In this powerhouse episode of EPIC Begins With 1 Step Forward, Zander Sprague sits down with TEDx Brisbane curator and public speaking coach Juanita Wheeler to unpack the art—and science—of persuasive communication. Juanita shares her personal journey from self-described “screaming introvert” to global speaking strategist, revealing the deep research and psychology behind becoming a compelling speaker. She dives into what TEDx organizers really look for, how to craft a standout idea, and why perfection is the enemy of progress. The conversation also explores how to silence inner critics, why authenticity matters more than theatrics, and the power of starting—even when you feel you’re not ready. Juanita also shares her inspiring “Not Yet” list and how she’s turning midlife into a mission. Whether you’re TEDx-bound or terrified of the mic, this episode is packed with actionable insight and encouragement to take your first epic step forward.
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Secrets Of A TEDx Organizer: How To Make Your Idea Stand Out With Juanita Wheeler
The Introvert’s Journey To Public Speaking
Welcome back to another exciting episode of Epic Begins With 1 Step Forward. I am so honored to be joined by Juanita Wheeler. Juanita, tell us who you are, where you are, and what you do.
Thank you very much for having me, Zander. I am in Brisbane, Australia. I am a speech writer, a public speaking coach, and a consultant. I run my own business, as well as running TEDxBrisbane in Australia.
How exciting? I want to talk to you about public speaking, TEDx, and all of that because I love public speaking. It’s what I do, too. It’s a good day when I get to speak. That’s what I got to say. How do you get into doing public speaking?
I’m a screaming introvert, so public speaking did not come naturally to me at all. What I came to realize quite begrudgingly is that if you have an idea that you’re passionate about, or if you want to fast track your career, or if in any aspect of your life, you want to persuade people and get them to say yes to something, whether that’s in your business or personal life, being able to speak persuasively in a compelling manner is going to fast track that and make your life better.
I needed to discover a way to make that happen for me. Being a screaming geek and a nerd, I did a deep dive into all of the research, the neuroscience, the neuroeconomics, and the behavioral psychology to find a way to teach myself how to become a compelling and persuasive public speaker. From that, people started asking me to help them. It has become my mission. It’s the purpose why I get up in the morning. It’s to help people around the world champion their ideas in a way that does them justice and gets their target audience to say yes.
Public Speaking Insights: Tailoring Your Talk To The Audience
What are some of the subjects that you talk about?
The first thing to know about public speaking is that every human is different. We do not come from a mass production line. Some people are incredibly comfortable on the stage. They just need help making sure that rather than focusing on being charismatic and having people smile and laugh and say, “I love that,” but not achieve their strategic outcome of, “Did they buy from me? Did they buy my book? Did they sign on for my email list? Did they give me a promotion?” They need to focus on being strategic.
You then have a large number of people who have brilliant ideas, but are not getting outside of their shower or their cubicle because they are very much afraid of what is going to happen if they public speak. Will they make a mistake? Will they forget the words? Will they potentially undo all of the credibility in their profession they’ve spent 10 or 20 years building?
For those people, we do a lot of work on understanding what is holding them back. All of those haters in the back of your head that are telling you, “You won’t be good at it,” or “You can’t do it,” or “You’re an impostor or a fraud,” they don’t get a vote, so we’re not going to listen to them anymore. We’re going to dial up all the positive thoughts.
What we work on depends very much on the individual. There is no one-size-fits-all in public speaking coaching. It doesn’t exist if you’re doing it properly. Everything I talk about is evidence-based. It’s based on research and over twenty years of experience. I’ve coached over 100 TEDx speakers now. It’s about how to get your great idea, your product, your service, yourself, or whatever you’re trying to champion across to your audience in a way that gets them to say yes.
As a professional speaker for over twenty years myself, I do love it. Being on stage is my happy place. I love being able to share my ideas. I’m told I’m charismatic. I spent seventeen years as a technical trainer, so I know I can teach people things. I got all of that. The one thing I can say about being a public speaker, and my question for you, is when you’re sitting in the audience and someone is speaking, but perhaps, they’re not doing the best they could, does it drive you up the wall?
I’ll be watching, and someone is doing stuff like they’re pacing around like a caged animal because they’re nervous and they don’t know what to do, or gesticulating with their hands wildly. It’s so bad. I try not to do it, but then I start to pay attention to what is not. I don’t want to say what’s not going right, but like, “That’s distracting. I can’t stand that.”
