an ADEQUATE podcast

an ADEQUATE podcast

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  • On Feeling Awkward, and what to do about it
    In this episode, we look at the horrible business of feeling uncomfortable before, during and after a talk.
    Some ways to deal with this include:
    1. Accepting that, unless you are a psychopath, or plan to say something very dull indeed, it would be strange not to feel awkward.
    2. Accepting that you are feeling awkward, and that this is not actually an impediment. (It only gets hard when you refuse to accept it.)
    3. Taking your mind off yourself and devoting your attention to serving the needs of your audience.
    4. Accepting interventions from the audience as positively helpful.
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    13 min
  • Before you write anything - Invention!
    [NOTE: This is a shorter version of the first group Zoom call.]
    Until you have a reasonable understanding of your audience, and the specific occasion, it would be foolish to start writing.
    Classical rhetoric called this first stage "Invention", which sounds a bit dull. My publisher asked me to come up with something else. 
    So I call it WOW, which stands for "Work Out What (The Heck You Are Up To)".
    In this episode, I talk through a mind map of WOW / Invention: the Who, What, Where, When, How and Why of your talk.
    Drawing a mind map like this is something you should do before every talk - initially, anyway, because every audience and occasion is slightly different from the last.
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    21 min
  • Group Zoom Call 1 ("Invention")

    In this first group Zoom call, we looked at Invention - the business of finding out what you want to achieve by speaking.

    We considered the "five Ws and one H" (who, what, when, where, how and why).

    We looked at the spectrum of communication, from controlled (but impersonal) to risky (but warm).

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    57 min
  • Introduction

    Hi, I'm John-Paul Flintoff. 

    This mini-series podcast will appear every 48 hours (or so) over November 2020. It is an attempt to demonstrate, in real time, what it's like to do public speaking, and to enable participation by people who can't attend all/some of the live Zoom calls.

    In this episode you will hear me:

    • say hello to my small but perfectly formed audience: Rachel, Dom, Zoe, Joel, David, Jan, Eve, Andrew and Peter
    • reveal a little about the wide range of backgrounds/interests represented by this group, 
    • share an excerpt from an interview with Jay Heinrichs, author of funny and inspiring books about speaking
    • get a bit "meta", by describing what it's like to record this talk for you when I don't know much about you (some of you, anyway, at least, not yet).

      • By the end of the month, I hope that this podcast mini-series will feature much less of my voice, and much more of yours. 

      So please send me an audio comment using the link provided. And if you haven't already, please help me out by completing that survey!

      Till next time.

      JP

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      19 min
    • Mental Health Q&A

      For World Mental Health Day, I showed drawings to large numbers of people I couldn't even see, in a webinar. This episode contains some of the questions I was asked, and some answers. I hope you like the noises I chose at the start and the finish.

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      4 min
    • My decline was gradual, insidious
      In this episode, largely comprising a public talk I gave, I explain that my breakdown sneaked up on me. It was triggered by many things, over a period of two or three years. I've trimmed it to avoid talking about other people.
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      8 min
    • Going into psychiatric hospital

      In which I read the first part of a story I wrote (anonymously) for the Financial Times, describing the experience of admitting myself to hospital; explain my surprise, looking back, because I was really not very strong at the time I wrote this, and state (probably not for the first time) that I feel deeply ambivalent about sharing these experiences. If you do listen, please leave me a message: it really will help me to feel a bit less exposed. Thank you. JP 

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      9 min

    About an ADEQUATE podcast

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    A podcast about speaking and performance. It's ADEQUATE, because I can't do perfect.