This blog was originally published on the TEDxMileHigh blog and can be read in full here. Want to improve your public speaking in 2020? It’s just as important to know what not to do, as it is to know what to do on stage. As TEDxMileHigh’s Content Producer, I review hundreds of talks each year, […]

Two heads are better than one, right? Wellllllll, maybe not on the TED stage. The overwhelming majority of TED & TEDx Talks feature a single person, but two-person talks (duets) do exist. Per TED, “While we don’t have any rules that prohibit two speakers giving a talk together, we generally discourage it.” In this article, […]

I love a good myth-busting talk. Telling the audience they’re wrong is a sure-fire way to get them to listen.  It plays off two basic human instincts – 1) Not wanting to be wrong about anything, ever (hello, ego!), and simultaneously / paradoxically, 2) Wanting in on a secret. Don’t know what I’m talking about? […]