A hundred percent, yes. I’m sure that’s the same with every professional, regardless of what it is, but mostly my heart aches for the person if it’s a good idea. To be ludicrously frank, if they’re just flapping their gums and are not talking about something that has real quality and substance that the world needs to know, then I let it go. If I’m listening to somebody and they have such a great idea, such a great piece of research, product, service, or message that the world needs to know about, and they’re not doing it justice, it breaks my soul a little bit.
You know some of the things that are distracting to an audience that will stop them from being able to get that message, the pacing, the speaking too fast, or the speaking too slow. One of the most frustrating things that I see is when people get up and you can see they’ve been trained, but they’ve been trained to present as though it’s some Shakespearean dramatic monologue. Speaking to the audience as though it’s a play and there are big gestures, vocal modulation, and all of those things, would be perfect if you were an actor on a stage delivering a monologue, but this is 2025.
We’re in a post-social media age where people see behind the scenes into people’s lives all the time. People they respect, know what they’re doing professionally, and know what they’re doing on their weekends. There is an expectation that you will have an authentic relationship and a conversation with people if you want them to trust you, believe you, and understand your expertise. You see this false facade very much, the dramatic monologue, and it hurts me. If they just got up and spoke as though they were having a conversation with the audience in an authentic human way, that would be so much more compelling. That makes me crazy.
The other one is, as you would know, being somebody who’s a professional speaker, you should have one solid strategic objective in your talk. You should get up and speak, and without a doubt, you should have one thing. When I go and speak on this stage, at the end of speaking, I want the audience to make this one behavioral change. Whether that is signing up to an email list, buying a product, going home and taking a specific action, or checking their skin for moles. Whatever it is, it doesn’t matter, but there’s one thing you want them to say yes to, and then do it.
I find it very frustrating. I’ve been in some talks where somebody either gives me 26 ideas, and I don’t know which one is the idea. Alternatively, they will give a presentation, and it’s heartfelt. I’m like, “I believe in everything you’ve said. You’ve 100% convinced me,” then they leave me hanging. They do not tell me what I’m supposed to do with this information, knowledge, and belief I now have.
A talk without a call to action is just a missed opportunity.
You’ve convinced me, and there’s no what’s next directive. I’m like, “You just needed two sentences at the end of that to tell me what to do. You spent 25 minutes, 5 minutes, or an hour convincing me that you are right, then you didn’t tell me what to do with that next.” Sitting in those audiences, my heart and soul break a little bit when I think, “That could have been a great talk.” Instead, it was just a good talk.
Unlocking TEDx: What Organizers Seek In A Speaker
I want to shift a little because I know there are many people, myself included, dying to do a TEDx Talk. I’ve been applying to TEDx Talks. There are ten slots, and there are 150 people. Sometimes, you get on and sometimes you don’t, but the people out there who are like, “I do have a great idea we’re sharing.” As an organizer of TEDx talks, what are you looking for when people are putting in their submission for their talk? Maybe it’s got to do with the theme that you’re doing for that talk.
There are a variety of different factors. I have a blog post on this on LinkedIn. The first thing you need to know is that TEDx events are independently run, a boots-on-the-ground version of TED. There is a split between TEDx events that allow you to apply for their event and those where you can’t apply. You’ll get a tap on the shoulder, and we’re a tap on the shoulder event. You’re looking for the same kind of thing. The best way, by the way, to find your local TEDx events if you don’t know is to please, don’t pay anybody for that list. It happens. There is a free list that TED itself puts out. If you Google TEDx event listing, it will take you straight to the TED page where they are providing all of that information.
Can I tell you my experience with that? I’m like, “Let me go see what’s local.” I have to say that I was surprised as a professional speaker and stuff. I see a list of events that TEDx Talk organized. Oftentimes, at least going from the TED Talk page and the TEDx, it would say, “Juanita Wheeler.” No contact, no nothing, and no way to find the talk. I got creative. I’m going to LinkedIn. I’m trying to see if I can find people to say, “By the way, are you accepting?” There’s nothing. I was surprised. If you’re putting a TEDx event on, shouldn’t you have some way for people to find your event? I couldn’t even get a ticket. I’m like, “That’s fascinating. I’d love to see that.”
Typically, what you’ll do is you’ll look at the event name and then Google it. For privacy reasons, they can’t stick the individual’s names all over that. For example, if you went to the TEDxBrisbane listing or if you looked up Brisbane or any place, a lot of my clients do this. They will go and find the events in their area. Let’s say it’s Palm Springs. They will then google TEDx Palm Springs, and they will have a website or different social media platforms, and they’ll reach out to them that way.
