In my whirlwind of a career as a professional speaker and author, constantly navigating through airports, speaking on stages across the globe, and engaging with diverse audiences, the concept of a prolonged pause seemed unfathomable to me. However, life, as it often does, has presented an unexpected...

It’s hard to describe how nervous I was to meet with my new speech coach. My career was ascending rapidly, but Ron Arden was the coach to the speaking heavyweights — Brian Tracy, Ken Blanchard, Patricia Fripp, and many more. I had invested an amount that made us really stretch for his insights — a...