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“Making people feel something”: Why Naomi Simson hasn’t stopped telling her story on stage

Naomi Simson has delivered countless keynotes during her career, but her passion for connecting with her audience hasn’t changed.
Naomi Simson. Image: Supplied

RedBalloon founding director Naomi Simson can recall sitting at an event a few years ago listening to a keynote address from a well-known speaker, and the presentation was exactly the same as one she had listened to 20 years earlier by the same person. 

“He must have been bored as bat shit”, she tells me with her characteristic frankness. 

We are discussing the art of public speaking and what Simson, as someone who has delivered countless keynotes during her career, gets out of the experience.

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