They can provide you with the names of the events and the places, and sometimes the name of the event organizer if that person has made it public on that platform. I get around 25 LinkedIn requests every week saying, “I’m a TEDx speaker. Can I speak at your event?” A lot of people choose not to have any details there, but you can absolutely google it. Find out the event and then follow them. My clients will typically subscribe to their newsletter if they’ve got one. They will follow them on social. The other thing to know is that TEDx events are volunteer-run.
Nobody is getting paid. They will typically come alive for a number of months a year, and then they’ll go dormant, and people will focus on their day jobs, their families, and everything else, and then they’ll spring back into it. Once you find the name of the event that someone is going to be on, join everything. Follow their socials, get on their email list, and then you’ll be the first to know when something comes up.
In terms of what they’re looking for, every TEDx is different. In our experience and in my experience of all the people I’ve worked with, what we’re looking for is the idea and not the speaker, first and foremost. You have to have a new novel idea. One of the charters of TEDx in terms of its curatorial guidelines and content guidelines is that you’re not putting out an idea that has already appeared in a TEDx Talk. The goal is to build an expanding new library of different and new ideas. It’s one of the first things that we look for.
We’re usually watching about 120 potential ideas and speakers at any given time. We have a long list, and we’ll typically watch people for 2 to 3 years. We will rate everything they’ve done. We will listen to every podcast they’ve been on. We will read every meeting and interview. We will subscribe to all of our surrounding universities’ updates and newsletters to find out what’s coming out of universities and what’s coming out of the community. We’ll listen to community newsletters and all of these different places to find somebody with a new novel idea.
We have all the Google alerts searches for world first Brisbane, latest research Brisbane, and all those kinds of things for new ideas. When you’re pulling together your idea, there are a couple of things you should think about. First of all, what are you so uniquely experienced in? That might be academic qualifications. That might be years of research in a field or years of work experience. It could be your lived experience that is different, which means you have a unique perspective on something.
What is your new and novel idea? You need to get into twelve words or less. As Einstein said, “If you can’t explain your idea to an eight-year-old, then you don’t really understand it.” It’s exactly the same thing. If you can’t get your idea into twelve words or less, you’re either trying to cram sixteen ideas into one, or you don’t understand your idea well enough to be able to communicate it in the shortest, purest TEDx.
The first thing is to know that it’s about the idea and not about you. You need to sell the idea first to know what it is. The first thing I get clients and potential speakers to do, and the first thing we do when we hear a cool idea and think maybe that’s something to put on a list, is we will google the main keywords of that idea and the words TED and TEDx. If there are already twenty of them, they’re not going on our list. Work out what about you is new and novel. If it sounds like it might be similar to something that has been on another TEDx event, then make sure you very clearly clarify it in your twelve words or less.
Differentiate yourself.
Otherwise, you’re not going to get past the first hurdle with most TEDx. The other thing is, even if you’re prepared to travel, make sure that if it’s from a particular city or in a particular location, or there’s a particular theme that year, TEDx is not required to have themes. You can if you choose to. Some do and some don’t. If there’s a particular theme that year, and you know what it is, make sure that you explain to yourself either why you’re associated with that city, and it would be appropriate for you to speak there, even if you live there for one year in your college years, or whatever it is.
Make sure you let them know why you would be willing to support their theme, if they have one, or the university. Try to connect yourself to why it would be appropriate for you to be there. It’s another great thing. The third thing you have to do is, we will often find great ideas. I know this is the same with other TEDx organizers I’ve spoken to. They will find a great idea that might be pitched by somebody, or they might read because somebody has put a post about it. They’re like, “This is a great idea. I need to find out more about it.” They investigate the idea, and they realize that’s not the most qualified person to speak on that topic.
Know your idea and get it into twelve words or less. Make the case for why you are an appropriate choice for that particular TEDx event, and also make an argument for urgency. We go through and go, “We could do that talk in three years. There’s no urgency.” If it’s incredibly poignant, if it’s topical right now, or if there is a time reason that makes it urgent, put it in your application. Make sure you make the case about why you are the best person to speak on that topic.
A lot of people who eventually come to work with me have been applying for a long time, but they’ve made good cases about their idea, and other people have been invited to present them. When I read what they’ve written, I’m like, “You forgot to explain why you were the expert to speak about this.” You sold the idea but not yourself. You need to do both.
