Hi, this is Elisa Likt and this is Leave Your Mark the podcast where I brew fresh career advice with some of my most inspiring and successful friends.

It's professional advice that you can action immediately, whether you're just starting out in your career or well on your way.

With a massive to-do list and a large cup of coffee. I promise that you can get it all done and still

have time to post about it. I am so excited to welcome my friend and personal media trainer,

Jillian Strauss, back to leave your mark. Jillian is the CEO and founder of Strauss Strategic

Communications. Fun fact, Jillian also edited

both of my books. And we're here to do a deep dive into the speeches from the Golden Globes.

Not all of them, don't worry, but just a few that really stood out to us as something we both

need to speak to from two different perspectives,

although we have a lot of synergy in the way that we think.

Gillian, welcome back to the show.

Thank you.

It's so great to be here.

I love how we just hopped on.

We're like, let's do this episode right this second.

Let's kick it off with Demi, because I know you really felt strongly as somebody who trains CEOs

and celebrities in how they speak publicly, but also write speeches for them. Tell me what

you thought of Demi's speech. I think it was one of the best moments of the night and

definitely the best speech of the night.

She did everything I would tell a client to do.

She told stories.

She told the story about how somebody called her work a popcorn actress, a negative story,

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