Speaking Your Brand: Public Speaking Tips and Strategies

Do you feel like hitting pause when everything around you feels uncertain? Whether it's the economy, politics, AI, or just the general state of flux we're all living in, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure of what to do next. You’re not alone -...

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Do you feel like hitting pause when everything around you feels uncertain?

Whether it's the economy, politics, AI, or just the general state of flux we're all living in, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure of what to do next. You’re not alone - I’ve been feeling it too.

In this episode, Diane Diaz and I talk candidly about what we've been noticing in ourselves, our clients, and the conversations we're having behind the scenes here at Speaking Your Brand. Spoiler alert: pausing too long or isolating yourself isn't the answer.

Instead, we share:

  • Why action creates clarity and how to act your way to right thinking

  • A behind-the-scenes look at how we’re navigating uncertainty at Speaking Your Brand

  • How in-person speaking engagements and networking are helping us build momentum

  • Why now is the best time to connect and take action (even if you’re an introvert)

  • How to experiment and refresh your offerings without overwhelm

  • What to do when ChatGPT gives you too many ideas (yes, really!)

If you’ve been feeling stuck, this episode is your invitation to move from “What now?” to “What’s next?”

Let this episode be the boost you need to keep showing up, sharing your message, and stepping into your next level.

Plus, we share about our upcoming in-person workshop in Orlando, Narrative that Sells, and how it’s designed to help you attract clients, speaking opportunities, and thought leadership visibility by creating and practicing your signature talk.

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Sign up for our Narrative That Sells in-person messaging and speaking workshop in Orlando on June 5th = https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/workshop/ 

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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:
When everything feels so uncertain.

You may have a tendency to hit pause,

to overthink, or to isolate.

But I invite you to think and act

differently. And we're sharing what we're

doing 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.

Hi, Diane. How are you?

Diane Diaz:
I'm good. Carol. Hi.

Carol Cox:
We are recording this on Thursday,

April 10th, 2025.

So very fresh and new and we have been

chatting quite a bit in our own kind of

internal meetings here, speaking your brand

about all the uncertainty that's going on and

how that affects our own planning and the

goals that we have and things that we want to

do here at Speaking Your Brand. So we figured

this is probably on your mind too,

whether it's what's going on in politics or

the economy or even just with AI and how

quickly AI is evolving and all the different

changes that are happening in our industries

and our workplaces, it can all feel really

overwhelming.

And I from talking to,

you know, various women over the past month

or so, sometimes I get the sense that a lot

of people feel almost like analysis

paralysis, or they're not quite sure what to

do because things feel so uncertain.

And so yes, there, of course,

is a time and place to kind of pause and take

stock and to think about what to do,

but oftentimes stopping for too long.

You also then lose momentum and you also

potentially lose opportunities.

So we wanted to chat with you today about

that, to kind of give you just an insight on

how we are approaching this and maybe give

you some ideas for yourself as well.

So Diane, let's let's chat a little bit about

what what have you seen either for yourself

or for some of our clients or women that

we've worked with. And what are some of the

challenges they're feeling right now?

Diane Diaz:
Yeah, it's a good question, Carol.

Um, the uncertainty for sure.

Um, you know, just I think just concern in

general for, you know,

things being uncertain and how that might

impact their business impact, their work

impact, if they work for a large company,

impact their role at that company.

Um, and just wanting to stay relevant,

wanting to stay connected.

So those are just some of the conversations

that I've been having with people.

Carol Cox:
And, you know, it's I think back to five

years ago, which was April of 2020.

So we were basically about a month into the

Covid pandemic here in the United States.

And that was also a huge time of uncertainty.

We had no idea how the pandemic was going to

affect us health wise,

but also society wise.

Schools, businesses work.

I mean, we couldn't even go anywhere.

And so and I remember back then that,

Diane, we saw all of our clients who we were

running programs at the time,

and they would come to us in our weekly

mastermind calls and say,

oh, my speaking engagement got canceled for

May. Then my speaking engagement got canceled

for June, and then my speaking engagement got

canceled for August.

And so we very quickly had to pivot.

