Date: October 24, 2014
Time: 11 am PDT 12 pm MDT 1 pm CDT 2 pm EDT
Expert: Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
Topic: Public Speaking for Writers and Other Introverts: Simple Mindshifts to Raise Your Confidence and Gather Devoted Fans

We’re so pleased to offer this special webinar to help you break out of your shyness and learn to present your new memoir to the world in a professional and confident manner. The member webinar this month is Public Speaking for Writers and Other Introverts: Simple Mindshifts to Raise Your Confidence and Gather Devoted Fans with Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, an experienced author coach, writer, and prize winning author.

Writers are natural storytellers, of course. While they’re comfortable conveying their stories on the page, and often with other people in their familiar circles, the idea of getting up in front of a roomful of onlookers to talk about their story or themselves can feel daunting.

Authors spend a lot of time, energy, and money building their platforms for promoting their books, but they often forget about what the platform is there to support: themselves. Being able to speak comfortably to a listening audience whether it’s at a book launch, a reading, a media interview, or a networking event is perhaps the most crucial element of the writer’s platform.

This teleseminar is meant to help writers to learn a few mind-shifts and simple skills to instantly boost their confidence and increase their effectiveness when speaking in public—whether it’s to an audience of five or five hundred. Readers (and potential readers) come to book events to connect with authors. When they’re able to connect with you, these readers become not only buyers, but super-fans who help to sell your books.

Betsy helps clients to be at their at their natural and most comfortable best in front of an audience by helping them to see public speaking not as a “gift” but as a set of learnable skills and to develop confidence and presence.

In this webinar, you will:

• Gather five mental shifts to instantly boost your confidence about public speaking
• Acquire simple tips that can help you connect with listeners
• Gain skills that can help you to be at your natural best in formal presentations, book launches, media interviews, and casual encounters.

If you are a member, log-in to listen to the recording.

Bio:

As a life-long writer, a psychotherapist for over two decades, and trainer of communications skills, Betsy Graziani Fasbinder’s professional life is about communicating ideas and matters of the heart with clarity and passion.

She coaches writers (and other introverts) to become dynamic, engaging public speakers, and has taught clients in Fortune 500 Companies, politicians, entertainers, business leaders, and authors internationally. Betsy’s debut novel, Fire & Water, published by She Writes Press, was released in 2013. It received a Silver Medal in the Wishing Shelf Book Award, an honorable mention in the New York and Los Angeles Book Festivals, and was released as an audiobook in 2014. Several of Betsy’s memoir pieces have been produced as Readers’ Theater in Nevada City, CA. Betsy lives in Marin County with her husband, and Edgar, her salt-and-pepper doodle.