Speaking Your Brand: Public Speaking Tips and Strategies

Have you ever wondered what it really takes to create, practice for, and deliver a powerful TED-style talk - especially one that’s only 8 minutes long? In this episode, I’m joined by Diane Diaz, our lead speaking coach at Speaking Your Brand, as...

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Have you ever wondered what it really takes to create, practice for, and deliver a powerful TED-style talk - especially one that’s only 8 minutes long?

In this episode, I’m joined by Diane Diaz, our lead speaking coach at Speaking Your Brand, as we take you behind the scenes of our recent TED-style speaking experience.

We were invited to be part of a live event called ElleX, hosted by a women’s entrepreneurship group at a local college. 

We had only one week to prepare our full talks for the audition!

Diane and I share:

  • How we came up with our topics and aligned them with the theme

  • The difference between a TED-style talk and a typical keynote or presentation

  • How we approached “memorizing” our talks (spoiler: we didn’t, exactly!) What surprised us about the experience (and what we’d do differently next time)

  • Why it's essential to amplify who you naturally are on stage

  • And… which of us has decided TED-style talks are not her favorite and what is 😉

You’ll hear how Diane used humor and storytelling to deliver a deeply moving (and yes, funny!) talk about her Ironman triathlon journey and how I wove in women’s leadership, history, and AI into my talk about the future of tech and humanity.

Whether you're preparing for your own TEDx talk, want to challenge yourself as a speaker, or simply love the behind-the-scenes of crafting powerful messages, this episode will inspire you to lean into your unique style and maybe even try a new speaking “muscle.”

Want to discover your speaker archetype? Take our free quiz at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/quiz  to get personalized recommendations based on your strengths.

We’ll add the video links to our talks in the show notes as soon as we get them, so check back!

 

Links:

Show notes at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/430/ 

Discover your Speaker Archetype by taking our free quiz at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/quiz/

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What is Speaking Your Brand: Public Speaking Tips and Strategies?

It's time to escape the expert trap and become an in-demand speaker and thought leader through compelling and memorable business presentations, keynotes, workshops, and TEDx talks. If you want to level up your public speaking to get more and better, including paid, speaking engagements, you've come to the right place! Thousands of entrepreneurs and leaders have learned from Speaking Your Brand and now you can too through our episodes that will help you with storytelling, audience engagement, building confidence, handling nerves, pitching to speak, getting paid, and more. Hosted by Carol Cox, entrepreneur, speaker, and TV political analyst. This is your place to learn how to persuasively communicate your message to your audience.

Carol Cox:
We're taking you behind the scenes of the

recent Ted style talks we've delivered,

and what we surprisingly learn about

ourselves as speakers on this episode of the

Speaking Your Brand podcast.

More and more women are making an impact by

starting businesses, running for office,

and speaking up for what matters.

With my background as a TV political analyst,

entrepreneur, and speaker,

I interview and coach purpose driven women to

shape their brands, grow their companies,

and become recognized as influencers in their

field. This is speaking your brand,

your place to learn how to persuasively

communicate your message to your audience.

Hi there and welcome to the Speaking Your

Brand podcast. I'm your host,

Carol Cox, joined by Diane Diaz,

our lead speaking coach and personal brand

strategist. Hi, Diane.

Hi, Carol. It is great to have you here

because today we're going to talk about the

Ted style talks that we recently created and

delivered. It was a lot of fun because it's

always a challenge to put together an eight

minute talk, because you feel like it's not a

lot of time to get a message out,

which is not. But then when you have to that

really memorize it. But we'll talk about how

we didn't memorize, but what we did instead,

because we wanted to make sure we adhere to

that eight minute time. But then when you

have to start practicing it, you start

realizing that eight minutes is actually

longer than you think. Absolutely.

Okay. So this was for an event called LX.

It's put on by a group called the L

collective that supports women entrepreneurs,

is through one of our local colleges here in

the Central Florida area where Diane and I

live. And we Diane, actually,

you originally found out about this event on

LinkedIn because the woman who runs the group

had posted about it.

So can you tell us a little bit about what

intrigued you about it and why we why we

decided to apply and then what that

application process was like.

Diane Diaz:
Yes. Yeah. You're right. I heard about it on

LinkedIn or saw it on LinkedIn. And I had

been sort of loosely following L collective

for a while, but their events and things like

never lined up with my calendar.