The Power Of “Not Yet”: Embracing The Journey Of Personal Growth
Shifting a little off of TEDx because I love to get a full view of my guests and stuff like that. One of the things I talked about in my book is this concept of “Not yet.” There are things that we want to do, but it’s not yet. Maybe it’s to write a book or run a marathon. Maybe it’s starting a podcast. I don’t know. I’d love to ask my guests, what are one or two of your not-yets?
First of all, I have exactly the same thing with people who come to me and they’re like, “I’ve always wanted to speak but not yet.” My reply to them is always the same. It’s “Just start.” In terms of my not yet, I will turn 50, so I have a huge list of the year of things that I kept saying, “I’ll do that by the time I’m 50 or when I’m 50.”
I have a book manuscript I’m finishing writing. I am launching a podcast. I have finally started walking and running five times a week to spend time on myself. I’ve spent three decades looking after three kids and juggling careers. I’ve got three Master’s degrees, and that takes time getting that done. I have a PhD application I’m completing now to pursue my PhD in public speaking research. I live 500 meters away from a State Forest Park here, and there are 52 walking trails. I’ve lived here for over a decade and never walked all of the walking trails, even though it’s literally at the end of my street.
There’s no excuse because it’s literally at the end of your street.
At some point in time, it becomes rude and disingenuous that you haven’t done it. These are all on my year of 50 list. I’m walking all 52 trails. I am going to do walking or running five times a week and take care of myself, and prioritize myself for a start. I’m going this sleep better. I have stopped drinking Coca-Cola on Christmas Eve. I am going to get this podcast launched. I’m so impressed with everyone who has a podcast. Your show is great. Congratulations on that. The book manuscript will be completed, and the PhD application will be submitted. They are my things that I am wiping off my not-yet list.
I wish, Juanita, that you could make yourself busy because clearly, you’re not busy enough walking 52 trails, PhD, exercising, writing a book, and doing a podcast. That is an awesome list of not yet. I love the concept of not yet because it’s so optimistic. It says, “I’m working on it,” and there’s the stuff. As you know, I went and got my Master’s at 45, then I’m now a licensed professional clinical counselor. I needed 3,000 hours of internship to earn the privilege to take the licensing exam to become licensed. That’s a long trip.
Master’s degrees are no joke.
They aren’t, and a PhD is even more. That whole thing of not yet, like, “Are you licensed?” “Not yet. I’m working on it.” It takes time. I find it funny in our adult lives and in this age of instant gratification, where if someone were in their first year in university, you wouldn’t ask them if they’ve earned their Bachelor’s yet, because we realized that there’s a path that they have to take. Yet we get out in the real world and be like, “Have you completed that? Have you finished your book?” “Not yet.” If you say no, then it stops the whole conversation. It makes it sound like it may never come out.
I 100% agree. I use it with my one-on-one public speaking coaching clients all the time. In our initial kickstart meetings, first of all, I make it very clear. I say, “When you leave your house in the morning, do you talk to anybody, anybody at all, once you’ve left the house?” They will say, “Yes.” I’m like, “Great. You’re already public speaking. Now, we’re just talking about different stages.” Is it in a coffee shop, on a TEDx stage, or the floor of the United Nations General Assembly?
These are all public speaking. It’s just in different stages. I’ll ask them, “Are you speaking on prestigious lights, camera, action stages?” They say, “No, not yet.” Exactly the same thing. This is now a work in progress. Just start, and now you’re on the journey, but that is very different from “I’m not going to start.” Once you start and you’ve taken that first tiny step, it doesn’t matter, but take that first step, then your answer is, “Not yet, but I’m doing it.”
That ties right into my Epic Begins With 1 Step Forward, which is any of the epic things I’ve got to do, writing my books, running a marathon, starting a podcast, or having a broadcast TV show, all started because I said, “I want to do it. I’ve no idea what the path looks like exactly, but I’ll take one step forward. I’ll do some research.” The same way that you’re like, “Let me do some research.” I like research. Let me do research about public speaking. That’s how that started. It’s so often how that first step is not nearly as hard as we anticipate it.
