Katherine explains why she became a Vibrant Speaker Coach for Entrepreneurs in January, drawing on 16 years working with entrepreneurs and a December 2021 insight. She created Speak With Your Body to help women entrepreneurs use movement and nonverbal communication to break free from conditioning and become more expressive speakers.
What inspired you to become a Vibrant Speaker Coach for Entrepreneurs? Well, it's an interesting little story. First of all, I've just been a Vibrant Speaker Coach for Entrepreneurs since January, so it's a really recent— I'm going to say career move. I have been working with entrepreneurs since 2006. And teaching them how to manifest clients. I launched the Manifesting Clients Academy in 2017, so I've been working for a while with entrepreneurs around growing your business and manifesting clients. And boy, was I surprised in December of 2021, just this past December, when I got a download that basically made me realize that with my experience as a dance movement therapist and my experience as a speaker that I could provide training for women entrepreneurs to break free from the conditioning they had growing up or in corporate America that stifled their full expression. And here's what happened, Dotty Scott, over the last few years we've been on Zoom calls. You've been on a lot of Zoom calls. We've all been on a lot of Zoom calls. A ton of Zoom calls. A ton of Zoom calls. And I would sit here and watch, especially the women entrepreneurs. I've seen men, but I just don't have as much passion for working with men as I do for working with women. I just feel like we matter, and I want us to step up, to speak up, to share what we're here to do. And I would watch women entrepreneurs speak at summits, speak at networking events, And some of them would speak in a monotone voice. Some of them would not use gestures of any kind. They were all being— a lot of people were being really nice and polite and just really nice. And I would just hurt. It would hurt my heart to see this because I know there's more to all of us, that there's more expression, there's more vibrancy. And when I see that and when it— When any of us see a speaker who uses her entire being, and we're going to talk about that, nonverbal communication skills. When a speaker does that, they're more interesting. If they have good content, yeah, they are. If they have good content, wow, they're powerful speakers. So those women who were not yet using what's inside of them that's available. When I see that, I— my heart hurts. So in December, when I got this download and realized that from my past experience as a dance movement therapist, I have the knowledge and I have the skills to provide a training that people can use to be authentically vibrant, I created a program. I call it Speak With Your Body. And I said, all right, folks, is anybody willing to try this? And I got a few people to try it at a low cost because I had no idea if it would work. I wasn't ready to call myself a Vibrant Speaker Coach, but some people said yes because they'd already worked with me and they know— well, I want to say they know I'm wonderful. You are wonderful, Katherine. Thank you, Dotty Scott. And I've learned that this actually works. And I love to see people become aware of the ways in which they've held themselves back and that they don't have to anymore. And when I see them step up and speak out in more vibrant, expressive ways. It makes my heart sing.
