by Norma Thatcher | Feb 24, 2018 | Inspirational
It’s been two years, three weeks, and one day since Jill Brzezinski-Conley died. You may not recognize her name, but in 2008 she was a woman who took on a role that she had never envisioned: a cancer warrior at the age of 32. That’s the day she was told she had stage...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 20, 2018 | Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
A great teacher once challenged me to consider the effect caused by tossing a pebble into a pond. While it’s calming to watch the ripples in the water gently moving outward from where the pebble entered the pond, most of us watch for a while, and then move on. But...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 17, 2018 | Leadership, Public speaking, Thought provoking
You’re listening to a speaker. It could be a teacher in a class you’re taking. Maybe it’s a co-worker training your team in a new process. It might be a pastor delivering a sermon. Perhaps you paid to attend a seminar where the speaker is an expert in a field where...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 13, 2018 | Public speaking, Words
In my role as a speech coach and presentation skills instructor, I’m on a never-ending hunt for new material and ideas. Not willing to rely primarily on old standard public speaking instruction, I search for new studies on how a speaker can best engage with an...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 10, 2018 | Healthy Living, Humor, Thought provoking, Words
It cracks me up when one study comes out with a “finding” and suddenly various news outlets begin touting the new “evidence” as scientific gospel. Case in point: In July 2015 a study from Tokyo was presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of...
