Archive for July, 2007

And now back to our delicious summer recipe

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Angela Tunner, one of my clients, is the author of Simply Summer, a cookbook that doesn’t require the oven to create easy gourmet dishes, and she’s on tour right now. On a radio talk show in the mid-west, during one commercial break, nothing could have prepared Angela for the ad that ran just before she came back on - it was a spot for a cow carcass removal company, which proudly proclaimed that they would even take all the tissue… Follow that with a recipe!

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Whatever gets you through the yawns

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

On his blog Speak to Lead, Lou Hampton tells this great story in an article about overcoming tiredness during media interviews:

A former colleague was in the green room at the Today Show when another guest, a popular actor know for his action films, came in, sat down, and dozed. When it was time, he went into the studio, sat down and while being miked appeared to doze some more. About 20 seconds before the show was coming back from commercials, he stood up, shook both fists and let out a war cry, sat down and gave a high-energy interview. As soon as the show went to break, he slouched down and looked exhausted. He knew how to BE ON when it counted.

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