Timing is everything. Right message at the right time. When is your right time to deliver a message? Are you a night owl or an early riser? Does it matter when you deliver your message? Carina and Martin discuss these questions and Carina gives you tips and advice on how you should manage your speech with the right timing.

We wish our listeners a happy holiday and summer. Please, listen to our podcast and our fantastic guests we have had this year. We have talked about face-reading, leadership, communication for better health, and much, much more. Stay tuned.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Martin Lindeskog's podcast, EGO NetCast
• Issue 21 of Martin Lindeskog's newsletter, Lyceum Bulletin
• Meme
• Enter the Mind of Your Podcast Audience
• Just-In-Time 
• Night owl (person)
• Early riser
• What is timing?
• Pen Meets Paper podcast
• Reporter Teleprompter Prank
• The seven bizarre traditions that make up Swedish Midsummer

Guests on Presentation (Skills) in Plain English podcast:

• Kristina Jentzen
• Gerd Wallin
• Malin Lundskog
• Eva-Marie Janelo
• Carin Hansdotter Bladh
• Stefan Langemalm

We celebrate our 40th episode of this podcast and Martin celebrates his birthday (on May 25)! How do you prepare when you are going to give a celebration speech? Carina gives you tips and pieces of advice for your speech.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Happy Birthday to You
• Birthday teacup - Martin Lindeskog's Instagram account, Tea Versus Coffee
• Memorial Day
• Birthday Speech Writing
• Få budskapet att fästa - 71 tips för din pitch, presentation och tal, by Carina Ridenius

Today's guest Kristina Jentzen is an interior designer (inredningsarkitekt in Swedish) for over 15 years. She is running her own interior design studio and has worked with offices, schools, restaurants and libraries.

Kristina is passionate about helping companies develop their brand and to improve people's everyday lives with well-designed interiors. Today she talks about interiors, what they can do for a company and how they can communicate.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Fika - Wikipedia
• Kristina Jentzen's website
• Kristina Jentzen on LinkedIn
• Kristina Jentzen's article on ergonomics and working from home.
• Kristina Jentzen on Facebook

Learning and taking information from the web is today's topic. We learn from many different sources. But maybe different subjects demand different ways of learning. And you have to be critical of the sources. Carina and Martin are discussing different ways of information, learning, and meetings.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Hermods AB
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Google Arts & Culture
• Carin Coach AB
• How Do You want to Perform in Life?
• Podgeek
• The Feed
• 1857

Today's guest is Gerd Wallin! She is talking about how you can achieve successful meetings, by taking certain steps in the right direction. Gerd lives in Rönninge, south of Stockholm in Sweden. She started her company, Coaching och Konsult Gerd Wallin, in 2011. She helps her customers to get a job and to find copartners. She is coaching and teaching her clients how to market themselves, with social media and networking activities. She has also written a couple of books. The latest one was edited this spring.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Gerd Wallin's book, Mötet - nyckeln till ditt nya arbete
• Her new book, ”Hitta din motivation," is an anthology, will be published by Ariton, during spring 2020.
• Gerd Wallin's site
• Gerd Wallin on Instagram
• Siv Thuresdotter - Quality Business Network
• Petra Ariton - Ariton Förlag
• Sophie Tergeist - Bookboon.com Ltd. 

We have a guest: Malin Lundskog, media- and communications scientist, that after a long sick leave due to burn out, refocused her career into health. Malin calls herself a health creator with a mission for all of us to enjoy a healthy and sustainable life, without any fuzz. And she is assured that if we communicate lovingly with ourselves, both by listening and talking, we would treat ourselves better, feel better and accept ourselves for who we are. This is the beginning of a healthy ripple effect!

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• The Law of Jante
• Rational egoist
• How to Create a Chain Reaction of Good Habits
• Malin's blog
• Program for members: GLAD FRi STARK
• Daily inspiration on Instagram
• Malin's books

Do you always need to see the person you are talking to? These times - coronavirus. The society shuts down, your meetings are canceled - how should you communicate? Carina and Martin are talking about virtual meetings and if it is important to see the one you are talking to.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Keep Calm and Carry On
• Face Reading
• Ringr - Martin Lindeskog's interview with the CEO of Ringr, Tim Sinclair.
• Skype
• Slack
• Me Time - Happify
• Martin Lindeskog's tweet to Tim Ferriss

Listen to our interesting guest, Eva-Marie Janelo, from Neosoma, and learn more about Face Reading. Eva-Marie has a diploma in acupuncture, certified laser therapist, and specialist in Face Reading. Eva-Marie is a Certified Master Face Reader from Lotus Institute in USA.

Eva-Marie says: ”We are all born with an intuitive ability to interpret facial expressions of another person, but we mostly do it on an unconscious level. By learning which one of the facial muscles corresponds to different emotions, we can learn to consciously interpret a person's emotional expressions without saying any words. Through training, we can also learn to perceive these secondary changes in the face. The facial expressions are universal no matter what culture or world corner they originate from. The difference is that with words, we describe emotions differently in different cultures.”

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Face Reading
• Lotus Institute
• Poker face (blank expression) - Wikipedia

You can use storytelling in many ways. Listen and find out. But do you have to tell if it is based on a true story? Carina and Martin are having a discussion on this topic.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• All Ears
• Our conversation with Carin Hansdotter Bladh.
• Donald Miller
• Building a StoryBrand
• Crafting Your Brand Story in 7 Simple Steps
• Case study by Stylt: Joe Farelli's restaurant in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Intervju: Erik Nissen Johansen – Stylt Trampoli
• Lyceum Bulletin by Martin Lindeskog
• Stories Lock in Knowledge by Chris Brogan
• StoryLeader
• How Chris Brogan Never Runs Out Of Content Ideas
• Cay Lundén
• Jingle by Jim Jonsson of JTunesProductions. Do you have a theme song / signature tune for your life, business, or podcast?

It is time for exhibitions both for Carina and Martin, and maybe also for you? It is a lot of fun, but also sore legs and feet. 

Have you thought about your voice in this loud environment? How should you take care of your voice, so it is lasting longer? Carina will give you several pieces of advice.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• PodCoast
• Unconference
• Vad är en knytkonferens?
• WebCoast (2011 - 2015)
• Veras Gräsmatta - Chalmers University
• Gothenburg Boat Show
• Kroppen – din egen Marshall amplifier
• Hylla hållningen
• Dags för mässa

Why is it important to tell the audience a story, when you are giving speech?

Are there stories that are too much? And if so, why?

Do you have a story to tell? 

Maybe it is about how you managed a special situation when you had a speech, or if you felt embarrassed about something. Please, reach out to us via social media, or send us an email. We want to hear from You!

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

• Grimm Brothers
• Eddie Izzard
• Cliff Ravenscraft
• Cliffhanger
• StoryBrand