Judit Nagy

From visible presence to real impact.💫

I'm a Voice, Speech & Communication Impact Strategist, coach and trainer. As a former TV news anchor, I work with professionals who want more than just "being heard", people ready to speak with genuine authority, whether that's on stage, in a boardroom, or in any high-stakes, tense situation in life where you need to stay confident.

My approach is built on ASP: Awareness, Strategy, Power and yes, chocolate plays a role too. It's a sensory shortcut that helps clients feel change, not just understand it intellectually.

I rebuilt my voice after a physical trauma and started completely from scratch after a career and country change.
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The bell rang — but not just for the schoolchildren. 🔔
Thoughts on the echo of how we communicate.

All over the world, a new school year is starting. In Hungary, school started on Tuesday. Social media is full of encouraging words and wise advice. One of my favourites is what a friend said to her little boy: "Until now, you could only see the world through a small keyhole. Now the whole world will open up for you." Or what our president told the students: be accepting of people who are a little different from you, and be kind to these classmates too.

We should all take this thought to heart, whether or not we have a child who goes to school. Because communication does not start in September, and it does not start at school. It starts at home, long before a child ever steps into any institution. The first seeds of our communication style are planted by our parents and our family — then come the institutions, society, and the environment we live in. We are all responsible for it.

Before you speak, comment on a post, or write a message to someone, ask yourself these questions:
1.What is my intention when I say or write this?
2. What effect do I want — or will — my words create?
3. How does the way I communicate reflect back on me?

We often seem to forget the third question. But every word we say also reflects back on us: what impression we make on others, whether we build real friendships where we can trust each other and count on one another, and what kind of atmosphere we create around us. This does not only happen inside school walls.
Whatever we allow as "normal" in a community, we carry into our workplace culture as adults. The numbers speak for themselves: almost a third of students worldwide experience bullying (UNESCO). A recent survey in Hungary found that 60% of students have already been victims, and half of the witnesses do nothing (NEM OKÉ programme, 2026). The picture looks similar at work, we just call it "mobbing" there: according to the first large-scale global survey by the ILO, Gallup, and the Lloyd's Register Foundation, 23% of workers have experienced some form of harassment or violence at work.

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." — said Mother Teresa.
Let her words echo in us before we point fingers at each other.
Let's look deep inside ourselves instead.
Let's have an inner bell, just like the one in schools: it should stop us before we speak, and give us a pause to answer the three questions above before we say anything.
Let our thoughts echo endlessly for everyone.

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What you don’t share is still a story.
The best stories sometimes don’t even look like stories at first.

One of my clients had to tell his team: the project they had worked on for years was ending, and layoffs were coming too. He told them about a sunken boat : about how he rebuilt a wreck, gave up, but somehow the boat still made it into the water. What happened to his team?
The full story, and the five points every good story has → link in bio.

What you don't share is still a story.
The best story you have probably doesn't even look like a story at first.

My clients want to be inspiring leaders, speakers, convincing interview guests, or negotiation partners. But they often repeat the same sentence: "I don't have a good story."
My mentor and friend, Kinga Györffy – author of two Hungarian books on storytelling, Add elő magad! and Szabadulás a sztorifóbiából – knows this sentence well. That's why she once said in an interview: "We talk a lot about storytelling, but unfortunately, we tell very few stories." (Source: Igényesférfi.hu interview, https://lnkd.in/eAFKY_2G)

"The topic is lying right there in the street" – as we used to say in journalist circles. Or maybe today it's lying on social media instead. 😉
In the past few months, social media was full of summer photos. And behind every photo, there is an untold story. The missed flight. The swimsuit you forgot to pack. The bad hotel. Or, in a better case, the lost suitcase and not the lost child. 😳

We all have our own story.
These stories are worth collecting. They are alive, real, and human. Since something similar has happened to most of us, they create a feeling of familiarity and through this feeling, we can connect with each other. It's like salt in soup: without it, you can't reach your audience, not in a meeting, not in an interview, not at a conference.

I still feel it deeply when I remember one of my clients, who had to tell his team of several hundred people that the project they had worked on for years was being shut down by headquarters, and layoffs were coming. He was preparing for a difficult speech as a leader. He drew his courage from his own story.
He told them how he had finally made an old dream come true: to have his own boat. He started rebuilding a wreck. The boat kept sinking, again and again. And again and again, he started over. Until, unexpectedly, someone stepped in to help him and one day, he finally launched the boat.

The sinking boat became a symbol of what everyone in the room felt: that hope can be born even out of hopelessness. A boat that has sunk and broken apart can be rebuilt. The process may be long and painful, but standing back up is not impossible. This feeling held the team together in that difficult moment – and he himself later helped many of them find new jobs, just as someone had once helped him.

Five points that every good story has:
- Hero – someone who doesn't stand in front of their team like a perfect superhero.
- Challenge – making an old dream come true: rebuilding a wreck.
- Crisis – the boat kept sinking, again and again.
- Helper – someone who unexpectedly shows up.
- Triumph – the boat finally sails.

If you want to leave a mark on your audience, share your one-of-a-kind, unrepeatable story.

What's the story you've never told anyone? Write it in the comments.

I met one of the happiest people in the world
There are talks, presentations, reports, meetings that you just get thrown into, like showing up somewhere without a clue what's going on. In these situations, it's really common for the speaker to feel completely lost, because they have no idea how to make the topic clear and enjoyable, especially if the audience isn't made up of experts.

That's usually when I ask: "What is it about this topic that you actually find exciting, appealing, or even lovable?" And a lot of the time, the answer I get is: "Nothing." 😜
Then my clients and I set off on a journey to dig up their stories. We keep digging until we find that one thing that gets them fired up, that brings them joy, and that somehow connects to what they're presenting.

Why does this matter so much? Because of connection.
Connection to:
- yourself,
- the topic,
- the audience.

So how does all this tie back to one of the happiest people in the world?

I met Des Byrne, an 85-year-old silversmith, at the Kilkenny Handwrought Silver workshop near Kilkenny Castle. The shop was already closing, but the moment he spotted us, he threw his arms wide open and waved us into his little shop, glittering with silver.

This slightly hunched, white-haired, thin craftsman had a kind of joy on his face I'd never seen before. His eyes were smiling the whole time he told us how, for 68 years, he's shown up at his workshop every single day, showing us a photo of his most memorable piece, a silver cup weighing over 8.5 kilos, one of the most important trophies in Irish Gaelic football, and showing us his tools.

If everyone felt this happy about what they do, the world would be a much more lovable place. And that starts even with something as simple as looking forward to your next speech or presentation with genuine excitement.

Find the story that lights you up. That's one of the keys to connecting with your topic and with your audience.

Because communication is, at its core, a connection born out of emotion, it happens when it's a joy to listen to you. That's how you become unforgettable, just like the silversmith Des Byrne became unforgettable in my life.
He captivated me so much that I didn't even take a selfie with him. But you know what the truly unforgettable people stay with you anyway. Their face stays with you forever.

Photo: Kilkenny Castle Yard / kilkennydesign.com