Successful Keynote Speaker Tips: #2 – 5 Ways to Look after your voice!
When you’re working on becoming a great keynote speaker, one thing that isn’t often talked about is how important it is to look after your voice. It makes sense, because the first thing we tend to worry about when embarking on a creative career is how to turn the thing we love into our livelihood. […]
Why Tech Careers are Great for Working Class Women
If you’re a working class girl from a council estate – is it possible to have a career in tech? And if it is, how on earth are you supposed to get one when you haven’t got a degree? Are tech careers even relevant when you don’t have any idea of what’s involved? As someone who […]
Finding Resilience After Childhood Bereavement
“Resilience” <Noun> 1: The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness 2: The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity Today marks the anniversary of my dad’s death, aged 43, from cancer. He died at home but I wasn’t there to witness the ambulance workers who came […]
Successful Keynote Speaker Tips: #1 Respect the Crew!
2023 was a real pinnacle in terms of my keynote speaker life (so far) 😉 Two dozen gigs for organisations that care about the things I care about – social mobility, women in business, resilience – and the real icing on the cake: hosting the UK Social Mobility Awards! Throughout this time, a lot of […]
Make the Leap! The Power of Embracing Change
Make the Leap! The Power of Embracing Change As someone who specialises in speaking about reframing fear and embracing change, I realised I was failing to follow my own advice – delaying a decision to fully focus on keynote speaking and stand-up way beyond when I knew I needed to do it. Feeling the fear? I don’t […]
Interviewing Rachel Riley for KAYBE Talks
“Hey Toni, what would you ask Rachel Riley if you had the chance to interview her?” I thought this was a rhetorical question from my good friend Kris – Founder of marketing agency KAYBE and former guest on the Challenging University Podcast. Turns out he actually meant it. He was trusting me to join a […]
Read all about it!
Well….turns out there’s a lot of us ‘analogue’ people out there! After yesterday’s post I had some great suggestions of the power of using pen and paper and one that was a new one for me: “My phone turns grayscale from 9-7”
Analogue Tips for a Digital World
Switching off when you’re constantly ‘on’ Firstly, a huge THANK YOU to everyone who engaged with yesterday’s post about my floatation tank experience. My favourite one was: “I really enjoyed this post & know where I’m taking my wife to next – I think we could both do with some time in a very salty […]
Floatation, Equilibrium and an Egg
When I first sat down to write this piece, I was going to begin with how I’ve been trying to bring some balance to my mind since hitting my late 40s. And then it dawned on me that it’s something I have long tried to do – it’s just that the activities I pursue have […]