Blog | Joanna Denton

The life changing power of saying “This sucks”

by Joanna Denton | Oct 21, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Build your community, Rewire out of fear, Telling your story, Thrive

When fear turns into a funk. Yesterday I hit rock bottom. After weeks of unpacking a bunch of emotional stuff, bringing forth anger and mounting anxiety and all the dark stuff, my body has been screaming in pain for the last ten days. My back hurts, my muscles hurt,...

“We are running over time, can you keep it short please?”

by Joanna Denton | Sep 14, 2021 | Blog, Public speaking, Telling your story

“We are running over – please can you just summarise the main points in five minutes.” The words everyone dreads when they have just spent the last two weeks working on their twenty-minute presentation. If there is one thing you must do when you are...

Top Tips on How to Coach and not Micro-Manage a Team

by Joanna Denton | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog, Play bigger, Practical tips to be awesome!, Rewire out of fear, Thrive

When you have delegated something to your team member, and they get stuck – how often do you just tell them what to do so they get unstuck? I know that this can be really tempting, especially when you are up against time pressure, or a bit of a recovering...

You Don’t Need Big Words

by Joanna Denton | Sep 7, 2021 | Blog, Conference speaking, Effective rehearsals, From technical to accessible, Handling stage fright, Public speaking, Telling your story

You don’t need big words or to speak like the queen – you just need to get the message across. I was recently reminded of the first time that I coached speakers for a conference. It was back in 2009, and the speakers were two of my junior managers preparing to speak...

What Does It Mean To Be A Badass?

by Joanna Denton | Aug 31, 2021 | Blog, Conference speaking, Practical tips to be awesome!, Public speaking, Rewire out of fear

Imagine if, on days when you are about to do something in life or in work that scares you, you could have an easy way to remember that “You got this”? Well, you can, with your “Badass list”, based on an exercise I learned from Jen Gottlieb and Chris Winfield...

What’s Your Excuse?

by Joanna Denton | Aug 31, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Rewire out of fear, Thrive

Let’s talk about the boundaries we set for ourselves. There are a lot of articles written about boundaries – mainly about setting boundaries with others – your friends or family, your boss, other third parties. Strangely, I have come across fewer articles...