And then I just happened to jump on LinkedIn

to just, you know, look through my newsfeed.

And there it was. And I was like, oh, this

looks like something we would want to do.

So I immediately sent it to you and said we

should apply for this.

And we did.

The application process was interesting.

We applied and then had to kind of give the

concept for the talk.

Then once we did that,

we got notified.

Both of us got notified that they wanted us

to audition, which I had never auditioned for

a talk before.

I've never auditioned for anything, but

definitely not for a talk.

So that was new. But the audition was our

talk, so we found out one week that we got

chosen for the audition, and the audition was

the following week.

So we literally had one week to put together

the entire talk, know it enough to audition

in front of a group. I think there was

probably like 5 or 6 women that we auditioned

in front of the group running this event,

and we individually auditioned on the same

day, actually one right after the other,

and then from that, they then reached out to

us to let us know that we,

both of us, were chosen to be part of this

inaugural group delivering their LL talks on

the stage. So it was it was very different

than what you and I normally do for speaking,

which was fine, but it was it was a new

experience for both of us.

Carol Cox:
Yes. And as we get into this conversation

today, I actually want to talk a little bit

about these different types of speaking

engagements that there are and,

and how I liken it to being an athlete or a

musician. And we'll get to that.

So remind me as, as we get more into the

conversation. But yeah, so we put together

our application and we.

The theme for the event was about

collaboration. So basically,

like women can rise together when we

collaborate. So we want obviously they wanted

the talks to relate to the theme of the

event. So we knew we kind of had to take

whatever our idea was and our and,

you know, this kind of story driven, personal

story driven and get it into that idea of

rising together and collaboration.

And I really wanted to talk about I so I

really had to like, stretch the theme of

like, yeah, we can collaborate with AI,

but we're going to be more human. I was like,

whatever, it's it's fine.

And then Diana, I'll have you talk about the

topic for your talk. But we did the

application, which were standard application

questions. What is your topic about,

you know, who are you, why do you want to do

this topic? That kind of stuff. And we had to

do like a little one minute video for it.

But then when we got notified that we had to

audition and literally it was one week later

and we were so busy because we're running the

Thought Leader Academy,

we had panels that we were moderating for the

university where we teach because they had

their big annual event that was also that

same next week. So I think the audition was

on a Wednesday, literally on Sunday,

the day before, I sat down to actually script

out the eight minute talk because all I had

was a paragraph, and then I had to script it

out, and then I had to memorize it enough for

the audition on Wednesday.

And I literally just like as I was driving

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday around town, I

would just say the talk over and over again

in the car is that is that what you did?

Diane Diaz:
Pretty much what I did,

yes. So I, I did script it out very quickly

and sort of refined it a little bit.

And then I think I only started I'll do air

quotes, memorizing it probably a few days

before, before we had to deliver the audition

because there really was no time.

And I, I was repeating it to myself as I was

on my long walks.

And so I know that somebody might be coming

my way. And I'd stop because I thought

they're they're going to realize I'm not on

the phone because of what I am saying,

and they're going to think I'm losing my

mind. So I wouldn't.

Every time somebody would approach me, I

would just know more.

So. So I practiced it on my long walks and I

it was nerve wracking because I would

ordinarily like more than a week to try to

memorize more than three days, to try to

memorize something, but.

Carol Cox:
Not only memorize it. We had to create the

entire talk, create it.

It wasn't created when we submitted the

application initially.

Diane Diaz:
Write, create it, memorize it. And also not

just that, but the delivery of it.

Of course, my delivery in the audition wasn't

as powerful as my delivery on stage,

but it still needs to be good because I need

to get selected. So I needed to put some

emphasis on some things right. So that has to

be you have to think that through and

practice that as you as you practice.

Carol Cox:
Yeah. So I mean, obviously we've done a lot

of public speaking over the years and,

that kind of putting the reps in definitely

helps for this.

And then what we did for the audition was

that we brought our phones and our phone

tripods. And so we asked,

is it okay if I record we record our audition

for us. So I set up the little tripod on the

table. They were also recording it for

themselves so that they could go back during

the selection process and have that.

But I am so glad I recorded my talk,

because then the actual event wasn't until

two months after the audition.