And we had to think about,

well, speaking, your brand.

Obviously, we were helping a lot of our

clients with in-person speaking engagements

because that's most of what we did back then.

Some virtual presentations,

but a lot were in person,

so we had to very quickly pivot and think

about how can we best help our clients with

where they are now to repurpose their

presentations for virtual not in person,

to help them find those virtual speaking

opportunities, to help them get more

comfortable presenting virtually.

So we had to listen to them,

have conversations with them,

change our messaging and our offers to

reflect what they needed,

but then also stay in community with them and

with other entrepreneurs who that who that I

knew and that I had been friends with for

quite a while. And I what I feel like,

what often tends to happen to me when things

are uncertain, is that I have a tendency to

isolate, to like, go quiet,

and to want to be by myself.

I am an introvert, so I tend to refuel and

get more energy by reading,

or being by myself, or listening to podcasts

while I clean the house.

But which is which is necessary.

But sometimes. But I think a lot of times,

especially those of us who are introverts,

tend to overindex on isolation.

And I feel like that's the last thing to do,

especially in times of uncertainty.

Diane Diaz:
Yes, I would agree with that. I'm also an

introvert. I think it also if I'm just

digging into my therapy my therapist brain,

I would say that that is probably also partly

a protective mechanism because it's to make

ourselves feel safe. I remember during the

pandemic I was getting that anxious feeling,

you know, we didn't have any idea where it

was going or what was going to happen or how

it was going to unfold.

And I actually had to write on a post-it note

and post-it on my mirrors.

You know, you're okay,

you're safe, everything's fine.

Right? So, like doing a self-assessment,

I'm like, I'm okay, everything's fine. But I

think that for me, too,

I have a tendency to just want to kind of go

in my cocoon, stay in my house because I know

I'm safe here. Right.

And so. But it is sort of an avoidance

strategy, which I don't think probably from

the short term it's okay for the long term,

probably not healthy and does not help you

reach your goals if you continue to do that,

obviously.

Carol Cox:
Yes. Oh, I completely agree.

It is a coping mechanism,

whether it's, you know, self-protection, that

sense of also giving yourself a sense of

control when there are so many things that

just are not possible for us to control

external factors. So what can we control?

And there's actually a lot that we can

control within our businesses,

within the work that we're doing.

And so that's what I tend to want to focus

on. Okay. So what are the things that I can

do when I can't control everything else?

Now I am also the type of person where I will

make decisions pretty quickly.

And I am very willing to experiment and try

new things. So even again,

back in that summer of 2020,

we we decided to put together this all day

live virtual summit with ten women speakers

who we coached on their TEDx style talks.

Basically, we had this idea and by October of

2020, the whole thing was live and it was

amazing. And I feel like sometimes we a lot

of people wait until, well,

let me just see what happens next month,

or maybe things will get better. Maybe we'll

get back to normal and then I can.

I don't have to experiment or I don't have to

shift anything that I'm doing,

which may be the case,

but also I like to look at this as an

opportunity to maybe now is the time to

refresh your offerings or refresh your

messaging, because maybe it's gotten a little

stale or a little stagnant,

or you've been doing the same thing for a

while, and now you can have conversations

with your clients or potential clients and

figure out what are they needing right now,

and address that instead of just kind of

recycling the same stuff that you've been

doing.

Diane Diaz:
Yeah, that's a great point. And I think that

sort of speaks to the idea that,

um, you know, I think we've talked about this

before personally, is that these things

happen in the world, whatever things are

happening, Covid, whatever. We don't have

control over that. And really,

I've come to a place of like,

who do I think I am that I would escape some

something happening in the world, right? Like

from the beginning of time,

things happen in the world, right?

And so we aren't special that we're going to

escape things happening in the world. They're

always going to happen.

So we need to figure out how to keep moving

forward in that. And I think that idea of

pivoting, refreshing your message,

looking at what best serves your clients

right now, that's a good practice and builds

a good sort of muscle for doing that again

when the next thing comes along.

Because let's be real,

that is life, right?

