EP480: Dia Bondi - Unlock The Power Of Your Voice To Win Better Clients - Part 1

Michael Palmer: Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a wonderful one. Our guest is a leadership communications coach, keynote speaker, and author who helps ambitious professionals amplify their influence and their own voice with confidence. Dia Bondi, welcome to the show. Hi, nice to see you. It's great to have you. Yes, it's great to have you. And I was reading the introduction and I was like, communications coach, I was like, oh geez, am I communicating right? Better. I always do that. Now I start choking on my words. I love, I love these episodes where we have guests like yourself who have done really interesting things and especially around communication. You know, the whole concept of having your voice with confidence and this title of your book, Ask Like an Auctioneer. I read a little bit about that. And I thought, yeah, this is great. So helpful for people to have a voice in the world that actually makes things happen. And so thank you for being on the show. And maybe we'll start off with getting to know a little bit about you for our listener. It's like, how did you end up doing what you're doing today? Oh, it is a long story. And before I get into it, I'll just say thank you to all of the bookkeepers out there. You keep our lives straight. I am not a bookkeeper and I'm so happy to have a great bookkeeper in my life. Whatever magic you're doing, keep going. Beautiful. That's number one. We love guests like you, our listener. You know, anyone that gives creds right out of the gate is lovely.

Dia Bondi: It's like, it's sort of the best. It's these behind the scenes, like I recognize that y'all listening are maybe these sort of like invisible heroes, but you really do make small businesses like mine work by helping me stay, you know, in my zone of excellence while you make sure that my business is safe. So yes, I'm, I'm here for it. Um, so I have been doing leadership communications work for over 2 decades, which is wild for me to say. Um, early days in my career in college, I, I taught fitness, um, group fitness. And you'd think that leadership communications and group fitness would not be related, but they certainly are. Um, when I got into building my career, I was really— had a desire to be in the professional world, but have it, have it be very familiar to my experience world in the world of fitness, which is about real embodiment. It's about like being in your body and