I'm in the business of transforming lives
through concise powerful communication.

by fine-tuning high-performance communication
 I help my clients transform lives, perspectives and results.


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Bio

- Co-author/Ghostwriter of best-selling books and products in communication, wealth, self-help...
- Mentor and ghostwriter to leading professional speakers and educators worldwide...
- Consultant to IBM, AXA, American Express, RMIT, UNSW, Breathe Films and YouTube...
Jade works exclusively with professional speakers and educators, creating engaging stories and presentations that educate, influence and sell.

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Jade Barclay is a writer and marketing consultant based in Melbourne by way of Sydney Australia. The lead consultant with Viva Media, Jade regularly translates jargon-heavy, complex or overwhelm-inducing topics into simple word pictures that educate and sell with clarity. Jade also writes for international print magazines, and contributes accelerated learning, influence and life design tips online.

Jade is not just any writer. She's an educator, marketer and pro speaker coach, who has been referred to by clients as "one of the best writers we've ever had,*"  "a verbal assassin^" who "works her magic and somehow makes clunky scripts flow^^" , as well as "an intuitive visionary whose genius resides in distilling complex systems into simple diagrams.**" 

"How you influence yourself and others underlies everything...
transform that, transform your world."
-- Jade Barclay

Jade finished high school and university on full scholarships, with studies in IT, journalism, comedy and screenwriting, unconscious influence, and behavioural and educational psychology. Jade worked as a management consultant, presented accelerated learning, life design and leadership workshops at high schools and public events, and lectured at UNSW and UTS on computer science, project management and Master of e-commerce subjects, before marketing consulting and writing full-time.

* Standford Management Institute
** In Spirare Films
^ YouTube Australia
^^ AlphaShows

 

Currently

  • Viva Media
    - Ghostwriter/Editor:
    Writing books and products for professional speakers
    - Influence & Marketing Strategist: Pitch doctor and business growth strategy for experts
     

  • Contributor
    - Columnist: Various international print magazines
    - Script doctor: Alpha Shows, children's musical theatre that rocks!
     

  • Youth@Risk Mentor
    MAT Program, martial arts therapy for adolescent inpatients
    Open Family Australia, youth leadership program designer/facilitator


 



 

 

 


 

Recently

  • Writing in Bali with Wealth Dynamics and Lifestyle Investor Magazine

  • Playing Liberation games with the guys from Project Mojave

  • Taking exuberant imperfection into local schools with NaNoWriMo

  • Interviewed on SpiralTwist for toddler-taming for Practical Parenting magazine

  • Interviewed on SpiralTwist for sales professionals by John Blake from BlueRocket

  • Interviewed on SpiralTwist for at-risk adolescents by Rich Horwood from the MAT program

  • Interviewed on Corporate Houdini tricks by Clay Collins from Finance Your Freedom

  • Interviewed Zynet and Jamie Oliver's Restaurant Fifteen re Disaster recovery after fire

  • Guest lecturer at RMIT - Masters of Communication, Publishing & Marketing Online

  • Guest lecturer at UNSW - Masters of eCommerce

  • And of course, Classified Ghostwriting Projects - I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you :)

 

 

 

 

 

"Jade's Income Snowball Menu is as
revolutionary as Rich Dad Poor Dad"
-- Kerri Witt, Financial Analyst


 

"Jade is one of the best writers
we've ever had. Outstanding
work every time."

--
Peter Hedley, Standford Management Institute

 

 

 

 

"Jade is a verbal assassin."
-- Damien Estriech, YouTube Australia

 

 

"I don't know how you've done it, Jade, but you've nailed it! This is the most addictive thing I've ever read! You write me better than I write me! "
-- Classified, Ghostwriting client

 

 

 

 

 "I worked with dozens of writers before I finally found you, and none of them really got it. I'm so glad one of you NLP people does writing!"
-- Classified, Ghostwriting client

 
 

"I LOVE LOVE LOVE the book! Thank you for capturing his spirit.  You have a rare gift, Jade."
-- Classified, Ghostwriting client

 

 

 

 

"Jade's brutal honesty and intuitive insights have taken my business to heights I never dreamed of."
--
Bill Wheeler, StageHypnotist.com.au

 
 

"I think of Jade as my business soulmate. You totally changed my life, what with your telling me the stuff I needed to hear in a way I could hear it. You are amazing!"
-- Leela Cosgrove, Business Writers Anonymous

 

 

 

 

"Jade has a way of asking just the right questions in just the right way to make your people shine and your story sing!"
-- Craig Jervis, Self-Leadership Academy

 
 

"Jade is an intuitive visionary whose genius reside in distilling complex systems into simple diagrams."
-- Natalie Palomo, Breathe Films

 

 

 

 

 

"Today was the best day ever!
I wish we could have Jade
as all our teachers!"

