The Lighten Up Project
How Do You Add Humor to a Speech If You're Not Funny? Stop Telling Jokes!
If you've ever thought, "I'm just not funny," and used it as a reason to keep humor out of your speaking, your leadership, or your life, this episode is your permission slip to think differently. Malc...
How to Stay Calm Under Pressure: Using The PACE Framework
This week the Lighten Up Project gets a fresh, younger perspective on pressure — on the court, on the track, and inside your own head. Seventh-grader, competitive tennis player, and TEDx speaker Vihaa...
How to Help a Quiet Kid Build Confidence
Speaker, author, and TEDx alum Jackie Bailey believes no child should ever feel they have nothing worth saying. In this tender Mental Health Month conversation, she shares how breaking a lifelong sile...
How to Get Your Sense of Humor Back
In this Mental Health Month conversation, mindset and self-talk strategist Ly Smith shares the tender, funny, deeply human story of how a single word — laugh — became the anchor that lifted her out of...