing her truth last night. The fact that she made it through to the finals with a song in Dutch means that so much is transcended beyond language. Millions didn’t understand one single word […]
How to write like a pro…. Ok, hon, let’s talk about your emails. Have you ever ended one with ‘I hope I have informed you enough?” No? Of course not. Your colleague did. Bert. Not you. You would NEVER do that because you know it’s rude in English, right? But Bert…he’ll never learn. So let’s […]
Hey, just popping in to share something special today. It’s about Ieper. Ieper is where I lost it. And then I found it. This week I went to Ieper, Belgium, the Fields of Flanders, where thousands of soldiers from WW1 perished. Their graves are beautifully maintained, and I spent the day walking through many of them. […]
THE HARDEST LESSON Sometimes doing something hurts so much. But not doing it hurts more. I was painfully confronted with this fact recently when I was preparing an English lesson that I was absolutely dreading. A few weeks ago, I started an online English communication program for Ukrainians. 100 people could fit in my Zoom […]
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