Unleash your charisma! Sally Gray MBE and Rajan Datar chat through tips and tricks for all your presenting needs, plus interviews with celebrity guests reveal the secrets behind the world of presenting.

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Episode 4: Confidence Crash

How can you possibly present to a room full of execs or broadcast to millions viewers if you’re having a crisis of confidence? Sally and Rajan strip away at this mighty must-have for all presenters and look at what can cause a confidence crash. Plus how did award winning broadcaster Aasmah Mir find hers when presenting the Times Radio Breakfast Show from home with a plethora of technical tripwires and a small child in the next room?! Jammed packed with super hacks for any presenter who has to step up to the mic, whatever the gig.

44 min

CONFIDENCE CRIB SHEET

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CONFIDENCE CRIB SHEET *

  • Bravado. You need guts to do this. Big deep breath moment. Summon your bravado up like Hermione demanding Leviosa!

  • Back yourself in that moment - as Boy George says before trying out new material at a gig. Value your own work. A bit of self love here like a pat on the back.

  • PREP - make sure you do your due diligence - It’s all about
    THE PREP! Dig around for intel as if your life depends on it - do your research. Prepare your scripts and know where everything is.

  • Declutter - simplify your pieces and your key points. Get rid of nervy noise and negative vibes - that other voice in your head, that internal judge …do something that clears your mind; exercise or listen to your favourite music on your headphones or BOTH!

  • Dial up your persona - like a favourite jacket, slip into your personal branding (the best bits of you, your individual spin).

  • Visualise the space - go to where you’ll be speaking from and rehearse rehearse rehearse!

  • Victory Parade - metaphorically flick through your personal photo album of top work achievements in your head…great highlight moments when the accolades came in and that reckoning moment of super confidence. Draw on that. Read through testimonials, rerun compliments in your head.

  • Use the audience - live audience, faces in front of you in the room…get them clapping and interacting. Use that positive energy in the room.

  • Use positive people in your team to help you warm up, power up and layer up your confidence.

  • **And breathe!**

Episode 3: “Brain Freeze (and the Big Breakfast)”

It's a question clients often ask - 'what happens when your brain goes blank in the boardroom?’ Sally and Rajan chew away at this nightmare fear for all presenters and give some good take-out on how to fix it. Plus they catch up with the creatively brilliant presenter Rick Adams who hosted THE biggest show on TV back in the nineties - the pressure, the politics, how you just can’t force co-star chemistry and what happens when you have a brain jam on live TV?!

42 mins

 

Episode 2: King of TikTok

Sally and Rajan dive into the world of presenting on social media with special guest Ehiz Ufuah who recently hit a staggering 10 million followers. Ehiz shares the stories behind his recent meteoric rise and his plans to conquer the USA.

50 mins

 

Episode 1: The Noble Onion

Exclusive interviews with BBC News titans Allan Little and Martine Croxall on their roles in bringing the news of the death of HRH Duke of Edinburgh to the nation.

Get the inside track on how these occasions are brought to TV and radio.

1 hr 19 mins