Showing posts with label Write My Story. Show all posts
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The art of breaking the ice in a public speaking forum
'Let us all stand to welcome, the legendary author and public speaker, Paula-a-a-a-a Thay-r-r-r-o-w-w…' Steve's strong voice thundered out, quickly followed by the deafening and thunderous applause of the audience.
I smiled at Steve as he moved from the podium to make way for me. I went over and gave him the usual good-will-for-public-image hug, then proceeded in a calm walk to take my place behind the podium.
He smiled knowingly at me, because he knew there was nothing I could do about his little display of public mischief. You see, Steve was the typical public figure entrée de elegance commentator. He loved to be dramatic! His official script was to make sure the audience were comfortable, energized, and ready to listen, before the key-note speaker came up on stage.
Creating drama was what made Steve enjoy this bit of his work thoroughly. He came up with all sorts of amazing pimp-them-up type of titles for the various speakers at these Personal Growth and Achievement Seminars.
I had told him myriad of times not to use euphemisms that meant little and he happily ignored my instructions every time he went on stage to introduce a speaker.
I mean, of all the titles in the world, 'Legendary' was not one I had grown up thinking of using. Women take on such titles as 'Mrs', 'Justice' or such like. And we now had new generation titles like 'Bishop', 'Dr' (that were honorary or bought off the internet), 'Honourable' (for politicians who would turn up their noses in disgust at anyone who dared call them Mrs So-and-so) and some very pretty ones like 'Lady'.
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