Catherine Bell explains her approach to preparing for public speaking: she focuses first on understanding and serving her audience, identifies a few concrete bullet points of value to deliver, and then relies on in-the-moment inspiration to say what’s needed. The emphasis is audience-centered value and flexible, authentic delivery.
You, how do you prepare for your talks? I definitely, I'm a deep thinker, so I spent. I definitely spend time getting connected to and figuring out, like, who is my audience? What, what is it specifically, how can I best serve them? Okay. Like, it's always them. What can I serve them with? Okay. And so where, how can I bring value to them? And so when I connected to that, then I, I usually have a few bullet points of, like, here's how I'm going to bring value. And then the rest of it is just, it's inspiration in the moment, and it always seems to be the perfect thing that needs to be said.
