Voce Veritas

11/06/2024

Chop wood and carry water.

Both through and after your shock and grief.

Carry on.
Make your art.
Speak your mind.
Rally around what you stand for.

When you are ready come out from your den of despair— and head toward the Light.

There is great work to be done.

Your body.
Your mind.
Your voice.
Your soul.

Every single part of you is needed..

When you are ready, chop wood and carry water.
And Remember:
You are free to weep as you do so.
Remember: You are free to set it down when it overwhelms you.
Remember: You are free to ask for help.
Remember: Kindred spirits are everywhere waiting to be seen and invited to the effort.

Together, moment by moment, day by day, year by year we will get through this together.

Chopping wood and carrying water.

02/17/2024

Join us on Wednesday, February 21st, for this webinar on my latest book, Presence, Distilled.

Join us as Catie Glynn, in-demand speaker, best-selling author, and professional presence coach, shares her insights, tips, and techniques about how to improve your image and communication skills. This webinar is designed for anyone who wants to enhance their professional image and presence.

12/21/2022

Today is the day my new book, Presence, Distilled, heads to the printers! It should be available on Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Amazon within 24-28 hours.

It is a companion to my first book, Leadership, Distilled: Twelve Brief Lessons, One Big Impact.

Drawing on my experience as a performing artist and nearly twenty years of coaching, this new book outlines Five Points of Presence: Breath, Posture, Gesture, Content, and Mindset, which I believe are cornerstones to being a better human being and a standout leader.

No matter where you are on your journey to discovering who you are and how you show up in the world, Presence, Distilled offers keen insights to those who wish to cultivate deepened awareness and practical guidance toward unleashing a uniquely personal brand of Presence.

My dream is also to inspire educators, coaches, facilitators, and mentors to pass the Power of Presence on to anyone, anywhere, who desires it.

Thank you, Stef O'Keefe, for your brilliant editing, Sarah L Minor Design for the cover design, and to my dear friends Dean Bell, Saoirse J Storey, and Jack Uldrich for adding your kind words to the back cover. And to every client I have ever had, you and my mentors are my finest teachers.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

11/04/2022

I am honored to speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2022 on November 15th.

I'll discuss the Five Points of Presence (Breath, Posture, Gesture, Content & Mindset) featured in my forthcoming book, "Presence, Distilled & Unleashed."

Lansing Office Works is part of an innovative network of coworking spaces that foster innovation & entrepreneurship in rural communities throughout Iowa and beyond.

If you are in the area, please consider joining us!



The writing of my latest book is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

A 60-minute lunch and learn about the Five Points of Presence. During this engaging and experiential conversation, Glynn will share her best practices focused on breath, posture, gesture, content, and mindset that every great leader needs to have in their toolkit of presence techniques.

03/01/2021

Here's an excerpt from a recent article on Medium. It's an initiative of awareness and compassion and practical tips for our online workplace:

Let's initiate a sense of space and grace regardless of our circumstances. Let's find a way to honor and assist artists and service workers, overworked teachers, the homeless, and poverty struck… Let's give a wider berth when walking and wave to people on the street since they can't see us smile. Let's use our words to say how we feel. Let's slow down and use short phrases like, I see you. I get that, I hear you, I'm sorry. Let's mean those things when we say them. And if we lack words… Let's simply hold silence and breathe together. Let's laugh when someone's cat, dog, child, or partner enters the online meeting. Let's cancel meetings when the technology is on the fritz so people can go out and play instead. Let's have fewer Zoom meetings and when we do have to have them, let's consider it a conversation rather than a presentation. Let's consider sharing a good meal in our virtual spaces as we speak. Let's collectively remember to put the mute button on when someone is speaking and turn it back on when it's our turn to talk. Let's allow people to work from their bedrooms and wear jammie pants if that's their M.O. Let's say to hell with all past etiquette and blunder through to the next set of norms - if there are even to be norms. Let's explore like children in a safe wood. Let's assume those we encounter mean well and desire many, but not all, of the same things we do. Let's think about other's safety and well-being. Let's learn to listen and observe and start embracing that we really do live in a melting pot and that lines are blurred and beautiful - the world is becoming abstract art, and that not everyone likes abstract art. Let's think about when we say things like, "Hey guys," not everyone identifies as a "guy" and that there is a simple way around that - Let's say their names. Let's consider that some of the world's greatest geniuses are isolated in small villages or tents and don't possess the internet. They have yet to make their voice known, and it may not be online. Let's open our eyes and ears for those messages. Let's remember that some who are touted as geniuses are really just the product of advertising and quick propaganda. Let's ponder the fact that almost every religion in the world begins its stories with a garden-like state that gets f - d up. Let's look up and out and experience wonder and awe. Let's be ready and willing to absorb the lessons there are to behold in Nature. Let's expand our minds and hearts and metaphors to the point of a big bang-like expansion and see what happens next.

Care to join me?

03/01/2021

Storytelling connects us, and yet many of us don't consider ourselves able to do it. In this article on Medium, I offer you the first steps in learning how to tell stories.

I teach storytelling in the workplace. It’s a great privilege. Often, when the day begins, people say things like, “I’m not a…

03/01/2021

Teaching an online workshop last week I utilized the following phrase of creating "space & grace" as an important concept and a paradigm shift I'd like to promote.

You can read more about it in this article I wrote for Medium.

Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal…

02/17/2021

This man...this poem...take time to read, reflect and then take action.

Here's to people like Reginald Dwayne Betts--a man making black history.

In September of 2019, I had the great pleasure of working with Ph.D.

02/04/2021

Need a Thought Partner or Executive Coach to help up your game and establish a greater online presence? Check out our updated website.

Voce Veritas is a global Leadership Presence & Executive Coaching Firm offering services in one on one coaching, speech writing and custom designed workshops.

11/22/2020

Feeling oversaturated with social media? Here's an article I wrote on Medium that may help.

The conundrum of saturation: learning to listen to your body when your mind is full