Speak to Achieve: How to Build Connection, Deepen Trust, Captivate Audiences, and Achieve Results - Paperback

by Elaine A. Clark (Author)

Learn Necessary Skills to Become a Better Communicator and Achieve Genuine and Impactful Connections

Many people struggle with public speaking or conveying their desired message directly and genuinely, even though such skills are essential to success in many spaces. In Speak to Achieve, author Elaine A. Clark shares her forty years of earned wisdom as an actor and voice-over coach on how to improve your communication style to achieve your individual goals, whether addressing an audience of one or one thousand, in person, in a podcast, on a livestream, or in a short-form video. Clark's proven Making It M.I.N.E.(R) performance method coaches aspiring speakers to get out of their heads; access their emotions; connect with their personal truth; incorporate authoritative body movements; comfortably share their history, uniqueness, and personality; and sustain listener attention. With Speak to Achieve, become a better communicator using the following steps:

• Acknowledge and overcome roadblocks.
• Build trust between yourself and your audience.
• Construct a genuine bridge of connection.
• Use your personal journey to empower others.
• Captivate audiences.
• Motivate the audience to think, feel, and take action!

This interactive guide gives readers small assignments to acknowledge, test, and apply Clark's techniques. With Speak to Achieve, learn to own your inherent authority and intelligence, feel empowered by your message, and communicate genuinely with others to achieve your desired results.

Author Biography

Elaine A. Clark is the author of There's Money Where Your Mouth Is and Voice-Overs for Podcasting. She is also the creator of two speech and diction apps, Activate Your Voice and Adding Melody to Your Voice. Clark's Real Talking Tips podcast provides lessons to improve speech, voice placement, body language, and specific physicality to enhance communication. She was the founder and owner/CEO of Voice One for more than three decades before selling the business in 2019. Over 40 plus years as an actor, instructor, director, and producer working extensively with voice-over and on-camera actors, professionals, podcasters, and other individuals, Clark developed the Making It M.I.N.E.(R) system as her unique performance method to quickly incorporate subtext, emotion, body movements, and gestures to grab audiences' attention and achieve desired results. As a playwright, she is also the co-author of RIII*-Actor You're Killing Me... a farce. Clark is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and instructs individuals and groups locally, nationally, and around the globe. Visit her website: elaineclarkvo.com.