The Speaker's Secrets

Take a second. Think about how grateful you've been lately. If you're anything like the regular person, you could probably use some more gratitude. This underrated gem immediately improves your life for the better when you practice it regularly. With this in mind... Gratitude and public speaking are a winning combo! You can't go wrong here. But: how can showing appreciation cause you to be successful in your communication skills? Tune in to find out, upgrade your life, and flex your public speaking/gratitude muscles all at once.

When it comes to public speaking, there are two dimensions: Self and Others. Both are extremely important, but you can get trapped in the Dimension of Self (and ultimately, your comfort zone). If you're not careful, the Dimension of Self will cause you to be in a repetitive loop of stagnancy. But then there's the Dimension of Others. You'd be surprised at how your public speaking and communication skills fluorish when you focus and operate from here. This episode introduces some new perspectives about how focusing on others will propel us way more than focusing on ourselves can.

Sometimes, life happens when you're not prepared. And life happened to me. For the past few weeks, I've been unable to upload any new content (explained in this episode). As painfully excruciating as it was, this short period taught me a lot. I learned 3 lessons that I will take into 2020 and beyond. More importantly, I get to share them with you so we can all level up together. Super excited about this return and what the future holds!

At the end of the day, we're all human. 

Humans with successes, incredible achievements, phenomenal skill, extraordinary potential. Humans with flourishing businesses, well-known brands and unbelievable creative prowess.

But we're still humans. Humans who struggle, humans who want to give up, humans that make decisions that go against our best interest at times.

Part of being an expert communicator, speaker and person is being able to admit when you've failed and struggled, and where you sometimes still fall short. VULNERABILITY makes the difference in how you connect with others.

Tune in and find out why.

Take a moment.

Think about the people that are the top of their fields, or have sustained their success for a long time.

CEOs, world-class athletes, entrepreneurs. Even the flourishing hometown bakery owners that just opened their brand new location.

These people have one thing in common: THEY THINK BIG.

But there's another part to this equation. They understand the importance of developing a particular skill and how that unique skill intricately tied to their undying prospering. 

Hear about it here. Let's join the ranks.

In 1938, Toastmasters realized the importance of public speaking competitions. 81 years later, people still get to test their expertise against other incredible speakers.

Everyone gets to learn, improve, and in some cases, win the coveted title: World Champion of Public Speaking. 

Yet, while competition can be helpful in perfecting your speaking skills, it's useful in a wide variety of ways outside the realm of speaking. While the word may have negative connotations for some, human history has proven that competitions - in any aspect - bring out our best and push us to be spectacular. 

This episode shows you to firstly how you should view the competition, then how to engage the process in such a way that it's a win-win for everyone involved, especially you.

Do you interrupt people when they're speaking?

Do you tend to look into your phone while you're in a conversation?

These are two of many questions you can ponder on to determine if your listening skills are up to par.

Listening is a extremely vital part of communication that not many people take seriously. We want to be heard, we want to be understood. But how many of us want to hear and understand?

In this episode, Edrico challenges you to truthfully analyze your listening proficiency and provides a simple challenge that anyone can do to improve their listening skills in just a few days.

 

When it comes to speaking, there are a few things you should avoid.

Clichés is one of them.

Since clichés are phrases that we hear thousands of times, they've lost their novelty and in most cases, their effectiveness. Using these when speaking or presenting shows a lack of creativity and can cause your audience to disengage. 

This episode covers three all-too-common clichés to avoid in your next presentation, along with tips that will inspire innovation and ignite intrigue.

This is a special Speaker's Secrets episode. 

On Sept. 1, two islands in The Bahamas got severely damaged from category 5 Hurricane Dorian, one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic.

Due to this storm, many Bahamians have lost everything - including their family members - and are in need of the basic necessities. People are struggling. It's a rough time right now.

Tune into this episode to find out what really happened with this hurricane, what's happened since, and what you can do to help. 

Recommended GoFundMe page (explained in episode): https://www.gofundme.com/f/headknowles-emergency-funds

When it comes to communication, sometimes there is one thing that we forget to do. 

Sometimes, we get too busy. Other times, we just don't think about it (unfortunately). 

But the hallmark of an effective, empathetic and emotionally intelligent communicator lies in the ability to communicate in the specific way outlined in this episode. 

Press play to find out what it is...