060 The One About Public Speaking
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I\\u2019m willing to bet that when you think about public speaking, you get nervous or\\xa0at least\\xa0a bit uncomfortable.\\xa0 The great Google says it is one of the top fears that most of us share.\\xa0 And who can argue with Google?\\xa0 I remember the first time I gave a water treatment speech in\\xa0front\\xa0of some of my father\\u2019s clients.\\xa0 It was not very good.
In fact, it was downright bad.\\xa0\\xa0However, that was my first, not my last.\\xa0 To date I have spoken hundreds of times on water treatment topics.\\xa0 And... many\\xa0actually\\xa0pay\\xa0me to do it (it\\u2019s a good thing they didn\\u2019t see that first presentation.)\\xa0 Don\\u2019t ever make first into the last.\\xa0 I\\xa0cannot\\xa0tell you how many times I did not make a great presentation, but I can tell you that ever presentation I make is better than the one that came before it.\\xa0 Embrace the felling of fear, it means you are challenging yourself to grow.
Fast-forward\\xa0to today and I love to speak (a good quality to a podcast host.)\\xa0 I still\\xa0apply\\xa0the same philosophy of I get better at everything that I do because I\\xa0challenge\\xa0myself to not only keep doing\\xa0it but\\xa0do it better the next time.\\xa0\\xa0Any\\xa0one that listens to\\xa0episode\\xa0one of Scaling UP! H2O can see that practice makes you better (please don\\u2019t listen to episode 1...)
My guest today is Dez Thornton, a public speaking coach.\\xa0 Dez work with CEO\\u2019s, sales people and everyone in between to make them be able to better get their message across.\\xa0 I know because he has helped me.\\xa0 Dez can\\xa0deconstruct\\xa0what and how you speak to make you speak better.\\xa0 Join me as I\\xa0interview\\xa0Dez and he leads us all down the path of communicating better.
A lot of people would rather take a beating than get up and speak in front of a group.\\xa0 But with\\xa0a speaking coach like\\xa0Dez, before you know it \\u2026 you\\u2019ve\\xa0chiseled out a tight outline,\\xa0told a great story,\\xa0had a few\\xa0belly\\xa0laughs and realized you\\u2019ve got the audience\\xa0eating out\\xa0of\\xa0the palm of your hand.\\xa0\\xa0
Professionally trained at the University of South Carolina and Dale Carnegie, he is a past president of the Georgia Chapter of the National Speakers Association and the winner of Speak Tank, a speaking competition hosted by the NSA.\\xa0 He has been a speech coach for\\xa0TEDx\\xa0Peachtree, coached hundreds of professionals and corporate clients, and even taught a public speaking class for 7 years at a federal prison.\\xa0
At the tender age of nine,\\xa0Dez\\xa0forgot his lines in a church play but he never forgot the embarrassment and humiliation that followed.\\xa0\\xa0Since then, he\\u2019s dedicated himself to learning and teaching the art of\\xa0speaking and\\xa0helping thought leaders say the right words in the right way when they matter most.\\xa0\\xa0
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Timestamps
Fears on Public Speaking [0:02:58]
How to become a good communicator [0:07:16]
Public Speaking Myth [0:10:11]
Strategies on getting your audiences attention [0:11:09]
Problems on Public Speaking that we have to deal with [0:13:53]
Understanding your audience [0:19:56]
Things you need to accomplish on public speaking [0:21:04]
What to expect|goals? [0:29:41]
How to do presentations? [0:32:43]
How to plan ahead for a presentation? [0:41:02]
Tips from Dez [0:43:01]
Starting you presentation with a Powerpoint is a NO [0:46:50]
Sales and Communication [0:48:38]
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Quotes
"Everybody\'s fear is to get in front of bunch of other people and start speaking." - Trace Blackmore
"The more I have done it, it does not make me as nervous. But the less I am prepared the more nervous I am." - Trace Blackmore
"One of the main objective when you are speaking is CLARITY!" - Dez Thornton
"Every presentation needs to have that one thing that the communicator wants the audience to get" - Dez Thornton
"Everything matters when it comes to presentations. It\'s home-run or nothing!" - Dez Thornton
"Starting you presentation with a Powerpoint is a NO! Here\'s why... " - Dez Thornton
"You need to analyze what does your audience needs to know before you start speaking to them." - Dez Thornton
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