Rachel Tobac

retweeted just because I miss wearing cyber punk outfits at the moment.

Would love to hear any other tips you've found for making it through a long presentation while ill, these tips are always helpful even if they don't work for every single case!

8. The morning of your talk drink super hot liquids, and ensure you have tea on hand (I've found decaf mint with honey helps best) -- if you start coughing while you speak, take a quick break, drink tea, pop in a cough drop and speak quieter. You will make it thru!

7. Warm up your vocal cords before you speak, it's challenging and doesn't always work perfectly but try to say "Buh, buh, buh" with a slight amount of force and the dog whine sound a bunch and steam your vocal cords before speaking. This helps a lot for me.

6. Something that challenges me a lot is: you've gotta stop clearing your throat. Instead, make a dog whine sound with your throat until you loosen it and gently cough if you need to.

4. Suck on cough drops often, this one feels pretty obvious so I likely don't need to tell you this. 5. Avoid milk products, they make you cough extra.

2. Drink tea constantly (I tend to choose mint tea with honey) - this helps keep your vocal cords from straining. 3. Put yourself on vocal rest - this part is the worst for talkers like me, but you seriously just need to quit your talking to make it. Put on Netflix & shhhhhhh.

I get asked a lot about what I do as a speaker when I'm sick! When you're on a plane constantly and leading 3+ hours of training or speaking it's so important to keep your voice ready to speak. Here are some tips and tricks for speakers that I've learned the hard way for myself:

Would love to see everyone’s marble mods — electric marbles, marbles that slow other marbles in their paths, weighted marbles. We would hack the wackiest marble race

I think @deviantollam or @brookelenet would be amazing play by play commentators.