Things are going to come along and change,

and so getting comfortable and then staying

stuck is not the answer,

but figuring out how you can pivot and then

being good at doing that.

Being good at pivoting is a good skill.

Carol Cox:
Yes, absolutely.

And when doing the pivoting is also being

able to communicate that to your audience in

a way that that it that you're empathizing

with them, that that you are understanding

where they're at and that you're there to try

to help them to solve the problems that

they're having. Because if you think about as

a business, that's what businesses do,

is they help people to solve problems.

And so the the problems that your clients may

be having now could be different than what

they had a year ago or three years ago or

five years ago.

So thinking about what that is,

you could do a survey of your past clients,

send them an email and ask them to fill out a

survey. You can send out a survey to your

email list, kind of get a sense of what

they're working on. We did this back just a

couple of months ago to get a sense of where

people were at and what they needed.

We actually ended up putting together an

online workshop back in February to help

people identify and find speaking

engagements, because that was the top thing

that the survey respondents said that they

needed help with. And the second thing on the

list was to get help on creating their

signature talk. So we'll talk about that here

in just a little bit.

But before we get into the creating your

signature talk aspect of it is that,

again, a lot of times when things feel

uncertain and we want to either isolate or we

want to kind of press pause or say that we'll

do things later.

But actually right now is the best time to do

two things. And the two things are

contradictory.

But but they are both necessary.

The first thing is to double down on whatever

is already working really well for you,

in your business and in your marketing and in

your visibility.

And we'll share what is working really well

for us. We'll double down on what's working

well, because, you know, you're already

getting results from that.

But then the second thing which I mentioned

earlier is experimentation.

Pick 1 or 2 things that you haven't maybe

done before and start experimenting.

For example, you may have noticed that we've

been putting out video podcast episodes this

year because Diane and I have been we are

fortunate enough to be able to film in one of

the studios at Full Sail University,

where we both teach, and it's a beautiful

studio and we get and we give the students an

opportunity to get hands on experience doing

the filming. So that is something new that

we're doing, and then we're cutting up the

video episodes into shorter clips for YouTube

shorts and on LinkedIn.

So again, we're kind of experimenting in that

side of visibility.

But let's go back to what we're doubling down

on, and it is in-person events and in-person

speaking engagements because we're not in the

Covid lockdown. Fortunately,

we can go out and see people,

which is really nice. And so, Diane,

tell us about the speaking engagement you did

at the beginning of February and how

successful it was for us to get clients for

an in-person workshop, and why you think that

was?

Diane Diaz:
Yes. So I spoke at a local women's group and,

um, for professional executive women and I,

that speaking engagement came to me by way of

a connection, who I met years ago at another

women's group who I hadn't frankly talked to

in quite some time. But she remembered that I

spoke on the topic of personal branding. And

so when that came up, when they were planning

their programming for the year,

she reached out to me. So this had been

planned last year.

So the date they chose was February.

And so I gave the talk on personal branding

to this group. I would say there were I think

there were 65 women in attendance.

Um, and they were engaged.

They were energetic, they were excited.

They were fun. They played along with all the

activities, which was fantastic,

and it was incredibly successful.

We got some really great footage,

and because the topic was personal branding

and storytelling and your brand voice,

we connected it to the workshop that we were

putting on at the end of February,

and we were able to get three registrations

from the women that attended my talk at this

organization that ended up attending our

workshop, which was great,

and they already knew they could see us.

Me, us speaking your brand in action.

How we do things. So they were super excited

to come to the workshop.

Carol Cox:
Yes, and I 100% attribute that to being in

person and them literally seeing you

speaking, because we know when people see us

speak and because we do a great job at it,

that they're like, oh, I want to learn from

Diane, or I want to learn from Carol because

I want to have the same impact in the same

results from when I go and do presentations.

So yes, the timing worked out great for that.

And so even if you're so even if you're not

speaking coaches and people, I'm not going to

hire you because they see you speak.

But there is so much trust that is

automatically generated when you're with

someone in person, number one.

And that is whether you're a speaker or

you're just meeting someone out at an event,

or meeting someone at a lunch or a coffee,

there's instant trust when you're face to

face with people in real life.