And honestly, I, I mean,

of course I had my outline,

but I didn't remember what I actually said

during the audition, so I'm glad I had the

video and I ran a transcript of it.

And then so that way I was like, oh yes,

like, this is indeed what I meant to talk

about. So now I can refine it and practice it

from there.

Diane Diaz:
Yeah, it was the same for me when it came

time to start memorizing for the actual

delivery of it, I thought,

oh, I don't even really remember what I said.

Like, I knew the general idea,

but I don't remember the words.

I'm like, oh boy, good thing I had the

recording and my script.

Carol Cox:
This is why we always tell all of our

clients, no matter what speaking engagement

you're doing, whether it's an audition like

this, or you're at a conference breakout

session or a lunch and learn,

get a phone tripod to set your phone up.

Nobody. Nobody minds.

Just use it for yourself.

You don't. I mean, obviously create video

clips for social media.

That would be great too, but mostly for

yourself. So you have it so you can go back.

And I know we don't like to watch ourselves,

I get it, but it is helpful to have it even

just to run a transcript of what you said,

much less to actually watch the video.

Diane Diaz:
Absolutely, absolutely.

Carol Cox:
So, Diane, tell us about your topic for your

talk.

Diane Diaz:
Yes. So my topic again,

the theme was collaboration over competition.

And I used a personal story of when I got

wrangled into agreeing to do my very first

triathlon without knowing how to swim.

And so I told the story of the process of

going through, you know,

agreeing to that and then going through

learning how to swim and just the support of

other women all along the way,

which was the collaboration that allowed me

to do something that I didn't know how to do

when I first started doing it.

And so it allowed me to complete an Ironman

triathlon. And so it was almost like a story

within a story. It was the larger story was

this idea of all the collaboration that I,

that I had from all these other women.

But within that, I was telling the story of

my noticing this girl three miles from the

finish, who was crying and how I,

you know, I could have either just continued

on my way or I could say something to her,

and I did. And how other people saw us

talking and me trying to pep her up and other

people from the sidelines.

Other athletes came over and started pepping

her up too. So that story within a story all

went right to what the theme was.

So that was the the gist of my talk.

Carol Cox:
And Diane, it was excellent.

I mean, and I'm not just saying that.

It really like you were the first speaker.

Diane Diaz:
I was.

Carol Cox:
And I think they picked you for a reason from

the audition. Because you like your story.

I mean, obviously, we practice this so much,

and we we teach this to our clients.

But your storytelling,

not only the content, but your delivery.

Like, you know, you use the stage and you act

it out and you use your body and,

you know, like you're leaning over and you're

doing the movements.

And it just added so much dynamism,

dynamism to your talk.

Diane Diaz:
Thank you. Yeah. I you know,

I took the approach because I think for one

reason I did this is that I took the approach

of almost approaching it,

like the comedy set that I did way back when

was like a year ago, which was five minutes.

And the approach that I took for this,

I think because it was such a tight

turnaround for the audition,

I decided to make it funny because also

that's just who I am. And I if I feel like if

I can get them laughing,

then I've got them.

So I thought, you know what, I'm going to

take that approach because I will feel more

comfortable giving the talk if I feel like I

am able to be me, which is being funny.

So I tried to make the movements part of

that. Right? So I tried to make,

you know, sort of act things out and facial

expressions and body language and just like

leaning over. And so I tried to do that to

create interest, but also to make it fun for

me, because if it's fun for me,

that's going to translate to the audience.

Carol Cox:
Yes. Yeah. And I think it definitely did.

And we're hopefully we're getting videos of

our talks because since it was out of

college, they had their media students there

with a really nice camera equipment recording

it. So we don't have the videos as of the

time that we're recording this, but we'll

include the video links in the show notes. So

whenever you happen to be listening to this

in the future, hopefully the videos will be

there and you can go check them out.

So yeah. So Diane kicked it off and there

were 11 speakers total.

I was second to the last.

So I was in the the second half of the group

after the break. And all the speakers were

really, really good variety of topics.

But they I mean, the content was good,

their stories were good,

their, their stage presence was really good.

I was very impressed.

Diane Diaz:
I was extremely impressed because I think

some of the women do speak,

but not all of them necessarily speak that

much, but they all sort of had their own

individual style, which was nice because

everybody's style was different. The stories

were different. Some of them were.

