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Today we talk with Darren Simons about Key Communication Skills that can help you in life, business, sales and on camera - How To Communicate Better. If you can learn how to communicate better it will make it easier for you to sell yourself, sell a product and connect with people.

Darren is a professional TV Presenter and Broadcast Media Trainer, working with many organisations. Darren successfully launched Aspire TV Presenter Training over 12 years ago, offering high quality media presentation training courses around the UK and worldwide and is also based at 3 Mills Studios in London, running TV Presenter Masterclasses every month.

After accumulating around 9000 hours of live TV , he is still extremely passionate about presenting on screen and has done so for over 16 years. 

Recently, Darren and his team had the pleasure of working with ITV Productions, and assisting in the presentation rehearsals of their daytime TV shows such as This Morning with Philip & Holly and Good Morning Britain as they moved to their new studios at London’s Television Centre. 

Other event assignments have taken Darren and his team across the Atlantic to Caribbean. where he was asked to provide training for TV Network Presenters there and also had the honour of being asked to Media Coach the Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Dr. Rowley.

Darren is busy setting up a new TV channel group in Marbella, Spain, where he spends time in both London and Marbella. Darren also owns a Gastro Restaurant, and is looking forward to spending time on some brand new media consultancy projects. Whilst not working (which is rare!) enjoys spending time with his family and keeping fit.

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This isn’t your average business podcast. It’s where real entrepreneurs, celebs, and industry leaders strip back the polished PR, and get brutally honest about the journeys that made them.

Hosted by entrepreneur and investor Matt Haycox, Stripping Off dives into the raw, unfiltered realities behind success: the wins, the fuck-ups, the breakthroughs, and everything in between. No scripts. No sugar-coating. Just real talk from people who’ve lived it.

Whether you’re hustling to scale your business or just love a behind-the-scenes look at how people really make it, this podcast is your front-row seat to the truth behind the triumphs.

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