Making the Invisible Visible: Live Signature Talks from Our Thought Leader Academy Grads

How do you turn an overlooked pattern or experience into a thought leadership message that changes how your audience sees themselves and the world around them?

One of the most powerful things a speaker can do is make the invisible visible.

In this Back Stage with Speaking Your Brand live show, our lead speaking coach Diane Diaz hosts three of our recent Thought Leader Academy grads, Stephanie Warner, Noa Stisin, and Carolyn Clow, as they each deliver a 10-minute version of the signature talk they developed in the program.

Each speaker makes an invisible influence visible:

• Stephanie reveals how our sensory environments quietly shape our energy, capacity, and leadership.
• Noa explores how a parent’s internal state and inherited patterns shape what happens in difficult moments with a child.
• Carolyn shows how the often-overlooked practice of self-leadership affects our ability to lead others.

You’ll hear how they:

• Bring an overlooked problem or pattern into view
• Use stories to make an unseen experience recognizable
• Give audiences language for something they may have felt but couldn’t name
• Turn an abstract insight into a memorable framework
• Offer a practical next step audiences can use in their own lives

We also have a roundtable conversation about what Stephanie, Noa, and Carolyn have learned while developing their talks and what’s next for them as speakers and thought leaders.

About Us: The Speaking Your Brand podcast is hosted by Carol Cox. At Speaking Your Brand, we help women entrepreneurs and professionals clarify their brand message and story, create their signature talks, and develop their thought leadership platforms. Our mission is to get more women in positions of influence and power because it's through women's stories, voices, and visibility that we challenge the status quo and change existing systems. Check out our coaching programs at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com.

Links:

Show notes at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/490/

Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/live/ZWHCwywBH1Q?si=U6QsPCGhG4EqTEc-

Discover your Speaker Archetype by taking our free quiz at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/quiz/

Apply for our Thought Leader Academy: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/academy/

Connect on LinkedIn:

• Carol Cox = https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolcox
• Diane Diaz = https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianediaz
• Stephanie Warner = https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-warner-tcp/
• Noa Stisin = https://www.linkedin.com/in/noastisin/
• Carolyn Clow = https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolynaclow/

Related Podcast Episodes:

• Episode 355: What a Signature Talk Is and What It Should be Doing for You

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