"Pick up your pen and write a different story." Public Speaking World Champion, Verity Price

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What if your life suddenly changed course, not by choice, but by force? In this episode, host Sean Loots introduces Verity, a woman who decided to rewrite her life after a personal lifequake.

Through courage, creativity, and deep self-reflection, Verity learned that we always have the power to author a new chapter, no matter how messy the last one was.

Sean guides this conversation on transformation, resilience, and the small but powerful shifts that can lead to a completely new sense of self.

In this episode, Verity Price tells a story filled with twists and turns.
From losing her dad at 24, to walking the Camino de Santiago in his honor, writing a letter to the future, and even following a man to America. Verity went on to sell 2,000 copies of an album before it was even recorded, and in 2021, she beat 35,000 people to become the World Champion of Public Speaking.

QUOTES:
"I was shaken to my core. We had a week with him, and it was really rough because he was paralyzed. So this very verbal father that I'd had could just look at me with his eyes, and he was totally paralyzed from the stroke."
β€œThe biggest lesson I learned from that was that your ego often has one idea of what your life should look like and your soul has another.”
"I cried so much while rehearsing them and hoping they could hear how much I love them, and my speech that I won with was literally saying, "Your life is a book. If you're not enjoying the read, pick up your pen and write a different story."

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10 Mar English South Africa Self-Improvement · Personal Journals

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