VMC Media Coaching

VMC Media Coaching

I offer one to one coaching packages to bring out the story of your business in the very best, most saleable and most captivating way for ALL MEDIA
WHY?
You want to promote and publicise your business.
You are planning to do radio/television/online/print interviews to publicise what you are offering
BUT
You are nervous! Or you are just uncertain/unsure/plain terrified.
You have questions
How will you come across in interviews?
What will you say?
What will you sound like? Will they like you?
Will you say the wrong thing?
What is the best thing to say?
You know that you only get one chance to make a great first impression and you don’t want to blow it…….so what should you do?
This is where I come in!
HOW?
A coaching session with me will give you an opportunity to practice telling your business story to a highly experienced journalist (who is also friendly and on your side!)
Together we can pull out your best, most entertaining, most captivating, most inspiring and above all most saleable story. We can find the best way for you to feel GREAT about telling your story and for you to appeal to audiences across all forms of media.
We can work out what parts of your story are most important to focus on and what parts to leave out.
You can have an opportunity to practice guiding the interview in the direction that most benefits you and your business.
You can become relaxed, confident and happy when being interviewed by the media.
You will take away an MP3 of your interview with me.
WHY ME?
In the same way that you live and breathe your business, I adore mine! My passion in life is meeting people like you and bringing out the best in them, so that they can share their stories with the world.
I have spent 25 years as a journalist, interviewing all kinds of people……..ranging from the very famous to the very fascinating and everything in between!
People that I have interviewed VERY experienced interviewees like Bob Geldof, Edna O Brien, Van Morrison, Goldie Hawn, Michael Palin, Deepak Chopra, Sinead O Connor, Eckhart Tolle and Jilly Cooper….but they also include many, many, many business people with little or no experience in the media…. chocolatiers and bee-keepers, stunt riders, twitter experts, yoga teachers, cobblers, jewelry designers, shop-keepers, bakers, hypnotists……... All kinds of people from all over the world.
The publications that I have written for are hugely varied too, they include L’Uomo Vogue, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Independent, The Daily Mail, Grazia, Marie Claire, Q Magazine, The Evening Standard, Les Inrockuptibles, The New York Daily News, www.billionaire.com, Paris Vogue, The Irish Times, The Irish Post…..and many more.
For radio, I present a weekly lifestyle show on Dublin City FM ‘The Art Of Living’, where I interview people about what they do for a living and what that is like….another great way to meet a huge range of business people and help them to get their stories out.
I have also presented a gardening show for RTE and researched documentaries for television.
What this means for you is that I have had the opportunity to thoroughly research what makes a good interviewee!
I have learned the secret of what makes a person captivating and enchanting to an audience in ALL MEDIA, be it print, digital, radio, telly or whatever else you want to be on.
As a published writer, and as the partner of a celebrity, I have been interviewed myself many times on television and radio, in print and in documentaries. And so I know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of the questions…..something that most journalists do not get to experience! I even had the chance to get grilled by Podge and Rodge, possibly the most terrifying television personalities ever!
Because of all this experience, I can help you to be as relaxed and effective and awesome as you can possibly be.
BUT!
That is not all!
As well as my own media training and experience, I have also trained and qualified in areas which compliment my coaching.
Public Speaking
As co-founder of Speaking Suppers (www.speakingsupper.com) , I facilitate public speaking events in Ireland and the UK, where everyone from experienced professionals to complete novices can get up and speak in public. Public Speaking is well known to be in human beings top five most dreadful fears, along with death and the dentist…but unlike the dentist, it is something that a person can come to enjoy!
I have studied Speech and Drama and acting, but I have also studied a more holistic approach called ‘Transformational Speaking Circles’, and I have taken workshops in the art of presenting with charisma. If you need help with your public speaking, I can definitely assist you in speaking in a manner that suggests that you are not about to be tortured and killed, and maybe even in a way that conveys confidence, enthusiasm and authority. I come highly recommended as a public speaking lecturer after having given several master classes at Dublin’s Trinity College.
Breathing/Relaxation
I have trained as a yoga instructor. Which means that I can teach you simple yoga breathing, stretching and relaxing exercises (which can even be done in your car) to keep you calm, centred and focussed and to tame those annoying critical thoughts.
I am also a trained Reiki practitioner….Reiki is a soothing, relaxing and uplifting energy healing technique to help you to be deeply relaxed in an interview situation.
I have also studied NLP and hypnotherapy, and I often use guided visualisations…..an extremely useful way to get positive outcomes for myself and others in presenting and public speaking.
Apart from all of this expertise I am deeply passionate and excited about helping people to share their stories with the world.
AND I understand that no two people are the same, you are unique, and that is why I tailor my media coaching to you, the individual, rather than having a one size fits all strategy…..you may need loads of help in one area and none at all in another. So together we work out what you need and how to give you the best result.
We all want the same thing, whoever we are and whatever we do, and that is to feel good. And when we can inspire others to feel good, we feel good too!