December 30, 2021

Episode 25 - Leaving Your Ego For Effective Communication with Marc Williams

43 minutes

HIGHLIGHTS

Formative years: From journalism to teaching
Learning about and joining Toastmasters
There's always someone better than you
What makes a story good?
Leave your ego at the door
Join Toastmasters to improve yourself
Embrace your verbs

QUOTES

Marc: "If you don't wanna make it yourself, you don't really want it."

Marc: "I would say that anybody, I don't care what level you're at, there is somebody you can meet, somebody you can speak to, somebody you can come across, who will just teach you things that you did not know."

Marc: "If I'm a great speaker, if I'm a good speaker, if I'm a compelling speaker, if I'm a helpful speaker, if I'm a transformation speaker, it's only because I've come across people who have helped me, transformed me, taught me."

Marc: "Just pick one thing that you would like to be able to do better, one thing that would make you feel a little bit better about yourself and just focus on that. You don't have to be the next Tony Robbins, you just have to be the next version of you who's gonna tell that next story that you just heard or experienced or lived through."

Marc: "The secret to being an effective educator is understanding that even if you are on the front of the room, whether you are on the stage or the guy by the side, that it's always about the students in the classroom. That is why as educators we always have to throw the ego out the door."

Marc: "Sometimes, performance is a dirty word in public speaking. I say let's stop separating all these things and merge them together. Public speaking, performing, visual, verbal, we gotta put it all together."

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