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Title: Communicate Clearly and Confidently with Laurie Gilbertson, Founder/CEO of Tribeca Blue Consulting

She shares her thoughts on why communication is a crucial leadership tool, and how elevating your communication can lead to taking advantage of every opportunity that's out there.

About this episode:

Owner of Tribeca Blue Consulting, Laurie Gilbertson, joins us on the She Built It™ Experience today. Laurie shares her thoughts on why communication is a crucial leadership tool, and how elevating your communication can lead to taking advantage of every opportunity that's out there.

Topics Discussed:

• Laurie's tips for how to build a career and business that you crave

• Why communication is a crucial and often overlooked leadership tool

• How she transitioned from being a trial lawyer and started embracing a new version of herself

• What she learned from being a prosecutor and why empathetic people make great lawyers

• Her knowledge and thoughts on the criminal justice system

• Laurie's thoughts on being a digital minimalist and how social media affects us

Transcript can be found HERE.

Laurie and Jason talk about how the best part of New York City is the night, her journey from law to running her own speaking firm and the secret (that's not a secret anymore) that she lives in Colorado, yet doesn't like the outdoors.

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, What makes you come alive, and go and do that? Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive."

Laurie Gilbertson is a dynamic, passionate and poised communicator, whether in the courtroom, the classroom or on television. After a successful legal career encompassing criminal prosecution, government service, media appearances and non-profit work, Laurie formed Tribeca Blue Consulting to bring her unique brand of enthusiasm, dedication and skill to teaching people how to use powerful and creative presentations, public speaking and on-camera appearances to connect with their clients and their audiences.

Laurie loves the intellectual challenge of persuasion, advocacy and education. She is a former prosecutor who relished the courtroom experience and the opportunity to do justice for victims and their families when prosecuting homicides, organized crime, sexual assaults and violent felony cases during her ten years in the District Attorney’s Office in New York City.

Check out his website HERE.

Title: Laurie Gilbertson - The Reluctant Entrepreneur

“My biggest lesson so far from entrepreneurship is that if you can't find it, make it for yourself.” — Laurie Gilbertson

Laurie shares about her passion for entrepreneurship and how she is helping people use communication tools to get better outcomes.

Main Takeaways:

• Good communication is an essential leadership skill and can be learned.

• There are so many easy and practical ways to make communication clear, engaging, and persuasive.

• People need to be prepared to get not just their message across, but really who they are and who their company is.

• This leads to more profits for businesses and happier clients.

• Listening is a huge part of communication.

• Take pride when you step out of a comfort zone in some way.

• My favorite Howard Thurman quote: “Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, What makes you come alive, then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Full transcript can be found HERE.

Title: Episode #94 - Public Speaking with Laurie Gilbertson

Get practical tips and advice on how you can develop public speaking skills with comfort, ease, and authenticity.

Here’s what we cover:

• Why sharing your story is important.

• How to bring yourself in a confident way.

• Understanding how to calm your nerves when it’s time to take the stage.

Laurie shares how we can hone our skills no matter what our background. Public speaking isn’t about being on a BIG stage unless that’s part of your personal goals. It’s about communicating in all sorts of situations.

Here’s how:

Connect: It’s about your audience not you

Communicate: Jump in with energy to get your point across

Conquer: Tell your story with comfort and ease and emotion.

Tips to help you get started:

• Focus on making a good first impression.

• How can you turn a weakness into a strength?

• Tell a story. Laurie shares a great way to frame your story – so helpful!

• The power of the pause.

• Use a prop to help you make a point.

• Final messages matter too.

Have some fun with it if your content allows for that. It’s a great way to show your personality and the audience picks up on the energy as well.

Title: From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: The Importance of Storytelling

What you will learn in this episode:

• Laurie Gilbertson’s background and how she went from an NYC prosecutor to a business owner and communication consultant

• How Laurie’s skills from the courtroom directly translate to essential skills needed in the boardroom

• Laurie’s process for taking on new clients and how she sets them up for success

• The importance of storytelling and tips from Laurie on how to be an excellent storyteller

• Laurie’s three most important skills she learned as a prosecutor and how you can use them to be an effective communicator

Catch Lee Caraher on Everything Speaks on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts HERE.

Title: Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice

Ethical, transparent and accessible. Is that what comes to mind when you think of private law practice? Me either. But the work my guest today is doing, is trying to change all that.

Laurie Gilbertson left her work as a Prosecutor in New York City, where she tried everything from fraud to murder cases. In fact her last case was highly unique in that it took three times to get the defendant an attempted murder conviction despite the plethora of evidence and solid witnesses. This was the trial of Christopher Prince in Queens, New York.

