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Public Speaking Super Powers: Unleash Your Inner Speaking Superhero and Communicate Your Message with Confidence Paperback – September 25, 2018
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- How to overcome the fear of speaking
- Develop the skills needed to be a success on the stage, such as storytelling and humor
- Master techniques like a superhero speaker, such as audience and engagement and using your voice, body language and eye contact effectively
- Print length282 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 25, 2018
- Dimensions6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101640853324
- ISBN-13978-1640853324
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"Drawing from the experiences of in-the-trenches everyday speakers, Carma Spence has taken a fun concept of superheroes and translated it into public speaking skills. A comprehensive look at excelling in front of an audience, Public Speaking Super Powers is both accessible and useful for speakers who want to develop their speaking super powers. Highly recommended!"
Felicia J. Slattery, M.A., M.Ad.Ed.,
Best-Selling Author of 21 Ways to Make Money Speaking,
Creator of the Signature SpeechTM, and founder of Speaker Cash Collective
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"It's not every day that someone puts in the amount of research, time, and care on a topic that is so misunderstood and so poorly taught by perceived influencers in the public speaking space. Carma's unique approach to unlocking your superpowers and unleashing your speaking skills is a fresh, practical, and accessible manual for anyone who wants to break into the speaking world."
Davide Di Giorgio
Speaker, Coach and Author of Being Unapologetic
DavideDiGiorgio.com
"Carma shows us that anyone can become an established speaker. She provides an easy-to-use structured path to get everyone there."
Maurice DiMino
International Award Winning Speaker
Number #1 Best Selling Author
TEDx Speaker
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"Carma Spence shows readers how to unleash their inner public speaking superhero with clear, actionable steps. Packed with useful information for beginners and intermediate level speakers alike, Public Speaking Super Powers is an engaging and valuable read."
Cynthia Kersey
Bestselling author, Unstoppable
CEO & Founder, Unstoppable Foundation
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"Speaking is fast becoming an essential skill to master no matter what job or industry you are in. Carma presents easy to understand and utilize tools for anyone looking to break into the speaking industry or even to present more powerfully in the boardroom. This book is a must-read."
Dana Pharant
Founder of Inner Dominatrix(TM)
DanaPharant.com
"Carma Spence is the real deal. She is truly devoted to helping and empowering people in their lives, and on their speaker's journey. Public Speaking Super Powers is a comprehensive, yet easy read. Carma's superpower metaphor gives you the information and tools you need to help unleash your inner superhero speaker!"
Bridget Brady
Owner, Founder, Biz Amplifier
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About the Author
Deanna McRae is a Freelance illustrator and graphic designer who created the illustrations for the interior of Public Speaking Super Powers. Born in sunny California, she grew up in a family of visual and musical artists, sparking her love for creativity at an early age. She is also a computer science major who has designed websites for several small companies. She is the founder and Designer at I 365 Art, a digital design website that's been in business since 2007.
Art for Public Speaking Super Powers's cover was specifically created by Dolores Delgado, an artist based in Sebastopol, Calif. Dolores' love of art revealed itself in elementary school, poring over tomes of ancient Greek sculpture. By the age of 11, she was sketching figures and nudes from photographs. She is captivated by the works of the masters, especially Rembrandt for the capture of light and dark and John Singer Sargent for his loose style - combining impressionism with realism.
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- Publisher : Author Academy Elite (September 25, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 282 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1640853324
- ISBN-13 : 978-1640853324
- Item Weight : 13.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,105,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,302 in Running Meetings & Presentations (Books)
- #8,445 in Communication & Social Skills (Books)
- #9,314 in Communication Skills
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About the author

I help entrepreneurs, small business owners, and mid-level executives unleash their content creation superpowers and communicate their message with confidence so they can create a meaningful and fulfilling legacy. I do this primarily through helping them write and market their non-fiction book based on the knowledge between their ears even if they've never written before and are crazy busy.
An international best-selling author, award-winning editor and speaker, with more than 20 years' experience in marketing, public relations, and science communication, Carma is a multi-dimensional entrepreneur, science fiction writer, and poet.
After earning a master’s degree from the University of Maryland College Park in Journalism (from the number one public relations program in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report), Carma developed a career as a corporate science writer. Her ability to understand high-level science (she holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology) and translate it for a lay audience, coupled with her marketing and public relations training, enabled her to help employers such as City of Hope National Medical Center, Blue Shield of California and the National Human Genome Research Institute gain local and national exposure, and improve customer and employee communications.
