The White Rabbit

Matt and Alper discuss the very human impulse to control the world around us, and the fact that we don't and what that means for our presentations.

David Beckett, a pitch coach from The Netherlands, talks about the business of pitch coaching (one of the niches of presentation coaching), including how he got started, what he has learned from the audience members, etc.

Dr Nil Madi goes into the pre-existing emotional state of your audience members before you even begin your presentation, and the folly of thinking you can control the fluctuations in that emotional state during your presentation.

Taner Albayrak, a co-founder of a university in Istanbul, goes into the value of having good communication skills on board a ship particularly, and in your career in general.

Memet Yazıcı returns to the podcast to talk about the founder-led sales transition and what that transition means for the psychology of the founder and for the message that is going out to the customer.

Matt interviews Istanbul attorney Can Işıktaç on regulatory tit-for-tat. In a future episode, Alper and Matt will explore this issue further, and what we can take away from it in a presentations and communications setting.

Alper goes into the four things you need to consider in the early stages of preparing your presentation. These are things you need to do before opening your slide design software.

And oh, by the way, make sure you are not using Prezi.

With this episode, the podcast reaches its 4th anniversary. Alper goes into dealing with nervousness, and specifically, the importance of reframing it as what it is.

And, by the way, don't ever expect your nervousness to go away, no matter how experienced you are. Alper has been doing a webinar for four years, and still gets nervous, and Matt, even after doing this podcast for four years, still gets nervous before each episode.

Reframe your nervousness, don't try to conquer it.

Matt and Alper dive into the subject of POV (point of view), it being a significant part of Matt's business.

Owned-media expert Matthew Rawle goes into the error of thinking you need large numbers to make a newsletter work, how much to talk about the technical details of the problem you solve vs. how much to show pictures of your dog, and how to make a newsletter work if you are a corporate employee.