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Lessons Learned after hosting over 410 TEDx Talk Speakers - Featured Interview with guest expert Ajit George
TEDx Wilmington organizer and Certified Dream Builder
Ajit Mathew George talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about his experience with running TEDx Wilmington and how the 410+ TEDx presentations have shaped and improved his life.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:
How his family of engineers and doctors served as "reverse inspiration" on his entrepreneurial career path
The story behind becoming the TEDx Wilmington founder in 2011, which now has showcased over 627 speakers and received over 6 million YouTube views.
Keys to delivering a great talk in 12-18 minutes (hint: requires 50 hours of rehearsal!)
Background stories on two standout TEDx presentations: Actor Yvonne Orjii on why she has decided to stay a virgin, a direct contradiction to her choice in screen roles; and Yolanda Schlabach, whose 2016 talk raised the awareness of sexual trafficking along Route 95 between Washington DC and New York to the attention of the Governor of Delaware for legislative action.
How Ajit's experience as a TEDx host has made him a better listener for his life coaching clients.
The legacy project of creating a hydroponic garden center run by former prison inmates to provide organic produce to restaurants within 200 miles of Wilmington.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
1:51 Ajit tells about growing up in a family where all his cousins were either engineers or doctors and how it made him want to do the opposite. “I wanted to not take a safe route.”
2:50 Ajit recounts the four years he spent in India as a youth working in a children’s league, and how a key leader in the league helped develop his organizational skills.
4:08 “It’s ok to fail…and recovering from failure is almost as important as failing.”
5:33 How Ajit became involved with TED and TEDx
7:00 Ajit gives tips on how to put together a TEDx talk.
7:07 “People feel the need to put everything they know into a talk, which is a huge mistake.”
7:31 “What is that one idea worth spreading?”
9:15 [How to resist the urge to condense multiple ideas] - “Write down every idea [you] want to share in a TEDx talk, it doesn’t matter whether it’s one talk or multiple talks. Once [you] write it down on a sheet of paper, I then say, ‘What is the one idea of all those ideas on the sheet of paper you want to share with the world if you never got an opportunity to do a second TEDx talk?’”
10:09 “[TEDx Wilmington] no longer let anyone come without a lot of rehearsal…It’s a very conscious, determined process that we have.”
11:14 [Ajit explains why TEDx talks don’t allow notes] - “A good TEDx talk takes at least 50 hours of rehearsal.”
13:26 Ajit describes the organizational challenges of running TEDx.
15:02 What makes a fascinating TED talk.
17:12 “Often what we try to do is give a global platform to people who have great messages, but who are not getting them across.”
19:05 What it means to be a good life coach.
19:15 “You can only show them how to walk and give them the directions.”
20:33 “It’s much harder to get people to gracefully surrender something that they passionately believe in.”
21:00 Ajit tells about his upcoming project Second Chances Farm, an organic farm where individuals recently released from prison will have a place to get back on their feet, and the goals he has for its development.
24:43 How Ajit became involved with doing work with Wi...
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TEDx Wilmington organizer and Certified Dream Builder
Ajit Mathew George talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about his experience with running TEDx Wilmington and how the 410+ TEDx presentations have shaped and improved his life.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:
How his family of engineers and doctors served as "reverse inspiration" on his entrepreneurial career path
The story behind becoming the TEDx Wilmington founder in 2011, which now has showcased over 627 speakers and received over 6 million YouTube views.
Keys to delivering a great talk in 12-18 minutes (hint: requires 50 hours of rehearsal!)
Background stories on two standout TEDx presentations: Actor Yvonne Orjii on why she has decided to stay a virgin, a direct contradiction to her choice in screen roles; and Yolanda Schlabach, whose 2016 talk raised the awareness of sexual trafficking along Route 95 between Washington DC and New York to the attention of the Governor of Delaware for legislative action.
How Ajit's experience as a TEDx host has made him a better listener for his life coaching clients.
The legacy project of creating a hydroponic garden center run by former prison inmates to provide organic produce to restaurants within 200 miles of Wilmington.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
1:51 Ajit tells about growing up in a family where all his cousins were either engineers or doctors and how it made him want to do the opposite. “I wanted to not take a safe route.”
2:50 Ajit recounts the four years he spent in India as a youth working in a children’s league, and how a key leader in the league helped develop his organizational skills.
4:08 “It’s ok to fail…and recovering from failure is almost as important as failing.”
5:33 How Ajit became involved with TED and TEDx
7:00 Ajit gives tips on how to put together a TEDx talk.
7:07 “People feel the need to put everything they know into a talk, which is a huge mistake.”
7:31 “What is that one idea worth spreading?”
9:15 [How to resist the urge to condense multiple ideas] - “Write down every idea [you] want to share in a TEDx talk, it doesn’t matter whether it’s one talk or multiple talks. Once [you] write it down on a sheet of paper, I then say, ‘What is the one idea of all those ideas on the sheet of paper you want to share with the world if you never got an opportunity to do a second TEDx talk?’”
10:09 “[TEDx Wilmington] no longer let anyone come without a lot of rehearsal…It’s a very conscious, determined process that we have.”
11:14 [Ajit explains why TEDx talks don’t allow notes] - “A good TEDx talk takes at least 50 hours of rehearsal.”
13:26 Ajit describes the organizational challenges of running TEDx.
15:02 What makes a fascinating TED talk.
17:12 “Often what we try to do is give a global platform to people who have great messages, but who are not getting them across.”
19:05 What it means to be a good life coach.
19:15 “You can only show them how to walk and give them the directions.”
20:33 “It’s much harder to get people to gracefully surrender something that they passionately believe in.”
21:00 Ajit tells about his upcoming project Second Chances Farm, an organic farm where individuals recently released from prison will have a place to get back on their feet, and the goals he has for its development.
24:43 How Ajit became involved with doing work with Wi...