The one in which I answer a bunch of Qs.
Several days a week, I do a video chat with students. Here’s a transcript of one.
Want to become a great speaker? Be someone else.
A great way to practice public speaking is to channel a famous speaker or celebrity.
The best pickup line? “Check out my ethos.”
I often get asked for the tractor-beam line that will 100% win a partner. My answer: It’s not a line. It’s a rhetorical strategy.
What’s a euphemism for euphemism?
Let’s call a spade a spade. But when someone calls an earth mover a spade, don’t call it a euphemism. It’s a meiosis.
Being famous means never having to say you’re sorry.
Actually, an apology isn’t enough. Here’s what to do when you screw up.
My five-hour crash course on rhetoric is now just 50 bucks.
Yes, I look goofy. I only did the course because people had been asking for it for years.
My latest book is a novel (and, yes, it has a lot to do with the art of persuasion).
Acclaimed author Peter Heller (The Dog Stars, The Guide) actually called it literature—even though I had the chutzpah to write in the voice of a 14 year old girl. “Every once in a while a character in American literature knocks you flat.”