One lady was particularly hilarious,

and I think she, if I remember correctly,

is an attorney.

But she was she was hilarious in the way she

was telling stories, and I think she also

adlibbed a little bit,

it felt like. But that made it funnier how

she would just pick up on the audience

laughing, and then she would add a little bit

more to that, and it just made it even

funnier. Everybody did so great.

Carol Cox:
And. And so here here's my there's takeaways

that I, we want to share with with you all so

that you can think about this. Whether you're

doing a formal Ted talk or a Ted style talk

or any type of speaking, engagement is the

first thing is amplify who you naturally are

as a person, as a speaker,

and as a communicator.

Diane is naturally funny like that.

You know, when we hang out, like she and even

in our text messages and things like that,

like that's just who she is.

So I when it came out in her talk,

that's what made her talk so excellent was

because it channeled who she naturally is.

Same with that other woman who's an attorney

who is also funny but funny in a different

way than you are, Diane.

But it worked for her because that's who she

is. And so she kind of channeled that.

So I am much more academic,

like I brought in history to mine.

I have my tech background. I talked about AI,

so it was definitely a different approach

than what you do, Diane. But if I tried to do

what you do, it wouldn't.

It would feel weird to me?

Diane Diaz:
Absolutely. I think that is one thing that

most people probably make the mistake of is

trying to be a certain way.

Maybe the expectation is like,

oh, I need to be academic or I need to be,

you know, very, you know,

emotional or whatever the case may be.

And then we try to fit that.

And then I think it shows up in the delivery

because it doesn't feel congruent with who we

are. Right.

And I know my delivery of my talk would be

impacted by if I felt like it didn't quite

align with me. Right.

So I have to have it be who I am.

So I try to put humor in all my talks because

it is who I am. But also your talk being

academic, first of all,

it made sense for the topic that you were

talking about. And also,

I think it made a lot of impact on the

audience because of the facts you were

sharing and the points you were making being

backed up by historical context and different

things like that. It really I mean,

I was looking around the room and I could see

people with like, oh my God,

really? I didn't know, like I could see the

looks on their faces. So it really hit.

Yeah.

Carol Cox:
Yeah. So my talk was about how with AI,

we need to make sure women are in leadership

positions helping to make decisions because

AI is going to impact everything that we do.

And so even no matter who you are,

you don't have to be the on the board of a

big AI company to make a difference.

You can have these conversations about AI in

your workplace and your schools,

communities and so on. So that's what I was

talking about, which is important to me.

But again, like and I try to add little bits

of humor intentionally,

like as I'm going through my script and I did

I did ask ChatGPT to help me with that fail

like it is not. It is.

Diane Diaz:
Good.

Carol Cox:
Humor, humor. I was like,

it was so corny and so bad.

I was like, forget it, I'm just gonna have to

find my own.

Diane Diaz:
Yes. Yeah, well, I do remember when you

shared a point about the amount of VC funding

that goes to women and that it's actually

gotten worse. And I was looking around the

room and I think people were stunned by buy

that?

Carol Cox:
Yeah. Yeah. It's been around 3%,

3 to 5% over the past 20 years.

And it's going in the negative direction.

Diane Diaz:
Not right. And people were I could see on

their faces they were like oh my God.

So I think it was impactful in a much

different way. Right. So that's the thing

about it. Using your own natural style.

Carol Cox:
Yes. So now that leads me to what I mentioned

earlier about this idea of thinking about

your speaking as a musician,

a musician or an athlete would do.

Because here's what made me think about this.

So a couple weeks after this TEDx style event

that we did, I had two speaking engagements

on the same day. Don't really recommend

because it is a lot, but it just turned out

that way. Totally different events. So the

first one in the afternoon,

I spoke at a higher education conference

about the work that I'm doing with AI,

with the students that I teach in our

business and marketing classes.

I spoke at this conference last summer as

well. So that was that was fine.

So that was in the afternoon. And then in the

evening on that same day,

I did an hour long presentation at an AI

meetup, which was about how I'm integrating

AI into speaking your brand into kind of back

end operations, podcast production,

and so on. So that was a lot of fun.

And I had probably about 60 slides.