Carma performed pro bono work for KRCB Public Television, the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, and the North Bay Career Resource Center. She has promoted wines from Texas, South Africa, and the elite Champagne Deutz, and helped pioneer a website for pediatric professionals.
With the increasing importance of the Internet in marketing communications, Carma developed expertise in online presence and strategy. Her books, "Home Sweet Home Page" and "57 Secrets for Branding Yourself Online" (from Logical Logical Expressions Publishing) have received positive reviews and help numerous entrepreneurs improve their online presence. She has worked with best-selling author Cynthia Kersey, fitness expert Wendy Ida and speaker/entertainer Cindy Ashton.
Carma has been a writer since she was four. Her love of travel (she grew up in East Africa), along with her passion for science fiction, propelled her to create the online travel resource for science fiction, fantasy and horror fans, The Genre Traveler. She is also working on a multi-media history and sociology of science fiction, titled Yesteryear’s Future. And, she has recently launched a science fiction film and television review video podcast with her husband, called C-Squared.
Her two cookbooks, "Bonkers for Bundt Cakes" and "Your Perfect Pie," can be found online at Amazon and BN.com.
Her latest book is "Public Speaking Super Powers," became an Amazon Kindle bestseller and was a Top 10 Finalist in the Author Academy Awards. She is also working on several other titles.
As a speaker, Carma has received several awards, including a lifetime membership to the National Forensic League. She has been a member of Toastmasters since 1989, where she earned her Distinguished Toastmaster award, the highest award Toastmasters awards recognizing accomplishments in communications and leadership.
The wind beneath her clients’ wings, Carma's superpower is to help her clients see what is possible for them and guide them on the journey from where they are to where they want to be, Vanquishing the Mind Goblins of self-doubt, self-sabotage and second-guessing that keep them stuck.
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Outlined are six public speaking archetypes: Captain Colloquial, Power Performer, Razzle Dazzle, The Logician, The Professor, and the Mystic Mentor. To become a public speaking superhero you must develop your superpowers (strengths), some of which include the power of authenticity, the power of confidence, the power of audience engagement, and the like. All of the superpowers are broken down into chapters with probing questions to help you understand each power and exercises specific to that power to develop it further. But don't just jump to the powers that you think you possess, because you will benefit from learning about and developing each power.
I personally believe that I am a combination of The Professor and The Logician archetypes. Like me, you may have deemed yourself one of the outlined archetypes and learned that your "perceived" superpower(s) is not necessarily connected to the mentioned archetype or vice versa. While each power chapter highlights an archetype scenario, it's important to note that the power is not meant just for the mentioned archetype, we can all benefit from learning about each power. Not only are you educated about how to crush your goal of public speaking, but you are provided with step-by-step exercises to help you accomplish just that.
Disclosure: At my request, I have received an advance copy of this book for review purposes. I am not being financially compensated for this post, all opinions expressed are my own honest opinion.
The analogy to super heroes made the book fun. Everybody has strengths that they can build on, even if they don't immediately feel like they do. This book walks people through finding what their strengths are and identifying what they need to do to improve in areas where they're not so strong. The development of our public speaking super powers follows different characters: Captain Colloquial, Power Performer, Razzle Dazzle, The Logician, The Professor and the Mystic Mentor.
One thing that I took from this that I think is really important is that it doesn't matter how many people you are speaking to. It could be just you giving your "elevator speech" about your business to two other people at the dinner table, or it could be a small group business setting, or it could be a large group presentation. In any scenario, the skills are the same.
While I haven't yet given a public speech after reading this book, I do feel like the steps this book presents will definitely help me when the time comes, and someday I know it will!
So what makes for a good speech, can you name a few things, using this as a starting point and taking on board the advice as well as using the exercises in the book will improve your technique. The book goes on to explain important key factors in speech delivery including organisation, preparation, research, engagement with the audience, to improve your delivery and a make it a more enjoyable experience.
Think about all the great speech makers and how to they get their points across, even if you do not agree with what they are saying. For example, at the moment Brexit is a major discussion point in British Politics and is going in front of Parliament to be voted on and over the past few days, viewpoints have been changed by the power of the speeches made. But why have people changed their minds? This book will explain it all and how you can influence people to believe in you even if their do not agree with your viewpoint.
An excellent book which will improve your power of speech which will increase your confidence and hopefully boost your chances of moving on in the workplace or even change vocation to fulfill your potential.