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Captivating storytelling is one of the most valuable skills you can develop to connect with an audience and advance your career. Stories are central to all forms of communication including [...]

Randy Lane recently wrote about the one thing all great media presenters have in common: planning. Planning requires discipline, which is defined as “training oneself to do something in a [...]

Why do we resist planning? The short answer: Because it requires work. Many shows see an idea in a prep service and just go with it. Recently, I had a coaching call with two shows in the same [...]

What comes to mind when you think of the word ritual? According to Lucy Gower in “How Are Daily Rituals Different from Daily Routines?”:  Daily rituals are meaningful practices and are internally [...]

Radio show producers have gone full circle. They were a luxury position in the ‘80s, a must-have in the early 2000s and back to a luxury position today. Even if you are in a big market, chances [...]

There are some amazing personalities generating compelling radio and creating fans, but if you drive coast to coast you will find that they are the exception — at a time when FM needs to be [...]

In a non-pandemic year, movie studios plan their blockbuster film releases for certain calendar dates. For example, the newest James Bond film No Time to Die was scheduled for November 2019, [...]

At the recent Morning Show Boot Camp in Chicago, one panel discussed how talent complaints are handled. Cumulus OM Atlanta and VP of Contemporary Programming, Louie Diaz shared that he screens [...]

After interacting with people exclusively on Zoom or Teams for the past year, Morning Show Boot Camp in Chicago was a refreshing in-person experience. I moderated a session titled, The People and [...]

I once suspected Clint Eastwood of stealing a screenplay I wrote. I later learned that Mr. Eastwood and I had the same idea at the same time, but he acted while I talked myself into doing [...]