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Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

🏆 Ranked #1 Business Communication Podcast by Million Podcasts Do you often feel sidelined in discussions, wanting to speak up and have more influence? Ever experience that you say something in a meeting and then it seems like people maybe are still not getting what you’re saying? Do you need more executive presence in high stakes meetings? Discover tactics to confidently assert yourself and make your ideas count on Speak Up, the podcast for high-performing introverts and ambiverts. You"ll

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636: Stop Making Executives Dig for Your Best Idea...

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2026/10/06

Access your Executive Meeting Visibility Guide.Stop Making Executives Dig for Your Best IdeaIf a senior leader has to excavate your recommendation from three minutes of context, your idea may be excellent—but it is not yet executive-ready.Conscientious leaders often begin at the beginning because they want others to understand the analysis, history, and nuance behind their thinking. But executives are listening first for the destination: What should we know? Why does it matter? What do you

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05:36

635: The 7-Minute Rule That Makes You More Visible in...

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2026/10/05

Access your Executive Meeting Visibility Guide.The 7-Minute Rule That Makes You More Visible in Executive MeetingsThe executive meeting on your calendar may do more to shape your career than the presentation you spent three weeks perfecting. While everyone discusses the agenda, senior leaders are also noticing who has judgment, who can handle pressure, and who belongs in the next room.For many high-performing introvert leaders, the hardest contribution is the first one. The longer you wait, the more

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13:44

634: Why Being Afraid to Be Wrong Is Hurting Your...

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2026/10/02

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.What if trying to always be right is actually weakening your executive presence?For high-performing leaders, admitting you made the wrong call can feel risky. You may worry that reversing a recommendation, acknowledging a flawed assumption, or

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26:32

633: Stop Trying to Win the Argument and What to Do...

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2026/09/30

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. What if the secret to becoming more influential at work isn’t talking more—but learning how to listen like a hostage negotiator?Whether you’re asking for more resources, pushing back on a senior leader, dealing with an attack in a meeting, or

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08:58

632: How To Make Yourself INDISPENSABLE At Executive...

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2026/09/28

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders.👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereYou can be the person doing the most important work in the room—and still be the person leadership forgets to invite into it.And if that's happening to you, doing even better work probably isn't going to fix it.You

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14:34

631: Create Influence By The End of 2026 With These 5...

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2026/09/25

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.With only 97 days remaining in 2026, working harder probably won’t change that story. You need one unmistakable piece of new evidence. Today I give you 5 options to develop that evidence and multiply your influence.In this Fun Friday episode,

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25:48

630: 3 Essential Moves to Build Executive Influence...

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2026/09/23

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.Are you working hard, delivering results, and doing everything expected of you—yet still struggling to get recognized, influence senior leaders, or move to the next level?Being great at your job is important, but results alone may not be enough to

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10:33

629: You’re Ready for VP. So Why Do You Keep Freezing...

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2026/09/21

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call here.Have you ever been asked for your opinion in an executive meeting, only to have your brain freeze—even though you knew exactly what you wanted to say five minutes earlier?You’ve delivered the results. You know the

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15:37

628: Why Spencer Pratt Is Better at Storytelling and...

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2026/09/18

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.Many accomplished leaders tell the kind of story that leaves the audience checking their latest Slack message or maybe their upcoming Amazon delivery.What if your story doesn't need more polish?What if they need to feel less finished?In this

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27:24

627: Why Your Team Stops Telling You What You Need to...

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2026/09/16

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.Today you can actually learn how to know if your executive influence is where you think it is. Listen today to learn this life changing skill. Under pressure, it’s easy to slip into a reactive, defensive, or judgmental mindset. But

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12:08

626: When You’re a Highly Respected Leader at Work...

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2026/09/14

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereIf you’re highly respected everywhere else, but one relationship at work has you second-guessing everything you say and do, your expertise may not be the problem. You can have decades of experience, a strong track

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13:46

625: Why Exceptional Work Without Executive Presence...

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2026/09/11

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.Are you waiting until your performance review to make the case for a bigger 2027 raise? By then, the decision may already be taking shape.With merit raises making a comeback and average performance-based increases expected to hover around 3.5%,

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36:58

624: Stop Fighting Imposter Syndrome When It Can...

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2026/09/09

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.What if the self-doubt you’ve been trying to eliminate is actually one of your greatest advantages in high-stakes meetings?When you’re presenting to the C-suite, defending a proposal, or answering an unexpected question, it’s easy to become

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623: You Did the Work. Your Boss Got the Executive...

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2026/09/07

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereAre you doing executive-level thinking behind the scenes—only to watch your boss get recognized as the strategic leader in the room?If you’re a Director, Senior Director, VP, partner, or executive, doing excellent

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15:23

622: To Rescue Your Executive Presence from the...

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2026/09/04

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. What if the behaviors you think make you look hardworking, prepared, and smart are actually making you look less executive? It happens more often than you think. High performers are often rewarded for knowing more, doing more, explaining

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26:47

621: Everything You Thought You Needed To Do To...

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2026/09/02

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.What if everything you thought you needed to do to demonstrate executive presence was actually making you less effective?Executive presence isn't about dominating the conversation, knowing every answer, or burying senior leaders in data. For

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12:29

620: You Know What Needs to Change. Why Can't You Get...

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2026/08/31

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereThis episode is for those of you who can see exactly what needs to change in your organization but somehow, you cannot get everyone else to see it, especially the top executives. Learn what to do, that does NOT

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14:11

619: Why Some Leaders Are Remembered—and Others Are...

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2026/08/28

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. What makes one leader unforgettable years after a meeting while most presentations are forgotten before lunch?In today's workplace, your audience is overwhelmed by nonstop emails, meetings, messages, AI summaries, and constant distractions

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24:01

618: The Link Smart Leaders Miss Between High...

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2026/08/26

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. What if your executive presence has less to do with what you say—and more to do with how well your body is functioning? Most professionals spend hours preparing for important meetings, perfecting presentations, and refining their communication

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617: Why Your Perfectionism Is Sabotaging Your Career...

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2026/08/24

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereWhat story are senior leaders telling about you after you leave the meeting—and did you write it?If you've ever walked out of an important meeting thinking, "I should have said that," you're not alone. Many

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