She now sits on the board of Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice - a legal incubator, designed to operate in a totally new way. I loved learning about this and was thrilled when Laurie shared that these are cropping up across the Unites States, with about 70- 80 in existence. You can check and see if your state has a "legal incubator" HERE.

Listen as Laurie shares the many ways these new models of practicing law are helping level the playing field.

Check out on Youtube HERE.

Title: Be Present with Laurie Gilbertson

In 2019, Laurie launched Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice, an incubator program for attorneys starting socially conscious practices.

Currently, she is the CEO and owner of Tribeca Blue Consulting, a company specializing in helping professionals with their public speaking, presentation skills, and media appearances.

About Sandro Forte: Sandro is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.

Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today.

Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.

In this episode, Laurie Gilbertson shares tips and advice for those looking to deliver their first presentation as well as for experienced presenters and business leaders who want and potentially need to ensure that they understand the benefits of preparation and practice.

Her most common refrain is “Public speaking should be an opportunity to excel, not an obligation to dread.” Laurie shares lots of tips and advice around the area that probably holds back most presenters and that is a lack of confidence and the worry about simply being too nervous to speak.

Laurie advises that presenters and speakers talk through their presentation as a way of practising to ensure it works and to never be too prepared – sound advice given the fact that a lot of business presenters and speakers very often for various reasons fail to prepare well and do little or no practice

Laurie's top three tips to transform your presentation and speaking skills are:

• Be yourself

• Create an introduction with your audience in mind

• Maintain engagement energy from beginning to end

Watch the full episode on YouTube HERE.

Title: Powerful Business Storytelling

Think about your favorite childhood moment. What happened? Who was involved? What did you like about it? How did you feel? You can probably recall the event in great detail. Now think about what you did last Monday. I bet you are not really sure about what you ate, what you did, or who you talked to. That is because there wasn't a story or any emotions attached to it. At the end of the day, we remember what we feel.

Stories are memorable because they elicit emotions. The beginning of presentation is what your audience will remember the most. Your prospects are more likely to remember a fact if you wrap it around a story. And Laurie Gilbertson knows it very well. In this episode, we discuss the power of storytelling and what it takes to be an effective communicator.

Storytelling will help you sell to clients, persuade colleagues, engage employees, develop your brand narrative, gain a competitive advantage, and even win a trial in court.

Learn how you can use it effectively to make presentations more memorable for your audience and make your product more charismatic to the end-user HERE.

Title: Communication Is Not A Soft Skill

Laurie Gilbertson is a former New York City sex crimes and organized crime prosecutor, television legal analyst, educator, and entrepreneur.

Laurie is passionate about helping people present their ideas in creative and persuasive ways that engage their audiences. As a former trial lawyer and television legal analyst, she shares insider’s tips and tricks from her experiences in front of judges, juries, and live television audiences to help her clients get the most out of their presentations and public speaking.

Laurie works with her clients through group training and one on one coaching to develop their personal and professional narratives, craft the hooks that draw their audiences in, and curate the stories that keep them listening and wanting to learn more.

This means more attention and success to them and their businesses and more clarity and confidence in their communications.

Title: How To Become A Better Speaker In Public

Key Takeaways:

• Conquer Anxiety

• Craft Great Stories

• Put Your Audience First

Guest Laurie Gilbertson shares how you can get better at public speaking through preparation, understanding your audience, and starting every presentation strong and finishing every presentation strong.

In this episode, Laurie shares:

• Learning from her biggest failure

• How she prepares for presentations

• How emotions are used to persuade

• What are elements and structure of a good story

• Approaching weaknesses to arguments head-on

• Trust building through recognizing the diversity and adapting to each audience builds trust

• Becoming comfortable and engaging with audiences

Watch on YouTube HERE and get the full transcript HERE.

Title: How to Harness the Power and Potential of Your Story

Getting on the right stage, large or small, can open many doors for us. But most of the time, the thought of public speaking gives us sweaty palms or anxiety. We think we must be this master of the stage, like Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Gilbert, or Brene Brown.

You don’t. But you do need to take what’s unique about YOU and your story and share it in a way that’s compelling. So, how can you get over your stage fright and learn powerfully deliver your story?

Laurie joins Anjel to share how her love of story helped her find success in the courtroom. She’ll walk us through why she left the courtroom, her journey's transition, and how that opened the door for her to help others harness the power and potential of their own stories.

Key Takeaways:

• Creating compelling arguments

• Mindset-changes for a new world of possibilities

• Laurie’s “Why”

• Attention grabbing skills of prosecutors

• Laurie's client’s story of breakthrough to success

• The essential component of telling an impactful story

Hear some of Laurie Gilbertson’s most gripping cases, learn how to get inside the mind of a jury, and explore potential reasons behind the recent uptick in violence in America.

Key Questions:

• Why is true crime drama so gripping?

