In today’s episode, you’re going to hear from a good mate of mine, Joshua John. Josh has been living in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and has been working as a Language, Literacy and Numeracy trainer at North Regional TAFE. It’s a pretty challenging gig for trainers in the region. It’s normal for trainer to drive hundreds, if not thousands of kilometres in a week to deliver training to students at remote communities.

The reason I asked him on the show, was to talk about these challenges, even down to the detail of what he packs on the road… but also talk about his side hustle in the world of MC’ing too.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How to keep participants moving in a workshop (literally!)

* How he responded when his mind went blank at the national stand-up comedy festival

* How he prepares for his MC work

* His take on using humour in your presentations

* Josh’s packing list when he trains people remotely

About our guest

Joshua John is an Access (Literacy, Language and Numeracy) lecturer based in Broome, Western Australia.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

* North Regional TAFE

* Broome MC and Wedding DJ

* Connect with Joshua John on LinkedIn.

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Quotes of the show:

People try to stick in so much content and it’s too much. It’s like a tsunami of information. It overwhelms people.

One of the most important things across every industry is that ability to communicate.

What that individual will see is, every other person in the class has spoken and no one has laughed. When it gets to their turn, they’re able to say something – and it’s more part of that desire to be part of the group.  No individual is going to go against that and not speak.  They’re engaged, and then from there, the classroom environment is working well.

Episode transcript

View the First Time Facilitator podcast transcript with Joshua John.