Steve Bustin

Learn about the communication mistakes that hold back individuals and businesses from reaching their true potential Get insights into what turns a ‘good’ public speaker into a ‘great’ public speaker Understand how to protect your images and reputation online Steve Bustin is a communications expert, turning individuals and organisations into brilliant communicators through his company, Get Your Voice Heard, based in the UK and working worldwide. He delivers his expertise as a keynote speaker, coach and author and is also in demand as a conference and event emcee. He’s a former BBC News journalist and ran a PR agency for many years before focusing on public speaking and coaching others as speakers. He’s the author of The Authority Guide to Presenting and Public Speaking and The Authority Guide to PR for Small Business, the Immediate Past President of the Professional Speaking Association UK & Ireland and was named UK Speaker of the Year in 2015. As well as speaking and coaching on a range of communication skills, Steve also speaks on online safety and protecting yourself online, based on his experience of becoming the ‘face’ of an online dating scam. More details on www.getyourvoiceheard.co.uk or www.youtube.com/stevebustin

What is it like to stand in front of 3500 people without a script and have to entertain them? How do you do it? What is it like when some of that goes wrong? Can you really get paid to do this? Steve Bustin knows. He is a former journalist turned speaker who now comperes events. In this chat with another professional public speaker, I discover the secrets behind compering events. We find out about the business model, the marketing and we discover some tips on how to approach the role or improve what you already do. More at www.PublicSpeakerWorld.com

What’s your worst fear? Is it public speaking? If so, your worst fear is how Steve Bustin makes his living. As both an accomplished public speaker and public speaking coach, the stage is a place of great joy for Steve. Striking a balance between his work with leisure, Steve ensures that he derives great pleasure from all he turns his hand to whether that’s with his clients or in his garden. Through his business, Steve has turned hundreds of individuals into brilliant communicators, with recent clients including Goldman Sachs, London Stock Exchange and Unilever. How can he help you? He can help you to get your voice heard. KEY TAKEAWAY “You have to enjoy life. Life is so short. One of the things that drives me is I always try to say yes. I will try to default to yes because you never know where that will take you. A no will stop the opportunities but a yes will open up the opportunities.” ABOUT STEVE BUSTIN Steve Bustin is a business communications specialist, award-winning speaker, event compere and public speaking coach. He has spoken at and compered events around the world, speaking on a range of communication topics and his experience as the ‘face’ of an online dating scam. Steve is the author of two books, The Authority Guide to Presenting and Public Speaking and The Authority Guide to PR for Small Business. He was named National Speaker of the Year in 2015 and awarded The Professional Speaking Award of Excellence in 2021. Steve started his career as a journalist for BBC News before running a PR agency for many years.  CONNECT WITH STEVE Twitter: @steveinbrighton LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebustin/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/stevebustin Website: https://www.getyourvoiceheard.co.uk Speech Club: www.speech-club.co.uk Critique Club: www.critiqueclub.co.uk ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker, Mastermind Host and Property Investor. Through coaching and workshops, Amy works with businesses to Focus on WHY to create people-centred environments, by improving productivity and employee engagement by focusing on fulfilment, values and purpose. WORK WITH AMY Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to make it their reality through their own action taking. Helping them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would like Amy to help you to launch your podcast or to focus on your WHY then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter CONNECT WITH AMY https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence. 

Just in time for Valentine's Day, we're replaying a timely conversation from the past year.On Valentine’s Day of 2018, Steve Bustin’s phone rang. The woman on the other end said, “You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you.” Steve later found out scammers used his social media pictures on several online profiles, including dating sites and Facebook. This sent the happily married man on a journey he never expected to embark on -- straight into the path of dating scammers. In fact, the BBC featured his story on the program For Love or Money last year. During this interview, Steve lays out the scammers' strategies and how to protect yourself from the most common gullibility test.Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just in time for Valentine's Day, we're replaying a timely conversation from the past year.On Valentine’s Day of 2018, Steve Bustin’s phone rang. The woman on the other end said, “You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you.” Steve later found out scammers used his social media pictures on several online profiles, including dating sites and Facebook. This sent the happily married man on a journey he never expected to embark on -- straight into the path of dating scammers. In fact, the BBC featured his story on the program For Love or Money last year. During this interview, Steve lays out the scammers' strategies and how to protect yourself from the most common gullibility test.Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More information: http://Expert-Letter.NB-Networks.com The business world became very noisy during the last years. How can you make sure to get your voice heard in a crowded market place? Steve Bustin, media expert, keynote speaker and former BBC journalist, offer advice about how to succeed. Your guest: Steve Bustin / steve@stevebustin.com Your host: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Niels Brabandt founded NB Networks in 1998.