And then when you are a speaker,

there's also instant credibility Ability and

authority because you're there speaking in

the front of the room or on the stage to that

audience. So you don't have to kind of prove

prove to the audience that you can do what

what you do in your business because you have

that instant credibility and authority. And

the third thing is that you're also in front

of an engaged audience who is not distracted

by a whole bunch of stuff on their computer

screen, scrolling through LinkedIn or

Instagram and all the emails that are coming

in and all the work that they're doing on the

different browser tabs,

they're there in the room with you paying

attention for 20, 30, 40,

45 minutes. That's incredible.

You really can't get that type of attention

from people online.

It's much, much more difficult to do that.

Except, of course, you're listening to the

podcast, which is another great way to do

that.

Diane Diaz:
Yeah, I think they also the other thing that

they get in person that's unique to in-person

speaking engagements is they get the

collective energy from everyone around them,

which then fuels their excitement about it.

So it's it's like it feeds on itself,

which is hard to do virtually.

Carol Cox:
Oh, that's such a great point.

Right. So they see one woman getting excited

or one person getting excited and interested

in what it is that you do as as a speaker and

business owner, then other people naturally

want to get involved too.

It's like that aspect of social proof,

but it's so tangible when you're in person.

And then I know that, Diane,

you've been doing a lot of in-person coffees,

and I go to a lot of lunches as well,

like reaching out to our network and really

just and it's not about a sales pitch or it's

not even like really a business development

conversation.

It's just to build those relationships and

then get back to feeling in community.

I know every time I go to lunch with a woman

that I know here in Orlando,

and we'll chat about kind of what's going on

in the world or in what's going on with our

businesses, is that I feel less alone.

I feel like I'm not the only one who's

thinking this or experiencing this and that,

and that I feel like lessens the anxiety and

gives me a much greater sense of,

yes, we're going to get through this and

we're going to get through this together.

Diane Diaz:
Absolutely. I've gone to so many coffee

meetings lately, and I've also done some

virtually. I just did one this morning with a

woman that I literally just met yesterday on

a webinar, so invited her to a virtual

coffee, which was a great conversation.

Um, and it's it is it does make you feel less

alone. And I think it also makes you feel

like you are taking some action steps towards

building a support system and a community,

which I find to be empowering because I am a

person who tends to be more introverted and

am fine being alone.

But I know that I can't.

You know I need to get out there with amongst

the people, right? Like I need to be with

people. So I know that I need to do that.

So it helps me feel like I'm actually

building that network. And, and then I always

try to then connect them with other people,

because that sort of sort of furthers it and

aligns with the values of speaking your brand

and the values that I have.

But it sort of continues the momentum,

and I think it creates some good juju in the

world. Right?

Carol Cox:
Well, I love that you just met a woman

yesterday in a webinar and invited her to

virtual coffee today. I think it's also that

taking immediate action or just going ahead,

like get it done, keep the momentum going and

try to kind of keep I try to keep focus on

what am I doing this week?

I try not to scroll away about what are

things going to look like in three months or

six months or a year from now,

or anything like that? I kind of try to stay

focused on the next week or two what's on my

calendar, and if I'm finding like,

oh, my Friday lunchtime is free.

Let me, let me reach out to someone and

schedule a lunch with them.

Diane Diaz:
Yes, I love that.

Carol Cox:
And so thinking about kind of what we've

talked about here so far is number one,

kind of re-examine your offerings and your

messaging. Think about what your clients need

right now, where they're are. Have some

conversations with them.

Do a survey with them.

Double down on what's working really well for

you right now in your business and marketing

and visibility. And then also add some a

little bit experimentation.

I we really, really feel like you cannot go

wrong with in-person coffees,

lunches, events, speaking engagements.

That really is going to accelerate that trust

and that sense of authority and credibility

and also attracting clients to you.

And then the other thing is that as you're

working on kind of thinking about,

maybe you do need to pivot your offerings or

your message a little bit.

It's don't try to just do this all in your

own head without a sounding board or feedback

from someone else, because raising my hand

from personal experience,

I mean, I have like pages and pages of

handwritten notes in Google Docs,

and I'll even will use ChatGPT as a thinking

partner to help me generate ideas.

And it's helpful to a point.

But honestly, then I get so overwhelmed

because sometimes it comes up with so many

ideas that I don't even really know what to

do next. And so that's why I'm so grateful to

have Diane, because we'll have our meetings

and we'll talk. We'll talk,

and then we'll just figure out what's the

next thing that we're going to do,

not the next ten things or not,

what we're going to do from here for the next

year. But like, what is the next thing that

we want to do and how can we help our

clients?

Diane Diaz:
Yes. Yeah, I love that. I like that idea of

focusing on just the next thing,

because then you can always have a next

thing. There's always something that you can

do. So just what's the next thing, what's the

next thing, what's the next thing?

Carol Cox:
And Diane, in the notes for our conversation

today, you you put in this and I love this.

You said AA has a saying about this.

Do you want to share what that is?

Diane Diaz:
Yes. And this, by the way,

this comes from my being a rabid fan for the

Armchair Expert podcast.

This is where I heard it, because of course,

the host of that is is in AA.

Um, but I just they have a lot of great

pearls of wisdom from AA that they share,

and this is one that keeps coming up over and

over. And I love it because I'm a person of

action. It's that we don't think our way to

right action, we act our way to right

thinking. And you can apply that to anything,

right? We can say, I wish I had the

motivation to work out,

but guess what? The working out gives you the

motivation to want to work out right?

So it's the doing of the thing that creates

the action to want to do the thing.

So you actually have to do it even when you

like. If you're just thinking about doing,

you don't have to wait for some motivation to

strike you to go have coffee with someone.

Just do the thing.

And then the more you do the thing, the more

you'll do the thing.

Carol Cox:
Right and well. And thinking about the work

that we do with our clients,

I have heard from so many of them over the

years who are have been hesitant to go and

deliver the first their talk for the first

time. So whatever talk that we've created

with them and then we're like,

okay, but you're never going to figure out

how to make it better,

or what you want to change about it until you

give it, because it's it is never going to be

perfect. And number one, it will never be

perfect. And it will change every single time

you deliver it. But you're never going to

know that until you go and actually do it and

deliver it somewhere.

Diane Diaz:
Yes, there's so much power in action,

and I think we forget that,

which I think again, speaks to that idea of

just invite someone to coffee,

even if you just met them yesterday, invite

them to coffee. Reach out and connect with

them. Connect them with someone else.

Just taking that action of what's the next

thing can create more action.

It's amazing how that works.

Carol Cox:
Yes, yeah. It's like it builds like the

momentum builds on itself.

So in in keeping in all the things that we

just talked about here today and we of course

want to walk our talk.

So we too have been surveying our clients and

talking with them and figuring out what is

the best way that we can serve you all.

So we are hosting another in-person workshop

in Orlando on June 5th.

So just coming up in less than two months,

we the ones we did last fall and then this

past February were so successful.

The women loved them so much.

It was so high energy.

It was so fun.

They had a great time not only building their

stories and building their messaging and

building their talks, but being able to

practice it on the stage that we have there

in the room in such a safe,

supportive, encouraging environment.

And they literally just love meeting each

other and getting to know this incredible

network of other women entrepreneurs and

professionals. So this workshop we're calling

narrative that sells because we know that in

these uncertain times,

what your business needs is to continue to

attract leads and clients to keep the cash

flow going. So we want to help you to do

that. Now, you may be thinking,

well, but you all do public speaking and

signature talks. And what does that have to

do with narrative that sells well?

What we haven't done a great job at messaging

to you all. Is that so many of our clients,

when they have they have their signature talk

created after working with us.

They use it, yes, for their speaking

engagements, their business presentations and

their keynotes and conference sessions,

but they actually end up using it for so much

more. They use it for email nurture

sequences, copy on their website,

social media posts, podcast episodes.

If they have their own podcast,

they use it for stories and their thought

leadership, for podcast interviews or doing

other people's podcast.

