Public Speaking Secrets

How to Make Your Talk Funny Ep08 with David Nihill


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Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, David is the author of the best-selling book “Do You Talk Funny?” and the Founder of FunnyBizz Conference.

His work has been featured in Inc., Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Forbes, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times.

“One of the best speaking coaches out there” according to Forbes.com, David’s program with over 29,000 students has been featured by Prezi as one of the best training courses for presenters. His book remains one of the highest rated in the world on the (usually not so wildly exciting) topic of public speaking and his content has been read by over one million people.

Get in touch with David Nihill, click on the links below.

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  • Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation, what’s happening? Welcome to a new episode of the public speaking secrets podcast. I’m your host, Victor. He Penny. And today I’ve got someone who, uh, I’ve, I’ve actually listened to read Rita’s book a few times now because it’s a very, very interesting in the sense that I’ve helped a lot of people would speaking, but I’ve always found the teaching of humor, one of the, the things that I’ve never really been able to grasp in a, in a true way. And I found this book probably the most easily, the most practical and logical assumption of, of how you can kind of keep being natural and yourself and also add humor until you kind of your business presentations you did talk to you. Yeah. Whatever, uh, yeah. Even you eulogies if need be. Um, and so I was super stoked to get them on the show and we’ll cut to the chase and welcome David Nihill. Who, who’s the author of. Do you talk? Funny and welcome to the show, man. Right.

     

    David Nihill: Thanks.

     

    Victor Ahipene: So give us, give us a bit of a background. Have you always been the, the, the humorous, the humorous man in the, in the conversations that you’ve been with friends and always been the guy who hopped up on stage and bust in and everybody would laugh?

     

    David Nihill: Definitely not. I think them in Irish, it’s a bit ingrained th

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