Season 3 Story Compilation Part 1

This episode is compiled of all the stories told by guests in the first half of Season 3 of the Best Speech Podcast.

Geomyra Pollard is a  life and business coach (geomyra.com). Follow her at @iamlivingwellrounded.

Joshua Becker is a speaker, author and blogger at Becoming Minimalist. He is also the co-founder of The Hope Effect, which supports orphans by moving them into families. His most recent book Things that Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life just came out in April 2022.

Koula Callahan can be found on Instagram at @koulacal, and her charity of choice is the Joshua Thomas Foundation, which provides prosthetic limbs to children.

Jodie Cook is a writer, competitive power lifter and entrepreneur found at JodieCook.com. She's written and co-written five books, including Business Book Awards 2021 Sales & Marketing Book of the Year, Instagram Rules.

Josh Shipp (@joshshipp ) is a speaker and an author. You can watch his main keynote speech and hear his very moving, personal history. You can book Josh or one his great youth speakers at TopYouthSpeakers.com where they book about 1,000 speeches a year for students and educators.

Charli Marie Prangley is a YouTuber with over 200,000 subscribers, the design lead for ConvertKit, and a public speaker. You can find her great content at CharliMarie.com.

Chris Norton (@chrisanorton16) is an inspirational public speaker and the founder of the Chris Norton Foundation. He co-wrote a memoir with his wife titled The Seven Longest Yards and there's a film about his life on Netflix and other major platforms called 7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story.

Ashley Faus (@ashleyfaus) is a "marketer, writer and speaker by day" and a "singer, actor and fitness fiend by night."  She currently the Director Integrated Product Marketing at Atlassian. 

David Lemus is an independent design strategist with engineering roots working with organizations to empower teams to be customer obsessed and have a culture of iterative learning. His work can be found at LemusAnd.co.

Laura Belgray  (@talkingshrimpnyc) is the super successful author and copywriter behind Talking Shrimp where she offers tons of free and paid tools for improving your writing.

Steve Kamb (@stevekamb) is the founder and leader of Nerd Fitness, community and coaching for regular people to get healthy and strong. 

Mike Pacchione (@mpacc) coaches groups and individuals on improving their public speaking. You can hire him or join his email list to receive free public speaking tips at BestSpeech.co.