On Tuesday night, I participated in our local Pecha Kucha event. The challenge is to explain a complex concept using 20 slides, and with only 20 seconds per slide to speak. Which is why the slides sometimes change before I’m ready!
The topic for the night was “Interior/Exterior Spaces,” so I tackled the look good-feel good connection. Video quality isn’t the best, despite several attempts to tweak, but the audio is good and you should be able to see the slides!
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This might sound weird, but I love your voice! Clearly a smart, confident woman!
Wow, that was fantastic! I really enjoyed your presentation, very well done!
Sally, thank you so much for this! Shared on FB and Twitter – so well stated and should be required for all young girls. Your blog inspires me daily!
WOW! Thank you for giving this talk and sharing it. So inspiring.
Sweet Sal! You totally rule! How could anyone hate you? Your presentation was just wonderful beyond wonderful! I will share it with my 13 year old daughter! Thank you!
Hey Sal,
Thanks for sharing this; I enjoyed watching it. My favourite part was towards the end at 5:24 onwards…that we are not merely one or the other, we are beautiful and smart.
Sometimes it’s easy to think we can’t be both, but i think with help from bloggers like you who encourage us to change our thinking patterns, we can overcome negative beliefs. Working on changing/ improving ourselves can be hard but it’s 100% worth it.
Awesome presentation!
YAY!!!!*****clap,clap,clap****
Standing ovation!
Thank you!
What an amazing movement – my hub is a teacher and I am going to pass this along to him. Remember impromptu speeches when you were a kid? Ugg. But this has a format which is great.
Thanks for using your pretty brain in this presentation, it was great.
I agree with Kathleen…I adore your speaking voice! You sound natural, authoritative, and your voice has resonance that carries in a room, great for presentations
And of course, the message was spot on…beauty as diverse, inclusive, as a mode of expression, and an outlet for creativity and personality…preach it!
AWESOME, Sal!
Wow. I actually cried. Thank you, Sally. I’m certainly going to share this….
I cried too. First sad tears, but then happy and inspired!
HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!
Well done, Sal!
LOVE
Excellent! You absolutely made your point with style and intelligence. Thank you for sharing.
I really like this format and I’d never heard of it. Thanks for sharing this! I’ve missed the event in my own city this year but luckily it seems like it’s not going anywhere…
I love how your presentation encapsulates the essence of Already Pretty. It’s a living “About” page, the perfect primer. I also liked how you gained momentum and power as you went along (just like in your life). And the huge grin of accomplishment as you left the stage was the cherry on top of your presentation sundae! It left me smiling too.
I hope this message reaches all who need it, including men. Actually, some of the biggest body image issues I’ve encountered in my own life have come from my husband. And sure enough, one of the tools I’ve used as encouragement to help him improve his self-image is fashion, and it has been very effective.
I loved the presentation especially the line “beauty is inclusive”. Please consider re-recording it again, as a slideshow showcasing the pictures with your speech as a voice-over. Very inspiring!
BRAVA!! If only I had heard this when I was younger; I could have spared myself years of self loathing.(it seems that you and I and many other women have traveled the same route) I forwarded your presentation to all my friends with teen-aged daughters. Wouldn’t it be great if young women today could go straight to self acceptance and bypass all those body insecurities?
Enjoyed watching the presentation – greeat job. Nice to have a voice to go with the person we see everyday when we check your blog! I had never heard of PKN — so I read about it. Very interesting — you learn something every day as they say….
Hi Sal. Long time 40 something lurker, far away from – (central EU) here. I have a teenager daughter (13,5) and I would so much like to share with her this presentation, but sorry, she’s not good enough in English, yet. On the other side, I am a hard of hearing mom, and unfortunatelly, I cannot undersand your live speach in the video:-((. Can you help me, please? I would really like to share your toughts on beauty and self acceptance with my girl. May be you have the speach also in a written down style, or can you share some of your main ideeas here, pls? I’ll than read and better undertsand, than translate:-)). Thanks so much:-)).
K, I will try to think of a work-around for you! If you want to e-mail me, I can send you a PDF of the presentation. sally@alreadypretty.com
Hi K, what language do you speak? If it’s German, I will be happy to help.
Dear Anat:
-No, it’s not German:-)… but, pls. don’t worry, I’m preety good in understanding written English, so I can translate it on my own…just have to read it, rather than listen to it…but, I appreciate your gesture so much! So nice people here! Love it!++
No problem!!:-)
Thank you for this, Sal – you were [are] great!
Just lovely! Smart, thoughtful and well spoken. Congratulations!
Fabulous speech! Beauty & brains…you got it all, Sal.
Sal that was so wonderful and inspiring, thank you.
I really identified with growing up smart, and thinking that smart/beautiful was a dichotomy, you could be either one or the other.
I still sometimes feel that presenting myself as too pretty (or style conscious) is deflecting from my intellect (in the eys of the observer). So I still haven’t completly come to terms with “allowing” myself to be pretty and invest in my appearance.
This is wonderful! May I use it as part of a positive body image class for the 12 to 18 year old girls in our church?
Sure, feel free to show them the video! Thanks, Becky!
Sal, wonderful talk, and you have a great voice. Something to add from my perspective. I too was a reasonably smart girl. I did look kind of like Aniston, however, and I just want to say, that is no better. The problem isn’t living or not living up to the image, it’s that the image exists and trumps our intelligence. Thank you for writing. Keep talking. I hope you also tell all our stories, if that’s not too much to ask.
Bravo, Sal! That was wonderful, and it made me cry a little.
Oh Miss Sal! You are a remarkable woman changing lives everyday! I wish I had known about your blog when I was writing my honours thesis… I would have found a way to get you into my works cited because everything you say here is something I wish I could have said then… Thank you and please please carry on being inspiring, fun, and lovely!