by danarubin | May 5, 2018 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin _____ In the recently released Glenn Gould: The Goldberg Variations – The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions, you can hear the restless energy of a perfectionist. Over four days in June 1955, Gould recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations at...
by danarubin | May 5, 2018 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin _____ In a refreshingly candid piece in the New York Times, two reporters on the international desk tackle a persistent and exasperating problem: why there are so few female experts cited in articles about political science, foreign affairs,...
by danarubin | Feb 15, 2018 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ In 2011, in response to the question, “Where can I find examples of great women’s speeches?” Denise Graveline created “Famous Speech Friday” on her blog, The Eloquent Woman.Week after week, she enthusiastically added another speech to...
by danarubin | Jan 18, 2018 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin _____ “Audiences teach you a lot,” says the actor John Lithgow, “and the toughest audiences arguably teach you the most.” His insight is road tested. Lithgow spent ten years delivering his one-man show, “Stories From the Heart,” in cities and...
by danarubin | Jan 18, 2018 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin _____ What kind of people get their name on a building? Think deep-pocketed donors (The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Getty). Historical figures and luminaries (Lincoln Center, the...
by danarubin | Jan 18, 2018 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin _____ Andrea Carpenter was moderating a panel at a real estate conference in Prague in the fall of 2016 when she got fed up. She was one of only three woman on a jam-packed program, and found herself wondering: why aren’t more women on stage? With...