--
Year 9 Youth@Risk Student

  
 

Elsewhere

 

 

 

 

Twitter bio: Ghostwriter and marketing strategist to pro speakers... freelance gypsy, weekend revolutionary, mum, closet geek, comedy addict
 

Top tweets:

"Don't be nice, be real."

"There's a time to look at the world and call 'bullshit'
and there's a time to take a stand and change a few lives."

"STOP looking for balance. Take care of
yourself and do what makes you come alive.
If that's work, go hardcore and pick up speed!"
 

"Stop worrying about where you're not.
That's someone else's spot. Love YOUR spot.
Rock your spot. Rock its ass off!"
-- Jade Barclay

 

 

Contact

  • Personal correspondence to jadebarclay [at] gmail.com

  • Ghostwriting, consulting & media correspondence to jade [at] vivamedia.net
     
    PO Box 229
    Southland VIC 3192
    Australia

    Phone: +61 407 070 506
    Skype: JadeBarclay

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PS, Jade's Disclaimer -

Those legalese memoirs, the ones that append emails from friends who haven't yet hacked their way free of the corporate jungle, they really got to me one day. They circumnavigate the globe every few seconds, duplicated in countless interoffice memos and forwards and jokes. Words have a resonant vibration. Meaning matters. What we focus on expands. So, let's focus on what we DO want, shall we: 

 

"DiSCLAiMER: Bill Gates once had a mission to have a computer on every desk... and that was way before the internet, laptops or polyphonic ring tones. Our mission today is to have a genuine smile on every face, a healthy glow in every cheek & a sparkle in every eye, truth in every word, power in every deed, love & gratitude in every heart, health & passion in every body, curiosity & creativity in every mind, prosperity & laughter in every home.... Revolution starts with a simple smile :) Be truthful and fearless always. Practice random acts of kindness, and random acts of passion, curiosity, creativity and gratitude… EVERY DAY!!! The iPod/mp3 revolution took less than 5 years to take over the entire audio world. Pharma is a phase, a profitable but unsustainable phase. It's a beta-test that is leading us to make better choices, to choose more emotionally and communally valuable habits and strategies. Most mood-altering prescription medication belongs in historybooks, right next to the BETA video cassette. UPGRADE NOW!"
 
FYi: This e-mail and any attachments to it (the "Communication") is, unless otherwise stated, controversial, may contain original paradoxical and uncensored thought, and is for the use only of the intended recipient, any of their close friends and family, the odd former lover or illicit lovechild, and any other prying eyes who happen to get their greasy little hands on it. Well, eyes, not hands. Hopefully you don’t waste paper printing it and just post it on every forum and blog in the ‘verse and get lots more eyes on it too.

If you receive the Communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail with lots of ooo’s and xxx’s, post a copy on your blog, and follow that irresistible urge to forward the Communication to as many people as technologically possible (without breaching any spam regulations of course). Feel free to read, copy, forward, retransmit or otherwise deal with the Communication in whatever what you see fit – as long as it’s the full Communication and not any little out-of-context snippet, that would be totally uncool, man. Any views expressed in the Communication are those of the individual sender only, but with a little luck, stellar timing and a fabulous publicist, here’s hoping that they become the widely held and lovingly defended views of everyone on this little blue-green-brown planet of ours, the sooner the better! The sender does not accept liability in connection with the integrity of or errors in the Communication, virus, data corruption, interference or delay arising from or in respect of the Communication… I always loved that line, but you know what… whether Mr Joe Blow and his legal reps with the compulsive *ss-covering disorder ‘accept’ liability or not, emotional political viruses, corruption, lip-service integrity, and interference in Communication all yield intimate and global consequences that we all must take responsibility for before it's too late! Truth is beauty - how we do one thing is how we do everything - enrich your community - break a sweat a day - dream big, test small, start now - celebrate life - practice loving - start a revolution - be remarkable. GAME ON!"