The Magic in Owning Your Story, with Jackie Goddard
Episode 74. “…hopefully people will realize that there's nothing wrong with a bit of showing off and it's not showing off. It's just being confident…”
Jackie Goddard has spent 30 years working in the arts. She’s been a High Street fashion designer and worked in the costume department of the Royal Shakespeare Company, She’s been an actor, producer and director for the London and Edinburgh fringe and has spent the last 20 years working with adults and children, teaching them how to act and use their voice effectively.
With Jackie’s company, Power To Speak, she uses her acting experience and training to coach business leaders, solopreneurs and professional speakers to use their voice and their story to show up confidently for their audience, customers and clients.
Jackie shares her experience helping others gain confidence and success by becoming who they are through owning their story:
- “…this feeling that actually if you are showing up as yourself, then you are being seen as a show off or being arrogant. And actually what that does is that keeps people very small because they're frightened of showing up as themselves. And so we hide, we hide behind the character we think we should be. So we play rather than actually being…”
- “… that is really important what you have there, that knowledge you have, that that message you want to share is really important. As your audience, you are telling me this and I'm listening. As an audience, I can tell you that this is worth sharing.”
- “Doesn't matter how successful you are. I mean I've worked with CFOs of some very big companies and even they have a certain amount of imposter syndrome. So I don't think anybody escapes that. There's always that little voice in our heads.”
You can reach Jackie through her website, PowerToSpeak.co.uk or connect with Jackie on LinkedIn.
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Jackie Goddard
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I have spent 30 years working in the arts. I have been a High Street fashion designer and worked in the costume departments of the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, and the West End. I’ve been an actor, producer and director for the London and Edinburgh fringe and have spent the last 20 years working with adults and children, teaching them how to act and use their voice effectively. I have produced theatre and made short films.
During the pandemic I took my classes online, working with groups of adults including some with learning disabilities.
I recorded and edited their Zoom 'performances' to produce short films to share.
I'm a strong believer that everyone should give improvisation a go for fun, but also to build confidence and communication skills, after all, we improvise every day, every time we open our mouths!
I've even run online improvisation sessions!
With my company, Power To Speak I use my acting experience and training to coach business leaders, solopreneurs and professional speakers so that they can use their voice and their story to show up confidently for their audience, customers and clients.
In September 2020 I started a podcast. Originally called Atticus Arts Creative Conversations, I talk to business owners, entrepreneurs and authors about what creativity means to them and how they use it in their life and work. It has been a fantastic opportunity to meet and learn from some inspiring individuals. I've changed its name to Power To Speak, The Podcast but the theme of creativity remains at its heart.
