2. HANNAH BRENCHER…
Is a 24 year old who is in the habit of leaving love letters,
all around New York City. Oh and she runs The World Needs
More Love Letters, a global love letter writing organization.

3. LOVE LETTERS TO STRANGERS…..
Opened with a story about Hannah
being the only student at her college
who still checked her P.O. box for
letters from her mother, while other
students checked their inboxes.

4. In order to battle
depression, Hannah
decided to bring love into
strangers lives, by writing
love letters and leaving
them randomly all over the
city. .

5. She would blog about each and every letterSTRANGERS…..
LOVE LETTERS TO
that she wrote and left for someone to find. about Hannah
Opened with a story
being the only student at her
As her stack of letters grew and grew, she
college who still checked her mail
made a promise, “I posed a kind ofletters from her mother,
box for crazy
promise to the internet: that if you asked mein technology.
who didn’t believe
for a hand written letter, I would write you one,
no questions asked.”
HANNAH habit of leaving love letters,
Is a 24 year old who is in the
BRENCHER…
all around New York City. Oh and she runs The World Needs
More Love Letters, a global love letter writing organization.

6. Over night e-mails attacked her inbox, people asking her to
“give them a reason to wait by the mailbox.” Thus, she
created The World Needs More Love Letters. “Connecting
strangers to strangers by way of letter writing.” She uses the
power of social media to send love letters to strangers that
need them most.

7. Hannah explains how people are using the power of letters
around the world, from a women leaving letters around her
house for her husband that just got back from Afghanistan to a
girl who left letters all around her school campus, only to wake
up to thousands more of them hanging from the trees and in
bushes.

8. “Letter writing is an art form now. The signing,
the scripting, the mailing, the doodles in the
margins. The mere fact, that somebody would just
sit down, pull out a piece of paper, and think about
someone the whole way through with an
intention that is so much harder to un-earth
when the browser is up and the iPhone is pinging.
That is an art form.”

9. Hannah captures the audience’s attention by tugging on their
heart strings with stories of people who received/requested her
love letters and they changed their lives for the better. One of the
stories she tells is about a man that was going to take his own life,
and was saying good bye to the world via Facebook. Hannah and
her organization sent him love letters and he now sleeps with
them under his pillow.

10. Dynamism: 5/5
Hannah spoke from her heart and
with intent. She gives us examples
of how love letter writing, even
from strangers, can help anyone.
You can tell just from listening to
her speak that she is very
passionate about her cause and
truly wants people to write love
letters to help others. She loves
and understands what she is
talking about and makes you really
want to stop what you are doing
and write random love letters to
strangers all over the world.

11. Hannah uses no slide or speech cards
to get through her presentation, she
follows her story. She also uses a prop,
her “trusty mail crate.” Both speaking
without slides and with a prop are
discussed by Garr Reynolds.

12. From the moment Hannah begins her presentation, I can tell that
she is passionate about what she is talking about. She delivers with
vigor and emotion every time she talks about her love letters. If
there is anything I learned from her presentation, it is to make
sure that I love what I’m presenting about. It really makes people
want to listen and love whatever it is you’re talking about as much
as you do.

13. Compare and Contrast:
While Hannah and Sir Ken
Robinson both show no slide
presentation, Sir Ken uses a
more comedic story-telling
aspect to keep his audience
entertained. Hannah, I
believe, uses examples of
what her organization can do
and has done to reach her
audience.

14. Both Sir Ken Robinson and Hannah talked
about subjects that affect people and their
futures. They are both very invigorated about
their subjects, as well as very knowledgeable.

15. TIPS: Love what you are talking about. You won’t
need to stutter or memorize, because it will
becoming from the heart. Talk about something
that has affected or changed you personally so
that you can express to
your audience just how important what you are
talking about is, just like Hannah and her love
letters!