It’s Good To Talk and I’m so Grateful

Apparently, from the time I started to be able to speak, I did, to myself, to my parents and to anyone who’d listen, I say apparently because I was too young to remember.?

I’m told of a story of my toddler self looking through the letterbox and announcing to my mum that “that woman who’s always knocking on the door to borrow things, is outside”!

At infant school my teachers threatened to sit me away from others often in a bid to stop me talking to my desk neighbour, so during class and my reports contained those well recognised words “Jennifer would do so much better if she talked a little less in class”

As a child at church, I was creative enough to ask be taught sign language alphabet from the pastors daughter, so that me, her and my sister could continue our conversations spelled out on our hands in silence to avoid the glare of our parents willing us to shut up!

Although the talking theme continued, it didn’t come that easy to me when I was required to publicly speak, in fact for the first two and a half decades, it racked me with nerves.

These nerves went beyond sweaty palms, and feeling uncomfortable, these nerves had me unable to sleep soundly, my sleep racked with visions of all the ways things could go wrong. My lips quivering so hard as I spoke that my voice shook, my words came out in staccato and my volume decreased to the point of a low ambient ramble, just as well because I couldn’t get the words in my head, outside of my mouth.

As the decades passed and I was employed to:

• ?call strangers and sell them newspaper subscriptions
• ?take calls to book dream holidays
• ?host welcome meetings in far flung destinations around the globe
• ?train colleagues to underwrite mortgages,?
• ?show financial advisers the best way to present their clients residential and commercial mortgage desires
• ?speak up at client meetings
• ?lead staff through trainings and appraisals
• ?speak out in boardrooms?

When this transformed into a self employed CEO life it required me to:

• present the products my company had created?
• speak about services and sell the unseen
• stand on stages to engage, inspire and motivate
• create cashflow through conversations and conversions
• be authentically visible and publicly speak?

To do what many people fear and dread most...

Be seen, be visible, take up time to speak up and to speak out.

Over time and with some significant investment into me, I learned how to change the no’s to yes, how to turn the can’ts into cans and how to stop self sabotage through tolerating the things I didn’t want to do or be.?

I’d put up with being uncomfortable, under confident, uncertain, unheard and invisible.

I could only crack the code, when I realised there was no code to be cracked.

It’s Good To Talk and I’m so Grateful

The investment in myself, the transformation and evolution has allowed me this year, to make a difference at places like:?

The ExCel

QEII Centre Queen Elizabeth II Centre

New Scotland Yard

The Ivy

My desk (reaching people online and internationally in well over 30 countries)

For these organisations:?

The Metropolitan Police

The British Chambers of Commerce?

TEMBO (amazing event marketing and content experts)

Sands?(non profit)

The Association of Women Travel Executives?

The Institute of Travel and Tourism’s Future You

Compliance and Financial Services Professionals

Multiple UK Based Business Groups and Networks

And perhaps you too?

It’s you I’m grateful to, because with every opportunity, invitation and new client come the opportunities for you, your career, your business, our world, the possibility that we all get to make a difference and create a ripple effect.

This is why I do the work I do, for YOU.

It’s good to talk.

So please don’t stop talking, be heard, it’s time because your voice really matters especially to those who want what you and value you.

People are always watching, listening and looking for you, it’s good to talk to be visible, to type and write so that they can find you.

To those of you who have booked me to speak, hired me to train your teams, had me work with you privately and explored the Visibility Activator System? (a sequence of essential steps to raise your professional profile and become even more visible), I want to thank you, not just for trusting me, but for trusting in YOU and the work you do.

Thank You?

PS Find out more about how to book me to speak at your organisation, to train your team or work together to help you raise your professional profile this year and beyond schedule a time to Speak to Jenny?

Who is Jenny?

www.JennyKovacs.com

Jenny Kovacs, is a Visibility Specialist, known as the Queen of Being Seen, and is a well-regarded speaker, mentor, coach, trainer and business owner.

Jenny has regularly appeared on?the BBC throughout the UK and speaks on the topic of professional visibility internationally.?Creator of the Visibility Activator System?, Jenny’s five key pillars show you ways to be visible, and how to raise your professional profile in a way that's profitable.

Jenny’s trainings and talks have spanned well known corporations, brands, companies, have been delivered to 1000’s of clients worldwide, both in person and online and cover the mindset, insights and practical tools that have you and your work seen with credibility, confidence and clarity authentically as you, all without feeling pushy or showy.