I agree. Also, I’m a recovering perfectionist. That’s another layer of complexity, and I get perfectionism paralysis, which I’m working on. I’m much better, but it looks like procrastination to others. In my head, if it’s not going to be perfect, I’m reluctant to start. The first step, however intimidating it is, also depends on whether you are making that first step so ginormous that it’s intimidating, then you’ve got to look at what your first step is because your first step doesn’t have to be huge. You’ve got to dial it back and give yourself permission to make that first step, tiny or small, or completely achievable. Once you’ve done that first step, you will know yourself. There’s a sense of confidence and elation. It’s like, “This isn’t going to be so hard.”
Confidence is virtually 100% preparation. How much you prepare is how confident you are on the day.
If you make your first step of starting to do trails, walking, or climbing Mount Everest, that’s a ridiculous first step. Of course, you’re going to feel terrible. If you say, “My first step is walking around the block,” that is completely achievable for most people, unless you’re a clutch like I am. My one block is like 3 kilometers. Make it achievable, and baby steps count. Just start.
Learning From “Failure”: The Art Of Road Testing And Authenticity
The other thing that is important is that failure is part of the journey. You are going to try stuff that doesn’t work. You are going to work on your speech, and there are parts of it that you came up with that are new and you think are so brilliant. When you get out there, you’re like, “That’s not working. That story doesn’t have the impact I thought it would have,” or whatever.
I talked to my clients about that all the time. We fail all the time. It’s not that you want to fail, but you’re going to. The only thing that we will not fail at 100% is the thing that we don’t try. You’re right, some of the big, audacious goals that we have, we don’t know. When we get up in the morning, we don’t have the answers to every question that we’re going to be asked, and yet we still get up and walk out the door, don’t we? Even the recovering perfectionist who says, “If I don’t have all the answers to every question, I can’t possibly leave.”
It’s a matter of going, “I need to recognize that’s step 25 or 256. I need to start with step one and celebrate that.” That’s the other thing I’ve learned, and that I work on with my clients. We can be bad. I’m terrible. I will finish a task and I will say, “What’s next?” It won’t matter how impressive other people might think it is, and I don’t celebrate. That’s something that I’ve worked on. I’ve learned to work on it. I was modeling it for my clients and teaching it for my clients, then I’m not doing it myself. Celebrate the wins, and there are so many different ways you can do it.
My favorite is for 2 minutes to 30 minutes, pick a favorite song that lifts you up, and dance in your lounge room like nobody is watching, or if you’re an extrovert, like everyone is watching. Everyone can find 2 minutes or 30 in their day to celebrate. Before you say what’s next and start the next task, celebrate that. That helps. You talk about following, and with public speaking, I talk about road testing. Your speech is not set in stone. Even once you make your signature keynote, it’s not set in stone. You’re going to go out and you’re going to road test it.
Also, when people come back, sometimes, they’ll say, “This didn’t land.” I’m like, “Great. Now we have to have the conversation and the strategy discussion. Did that not land, full stop, or did that not land with that particular audience when you’re trying to get to this particular yes for this strategic objective?” Don’t just shove it in the bin. Sometimes, maybe it is not great, and you’ve been trying to tell them for two months. Sometimes it’s like, “There’s merit in that, but just not with this audience.”
We need to jig that, but road test everything. I used to think that if I got onto a stage or in any aspect of my life, if it wasn’t 100% perfect, then I had failed. The thing I say to all of my speakers, my TEDx speakers, and the keynote speakers I coach is, “You’ve got to stop that.” If you are a perfectionist, your new goal is the 80/20 rule. It’s 80% perfection and 20% authentic human moments. That might be that you forget a line. I give them all the strategies for what to do when that happens. It’s endearing and gets the audience on your side rather than looking like a mistake, which my former judgy self would have called it.
When you first start out, you say, “I’m going to need some notes or I need to have notes on a side table with some water, just in case.” These are all things that are in your 80% authentic human moments that you’re allowed. If you use them, utilize them, and recover from them successfully on stage with smart strategies, it can make the audience like you more because they’re a part of this authentic human moment that is special and endearing as opposed to if you’ve been trying to do the dramatic monologue, then errors seem disproportionately worse because of the style and manner in which you’ve been trying to lecture and present to the audience as opposed to have a conversation with them.
As a speaker, I have an outline because I’m not going to memorize it. I’m very good at the impromptu. Each speech I give, I’ve given the same speed 100 times, but every time, there’s something unique about it. Again, it’s got to do with the audience and with me. If the audience is into it, maybe I’m improvising a little extra, or I think of something relevant to the audience. I can make a joke about the weather. I can do something.