Mehr Informationen: http://Expert-Letter.NB-Networks.com Wie kann die eigene Stimme im Business in der lauten Welt online und offline überhaupt noch gehört werden? Steve Bustin, Medienprofi, Keynote Speaker und Ex-BBC-Journalist, gibt Einblicke in seine Arbeit und Expertise. Ihr Gast: Steve Bustin / steve@stevebustin.com Ihr Gastgeber: Niels Brabandt / NB@NB-Networks.com Niels Brabandt gründete NB Networks im Jahr 1998.

Fear of public speaking is an incredibly common phobia and affects around 75% of the population. As business owners, many of us (no matter how much we hate it) are unable to avoid public speaking situations thanks to meetings or presentations – in fact it’s a crucial part of building our agency. So wouldn’t it be a lot easier if we could learn to cope with it a bit better, or even crazier….learn to enjoy it? In this episode of The Agency Accelerator, I am joined by award-winning keynote conference speaker Steve Bustin, who is going to be sharing some great tips and advice on how we can improve our own public speaking, better prepare for it and ultimately, not be so terrified by it! [1:14] Steve has a very colourful business background and his passions and focus have evolved over the years. Starting as a BBC journalist, he then went into PR before realising what his true passion was: speaking and training others how to do it well. [7:10] Let’s unpack some of the interesting points Steve just mentioned about his past experiences including being led by opportunity and the effects that losing a big client can have on your business. [9:36] Steve discusses the Sunday night blues and how life is too short – and what to do about it [11:23] There is a trend of people moving away from the retainer model within agencies. Could this be a good thing? [13:35] Rob asks Steve why he thinks public speaking is the second biggest fear after death! Why do we care so much what people think of us? Steve also explains why we need to train our staff with the skills to be great leaders and that includes learning how to be a great speaker. [20:41] Steve shares how he helps people overcome their fears of public speaking and he explains why you’ve got to have passion for whatever your talking about, otherwise how do you expect your clients to be passionate about it? And we must remember, we all present differently and that’s a good thing! [23:18] Rob takes us back to a workshop he hosted and the importance of managing your ‘internal dialog’. Also, why do so many of us never rehearse our presentations before the big day? Surely this will help to get rid of so much of the anxiety we feel before speaking?! [27:31] What is the perfect structure of a presentation? Why does great structure tend to revolve around just 3 main arguments? And how can you grab the audiences’ attention? [34:00] Rob asks Steve what happens if you can see people yawning in the audience during your presentation? Does this mean you’re too boring and should stop right now?! [37:40] Steve gives 3 brilliant top tips for improving your own public speaking [44:56] Rob asks Steve: “if you could go back in time and give your younger self some business advice what would it be?” Subscribe & Review Are you subscribed to my podcast yet? If you’re not, please do so to avoid missing out on any episodes! You can subscribe/ follow on iTunes, Spotify or directly from my website. I would be very grateful if you left me a review over on iTunes, too as they will help other people to find my podcasts and it's also great to read your comments! Thanks so much, Rob

On Valentine’s Day of 2018, Steve Bustin’s phone rang. The woman on the other end said, “You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you.” Steve later found out scammers used his social media pictures on several online profiles, including dating sites and Facebook. This sent the happily married man on a journey he never expected to embark on -- straight into the path of dating scammers. In fact, the BBC featured his story on the program For Love or Money last year. During this interview, Steve lays out the scammers strategies and how to protect yourself from the most common gullibility test. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Valentine’s Day of 2018, Steve Bustin’s phone rang. The woman on the other end said, “You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you.” Steve later found out scammers used his social media pictures on several online profiles, including dating sites and Facebook. This sent the happily married man on a journey he never expected to embark on -- straight into the path of dating scammers. In fact, the BBC featured his story on the program For Love or Money last year. During this interview, Steve lays out the scammers strategies and how to protect yourself from the most common gullibility test. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices