Being a world-class speaker is hard work. There are multiple aspects of your craft to pay attention to. When we take the time to sharpen each of our skills again and again, the more unforgettable we will become.
episodes
Sharpening Skills Ep 01
Training Camp Mindset
Success on the stage starts with the right mindset. Choose to frame your training and set the stakes high so that every move you make leading up to your next Talk matters.
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Sharpening Skills Ep 02:
Movement On/Off Stage
As speakers, our movement matters. Whether we are unveiling a methodology, revealing shocking statistics or telling a story, what we do with our body influences how connected (or disconnected) the audience is to us.
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Sharpening Skills Ep 03:
Meditation Practice
Every speaker needs a meditation practice. Meditation puts a pause between any stimulus you receive and your reaction.
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Sharpening Skills Ep 04:
Food, H20 and Sleep
You don't want to be okay as a speaker. You either want it badly or you don't want it. What you put in your body and how you recover matters a great deal.
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Sharpening Skills Ep 05:
Power Moves
A power move is a specific movement that you do right before you step on stage. In rehearsals, you'll repeat it thousands of times and that gets you locked in a very high-level state. You body knows that when this move happens - it's on.
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Sharpening Skills Ep 06:
Visualization Exercises
Visualization dramatically increases your chance for success.
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Sharpening Skills Ep 07:
Fight Day Plan
Have a plan for your game day. Decide what you need to do in order to perform at your highest level and put all those elements in place. Don't leave game day to chance.
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Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.