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Your face is distracting you! 🤔
Hey Reader, We’re one week into October. Have you bought Halloween candy yet? (Or already bought it twice?) Today, let’s get into why you should… Close your eyes and hit ‘play’! The best way to watch your recording is to not watch it. If you read my free guide, “From Mic-Shy to Camera-Confident”, (download link below) You know how much you learn by ‘recording’ yourself. But the most important step happens when you play it back. I call it the listen-only review. You press play. Then you look…
Congrats on sounding awful!
Hey Reader, The calendar says September. The candy aisle strongly disagrees! Today, let’s get into… Why your ‘cringe’ is actually good news! Every great speaker you love was once a mumbling mess. Every single one. Nobody came out of the womb with a clean open and a strong close. You came out screaming with no structure at all. One question people ask me all the time is, “How do you actually get good at public speaking when you’re starting from zero?” Here’s the map. There are four stages….
He’s not smarter, just louder 📣
Hey Reader, Are you enjoying “Pumpkin everything” yet? Today, I thought we’d cover why… The bonehead got promoted again! “Shy” is not a personality. It’s a “habit”. A really sneaky one, because it feels like just “who you are.” But it’s not. It’s a set of behaviors you’ve been practicing so long they feel permanent. Think about what those behaviors actually look like. Quiet voice. Small gestures. Eyes that find the floor during conversations. Taking up as little space as possible, like you’re…
The question that makes people lean in 🤔
Hey Reader, Hope you’re hanging on to the last bits of summer! (Soon, some of you will be shoveling your “weather”!) Today I thought we’d cover why “networking” feels so brutally awkward. Nobody wants your job title The worst question at any networking event is also the most popular one. “So, what do you do?” It’s the networking equivalent of a limp handshake and zero eye contact. Ask it, and watch someone’s eyes go slightly blank while they pull up the laminated card in their brain. The one…
What boring actually sounds like 🤔
Hey Reader, Happy Tuesday! Hope your Labor Day weekend was filled with rest, relaxation, and ribs you’re still digesting. I hate to say it, but… Your voice may be putting people to sleep. Most people talk like a metronome set to medium. Same speed. Same volume. From hello to goodbye. Steady as a ceiling fan on ‘low’. And then they wonder why eyes glaze over halfway through their story. Here’s the thing. Your brain notices “change”. Not sameness. Change. So when your voice runs at one flat…
Your ideas are dying in your chair
Hey Reader, I spent 30+ years talking for a living, and somehow nobody ever figured out how to make me stop. So… newsletter. 😂 Courage is a MUSCLE you keep skipping Bridge workers think being 200 feet in the air is “relaxing”. Not thrilling. Not terrifying. Relaxing. Why? They’ve done it so many times it stopped being a big deal. It’s just Tuesday. With better views. We think courage is something you either have or you don’t. Like a dimple or a trust fund. But that’s not how it works. You’re…