I love slides like, you know,

give me presentation topic and I'm going to

create a bunch of slides for it. So and

here's the thing though I didn't practice at

all for the hour long presentation,

I didn't have time. Like again,

my schedule is back to back.

I had I had to get the slides done,

but I knew I would be 100% okay.

Yes, because I follow the framework that we

use all the time.

I had the slides to cue me.

I know my content, I know my stories.

And this and I talked about this on the prior

episode, and I really did treat it as a

conversation with the audience.

And it was so effective,

and I was probably my most enjoyable speaking

engagement I have had,

at least in recent memory.

Because, number one, I like the topic. It's

like a fresh new topic for me,

and I really felt like I it felt very in

alignment with my speaking style.

So here's what I feel like.

I actually do not like the Ted style talks.

Diane Diaz:
Oh.

Carol Cox:
I have decided.

I did not like it because like Diane,

you just applied for a TedX event.

Diane Diaz:
Now I understand why.

Carol Cox:
You told me you're like Carol, you should

apply to. And I'm like, nope.

And I was like, I couldn't piece it together

at the time. And I was just like,

you know what I appreciate?

Like, I have so much reverence for our

clients who do Ted talks and do amazing.

Diane, you do amazing.

But I'm glad I did it because,

again, if I was a musician and I only played

piano and I never tried guitar and I never

tried a wind instrument,

or I never tried song writing or singing,

I would be limiting myself in my skill set.

Same thing as an athlete like you need to do

different things because you're going to

figure out number one, what you like the

best. But also you need to also know,

like you need to work those other muscles.

I have worked this eight minute Ted style

muscle now a couple of times,

and it just just does not suit me and what I

like to do. I like the meandering,

conversational 30 45 minute talks.

Diane Diaz:
Yes. No, I, I can see your point.

I, I, I do love those,

but I think after having done that comedy set

that I feel like the eight minute Ted style

talks, they're more performance versus,

I don't know, talk like presentation.

Right.

Carol Cox:
They're like more.

Diane Diaz:
More.

Carol Cox:
Conversational.

Diane Diaz:
Yes. They're more performance versus

conversation. And I kind of like them both.

But I've sort of now gotten bitten by that

performance element from having done the five

minute comedy set and then now having done

this one, both of which I made funny because

the first one had to be. But then this one I

wanted it to be. And so I even approached my

submission to this Ted Ted that I applied to.

I approached that with humor because that's

the only way I want to do it. If it's going

to be, you know, just dry.

I mean, I'm just not going to do it because

I'm not going to have fun and I want to have

fun doing it. But I think because I do make

it fun, I, I never was a performer when I was

young and in high school or college,

but this element of sort of being on the

stage and being like that center of attention

and then getting a laugh,

it's the getting a laugh, I think that's got

me. If I can get a laugh like,

yeah, I love it. And so okay,

so if I'm doing the eight minute thing and I

can get 1 or 2 laughs,

then I feel good about that,

that style.

Carol Cox:
Yeah. Well see. And this is why,

for those of you listening, try all these

different types of speaking engagements

either. If it's not a formal TEDx event.

Find these TEDx style events because they pop

up here and there and it is good practice.

Even if you feel like,

oh, I don't know if that's my thing or I feel

intimidated by it, you should do it because

you may end up loving it and not realizing

it, or you're going to learn.

You know what? Like, I can see the benefits

and I'm glad I stretched myself,

but I really prefer this other type of

speaking and I really want to hone that

instead.

Diane Diaz:
Yes. Yeah, it's kind of like improv versus

standup, right? We did improv.

I don't like it. I never like it.

Anytime that I do it, I do it.

I understand the benefit of having done it,

and I take the benefits and I know what I've

learned from it.

I would not want to do it on a continual

basis because I just don't enjoy it.

What I do like is the is the stand up set,

because I'm in control of all of that and I

can tee up the laughs and get the laughs

right, whereas I don't have to rely on it

coming in the moment, which it never does.

Right?

Carol Cox:
Yes. All right. So I'm glad.

I'm so glad we've had these speaking

engagements. And this is also the reason why

I like to do more speaking engagements,

because you're going to figure out what you

like and what you don't like,

which which types of audiences you like,

what size audiences you like,

what types of venues you like,

what types of topics you like.

This is how you become a better speaker.

