Last week I was invited to speak at the National Women’s Financial Council Summit at the Hilton in Washington. Mostly it was a gabfest of women courting political influence in exchange for campaign contributions.
California Representative Loretta Sanchez gave the introductory remarks. She encouraged donations and said, “money is the mother’s milk of all politics.” I love that woman. All I could do was smile and nod and brush back a couple of tears.
A speech before an audience of women is like Bill instructing interns on their duties in the Oval Office. It’s an exciting time. Women respond to phrases differently than men. For example, when I said we’re all about “reclaiming the future for our children,” it brought the house down.
A speech before an audience of women does best when it doesn’t climax too soon. Using the word “children” a few times in a speech gets an emotional response from a mostly female audience, but women have another side that needs to be courted, too.
“I will end the Bush administration’s war on science!“
I love that sentence. It works really well when the crowd is made up of teachers.
Then I closed with “I cannot win without you.” They loved it. But it’s true.
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