They use it in sales conversations because

now they can understand for their audience

and for their potential clients what

challenges are they're facing,

and then how do they, as the business owner,

as that expert and thought leader, help them

to get past those challenges so it makes them

stand out and differentiates them from other

people who do very similar things that they

do. So our work has always been about this

idea of, I guess persuasion maybe is is a is

a good word, but I really want to you all

listening to think about this idea of

narrative that selves is how can you get

people interested in what it is that you're

doing, whether you're attracting leads and

clients for your business,

you want to attract more speaking engagements

and opportunities, maybe media and podcast

opportunities.

So that's the work that we're going to do

with you in the full day workshop in the

morning, you're going to actually create your

signature talk using our signature Talk

Canvas framework.

So I have it. If you're watching the video of

this episode, you can see it here. So we're

going to supply you with the poster board,

all the post-it notes.

And then we're going to walk you through step

by step how to fill it out for yourself.

And the same process we use in the VIP days

that we do with our clients.

So we're going to give you the same prompts,

the same questions.

You're going to fill it all out.

Then we're going to have lunch together. And

then in the afternoon we're going to talk

about delivering your message.

So how do you embody your message.

So yes, for speaking engagements,

but also when you're meeting people at

networking events, what is that elevator

pitch, but in the best way,

like in a conversational way?

How do you tell people what you do?

How do you how do you embody that sense of

confidence that you have in your business and

the work that you do with your clients?

So that's what we're going to get you on the

stage and where you're going to have you

practice a story or have you practice a

portion of your talk.

It truly will accelerate your messaging and

your speaking delivery skills.

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And that's at speaking your brand.

Com slash workshop.

And of course then you're also going to be in

a room full of other amazing entrepreneurs

and professionals.

Diane, what's your favorite part of these

in-person workshops?

Diane Diaz:
I think the connection and just seeing seeing

the attendees, sort of the light bulb moments

of when they really get whatever the thing is

we're talking about and it really sinks in

and how they can use it.

And I want to add to just I know some people

are going to hear this podcast episode and

think, oh, but I don't want to be a speaker.

You don't have to want to be a speaker for

this to help you if you do sales calls with

potential clients, if you,

um, network, which we all do,

right? If you do, if you do anything to

promote the company that you don't work or

that you don't own, right.

Any of those things, if you're promoting

anything of any kind to anyone,

even just yourself, promoting yourself to

other people, this is the workshop for you,

because you are going to have those light

bulb moments of like, oh,

that's how I can say that.

That's how it's going to resonate with

someone. That's how it's really going to sink

in. So they understand what I do and how I

can help them. So I just wanted to share

that.

Carol Cox:
Yes. Thank you so much for adding that note.

So if you are, whether you're a business

owner, if you are in marketing,

if you're in sales, if you are a in a

nonprofit and you're doing fundraising

development or you're doing business

development for a company or an organization,

understanding how to explain what it is that

you do and why you do it is absolutely

essential. And I know that for those of you

listening, you probably do this already.

But then like like we've been talking about.

But as things change externally,

we also have to we have to refine and we have

to change how we talk about what we do.

And you need that sounding board of other

people, especially other people who are not

within your company, organization or your

industry to give you that feedback.

Because a lot of times we're in our bubbles

and we understand what we say really well to

the people who are around us in our companies

and organizations, because we all understand

the same things. When you go talk to someone

else who's not in your industry or doesn't

work in that nonprofit space,

and they're like, what? I don't really

understand what it is that that you're doing

or what you want me to do next.

So again, get all the details of Speaking

your Brand workshop.

We would absolutely love to have you here.

In our last workshops,

we've had people fly from Los Angeles,

Seattle, Washington, DC,

Texas all throughout Florida to come here to

Orlando. So you don't have to be in the

Orlando area or in Florida.

You can come from anywhere.

It's on a Thursday, so you can come and stay

for a long weekend and enjoy the sunshine and

the beaches here in Florida as well.

All right, Diane, well, thank you so much

once again for joining me in this

conversation.

Diane Diaz:
My pleasure.

Carol Cox:
Until next time. Thanks for listening.