• How do you get inside the mind of a jury?

• What makes a fair juror?

• How to control your nerves in a courtroom?

• Why is there a rise in violence in the U.S.?

• What is legal entrepreneurship?

• Why is learning how to communicate a priority?

Show notes can be found HERE and you can watch the whole interview on YouTube HERE.

Title: Improving Communication and Public Speaking Skills for Consultants

You know public speaking can help you get consulting business. But do you avoid it becuase it scares the holy heck out of you?

In this Craft of Consulting podcast episode, communication expert Laurie Gilbertson shares how to become exceptional at communication and public speaking, whether it's in front of a single prospective client, a room (or Zoom) full of people, or on live TV.

As a communication expert, Laurie Gilbertson shares strategies to become exceptional communicators and public speakers--both critical ways of getting more consulting business.

Watch on YouTube.

From Mark: I had a delightful conversation with Laurie, she is insightful, light and engaging.

We talked about her childhood dinner conversations where she learned to advocate for herself, quotes that moved her, her transition from a New York City prosecutor to a legal commenter on news channels into her leap to becoming a communications coach in a whole different state.

Laurie shares how she found the focus to chase her a new vision of her future and she grew both personally and professional as she found her way.

Laurie shared all this, including the important role her family has always played with warmth and humour.

Mark has a photo studio is inner Spirit Photography.

Title: Laurie Gilbertson of Tribeca Blue Consulting

This episode of Gin and Justice, Justine and Amanda chat with Laurie Gilbertson, a former sex crimes prosecutor, television legal analyst and legal educator. She now brings her unique skills as a public speaking and media training coach.  

Delving into the  stories that stuck with Laurie as a prosecutor, she talks about finding her true purpose not only as a prosecutor and pursuer of justice, but also her love of helping others. 

Today, Laurie uses that exact combination in helping others to learn how to communicate effectively and clearly, finding purpose in each project, whether that’s helping CEOs communicate to their board, or lawyers presenting their trial. 

About Gin and Justice: Let's talk about JUSTICE! It's been a long day, pour some gin and have a seat. Justine and Amanda are shedding light on the inner workings of the criminal justice system, taking a deep dive into the many perspectives, and giving listeners a look at the system through the eyes of all walks of life.

They discuss the successes and many failures of the system allowing listeners to understand the side of justice that’s often not portrayed.

Gin & Justice highlights stories that are often forgotten in the "True Crime" category, and that is, views and perspectives from the real criminal justice system.

You’ll hear discussions on the impacts the criminal justice system on those who are incarcerated, their loved ones, and those who are wrongfully convicted, and highlights of how substance use disorder and mental health are criminalized and have fueled a system of mass incarceration.

Follow and subscribe for weekly behind the scenes look at the American Criminal Legal System HERE.

Title: Clear, Engaging, Persuasive Communication with Laurie Gilbertson

Starting your own practice isn’t something they teach in law school. Join me as I sit down with legal professionals to hear firsthand accounts of just how they did it.  

Laurie Gilbertson has a very interesting career. She started off as a district attorney in the Queens County, New York office. From there she transitioned to being a fixture on Court TV along with other New York media outlets commenting on cases in the news and developing her communication skills and honing that skill set to the point where she was able to provide counseling and training to help attorneys develop those skills. Now she's started her own practice, called Tribeca Blue Consulting, that provides training and education to attorneys and other professional services on the nuances and importance of communication, particularly as a form of leadership.

In this episode, Neil and Laurie discuss:

• The theater of communication.

• Honing public speaking and other communication skills. 

• Refining your skills outside the courtroom. 

• Communication in building your solo firm. 

Key Takeaways:

• Cultivate preparation and self awareness

• The best lawyers are open to learning

• Know the first 30 seconds of a presentation by heart

• Be more interested than interesting.

"Communication is really all about connection. It's about getting out of your own head and getting into the perspective of your audience, whether it's your client, a colleague, a jury, judge, television audience, or a podcast audience, it's all about that." —  Laurie Gilbertson

Title: From Courtroom to Confidence - Empowering Communication with Former Prosecutor Laurie Gilbertson

From Suzy: In this episode of Legally Bliss Conversations, I sat down with Laurie Gilbertson, a former New York City sex crimes and organized crime prosecutor, television legal analyst, and arts entrepreneur.

As the owner of Tribeca Blue Consulting, Laurie helps professionals communicate with clarity and competence in their public speaking, presentations, trial work, and media appearances.

She shares her journey from pursuing law school to becoming a prosecutor and the challenges she faced along the way.

Laurie discusses her passion for advocacy, her experiences in the criminal justice system, and how her background in law and acting contribute to her work as a public speaking coach. Tune in for an engaging conversation with Laurie Gilbertson, a woman who has made a significant impact in the legal world and beyond.