The more you do it video yourself.

I haven't really watched my videos yet,

but I need to do it.

I will do, I'll do it,

but I have it. It will happen.

So Diane, any other like lessons or takeaways

from either this specific Ted style talk that

you you did or kind of just our conversation

around finding what suits you the best.

Diane Diaz:
Well, I would just say just a tip for people,

because I know that it is often overwhelming,

like you can create this great talk and then

you're like, well, how am I going to remember

it? Right? So I have a trick that I used for

the five minute comedy set, and I used it

here as well, and it worked.

It was worked both times and I will use it

again. And so I share this as a way to do

this. I would suggest chunking out your talk

and giving yourself keywords for the

different chunks. So my talk was eight

minutes. I think I came up with,

um, maybe it was six six sections and so six

keywords. And I just remembered those words

in order, just the words.

Or it might have been like a two words,

right? Like a two word phrase.

I, I started there, that's where I started

with memorizing it. And so I just would

repeat the words, repeat the words in order,

in order. And then I would put it away for

the day and see, can I remember these

tomorrow? And then the next day, okay,

then I've got those words down. And then I

would start to practice the content around

those words.

You know, what goes. And then that's the

order of my talk. The words,

the words in order is the order of the and

the flow of my talk. So if nothing else,

I've remembered the order. I don't have to

remember every word I'm going to say. I just

need to remember the order of the words and

then talk around it.

And then once I did that,

then I could identify little bits where I'd

get stuck, like, oh, I got to say this thing

because that's like the hook in that portion.

Well, I can't remember that. So then I would

practice that part over and over again,

but it helped me identify where I would get

stuck without having to.

I didn't look at it as memorizing a whole

talk. I looked at it as memorizing just words

at first, and then just chunks at first and

then, okay, now here's the places I'm getting

stuck. That's all I have to worry about.

And it worked.

Carol Cox:
Yes. And I did the same thing,

especially for the audition, because it was

such a fast turnaround.

And that really helped a lot.

And I know from once I finished the audition,

I was like, oh, I switched two places around

like two. Like, I call them paragraphs,

like sections around, but I'm like,

but it worked, okay. And guess what? Nobody

knows. Nobody knows. Right?

This is the thing we say. Like nobody has a

script in front of them that's like,

oh, she said this sentence instead of this

sentence, and she put this before this.

Diane Diaz:
Nobody knows exactly, exactly.

Carol Cox:
So just just go with it and have and have fun

with it. Like, that's the thing I think we're

trying to tell so many of the women we work

with. Like, yes, you're going to feel like a

little nervous, especially if it's the first

time you're giving this particular talk that

you haven't given that one before.

But ultimately, try to find a way to have fun

with it, enjoy it, you know,

get to know the audience,

interact with them beforehand.

So you kind of have warm faces that,

you know, friendly faces that are smiling

back at you. Try these different types of

speaking engagements as well,

because that is going to help you to kind of

flex your muscles and see what it is that you

like and don't like. And if you want to kind

of if you want to figure out what your

speaker archetype is, there's four archetypes

we've identified the stellar scholar,

fabulous facilitator, spellbinding

storyteller, and the provocative performer.

Diane Diaz:
Diane, that might be me.

Carol Cox:
Maybe moving into the provocative.

Diane Diaz:
I think I am.

Carol Cox:
So if you want to hear figure out which is

yours, go to speaking your brand.

Quiz again. The quiz?

It's free. It's just ten multiple choice

questions. It's a lot of fun.

You'll get your archetype right away,

and then you'll get recommendations for how

to lean into it more, because we want you to

do more with what you're naturally good at,

but then also recommendations for how to kind

of add things to it so that you're amplifying

what your natural strengths are. So I know so

many women have taken that quiz and have

really enjoyed getting their results,

and there is no bad archetype like there are.

All of them have their strengths.

Lean into which one is yours.

Like, I'm the stellar scholar,

but I know that I intentionally have to bring

in the performance aspects and the

storytelling aspects.

So now I'm very mindful of that when I'm

creating my talks.

Diane Diaz:
Yes, yes, I love that.

Carol Cox:
All right, Diane, thank you so much for

joining me today on the podcast.

Diane Diaz:
I loved it. Thank you.

Carol Cox:
Until next time. Thanks for listening.