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31/10/2026

Do great speakers still get nervous?

We asked Lauren Clemett, The Brand Navigator and a keynote speaker who calls the stage her happy place.
Her answer: yes. Every single time.

She still does her breathing. She still settles herself before she walks on. And she says the nerves come from something good: caring about the outcome.

In her words: “It’s not about me speaking, it’s about what they’re going to take away from that experience.”
Seen that way, nerves are not a sign you are unready. They are a sign the audience matters to you.

A little anxiety can be a really great thing. A big room asks for more energy than a small meeting, and those nerves can give it to you. The goal is not to make them disappear. It is to use them for good.

Full conversation on Beyond the Keynote.

Available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Do not just speak. Illuminate.

30/10/2026

Waiting for an agent to fill your speaking calendar?

A lot of speakers hope an agency will be their ticket onto the circuit. For award-winning keynote speaker Lauren Clemett, CEO and co-founder of The Audacious Agency, it is only a small part of the picture.

By her own estimate, most of her bookings come to her directly.

The reason is not luck. She keeps in touch long after the event. She writes a newsletter. She keeps a CRM. She shows up at the expos and conferences where her audience gathers, so people know she exists.

In her words: “It’s a business. It’s a business.”

Being brilliant on stage is what gets you rebooked.

Staying in touch is what makes sure they remember your name when the next conference is being planned.

One happens in the spotlight. The other happens quietly, week after week. Together, they are what turn a great keynote into a speaking career.

Full conversation on Beyond the Keynote.

Available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Link in bio.

Do not just speak. Illuminate.

29/10/2026

Nobody walks out of a beautiful shopping centre talking about the lighting.
They just say they love being there.

That is what great curation does.
It disappears into the experience.

Speakers and presenters know this better than most. Hours go into the slides. The order. The strongest point first. The story saved for last. It is careful, professional work, and it matters.

And yet the audience never experiences the slides alone.
They experience the person in front of them.
The voice. The presence. The stillness before the point lands.

That is the part that so often goes uncurated.
Not because it does not matter.
Because it is rarely what we are taught to prepare.

The experience you create is more than the information you share.

So before your next presentation, a question worth asking:
What would change if you gave yourself the same care you give your slides?

I would love to know. What gets the most attention when you prepare to speak?

Your message deserves to be felt, not just heard, follow along. This space is for you.

Do not just speak. Illuminate.

28/10/2026

A keynote can take weeks to shape. Every fact checked, every point earning its place.

That care matters. It is what makes a speaker credible.

Yet behavioural scientist James Healy puts it plainly:

“If you think people remember stuff, they don’t. Memory is hugely flawed.”

So what does an audience carry out of the room?

On this week’s episode of Beyond the Keynote, I sit down with James Healy, behavioural scientist, keynote speaker and author of BS At Work, who brings the science of human behaviour to public speaking.

His path runs from philosophy at the London School of Economics to an investment bank trading floor as Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, and into a career spent studying how people really behave. He also shares the true story that finally pushed him to write the book.

His view is that we are not logical machines. In his words, “We are social, emotional, tribal storytelling animals.”

It is why he prepares his keynotes without a script, building them around stories, striking images and moments that make people laugh.
In sales, there is a saying that people buy emotionally and justify logically. Often, the same is true on stage.
The expertise earns the audience’s trust.

The feeling is what they take home.

Imagine the week after your next keynote. What would you most want your audience still talking about?

Join us for the full conversation, live on Thursday 29 October.

Do not just speak. Illuminate.

27/10/2026

Thank you, Vicinity Centres..

Being invited into a room is a gift. Being trusted with the people in it is an even bigger one.

Your team placed that trust in me at Amplify 2026, and I am so grateful for it.

There was something special about sharing Everything is curated. Except you. with a team whose work is curation. Every light, every sightline, every brand beside every other brand, decided on purpose long before the first customer walks in.

You create spaces people love to be in.

It was a joy to spend time with the people who create them.

To everyone in the room, thank you for your openness. For the hands raised, the stories shared and the lines spoken out loud together.

And to the Vicinity team behind the scenes, thank you for the care you brought to every detail of the day. It felt curated in the very best way.

With gratitude.

Do not just speak. Illuminate.

