Penny, The Review Group's reviewer Penny for Your ThoughtsThe Review Group
Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook

Wink: Transforming Public Speaking with Clown Presence

Don Colliver · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Don Colliver (self-narrated)
78/100
👍 Worth It

Colliver's clown-and-circus background gives this a genuinely different angle on public speaking — vulnerability and play instead of the usual tips-and-tricks — and Seth Godin's endorsement isn't nothing. It's self-narrated by a professional performer, so the delivery should carry real energy and lived-in confidence, worth the listen on that front alone. Some readers wanted more theory behind the method, but as an unconventional, practical approach it holds up.

✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.

▶ Listen to a sample

🎙 Narration: good Self-narrated by a professional theatrical performer; likely a lively, embodied delivery given his stage background, though no direct narration reviews were found.

As an Amazon Associate and Audible affiliate, Penny earns from qualifying purchases. This never affects the verdict — see our affiliate disclosure.
Show the math
Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing78
Originality85
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit75
Human-eye read80
Penny’s verdict78
Cross-pollinate