Join the Legally Blissed community HERE.

Title: The Power of Silence with Laurie Gilbertson

Watch on YouTube HERE.

Brian Beckcom is one of the nation's leading trial lawyers and host of "Lessons from Leaders," a podcast that features military combat veterans, sports stars, judges, coaches, spiritual leaders, and a wide variety of other national and international leaders.

In addition to being founding partner and owner of VBAttorneys in Houston, TX Brian has published 7 books and the United States Government cited Brian's Law Review article as authority in a brief to the United States Supreme Court.

An alumnus of University of Texas School of Law, Brian's subsequent work has been featured on Good Morning America, Nightline, the New York Times, and other places. He boasts a 95% win rate.

Learn more HERE.

Title: The Race for Justice - Former Prosecutor Laurie Gilbertson Discusses the Daybell Trials and Their Strategic Timing

Former prosecutor Laurie Gilbertson joins Tony to discuss the upcoming trials of Lori Daybell and Chad Daybell, and the potential advantage Lori might have by being tried first.

Gilbertson will delve into the strategic implications of the trial order and how it could impact the outcomes for both defendants.

Tune in for a captivating conversation that explores the complexities and nuances of the Daybell case and the legal tactics at play.

Watch this and other episodes HERE on YouTube.

Title: Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice

Ethical, transparent and accessible. Is that what comes to mind when you think of private law practice? Me either. But the work my guest today is doing, is trying to change all that.

Laurie Gilbertson left her work as a Prosecutor in New York City, where she tried everything from fraud to murder cases. In fact her last case was highly unique in that it took three times to get the defendant an attempted murder conviction despite the plethora of evidence and solid witnesses. This was the trial of Christopher Prince in Queens, New York.

She now sits on the board of Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice - a legal incubator, designed to operate in a totally new way. I loved learning about this and was thrilled when Laurie shared that these are cropping up across the Unites States, with about 70- 80 in existence. You can check and see if your state has a "legal incubator" HERE.

Listen as Laurie shares the many ways these new models of practicing law are helping level the playing field.

Check out on Youtube HERE.

Hear some of Laurie Gilbertson’s most gripping cases, learn how to get inside the mind of a jury, and explore potential reasons behind the recent uptick in violence in America.

Key Questions:

• Why is true crime drama so gripping?

• How do you get inside the mind of a jury?

• What makes a fair juror?

• How to control your nerves in a courtroom?

• Why is there a rise in violence in the U.S.?

• What is legal entrepreneurship?

• Why is learning how to communicate a priority?

Show notes can be found HERE and you can watch the whole interview on YouTube HERE.

Title: New Footage & Communications Interview

In this episode

• New footage that surfaced over the weekend, with audio.

• An update from the Moscow PD

• Interview with Laurie Gilbertson, a former prosecutor, legal analyst, and legal educator who formed Tribeca Blue Consulting.

4 Killed For What is a production of True Crime Today; listen & sub to True Crime Today HERE.

Title: Former Prosecutor on If It Likely The Menendez Brothers Will Get Another Trial

In this captivating episode, Tony welcomes former prosecutor Laurie Gilbertson for an in-depth discussion on the likelihood of the Menendez brothers receiving another trial.

Leveraging her expertise, Gilbertson unravels the complex layers of the legal system to explore the factors that could lead to a retrial for these notorious siblings. They delve into issues such as new evidence, procedural errors, and the current legal landscape.

Don't miss out on their insightful conversation that explores one of the most infamous cases in American legal history.

Watch this and other episodes HERE on YouTube.

Title: What Roberta Laundire's Letter To Her Son Tells Us About Her Alleged Covering Of Murder

In this gripping episode, former prosecutor Laurie Gilbertson and host Tony delve into the controversy surrounding Roberta Laundrie's letter to her son, Brian Laundrie. They analyze the underlying implications of her words and how they may shed light on her alleged role in covering up a murder.

Laurie applies her prosecutorial expertise to provide unique insights into the dynamics of the Laundrie family, particularly focusing on the relationship between Roberta and Brian.

Tune in to explore the potential legal and psychological ramifications of this chilling narrative.

Watch this and other episodes HERE on YouTube.

Title: The Shifting Landscape of the Kohberger Case: Laurie Gilbertson Sheds Light on the Emerging Evidence

Former prosecutor Laurie Gilbertson joins Tony to discuss the case against Bryan Kohberger, shedding light on the unexpected and seemingly "curveball" pieces of evidence that have recently emerged.

Gilbertson will provide her expert analysis on the potential impact of these new findings on the trial and how they may change the outcome.

Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding the Kohberger case and the fascinating twists it has taken.

Watch this and other episodes HERE on YouTube.