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Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer

Speaker captures audience’s interest

Energy flowed from the podium. And not a minute too soon. The stakes were high as Denise Ryan took part in the 1998 presentation for Smith Advertising & Associates before the tourist-promotion board in Asheville.
Things were not looking good. “The body language in that room was like this,’’ Ryan recalled, demonstrating an arms-folded slumped-in-a-chair attitude...Click here to read the full story

Wilson (N.C.) Daily Times

Women told to make and pursue goals

Denise Ryan loves quotations. She lives by the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, William Ernest Henley, Winston Churchill and Henry Ford. She tapes quotes on her mirrors at home, on her computer and on her refrigerator. And she uses the powerful words, along with her motivational speaking talent to re-energize people all over the state...
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Speaker urges motivation

Effective leaders must evoke enthusiasm and passion to accomplish their goals and motivate their staff, said motivational speaker Denise Ryan.
Without the two, success cannot be achieved, she said...
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Speaker To Offer Tips On Overcoming Cold Call Phobia
by Josiah Cantwell

For some salesmen, the idea of cold-calling is the scariest thing in the business. The idea of phoning strangers or visiting them unannounced can be intimidating. But many people, from life insurance salesmen to small business owners, need to develop sales skills.
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Networks help women
by J. Kyle Foster

"It's not what you know, but who you know" has long been an adage of successful business. Motivational speaker Denise Ryan says it is more than that - "It's not what you know, it's not who you know, it's who you have a relationship with." Ryan, whose company is called FireStar, gave tips on networking for women at Wachovia Bank's Professional Women's Luncheon on Thursday in Fayetteville. About 50 women from various companies and occupations attended the event at Highland Country Club.
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Even guys like Vince can dare to dream
by Lynn Brisson

A couple of weeks ago, I spent an evening with several motorcycle enthusiasts, a would-be James Joyce, a philosophizing grandmother, an independently wealthy hypnotist, a former psychic hot-line worker and Vince Charlivy of Eden. A big, brawny man of Polish/Lebanese descent, Vince supervises 85 security staff members. He loves humor and has children ranging in age from 10 to 35 and five grandchildren, with more on the way, and he says his life is boring. I got to know all of this about Vince at the free Small Business Center seminar titled. "Are Your People Burned Out or Fired Up? Enthusiasm - Get It to Give It." Vince was at the seminar at Rockingham Community College hoping to be injected with enthusiasm that he could pass along to others at the Cone Medical System hospitals, where he works. I was there to get a story.
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Secretaries challenged to set goals
by Kathryn Whitley

"This woman is a fireball!" This introductory descriptive of motivational speaker Denise Ryan - speaker for the Annual Secretaries' Day Luncheon Wednesday at the Agri-Exposition Center - was fittingly stated by Susan Holder, chapter president of the Sampson Charter Chapter of the American Business Women's Association.
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Enthusiasm key to marketing, speaker tells business owners
by Vicki Hyatt

Enthusiasm sells. 

That was the main message of motivational speaker Denise Ryan, who recently conducted a three-hour small business seminar on marketing a business for Haywood Community College small business center.
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Remember where there is smoke, there's fire!