21/10/2026

In the speaking business, getting booked is a win. Staying booked is what builds a career.

So how do you become the speaker event organisers remember, recommend and keep coming back to?
On this episode of Beyond the Keynote, I spoke with Lauren Clemett: award-winning keynote speaker, CEO and co-founder of The Audacious Agency, and The Brand Navigator.

Lauren helps people who are great at what they do become known for it.

A strong keynote matters. It is what gets you rebooked. Yet being a good speaker is not always what gets you booked in the first place. That takes a brand, built with as much care as the talk itself.

Lauren runs that side like a business. A newsletter. A CRM. Showing up at the expos and conferences where her audience gathers. Staying in touch, so her name is there when the next conference is being planned.

In her words: “It’s a business. It’s a business.”

Theatre understands this well. The performance is what the audience remembers. The season of work before opening night is what fills the seats. Both are part of the craft.

And Lauren brings theatre to the stage itself, including a red esky that has her audience asking what it is. Moments do not happen by accident.

If you are great at what you do and ready for the right stages to find you, this episode is for you.

Watch the full conversation on
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com//podcasts
Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/644BHqo3YTJ6xWu8ldNCI5
and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-keynote-show/id1872529651

Do not just speak. Illuminate.

18/10/2026

The secret to persuasion? It starts with what they care about. 👀

As a young lobbyist in Minnesota, Lindsay Dahl sometimes had two minutes in a hallway to make her case to a politician. She came to see it as a big game of chess.

Every politician had a district back home and priorities of their own. The same pitch in every meeting was not going to work, so Lindsay set aside what SHE cared about and framed the entire story around what THEY cared about. In her words, it meant meeting her audience where they are.

Over her career, she has helped pass more than 30 state and federal laws on toxic chemicals.

Conviction gets us into the room. Curiosity about the other person is what moves them.

Watch or listen to the full conversation with Lindsay Dahl on Beyond the Keynote, now available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

17/10/2026

Her field runs on science. Her keynotes run on stories. 🎤

Lindsay Dahl works on toxic chemicals, a topic she describes as heavy and technical. After years of speaking, grassroots organising and lobbying, she has seen one thing hold true: people remember stories. They do not remember facts.

It applies to her as a speaker too. On stage, she remembers the story she needs to tell for each slide, not every fact. And neither will the audience.
So she practises until she knows her talk through and through, then puts her real focus on finding the best story to carry the information.

The facts give a message its weight. The story is what lets an audience carry it home.

Watch or listen to the full conversation with Lindsay Dahl on Beyond the Keynote, now available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

15/10/2026

99% visuals. No words on the screen.

Lindsay Dahl joins Beyond the Keynote to share how she turns a heavy, technical topic into keynotes that audiences feel and remember.

An author, Chief Impact Officer and environmental health advocate, Lindsay has spent more than 20 years making the case for safer products, helping to pass over 30 state and federal laws on toxic chemicals.

Many presenters build their slides like a script, line after line of text to hold onto when the nerves arrive. It is a natural instinct, and it can pull attention away from the very connection a speaker hopes to create.

Lindsay works the other way. Each image carries an emotion and cues a story, and she has delivered a 35-minute keynote with no notes and no teleprompter.

An audience may forget the bullet points. The picture, and the story that came with it, tends to stay.
This conversation is an invitation to let the message breathe.

Watch the full conversation with Lindsay on the Beyond the Keynote YouTube channel.

14/10/2026

No one is born a natural speaker.

In this episode of Beyond the Keynote, Lindsay Dahl shares how an introvert at heart learned to speak up in rooms where the stakes could not have been higher.

Lindsay is Chief Impact Officer at Ritual, an environmental health advocate and author of Cleaning House, and has spent two decades helping pass laws that take toxic chemicals out of everyday products.

Early in her career, she stood before a panel of politicians ready to test every word she said, with her nerves impossible to hide. She wasn’t speaking for an industry. She was speaking for families, and asking powerful people to change course.

She walked out of that room determined to get better. In this conversation, she shares exactly how she prepares her speeches today, the approach that now carries her onto stages in front of thousands.

If you’ve ever had to speak up for something that matters, this conversation is for you.

🎧 Full episode with Lindsay Dahl out tomorrow, Thursday 15 October.

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