I was giving a speech at a graduation, and they wanted to have it up in the books, so that when I went up to the lectern, it was there. I sent them my outline, and they’re like, “You must have made a mistake. You sent like an outline.” I’m like, “No, that’s my speech.” They’re like, “What?” I was like, “That’s how I do it. I have my key talking points. I practiced. I know what I want to say.” It will be unique. For some people, they have to write it all out. The problem for me is that if I forget it, I get lost. Whereas if somehow, I’m like, “I forgot to say that point.” I’ll weave it back. Find your style. Just because it works for one person doesn’t mean it works for you.
That comes down to what I always say. It’s that confidence is virtually 100% preparation. How much you prepare is how confident you are on the day. I’ve had TEDx speakers on the stage who invariably, I’m pulling somebody out of a bathroom cubicle who is so nervous. The thing I found interesting years ago when I started doing this, specifically in TEDx, was that there was no correlation between the number of times that person had spoken before and whether they were nervous.
I thought the first time speakers would be freaking out. More often than not, it’s the speakers who have spoken 100, 200, or a thousand times, but they’d gotten complacent about it. They freaked out because they hadn’t put in the work. The one unifying thing that I hear from them is, “I didn’t do enough preparation.” All talks are different. If you’re speaking at a local Rotary or other meeting, that’s completely different.
When you’re talking, for example, on a TEDx stage, all of our scripts are locked down months in advance. We work on them with the speaker. They have to have that memorized six weeks out and sound like a robot. They can spend the last six weeks rehearsing the performance of it, and then not wandering and grappling for the next word because they’ve already got that. That reflects the fact that for our license, we have to fact-check everything they’re going to say. We have to triple-check references for everything somebody says. “Where is the science of that? Are you saying most or are you saying many? What’s your validation for using this word over that?”
Our timesheet is down to the second. If you’re talk is going for 5 minutes and 19 seconds, you have to deliver it in 5 minutes and 19 seconds. That’s a very limited and unique experience. Whereas, for most people, if they get up well-rehearsed and have done it for a while, and they know that they’ve got 45 minutes to give a keynote, they know that there are ebbs and flows. They can have some slides and not with words or bullet points, ideally. If you’ve got all the words on the slide, stop. You’ve made a slidument, which is a document trying to masquerade as a slide rather than a slide. You’ll see it and you’ll know, “I talked about this.” You don’t need to do that.
Don’t put a barrier between you and your audience—step away from the lectern.
I’ve had the same response when people say, “Send me and we’ll put it up on the lectern.” My response is, “I won’t be speaking behind a lectern. I refuse to speak behind a lectern.” People will go, “Why?” “Two reasons. First of all, I’m 4’10”. Secondly, because as soon as you introduce a lectern, you are putting a physical barrier between yourself and the audience.” That’s fine if you are doing the dramatic monologue, but if you’re trying to have a conversation with your audience and you want them to authentically get on board and persuade them to say yes to something, don’t stick the barrier in between. You step out from the lectern and talk.
Connect With The Experts: Finding Juanita Wheeler Online
Juanita, this has been a truly epic conversation. I want to thank you so much for joining me. How can people get a hold of you? How can they find you if they want to connect with you?
That would be lovely. You can find me on LinkedIn. It’s Juanita Wheeler. There will be a person wearing red. Also, I will give you my website, which is FullAndFrank.com. My company is called Full & Frank because I am. I’ll give you my Linktr.ee link with a number of valuable free guides, including how to get started in public speaking, and how to grow your business with public speaking.
I want to thank you so much for joining me.
Thank you so much for having me. It’s always lovely to speak with somebody who is also so experienced in public speaking.
Thank you so much. I want to remind everyone that if you’re ready to begin your epic journey, go to EpicBegins.com. As always, remember, epic choices lead to the epic life that you want.
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About Juanita Wheeler
Juanita Wheeler has coached over 100 TEDx speakers in addition to CEOs, entrepreneurs, authors, researchers, and change-makers to deliver presentations worthy of their great ideas. Juanita is a public speaking coach, speechwriter, the CEO and Head of Speaker Coaching at TEDxBrisbane, and the Founder of Full & Frank.
Juanita has over two decades of speaking experience, is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and a Global Fellow with the Atlantic Fellows based out of Oxford University. Juanita has three Master’s degrees (two in business and one in social change leadership). She’s the speaking coach you want if you’re serious about having your voice heard.